Saturday, April 16, 2016

book blitz for BOSSMAN by USA Today Bestselling author Renee Rose

Bossman
by: Renee Rose
Bossman, #1
Publication Date: March 10, 2014
Genre: Adult, BDSM, Contemporary Romance, Mafia, Organized Crime

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Synopsis: From USA TODAY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR RENEE ROSE…

The Don’s brother.

The girl who swore off all mafia ties.

Sophie steered clear of the mafia after her father’s involvement ended with his murder. Fifteen years later, Joey La Torre, the Don’s brother himself, shows up unannounced at her massage studio and wheedles his way into a date. She has no interest in aggressive, macho men like Joey, or so she tries to tell herself, but her body just doesn’t get the message. When Joey takes her in hand with a firm bare-bottomed spanking, she ought to be furious, instead, she’s aroused. As she explores her physical desires to be dominated, she tries to keep Joey at arm’s length emotionally.

Joey knows he wants Sophie for keeps from the moment he walks into her life. She is hot, classy and full of fire, even though submission turns her on. But his involvement in the mafia is a hard limit for her, bringing to conflict his own dedication to the Family, the code of silence and his relationship with his older brother. Can he reconcile his duty to the organization and his growing need for Sophie to remain in his life permanently?

**DON'T MISS THE REST OF THE BOOKS IN THE BOSSMAN SERIES...**

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Synopsis: When hair stylist Lexi Tyler finds herself evicted from her apartment, her best friend sets her up with the mobster Bobby Manghini, knowing he likes to play sugar daddy. He offers her a luxury apartment overlooking the city and spending cash every time he sees her, but one thing is clear: he is the bossman.

Lexi soon discovers Bobby backs up his rules with firm, over the knee discipline, but he also takes responsibility for all her problems, giving her more support than she ever dreamed of having from a man

Mobster Bobby Manghini likes to be the man in control, particularly with women, which is why he prefers a mistress for sex, even though he’s no longer married. When he strikes a deal with Lexi to be at his beck and call, he finds in her the full package -- a hot, intelligent woman who is turned on by his dominance and willing to submit to his punishment. But when she finds out he doesn’t have a wife, she is hurt by the deception and severs all ties.

Can he prove to her their relationship meant more than a business arrangement? Or will he lose the one woman willing to give him everything he ever desired?

Publisher’s Note: This book contains spanking, anal sex and hot scenes that may keep you up late reading.

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Synopsis: Temptation is too sweet when the don’s daughter offers her full submission, but when her father finds out, he’ll probably wind up swimming with the fishes.

Giving control of her body to Carlo Romano, underboss to her father, was dangerous. More dangerous than her hair-brained idea to take off her clothes at a strip club as a form of sex therapy. But the temptation outweighed the risk. Carlo made her feel sexy, alive and appealing, feelings she’d scarcely known after two years with her cheating and demoralizing ex-boyfriend.

Carlo couldn’t believe Summer — the don’s daughter — was dancing half-naked on the stage of a strip club. Nor could he believe she suggested he’d be the one to take a belt to her ass and set her straight. But he’d had a thing for Summer since the day he moved in with her family, fresh off a plane from Sicily. He couldn’t walk away from the opportunity to get up-close and intimate, and show her his dominant side.

Still, Summer may not be ready for a new relationship, and even if she is, there was the not-so-small matter of what her parents would say — her father would probably want to kill Carlo if he found out he’d seen her naked...

ABOUT RENEE ROSE

USA Today Bestselling Author Renee Rose is a naughty wordsmith who writes BDSM and spanking romance novels. Named Eroticon USA’s Next Top Erotic Author in 2013, she has also won The Romance Reviews Best Historical Romance, and Spanking Romance Reviews‘ Best Historical, Best Erotic, Best Ageplay and favorite author. She’s hit #1 on Amazon in the Erotic Paranormal and Sci-fi categories in the U.S. and U.K., is often found on the list of Amazon’s Top 100 Erotic Authors and is a regular columnist for Write Sex Right. She also pens BDSM stories under the name Darling Adams.

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Friday, April 15, 2016

Virtual Book Tour for Queen of Likes by Hillary Homzie

Queen of Likes

by Hillary Homzie

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GENRE: middle grade / tween contemporary fiction

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BLURB:

Like everyone at Merton Middle School, Karma Cooper’s smartphone is almost another body part. She’s obsessed with her LIKES on Snappypic. When her parents shut down her social media account and take away her smartphone, Karma’s whole world crumbles. She has to figure out what she actually likes and how to live life fully unplugged. This book will jumpstart conversations about how social media is changing the ways tweens are growing up.

