We're Celebrating the Ndulgent Bloggers' 4th BLOGiversary!

We're Celebrating the Ndulgent Bloggers' 4th BLOGiversary!

4 Years of Reviews. 4 Years of Supporting Authors. 4 Years of Great Books. 4 Huge Bags o' Swag.

Visit each of these BLOGS -Authors, Reviewers and Bloggers- and have fun!

I began writing about the time Ndulgent began reviewing. Over the years, they've been very supportive of my work, as they have many other authors. Happy birthday, Ndulgent, and here's to many, many more years!

To help celebrate, I'm giving away an e-copy copy of my latest release, TuDawgs.

 Welcome to TuDawgs. Our county fair booth is now serving one very bad girl, sautéed in scandal and peppered with regrets. We grill her with relentless cops and reporters, top her with a choice, all-beef carnival worker, and slather on the heart-stopping hook-ups. Then we add a generous dollop of old flames and make the stakes mile-high. What’s that? You want a cotton-candy ending for your bad girl? That’ll cost her extra. Don’t say I spilled the secret ingredient, but the carnie’s running a rigged game.

Since the story is set at the county fair, just leave me a comment below, telling me your favorite thing about the fair and your e-mail address. Will it be the food, the displays, the rides? 

For my character, it was the hot carnie she met on opening day. 

The Mindset of Slut ~ Let's Get Lucky Blog Hop

Hello,

Welcome to my stop on the Let’s Get Lucky Blog Hop…where I am not going to promo a new release.

I have a couple, don’t get me wrong. But there’s something more important on my mind or, rather someone.

Her name is Rehteah Parsons. She’s seventeen years old and she will never be eighteen. She’s dead, by her own hand. Rehteah was raped by four young men at a party. She was fifteen at the time.

What came next was worse.

I won’t regurgitate the story. (You may read a report here, if you haven’t heard about this outrage.)

I do want to focus on one aspect, the way other young women sent her text messages calling her a slut.

Slut. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slut

A four-letter word much harsher than any other four-letter word I can think of. Slut. As a rape survivor myself, I’d say those messages were more harmful than those from young men asking if she’d have sex with them, and I am not saying the messages from young men weren't harmful. But for the love of God, where's the solidarity, the sisterhood, the support from other woman we all need to get through something like this? And who raised these young? They need to step up and be handed their measure of shame.

Rehteah posted this image on her Facebook wall prior to taking her life.

I’m a widow. I’m a mother. By September, I’ll be a grandmother—twice.

And I write erotic romance. In part, I chose the genre because I wrestle with the line between ‘nice girl’ and ‘sexual being’—and why that line exists.

I think it’s time we stop the shame game, because all other issues aside, at the core of the behavior by the young women who tortured this child with social media and who shunned her as though her rape were somehow her fault, is the mindset of slut, the idea there are two standards of sexuality, one for men and another for women. It pisses me off that women are still slinging this kind of mud on other women, resulting in a new generation all too ready to pour the water of superiority into the dirt of shame. A generation who has the magic of social media at their fingertips to carry the message far and wide.

Women need to stop judging each other for sexual choices made, much less for a rape. Let Rehteah Parsons be the last women to take her life because those who should stand in support turned away—then circled back to attack.

Let us wipe the word ‘slut’ off our lips, and those of our children. Rape is a crime, but the behavior of others toward a victim after the fact in many cases, is an equal, if not larger crime. No woman needs others to make her ashamed of her sexual history, particularly for an entry not made by choice.

Thank you for dropping in. I’d love if you’d join my blog and my Facebook page, but those are requests, not conditions.

I’ll be delighted to give anyone who reads this entire post a free copy of my latest release, Breaking Glass, no strings attached. Tell me your preferred format, .mobi or .epub, and your e-mail address and I'll send you a copy of the e-book. You may use the “Contact Eden” form at top right, or post a comment below.

4th of July Blog Hop! Win an Amazon G!ft Card, Soft Sounds of Pleasure

Welcome to my stop on the 4th of July Blog Hop!

One lucky commenter will receive a $5 gift card from Amazon US, and another will win an e-book copy of my latest release, Soft Sounds of Pleasure, the first book in the series Those Devilish De Marco Men.

"Who are the De Marco men?" you ask. They're three delicious, dark-haired brothers who operate a family garage. Men so hot and hard-bodied that women in the small southern town where they  live  have been known to disable their own cars just for the pleasure of watching one of these three bend over their engines. Their mother walked out on the family when they were small, so each brother has some sort of, shall we say, commitment issue?

Daniel, the oldest, is the one in charge, partly because of birthright, but mostly because Dan's a natural Dom. He's thirty-six and still single because if he has to settle for vanilla sex, he'll go without. In Book 2, Wildly Inappropriate, due out this fall, Daniel finds not only the woman who tempts him to do something wildly inappropriate in order to have her, but learns the shocking answer to the question of why their mother abandoned them as children. 

