Monday, January 5, 2015

Em Petrova's Reining Men - Spotlight and Review - 1/5

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There’s no escaping ranch policy—anything to please a lady…

The Boot Knockers Ranch, Book 3



The Boot Knockers Ranch caters to women in all ways. And now rookie Paul is officially part of the team. He’s had six months to hone his skills with the ladies and prides himself on being a prime catch.



Jack would agree. He can’t get the rugged cowboy out of his system. He wants Paul in his bed more than anything, but his best friend has always been resistant to relations with other men. Jack’s instinct says different, but he values Paul’s friendship too highly to push it.



Then Jack takes on beautiful new client Lissy Lofton and finds himself falling hard for the confident show jumper. He’s not the only one. Lissy has caught Paul’s attention, and the attraction is mutual.



But now Jack has a problem. Lissy’s sexual appetite is so ravenous, he doubts he can last the week without backup. Which presents an irresistible opportunity to invite Paul into their bed—where the incandescent heat brings all their walls tumbling down.



Warning: Contains two smoking-hot cowboys whose drive to please the same woman spurs a desire to please each other.



Excerpt of REINING MEN Rated ADULT, HOT, GET THE FAN AND GRAB YER PARTNER





“This lower lip is as ripe as a juicy peach. And this upper one”—he dragged his thumb over the rounded edges—“is a man’s wet dream.”



His dirty words spiked her desire. She wrapped her fingers around his strong wrist. Wide, sprinkled with light hairs, warm from the sun. Damn, she wanted to touch his every inch. For a week, Jack was hers to worship.



And she planned to take total advantage and make the big fee worth it.



His lashes lowered over smoldering eyes the color of sea glass. As a child she’d gathered the remnants from the beach and kept them in a little wooden box her parents had given her. What had happened to that collection?



Who cared? Now she had a new kind of sea glass to admire.



Jack tipped closer until the brim of his hat bumped her forehead. With a warm chuckle, he nudged it up. “Hat on or off, Lissy?”



Her mind bounced around the question. What did she want her first kiss to be like? He was allowing her to choose her path. Her heart swelled with the knowledge of her own power.



“On,” she whispered, her voice a stranger’s.



He angled his head, nose brushing hers. She filled her lungs with his scent—leather, man, hay. All the things she adored clinging to one perfect cowboy.


MY REVIEW:

Ms. Petrova is one of my favorite authors, not because she writes deep meaningful works that inspire me to live a better life, but because her stories are full of imagery that make my pulse race. She writes implausible stories with believable motivations.  Where else can you find a dude ranch for women with sexual disfunctions?  And believe it's a real place?  Okay, I'm wishing here, but in my addled brain, believing and wishing is the same.

This is a hot m/m/f menage story featuring a virgin woman who ends up with both men, and Ms. Petrova makes it all seem so attainable.  I think that's what I like the most about this story--I can see this happening in real life (back to my own addled brain).

There were a few things I didn't like about this story, but they're personal issues.  I thought there was too much of the day-to-day dealings with farm chores that messed with the pacing in some places.  This is probably because I used to live on a farm, and these chores, in my mind, are not sexy.  I also had a hard time with the positioning in one of the sex scenes.  I know this seems nit-picky, but it took me out of the story a little too much to try and think of the possibilities of the particular positions the characters were in and how they got there so easily.

All in all, though, this was a great read.  I don't think it's one of Em's best, as I missed some of the sparkling imagery she puts in some of her other books, but I still loved it, and would recommend it to others who enjoy a hot m/m/f menage/love story.



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Em Petrova lives in Backwoods, Pennsylvania, where she raises four kids and a Labradoodle named Daisy Hasselhoff. Her dream is to buy an old pickup and travel small-town USA meeting people and hearing their stories. Her heroes are hardworking—in bed and out—and she is known for panty-scorching erotic romance.





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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Things I'm tired of in Romance novels...

As I welcome in the new year, a new business plan, and the "new"ness of it all.  I have a new series, tons of new ideas, and even a new plan of action!  So with that in mind, I've made a mental list of "don'ts" that I'm going to implement.  Of course, that's a whole blog post in and of itself, but I'm going to split it up into several different ones.

The first being, things I will never write into my books, because I'm sick to death of seeing them in books I read.  Some of these, I'm actually guilty of writing in the past.  (See?  I can own it.)


#1--"You like what you see?"  (duh, or she wouldn't be staring.  Now don't be an asshole about it.)

