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Guest Blogger: Delilah Devlin
Guilty Pleasures
I have a few. I bet you do too. Guilty pleasures are things that give you pleasure that you’d be embarrassed to admit. I’ll show you mine if you’ll show me yours.
First, I have many TV-related guilty pleasures. Like, I’ll watch anything Bruce Campbell is in, however cheesy. He has this wicked glint in his eye like he’s telling us a joke in every role he plays and I laugh. LOVED him in Xena, loved him Army of Darkness toting that chainsaw as he played hero, and I adore him in Burn Notice.
Next, I love The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron. It’s a cartoon that even the four-year-old doesn’t like because Dora and her cousin Diego aren’t anywhere in it. I love how smart it is, how adult the humor. And I love how it fires my imagination.
Last, I have to admit a love for Sci-Fi channel movies. Again, I could care less how cheesy or how bad the special effects are. I’ll sit through every minute and often watch them several times over. In fact, the cheesier the more I enjoy them.
What other guilty pleasures will I admit to? Office supplies. Some women go orgasmic over shoes or lingerie—for me it’s post-its, notepads, and funky pens (again, the cheese factor is the key!).
All right, I showed you mine…your turn!
If you didn’t already know it, I have a new release today. Sin’s Gift will be available today at Ellora’s Cave. You can read an excerpt at my website and I promise to post a juicy sex scene on my blog for your reading pleasure. Here’s what it’s all about:
Police Officer Sinead O’Rourke returns to duty months after being shot in an incident that also claimed her partner, Danny. Despite being cleared of any negligence, Sin knows her fellow officers wonder whether she’s partially responsible for his death, that maybe she didn’t do her job. One more problem is that everyone knows she claims she’s seen Danny. After months of rehabilitation and counseling, and lying like hell about the fact she’s not seeing spooks anymore, Sin’s determined to get back into the saddle. But her first day back in the patrol call, Sin sees something more horrifying than the ghost of her dead partner and enters a deadly new world.
Get in bed with Delilah…Everyone else has!
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Seduced by Darkness – “…The electrifying follow-up to Into the Darkness is a breathless read…” – An RT Top Pick! Avon RED
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http://www.delilahdevlin.com/
Guest Blogger: Jess Dee
Jess Dee blog for Selena
Ask Adam
Oh, Selena… {{{{Big Hugs}}}}
Thank you for inviting me back, and giving me this opportunity to shamelessly promote my book, Ask Adam.
Since I have (shamelessly) promoted here before, I won’t bore you all with my bio details. But if you are a little interested, you could just check out my previous mail at… http://selenaillyriasthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/03/author-spotlight-jess-dee.html
I am happy to tell you that since last I was here, Photo Opportunity has been released at Samhain Publishing. So, now, Photo Opportunity and Ask Adam are together as a series — as they were always intended to be! WAHOO.
Photo Op is Book 1 in the Tanner Sibling Series, Ask Adam is Book 2. Here is the blurb for Ask Adam, followed by a very steamy excerpt.
PLEASE, don’t read it if you are under 18. It’s simply not appropriate.
ASK ADAM:
Can one wild night of passion turn into the romance of a lifetime?
Lexi Tanner’s got a major problem: AJ Riley, the man she’s about to approach for a hefty donation, turns out to be the stranger she shared a night of steamy sex with less than a week past. She’ll do anything to raise money for a children’s charity-anything except sell herself. Now how can she ask AJ for money without it seeming like he’s paying for sexual favors?
If there’s one thing the past has taught Adam “AJ” Riley, it’s that loving someone can only lead to pain. He knows he shouldn’t feel so attracted to Lexi, and he definitely shouldn’t trust a woman who’d sleep with a man one week and approach him for money the next. Yet somehow Lexi breaks through all his barriers. His instincts tell him to run but his heart wants to give Lexi-and love-a second chance. How can he let go of his tragic past and still protect his battered heart?
Warning, this title contains the following: steamy sex, graphic language and red-hot romance.
