Tag: BDSM Romance

The lies that get us through

There is something doubly deflating about being sure and feeling like you’re ahead- you sent out ARC’s ahead of schedule! Before release! Way before the ‘Zon’s deadline! – You checked and re-checked your edits! – only to discover that it’s all lies.

Not all.

I’m still ahead of schedule.

My ARC Readers are super awesome, and I can’t thank them enough for their eagle eyes. The ARCs did get sent out before release. BUT.

Oh, it’s a big BUT, those edits? Gone. Like particles of nothingness that never existed.

Using my formatting program for editing probably wasn’t the greatest idea, but you can write in the program, and I hit the save button. But somehow, the edits aren’t there.

That’s okay.

You always kind of adjust something that is next to something else – or at least I have a tendency to do that – so some things are gone that I can’t get back but because of this raging head cold / virus thing I’ve been dealing with I’m way behind word count and that means, I’ve only been in this world and feel like I can get back on the train of what I had adjusted.

I’m wickedly proud of this book and reviews are saying nice things about it, so I’m thrilled for readers to have the next Mercy book.

By the time readers get it, it’ll be even stronger.

Speaking of stronger, I feel like Sasha and Finn need more love and I’ve re-written the blurb for Flame For Chance and I’m thinking a sale is in order, soon.

 

Happy May! Enter the Mystery Bag Giveaway!

Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit! 

Happy May Day, Joyous Beltane and hope you have a great Monday on the first day of the new month.

I’m drinking semi-warm coffee and trying to shake off the cobwebs of the weekend to get back to Kayleigh and Erik’s story. He’s undressing her for the first time and Kayleigh is a little jittery about this…a little nervous. Erik is cool and detached on the outside, but he’s a hot volcano on the inside. I’m having so much fun writing this book! Pre-order here! 

Ellen Mint's Mystery Grab Bag

For the month of May, I am taking part in Ellen Mint’s Romance Grab Bag Giveaway!

There are a lot of giveaways out there but a virtual mystery bag of books? I had to get in on it!

Fill your eReader with a surprise!

https://ellenmint.blog/romance-mystery-bag-giveaway/ 

Is your eReader full of tumbleweeds? Do you need something to read but have no idea where to start? Let my mystery box pick for you!

Sixty-Three authors teamed up to bring you FIFTY-TWO mystery bags of romance. Alpha heroes, untouchable bosses, sexy vampires, kilted pirates, and more wait to sweep you away. There will be numerous winners!

You get to pick between the three categories that interest you most: Contemporary, Historical, Paranormal.

Enter whichever genre is your catnip, or go for all three if you love everything romance.

Do you want a sneak peek hint of which books are available in the bundle? Visit the giveaway page to check them out and enter.

The giveaway is sponsored by these wonderful authors:

Ellen Mint • Katherine Grant • Heather DiAngelis • Fenna Edgewood • Stephanie Queen • Briar Boleyn • Courtney McCaskill • Zoe Beth Geller • Diane Scott Lewis • Beth Henderson • Kris Butler • January Bain • Peter E. Fenton • Will Forrest • Sheri-Lynn Marean • Isabelle Kane and Caroline Akervik • Maggie Sims • Stevie MacFarlane • Ashe Barker • Delta James • Tracy Sumner • Libby Campbell • Charlie Lane • Cassie O’Brien • Pepper North • Tina Gallagher • Amber Night • T. Strange • Wendi Zwaduk • Celia Breslin • Megan Slayer • Renae Wright • Tanith Davenport • Jane Maguire • AE Lister • N.J. Adel • Shana Galen • Sadira Stone • Seelie Kay •M.C. Roth • Poppy Flynn • RJ Gray •Vanessa Brooks • Zoe Dawson • Erin Zarro • Michelle Deerwester-Dalrymple • Sandra Carmel • Tanya Wilde • Raleigh Damson • Kristian Parker • H.M. Shander • Letty Frame • Gin Vane • Maggie Blackbird • Madelynne Ellis • Laylah Roberts • MK Chester • Amber Daulton • Catherine Peace • Cassia Briar • Gray Holborn • Sara Ohlin • Jamie Schulz

Finishing with Flaws

There are two points I come hard against while finishing a book.

One is, knowing when not to touch it anymore. Like, just don’t

Could something be better? That’s a never-ending pile of always. But if I just fix this one word…don’t. Knowing when to “don’t” is hugely important.

Set it to formatting, get it out in the world, and be done.

And the second point is where I ask my betas: “This isn’t even a book. What is this book about?” 

Thankfully, I have peers who pat me on the head and say, “You do this with every book.”

We have reached these points with Sasha and Finn and here is something that I realized, with the comments from one of my amazing betas.

I have a thing for the flawed character.

I talked about it here with this post: The Flawed Character Who Doesn’t Apologize, meet Quinn Walsh  but it’s taken to this book, book number whatever (still not sure how Sasha and Finn’s book is going to be numbered) to realize that it’s a thing that is through all my books and I like it.

Their flaws don’t get worked out and in the next book where they are mentioned, they are still their flawed selves, even while living their Happy Ever After.

In Flame For Chance, it is Finn Kraweic who has it together.

Okay, his heart is hurting but he pretty much has it together: a secure job, property, got friends, all those things that tend to make up “stability” and it’s Sasha, with her pesky problem of running out the door when things get too tense, uncomfortable or just because there is a door, who is flawed.

And maybe typically, it’d be expected that the Dom has beat this out of the bratty submissive. Sasha is a brat.
Finn is a Dom but he accepts her shortcomings.

I mean, he punishes her for her behaviour (that they agreed to, consensually) but helps her get to a better place to work it out…but she’s working it out. And when I started to worry if readers would accept this, if they’d expect her behaviour to change, for her to stop doing it…I pressed the button to send it to formatting. Because she is working on it…not perfect.

Anyways, Flame for Chance drops soon and I am so thrilled to have the next Bandit Brothers book out!

(soon, soon)