Kickoff!
Thank you to Theresa Romain for featuring me and my books all this month on her blog. For a chance to win the complete “Maggie Robinson collection”, hop on over and tell me about your first love. (I confess to Googling mine, LOL)
Magnetic, or How I Used To Be Interesting
Well, maybe not. 😉 But every now and again I discover from my website statistics that someone has read an old blog post, and I read it too. I’ve had this blog now almost 4 years, and at one time, I aimed to be philosophical, educational and humorous. But things have evolved, and now it seems I’m mostly promotional. 🙁 I miss the old me, but the new me is pretty busy with deadlines and family and not quite as witty as I once was. So if you’re reading this, you’re apt to see infrequent posts with “portentious” news, like this:
Margaret Rowe will have a short, “Wicked Wedding Night,” in the November 2011 Berkley anthology, The Agony and the Ecstasy. I’m excited that one of my critique partners J.K. Coi has a fabulous, twisty story in it as well. There will be about 20 5,000 word erotic-ish stories, and it was fun to have Margaret come out to play.
Copyedits for Margaret’s Any Wicked Thing were finished last week. Sebastian and Freddie are two of my most favorite characters. He’s a depraved duke, she’s a bluestocking, there’s a castle—what’s not to like? 🙂 An excerpt on the Books page will be going up soon.
I’ve ordered new magnets, so if you enter either of my contests this month, expect some in the mail when they come in to thank you for your efforts. Last month I mailed out new bookmarks to everyone who took the time to enter. I truly appreciate everyone who’s along for the ride with me! This month’s prizes are an ARC of Mistress by Midnight , two copies of Tiffany Clare’s sensuous The Surrender of a Lady, and a fantastic excerpt book. There’s still a week left to enter on the Contest pages.
Next month debut author Theresa Romain will have me on as her Guest Author of the Month. There will be a big book giveaway, and I’ll let you know when the interview post goes up.
So that’s it for now. As you can see from the pictures, I could not decide on the design for the AWT magnet, so I ordered three different styles, LOL. Which do you like best?
RT Review of LOP :)
LORDS OF PASSION
by Virginia Henley, Kate Pearce, Maggie Robinson
Genre: England, Anthology, Historical Romance
Sensuality: HOT
Setting: 18th- and 19th-century England
RT Rating ****
Passion or sex can be serious or fun and these three talented authors show the many sides of desire. Readers will delight as fantasies are played out and passion is given free rein, and while there is plenty of lust, there is also trust, love and tenderness — enough to please any reader seeking pleasure.
Three years ago, Lady Sarah Caversham was promised in marriage to Charles Lennox to settle her father’s gambling debt. Now it’s time for the “Beauty and the Brute” to begin married life. Charles is shocked to see his gawky bride has turned into a beauty and he’s now more than ready to make her his wife. However, he’ll have to woo her, seduce her, win and try to keep her in Henley’s irresistible novella.
Pearce introduces readers to Louisa March, who wishes her staid husband was more like the heroes in her novels, especially the pirate in her latest romance. Thinking he cannot offend his wife’s sensibilities, Nicholas has been the perfect gentleman in bed: quick and efficient. He’s more than a bit surprised to learn Louisa wants more and with a courtesan’s help, he learns “How to Seduce a Wife.”
Robinson’s prim Prudence Thorn is “Not Quite a Courtesan,” just a sensible woman trying to help her cousin resolve a marital problem. Then she meets Darius Shaw, her cousin’s husband’s brother, at an infamous courtesan’s home. She’s intrigued by the man, who imports pornographic artifacts. The artwork and the idea titillates Prudence, and the idea of the wanton love slave is born. (BRAVA, Dec., 379 pp., $14.00)
Reviewed By: Kathe Robin
Publisher: BRAVA
Published: December 2010
Publishers Weekly Review for Lords of Passion
Lords of Passion
Virginia Henley, Kate Pearce, and Maggie Robinson, Kensington/Brava, $14 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5107-7
This lively book collects three well-matched historical romance novellas set in England. In Henley’s “Beauty and the Brute,” high-born teens Charles and Sarah are wedded to settle Charles’s father’s gambling debts. Mortal enemies on their wedding day, they part for three years, only to reunite as strangers and experience unexpected passion. In Pearce’s “How to Seduce a Wife,” prim young Louisa March yearns to feel pleasure in the bedroom. Her husband, Nicholas, wants to help her, but doesn’t know how. Could a Mayfair madam help them? In Robinson’s delicious “Not Quite a Courtesan,” a young heiress gets far more than she bargains for when she marries into a family of swindlers short on cash but long on charm. Readers will float away on the literary flair of these escapist tales, each touched with just the right amount of eroticism. (Dec.)
Delicious! Literary flair! Plus just the right amount of eroticism. 🙂 I’m floating away right now!
15 Days to Embrace the Darkside
How can you resist a challenge like that? I’m helping the divine Juliana Stone kick off her celebration of the release of her next book from Avon, His Darkest Embrace. Stop by her blog Sunday, October 10 for a chance to win an ARC of Mistress by Midnight!
She’ll be having great guests, with giveaways every day on her blog until her Jaguar Warrior releases into the wild.