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Super Book Blast (&giveaway) for The Christmas Dare by Joan Chandler

By Barb Drozdowich Leave a Comment

Welcome to Sugarbeat’s Books – The Home of the Romance Novel!

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Today we are welcoming Joan Chandler, author of The Christmas Dare to the blog. She is touring her book with GoddessFish Promotions and is here today to share some information about her book, and also to give away a $25.00 Amazon or Barnes & Noble GC to a lucky commenter. You know how to increase your chances of winning! Click HERE to find more blogs to leave comments on and increase your chances of winning. I hope you enjoy reading about “The Christmas Dare” and if this sounds like something that you would be interested in reading, please find some buy links at the bottom of the post and pick up a copy or two!

 

The Christmas Dare

by Joan Chandler

 

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Self-professed Christmas addict Gia Dixon, and by-the-book Ethan Castle have been best friends all their lives. When tragedy strikes Ethan’s family, Gia’s the rock he depends on to pull him through the darkest days. Then, a shared, long-forgotten memory leads to an unexpected yet tender kiss.  Can a simple Christmas dare help them find true love?

 

 

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Excerpt:

 

She made a face at him as she prepared to get out of the car, and then flipped around to her knees to reach between the seats to gather up her packages. As she pulled everything forward through the gap, she leaned over to kiss his cheek.

 

He caught her by surprise when he turned to face her, causing their lips to meet. Her eyes widened, while his turned dark.

 

“Gia,” he said, the name coming out of his mouth in a low rasp.

 

She closed her eyes but didn’t move. She couldn’t speak. Then she sensed when he was about to kiss her again. She tilted her face up to receive it, her lips parting to let him know she wasn’t opposed.

 

Ethan put his hands on either side of her head, his long fingers wrapping around to bury themselves in her thick, blonde hair. “Gia,” he whispered again as he closed his mouth over hers and slipped his tongue inside. She twirled hers around it, gently sucking. They were lost in the moment, oblivious to whether anyone else was around or not. They forgot where they were. They even forgot who they were. And in their place, these two sensual, passionate creatures tangled their arms around each other and kissed as if their lives depended on it.

 

Finally, Ethan sighed and pulled back a little. “Tell me that this is okay with you. Please say that it is.”

 

Gia had trouble finding her voice, so instead she pulled his mouth to hers again and greedily kissed him. When it ended, she asked breathily, “Does that answer your question?”

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Joan Chandler is a Florida native who has lived in the Deep South all of her life. She is married with two children who are her pride and joy. She lives a double life of sorts, holding down a nine-to-five job during the day, and writing steamy romance at night—often with her black cat curled up in her arms as she types.

 

When she’s not spending her spare time working on her next novel, she loves to go camping, sharing girls’ night out with her friends, walking her two dogs, and watching football.

 Joanne can be found:

Blog   *   Twitter   *   Facebook

 

Previously published works are Perfectly Imperfect, and No Regrets.  Both are available at:

 Bookstrand   *   Amazon   *   Barnes & Noble

 

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VBT and Interview with Kristabel Reed author of Seduction of My Proper Wife

By Barb Drozdowich Leave a Comment

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Today we are welcoming Kristabel Reed to the blog! She’s the author of Seduction of my Proper Wife and is touring with Goddessfish promotions to create some buzz about her book.  She’s going to share some information about her book with us.

Kristabel will be giving away an eBook copy of any backlist title and one randomly drawn commenter from this tour will receive  a $25 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card plus a copy of any eBook backlisted title. To increase your chances of winning, click HERE to find other blogs to comment on.

 

Barb – Tell us about your new release?

Kristabel – Seduction of my Proper Wife is a thinking woman’s erotica. It takes Victorian sentiments on sex and so totally turns them on their ear; Victorian prudishness meets ménage happily ever after. I enjoy taking an historic plot device and twisting it. What better way to twist it than make it into a ménage?

 

Philip Thornton only wanted to help his frigid wife enjoy their marriage bed.

 

Lillian agreed, but once freed from her past, hadn’t expected such a fierce transformation.

 

Aria was paid to educate and entice, but what she found was more than she ever dreamed possible.

 

The Parisian Exposition of 1889…the world is changing and the three of them are caught in its whirl. Philip and Lillian went to Paris to save their marriage and to help Lillian overcome her fears. Aria danced and seduced Lillian, but before Lillian left, Aria found herself seduced, in turn, by the beautiful Englishwoman.

 

When Philip and Lillian break all the rules and escort Aria around Paris for a week, will it be the beginning of their future? Or will this seductive interlude be nothing more than a dream?

 

Barb – What’s your current guilty pleasure?

Kristabel – Chocolate is the eternal favorite, however I’d have to say my current one is Chris Hemsworth. I’ll see anything with him in it. J

 

Barb – If you wouldn’t be a writer, what you would be?

 

Kristabel – Congress or the senate or a local office because I always feel I can do a better job than our current politicians. But with my luck (and writing history!) I’d probably be involved in a ménage sex scandal.

 

Barb – What are your favorite hobbies?

