Two Reasons To Celebrate With Ben Larkin Today

Today we're not only celebrating release day for Ben Larkin's PILLAR'S FALL, but also the recent news that Ben's novel, THE HOLLOWS - Book One, THE TICKING is a finalist in the prestigious 2011 EPIC's eBook Awards competition!

EPPIE Award winning author Ben Larkin was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but has also lived in Arizona and New Mexico. He now resides back in Fort Worth with his wife and children. His first novel, PIT STOP won an EPPIE in 2009 for Horror.

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PILLAR'S FALL - The Legend of Pillar: Book One by Ben Larken

Detective Thomas Pillar had no premonitions of the day ahead. He didn’t know he was about to clash with a sadistic lunatic on Railston's only suspension bridge. In one gut-wrenching moment, Pillar was forced to make a life-or-death choice that left the entire city shaken and set a madman's plan into motion.

Now, months later, it's starting again . . .

This time, Pillar's investigating a string of rage-filled murders, and all the clues point to the most unlikely of suspects - a twelve-year-old named Seth Morrissey. The child seems nice, if a bit lonely, but something malevolent and demonic hides beneath his surface. While Pillar searches for answers, the thing inside Seth prepares for a showdown that will rip Pillar's life to shreds and pave the way the hell on earth.

As the body count rises and Pillar's marriage begins to unravel, he races against time to stop the force that's pulling all the strings. But how do you destroy the demon without killing the innocent child? This is Pillar's dilemma. This is Pillar's story. This is Pillar's Fall.

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WIN - Leave Ben a comment or question today at his Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for a free copy of his new book in your choice of eBook or Print - please leave your email address, so we can contact you if you are today's winner!

Rosemary Laurey's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to all of you who celebrated Rosemary Laurey's Forever Vampire reissues with her! And congrats to Virginia C, your name was drawn as our winner! We'll be contacting you soon for your mailing information!

Celebrating Rosemary Laurey's Forever Vampires

Today we're celebrating the Kensington reissues of USA Today Best-selling author Rosemary Laurey's Forever Vampire Books, KISS ME FOREVER, LOVE ME FOREVER and BE MINE FOREVER.

Rosemary is an ex-pat Brit, retired special education teacher and grandmother who now lives in Ohio and has a wonderful time writing and letting her imagination run riot.

Her hobbies are vacuuming, dusting and cleaning toilets but regrettably the demands of her writing career leave little time to engage in these pursuits.

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KISS ME FOREVER - The first book in Rosemary Laurey's Forever Vampire series.

If there is one thing Dixie LePage does not need in her life, it's complications. And the man sitting across the table from her in a crowded English pub is a major complication. For starters, there's the broad shoulders. The slightly amused smirk. That smoldering look that makes it impossible to concentrate. No doubt about it, the guy is hot and sexy. Of course, there is one wee little problem: He claims to be a vampire named Christopher Marlowe, as in The Christopher Marlowe, famous playwright, contemporary of Will Shakespeare. Amend that to hot, sexy, and totally insane.

So why can't Dixie seem to resist the warmth of Christopher's charm, the protective feel of his strong hands, or the tempting pull of his full mouth when the sun goes down...?

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LOVE ME FOREVER by Rosemary Laurey

The second book in Rosemary Laurey's Forever Vampire Series is set in German Village in Columbus Ohio and is the story of physician/vampire Justin Corvus and a blue-collar single mother named Stella. Neither Justin nor Stella expected the attraction between them, nor could they anticipate the act of violence that puts Justin afoul of the vampire code he helped establish.

All single mother Stella Schwartz meant to do was let her son, Sam, browse through books at Dixie's Vampire Emporium. She hadn't counted on the shop assistant, Justin Corvis, being a dark-eyed super-hunk with the kind of charismatic English accent that would make her heart skip a beat. And she couldn't know how close to the truth that was. When Justin smiles at her, it's as if he's known her forever. And when he asks for her phone number - Stella can't help wanting the thrill to last for eternity. For there's something dangerously different about Justin Corvus...different and irresistible.

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BE MINE FOREVER by Rosemary Laurey

The third book in Rosemary Laurey's Forever Vampire series, this tells the story of the two ghouls, and Angela and Tom's romance.

Tom Kyd has smouldering eyes, a sculpted body, and supernatural staying power - even for a vampire. He also thinks he knows best about everything - including how to figure out who Angela Ryan was before he and his clan rescued her from a mysterious attack that stole her memory. But whoever she is, Tom wants her...

Six months ago Angela never would have imagined her life would turn into an episode of Dark Shadows - or that she'd be saved by the kind of man she's always fantasized about. Tom may be a vampire, and a know-it-all, but when he kisses are so sinful, so intoxicating, and so damn good, Angela is tempted to say yes to whatever he wants.

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WIN - Leave Rosemary a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and get your name in the hat for the cutest little ty teddy bear dressed up like a vampire for Halloween! I'll also throw in some other Rosemary Laurey goodies! But you must leave your email address, so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

Cheryl Dragon's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to all of you who stopped by to party with Cheryl Dragon as we celebrated her new release CATCALLING CATHERINE and congrats to Jane, your name was drawn as our winner!
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Celebrating Cheryl Dragon's New Ellora's Cave Release

Today we're celebrating the release of CATCALLING CATHERINE, Cheryl Dragon's sexy contemporary menage from Ellora's Cave's Exotika Line.

