Step Into the Dark World of Jordan Abbott

Today I'm welcoming an author who is visiting me for the first time - Jordan Abbott.  She brought along a little peek at her new biker book Behind Blue Eyes.

     Kallista:  Tell me about your latest release.

     Jordan:  Behind Blue Eyes: Hells Vipers 2 is the sequel to Hells Vipers. With this one I wanted to do some of the things that the mail I received from fans requested, such as more insight on other club members. I also wanted to give the reader a deeper view into Nuke and why he is the way he is.

     Kallista:  What inspired you to write your first book?

     Jordan: I wanted to give a voice to the people in my head.  They deserve it.

     Kallista:  Do you have a specific writing style?

     Jordan:  Dark.

     Kallista:  You're a woman of few words, so let's let your characters do the talking! 

Here's a hot excerpt:

Mitch, Ice and Amy stood outside the bathroom door. “Fuck, I can’t tell. Are they making up, or do we need to go in there and save her ass before he kills her?” Mitch asked as Jasmine let out another blood-curdling scream. “I’m getting tired of dead bodies on the compound! You don’t shit where you eat!”

Ice placed his ear to the door. “They’re making up,” Ice replied. “I mean, I think I hear moaning, too, from both of them.” Amy moved next to Ice and placed her ear on the door. She nodded and said, “Yeah, yeah, it’s make-up sex!” Mitch groaned. “You guys are making me old before my time.” He shook his head as he limped over and sat down in one of the chairs. “Back in the day, we fucked doggy-style and had a three-way. That was kinky sex. If you were lucky enough to find a woman that did anal, you were a happy man. Why can’t your generation just do that and be satisfied?” He shook his head in bewilderment as he looked at Ice. Ice shrugged. “It’s not as fun!”

Blurb When Nuke's brother shows up at the Hells Vipers Motorcycle Club, he brings trouble with him, in more ways than one. Holden was always the good son, or so Nuke's family thought, but Nuke knows some things his mother and sister don't. 

The love of Nuke's life, Jasmine, knows something is wrong as soon as Holden comes back into Nuke's life. As Nuke struggles with the responsibilities that have come with his new position in the Hells Vipers, Holden's presence threatens to undermine his position and his relationship.

Life’s gotten difficult for other members of the club, too. Hells Vipers full patch member Kevin has given up his position in the club in the aftermath of a betrayal that has left him bitter, and Pipe looks for love as he copes with a dangerous crush. Meanwhile, just what is Holden up to? And can Nuke and Jasmine survive what's in store when Nuke's blood relative comes into their lives as they're trying to form a family of their own?

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Captured and Examined - Red Hot Author's Cafe Presents the Cold Nights Hot Reads Blog Tour

It's definitely going to be a COLD night across most of America tonight.  Lucky for you, we've gotten together the steamiest authors around for a blog hop that will keep you HOT all weekend!  Be sure to register for the $125 Rafflecopter prize, along with a $10 Amazon gift card you can win from me just for leaving a comment at the end of this post.

I'm kicking it off with a sweaty scene from Captured and Examined, my new erotic romance, a blend of science fiction, adventure and time travel with lots of spanking and even some hot medical play.  It's been on Amazon's Top 100 list for almost two months now.

In this scene, Tess O'Rourke, who has unwittingly been transported from 1826 to the present day, is on the run from her captors, guarded by NATO Special Forces Commander Connall Quinn.

He's just rescued her from a room full of scientists who were performing a series of humiliating medical tests on her.

Quinn grabbed her and spread her out on the bed.  His hands were everywhere at once, caressing her, stroking, teasing.  When he slid one finger easily into her tight opening, she was shocked at how wet her pussy was, how quickly her body responded to him.  

He kissed his way along her stomach and belly until his mouth fastened on that secret spot that drove her wild with desire.  Tess moaned as he licked her clit, opening her legs wide and thrusting her hips up into his face.  He got on his knees, grabbing her ass with both hands to lift her off the bed as he slid his tongue into her pussy.

            Tess whimpered, writhing around.  “Will you - will you do…”  Her voice trailed off.

            Quinn lifted his head.  “What would you like me to do?”

            “’Tis wicked it is,” she answered.  Suddenly shy, she wouldn’t meet his eyes.   “Wicked and naughty.”

            His eyes gleamed.  “I like it already.  Tell me what you want, sweet Tess.  Tell me and I’ll do it.”

            “Those men.  The doctors.  They put their fingers and…and things…into my bottom hole.  I was embarrassed.  It frightened me and it hurt at first.  But when they kept on, it made me quiver deep inside, like it does when you put your fingers and your tongue and your stiff rod into my pussy.  I didn’t want them to do it.  I couldn’t stop them.  But ever since I can’t get the feeling of it out of my mind.  I’ve been thinking, wondering, imagining how it would be if you…did that…to me.  The way you do all the other things.  Kissing me, fondling me while you do it.  Making me wild, making me want more and more.”