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Excerpt Two:

“So we’re come up with a new punishment,” says Dad. “Something that will get your attention.”

Dad looks at Mom and Mom looks at Dad and I can tell that they are a united front against me. “We’re going to close your Snappypic account,” states Dad.

“What?” My stomach dips as if I’ve just dropped from highest part of a roller coaster. I want to flop against the nearest car in the parking lot. “You can’t do that. It’s my account. It’s private. You can’t.” Every day, I get smiley faces and hearts and balloons and LIKES. All of the time. Waking up and not being able to se what my followers are up to? Being totally cut off like that? My parents might as well send me to Antarctica because I’m going to be frozen out of everything. “This must be some kind of hallucination,” I say. “The parents I know would never do this to me!”

“Karma, I’m sorry,” says Mom. “But I think you are over-reacting. You knew the rules.”

“Please.” I clasp my hands together. “Please, please. Please. I’ll do anything. I’ll babysit Toby as much as you want. I’ll clean the house every single day. I’ll make dinner I’ll—”

“It’s a final decision,” says Dad.

“But I’m like… a professional. I have more followers than some companies.”

“Exactly our point, Karma,” says Mom. “You’re not a company. You’re our daughter and still a kid. And I don’t really love this obsession of yours.”

The parking lot is practically spinning. “You just don’t want me to grow up!”

I fling up my arms. “Please,” I beg. “Don’t do this.”

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Hillary is the author of the tween novel, THE HOT LIST (Simon & Schuster/M!X) which Booklist says “captures the angst of young teen friendships and fragile identities.” She’s also the author of the middle grade novel, THINGS ARE GONNA GET UGLY (Simon & Schuster/M!X), a Justice Book-of-the-Month, which was just optioned by Priority Pictures, and the forthcoming QUEEN OF LIKES (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin M!X, April 2016), which is about social media, as well as the humorous chapter book series, ALIEN CLONES FROM OUTER SPACE (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin), a Children's Book-of-the-Month Best Books for Children. Emmy-nominated Suppertime Entertainment developed the books to become an animated television series and it was sold to ABC Australia. Hillary’s young adult fiction has been published in TEEN MAGAZINE and anthologized (MUDDVILLE DIARIES, Avon Books). She has sold non-fiction and fiction projects to Klutz Press/Scholastic Books, The Learning Company and John Muir Books. With her frequent writing partner, Steven Arvanites, she has had film projects developed by Brooklyn Weaver’s Energy Entertainment. Hillary got her start performing and writing sketch comedy Off-Broadway, and was a Heideman Playwrighting Award Finalist. Hillary holds a master's degree in education from Temple University and a master’s of arts degree from Hollins University in children's literature and writing. Currently, she’s a visiting professor of children’s literature and writing at Hollins University.

http://www.hillaryhomzie.com

Twitter http://www.twitter.com/HillaryHomzie

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hillary.homzie

Queen of Likes buy Links:

http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Likes-mix-Hillary-Homzie/dp/1481445219

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/queen-of-likes-hillary-homzie/1122088367

http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781481445214

http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9781481445214

A link to the song QUEEN OF LIKES which was written just for the book. It’s a wonderful song. Here’s that link: https://soundcloud.com/ari-eisenberg/queen-of-likes

Book Video: https://youtu.be/dDoojO03TVg

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Hillary Homzie, author of Queen of Likes Interview for T’s Stuff

As a kid did you write or make up stories?

As a kid I definitely fell into the make up stories camp. I made up stories while playing with dolls. They were all plastic but the kind with real-ish hair. One day my mom gave me an antique porcelain doll to play with. She was beautiful in this gorgeous wedding dress. And I decided the other dolls were jealous and they took the fancy doll to the top of the stairs and pushed her down and she smashed into a thousand pieces. Usually, when I played things didn’t end up like this but I remember playing make-believe in a way where sometimes reality and pretend blurred (obviously). My mother learned not to give me antiques to play with after that. Most often, I played pretend out in the woods behind my house, or with paper dolls I’d make or with my Barbies.

Where does most of your character inspiration come from?

It’s an amalgamation. I don’t actually steal someone’s personality and put it on the page. Instead, I might take a little bit of this from some childhood friend, or a little bit of that from one of my kids and a lot of that from myself. It’s a mash-up sort of deal.

