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Ah! Chasing Words. Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit! Happy November!

This week, I felt like I was in some kind of time warp with the weather! 20C in November? Yeah, I’ll take that. Last year my cubs were trick-or-treating in an ice storm. This year, they did it in sweaters.

And maybe that’s why I’ve felt a little off, a little split-focused, chasing the words, getting the edits done on Flame True, to realize that I need to adjust to make something work for Book Five. The downside of being a plotter/planner is that when you outline to ensure there are no plot holes, fitting in something unexpected takes some mental gymnastics. I am a plotter AND an intuitive writer, and I don’t know how it gels, but it just does, and I am so grateful to be writing.

If you click to Get Sexy Tonight, you’ll find plenty of erotica and erotic romances up for grabs in this month’s group promotion.

Here’s a snippet of Flame True, and it is on preorder for $2.99USD right now

Off to wrangle words!

A snippet from Flame True.

It is a touch of spite. Spicy spite.

Came across this question today in one of the groups: “What keeps you motivated to write?”

And I almost, almost commented with, “Spite, mostly.”

But I didn’t.

But it’s true – mostly.

Trauma seriously had an effect on my crative output… eventually I got so mad that I wasn’t writing that I sobbed/screamed and then just did it. Totally afraid that I wouldn’t do it.

Still, fight the fear that I won’t get out this book if I don’t get out this book. It’s a grind.

(And a total love. And a content that is hard to explain).

Also I: Been slugging trying to polish this exhibitionism/voyeur scene. I have wanted to write this scene with these characters for so long – it might be the whole reason a third floor with a viewing room was added to Club Bandit … and yet…. the scene is not living up to the expectations in my head.

 

 

 

Just keep writing… this series

Coming to you on this chilly Autumn day with the sniffles or something. I feel kind of gross and foggy headed but whatever.

Pushed thorugh and got another chapter in on Mulberry and Nick, and is there being made-to-come-with-a-silicone-baking-spoon? Yeah, there is.. I feel as the series goes on I’m getting a bit more…putting it out there.

I really WISH I could tell you when ARCs will be available but I can’t that depends on quickly beta readers get back to me and it hasn’t even reached them, yet. I am liking this book so much. Nick is at a crossroads. And Mulberry is at a new chapter where she could put behind (finally) that awful incident from Flame For You.

Send me some tea and healing vibes if you got them to spare.

Frosty October Morning

A thick layer of frost this morning made it super hard to get out of bed, but my cubs woke up before the sun’s disc broke the horizon, so I had no choice but to find everyone socks and blankets and get at it. Got a chapter finished on Nick&Mulberry and now the story is moving along. Thank gods, because I was getting a little impatient.

Flame For A Weekend: A Bandit Brothers Novella is now available in paperback from the ‘Zon, if you are keen to have it in paperback.

The writing blahs

Flame For A Weekend: A Bandit Brothers Novella hung around the top twenty for awhile last week and I admit, that made me smile, a lot. It is chilly season here and as much as I love fall, I do not like the low temps that come with it. We’re dropping down to 2C tonight and hitting our first 0 of the season the next night and I am not ready! I need more fuzzy socks and blankets!

Our usual routine has been upended this week and I have found it hard to stay writing. So I have beta read for a couple of author friends instead and fell into other people’s world’s as I am thinking through my own.

The thing is, Sasha and Finn are done, I just need to hand it off but I keep doubting it. It’s funny how one experience can leech into your thoughts and stall your action, weary sigh. I do hope to get two chapters done on Nick & Mulberry over the next couple of days – it’s heating up, finally.

 

Feature Friday – September Freebies

So … in my defence, I baked three cakes this week, two of which didn’t work out and the one that did was the kind my mum used to make and HONESTLY no matter how cool rainbow cake looks (it did, it looked fantastic) nothing tastes better than this old-school-chocolate cake.

Sometimes, you got to do it right the first time.

And sometimes, you try just make a total mess of it.

In my newsletter today, I totally goofed and left the auto-copy on in the description of Lindsay Murrary’s book! Ugh. So that is what prompted this wrap-up post… oh and the fact that some of you have been after me to blog more .. ahem.

When I woke up this morning, Flame For A Weekend was in the top twenty in BDSM Erotica, hanging out with Lindsay’s book and to be honest, it felt kind of great. Thanks to everyone who downloaded it and has read it. It’s availible everywhere no, so if you give it a read, consider leaving a review.

These are the books that have crossed my path in the last little while. Share the love and check them out.