A lover of unusual things, Cheryl Dragon enjoys writing unique stories with sinfully hot erotic romance or suspenseful mainstream paranormals. Never at a loss for ideas, there are plenty of stories in her brain waiting to be written. Her two favorites book settings are Las Vegas and New Orleans...where anything can happen!

Cheryl lives in the Chicagoland area with her deaf albino cat. By day she crunches & analyzes numbers as an Assistant Controller for a division of a large international conglomerate which leaves the creative juices free for her erotic romance and paranormal suspense novels.

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CATCALLING CATHERINE by Cheryl Dragon

Call it a compliment. Call it offensive. The whistles and shouts of hot, young construction workers have become Catherine's latest sexual obsession. To protect her professional reputation, Catherine uses a service to fulfill her blue-collar fantasy and the two men hired for the job, complete with hard hats and hard-ons, do it just right. Problem solved - or so she thought.

One fantasy isn't enough for Tony. Catherine failed to recognize him as part of the crew who remodeled her office. After the best sex of his life, he wants more - their combined fantasies with no services, no secrets. Anywhere, anytime and anything she wants, if she can handle a little reality in her fantasy life.

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WIN - Leave Cheryl a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for an autographed tote bag filled with goodies - t-shirt, mouse pad, & more! Please leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

Barbara Clark's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to wish Barbara the best on her audio release of DANGEROUS HAVEN and congrats to Virginia! Your name was drawn as our winner and Barbara will be contacting you soon to get you out your prize!

Celebrating A New Audio Release For Barbara Clark

Today we're celebrating the audio book release of Barbara Clark's DANGEROUS HAVEN.

"All dreams lie beyond defeat." That quote by an unknown author has inspired Barbara Clark to keep writing and creating new stories set in a variety of locations. Her books range from the coast of southern California to a glittering penthouse in New York city, a working cattle ranch in Arizona, the romance and challenge of the Sahara Desert, and the heat and danger of a Brazilian Rain Forest. Her readers have come to expect deep emotions, simple joys, and heart-stopping peril in her award-winning books.

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Her newly released book, DANGEROUS HAVEN, was first available in download and print. Now it’s available as an audio book from Audio Lark with a new cover and a button on the publisher’s website that you can click to listen to a short audio sample.

DANGEROUS HAVEN by Barbara Clark

Sharon Smith thinks Walkersville is a safe haven. Still bruised by the loss of her husband, a man she thought she knew until his death exposed his secrets, all she wants is the peace and quiet of small town life.

Brand Templeton thinks Walkersville is a crime scene. He’s returned to Hawk Haven to lay claim to his father’s empire and revenge the cruelty that led to his mother’s death.

Now they must help each other to face the ghosts of their past if either is to have a chance at a future.

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TO WIN: Leave a comment or a question today for Barbara and your name goes in the hat for an audio book of DANGEROUS HAVEN. IMPORTANT: To be included in the drawing, please leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today’s winner. GOOD LUCK!

Head to AuthorIsland.com and check out the contest page for the beautiful blue shaw Barbara has up for grabs this month!!

Sam Cheever's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to all you all who stopped by to party with Sam Cheever yesterday as she celebrated her new EC release THE DEVIL YOU KNOW!

Congrats to Dea Lea, your name was drawn as our winner! Sam will be contacting you soon to get you out your prize!

Celebrating A Brand New Dancin'With The Devil Book From Sam Cheever And Ellora's Cave

Today we're celebrating the release of the fifth book in Sam Cheever's award-winning Dancin' with the Devil series starring one feisty little tweener named Astra Q. Phelps.

Sam writes fast paced fantasy and romantic fiction with feisty characters who deal with life's little challenges in unique and often hilarious ways. As a reader Sam is very impatient. She quickly loses interest if a story doesn't have a good pace and snappy dialogue. Sam's inability to focus in a backwash of human angst and subtleties works out well for her readers, since she writes the way she likes to read.

In her real life, Sam lives on a hobby farm in Indiana with 10 dogs, 4 horses, 2 barn cats, 2 daughters, and one husband. Not necessarily in that order.

Find out how you can get free goodies and many even your name in one of her books by joining her Fan Club!

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THE DEVIL YOU KNOW Book 5 in Sam Cheever's Dancin' With the Devil series

Astra Q. Phelps is turning twenty-five in a few months and she's starting to feel the effects of her Settling, the time when a half angel, half devil Tweener decides whether to embrace her dark nature or her light.

The delectable Dialle, king of the Royal devils, really needs Astra's help in Hell to deal with an insurrection. But Astra's Settling pretty much has her thinking of only one thing - S.E.X.!

Sex with Dialle, sex with her yummy partner Emo, sex with a molten-hot dragon slayer she meets along the way, and sex with assorted other randy Royals cavorting among the fires of Hell. It's a constant struggle just to keep her mind and body pure so she can concentrate on the business at hand, but Astra Q. Phelps is definitely up for the challenge. And Good versus Evil has never been this much fun!

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WIN - Leave Sam a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for the download of your choice from Sam's Book Page! Please leave your email address, so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

Jacquelyn Frank's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to all those who stopped by to celebrate Jacki's new book DRINK OF ME - you guys really made her day! And congrats to Jean P - your name was drawn as our winner! We'll be contacting you soon for your shipping information.

Celebrating Jacquelyn Frank's Release Day

Today we're celebrating the release of DRINK OF ME, a sexy new paranormal from Jacquelyn Frank.

