When she likes it like that…

Sold To Her Enemy: A Night To Remember Auction is the latest Mercy Denton book and when I knew this was going to be an enemies to lovers romance, I wanted readers to buy in.

I didn’t want the characters to immediately like each other after one encounter.

I wanted the angst to be high.

The dislike to be strong. The hate vibes on both side to crackle – because that’s the kind of enemies to lovers I like to read.

And when I was thinking of adding the kink element, the power exchange to this book, I wanted something that was inherently unbalanced to drive what the FMC could be raging against but also…something she liked…done by someone she hates.

She likes it. Hate the fact that he’s the one doing it.

Even by him…she can’t help how her body responds.

During the interview Mckenna had prior to the night of the auction, she checked “yes” to humiliation, degradation and objectification.

She likes those kinks.

And maybe, the fact that a woman, who is in her late 20’s knows what satisfies her sexually does irk some readers?

Or maybe it’s because she chose things that are on the hard limit list of many?

Even if it rubs the line of dub-con she consented to those acts.

The fact that its Adrian, the man who destroyed the life she had, that is engaging in these acts, still doesn’t mean she needs to be saved.

Doesn’t mean he’s a bully.

Doesn’t mean she can’t handle it.

I know that this book isn’t everyone’s cup of tea – and that’s okay! – but for those who love these kinks and this trope? I hope you’ve enjoyed Mckenna and Adrian’s story.

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Hello September!

 

A ballpoint pen drawing of a pin up girl

Ah, the heatscape of the summer is nearly behind us and if you’re celebrating back to school, I hope it goes smoothly for you and Happy Tuesday to the rest of us.

This month I am going to do everything I can to get Josie and Ares off to beta readers and if the timing is on my side, maybe a Bandit Brothers surprise. I want to get back to Mercy’s Domme book so badly that it’s acting like my carrot to get through these edits.

I can’t wait to share these books with you! Readers keep me writing and I am so grateful.

This week in my newsletter, look out for a new bonus scene featuring Mulberry and Nick from Flame True. If you haven’t read Flame True, like all the Bandit Brothers books, it can be read in Kobo Plus for free here.

Gotta go make that chai latte and get back to the words!

 

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Get Your Spicy Waffle Here!

Going to take myself and my laptop out of the house because the way I spend release days is by writing the next book and not checking my dashboard a thousand times. But finally.

Sold To Her Enemy: A Night To Remember Auction is out in the wild and I am so grateful, happy, crying, throwing-up, screaming, you know all the things.

What better way than to celebrate with character art that sets the whole tone of the book? Adrian is going to ignore her as Mckenna serves as his c0ckwarmer.

Release day for Mercy Denton

 

Reason This Pen Name Isn’t A Secret … or

#disabledlikethat

Three days before release of Sold To Her Enemy: A Night To Remember Auction and TikTok throws a fit and insists on being re-installed on my phone. Fine.

But then I can’t login into the mercywritesspice account because…I don’t remember the password. It’s a combination of letters and numbers and I swear, swear, swear that I pressed the save key for my phone to retain it in its memory.

But no.

If you’ve read here before you may recall that this is the second time I’ve lost the Mercy Denton account.  It’s she second time this year! that I have had account-password problems. Social media isn’t everything when it comes to book marketing but it helps to have a presence.

Especially three days before release day.

This is how #disabledaf affects my writing life.

Is it a “challenge” to overcome? No. It just is.

Do I hate that this happens? I mean, it’s an annoyance but I’m going to go burn down libraries.

I think it’s funny and highlights the irony of me ever thinking for a moment that I could just not mention being disabled (which I did, briefly, back when I started).

And because I can’t give up this blogging habit, here we are.

And maybe, there is another chaotic gremlin who is also #disabledaf out there seeing themselves in this post.

This is also an example of why I am so grateful I didn’t keep Mercy Denton as a “secret pen name.”

I don’t know if I could ever pull that off! Anyways, I went in and edited Raleigh’s TikTok so that it’s “Raleigh Damson also writing as Mercy Denton” and that actually makes it easier than maintaining two separate TikTok accounts.

I’m aware that the advice is to keep it all separate but I’m in Canada, I don’t have as much geo pull and I’m not out to make my TikToks go viral.

“If I didn’t marry you or give birth to you, I won’t remember your birthday,” is something I need on a mug.

And if I do? You should feel honoured. You should send me presents, honestly.

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Anyways, if its hot as a demon’s snot where you are, I hope you’re staying cool. I’m hydrating with non-coffee things too and gong to get words down on Ares and Josie.

