Thank you SO much for celebrating with Evernight!
I’ve just sent the list of everyone who left comments to Evernight for their Birthday Blog Hop grand prize drawing, and the winner should be announced very soon. As for my own giveaway, I just fished out the slip of paper with the name of the winner for MIND AND BODY, and that person is…
*drum roll*
Delphina Miyares!
Delphina, if you can contact me with a reliable mailing address for you, I’ll get MIND AND BODY into the mail to you toot sweet. Good luck to you and everyone else on the big Evernight prize drawing!
NSFW Snippet: Behind the Iron Cross
NOTE: if you’re looking for the Evernight Birthday Blog Hop post, it’s here!
Since it’s Tuesday and I’m feeling downright productive, I thought I’d post another snippet from Chapter Two of my novel Behind the Iron Cross (or as I like to call it, “1920’s Berlin, BDSM, and MMF menáges — oh my!”).
The story so far: In 1923, American heiress and secret Domme Katherine “Kat” Tracy and her fiancé/beard Sam Hellman are in Berlin on business and enjoying the city’s decadent nightlife. When they go to the Cupid Club and meet Colonel Friedrich von Bader, a decommissioned German Army officer reluctantly working as a prostitute to support his widowed sister-in-law and ill nephew, the sparks fly…
Welcome to the Evernight Publishing birthday blog hop!
Evernight Publishing opened its doors two years ago. In those two years we’ve signed over one hundred and sixty authors and published over three hundred books. From paranormal to contemporary, we’ve had more best sellers than we can count and made thousands of people smile, sigh and gasp. So, as a thank you to all our readers and everyone who has supported us, we’re holding this blog hop and we have a whole lot of prizes to offer you.
Here’s how it works… the more blogs you hop to (shown below) the more chance you have of winning prizes. Each author on the hop is offering a prize and Evernight is offering the following grand prizes, a Kindle, a $100 Amazon gift certificate, two Evernight swag bags (which includes a tote, a tee, vouchers, a mug and other coolness) and a personalized Facebook banner. To be in with a chance of winning the author prize simply follow the blog you’re visiting and leave a comment which includes your email address. Each entry on each blog is then counted towards the grand prize draw. The more entries you have, the better your chance of winning a grand prize! You also get extra points for liking the Evernight Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/evernightpublishing. Just make sure you let us know in the comments that you’ve done so.
Good luck and happy hopping!
Hey there, folks, it’s Nicola. Since my first story with Evernight won’t be out until Christmas, my prize offering will be a copy of Circlet Press’s erotic SF anthology Mind and Body, with my cover design.
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Day Two of winning fabulous prizes, people!
Happy 2nd birthday to Evernight Publishing! And to celebrate, they’ve whipped up a scorchingly good scavenger hunt. Today’s hunting ground is Sizzling Hot Book Reviews — go forth and hunt!
This is what I love about having friends all over the place
I can find out that one’s going to Berlin, ask her to take pictures and do a bit of research for me, and when she says yes I can offer jokingly to Tuckerise her in Behind the Iron Cross (except that it’s a smutfest, I inform her, and she probably wouldn’t go for it), and when she disagrees and says that yes, she’d love to be immortalized as a kinky chanteuse, it inspires an entire scene in the book that not only promotes the industrial espionage subplot but also leads to one of the most deliciously filthy sex scenes I have ever written.
So, yeah, thanks, KM!
Six Sentence Sunday: Behind the Iron Cross
Yes, angels, it’s Six Sentence Sunday, that time of the week when I join in with hundreds of other writers to blog six playful sentences from one of our works. This snippet really isn’t all that playful, but I think it’s a nice piece of character exposition and I’m rather proud of it.
Some background: after Friedrich’s first night with Kat and Sam, he heads home in the rain to the desultory working-class neighborhood of Friedrichshain, where he runs into a prostitute trying to hustle up rent money. When he turns her down, she opens her coat, exposing a pregnant belly, and offers to have sex with him for fifty cents (in Weimar Berlin Münzis, or pregnant prostitutes, were an exotic specialty and charged more than the average streetwalker, but she complains bitterly that the bitches won’t let her work their street). Saddened, he fishes an American dime, part of his own whoring fee for the night, out of his pocket and presses it into her hand. She starts to say that it isn’t enough.
“No, just — just take it. For the baby.”
He left her staring at the coin and started walking again. He still had the dollar, with a promise of more — he could spare a dime for a pregnant whore stuck out in the rain.
After all, he thought, they were both whores now. Nothing wrong with a little collegial assistance.
So, yeah, Berlin was pretty decadent
One of the things I love about writing historical stories is the research I get to do — I always wind up learning some fascinating stuff about the time period and the location. As it turns out, apparently I’m pretty damned good at extrapolating events, as well — for BtIC, I bought Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin as source material, and much to my surprise some of the stuff that I’d made up for the purposes of the story (e.g. Friedrich’s nephew has weak lungs and their doctor recommends that he be removed from the “tainted air” of Berlin before he dies from it, hence Friedrich’s need to make money fast) have a basis in fact. Apparently Berlin was built on a swamp, and didn’t have the greatest air quality in Germany. That being said, Berlin air was also slightly alkaline and considered to possess an amphetamine-like effect, not something you necessarily want a frail 18-month-old breathing. Talk about serendipity.
Oh, and yeah, in case there was any doubt Berlin was a total and utter fleshpot — you could get absolutely anyone or anything you wanted for a few American dollars, flamboyant homosexuality was welcomed and celebrated (apparently being a lesbian was very fashionable), and the BDSM scene was very active and a big attraction for tourists and locals like. So now you know.
In any case, I’m wading through Chapter Three, and I’m having far, far too much fun writing about Weimar-era Berlin and my poor ex-army colonel, who just found out to his shock that, um, he kind of likes being spanked. What a fascinating time.
NSFW Snippet: Behind the Iron Cross
You’ve been such sweethearts, and I’ve been slaving away on this all weekend, so I thought I’d treat you to the opening scene from the current WIP, Behind The Iron Cross. 1920’s Berlin, BDSM, and MMF menáges — oh my!
“Tiffany Reisz is my master now.”
If you do not know who Tiffany Reisz is, stop reading this right now and go to her website, click on the Bedtime Story Blog link, and read some of her work. I’ll wait.
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Got your breath back and changed your underwear? Good. Now that you have a better idea of who this little Scotch pepper of a writer is, you’ll understand why her Original Sinners series is to 50 Shades of Grey what truffles are to tree fungus. Published by Harlequin MIRA, the first Original Sinners book, The Siren, introduces us to Nora Sutherlin, a dominatrix/writer/force of nature who wants to make it out of the “smut” genre and go big with her latest novel. In order to do that, however, she needs to get hard-assed British editor Zach Easton to agree to edit her novel — and he doesn’t like erotica or erotica writers.
As if that wasn’t difficult enough, Nora also has a gorgeous, virginal live-in intern named Wesley who complicates her life with his innate decency and quiet love for her (but he won’t go to bed with her). Oh, and her lover/former dom/scariest man in NYC Søren wants her back, but can’t engage in a public relationship with her for the best of reasons. With three stunning, damaged, amazing men like this in her life, what the hell’s a writer to do?
To find out, just go to Amazon or B&N and get The Siren and The Angel, the second book in the series (there are three more coming, according to Tiffany). I swear on Anaïs Nin’s grave, you won’t regret it.
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