A native New Yorker, currently living in North Carolina, Jacquelyn Frank loves animals, specifically cats, to a point of insanity. She loves her boys like she would honest to goodness children.

This NYT and USA today bestselling author of The Nightwalkers Series wanted to be an author since she was barely into puberty. It was those sexy teen romances where the first kiss was as far as they went. Heh. She thought that was the be all and end all until she got her hands on an introductory copy for a new series launching called Loveswept and got her first taste of sizzle. She's been writing it and gobbling it up ever since!

Although she's branching out from the Nightwalkers, not to fear, they will always be a part of her. It's simply a matter of where the muse is taking her.

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DRINK OF ME by Jacquelyn Frank

In a world where emotion can be a deadly weapon, one slight, battered runaway holds the key to a dark and twisted enigma...

Drink of me, she whispers, her silver eyes trusting, pleading. What female dares speak such words to one of the Sange? His people are scorned by every race for their fierce sensuality, their fearful rituals. And as Prime, Reule is the most telepathically gifted of them all.

But nothing has prepared him for the intensity of emotion radiating from the outlander rescued by his Pack. Terrified, tormented, but beautiful beyond measure, Mystique shatters his legendary control. As she reaches for him in the steamy heat of the healing baths, he knows this blind need can have but one end...In blood, in knowledge, in ecstasy.

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WIN - Leave Jacquelyn a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for a DRINK OF ME travel mug and poster! Please be sure to leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

Desiree Holt's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to all of you who stopped by to celebrate with Desiree on her new release BLACK CAT FEVER! We all wish her the best with it! Congrats to wanda f - you're name was drawn as our winner - Desiree will be contacting you soon to find out which of her books you'd like to win!

Celebrating A New Halloween Story From Desiree Holt

Today we're celebrating today's release of BLACK CAT FEVER, a hot Halloween short from award-winning author Desiree Holt!

All her life, Desiree dreamed of faraway places and unbelievably sexy men. From baseball players to rock musicians to television personalities she met them all and each one enriched her life. Now tucked away in the Texas Hill Country, she shares her fantasies with her readers. In her satin robe, with her scented candle burning and a chilled glass of wine at hand, she lets her mind run wild — and hopes you’ll take the journey with her. When she’s not writing, she reads and indulges in her other passion — watching football.

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BLACK CAT FEVER by Desiree Holt

It's Halloween, and for two special black cats the night when they must find their mates...or else.

Panther shifter Dea Russo waits each year for Halloween, the only night to search for her mate. As the daughter of the late pack alpha she has the power to pass along to the male she chooses.

But each Halloween passes without success until the night she meets Kyle Donovan, a man who pleasures her senses in every way possible - until mixed breed outcast Dane Maguire tries to stake a claim.

Will Kyle arise from the bed of erotic pleasure to defend the woman who holds his future in her hands?

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WIN - Leave Desiree a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for the download of your choice from her booklist! To be entered in the contest, you must leave your email address, so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

William R. Potter's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to celebrate DEAD OF KNIGHT with William yesterday and give him a big AuthorIsland welcome - you guys rock!

Congrats to Karen H in NC - your name was drawn as our winner! William will contact you soon for your mailing information!

Celebrating William R. Potter's First Jack Staal Mystery

Today we're celebrating the first book in William Potter's Jack Staal Mystery Series, DEAD OF KNIGHT.

William was bitten by the writing bug at an early age. Shortly after watching the first remake of King Kong, around the age of ten or eleven, he scribbled a few pages about a mutant crab and called it a book.

He discovered poetry in his teens and continues to write verse today. However, that kid's dream of writing a book never went away. In 2001 he decided to get serious about fiction and dabbled in short stories with some success. With his budding confidence, he attempted greater and greater word counts. Before long he had a collection of shorts and a novella that approached novel length. It was time, after waiting twenty-five years since that monstrous crustacean of his childhood; he attempted another novel in 2003 and finished the first draft just before Christmas 2004.

After he finished the first draft of his first novel, he decided to let the manuscript sit and cool. He wrote another novella and several shorts and then sat down to write a second novel in 2006. The novellas and shorts became his first book, the award winning collection, LIGHTING THE DARK SIDE - SIX MODERN TALES. DEAD OF KNIGHT is his first published novel.

When he's not writing he's reviewing books. William lives in New Westminster, Canada with his wife and two children.

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Your next birthday could be murder.

DEAD OF NIGHT - A Jack Staal Mystery by William R. Potter

Believing he is a soldier of justice, a young man begins a callous campaign of terror, murdering women on their birthdays. Convinced of his righteousness, he continues his brutal crusade forcing the citizens of Hanson, B.C. to acknowledge a serial killer is active in their rural community. Detective Constable Jack Staal is anxious to work the biggest case of his career. Staal is forced to the outside when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Integrated Homicide Teams are assigned to the case. Not one to sit on the sidelines, Staal convinces his colleagues to follow his lead and pursue a serial killer who the media has dubbed “Birthday Boy.”

Told from the perspective of both killer and cop, DEAD of KNIGHT is a cat and mouse thriller sure to delight fans of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta or Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch.

Available in print, e-book, and Kindle.

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WIN - Leave a comment or question today for William at his Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for an autographed copy of DEAD OF KNIGHT - to be included in the drawing, please leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

Black Velvet Seductions Cyber Launch Party Winners

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to celebrate the release of Black Velvet Seductions new anthology SPANKED! And thanks to BVS for giving us FIVE winners today!