 

Feature Friday book covers September 23

 

 

 

Cover for Let's Play A Game Click here to check out Let’s Play a Game. Free! 

Megan’s life hasn’t been quite as colorful since her slavery to Reuben Weston ended nearly five years ago. So when Reuben offers to set her up with something, she jumps at the chance. The catch? She has no idea who he is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cover for the librarian and the janitor Click here to check out the Librarian and the Janitor! Free

Having a dirty job has never felt so good…

The Librarian
Now in my thirties, I’ve accepted that a mousy librarian like me probably won’t meet the man of my dreams or have exotic romps. But, late at night, when I shelve the romance books at the library, I can certainly skim the pages and get lost in the fantasy…
The Janitor
I never dreamed of cleaning for a living, but my brother and I stumbled into running the most lucrative custodial business in town. In fact, we’re so busy that I’ve been covering the night shift at the local library myself. Imagine my surprise when I discover the cute, quiet librarian being naughty in the romance section. Man, my night just got a whole lot hotter…
This is a spicy romance novella—easy on plot, heavy on steam—with a guaranteed HEA.

 

 

 

 

text for serving the sentator Click here to check out Serving the Senator by L.M. Mountford 

He is my Hades.

I’d played the role of a goddess, bound and chained for the service of mortals.

He freed me.

He freed me, unchained me and taken me to his underworld, his dark realm where he’d brought out all my forbidden and secret desires.

And now I’m his.

His attendant. His servant…

Serving the Senator is a sizzling new release from the lord of Lust.
Loaded with tension and sizzling chemistry, it is a modern reimagining of the ancient myth of Hades and Persephone.
A stand-alone romance, it is loaded with scenes of an adult nature that feature BDSM, Dominance play, and so much heat, they may very well melt your e-reader…

 

Click here to read Light in the Dark 

cover for light in the dark

A woman in search of a place to belong.

A man finally getting his second chance.

And a lingering secret that threatens to change everything…

Alex Benning has never known a true home. After inheriting her beloved aunt’s cottage in the small coastal town of Moon Harbor, Maine, she finally gets a chance to start over and leave the life of solitude behind. But she never expects to find herself face to face with her first love—the first man to ever break her heart.

Sam Waters stopped looking for love a long time ago. With a job he enjoys and people he cares about, he’s finally learned to be content with things just as they are. Until the one who got away comes back into his life and makes him crave more. The flame between Alex and Sam reignites and the sparks between them are brighter than ever.

But as Alex settles into her new home, she begins to uncover the truth about her family and the tragedy that changed her life all those years ago. With more questions than answers, Alex and Sam set out to discover what really happened. And the closer they get, the closer danger lurks.

Will Alex be able to survive the unravelling of old family secrets before it’s too late? Before she loses Sam forever?

 

 

Cover of unexpected after Click here to check out Unexpected Ever After on sale for 99 cents for a limited time!

Meet. Fall in love. Live happily ever after…

It’s the way it should be.

At least, that’s what we’ve been told.

But that’s only in fairytales.

 

 

 

Writing into September

So I’ve tried to get a wrap-up post posted a bunch of times now, but I am just kind of low on energy and September, with all it’s starting, has taken my attention. But I want to, and I think I might wait till the end of the month and do one big wrap-up post.

I’ve also switched back to weekly NL’s because enough readers told me that’s their preference. I am waiting on the cover and edits for Gardenia and Dax! I’m so delighted with how this story turned out, and I really can’t wait to share. There was something about the “stick to one kink per one book” comment that lodged itself in my brain, needing to be expressed and the result is this story of the exploration of what’s too much and what’s too little and what’s just right, and it fits in with the Bandit Brothers Series so well. Inspiration comes in interesting places, a lot of times, mine comes through/from … spite, I guess. I have a long history of doing things people said I couldn’t, and I guess I’m not stopping now *laughs*.

My plant table needs a new plant friend; I think the atrium lily is done – maybe too cold or not enough sun? Whatever it is, I didn’t get the combination required to make this plant happy, le sigh.

Must go get some words down on Nick and Mulberry’s story; she is growing increasingly annoyed with his attention one moment and his coldness the next. Can’t say I blame the girl, I’d demand better, too.

Writing Update and Flame For Two $0.99 cent sale!

The skies I am under have been overcast for the last couple of days, and I feel both like dramatically donning a cloak and packing a trunk for a grand new adventure in a steam=punky way AND curling up by the fire.

I think it’s safe to say that I long for some alone time.