            “Will you…” she hesitated, as though gathering her courage, and went on.  “Will you touch me there, so that ever after I’ll have memories of you to banish the memories of them?”

            “You want me to play with your ass?”  His voice was low.  “Ask me, Tess.  Say it.  It’s not wicked…but you’re right.  It is naughty.” 

            She froze, then heard his low chuckle and realized he was teasing her. 

            “Please, Quinn, will you do it?  There?”

            “Where?  Tell me where you want me to pleasure you.  Tell me – or I’ll have to spank it out of you.”
            His voice had taken on a stern tone that sent a thrill through her whole body.

            “Please, Quinn, will you put your finger…in my ass?”

            The words had barely left her lips when she felt herself being flipped over onto her stomach.  Quinn draped himself over her body, pinning her down.  His mouth began nibbling on her neck, just below her ear.  The spot was so sensitive she didn’t think she could bear it.  She gasped and wiggled around.  He shifted, moving lower.  She shivered as his tongue traced a leisurely path down her spine, igniting a fire everywhere it touched. 

When his mouth reached the cleft between her bottom cheeks, she began struggling underneath him.

“No, stop.  Please.  I’ve changed my mind.  ‘Tis shameful and indecent.”

“Too late.  Now you’ve got me wanting this.  Lay there, Tess.  Don’t you dare move.  You’re going to get what you asked for.”

Blurb

When her father tries to force her to marry fat, old, drunken Owen Leary to preserve the family lands, Tess O’Rourke runs away from home. She gets lost on the heath in the midst of a ferocious storm and loses consciousness, only to awaken in a cave, naked and shivering, staring into the eyes of a handsome stranger. To her dismay, the man questions her in an unfamiliar language and then spanks her bare bottom when she tries to run away.

After computers all over Europe are hit with a crippling attack, Quinn, an ex-Navy SEAL now working for NATO’s cyber-terrorism squad, is dispatched to the Irish coastline in search of the problem’s source. It is there that he discovers a naked Irish lass hiding in a cave near an ancient stone outcropping.  After she attacks him and attempts to flee, he brings the defiant girl back to his headquarters with a well-spanked bottom. Once there, his medical team conducts a thorough examination, leaving his captive deeply humiliated and even more determined to escape.  Quinn has no intention of letting her go until he gets the truth, but Tess speaks only Gaelic and seems to know nothing of modern day life, and hard as it is for him to believe, over time Quinn becomes convinced that she has somehow been transported from the past.

With each passing day his feelings for the feisty redhead grow stronger, and when he discovers that his superiors plan to lock her up indefinitely and study her like a lab rat, Quinn risks everything to rescue her. But can he keep her safe long enough to unravel the mystery that brought her into his life?

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Here's the linky list of all the Cold Nights Hot Reads bloggers

Patricia Green (Intl)                                                 Lynda's Erotic Tales R (US)

Cara Bristol                                                             Katya Armock: To Snog or to Blog5.

Kathryn R. Blake - Naughty Thoughts R (US)     .     Adriana Kraft  

Thianna D (R)                                                          Nancy Corrigan

Lisa Carlisle                                                             Maren Smith

Sue Lyndon                                                             Georgia Lyn Hunter

There's all this stuff in my head. . .                            Mary Wehr R (US)

1001 Exotic Nights with Kallista Dane                     Leigh Ellwood

Phaze Books                                                           Jenna Jaxon

Decadent Kane (US)                                               Romance by Beverly

LENA HART                                                         Anne Lange (R) Int'l

V. L. Locey Erotic Romance Author (R+) (US)       Katherine Deane (R)

Katherine Kingston                                                  Alisa Anderson - Bitches be Writin

Measha Stone (X US)                                             Alexis Duran

Suz De Mello/Sue Swift                                           Flame Arden    

Sex Sells - Renee Rose's Four Tips Guarantee You'll Make Money Writing Erotica

Wondering if you can REALLY pay the bills selling what you write?  Are you struggling just to make enough to cover the cost of the endless cups of coffee you consume while sitting at the computer?  Today,  Renee Rose spills the beans on how much she makes as an award-winning author of erotica.

Renee, how did you get started writing erotica? 

  

Renee:  When I fell into writing spanking romance, I got lucky. It just so happened that the thing I wanted to write most in the world also happened to be a niche in which it’s easy to make a solid living. Within six months I was making enough each month to pay the mortgage and in a year I was making what I consider a full-time living. I read a figure (which I’m sorry, I can’t seem to dig up the reference now) that only seven percent of authors make it to five figures a year.  Really? I’m in the top seven percent?  Am I that good?  Nope. Not at all.