Congrats goes out to Judy and Susan for winning a copy of SPANKED! and to ~Ley, Gabrielle Lee and Victoria for winning a beautiful lace bookmark from BVS!! Laurie with BVS will be contacting you all soon to get your shipping information!

Celebrating A New Anthology From Black Velvet Seductions

SPANKED! is a collection of four romantic spanking stories. The stories are for those readers who like domestic discipline/spanking stories with a touch of romance.

In The Driving Seat – Richard Savage
Barbra loves to shop…especially for shoes. But she never would have thought that buying a pair of shoes would land her in so much trouble. Alan is tired of fighting with Barbara about money. He decides after one pair of $1500 shoes too many that what Barbara really needs is a spanking.

Intimate Submission – Cara Bristol
Reese wants Jamie's submission. But Jamie is convinced she needs to hold something back. But holding back is escalating the tension in her marriage. Jamie’s insistence on denying Reese one final act of submission pushes him to issue the ultimate ultimatum. Jamie must choose between surrendering the final piece of herself to Reese’s mastery or rebelling against the unfairness of the ultimatum.

Trusting Her – Starla Kaye
Rancher Sam Caldwell is in a funk. He’s been growling at his ranch hands, his friends and even his wife Katie. When Katie gets in a funk, Sam spanks her. So, when his bad mood stretches on with no end in sight, he decides to ask Katie to spank him.

Secret Desires – Cara Bristol
Morgan is perpetually late, but when she keeps him waiting one time too many he promises to spank her the next time she’s late. When she shows up late to her own birthday party Jack decides it’s time to follow through on his promise.

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WIN - Leave Richard, Starla or Cara a question or comment today at their Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for one of today's FIVE prizes! Two readers will win their choice of a print copy or download of SPANKED! and three more readers will win a beautiful lace bookmark from Black Velvet Seductions! Be sure to leave your email address, if you want in on the contest, so we can contact you if you are one of our winners!

Pauline Baird Jones' Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone for making Pauline's Cyber Launch Party such a blast - we wish her the very best with her re-release and hope it is her biggest seller yet!

Congrats to Ina - your name was drawn as our winner! Pauline will contact you soon with all the details!

Celebrating The Re-release For Pauline Baird Jones

Today we celebrate the digital and print re-release of Pauline Baird Jones' romantic comedy action adventure, THE SPY WHO KISSED ME (previously titled Pig in a Park - this revised edition has new content, including an all new epilogue!).

Pauline is the award-winning author of eight novels of action-adventure, suspense, romantic suspense and comedy-mystery. She's also written two non-fiction books, ADAPTING YOUR NOVEL FOR FILM and MADE-UP MAYHEM which released August 2008. Her seventh novel, OUT OF TIME, an action-adventure romance set in World War II, is a 2007 EPPIE winner in the single title/mainstream category. Her eighth novel, THE KEY, released from LL Dreamspell, is the Dream Realm Awards winner in its category and won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher awards.

Originally from Wyoming , Pauline and her family moved from New Orleans to Texas before Katrina.

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THE SPY WHO KISSED ME by Pauline Baird Jones (Previously Pig in a Park this revised edition has new content, including an all new epilogue!)

1998 Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Nominee Favorite E-book of 1998, Book Reviewer's ListServ Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence, 1998

Isabel "Stan" Stanley's mother has been hoping a man would fall in Stan's lap. But when a handsome spy dives through the sunroof of her car in a hail of bullets, Stan's sure this wasn't what momma had in mind. Bad guys beware. Stan's packing a glue gun and she knows how to use it... Sort of.

"Pauline Baird Jones' debut contemporary, Pig in a Park is a delightful madcap romp that will leave readers eagerly anticipating future works by this amazing new talent." Patricia Rouse, Romantic Times Columnist

"Pauline Baird Jones' humor is exquisite comic genius! Her characters are phenomenal and colorful as a rainbow. Move over James Bond!" Suzanne Coleburn, The Bells and Beaux of Romance

"...a remarkable new talent...Pauline Baird Jones and her hilarious novel PIG IN A PARK make their debut. Written in first person, this adventurous romp is a 14 karat gem, and I for one would love to see more from this vastly amusing author." Four & 1/2 Stars from Romantic Times

"A romantic suspense, action-packed mystery, or a sizzling romance, the choice is yours because PIG IN THE PARK is all three, and more... The characters are many, varied, and unusual. The plot has as many twists as a kitten-snarled ball of yarn, but Ms. Jones manages to smooth out every kink, unsnarl the impossible, and deliver a book that is absolutely engrossing, engaging, and balm for your funny bone." Under The Covers Reviews

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WIN - Leave Pauline a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for a $25 gift card from Amazon! To enter, be sure to leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

Lizzie T Leaf's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to all who stopped by to celebrate with Lizzie on the release of her new book DEAD MEMORY! Congrats to Jason! Your name was drawn to win the ebook of the first book in Lizzie's Dead Series - WAKING UP DEAD - Lizzie will be contacting you soon!

Celebrating A Fun New Paranormal In Lizzie T Leaf's Dead Series

Today we're celebrating the release of DEAD MEMORY by Lizzie T. Leaf, the fourth book in her Dead Series for Aspen Mountain Press.

Lizzie is known for her 'humor with heat'. She has numerous e-books in varying lengths and her print book, Struck by Lightning, won the 2007 Beacon award for Erotic Romance and tied for Best First Novel, in addition to being a finalist in Author Island's Reader's Choice Award and Colorado Romance Writer's Award of Excellence. Her Novella, Dead Faint was a 2008 Nominee for Best Vampire at Love Romances Cafe.