While I’m waiting for Flame For A Weekend (Dax and Gardenia’s story) to be sent back to me, I am trying to get back to Mulberry and Nick.
I am loving this book. It’s both darker- because we get into the nitty-gritty of her kidnap and maybe, just maybe, find out who was behind it–and lighter because it’s a fake dating trope- than the other books, and it’s fun, though reminding myself where I left off and trying to find the flow of it again, feels a bit sluggish. Thank gods for my outlines!

 

Midweek Roll

I went down a rabbit hole trying to answer the question, “how does your disability affect your writing?” First off, which one? *grins.* It’s almost an impossible question to ask because there is no separation between me and my disability. It’s just there; it makes certain things “harder” than my peers or for me to obtain society’s standards, but it’s not an easy thing to break down.

However, for me, formatting is on that list. This is something I want to get better at, and I find it a challenge and I know other people do too, but this is something that because of my disability it’s challenging because I don’t have the base skills and numbers are not my thing; I can’t number as part of my disability, and right and left and directions and inches and centimetres, and all of that ties into graphics and formatting. See? Clear as mud.

Ivy Whitaker has some serious writing skills. Her world-building and emotionally gripping and introspecting characters are off the charts, and I am so humbled by her review of Flame Again. It’s really nice when your peers say kind things about your work, and I weigh it slightly differently, you know? Check it out here: https://ivywhitaker.com/2022/08/17/review-flame-again-by-raleigh-damson/

I am near the end for Dax and Gardenia and I must get words down on that story today. Now that I’ve gone this far with them, I don’t want to leave them but I want readers to fall in love with their figuring it out, as much as I have.

Finding A Schedule/Tools That Work: Feature Friday

Today’s #AuthorAugust22 asked: Scheduled writing time or whenever the muse strikes?

I have a schedule like this: Get words down during the day, using whatever time I can, and I usually have a good chunk of time in the morning. When I came back to writing, I’d get up at 5 am each day and get words down (I don’t think you have to get up early to write; this is what helped me add another ball into the air…it’s about making it a priority, not about tormenting yourself) anyways… that’s a writing schedule. Still, I am on the hunt for some tool that’d make my life easier, to schedule posts and NL swaps.

Because I need a new system, and I think when I mentioned this before, people thought I was joking. I’m not. I have missed two social media things, and I missed sharing Loren Beeson’s newest release, not once but twice in my newsletter! How crummy is that?  My sincere apologies to Loren. One More Kiss: A Fake Dating Age Gap is available on Kindle and KU. I can’t wait to read it!

So, I need some tool…is it a physical planner? A physical calendar? I don’t know; I need to be visual that sorts out things like FB parties and NL swaps because my system right now is horrible. I draft it in my Gmail and tried to connect to my Google Calendar, but that hasn’t worked with high success. Stuff like this is how my disabled self shows up, too, because adding things to a schedule and a system is all kind of murky until I figure out a way to add the ball in; like, I did with making writing a priority. I know that having something on my phone doesn’t work – it’s too easily ignored and I put my phone on silent a lot, unless I’m out with the cubs or something. Open to ideas, friends.

This Feature Friday is One More Kiss: A Fake Dating Age-Gap Romance, Topica Bay #1, check it out!

 

Books Worth Clicking For 

A couple for the cover of One More Kiss

I’m homeless in paradise.

What’s a girl to do when her stepfather cuts her off from the family finances?

Accept an offer to room with a sexy—albeit grumpy—divorcé, of course. Damon Carlisle just might have it all. He’s a senior developer of one of the hottest dating apps in the country for starters, and he’s got that whole twelve-years-older-than-me, broody-loner thing going for him. But going through a breakup means I’m in need of a solo vacation, and I won’t be giving in to temptation where Damon’s concerned. This heart of mine is closed for the summer, and no amount of fake dating is going to fix it.

When it rains, it pours.

Not always a bad thing, right? I’m on a two-week beach vacation—away from my cheating ex-wife—and soaking up the sun. Bonus, I’m set to accept an award for the countless hours and dedication I’ve given to my team. But while I should be elated… I feel utterly empty.

When Kate dances her way into what’s supposed to be my chance at a little R & R, something dormant inside my soul awakens. Having fun with her isn’t part of our agreement, and kissing her certainly isn’t either. But I can’t help myself. I can’t get enough of Miss Katelynn Harris, and she just might ruin me.

**One More Kiss is a full-length standalone summer romance and can be enjoyed in any reading order.