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A new home for the BOYS DOWN UNDER

Maggie on Jul-30-2008

Great news everyone!

The Boys Down Under anthology has a new lease of life!

Aspen Mountain Press has contracted the whole anthology featuring fellow Aussie authors Kate Murphy, Jess Dee, Angela Verdenius and Sarah Dickson.

My story “The Executioner” had been revised and extended and is sexier with more thrills than ever!

The release date is still to be announced, but I will let you know as soon as I do!

Here’s the Blurb for The Executioner:

A team building exercise at a remote location reignites the heat between former lovers Madeleine Smith and Nicholas Garabaldi .When team members start dying they must learn to trust again so they can outwit whoever is killing off the group one by one. Is this the Executioner from the indigenous Dream Time legend of the local Bilbulmun tribe? Or is someone closer to home responsible?

Maggie Nash
www.maggienash.com
www.maggienash.blogspot.com/
www.australianromancereaders.blogspot.com/

Details, details, details…

jetmykles on Jul-20-2008

Man, I swear! Is it 2 weeks or 2 months that take place between one chapter and the next? Is that enough time for such-and-such to happen? But If it takes that long/little time, then what the heck is someone else doing in the meantime. Nope, it’s gotta be… but wait, if it takes that long, then it’s still summer/winter and it’ll be hot/cold. That doesn’t work. Have I introduced this character before? Is it feasible that they haven’t thought about…? ARUGH! Read the rest of this entry »

Sharyn’s debut as an author

Cynnara on Jul-19-2008

On July 3rd, I celebrated a new release but it wasn’t just any release. It was also the debut of my soultwin as an author. Twin Flames of Imbolc is a collaboration from mine and Shar’s minds with the added benefit of the Twin sisters in the story are characters we’ve developed through the years. I’m so proud of my sister, especially as she juggles many things– from being a review site owner, digital artist, crit partner, home schools her kids, is the go-to person for her family, and she writes. Now she’s published and for me, it’s a great excitement because she’s more than deserved this.

Let me share a bit of Twin Flames of Imbolc with you all. I hope you enjoy the story as much as we had writing it. *grins* Read the rest of this entry »

Readers, writers and conventions - oh my!

Maggie on Jul-12-2008

Ever had one of those moments when you wish you had never opened your mouth and made a suggestion? Not because it was a silly idea, but because it wasn’t and you knew you’d be the one who had to run with it?

Well last November I did and now 8 months later I am wondering what the heck was I thinking!

You see, I opened my mouth with the infamous line “How’s this for an idea?” A few of us on a romance readers group were lamenting how we couldn’t afford to go to RT or to RWA nationals since it is so expensive to get there from Australia, so I threw out the idea of having a readers event in Australia instead. And yes, you guessed it, the others thought it was a brilliant idea and promptly made me chairperson of a new organisation and the Australian Romance Readers Convention was born!

It’s been quite the roller coaster ride for us all. A lot of work but I have made some really close and lifelong friends along the way and the event itself promises to be amazing! It is scheduled for 20 - 22 Feb 2009 in Melbourne Australia and work is constantly on the go to make sure the best possible event happens.

We have been overwhelmed by the support we have received from Authors and publishers. We know it is a long and expensive way to travel and are constantly amazed at how generous people are. We also have a big supply of free books and promo items generously posted to us from those who can’t come.

The line up is spectacular, if I say so myself :-) We have Sherrilyn Kenyon, MaryJanice Davidson, Stephanie Laurens, Dianna Love, Liz Maverick, Keri Arthur, newcomer Bronwyn Parry, Ally Blake, Nicola Marsh, Paula Roe, Denise Rossetti, Jess Dee, Helen Woodall (EC editor), Carol Marinelli, Annie West, Anna Campbell, Jordana Ryan, and many more yet to confirm….phew! What a party!

We have support from our confirmed wonderful sponsors Avon/Harper Collins, All Romance ebooks, Harlequin Australia, Intrigue Romance Books, Torquere Press and more are signing up every day. (Contact Natasha at arrc.sponsorship@gmail.com)

So if you would would like more details about the event send an email to ARRC09@gmail.com and join our mailing list.

Registration opens soon!

And what have I learned from this experience?

Sometimes we put our feet in our mouth for a reason.

Although it’s a hard slog, I wouldn’t have missed this opportunity for the world.

Maggie

www.australianromancereaders.com.au

Excerpt and explanation

Ashlyn Chase on Jul-7-2008

In my recent release, Death by Delilah, the spirits of Delilah’s grandparents play a major part.  Because they are disembodied voices, we cannot see what they’re doing.  Heck, they can’t even see what they’re doing!  LOL.  Anyway, since my books are often “experimental speculative fiction” I sometimes need to qualify what readers are reading with a bit of explanation.  As soon as you get into the swing of the story, you’ll get it. My fellow LAW members are more apt to ask, “What’s not to get?” but that’s because we share the same wild writer’s imaginings.  Enjoy! 