I cringe over some of my earlier works–overly wordy with too much passive voice, overused words like “that” and beating the reader over the head with the character’s emotions. But I always think how lucky I was to be able to hone my craft while still making money. I didn’t spend the last two years working on one perfect novel. I wrote 20 novellas, which provide a passive income stream while I work on new books.

Here are Renee's Top Four Tips ( from her guest post on Write Sex Right )

1.  Be a Big Fish in a Small Sea – Find your Niche
The trick, I think to making a living writing erotica, is to find that targeted niche. Spanking romance is one of them. We learned at Eroticon 2014 from Josephine Myles and Anna Martin that M/M Erotic Romance is another highly lucrative niche... There are many ready-made markets out there to small, targeted niches...I think it was quite easy for me to get noticed and gather a following in this smaller pool.

2.  Shame Sells
Another reason spanking romance makes for quick sales there is more shame associated with it. I think people who are into BDSM, have probably admitted it to themselves and their partner, while people with spanking fantasies are often in the closet. I believe where there’s more shame and therefore less self-actualization with the sexual kink/orientation, sales are higher. Readers are looking for an outlet/expression of their kink because they may not be asking for it at home.

There are many other kinks like this. Age play, diaper play, lactation, pony play, monster erotica, anything considered taboo. There are a few targeted publishers that serve these genres, and therefore have a ready made audience.  With spanking romance, there are two major publishers, and if you publish with them, you are practically guaranteed decent sales, even as a brand new author.

3.  Know Your Audience
There are by far, more female readers than male, so in spanking fiction, femme dom books are not the big sell.  M/f are.  Josephine Myles and Anna Martin explained the same thing for the M/M romance– most of their readers are hetero women.  If you don’t write to that audience, it’s fine, I’m not suggesting you “sell out” but just consider how to target your audience.

4.  Keep Writing
Back when I was in my twenties, a therapist gave me an article on perfectionism. In it, the author described how limiting it can be to our success– you never publish that book because you are waiting to get it just right. As I mentioned above, I guess I might have one kick ass book if I’d spent the past two years refining it to submit to a top five publisher (who of course wouldn’t take spanking romance!) but instead I made  money while improving with each book I wrote. One of the major tricks to making a living writing is to keep your output up.  Your new books sell your back list and keep your name out there.  If you think you don’t have enough time to produce books at the rate of one every couple months, try a productivity tool like the Write or Die web app (it’s free, you don’t have to download it, just use the one on the screen). You’ll be amazed at how many words you can write in 30 minutes a day!  Certainly enough to publish a novella every two months!

About Renee Rose

Renee Rose has published over twenty erotic romance titles, all centered around her favorite kink: spanking. Named Eroticon USA's Next Top Erotic Author in 2013, she is also a contemporary dance teacher, Feldenkrais Practitioner(R), energy worker and mama.  She also writes under the name Darling Adams.

Check out Mob Mistress, her new release on Amazon

Don't miss the other posts in this series:

Deduct Your Dildo - Sex Sells Tax Tips For Erotic Authors

Sex Sells - Why Write Erotica? Here Are 10,000 Reasons

Sex Sells - A Sneak Peek at the Last Taboo

   

The Key To Annie's Heart (Hint - It's Not A Naked Selfie! )

Today I'm hosting an author who is new to me.  Welcome, Keriann McKenna and congratulations on your new release The Key to Annie's Heart, written with Stevie MacFarlane.  Before we get into your book, tell us a little about yourself.  How did you get started as a writer?

Keriann: I’ve been writing for most of my life.  My first love was music and lyrics and my first song was a dreadfully simple little tune about a boy I was madly in love with at fourteen.  I’m certain I drove my grandmother to distraction as I wailed this boy’s name from the piano in the living room at every opportunity…romance was in my heart even at a young age.

Later in life I developed my craft as a poet and published work in anthologies.  I still write poetry but am dipping my toes in the waters of romance, both sweet and steamy.

Kallista: I admire poets. I can't even come up with the words for a dirty limerick! Your book is set on a ranch. Are you a country girl?

Keriann: I was born in a small community in Upstate New York, but left as soon as I bought a decent car that didn’t require more oil than gas…I’m not kidding.  I used to pull into a service station, hand the attendant five bucks for gas and tell him to fill it up with drain oil.

I lived in Canada and the Midwest for several years before settling in the Seattle area with the love of my life. I now live in the foothills of the beautiful Rocky Mountains.

Kallista: What did you do before you started writing steamy romances?  