Since discovering the fun of writing paranormal, she plays with creating vampires, faeries and other immortals. Currently she is working on a full length paranormal novel set in Scotland that brings in Celtic folklore and a couple of 'godly' realms. Mix them together and there will be laughs for sure and an agent has requested a look at this one.

When not chained to the computer keyboard, Lizzie enjoys time with her family, reading other authors and traveling with her husband.

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DEAD MEMORY - A new story in Lizzie T Leaf's Dead Series

Discovering an unconscious man who may be vampire, in the neighbor’s yard leads werewolf Tawny Howls down a love path that’s not going to make her father happy. She senses this man is different, but that doesn’t stop her attraction. Werewolves and vampires are traditional enemies, and it doesn’t help when he remembers nothing about his prior life.

Awakening to find a beautiful woman hovering over him, he remembers nothing of his past life. When Tawny decides to call him David, he’s fine with the name and the attention he receives from his nurse. But why does the scent of the prey she hunts excite him more than the food she cooks?

Can the strong attraction between a shifter and a vampire overcome years of distrust for each other’s species? Will the discovery of his true identity ensnare them in a battle that endangers their lives, in an effort to save mankind from Demon rule?

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WIN - Leave Lizzie a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for a free download of the book that started her Dead Series - WAKING UP DEAD. To enter, be sure to leave your email address with your comment so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

Carolina Valdez' Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who popped in to celebrate the release of Carolina's INHABITING THE NIGHT with us yesterday! And congrats to april3025 - you get a free copy of it! Carolina will contact you soon with your prize - enjoy!

Celebrating A New Gay Paranormal From Bestseller Carolina Valdez

Today we're celebrating a new Amber Allure release for bestselling author Carolina Valdez.

Carolina warns not to be fooled by the photo. "Even if you walk most of the race, you want to be sure to break into a run for the camera." Although most of her running days have morphed into walking days, she's completed over a hundred distance races - six of them marathons. Her short story about a murder on the streets she's actually competed on, in the Los Angeles Marathon, appears in a Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles anthology.

After a varied career as a registered nurse while winning awards and making sales writing freelance, she decided to retire to finish her first novel. Now she writes about searing passions and the sweetly explosive ecstasies of love.

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INHABITING THE NIGHT by Carolina Valdez

LAPD Detective Trent Edwards rents a house in a mountain community near the only reported sighting of his brother, who's disappeared without a trace. Martin Longhouse, who owns the local fitness center, takes Trent under his wing and introduces him to townspeople who might have seen his missing sibling. Soon, the lust that flares between the two men settles into something deeper.

But Trent doesn't know Martin has a secret, nor does he know exactly who lives in Little Grizzly Lake. Or who, and what, inhabits the woods at night.

When the secrets unravel, Trent discovers his rational cop's mind has a choice - let go of his love for Martin, or open himself up to other realities, other possibilities for his life...

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WIN - Leave Carolina a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for a free ebook of her new release! To enter, please leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today's winner - Good Luck!

Head to AuthorIsland and check out the contest page to see how you can win the beautiful Murano Glass Medallion Carolina has up for grabs!

Virginia Cavanaugh's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate Virginia's very first release SECRETS OF NIGHT, with her yesterday - it was a very special day and she was thrilled to have so many readers here to party with her! Congrats to Elaing8 - your name was drawn as the winner and you get a copy of her brand new book! Virginia will be contacting you soon.

Celebrating Virginia Cavanaugh's Debut Release

Today we're celebrating Virginia Cavanaugh's very first release, SECRETS OF NIGHT, kicking off a new series with Liquid Silver Books!

Virginia was born and raised in the southwest where she still lives with her husband, five kids, and two Yorkies. A love of reading sparked her desire to write her own stories. She spent ten years working as a full time nurse until she finally arrived at a time in her life where she was able to make a dream become a reality.

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SECRETS OF NIGHT - Book One in Virginia Cavanaugh's Order of Night Series

When the tenuous peace between the Shape-Shifters, Vampires, and Sorceresses is shattered, Kierra, Sorceress Senator for The Order of Night, takes it into her own hands to discover the reasons why.

As the Vampire member of the Triad for The Order of Night, Kale is no stranger to war, yet isn't eager to battle anew without cause. His investigation into the allegations that the Shape-Shifters are the breakers of the peace treaty is thrown askew when the woman who's haunted his lusty dreams is found doing recon of her own.

As the body count rises and more women disappear, Kierra and Kale race against the clock to uncover the secret the Shape-Shifters are keeping. Imminent war and forbidden attraction threaten to implode their progress, while Kierra's secrets may very well tip the scales of power.

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WIN - Leave Virginia a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for a free download of her new book! Please leave your email address so we can contact you if you are today's winner!

JD Webb's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to all who stopped by yesterday to celebrate the release of SMUDGE with JD Webb! And congrats to Karen B - you're our winner and we'll be contacting you soon.

Celebrating J.D. Webb's Latest Mystery

Today we're celebrating the release of SMUDGE, a new mystery from the pen of J.D. Webb.

