Cover Reveal; Hot Down Under

       

When it’s hot, down under, it’s hot.

And to fan those flames into a conflagration, Momentum Publishing, a new digital imprint of Pan Macmillan Australia, will be releasing a series of short erotic stories by Aussie authors under the label of Hot Down Under.

Released singly, these spicy stories cover a range of genres including contemporary, historical, fantasy, paranormal, post-apocalyptic and feature cowboys, genies and zombies. 

Whew!

There is bound to be a story to cater for every taste (including the flesh eating ones!).

Contributing authors include Rhyll Biest, Rhian Cahill, Kasey Channing, Lexxie Couper, Cate Ellink, C.T. Green, S.E. Gilchrist, Keziah Hill, Shona Husk, Beverley Oakley, Kylie Scott, Tracey O’Hara, Mel Teshco and Marianne Theresa.

So check out this innovative series which will be debuting with the first five stories released on 1^st November 2012. Four more will follow on 1^st December and five on 1^st January 2013.

Here are the first five covers ‘revealed’ below.


 

http://www.hot-downunder.com

http://momentumbooks.com.au/tag/hotdownunder/

Thank you to the team at Authors Promoting Authors for hosting us today.

Some Hump Day Horny With.....Eli Buchanan

Welcome to Wednesday again! A.K.A. Hump Day or, more precisely around here: HORNY HUMP DAY!

This week I bring you three smoking lines from Paradise Hops, a hot new best selling release from yours truly. This from one Eli Buchanan the Bad Boy Anti Hero of the book:

“I’m gonna fuck you again sweetness, then we get a food break, then a shower, and then I am really gonna show you a good time. Then we might get some sleep. You game?”

Woo Hoo!

Paradise Hops is trending in "time travel romance" and is currently #6 on the Amazon List along with a bunch of books by somebody named HP Mallory.

As of last night it was #1067 in all Kindle PAID books!

Blurb:

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A brutal attack left Lori Brockton convinced she was damaged goods. By the time she emerges from hiding two years later, ready to run her family's famous brewery, she's determined to be independent--never rely on anyone ever again. Nearly a year of working in every corner of Brockton Brewing Company, from warehouse to pub, front office to kitchen, teaches her all she needs to know about the business. Then, she comes face-to-face with masculine perfection in a suit and her world is rocked in more ways than one. Garrett Hunter is the new Brockton business manager who takes one look at the beautiful, sad young woman and his entire existence coalesces around winning her heart. 

But standing between Garrett and what he believes is his true love, is a six-feet six-inch blond-haired bad boy brewer.

Eli Buchannan is a craft beer rock star, recently hired by Brockton to drag the company into the 21st century. He brings innovation and attitude plus a prima donna ladies man reputation.  But he's sworn off anything resembling commitment, personal or professional, after getting burned at his last job on both fronts. 

Garrett Hunter is “The Perfect Man” -- handsome, successful, stable, eager to settle down. Eli Buchannan... is not.  Compelling, smoking hot, creative and elusive, he represents everything Lori Brockton should avoid.  But just as she makes a difficult choice, a drastic life-changing shift occurs, and nothing is ever the same again.

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Book Feature;Bare Naked Truth, Laura May

A little blurb about the book:

Laura May, a thirty something professional, driven, career oriented
woman started writing and recording an erotic podcast back in 2010. The
podcast became highly popular and Laura's life changed forever.

On the last episode of the Laura May Diaries podcast, Laura reconnected
with Trevor, a young, successful businessman from out of town who she
met back in 2009 as a one night stand. The two fell in love and jumped
into a meaningful relationship right away, but agreed that sex would be
the last thing they do this time around.

The Bare Naked Truth reveals Laura's personal life, the steamy love
affair between her and Trevor, and how she secretly balances a
respectable job with her erotic podcast. Her sense of humor, imagination
and sexuality are highly entertaining and captivating.

To listen to the podcast visit http://lauramaydiaries.com

The Bare Naked Truth is Laura May's first self-published e-book.
Some of the facts in the story are based on true events, but the plot
is fictitious. To protect the privacy of the individuals, all of the
names and identifying features, situations and places in the diary have
been changed and several characters are composites.



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Conversation with a Book; Gather The Bones, Alison Stuart

CONVERSATION WITH “GATHER THE BONES” by ALISON STUART

Thanks to Stacey and the team for inviting me onto this fabulous blog.

I chose, rather rashly, to open up a conversation about my latest release GATHER THE BONES.

I describe it as “history, mystery, romance and ghosts” or “Downton Abbey with ghosts”. My publisher describes it as:

War leaves no one untouched

The horrors of the Great War are not the only ghosts that haunt Helen Morrow and her late husband's reclusive cousin, Paul. Unquiet spirits from another time and another conflict touch them.

A coded diary gives them clues to the mysterious disappearance of Paul's great-grandmother in 1812, and the desperate voice of a young woman reaches  out to them from the pages. Together Helen and Paul must search for answers, not only for the old mystery, but also the circumstances surrounding the death of Helen's husband at Passchandaele in 1917.

As the mysteries entwine, their relationship is bound by the search for truth, in the present and the past.

I started writing this book because I’d always wanted to write a ghost story but a visit to the battlefields of World War One inspired me to tell a story of war and its effect on everyone-not just those who fought and survived - but the wives, mothers, sisters that were left behind. As the tag line says “no one is untouched by war”.  And all wars bring the same suffering. Helen Morrow, the heroine of my story, finds she has so much in common with the writer of the diary, Suzanna. They have both been touched by war. 

All of this sounds grim but I am, at heart, a romance writer and the story has a HEA. I needed a hero who had the strength of character not to be defeated by what he endured in no man’s land and the story is, of course, the coming together of two wounded souls, Helen and Paul.

Over to you.  

I am offering a free ebook copy of one of my earlier novels (set in another war – the English Civil War) -  the award winning BY THE SWORD - to one randomly drawn commentator.  Comments close 24 October.

I would love to open up the conversation:

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      What do you think about “Wounded” heroes?   

       I give my boys a hard time. They come into my story with emotional baggage and, because I tend to write about soldier heroes, at some point they will need to be slowed down (to give them time with the heroine) and a bullet in the shoulder or a sword through the leg is always good for a bit of time out. 

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      Mixed genres?  Mystery, history, romance and ghosts all in one book? Why do mainstream publishers shy away from books they can’t pigeon hole? What do you as readers think?

     Australian characters? 

     

      Setting a book in 1923 gave me the opportunity to put an Australian into the story (my heroine, Helen). I loved the freedom it gave me to show her as the outsider in polite English society. 

      

      Do we need more Australian settings, characters in our historical novels?

Enough from me…over to you.

Amazon buy link for GATHER THE BONES.