Keriann: I’m retired from the counseling field although I still work crisis intervention two nights a week.  I consult with and edit for other authors into the wee hours of the night, and I rescue senior dogs and give them a forever home.

Kallista: Senior dogs?  It's nice to know someone is looking out for them. We recently lost our black Lab rescue dog to old age after ten years with us and I still find myself saving treats from my dinner for her. 

And now for a peek at The Key to Annie's Heart -

"Oh my God!” Annie gasped, her mouth falling open as she glanced at the pictures in her email. She quickly slammed the lid of her laptop down until curiosity got the better of her and she had to look again.

Internet dating was new to Annie Campbell. Only a couple of men caught her eye; the first never responded to her message. The second man responded immediately asking for her private email address. Novice that she was, she gave it to him. She was shocked when, within ten minutes, he began sending her photos of himself standing in front of what appeared to be an enormous marble fireplace. He was totally naked from the waist down and holding his huge cock. 

Some of his captions were “You’re so hot, baby! I want you to lick me all over” and “This would feel great deep inside you, call me.” The freak even included his phone number.

She wasn’t a prude; she was looking for a gentleman, not a one night stand with a man overly-impressed with his own rod. Embarrassed that she looked at all five pictures, she had to admit he had some nice equipment—too bad his ego was bigger than his dick and possibly his brain. Perhaps, under the different circumstances, she would have considered meeting him without ever knowing he was inclined to send such pictures; the thought was scary. 

Shaking her head, she deleted the photos and resigned herself to the fact that he was a low-life with nothing better to do. They can’t possibly all be like this, she thought, as she blocked future emails from him.

Annie began to think this internet dating thing was truly a waste of her time, possibly even dangerous.

About the book:
To live a rancher's life in the Rocky Mountains had always been Mac's dream.  He loved his place on Fall River.  He was a success by anyone's measure, except his own.  He failed to keep his wife content to be at home, although "home" was a dream put to architectural drawings.  Too many nights she preferred to stay in town with friends rather than make the trip up the mountain.  She liked to party, and winding mountain roads coupled with too much to drink ended her life.  Could Mac ever forgive himself for his wife’s death?

In all his ways Mac was basic, even when it came to sex. He was a standard missionary position kind of guy with an occasional variation. That would have to change; he wanted a wife and a family—a second chance.
Annie Campbell was a busy event planner at a five star hotel in the city. Fiercely independent, she wouldn't consider herself sexually savvy; she certainly was open to new experiences. It had been six lonely years since her husband died. It was time to move on and setting her fears aside, she joined an Internet dating site. After reading what she considered to be a damn near perfect profile, she sent Mac a brief note and waited. He had no idea just how independent she was. She had no idea how over-protective he was—but they were about to find out.
Could Mac pull it off? Could a country guy woo a city gal, stop researching how to please a woman, and put it into practice…and what about Annie? Could she surrender some of her independence and learn to submit to him? Read their story!
A contemporary western romance, The Key to Annie’s Heart is the first novel in the Fall River Ranch series. MacDermot’s Bride, Book 2, is scheduled to be released by March, 2015, and will be followed by a prequel, The MacDermot’s of Scotland. Each is a stand-alone novel intended for mature readers.

Find Keriann at -

Webpage: http://keriannmckenna.com Blog: http://keriannmckenna.weebly.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/keriann.mckenna Twitter: https://twitter.com/KeriannMcKenna

Deduct Your Dildo - Sex Sells Tax Tips for Erotic Authors

Today's topic always gets me hot.  MONEY!
                                    
This month we'll all be getting 1099's from our publishers.  If you're a brand new author - Congratulations!  You now fall into the category of a small business for tax purposes.

If you're new to earning 1099 income, you're also going to get a nasty shock.  Every dime you earn isn't just subject to income tax. If you made over $400 as an author, you're also facing a bill for self-employment tax - 15.3% of your net income.

That means if you were successful enough to make it into the top 5% of all authors and earned $10,000 or more, you owe Uncle Sam at least $1,530 extra!

But if you've kept good records, every dime you spent on a deductible expense will lower that amount.  That means if you treated yourself to a new Kindle for about a hundred bucks in 2014, you can probably deduct it. It may not sound like much but the $15.30 you save pays for takeout pizza next time you're trying to meet a deadline and don't have time to cook.

Besides being a self-employed author, I've owned four other small businesses, from a real estate company to a food concession at Miami Arena.  Over the years, I've learned a lot about how to take advantage of every single deduction available.

Here's where I issue my disclaimer:  I am NOT an accountant or a tax attorney.  The following information is gleaned from years of personal experience.  If you have any questions about specific deductions, talk to an accountant.  If you don't have one, feel free to use my personal rule of thumb for picking a good accountant.  He or she has to save me MORE than I'm paying to have the return prepared!