J. D. (Dave) resides in Illinois with his wife of 40 years and their toy poodle, Ginger, losing all family votes 2 to 1. Dave served in the Security Service of the Air Force as a Chinese linguist and weather analyst in Viet Nam and the Philippines prior to spending 25 years in corporate management. A company purge promoted him to cobbler and he owned a shoe repair and sales shop for 11 years. During these careers he wrote short stories and suppressed an urge to write a novel. After making a conscious decision to live at the poverty level, those novels began forcing their way out.

Becoming a full time author in 2002, Dave has garnered several awards. A short story called The Key to Christmas placed third in the 2006 La Belle Lettre literary contest. His first novel Shepherd’s Pie won a publisher’s Golden Wings Award for excellence in writing. His second novel Moon Over Chicago was a top ten finisher in the 2008 Preditors and Editors Poll in the mystery category and was a finalist in the prestigious 2008 Eppie awards by the Electronic Publishing Internet Connection. He is also the Owner and Moderator of the Publishing and Promoting Yahoo group with almost 900 international members.

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SMUDGE a page-turning mystery from J. D. Webb

A smudge of blood involves a woman in the hunt for a mob killer, leading to a life threatening conclusion.

All paralegal Trish Morgan wanted to do was grab a few bucks at her ATM one night, but she finds blood on the screen then hears a moan. Should she investigate or not? Fighting her apprehension, she ventures into the alley next to the bank and discovers a dying woman. While Trish frantically calls 911 for help, the injured woman slips a DVD into Trish's purse. Unknown to Trish the DVD is a video of a hit of a Chicago mobster, which identifies the hit man.

The assassin stalks Trish, calling her at work and demanding that she return the disk. But the police are already involved. Trish is torn about what to do, and her best friend Heather, a wanna-be PI, tries to help.

Each time Trish thinks a problem is resolved she realizes her troubles are far from over. Her marriage is falling apart and she decides to leave her abusive husband. But as she tries to begin a new life the police question her about her husband's business dealings. Unexpected ordeals and dangerous situations test her inner strength and wisdom.

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Tianna Xander's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to celebrate the release of GETTING PHYSICAL with Tianna yesterday and congrats to Cathy M - your name was drawn as our winner! Tianna will contact you soon to get you out your copy of THE ENDOWED.

Celebrating A New Paranormal Menage From Tianna Xander

Today we're celebrating a new paranormal menage from Tianna Xander and Extasy Books!

Tianna is the author of several paranormal, time-travel and science fiction romance novels. She loves reading everything from romance novels, murder mysteries and encyclopedias, to handbooks on solar energy. Tianna is the first to admit she spends far too much time surfing the internet and chatting with her online friends and critique groups. Having written several novels and working on at least one more at any given time -- Tianna still finds time for her family, friends and her many pets. She currently lives in Michigan with her husband, two children, three cats, two big dogs and one occasionally terrorized Netherland Dwarf bunny. Her life is anything but boring.

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GETTING PHYSICAL Book Three in Tianna Xander's The Endowed Series

Caramia is a vampire slayer, which is all fine and good until she finds out the man she's in love with is a vampire. What's a girl to do when the man she loves runs off to find another man - vampire - whatever? Well...she learns to live with it then trains, trains, trains. Who needs fickle men anyway?

Nicodemo returns to find the woman he loves tougher than he remembers her. Not only is she an experienced slayer, but she's learned to live without him since his departure. When he left to find his best friend and triad mate, he never expected to come back and find that the sweet woman he left behind was such an accomplished killer. However, it doesn't bother him...too much. After all, she told him she loved him. Things couldn't have changed that much, could they?

Leopold knows Cara is for him the moment he sees her. He wants nothing more than to make a life and babies with her. The only question he has is whether or not she can keep from staking him long enough to get to know him.

As the two men set out to convince Cara they don't want to live without her, they woo her in the only way they know how. Can she overcome the fact that the two men she finds herself in such a strange relationship with are the very kind of monsters she's trained to kill...or are they?

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Desiree Holt's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to celebrate the release of BACK IN THE SADDLE with Desiree yesterday and congrats to booklover0226 - your name was drawn as our winner and we'll be contacting you soon to find out which of Desiree's hot cowboy romances you'd like to win!

Hot New Cowboy Kink From Desiree Holt

Today we're celebrating today's release of BACK IN THE SADDLE, a hot erotic contemporary Western from award-winning author Desiree Holt!

All her life, Desiree dreamed of faraway places and unbelievably sexy men. From baseball players to rock musicians to television personalities she met them all and each one enriched her life. Now tucked away in the Texas Hill Country, she shares her fantasies with her readers. In her satin robe, with her scented candle burning and a chilled glass of wine at hand, she lets her mind run wild — and hopes you’ll take the journey with her. When she’s not writing, she reads and indulges in her other passion — watching football.

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BACK IN THE SADDLE by Desiree Holt

When Molly Hayes' marriage fell apart, she ran home to Hayes Ranch to lick her wounds. What she really wants to lick is foreman Chance McDaniel, the star of all her erotic fantasies. But he had never given her the time of day. Why would he give her his nights? Kink is a mild term for the kind of sex Chance McDaniel enjoys. But he's learned the hard way not all women can handle his darker desires. He aches to give Molly the ride of her life but fears she'll shy away from his wilder ways. Will the past become a stumbling block or will both Molly and Chance, once wounded, climb back in the saddle?

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Anne Hamilton's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to celebrate Anne's new release, A BLONDE BENGALI WIFE with her and thanks to Anne for being such a great guest and answering so many of our questions! We wish you the best of luck with the new book!