#2--(as soon as she touches his junk) "You better watch out (be careful, etc.), or this will be over before it starts."

#3--Sex noises.  Yeah, they don't really translate into the written word well.  Please don't try.  Words like, "ugh," and "mmmm...," bring to totally un-sexy things to my mind.

#4--When the guy looks at the girl naked for the first time and mutters in an awestruck voice, "Beautiful..."  I'm not going to lie and say that's an awful thing to say, because EVERY woman feels vulnerable the first time they get naked and show off the goods to a lover, but can we get a little creativity?  Besides, "Fucking beautiful..."  I'm actually guilty of this one, but I don't think I've done it lately.

#5--Billionaires- Okay, I'll give on this one.  Up until I researched for this blog post, I thought there were only, like, 7 legitimate billionaires on the planet.  But, according to Forbes, there are 1,645.  And they aren't all ugly, old, skeezy dudes.  Sorry.  But I'm still a little tired of the old "Billionaire sweeps the innocent off her feet" trope.  Now that I know I was wrong about the number of them, I may entertain ideas of actually writing about this.  But I will twist up the trope.  While there may be that many billionaires, I have a hard time believing they're all sucked into the innocent trope that easily.


My number one goal of the new year is to get my blog back up on a regular basis, so look for more posts like this in the future.  I'll still be spotlighting authors on occasion, but not everyday like I did, once upon a time.  Leave me a comment telling me what you'd like to see blogged about, and I'll try to include it.  Every comment will get entered into a drawing to win an ecopy of my next release (sometime in the next two weeks) The Best Laid Plans of Boys and Men.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

#dith15 Deep in the Heart Author Event



Where: 
307 w. 5th St. Austin, TX 78701
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V.I.P. tickets includes a
swag pack and the admission to cocktail hour with the authors and models from
4-5pm at the madison.




When:

February 7, 2015

11:00 - 12:00pm VIP Signing 

12:00 - 3pm Regular Signing


4:00 - 5:00pm Cocktail Hour with ticket holders, authors, models.



6:00 - whenever - Austin Ale House is where we will do
appetizers. 
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Friday, December 5, 2014

Spotlight on Guardian of Paradise by W.E. Lawrence

NEW BOOK RELEASE
 By W.E. Lawrence
 HISTORICAL ADVENTURE
 Laced With Spicy Romance


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 On a volcanic island paradise in 1888, beautiful but capable Kira Wall finds herself
 hopelessly in love for the first time—while she is simultaneously desperate to save her
 island's treasures from ruthless merchant traders.
 Available Online at Amazon.com/books 

A graduate from the University of North Carolina, W. E. Lawrence has run a successful home health care distributorship for the past twenty-three years. He currently lives in Davidson, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Holy CRAP!!!!

Okay, so I never in a million years ever, ever, EVER thought my step mother-in-law would be an answer to an author's prayer, but OMG, she did it!  I didn't even ask her for anything.  At all.

So, Thanksgiving, I'm sitting around with the hubbie's family, drunk off my ass, (because I was in total denial mode, but that's another blog post altogether) and she whispers to me, "Did I ever tell you about Devon?  My cover model friend?"

Quirking an eyebrow, like I often do with my in-laws (because it's some sort of law that we never take each other seriously) I said, "Do tell..."  Okay, I slurred it, but whatever.

She takes me back to the bedroom and pulls up her facebook page and shows me a picture of an incredibly YOUNG guy, then goes immediately to a picture of him in a bathing suit.  I have to laugh, because it's my MIL, and she's showing me pictures of hot, young guys on her computer, but I shut the fuck up when she whispers, "He's coming by tomorrow to visit."

So he does, and we visit, and not only is he gorgeous, but he's NICE, TOO!  We all talked about my books, with me totally ignoring my father-in-law's eye-rolling, because he's not the most supportive dude on the planet.

Fast forward, and I now have spoken with Devon again, he's agreed to model for my book covers, and I've also spoken with a photographer, Jules, a friend of Devon's.

AND I'M GOING TO HAVE MY VERY OWN BOOK COVERS!!!!!!  NOT STOCK ART!!!!

I cannot tell you how tickled I am about this.  Not only am I starting a new series in 2015, an edgier, sexier series, but I'm going to have some original cover art, and I am super excited.  Of course, since none of the people in my real life get as excited about these things as I do, I'm going online to tell my virtual friends.

Because I love you.  Muah!!


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