Here's a list of basic deductions a small business can claim:

1.  Business Equipment
This includes computers, printers, copy machines and printers.  Here's a useful quote on what constitutes business equipment from Jeremy Slaughter at Demand Media:

"Businesses may also require specialized equipment such as tools, manufacturing equipment or heavy machinery. For tax purposes, you can deduct all of this equipment along with any other equipment used in the operation of a business. They key is determining how to deduct each type of equipment.
Small businesses can expense any equipment with a useful life of less than one year. Common examples include electronics not considered to last more than a year and hand tools such as shovels and rakes. Business owners typically deduct equipment like this as “small tools and equipment” on an income tax return."

Okay - specialized equipment, electronics not considered to last more than a year and HAND TOOLS? Sounds like vibrators and dildos to me!  ( Assuming you find a way to use said equipment in a scene in one of your books)

2.  Travel Expenses
Did you attend a writer's conference workshop, convention?  Did you visit a new location for one of your books? Airfare, gas, tolls, hotels, meals, cab fare - all of those can be deductible expenses.  Keep receipts from everything.

3.  Supplies
Here are a few examples - yellow pads, ink cartridges, printer paper, business cards

4.  Other deductions
Advertising, including giveaway prizes and ads in on-line trade publications
Books
Internet access
And if you're doing really well, you can set up a self-employed retirement account and deduct every dime you're saving so you don't have to write porn when you get old!

Don't miss my other posts in this series:
     Why Write Erotica - Here Are 10,000 Reasons
   

 

Sex Sells - Five Tips For Writing Erotica - And One Big No-No

Sex sells.  And it seems like hundreds of new writers of erotica are popping up every day, especially now that self-publishing has taken off.  Ebook readers are faced with thousands of choices in erotic fiction.  Unfortunately, many of them in my opinion are pure crap.

People may buy your 10,000 word book for just under a buck based solely on the title or the cover.  But if there's nothing inside but a mish-mash of poorly written sex scenes, they probably won't buy a second book from you.  There are too many genuinely good writers out there competing for that same dollar.

Recently I skimmed through a "how to write sex" book by a male author.  The guy started out bragging about how he just got started, he knows nothing about writing, never read much himself - but he's already making enough writing erotic books to buy all the booze he can drink.  He refused to divulge the pen name he uses so it was impossible to check out his story.  But judging from the quality of his self-published Ebook, I believe the part where he says he knows nothing about writing.

Here are five tips for writing erotica that I've picked up along the way from some very good writers - and one no-no I learned from the booze-swilling braggart:

1.  Come up with a good story.  Most readers of erotic romance are women.  And most women want the romance part as much as they want the erotic part.  

2.  Remember show and tell.  Bring all the senses into your writing.  Let them hear the harsh smack of the Dom's paddle echoing off the stone walls of the dungeon, shiver at the chill of the whipped cream that the hunky pastry chef smears on her nipples, catch the scent of the leather blindfold.

3.  Use real words, not tacky cliches.   Unless you're writing a story set in Victorian times, try to refrain from having the hero's throbbing manhood brazenly invade the heroine's nether regions.

4. Create characters we can like.  I want to imagine myself as the heroine, not hate her for being a whiny, spoiled brat or a slut with no redeeming social value.  Same goes for the hero.  No one wants to be romanced by a man with all the depth of a stick figure.

5. Go ahead and break the rules - AFTER you learn them   Good writers of erotic fiction know the basics.  They grab the reader's attention right off the bat and tell a compelling tale.  The sex is woven into the fabric of the story.  We all know famous authors who break rules, switching POV ( that's point of view), popping in and out of their characters' heads from one paragraph to the next.  But they can get away with it because they've learned how to make it work.  If you start out ignoring basic rules, don't be surprised if your readers become confused or annoyed.

And the One No-No I learned from the booze-swilling braggart:

Don't Treat Your Readers Like They're Stupid.  You may think people will buy anything if it has enough raunchy sex in it, but trust me - things like grammar, spelling, punctuation and the ability to put words together and form a cohesive thought really are important.  If you've never been an avid reader, you probably don't have any business trying to be a writer.

Don't miss these recent posts:
Renee Rose's Four Tips That Guarantee You'll Make Money Writing Erotica
Deduct Your Dildo - Tax Tips for Erotic Authors  
Why Write Erotica - Here are 10,000 Reasons
Sex Sells - A Sneak Peek At the Last Taboo

         

Sex Sells - Why Write Erotica ? Here Are 10,000 Reasons

Want to make $10,000 a month as a writer?  The Huffington Post  ran an article about a woman who is doing just that self-publishing her erotic novels.