Do some qualities of your characters come from real people?
Well, aspects, definitely. For example, Auggie in Queen of Likes plays the uke and my middle son plays the uke (quite well, actually). He’s a singer-songerwriter and he’s the one who plays the music in the book trailer for the book. He’s also the lead singer of the alt-rock band Secure the Sun, which gigs all around the Bay area. Karma’s little brother LOVES Legos and my youngest son also loves Legos, although now that he turned 11 his Lego days are much less frequent. He’s morphed into making funny Youtube videos.

What was the inspiration for your book?

Well, I noticed how my teen sons would discuss how many likes they were getting on, let’s say, Instagram (although with Instagram it’s hearts but it’s the same idea). And they’d be competitive about it. I realized how aware they were of how many likes were being generated and comparing themselves to others. And I went, aha—what if someone, a 12-year-old girl got really obsessed? What if she suddenly developed a lot of followers and her self-worth was all about how things were going on her social media account? And what if she posted things not because she liked them but because it would generate likes? How would she be affected if her parents took away her phone and cut off her social media accounts? Wow, I thought, now there’s a story!

What is your favorite spot to write?

In my office, for sure. I like to have an ergonomic set-up so I don’t develop any yucky writerly symptoms like carpal tunnel. And I’m one of those people who prefers to write in total silence. So no, play lists for me. Now, if I’m doing a writing exercise sometimes I like to take pen to paper, but in general I’m writing on my Mac in my office.

What advice would you give budding writers?

Read, read, read. Write regularly. Read craft books. Develop a support system by finding critique partners. Join writerly organizations. Read blogs like this! Take a writing class. I teach in a summer MFA program—Hollins University Graduate Program in Children’s Literature, Writing and Illustration, which I highly recommend. It’s six weeks every summer (all of July and the first two weeks of June). In addition, I teach online (interactive e-course) for the Children’s Book Academy. Another great spot for writing course! Also, write what you would like to read yourself.

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Book Blitz for: The Passage, a Dance, and a Little White Dress by Kristin D. Van Risseghem

Audio Tour for Sincerely, Carter by Whitney G.

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Sincerely, Carter
by Whitney G.
Publication Date: April 29, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Friends to Lovers

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Just friends.We’re just friends.

No, really. She’s just my best friend…

Arizona Turner has been my best friend since fourth grade, even when we “hated” each other. We’ve been there for one another through first kisses, first “times,” and we’ve been each other’s constant when good relationships turned bad. (We even went to colleges that were minutes away from each other…)

Throughout the years, and despite what anyone says, we’ve never crossed the line.

Never thought about it.

Never wanted to.

Until one night changed everything.

At least, it should’ve …

Just friends.

We’re just friends.

I’m only saying this until I figure out if she’s still “just” my best friend…

My Review:
This is a story about 2 people who were mortal enemies until 1 day in the 4th grade when they became best friends. Now as they are about to graduate from college they are still best friends. They have seen each other through the boy friends and the girl friends, and are more like brother and sister then just friends. On Day Carter is in a car with some friends waiting on Arizona to come and get in. As he watches her walk towards the car he sees her in a whole different. He doesn't say anything but thoughts begin to run through his mind. Later on that day as Arizona is standing in the store waiting to be waited on she glances out the window and finds herself seeing Carter in a whole new light as well. Neither know the others thought at the minute. Can best friends for most of their lives, someone who knows every secret you have, become that one true love you have been looking for?

This is a pretty good story. I like the way the story kept moving, instead of getting stagnant and dragging. Something seemed to be new with each chapter. Whitney Garcia Williams has done a very good job with this story. Joseph Discher and Jennifer O'Donnell done an amazing job bringing the story and character alive with their narration of the book. You could definitely feel the mood through the timbre of their voices.

About Whitney G.

A self diagnosed candy addict, travel junkie, and hypochondriac, Whitney Gracia Williams LOVES to write about characters that make you laugh, cry, and want to (in the case of Claire Gracen) reach through your Kindle and slap them.

She is the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of Reasonable Doubt,the Mid Life Love Series, the Jilted Bride Series, the My Last Resolution Series, Wasted Love, and Captain of My Soul.

When she’s not locked inside her room, feverishly typing away on her laptop.