 

Kristabel – Reading, TV, movies, gardening, beach, travel to new places or old favorites. I love to see new places to use for research.

 

Barb – What do you love about writing?

 

Kristabel – I get to play in the imagination sandbox and call it my job! I love imagining new stories!

 

Barb – Why did you choose the genre you write in?

 

Kristabel – My publisher had a hole in her lineup for a ménage historical anthology and asked if I’d fill it. I’d never written a ménage before, but said yes. Once I finished that short story, I wanted to write a longer ménage, to really get a feel for the characters and flesh them out. After that first one, it snowballed from there and now I can’t imagine not writing them!

 

Barb – Where do you get your inspiration?

 

Kristabel – For Seduction of my Proper Wife, I had read Devil in the White City and wanted to set a story either during a World’s Fair or at least in Victorian Era Chicago. In that one they talk about this World’s Fair, so I looked up Paris 1889. Not much on it, but it was fascinating enough and with the Eiffel Tower there almost too exotic a setting to ignore. Given what I write, it had to be a ménage, lol, but I am enjoying the setting itself. I love the research I can do on Paris 1889. If you get a chance to read Devil in the White City or Eiffel’s Tower, do so.

 

Barb – How many books do you read/month?

Kristabel – I tend not to read a romance or ménage while writing because I don’t want to accidently take away something from that story and use it in mine. But I’d say on average, I read about 5-7 books. Between ebooks, library books, and audio books, it’s easy to juggle.

 

And I enjoy a very wide variety of stories, non-fiction historicals, spiritual things like finding your animal spirit, thrillers, YA books (some) children’s books, and especially romance.

 

Barb – Do you prefer Twitter or Facebook?

Kristabel – Twitter. I can update that frequently and not compete with cute animal pictures. While I enjoy those pictures I find facebook very crowded and cumbersome. Course Twitter is shorter, 140 characters and all. So if anyone wants to start a conversation you can find me at @kristabelreed

 

Barb – What are your thoughts on ebooks? (i.e. love them, hate them, wave of the future)

Kristabel – Love them, they are the wave of the future. Don’t get me wrong, I love holding a book, but let’s face it; I can download an almost infinite number of books onto an e-reader or tablet and not have to lug them physically around.

 

And, too, there’s the shame factor—like you’re buying a box of condoms at the pharmacy where your date’s father works. I doubt very much anyone would buy my books if they had to go into a bookstore and have everyone stare at them with a threesome on the cover and words like Victorian Ménage in the title. With an e-book you can download it and not worry who’s looking at you because they probably won’t be able to see what you’re reading!

 

Barb – If you could ask your readers one question, what would it be?

Kristabel – I was going to talk about my upcoming releases, but I really like this question instead. So what would I ask? I’d ask what they like to see in a story. Plot is important, I’m in total agreement, but what sort of plot? What do you like in a story, in a romance, in an historical, in a ménage?

 

Thanks for hosting me, I look forward to chatting with everyone!

 

BLURB:

 

Philip Thornton adored his new bride but found she was frigid in their marriage bed.

 

Lillian did not know how to ease her fear of the bed until she was freed from her past.

 

Aria was paid to educate and entice, but what she found was more than she ever dreamed possible.

 

The Parisian Exposition of 1889…the world is changing and the three of them are caught in its whirl. Philip and Lillian went to Paris to save their marriage and to help Lillian overcome her fears. Aria danced and seduced Lillian, but before Lillian left, Aria found herself seduced, in turn, by the beautiful Englishwoman.

 

When Philip and Lillian break all the rules and escort Aria around Paris for a week, will it be the beginning of their future? Or will this seductive interlude be nothing more than a dream?

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Excerpt:

 

Puzzled at such a dichotomy, she allowed Philip to pull her along. They passed a pair of men sitting cross-legged on the ground. They smoked from a long tube attached to a tall, thin, glass spiral of some sort. Fascinated, Lillian tried not to stare, it was rude after all, but wondered what the contraption was called and what the men smoked from its cloudy insides.

 

They entered a building with beautifully mysterious music and slight tinkling sounds. When Lillian looked up, she saw the dancers. They wore swaths of sheer fabric for skirts, covered in dozens and dozens of gold coins. Their bellies were bare, but their faces veiled.

 

Philip, still silent as he’d been since leaving their hotel room, guided her through the crowd to the front of the stage. Lillian, almost entranced by the sight, didn’t care who saw her or what they thought, she watched, mesmerized by the way these women’s bodies moved.

 

It was the most sensual thing she’d ever seen, and Lillian knew she should be ashamed, but couldn’t be. The danced ended and the women filed off stage. The crowd waited, clearly waiting like she was, to see if more was to come. But nothing more happened, save the men playing their strange instruments continued to do so.

 

As the crowd left the room, Philip smiled tenderly down at her and she felt that same fluttering in her belly she had the first time he’d done so. Straightening her shoulders, Lillian vowed to make this work. Even if she had to…

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Kristabel Reed lives on the East Coast and loves to explore the steamier side of historical romance. “There are so many sexy situations that didn’t just pop up in the 21st century and my goal is to burst the myth of the prim and proper debutante.”