Romance/erotica is the best-selling genre in the book business.  Sales totaled a whopping $1.4 billion in 2013, nearly double that of #2 on the list, the crime/mystery books.  The numbers for 2014 aren't out yet, but there's no reason to believe that trend is going to change any time in the near future.

Like many other writers making big bucks in this genre, the woman quoted in the article above uses a few simple tricks to generate that kind of money, one of which I'll examine below.  (The rest of her secrets, along with those of other best-selling erotic romance writers will be detailed in later posts.)  She declined to give her pen name in the interview, which always makes me question just how real her numbers are.  But statistics show that most published authors make less than that in a full year.  So even if she exaggerated and doubled or quadrupled her actual income, she's still doing better than 90% of us.

One trick she uses is to keep her books around 10,000 words.  Personally, I'd find it hard to call something smaller than the instruction flyer that comes with a piece of Ikea furniture a book, but apparently the formula works for her.

Another author who says she's pulling down around the same amount is Kathryn LeVeque.  Her books fall into the historical and medieval sub-genre of romance, rather than erotica.  In an interview a few days ago by the New York Times, she says she's recently put her books on Kindle Unlimited, dropped her prices to .99 on many of them, and is selling more than ever.  In the article, she admits that not everyone can go that route.  Like a big-box discount store, she's making up for the low prices with big numbers of sales. But she's able to do that because she has years and years of finished work behind her.

“I am able to drop prices and, by sheer volume of sales, increase my income,” she said. “Most authors can’t do that because most of them don’t have 50 novels for sale."

Le Veque's romances are sweeping sagas, running to hundreds and hundreds of pages.  She confesses that she feels pressured to keep up the output, sometimes writing 12,000 words a day.  Just thinking about that has me reaching for the nearest piece of chocolate!

But don't panic.  You don't have to choose between cutting out minor details like plot or character development and being chained to your computer.  According to the latest statistics from Amazon, there is a sweet spot most of us can use as a guideline. That's 20,000-40,000 words.  Books of that length appeal to our need for instant gratification. They can be read (and written) relatively quickly and priced to sell for around the cost of a Starbucks latte.

Join me Jan.14 for Five Tips on Writing Erotica And One NO NO

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Warning to Corbin's Bend! Chemistry Causes Spanking

     It's my pleasure to have Thianna D with me today, the creator of the best-selling series Corbin's Bend. She'll be introducing the newest residents of this Colorado spanking community from her latest release Chemistry of Attraction.  It's so hot that it's guaranteed to melt any early winter snow that touches your Kindle!


Kallista:   A book about chemistry!  Are you like one of those geniuses on The Big Bang Theory?  Can you let us in on the top-secret formula you used to create the Chemistry of Attraction, Thianna?

Thianna:  Take one hot summer. Add in an intellectual chemist and a dominant retired Marine. Once the chemistry ignites, combustion is soon to follow.

Kallista:  Sounds like a lot more fun than the chemistry I used to study. Tell us more.

Thianna:  Retired Marine Brandon Delt, moves to Corbin’s Bend after his recently divorced wife marries his cousin. Tired of living a non-discipline lifestyle, he fully welcomes the openness of the Corbin’s Bend spanking community. One day he hopes to meet the woman he could make his TiH. He doesn’t expect to meet her on day one.

     Carodine Minor’s just in Corbin’s Bend for the summer. Just graduated with her master’s degree in chemistry, Dina isn’t sure of her next step in life. Not once has she ever considered being spanked. Logical woman that she is, when she finds herself intrigued by the idea of a hand across her derriere, she asks for a demonstration from Brandon. One demo turns into a wild night of  passion neither wants to let go of.

Kallista:  Dina sounds like a lucky woman.  Like her, I'm a sucker for a man in uniform!  Now let's move on to what I'm sure our readers are dying to know...Thianna D's most shameful secrets.   Have you ever...gone cow tipping?

Thianna:  You know, I’ve never understood the desire to go cow-tipping. It’s harmful to the poor animals.

Their stomachs can get twisted up, plus, just imagine how you would feel if you were asleep and  someone knocked you over. I grew up in a small town and knew of people that did it. I didn’t understand it then. I understand it even less now.

Kallista:  (Sighs heavily)  How disappointing!  No scandal here.  Can you give us a little peek at Chemistry of Attraction?