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Tour for Yours Truly, 2095 by Brian Paone

Yours Truly, 2095

by Brian Paone

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GENRE: Time Travel Romance

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BLURB:

Jeff Blue - the victim of a time-travel conspiracy - wakes up trapped in the year 2095. The only familiar face is J0, a robotic copy of the wife he left behind in 1981. But can she be trusted? J0 could be the only key to unlock Jeff's journey home, but it will require her to do something against her programming , something human.

During Jeff's perilous journey through the future, he will have to discover the truth about J0's origins, and solve the mystery behind how he wound up in 2095, in order to uncover the reality of his own destiny.

Armed with a one-way ticket to the moon, Jeff must race against the clock to seize what might be his last chance to return home to his time. A time without hover cars, Justice Computers, or TeleSkins - a time over 100 years ago.

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EXCERPTS (Exclusive Excerpt):

When we turned down West Winter Street from Laredo Avenue, I was anxious since I knew we were going to have to drive past my old house. I didn’t want to show the same emotions I had earlier. The sun was setting by that point, and the sky was a pretty shade of pink and orange.

“Look at that sunset,” J0 said. “You don’t see that too often in the winter.”

Winter. Right. I had to remind myself it is the end of February here in 2095, not the end of June like in 1981. “Yeah. It rained so hard today. How often does it rain instead of snow this time of year?”

“It has been unseasonably warm the last few weeks,” she replied.

We drove past 242 West Winter Street. I tried to catch a fleeting glimpse of the house again out of the corner of my eye, even though I was conscious that J0 was somehow detecting any attention I paid to the property. Convinced that she was able to read my mind, I forced my eyes to turn back to the road in front of us.

We continued down West Winter Street for a few more moments, and J0 slowed the hover car. We descended to park it in front of house 929. I got out first and noticed the white mailbox on the small strip of plastic grass in between the curb and the sidewalk. Just as J0 had reported, Kaminski was stenciled in black calligraphy on the side.

“Do you want to look around outside?” J0 asked. “Should we knock? It looks like they’re home.”

She motioned to the driveway. It was crowded with parked hover cars.

“It looks like they’re having a party. I wouldn’t want to disturb them. Maybe we should go.”

This felt like a bad idea already. I stepped over a row of plastic flowers that lined the walkway as J0 walked around the front of the hover car and stood on the sidewalk. I had the sudden urge to look into one of the house’s windows. I wanted to catch a glimpse of the family who had bought this house from my great-great-grandson before he built J0 and bounced me into 2095. I placed my hands on a windowsill that led into a brightly lit room inside and peered in.

“What are you doing?” J0 yelled, startling me. “You look like a prowler! Either take a look from a safe distance or ring the bell. They’ll remember you. It’s only been a few years.”

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Brian Paone was born and raised in the Salem, Massachusetts area. An award winning author, his love of writing began through the medium of short stories at the young age of twelve. After almost 20 years of consistently writing short stories for only his friends and family to read, Brian's first full-length novel was published in 2007, and he has published two more since then. Brian is married to an Officer in the US Navy, and they have 3 children. Brian is a Police Officer for the St. Mary's GA Police Department and has been working in Law Enforcement since 2002. He is also a self-proclaimed roller coaster junkie, and his favorite color is burnt-orange.

www.BrianPaone.com

www.facebook.com/BrianPaonesNovels

@PaoneBrian

Links to buy:

www.BrianPaone.com/yours-truly-2095 (personal)

http://www.amazon.com/Yours-Truly-2095-Brian-Paone-ebook/dp/B00YFLORGS/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 (Amazon

http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Yours-Truly-2095-Audiobook/B00ZJJHYVA/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1453389160&sr=1-1 (audible)

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Just Peachy cover reveal

Hi, I’m Desreé Shaw. I’m a self-made woman and the new owner of Shaw Mile High Ranch and Orchards. I’m a bona-fide shoe whore, lover of cowboys, kink and karma. Come for a visit. I’ll supply the rope.

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Just Peachy
by T.J. Michaels

Series
A Twilight Teahouse Story

Genre
Erotic Contemporary Romance

Publisher
Bent West

Publication Date
May 17, 2016

The Twilight Teahouse Series
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About T.J. Michaels

USA Today and New York Times bestseller, T.J. Michaels, is also an award-winning author of several romance genres, including paranormal, fantasy, sci-fi and urban fantasy romance.

No matter the genre TJ is penning, her favorite thing to do is build worlds. To take you somewhere extraordinary. To transport you to a place where you can close your eyes and slip into your fantasy...

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