Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The Ultimate Chocolate Cupcake, Drama Queen (chocolate w/ raspberry center), Strawberry Amaretto, Italian Cream - from the Ooh La La! Bakery
Archive for August, 2011
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
First up, if you’d like to read LOVE IN BLOOM, you can get the digital copy free from Smashwords (epub, pdf, html) for the rest of this month. Use coupon code: YH72K.
Here are the winners of the Emma Holly books:
Personal Assets – Julie
Strange Attractions – Karen C
All U Can Eat – Mariee
Cooking Up A Storm – Jen B.
Here are the winners of the Shannon McKenna books:
Out of Control – Tonya
Standing in the Shadows – Ellie F
Y’all send your mailing addresses to ak@alisonkent.com!
(FYI, I use Random.org to pull all my contest winners!)
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
As with yesterday’s giveaway post, this one is generated by my overabundance of Shannon McKenna books. I just sent most of my duplicates to a friend, but then I found these two triplicates I need to unload. Here are the trade paperback titles I have of Shannon’s (and if you haven’t read her, boy are you in for a treat):
Standing in the Shadows, Out of Control
If you’d like a book, comment with the title (or if you’ll take anything let me know) and I’ll randomly select winners from all requests left by Friday, 8/26/11 at noon CDT.
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
I’m doing some furniture rearranging and bookshelf culling, replacing my print copies with digital – meaning these authors have received double royalties for me, so yay! So, today I have the following yummy Emma Holly titles up for grabs, three hardcovers, one trade paperback (Cooking Up A Storm). Here are the titles I have with info links:
Personal Assets, Strange Attractions, All U Can Eat, Cooking Up A Storm
If you’d like a book, comment with the title (or if you’ll take anything let me know) and I’ll randomly select winners from all requests left by Friday, 8/26/11 at noon CDT.
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
As part of Harlequin’s 1990s Treasury program, all five of my Temptation novels are now available digitally. THE HEARTBREAK KID actually released on July 15. The other four, CALL ME, THE GRINCH MAKES GOOD, THE BADGE AND THE BABY, FOUR MEN AND A LADY, all release today. All are available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, some at Sony, some at Kobo, only one at the eHarlequin website. Go figure, eh? Links below!
CALL ME – Kindle :: Nook :: Sony :: Kobo
THE HEARTBREAK KID – Kindle :: Nook :: eHarlequin :: Sony
THE GRINCH MAKES GOOD – Kindle :: Nook :: Kobo
THE BADGE AND THE BABY – Kindle :: Nook :: Sony :: Kobo
FOUR MEN AND A LADY – Kindle :: Nook :: Kobo
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
I’m pretty sure the cover for GOES DOWN EASY is my favorite Blaze cover ever!
What Perry wanted most of all was for Jack to go away. He disturbed her, and she did not like being disturbed. Especially when, after living a rather disturbing life, she was finally feeling the calm of things going her way.
She stood at the register in Sugar Blues, having just rung up a customer. It seemed a good place to stay, what with the long, glass-topped counter between her and Jack. Because now that the two of them were alone, her senses were ringing high and loud.
He closed the book on Reiki training through which he’d been leafing and made his way to the rear of the shop. Of course she had to notice his walk, how he moved, all lanky and long and loose. She wasn’t supposed to notice that about him, and she sure wasn’t supposed to like it.
She sighed, obviously having listened too much to Sugar singing the blues, waxing eloquent about the beautiful men who’d broken her heart. Jack stopped at the counter, picked up a tiny gold incense burner. Funny how he always had to have his hands on something, stroking, fondling.
Perry groaned, catching the forward progression of her thoughts one stroke too late. “If you break it, you’ve bought it.”
“Yeah,” he said, running his thumb over the Buddha’s belly. “I saw the sign on the door. Do you really sell enough of this crap to stay in business?”
She narrowed her eyes. “Do you insult everyone you meet or is this special treatment only for me?”
“I just say what comes to me.”