An excerpt from Ask Adam:
“What is with you?” she snapped. “Throwing testosterone around like some kind of an animal. Are you on a mission to insult everyone you speak to today? Or is this some kind of twisted attempt to trap me in a lift alone with you? Again?”
Okay, so she was as aware of the irony of their surroundings as he was. It didn’t help his head any.
“Was once not enough?” she seethed. “Is this how you prove your male domination? By trapping unsuspecting women in elevators?”
“Just one woman,” he corrected her. “And you knew exactly what was coming.” And damned if it wasn’t going to come again. Yeah, she may be all fired up and pissed off. She was also turned on. He’d spent enough intimate time with her to recognize the look in her eyes when she became aroused. Besides, her nipples were hard beads poking through her shirt.
She glowered at him with smoky, hooded eyes.
A fine trickle of perspiration ran down his spine. He had a hard-on and a killer headache, and he wasn’t sure which hurt more.
She bit her lower lip.
“Shit, woman,” he gasped and backed her into the wall. Before she had a chance to resist, he kissed her.
There was nothing tender about his kiss. It was brutal, dragging a response from her even as she beat her fists against his arms. He didn’t want to relish the jolt of desire in his stomach, or the now familiar pull in his chest. Her resistance appealed even less. He increased the intensity of the kiss, pushing his tongue past her lips, rediscovering the velvety depth of her mouth.
Although her wild flailing continued, her punches weakened until she no longer hit him at all. Instead, she grabbed at him. First his arms and then his waist, and then his hips.
He didn’t want to respond to her. He didn’t want to feel anything, except maybe her naked body against his. His head throbbed. He should just have stayed the hell away from her.
No, he shouldn’t have.
Her hands found his ass and molded themselves to it as her mouth hungrily responded to his. This was no loving kiss. This was a fierce battle of wills. Neither of them wanted to be there, neither could stay away. Her tongue tortured his mouth with its violent counterattack. Nothing had felt as good in three long days.
He wasn’t close enough. Had to get closer, had to pull her, full length, against him. She beat him to it. Grabbing his shoulders, she shimmied against the wall and, using them both for leverage, hoisted her hips up to meet his as she wrapped her legs around his waist.
Better. At least now she was massaging herself on his cock. She rocked against him and he thickened and grew beneath her movements. She groaned into his mouth and he responded by nicking her tongue with his teeth.
The layers of clothing between them only heightened his sense of the forbidden. He shouldn’t be doing this. She was trouble. The thought didn’t stop him from kissing her. She was aroused and he was hard, and she was bucking wildly against him, making soft mewling sounds that echoed in his stomach and his heart.
God help him, she had him so hot, so aroused, that if they carried on this way, he’d lose it right here in the slowly descending lift. Fully clothed.
Even as he thought it, her legs stiffened around him. She cried out, stilled completely, and just like that, she climaxed.
Her body shuddered and shook in his arms, and she panted in his ear, the warm uneven puffs of air tickling his neck. He held her tight as she slowed to erratic shivers, knowing that if she groaned so much as once, he’d come too. He was so close. So bloody close. There was little to no chance of holding out. Hearing her voice her satisfaction would do him in completely.
Focus on the headache. Suffer the pain. It was a vague tickle compared to the throbbing in his cock.
The lift dinged.
Her horrified gasp gave him the control he so desperately needed.
“Close your eyes,” he ordered as common sense returned in a rush. “Relax your neck, drop your head back and for Christ sake, trust me.”
Ask Adam is now available from My Bookstore and More:
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Selena Illyria’s Guest Author Day
I have the honor of being a guest author on Marilyn Lee’s Love Bites Yahoo Loop, tomorrow, Jan 05, 2008. To check it out, you must be a member. You can sign up here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/adultconf?dest=%2Fgroup%2Fmarilynlee%2Fjoin
Please be on the look out for Celia Kyle and Shara Cooper’s Guest Author Days on the Loop later on this month. See you there. If you can’t make it, don’t worry, I’ll be posting the excerpts I’m using on my blog as well as The Pink Chair Diaries Group and Seductive Secrets Group. Hugs all around.
Selena