 

She loves romances but historical ménages particularly which add an element of danger and discovery not seen in contemporaries. Historically speaking, unusual romantic connections put lives on the line-people were ostracized and some even put to the death.

 

She loves reading, watching old movies, and anything Cary Grant. And is always interested in talking about erotic romance, so drop her a line: kristabelreed@yahoo.com; or Tweet her @kristabelreed; find her blog: kristabelreed.blogspot.com

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Book Feature with Joanne Kenrick, author of Hot Winter Kiss, Irish Kisses Book 4

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HOT WINTER KISS Releases 30th November 2012

Book four in the bestselling Irish Kisses series.

Tasty treats await you.

 

www.joannekenrick.com

 

PARINGS: m/f

FLAME RATING: four

GENRE: contemporary romance

PUBLISHER: www.decadentpublishing.com

PAGE COUNT: 47

CONTENT: May to December / Tinsel Play / Irish Castle / Snowed In / Holiday Romance

 

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Hot winter kisses to warm broken hearts….

 

Sick of tending to everyone else’s needs around the holidays, divorced barmaid and granny Sandra ferries it from London to Belfast. All she wants for Christmas is some peace with a romance story in front of a roaring fire in a remote Irish castle. What she gets is a most unexpected Christmas present from her friends at Bell’s–A 1Night Stand with a young Irishman.

 

Can she hack it in the real world of romance, or are life’s complications and treacherous snowstorms best left to the pages of a book?

 

Newly widowed Ardan Draighean owns Ballygalley castle. Once run as a hotel with his late wife, the stone building now serves as a home for him and his son. After hearing about Madame Eve’s matchmaking skills, he contacts her in search of the perfect match. Although much older than him–by fifteen years–Sandra is his ideal woman. He be damned if he’ll let a good story get in the way of his happy ever after with her.

 

Hot winter kisses are all this couple needs to stay warm this Christmas, but will the heat stay long after the magical season of mistletoe has finished?

 

AMAZON US: http://www.amazon.com/lm/R2WFCBFWNDA9ZI

 

MORE BUYLINKS: http://www.joannekenrick.com/p/hot-winter-kiss.html

 

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Sweet Irish Kiss, book 1

Shamrocked, book 2

Threesome Sweetness, book 3

Author bio:

Born n bred Brit, JoAnne Kenrick grew up in a wee sea-side town in North Wales and has enjoyed a variety of vocations such as holistic healer, window dresser, and ghost tour guide. Having lived in Wales, England, and Scotland with her dear family, she finally escaped the dull British summers to reside in sunny Australia. After two years, they moved to the States where she endured three harsh winters in Minnesota. She now lives in North Carolina with her husband, two kids and two puddy cats. When they aren’t demanding her attention, or jumping on her head, she strums away on the keys of her little laptop, creating worlds and adventures she could only ever dream of. Come across the pond and faraway….with JoAnne Kenrick! www.joannekenrick.com

Get exclusive sneak peeks at her new and upcoming releases by signing up to her quarterly newsletter here: http://tinyletter.com/joannekenrick

 

HOT WINTER KISS Excerpt
Sandra SNIPPET – PG/13

Digging out the treat the staff had bought her for her trip, all wrapped in hot hunks printed gift paper, she grinned. She’d promised to wait until she’d arrived at the castle before opening her surprise, but if not for the ferry delay and the bus strikes, she’d be snug by the fireplace already. By her calculations, present time had come and gone. She ripped that baby open and found a gift only good friends would think to buy her.

“An e-reader!”

They’d included a card, on the front of which a very sexy Santa hung up a fishnet stocking over a cartoon fireplace.

Now you’ll be able to carry those sexy stories around with you wherever you go, without your grandkids ever discovering those smutty covers! And to ensure your holiday is romantic, we’ve stocked your reader with books from your favorite series. One is about an Irish castle owner. Wink, wink. Oh, and talking of romance, tucked into the cover is another present to ensure your Christmas is one filled with joy.

Happy holidays! Your wee family from Bell’s.

Sandra thumbed around the cover and found what looked like an invitation. She opened the envelope and cringed. A 1Night Stand date. Hell’s bells. Had to be Devlin’s idea, the cheeky sod. Her co-worker always teased her about her reading habits at work. Yup. This trickery had Devlin written all over it. Insensitive bastard.

“Sandra? I’m from Ballygalley, here ta give ya a ride ta the castle. Bloody good job the barman recalled seeing ya. I’d never have found ya tucked way back here.”

A man loomed over her, his face shadowed by a knit hat pulled down to his temples; a hint of dark ginger peeked through the wool.

He rubbed his hands together then blew on them. “Let’s get a move on, shall we?”

Christmas lametta tinsel from above reflected across his smoldering, indigo glare. His brow furrowed and a glint of impatience flickered in his eyes. He rubbed at his stubbled face, and she could have sworn she heard the gentle sweep of thick whiskers brushing his palm. Her ex used to do the same thing when he was deep in thought. A tightening in her throat stalled her.

“Not got all night.” He pulled out her chair, nearly knocking her flying.

 

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