     There was a momentary silence and then one of his hands rested on her lower back and the other lifted. Slap! His hand came down harder than this afternoon, heat sizzling in its wake. Before she even felt the warmth that bloomed from it, he hit her other cheek. Back and forth he went, covering her entire derriere with hard slaps until her entire rear end felt like a light sunburn.
     But she didn’t care. Each smack of his hand lit up something inside of her, something primal, raw, animalistic. Arching her back, she growled softly when his hand slammed right between her cheeks. Each slap produced its own sound, but she barely heard them, her left brain utterly fascinated by the sounds coming out of her own mouth. 
     When his hand came down on that sensitive crease between buttocks and thighs, her logical brain blanked out. What remained was wanton, needy, and craving everything the man at her side could give her.
     “More!” she cried out as he hit her sit spot again. Her entire body felt like a coiled spring and she so wanted to be sprung. All she needed was just a few more. Just a few more. Please, just a few more.
     Brandon had other plans. “Spread your legs,” he commanded and she rushed to obey, not wanting him to stop. “Fuck, you’re so wet, beauty,” he murmured, the fingers of his spanking hand drifting between her legs, stroking along her clit and delving into her core.
     “More,” she whimpered as those wonderfully strong, large fingers began to fuck her, rubbing against something that made her arch more and let out a low keen. So close. She was so close. It wouldn’t take much more to send her over. Damn, he—
     Smack!
     As his hand that had been on her lower back came down right on her rump, the world exploded.  Lights burst in front of her eyes even as her cunt spasmed and she opened her mouth in a silent scream. Her muscles clenched and squeezed, pulling her through the roughest orgasm she had ever felt.
     And it wasn’t over yet.

                                                     Buy Chemistry of Attraction

                                         
Kallista:  That's SO much hotter than the chemistry books I used to read!  Thanks for stopping by, Thianna.

Here's a bit about Thianna - 

     Thianna D. likes to say she’s eclectic, fun, and just a bit naughty.  She writes erotica and erotic romance with both M/F and M/M main characters. No matter what she writes, all the hot scenes support the story instead of the other way around.

     She’s also the creator of and acquisition editor for the Corbin’s Bend spanking romance series. Who else wants to be safe, secure, and spanked in Colorado?

Where you can find her:

     Thianna’s Blog 

     Thianna's Website

     Corbin's Bend

     Thianna's Facebook Author Page

     Twitter

  

Did Maddie Taylor Earn an A+ From Her Professor - or Did He Give Her a Big F? Lanie's Lessons by Maddie Taylor

I have the pleasure of roasting - I mean hosting - erotic romance author Maddie Taylor today.  She's in The Hot Seat to spill all her naughty secrets and share a bit about her latest best-selling novel Lanie's Lessons.

Kallista:  Maddie, I like to start out with forcing you to confess just one of what I'm sure is a long list of kinky things you do when you're not writing hot sex scenes.

Maddie:  (Looking uncomfortable)  Um… We have a toy chest.  You will find I use items other than spanking implements quite often in my contemporary stories.  I’ll let you wonder which ones I have tested out personally.  Enough said…

Kallista:  Hmmm.  (Pulls out notebook) As a professional interviewer, I'm going to need details.  Are you actually writing while you're testing them out?  Is that why your books are so hot?  Also, you''ll have to provide the buy links for your favorites when we're finished - purely for my research purposes.  Now - on to the next shameful revelation. If you could run away with one of your male heroes, which one would it be?  And why him?

Maddie:  I fall in love with all of my heroes, but I have to say my heart belongs to Tony Rossi from Captain My Captain.  Although he can be very intense and quite strict, he is also very loving, protective of his woman, kicks ass first and asks questions later (with the bad guys), and is totally HOT!  However, I am no masochist like Megan, and if he came at me with a paddle or cane I’d safeword, I know I would.  He was my first hero and will always hold a special place in my heart.  He also has a military officer bearing (stern, no-nonsense and authoritative), which leaves me tongue-tied and drooling. Oh, and did I say he was hot??? Tall, dark, handsome and Italian… YUM!

Kallista:  YUM indeed!  I love Italian too.  Especially the Chicken Alfredo at Olive Garden.  But I digress. Shouldn't have scheduled this interview just before lunch.  Next question - how many books have you written?

Maddie:  Unbelievably, I’m up to fifteen published books and three have been included in boxed sets.  I have another one in editing that I hope to have out by the end of the year.

Kallista:  You must be really good at typing one-handed!  How long does it usually take you to write a book?

Maddie:  Depends.  The spirit of creativity (and naughtiness) has to moves me.  When it does, they roll off my fingers.  I wrote Everything Christmas in 3 weeks, although it is a novella, it seemed effortless.  Other times I’ll stop and start, take a break and then come back to it later, at times much, much later.  I started Unbind My Heart, Club Decadence book 4 in the fall of 2013 and it wasn’t published until July ’14.  I work full time so I can’t crank them out, as some of the more prolific authors, but 15 in 18 months is pretty good, I think.  However, it’s never fast enough for my readers and me.