Congrats to Lindeye - your name was drawn as our winner! LL Publications will be contacting you soon so they can get you out your prize. Enjoy!

Celebrating Anne Hamilton's Touching New Release With LL Publications

Today we're celebrating Anne Hamilton's new release with LL Publications, A BLONDE BENGALI WIFE!

Between her travels, Anne Hamilton currently lives in Scotland where she is working on a novel whilst studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. Anne and her husband celebrated the birth of their first baby in August 2010.

"Well, they all said that Bangladesh would be an experience. I don’t know about you, but this is the first time I've slept with someone three minutes after meeting them."

For Anne Hamilton, a three-month winter programme of travel and "cultural exchange" in a country where the English language, fair hair, and a rice allergy are all extremely rare was always going to be interesting, challenging, and frustrating. What they didn't tell Anne was that it would also be sunny, funny, and the start of a love affair with this unexplored area of Southeast Asia.

A BLONDE BENGALI WIFE shows the lives beyond the poverty, monsoons, and diarrhoea of Bangladesh and charts a vibrant and fascinating place where one minute Anne is levelling a school playing field "fit for the national cricket team," and then cobbling together a sparkly outfit for a formal wedding the next. Along with Anne are the essential ingredients for survival: a travel-savvy Australian sidekick, a heaven-sent adopted family, and a short, dark, and handsome boy-next-door.

During her adventures zipping among the dusty clamour of the capital Dhaka, the longest sea beach in the world at Cox’s Bazaar, the verdant Sylhet tea gardens, and the voluntary health projects of distant villages, Anne amasses a lot of friends, stories...and even a husband.

A BLONDE BENGALI WIFE is the "unexpected travelogue" that reads like a comedy of manners to tell the other side of the story of Bangladesh.

Royalties from the sale of A BLONDE BENGALI WIFE will go to benefit Bhola’s Children, a home and school for orphaned and disabled children on the island of Bhola (UK registered charity No. 1118345).

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Jules Bennett's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to celebrate the release of FROM BOARDROOM TO WEDDING BED? with Jules yesterday and congrats to Chey - your name was drawn as our winner - thanks for leaving your email address, Jules will be contacting you soon for your mailing information. :0)

Celebrating Jules Bennett's New Release And New Series

Today we're celebrating the release of FROM BOARDROOM TO WEDDING BED? a new Silhouette Desire from Jules Bennett!


At the age of twenty-three, Jules opened her own beauty salon, married her high school sweetheart and had a wonderful family, but still felt like there was something else she should be doing.

So she did it. One night she sat down and started working on a summary of the story in her head. Her husband found her notes and asked what it was. She told him, "I'm going to write a book" then held her breath, waiting for him to laugh. Instead he looked at her, smiled, and said, "This is good. When can I read more?" Ahhh, her first fan.

Jules lives in Ohio where she runs a beauty salon by day and writes passionate, memorable romances . She says her home is usually in a state of chaos because she'd much rather create a new story than run the sweeper. Luckily her husband, daughters and beagle don't seem to mind that she's not domestic...that is until she forgets to feed them.

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FROM BOARDROOM TO WEDDING BED? A Silhouette Desire from Jules Bennett

He'd been faced with the toughest decision of his life - a future full of wealth and power, or the love of Tamera Stevens. And self-made billionaire Cole Marcum had never regretted his choice. Until now, when circumstances forced him to work as partners with the woman he'd left behind.

The brilliant CEO was determined to keep their relationship strictly business. Even so, working so closely with the only woman he'd ever cherished had Cole rethinking his priorities. This time, was he prepared to choose love over money?

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WIN - Leave Jules a comment or question today at her Cyber Launch Party and your name goes in the hat for an autographed copy of all THREE of her Silhouette Desire releases! If you want to be included in the drawing, please leave your email address with your comment, so we can contact you if you are today's winner!

WIN A KINDLE - To celebrate her new release, Jules is giving away an AMAZON KINDLE!!! Head over to the contest page of AuthorIsland.com to find out how to enter!

D. Renee Bagby's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to all of you who stopped by to celebrate the print release of ERIS with D. Renee yesterday and congrats to Mindy - you're name was drawn as our winner!

D. Renee Bagby's First Menage Is Now In Print

Today we are celebrating the print release of D. Renee Bagby's first erotic menage and the first book in her new Eternal Truths Series - ERIS, released by Siren-Bookstrand. ERIS has been getting some incredible reviews and recognition including Rites of Romance Recommended Read, 5 Tea Cups from HEA Reviews, 5 Divas from Dark Diva Reviews, and "Literary Perfection" from Fire Pages Reviews!

Renee is a military brat turned military wife who is currently stationed in MD with her husband and two cats.

Whether writing as D. Renee Bagby or Zenobia Renquist, she is a world-builder. She loves inventing new cultures and shaping their histories and laws because it beats researching the existing ones.

Her stories span the fantasy gamut but she dabbles in sci-fi and contemporary from time to time. While her main characters tend to be of different races, she doesn't let skin color rule or limit her stories. For her, it's all about how much she can torture her characters so they earn their happily-ever-after ending.

The rules are all new and pre-conceived notions will only slow you down, so when reading Renee's stories, she asks only one thing -- Leave Your Reality Behind.

D. Renee Bagby and  Zenobia Renquist have Romance Trading Cards available - Check it out!

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Book one in D. Renee Bagby's Eternal Truths Series.