Eric is the jokester and the brother who's dated every woman in town. His love life is best described as hit-and-run. He's so sure women will abandon him the way his mother did, he's always the first one out the door. Dan and Colton tease him a lot, and Eric plays the clown to hide his lingering hurt at being left behind with a father who became bitter and angry. Eric's going to find a woman he cannot run from, in Incidental Contact.

But right now, I'd like you to meet Colton, the youngest. Now twenty-nine, he's had a serious thing for forty-year-old, married Lila Walker ever since he was nineteen. When Colton learns her husband has died, he's prepared to do whatever it takes to convince Lila he can be more than her boy toy. He has a few obstacles. You see, their youngest sister Sarah has been killed and her son Jonah has come to live with Colton, since Sarah was never married and no one--not even Daniel-- knows who Jonah's father is.

When he's not sulking, Jonah wants to play baseball. Lila's only son Charlie played baseball. He even won the state championship before he joined the Marine Corps, so Colton hopes Lila can make room in her heart not only for him, but for the orphaned child that is making life miserable  at the moment . And to hell with the fact that everyone in town thinks Lila hasn't mourned Pete long enough. Colton's decided ten years is long enough to wait to get his hands on the woman of his dreams. 

Blurb:

Colton wants a home run with Lila. The bases are loaded against him: one foul nephew, one ogre-in-law, and Lila's loyal heart won't let Colton pinch-hit for her late husband. With the whole town keeping score, it's Game On.

Click here to read Chapter One.

"So, how do I win?" you ask.

This series has four books. 

Since there are only three brothers:
1. Leave a comment guessing which character (mentioned above) is the focus of Book Four  

2. AND a valid e-mail address.
It's that simple.

Winner will be chosen via the Draw Straws online application, and the link to the results will be posted here. In round 1, I'll enter every commenter's name, and draw a winner for the $5 Amazon gift card. In Round 2, every remaining name will be re-entered, EXCEPT the winner of the card. So, two chances to win!
This is a huge blog hop, so don't miss visiting each author for more Amazon cards, more books and more fun! Click here to return to the host blog which will list every participating author and the prize they're offering.

Happy 4th of July! 


 ****Winner Announcement****
Grand Prize winner and recipient of the $5 Amazon gift card is Brandi Slater! Congratulations, Brandi, your gift card is on its way to your posted e-mail address. (link to the drawing results).
2nd prize winner of an e-book copy of Soft Sounds of Pleasure was Lisa! (link to drawing results) 
Additionally, everyone who guessed JONAH and who returns to check the results will be awarded a prize simply by e-mailing me to ask for it. Use the 'e-mail the author' link posted on the side bar.
Many thanks to all who dropped by to participate. I had a great time reading your guesses, and hope you all had a marvelous 4th of July.

NNP Anniversary Blog Hop

Congratulations to Miss Gina Kincaid and the entire Naughty Nights Press crew for their first year. I'm fortunate enough to count myself among their authors, and delighted to participate in their First Anniversary Blog Hop! As part of the festivities, I'll be giving two random commenters a copy of my latest e-book release, Soft Sounds of Pleasure. All you need do for a chance to win is leave a comment and an e-mail address. Winner will be chosen at the end of the hop by the Draw Straws online application, and the link to the result will be posted. I will notify the winner via e-mail, so be sure to leave one along with your 'hello'. That's all you have to do, easy enough, huh? 

Quickie Blurb: Colton wants a home run with Lila. The bases are loaded against him: one foul nephew, one ogre-in-law, and Lila's loyal heart won't let Colton pinch-hit for her late husband. With the whole town keeping score, it's Game On.

Full Blurb: Lila Walker has batted lead-off in Colton De Marco's fantasies for years, and now that he's stumbled upon her sunbathing in the nude, he decides to take his best swing.

Coping with her ogre-in-law, her inability to collect her late husband's life insurance, and the knowledge the entire town's counting the days she wears widow's weeds, Lila decides some between-the-sheets batting practice is just the distraction she needs—even if their sexy scrimmage won't last the summer.

But is she missing Colton's signals that he's in it to win it? And can Colton knock it out of the park with the attractive widow before his thirteen-year-old nephew's foul attitude gets him thrown out of the game?

Read Chapter One here.


Be sure and visit the other thirty-five participating authors for chances to win other great prizes. The host for this Hop, NNP is giving away  thirteen (13!) total prizes, including a Grand Prize of a Kindle Fire with two e-books from their Amazon back list, along with twelve second place prizes of a randomly-chosen e-book, also from their Amazon back list. This link will take you to the NNP host blog, where you will be able to comment for a chance to win, as well as find links to the other participant's blogs.  Thanks so much for dropping in, and Happy First Anniversary NNP! Here's to many more naughty nights together.

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WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT: It's just past midnight at my house, and the winners have been chosen! Here's the link to the first Draw Straws selection, and congratulations to Book Addict. On the second draw (link to results) the winner was bn 100! I'll be sending you ladies your copy of Soft Sounds of Pleasure in just a few minutes. Thanks to all those who dropped in and especially to those who commented.  :)