Weekly Blog Post Roundup and Book Review!

Been a busy week for me.  First, today I’m over at Brenda and Steve’s blog doing a simple Q/A on writing, my upcoming release “Surrender to Love” and sticking around for another day or so.  Find me here

Did ya’ll see the review for The Playground that Night Owl Romance gave it?  4.5 Stars!  AND a Top Pick

The folks at Night Owl said the following:  ” It was a hot and steamy love story with two characters that loved and lost and found love again in the unlikeliest of places.”  Read the full review here

I was at Tonya Kinzer’s blog last week.  I think I even gave away a book.  But the interview/blog posts she hosted may look familiar to some of you.  Still, peep the link and comment.  I’m sure I left her plenty of things to ponder while I caused trouble.

Did you pick up your copy of The Playground yet?  It’s now available on Amazon.com

Oh I turned in the second round of edits for “Surrender to Love” and that’s looking like a Feb 7th release.  I hope ya’ll enjoy another sordid tale of sweet, sinful seduction ;)

Published in: on January 25, 2012 at 8:24 pm  Leave a Comment  
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New Review – The Playground

Newest Release by Sascha Illyvich, erotic romance author at Decadent Publishing

EEEEE!!! My first 1Night Stand from Decadent Publishing received this review:

“I found this story very intriguing. Sascha made ‘The Playground’ very realistic, where anyone could picture themselves in Devon’s or Shelly’s shoes by using a scenario that has affected most of us at some point in our lives. Closure is so important and I liked the emotional honesty the story displayed. The dom/sub being portrayed from a ‘non toys’ perspective, showing how simple clothes can be used, was a great addition allowing the honesty to grow along with the characters. The agreement to go slow completed the honest emotional undertaking of the story showing some things have to be worked on and don’t just magically happen. Not to mention the ‘hot sex’ was integral to the story making this one ‘hot read’ emotionally tangling read.” – Rae Spencer

Make sure you’ve got your copy today!

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Published in: on January 19, 2012 at 9:08 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Kinky Book Reviews Loves GIft of Her Submission

Review: Gift of Her Submission by Sascha Illyvich

Gift of Her Submission - Male Dominant Female submissive BDSM/bondage romance

Gift of Her Submission
Author: Sascha Illyvich
Publisher: Sizzler Editions
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Rating: 4 of 5 kinks!

Book Blurb:
A Man who Lives the Life writes His First Book about Dominant Men and the Women who are Their Slaves! With subs and former subs scattered across the country, bestselling author Sascha Illyvich has waited till now to create a picture of cruel masters who force the women they have chosen to submit and then teach them to love it! By turns savage, ravishing bdsm, and heart-pounding romance The Gift of Her Submission defies description.

Review by Gabrielle:
This book gives us a glimpse into the lives of Ronan and his three submissive’s. Each woman is unique and each one is special in her own way. There is a rubenesque woman who needs help with her self-esteem, a masochistic woman, and a woman who wants to learn and belong.  Each story shows us a pivotal time between each woman and Ronan.  The sex is hot and heavy but we also get to see the relationships that build between Ronan and the women. I enjoyed all of the woman equally. Every story had depth and emotions in it that made me like not only Ronan but the women as well.

 

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Thank you Kinky Book Reviews!  I’m delighted you enjoyed my book.  I intended for the stories to touch the hearts and minds of the readers.  That’s why I felt this was a powerful look at BDSM and probably why the publisher told me this book had legs.  It’s still one of my highest rated books despite the followup attempts I’ve made to write another best seller in the same vein!

Published in: on November 23, 2011 at 4:06 am  Leave a Comment  
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Book Review: SinJin by Julie Templeton

His Needs Consumed Him…

The oldest of the Rayborne brothers, Sinjin’s insatiable appetite for sex has earned him the nickname “Sin.” But his frequent visits to London’s most infamous pleasure houses must now come to an end. For a rogue who’s accustomed to indulging his every desire, one woman can never be enough…until Sinjin locks eyes with Katelyn Davenport, and knows she is the one woman he can’t get enough of… 

Until He Met the One Woman Who Could Satisfy Them all…

Betrothed to a much older man in payment for her late father’s gambling debts, Katelyn dreads her wedding day—and her wedding night even more. When she meets Sinjin at a soirée intended to introduce him to the eligible young ladies of the ton, she envies the lucky woman who will ultimately become his bride. But when Sinjin seduces Katelyn, giving her just a taste of his legendary skills, she can only imagine herself in his bed every night.