Kallista:  Personally I prefer it slow, but to each her own.  Can you give us a hint about what you’re working on for your next release?

Maddie:  I’ll give you more than a hint.

Kallista:  Oooh, you little slut!

Maddie:  My sequel to Marshal’s Law is written and currently in the editing/beta process so, it should be soon.  The tentative title is Western Justice, although I’m still mulling it over.  Like the first in the Silverbend Series, it is a western historical erotic romance set in Wyoming 1878.  This story is about Heath, the oldest Jackson brother, and features many of the characters from the first book.  The third brother’s story will follow sometime next year.

Kallista:  We'll be waiting for both of them.  Meanwhile, Lanie's Lessons is out now and your fans can read it as fast as they want.  How about giving us a little peek?

Maddie:  In this scene, Ethan has a surprise for Lanie. In the guise of stern Professsor Fischer, he selects her outfit and orders her to present herself in his classroom for a much needed lesson in deportment.   Enjoy…



“Bend over the desk.”

On shaky legs, she stepped forward grateful for the support of the sturdy surface and the coolness of the wood against her heated skin.  Positioning her head so she could see him, her eyes followed as he moved behind the desk. 

Intensely aware of his every movement, Lanie gasped as her focus centered on his mouth as he sucked her juices from his sodden fingers. She moaned uncontrollably wishing he was drinking directly from the source. 

He glanced up at the soft sound, slowly sliding his fingers out of his mouth. But he wasn’t finished. Once free, he spread his two fingers and lapped up what was left with a long glide of his tongue, from tip to tip and along the dip between.

“You’re killing me, Ethan.”

“Shh, no talking during lessons. And it’s Professor Fischer or sir to you, Miss Langston. You won’t die from delayed gratification, no one ever has to my knowledge.”


“I just might be the first, sir.”



Attorney Lanie Fischer is a force to be reckoned with in the courtroom, but the stress of her caseload has been mounting relentlessly. She puts on a brave face at work, but behind closed doors Lanie has become an emotional wreck, and her husband, law professor Ethan Fischer, is tired of watching her self-destruct. She’s not sleeping, she’s lost weight, and their sex life is starting to suffer.  Something has to give, and as far as he is concerned,it is time for a radical new approach.

From now on, Ethan decides, his wife will be spending quite a bit of quality time over his knee with her bottom bare, learning some lessons she has needed for a long time.

Some of Lanie’s spankings turn out to be purely erotic, ending with the hottest sex she and Ethan have ever had, but others are meant to teach her what happens when naughty wives disobey their husbands and fail to take care of themselves. Unconventional though it may be, to her surprise Lanie soon begins to crave both her husband’s sexier spankings and his discipline as well.

But can she live happily as a loving wife and obedient submissive at home even as she battles in court at work every day, or will the conflicting demands tear her apart?

Publisher’s Note: Lanie’s Lessons is an erotic romance novel that contains spankings, sexual scenes, elements of medical play and BDSM, anal play, and more. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.

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Top Ten Reasons To Write Erotic Novels

     I don't know about you, but I'm a sucker for articles that promise to transform your life in six minutes or less.  The ones with the catchy titles, like Seven Dirty Things Your Lover Wants To Hear You Say in Bed.  I even find myself occasionally clicking on Five Halloween Costumes to Make From Dryer Lint, but that's only when I'm trying to avoid that blank page on my computer screen titled "Work in Progress - Chapter Four."

     So today I thought I'd steal a page from David Letterman and give you my top ten reasons to write erotic novels.  Here they are - in no particular order of importance.

1.  You can actually get paid for all those naughty fantasies you're always making up in your head.
2.  It's a great way to let your significant other (if you have one) know what you'd secretly like but don't have the guts to admit.
3.  It's a great way to get a significant other.  Just try saying "Me? Oh, I write erotic romances about spanking and domination" in a crowded room.
4.  You can save a fortune on therapy by working out your daddy( or mommy ) issues on paper
5.   The fantasies you write are always perfect.  No one's going to go off-script, like they often do in real life.  (eg.  "Baby, let's have your hot girlfriend Ashley come over and BOTH of you can suck my cock while I watch football.  Doesn't that sound like fun?)
6.  Everyone has a happy ending and the orgasms are always fantastic
7.  It will give you something useful to do when there's nothing good on TV
8.  You can read other dirty books and call it research
9.  You can deduct sex toys as business expenses.

and finally
10.  It's nice to find out you're not the only one in the world who gets off on your special kink.  Whatever it may be, you'll find others who love it too, and accept you without judging.  And like the commercial says, that's priceless.