Death by Delilah

Ashlyn Chase

 

Delilah Mills, a navy enlistee, is on the verge of finding true love. All she needs is a little push or so her grandmother believes. The elder Delilah can’t resist the urge to meddle with her namesake—even if she’s a ghost and her influence is limited.

 

Joshua Sparks, a naval officer attracted to Delilah since their teens, discovers the crush has been mutual all these years. Back then, he let her mixed race and his parents stop him.  Now, the Navy says they can’t date.  One night they throw caution to the winds and not only can’t undo what they did, but don’t want to.

 

Can two Navy lovers, equal in resolve but not in rank, secretly live together off base, without discovery getting one of them transferred to the Middle East? 

 

<i>Publisher Note: A shorter version of this book was previously published elsewhere under the same title.</i>

R Excerpt:  To clear up any confusion—the ghosts do NOT observe the couple having sex.  The elder Delilah (ghost) just loves to tease her husband.  Here’s the clip where that happens.

 

“For heaven’s sake, Delilah. They’re about to grind their coffee.”

“I still don’t know what—”

“Roll in the hay, bury the bone, shake the sheets, ride the rocket, sink the soldier,

dance on the mattress, knock boots… You know damn well what I mean.”

“You mean they want to have sex now?”

“Genius!”

“Well, why didn’t you just say so?”

“I did. About a dozen times.”

“Yeah, in some kind of World War II code. How the heck was I supposed to figure

that out?”

“Do I really have to keep telling you to give the kids their privacy?”

“I turned my back five minutes ago. I knew they wanted to have sex.”

“You what?”

“I knew they wanted to have sex, not doodle their canoodle or whatever the heck

you said.”

“You’re killin’ me, Delilah.”

“And I keep telling you—”

“I know, I know. I’m already dead but if I was alive again, you’d be killin’ me.”

“If we were both alive again, I’d be doodling your canoodle right now.”

“Now you’re talking! Let’s get to the second part of that continuing education class

on out-of-body sex.”

“Sure. What’s it called, ‘Knocking Boots When You Don’t Have Feet’? Or might it

be something like ‘Burying the Boneless Ham’?”

“It’s called ‘Making Love in the Astral Realm, Part Two’.”

“You’re joking, right?”

“No. Why? What’s wrong with that?”

“We can learn to have sex but you leave my astral realm alone.”

* * * * *

“Are you feeling what I’m feeling?”

“If you’re horny, then, yes.” Delilah wrapped her arms around Josh’s neck and

pulled him down close enough to nip his earlobe.

They groped and wriggled to loosen and shed their clothes as fast as possible.

Delilah, caught in her pantyhose, toppled off the bed and onto the rug. “Oomph.”

“Are you all right, sweetheart?” Josh extended his hand, ready to help her up.

Instead she yanked him toward her and said in her sexiest voice, “Why don’t you

come and see?”

He grinned and kneeled beside her. “Let me take a good look.” He ran his hand

from her ankle, up one leg to her knee, kissing it and then caressed his way to her thigh.

“This leg seems all right. I’d better check the other one.”

She leaned back on her hands and stretched out both her legs. Josh rubbed teasingly

in circles from her other foot to her other thigh. He avoided the spot in between and

continued up her sides with both hands.

As he reached her breasts, he cupped them and rubbed her nipples with his

thumbs. She closed her eyes, arched and moaned.

“Ah, there seems to be a couple of sensitive spots here. I think I should kiss them

and make them better.”

“Oh, yes. I want to feel your mouth on my breasts, Josh. Please.” Delilah arched,

thrusting her breasts forward.

He dipped low, drew one nipple into his mouth and ran his hot tongue around the

sensitive pebble. Sucking gently, he massaged the other breast. When he released it, he

asked, “Better?”

“Ohhh… Yes, that’s beginning to feel better.”

 

New release - One For The Team

jetmykles on Jul-1-2008
July 1, 2008

Available now from Loose Id

Pairing: m/f, m/f/m+

Buy it here

This one is a fun (I hope) romp, pure and simple. I had the idea and much of it written pre-Dark Elves I: Taken and thought it was a neat enough idea to resurrect.

Sorry, no m/m in this one. But… the cps saw a possible connection so maybe there’ll be a follow up story.

BLURB:

Alex dumped her and Jen’s not sure why. Okay, he’d been her first, but she thought she’d done rather well, sexually speaking. Why did he all of a sudden tell her that it wasn’t working out? What was wrong with her?

Ken, Bart, Davey and Jason—her best friends—all try to convince her there’s nothing wrong with her. In fact they seek to prove it to her… by first-hand example. That’s all well and good until Jen starts to freak about that. She’s sleeping with her best friends. What’s up with that?

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We were laughing when we got back to my place. Read the rest of this entry »