 

The next book in the auction

5k words down on the book I am not supposed to be writing at the moment is a win that’s going to set me up nicely for the rest of the week. I’m wondering where that warm-sunshiny vibes are, trying to organize my home into something that isn’t a lost box of wonder and finish up a bonus scene for Mara and Evan — it kind of turned into a novella and I might just hit send because it’s fun to give your readers things.

I made chocolate chip cookies. What I like in a chocolate chip cookie is the soft, thin, and chewy kind, but this is elusive and I think out of a hundred tries I manage to get it right twice…but I saw on the clock app this hack where you take the pan out of the oven with two minutes left on the cooking time and smash it with the bottom of a mason jar.

What the hay, the cubs thought it was fun and it kind of gave the desired result but it ended up spreading the chocolate chips out of the batter and ended up with a chocolatey splish splash effect…it was a tasty experiment anyways.

The next book in A Night To Remember Auction is out now! My Soul For Sale by Cassie Lein 

my soul for sale by cassie lein

New Doms and slow progress

I spent this week writing as much as I can on Mercy’s next book. It’s unannounced, there is no pre-order for it yet and I haven’t revealed the title, but I can share that it is Theo and Callie’s story. I gave myself my birthday week to get as much of a start on it as I can before I set it to one side and get back to Ares and Josie. I’m loving these new characters and want to spend more time in their world! And I can’t wait for readers to read this book – it’s the first book I’ve released featuring a male submissive.

Mercy’s next release is Sold to Her Enemy: A Night To Remember Auction out later this month, on the 21st.

My hand is still healing and it’s making typing slow – which is making me a little grumbly because the word count on the somewhat secret male submissive book would be higher if I had my normal speed – and it’s a little achy when it rains which makes me feel like kind of crotchety which isn’t a downside; there is a huge part of me that kind of digs the hedge witch image.

In my emails today, I spotted this great deal from Golden Angel. Grab the Nights at Stronghold: Stronghold Doms Boxset for $0.99. These books are fun and spicy with memorable characters and definitely a great deal!

Golden Angel boxset deal

 

The auction is starting!

The first book in the A Night to Remember Auction series is out today! I love this Shared World & I’m so excited for readers to discover it!

 

Virginity Sold: A Night to Remember Auction by Bre Rose is available in KU! 

 

 

Bre Rose Virginity Sold

I hate my life.

I’m twenty and should be living my best life at my college of choice. Being part of a sorority, dating the man of my dreams and getting a degree.

But I’m not.

Instead I’m working my fingers to the bone at two jobs to make sure my mother and I keep a roof over our heads. It would be even better if she didn’t squander every dime I made on her habit.

I’m slowly losing hope.

The bills are piling up and now we risk being evicted from the only home I’ve ever

known. The only thing you have left of your father, even though he was a cruel man.

What do you do?

The only thing you can do! Auction off your virginity to the highest bidder!

The only problem is there’s three of them and they have much different plans than me.

I’m their plaything. It’s up to me to settle a debt owed to them.

 

 

Going about the success

I’m currently deep in the editing cave and coming out for a bit of air, to see what is going on in Romancelandia and to mull the thoughts.

I don’t have goals, in general because I can’t think of anything more stressful – setting goals feels limiting to me (if it works for you, have at!). So when I see posts of authorgoals or writergoals or authors sharing their page reads, I’m cheering them on but for myself, it’s not how I measure success.

Because of being stressed – not the book but everything, literally everything aside from writing and book stuff – I haven’t planned 2025. And while I may not have goals, I am a huge planner and love to plan and not having a plan doesn’t make me that happy.

But I have Flame For Keeps coming out in December and ideally another – yet unannounced Mercy Book – that will finish off 2024. My readers have been waiting for Ares and Josie’s story and I am striving to make the wait worthwhile.

Looking ahead to 2025…bodyguards? or Club books? is still the question I don’t have an answer for, yet.

This year, writing literally kept food on my table and kept my lights on and even though, it’s at odds to say, with my current utility bills, I’m so close to achieving the steady roll with my books. Yeah, releasing them on a schedule will help with that – I’m not unaware.

But success? If you define it like this (see below) yes, absolutely. I’m so grateful to be writing and for having amazing readers!

Speaking of Mercy – it seems I am locked out of Mercy’s Instagram right now. Funny, when I thought that I could hide my disabilities in this author gig yet they affect everything I do – including remembering passwords and constantly getting them wrong. You may recall I had the same issue with my main IG not that long ago and though this one isn’t quite a loss like Raleigh’s would have been, it’s annoying to have to go through the hoops and maybe start over. Weary side.

Heading back to the cave and getting this book polished and delivered.

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