When I picked up this story it started off with hot sex.  I guess that resonated with the male in me enough to make me overlook the fact that this was (yet again) a historical romance.  My issue is with Historicals overall, but not with Julie’s books.  Ms. Templeton’s SinJin rocked my socks actually!  The sex was hot, the story did NOT get caught up in all the prim and proper BS I hate about historicals, it got right to the point.  Even with the cute side plot hinting at lesbian activity, (I tend to dislike side plots right now) it was a very enjoyable and fast paced read.

Enjoy another Historical Romance Book – The Irish Devil by Diane Whiteside

Published in: on November 7, 2011 at 4:55 am  Leave a Comment  
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Book Review: The Irish Devil by Diane Whiteside

She fought for survival…

Born to wealth and privilege but now widowed and betrayed on the unforgiving Arizona frontier, Viola Ross finds herself forced to choose between starvation and marriage to her husband’s murderer. Instead she takes a scandalous risk: to turn her back on polite society and become the mistress of sensual William Donovan. Donovan, a wagonmaster and panther of a man, is fully capable of defending her with his bullwhip and Bowie knives. She has no idea what else he can do with those big, callused hands—but she’s going to find out…

She was a dream who could destroy him…

Donovan is stunned by Viola’s offer since he’s always seen her as a fairy princess far beyond the reach of any self-made Irish immigrant. Women like her might enjoy an affair with a man like him—and he’s more than proven himself in that capacity—but they always reject his offers of marriage. But how will Viola react when she discovers the darkness of his erotic hungers? And once he’s sampled her shy beauty, can he bear to let her go? …

While the killer marshals his forces …

Even as passion flares to life between Donovan and Viola, a killer seethes in rage. He has other plans for her and summons his allies, including the men who once destroyed Donovan’s family. For no Irish Devil is going to stand in his way…

Yeah I ripped that off the website.  I know it’s not good for SEO but ya’ll don’t care about that.  When I first picked up this book, started reading, I wasn’t aware it was a Historical romance and after about three pages I forgot to care that I’m not a fan of Historicals.  Diane Whiteside writes hot and steamy love scenes and has managed to throw in good doses of BDSM without making it obvious.  The characters were alive off the page, the imagery vivid and the plot, while fairly typical of Westerns, kept me interested enough that I burned my fingers finishing a cigar while reading.  The weight of Ms. Whiteside’s words makes the book and world come alive.

Buy The Irish Devil

Enjoy another Historical Romance – SinJinn by Julie Templeton

Published in: on October 17, 2011 at 4:36 am  Comments (3)  
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Romance Novel Review – Master of Wolves by Angela Knight

Master of Wolves by Angela Knight

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Jim London is outraged over the death of his friend, a fellow cop and werewolf–and wants to get to the bottom of what he thinks was murder. The only way to find out is to go undercover–and, in his wolf form, Jim can do that better than anybody. There’s one complication: the new K9 handler, Faith Weston, is sexy enough to bring out the animal in any man.

I had to laugh at the scenario set up once I started reading the book. Being the K9 partner of a sexy woman and being able to see everything she does, from eat, sleep, shower, dress, etc made me wish I was that wolf.  Imagine Faith Weston’s surprise upon learning about her special K9 and then having to deal with the sexy Jim London.  Angela takes us on a unique journey in the Mageverse world, giving us a different spin on the vampire/wolf mythos along with some fun from the Arthurian Legends to create a fascinating world that entraps the reader and enthralls them for hours.  The sex is smoking hot, as would be expected by fans of Angela Knight’s E-books.  She’s a talented author, one I’ve read over and over again. The plot twist made the read more enjoyable.

She was and still is someone that inspired me as a writer and gave me direction on what and how I could write paranormal romance stories.  I was in the midst of book two of the Opeth Pack saga when I started reading her and I only wish I’d have discovered Knight earlier. Also for those who are pondering a career in writing romance, she teaches courses on fight scenes, sex scenes and is just a sweet humble woman.

Soon I’ll throw up a review about Jane’s Warlord, the first Angela Knight book that got me hooked.

Published in: on October 7, 2011 at 1:31 am  Leave a Comment  
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New Reivew posted – Siddella’s Surrender

I got spanked

Siddella’s Surrender was reviewed by the fine folks at BDSM Book Reviews.  The soft launch of the site is up now at BDSM Book Reviews. The lovely ladies had good things to say about the story, which brings me a great amount of joy!

“The author knows just how to bring his world to the reader.I was pulled in right from the start and never left. This book is fast paced , full of action and of course lots of sex. I cannot wait to get the next book to see what happens to Siddella and Frika next.”

