Release Eve - the day before awesome

Today I have wonderful news to share! Tomorrow Blue Moon House will be available on Amazon, Smashwords and at the NaughtyNightsPress Estore. By Monday or Tuesday it should be on Barnes and Noble as well (takes a little longer to get through their system). So if you've enjoyed great excerpts like this, or this, or this, then you really need to get the whole thing. If you haven't read any of the excerpts (well, click the links!) then here is a blurb to whet your appetite:

Julia has the chance to become one of the vampires of the Blue Moon House. Before being accepted, however, she must prove herself to each of the vampires, and each has their own exacting cost. Ranging from lesbian, to being forced, to physical torture, she is pushed to her breaking point time and again. Eventually her perseverance pays off and she crosses from submissive to dominant and vampire.

If you prefer the short stuff, I have a second release tomorrow (I know, crazy). NaughtyNightsPress is releasing their third installment of Campus Sexploits and this one includes a story by me! Here is the blurb for the anthology followed by Synopses from each of the authors.

Day 30 #blogflash2012 - Winning (Giveaway!)

What better way to celebrate winning than with a giveaway! :) My first novella, Blue Moon House is releasing in just TWO days! On that same day my publisher is releasing the third installment of the Campus Sexploits anthologies, including a short story by yours truly. How about that?! Would you like to win one? Would you like to win both?! Sorry, you can't win both, but you can win a copy of Blue Moon House AND get a coupon for Campus Sexploits 3. In fact, everyone can have one of those! All you have to do is leave a comment with your email address. I'll pass that on. And two lucky comments will get a free copy, one of Blue Moon House and one of CS3. Sound like a good idea? I think so. And just to whet your appetite, here a couple links to excerpts from BMH and a teaser from The Highest Bidder, included in Campus Sexploits 3.

Please, leave me some love.

Update: Due to the slow responses, I'll keep this contest open until the end of Sept. 1, my release day.

Day 29 #blogflash2012 - Masquerade

Well, this one seems obvious. Let me remove this mask as I have a few times before and let you see the face behind.

That's me, with my husband and daughter (aren't we cute!?). I am not the girl with flowers on her back, though I might wish I was. I'm the woman with ample curves who could stand to lose a few pounds (forty?) and has found her first grey hairs.

Does my family know I write erotica? Yep. My husband loves it. My mother hasn't said a lot, but is supportive. Y'know, I don't think my Dad ever said anything about it? My in-laws haven't talked about it either, but I won't be surprised if they never read any of it. That might be more embarrassing actually!

Okay, you know what, forget this, I'm putting the mask back on. This is me: Angelica dawsonii is a native plant of Alberta. And now you know how I got my name. I'm a botany babe.

Day 28 #blogflash2012 - Frog

With great trepidation, she picked up the green animal. He had shiny skin, but wasn't slimy as she had expected. Rather he had cool skin, smooth. She ran her thumb between his eyes and down his back, expecting him to jump away as other frogs did.

He closed his eyes and gave a long, slow croak from deep in his throat.

Take me with you, his eyes said. It was also what the old witch had told her.

"When you go home, on the path, you will find a frog. If you would cure your infertility, take him with you, put him in your bed while your husband is still away. When he returns, you will find you are able to conceive."

Day 27 #blogflash2012 - History

These are a pair of excerpts from Blue Moon House and one of its prequels. The prequel is set in the 1900s and each subsequent prequel will be a little earlier. Enjoy!

Day 26 #blogflash2012 - Seeing

This week of camping, culminating in a wedding, has allowed us to spend some time with relatives we don't get to see very often. They are all my in-laws, but some are simply the coolest people around. Some have just been too busy to keep in touch. The only problem with a gathering like this is that you get so little time with each person. Yes, the reception will probably last for 5 hours, but if we have 10 relatives to visit, they only get 30 minutes each. I have this problem when my family gets together at Thanksgiving. Inevitably, there some aunts and uncles I don't really spend any time with.

Seeing people is something I don't do very often. I'm not social and I don't feel I have a lot of exciting news (this year, with book contracts is an exception!) to share. I prefer meeting face to face. When I was young, I could gab on the phone for hours, but as I've gotten older, I find I just don't get as much from a phone call as sitting over a cup of tea. There's something in actually seeing that other person, their mannerisms, their pauses, where their eye wanders, that tells me more than just their voice can. I've almost given up answering the phone. I let my husband get it. I don't really want to talk to them anyway. I want to see them. 

Day 25 #BlogFlash2012 - Blue

Blue is the colour I see most often outside. It is how I feel when I can't see it. The sky over Alberta is clear most days, a beautiful azure. We get an inordinate amount of sunlight, one reason why homes can be run on solar panels, greenhouses are lucrative, and we all have red necks. Almost every day I can look out and see blue from horizon to horizon, interrupted only by the occasional fluffy white cloud. It's a blessing.

I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), so when we have a week of grey, wet, dreary weather, it hits me hard. I don't feel like getting out of bed. I have no desire to do anything. It seems nothing can make me happy. It strikes in the winter when although there is still a brilliant blue sky, it's only there for a few hours a day.

Blue, in a sense, runs my world.