Time is on their side and they can be together, assuming the truth doesn't ruin everything first.

Immortals born in the thirteenth century, Lucien Riordan and Ranulf Styr have waited centuries to be reunited with their love. Want for her cemented their friendship through time, even as it tore it apart. She changed their lives, made them want better, and they plan to show her that. There's only one catch - she's never met them before.

Eris Brue is flattered by Lucien and Ranulf's attention, but they are her bosses. She doesn't want to get tangled up in an office romance, especially not with two men. Their joint seduction overcomes her resolve, and she gives in even though she knows they are keeping secrets that could doom their relationship.

Centuries of planning have finally come to fruition. Lucien and Ranulf have a short amount of time to make Eris love them, because once time has her, everything could come to an end.

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Dominique Adair's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to celebrate Dominique's new release HOT FOR TEACHER yesterday and congrats to Regina Ross - your name was drawn as our winner!

Celebrating A New Jane Porter Story From Dominique Adair

Today we're celebrating a new release in Dominique Adair's bestselling Jane Porter Series!

Dominique left the world of big business to carry on conversations with the people who live in her mind, fictional characters that is. In her past she has worked as a software tester, traveled with an alternative rock band and currently volunteers for her local police department as a photographer. She lives in Central Ohio with 6,000 books and an impressive collection of dust bunnies. This award-winning author also writes as J.C. Wilder.

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Who says three's a crowd?

HOT FOR TEACHER - A new Jane Porter Story from Dominique Adair

Entrepreneur, fashionista and submissive-in-training, Jane Porter is headed to New Orleans with her lovers, Antonio and Santos. Armed with an invitation to the exclusive Marché d’Esclave, a members-only pleasure club, Jane steps into a world where submissives are auctioned to new masters for training. Happy with her current masters, Jane has no intentions of going up on the block herself until she comes to face to face with a man she'd thought never to see again...

Among the patrons is the mysterious Archer, a master from Europe with legendary skills in the art of training. His submissives command the highest prices at auction and for those in search of a master, he is the one they crave. Intrigued by the beautiful Jane, he employs his considerable talents in the hopes of seducing her away from her lovers and returning to his home for a little higher education.

Will Jane resist temptation or will she accept Archer's invitation to explore more of the pleasure she's come to crave...

Warning: Extreme bondage, spanking, sexy men doing very naughty things to themselves and others, more spanking and the creative misuse of fruit.

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And for those who missed the first three stories in Dominique Adair's Jane Porter Series, they're now available in one paperback collection!

Her darkest fantasies are about to come true...

Three Jane Porter Stories from Dominique Adair in one paperback collection

Seducing...Jane Porter is looking to end her self-imposed, year-long celibacy with a master who's willing to explore the depths of her sensual nature. Men looking for happily-ever-after need not apply.

Antonio Villareal is a master on the hunt for a submissive. The moment he sees Jane on the arm of another man, he wants to possess her, body and soul.

Educating...Antonio is well aware that Jane is determined to keep their sexual relationship temporary, but he has other plans. Within hours of their first meeting, he introduces her to his best friend, and together they set out to unleash her inner submissive.

Reinventing...Jane's weekend of heady sexual freedom is drawing to a close. She arrives at the final event, a masquerade ball, escorted by her masters, then discovers that the party isn't the only item on their agenda.

Antonio and Santos have no intention of letting Jane retreat to her everyday life. This night, if they have their way, Beauty will emerge from her shell - for good.

Warning: Graphic sex, spanking, public fondling, more spanking, the ménage of the century, even more spanking, cranky ex-lovers, bondage and the misuse of both a piano and pool table.

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Sam Cheever's Cyber Launch Party Winner

Thanks to everyone for stopping by and celebrating the kick off for Sam Cheever's new fantasy series - THE MONAD CHRONICLES! And congrats to Andrea I - your name was drawn as our winner!

Celebrating A Sexy New Fantasy From The Pen Of Sam Cheever

Today we're celebrating the release of MONAD CHRONICLES: GUARDIAN, Book One in Sam Cheever's new fantasy series - The Monad Chronicles.

Sam writes fast paced fantasy and romantic fiction with feisty characters who deal with life's little challenges in unique and often hilarious ways. As a reader Sam is very impatient. She quickly loses interest if a story doesn't have a good pace and snappy dialogue. Sam's inability to focus in a backwash of human angst and subtleties works out well for her readers, since she writes the way she likes to read.

In her real life, Sam lives on a hobby farm in Indiana with 10 dogs, 4 horses, 2 barn cats, 2 daughters, and one husband. Not necessarily in that order.

Find out how you can get free goodies and many even your name in one of her books by joining her Fan Club!

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MONAD CHRONICLES: GUARDIAN Book 1 in the Monad Chronicles series by Sam Cheever

Nuria, Warrior Monad Third Level is a protector of the magical realm. She occasionally works with guardian angels when the human realm is in danger. When Nuria is called to help a guardian save a human woman from a demon, she isn’t prepared for the woman to turn on them and send the guardian to the Elysian Fields for all eternity. Now Nuria’s on the hot seat with the gods of Olympus, and to earn her way out of trouble she’s been given a task.

It appears there may be a plot to take over Olympus, and the gods suspect a human named Ian Lavelle is at the heart of it. So they send Nuria to Earth to find, question, and destroy the sexy and elusive Ian. There’s only one problem... Ian Lavelle is much more than he seems. And there’s a very good chance he may just be too hot for Nuria to handle!

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