“Open mouth, insert foot?”
He shrugged. “Guess that’s one way of looking at it.”
She barely managed to keep herself from rolling her eyes. “But not your way.”
“Sorry, no,” he said, returning the burner to the counter and reaching for her blue-plumed pen.
She moved it out of his reach before he grabbed it. “Do you think you could limit your touchy-feely habit to items you’re going to buy?”
He laughed then, the sound deep and resonant like that of bass guitar, one that vibrated through her, tickling, taunting, one she knew she was going to have a problem with if he stayed around for long.
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Acting out their parts has never been so sexy…Two upcoming British actors—Toni and Max—choose to take the slow boat to New York so they can learn their lines along the way. In the midst of a stormy sea, Max suggests they pass the time with a bit of sexy role play. As the rough seas take most of the passengers to their cabins, Toni and Max get into character for some erotic acting of the intimate kind. Soon their mutual desire collides with the forbidden affair of their characters—an inexperienced young woman and a wily seducer—with scintillating results.
10,000 words in length, contemporary erotic romance.
Check it out at Walk on the Wild Side Books, and leave a comment if you’d like a Kindle copy (sorry, I’m only doing a Kindle giveaway on this one because it’s easy and I’m lazy *g*). I’ll draw three names at noon tomorrow, August 16, 2011.
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
I just signed on with the fab group of authors who post Saturday Snippets, so today here’s an oldie but goodie from MAXIMUM EXPOSURE.
“Tell me what you’re hoping to find, and I’ll tell you everything that I know.”
Finn McLain lowered his digital Rebel with telephoto lens and glanced at the woman who’d joined him at the bistro’s very small table for two – the table where he’d been working his coffee more than his camera since setting up shop at nine.
She was hot, Miami hot, Latina hot, hot like chilies beneath the Florida sun. Exotic. That was the word. No. Sizzle. She sizzled. Was sizzling. Water droplets on an iron skillet. Empanadas scorching his tongue.
He set the camera on the scrollwork tabletop, stretched out his legs and wishing for a glass of water, laced his hands low on his belly. Outwardly, he was cool, a pro. He knew his business.
It was his insides that were scrambling to figure out how badly he’d fucked up. If she’d pegged him as more than a tourist, how large was the chance that he’d also been made by his mark?
His dark lenses hiding anything she might see in his eyes, he finally came back with, “Guess you won’t buy it if I say I’m just taking in the sights?”
She shook her head, her hair a colored mix of brown sugar and honey. “You want to sell me on anything, sweetheart, you’ll have to do a better job than that.”
“What gave me away?” he asked, still not admitting to any particulars.
She settled into the chair that looked like it was fashioned from licorice strings, crossing her legs and revealing a whole lot of thigh where her skirt fell open at the side. And not just thigh, he quickly came to realize, just as quickly tugging his gaze from all that bare skin back to hers.
“This is the second time this week I’ve seen you and your phallic equipment in front of my store.”
“You don’t say.”
She inclined her head, indicating the designer boutique across the way. “Either you’re a competitor looking to see what’s selling, or you’re keeping tabs on someone who frequents the area.” The area being a ritzy and exclusive shopping spot near Miami Beach. “Which is it?”
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
With a marriage in trouble, there’s no such thing as fighting fair…Jersey girl Natalie Copeland is ready to give up on a decade of marriage. Her husband Shane disappeared into the long, stressful hours necessary to make partner at his investment firm, and now their once-hot sex life has gone ice cold. She knows fighting for the man she loves against the adrenaline rush of deals and dollars is a fight she can’t win.
The fast-track to partner came a high price, but Shane’s not going to lose Natalie over his work. He knows winning back his headstrong, passionate wife won’t be easy. Proving he’s in their marriage forever will take everything he’s got…and on Wall Street and in love, there’s no such thing as a fair fight.
12,000 words in length, contemporary erotic romance.
Check it out at Walk on the Wild Side Books!