I’m glad they loved it.  If you want your copy of the first book in the Siddella series, Amazon carries it here

See the full review of Siddella’s Surrender at BDSM BOOK REVIEWS

Published in: on September 30, 2011 at 4:14 am  Leave a Comment  
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Romance Novel Review – Howling Moon by CT Adams and Cathy Clamp

Howling Moon by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp

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Adams and Clamp reveal more of the laws and mores of the Sazi shape-shifters in their latest compelling romance. The leader of the Sazi shape-shifters, Chief Justice Charles Wingate, asks former Wolven agent Rafael Ramirez to take care of an extremely difficult situation. His goddaughter, Cat, has been bitten by psychopathic serial killer Jack Simpson, who also happens to be a U.S. senator. Sazi risk turning human if they are bitten, and that transformation is brutally painful. Cat, who watched helplessly as Simpson destroyed her parents, is tormented by his telepathic communications. But she survives the turning and become a jaguar shape-shifter, only to be rejected by the Boulder Sazi pack of wolf-shifters. Rafael, who is responsible for training her, reluctantly realizes she is his true mate. Then, after he becomes leader of the pack, he has to confront the wolf shape-shifters’ prejudice against feline shape-shifters. When it comes to paranormal romance, nobody does it better than Adams and Clamp. Diana Tixier Herald
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Another first for me in terms of what I started reading to learn the world of paranormal romance.  The plot had twists and definitely very developed characters.  Due to the nature of both heroine and hero being on opposing sides of things as wolf and jaguar shifters in the world of the Sazi adds to the emotional conflict as well as the steamy sex.   Both authors gave me a jumping  point to expand my universe while keeping me focused on the book at hand.  I did read this in one setting, and ended up picking up a few other books in the series.  I know it’s the fourth book in the series but it’s definitely one worth picking up.

At this time in my career I had just started plotting and working on The Opeth Pack Saga

Published in: on September 30, 2011 at 1:17 am  Leave a Comment  
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Romance Novel Review: Killing Moon by Rebecca York

 

Killing Moon By Rebecca York

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“KILLING MOON (ISBN: 0425190714, Berkley Sensation, June 2003). introduces Ross Marshall, my werewolf detective. He’s on the trail of a serial killer, who shoots him at the beginning of the story. Out of his mind with an infected bullet wound, he’s treated by a beautiful young doctor, Megan Sheridan. He’s drawn to Megan–and she to him–yet he’s vowed never to pass on his werewolf genes. As he becomes more intimately involved with Megan, she helps him figure out his genetic heritage. But the killer turns his attention on them. And Ross finds he must reveal his violent nature to Megan if he wants to save her. The setting is always important to my books. KILLING MOON takes place in the DC area because that’s where I live, and I also felt that setting a story here adds extra cachet.”

This was one of the first paranormal romances I’d ever actually read and part of what got me hooked into the world of wolf shifters.  I wanted to write like this and to tell tales of hot, angsty alpha men and seductive women.  And Rebecca’s characters deliver the goods here that I’ve used sort of as a bible to how I write my wolves.

The book itself has tight writing, an intriguing plot and of course steamy sex.  Vividness of images and characters make this a book and world you want to stay in more and more. It wasn’t the first book I read of the series, that was Crimson Moon which I picked up solely based on the awesome cover.  I’ll review that later.  Right now I’m aiming for paranormal readers here to see what I’ve read back in the day!

I know it’s an older book but I was going through my collection and realized I still had a ton of books I have read but never talked about.  So this is a combination of a book review and a little history about your humble author ;)

For those interested in MY first wolf story, Wolf Magic can be found on Amazon for Kindle

Published in: on September 2, 2011 at 1:01 am  Leave a Comment  
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Book Reveiw: Back in Black by Lori Foster

an erotic romance that's too hot to handle!If you’re looking to get away from paranormal and urban fantasy for a moment, look no further than Mistress of Erotic Romance – Lori Foster

Gillian is a PR expert hired to smooth out the rough edges on hot- headed sports club president Drew Black. He’s rough, raw and ready for any challenge Gillian throws his way. But which one’s going to end up on top?

This actually reminded me of my publicist and me.  How I’m kinda of crass and of the “I’m out of Give a Damn pills” mentality and she’s all “You’re a PR Nightmare LOL!”

I initially had trouble with the secondary story involving one of Jack’s fighters and another heroine but saw that it ultimately led to deepening the original plot.  It’s my hangup as a writer, and that bleeds into my reading habits.   There is a reason though that I consider Lori a goddess.  Her career and dedication to this genre is inspiring and her writing is nothing short of excellent.  The characters will draw you in, especially if you like your bad boy with a small dose of “Fuck” LOL!

Published in: on August 1, 2011 at 4:18 am  Comments (3)  
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