Sapphic Planet Blog Tour
Sapphic Planet Blog Tour April 23 – May 4
Our Sapphic Planet Blog Tour starts on Monday!
For two weeks, authors from the Sapphic Planet anthology of erotic lesbian stories will entertain you Monday through Friday with blog posts and tantalizing excerpts. You can read more about the tour at http://www.writermarketing.co.uk/prpromotion/blog-tours/currently-on-tour/sapphic-planet/ .
Comment on any of our posts to enter the drawing for your own free download of Sapphic Planet – the more posts you comment on, the greater your chances to win!
Here’s the schedule:
23rd April: http://www.koolqueerlit.com  Kissa Starling
24th April:Â http://vampiriquedezire.blogspot.com/Â Â Ann Cory
25th April:Â http://lisafoxromance.wordpress.com/Â Â Dalia Craig
26th April: http://galestanley.blogspot.com  Nan Andrews
27th April:Â http://www.erinoriordan.blogspot.com/Â Â Adriana Kraft
30th April:Â http://savannahchase.com/blog/Â Â Meg Leigh
1st May: http://kdgrace.co.uk  Ann Cory
2nd May: http://www.sexyreads.co.uk  Dalia Craig
3rd May:Â http://kaceyskonnections.blogspot.com/Â Â Nan Andrews
4th May: http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk   Adriana Kraft
Dreams and Sexuality
I found this fabulous new book at the store yesterday. It helps you interpret your sexual dreams and figure out why you fantasize about various things. I love the small quizzes it contains and plan to take everyone of them myself. Have you ever noticed that men get kind of touchy about sexual dreams or questions? Or is that simply my impression?
There are some interesting pictures in this book as well. I’m going to share a small part of one quiz on sexual intimacy on my group today. Drop by and share your thoughts or feel free to post them here. Keep in mind that there is a difference between the actual act of sex and the act of intimacy. Which comes first for you? Which do you prefer or believe you do better at?
Inspiration
Allison Merritt aka Awesome Guest Blogger!
Many, many moons ago when I was a wee lass of thirteen I did something stupid and broke my arm during summer vacation.
Shot from the womb with a mad desire to read, I started reading romance novels at a young age. Well, okay, about a year before I broke my arm. The library was my best friend. The circulation clerks at the library probably rolled their eyes every time they saw me come in. Which, not having a driver’s license, was not nearly as frequently as I would’ve liked. I could devour ten novels in a week easily. Let’s go back to the broken appendage. It was summer, my mom could drive, but didn’t very often and my dad worked days. Knowing what a klutz I am, they forbade me to go very far from the house. I used to climb all over our hill, so this was a bummer. Not one to watch a lot of TV, I read constantly. The book pile dwindled and I was left eyeballing a stack of my dad’s Louis L’Amour novels. Which, after a long debate with myself about how I didn’t want to read westerns, I proceeded to devour them, just like the romance novels.
There’s something about primitive, lawlessness that I can totally relate to. Perhaps it’s the romantic notions movies and books instilled in my brain that savagery is noble in its own way. That America was built on the sweaty brows of our fore bearers, who were the strong silent type of people filled with passionate love. Thus my love of westerns was born. And even Louis wasn’t abject to a good love story.
I stopped writing for about five years. There were so many changes in my life, I couldn’t think of a story to save my life. When I jumped back on the writing horse, I decided I wanted to write a historical romance. So I did. And then I wrote another, which I didn’t finish, but that’s not the point. Then I did something bizarre and so like me that it’s a wonder it hasn’t crashed and burned, because I am notorious for doing weird things and then moving on to the next weird thing in a blur.
I wrote a steampunk romance novel. About two people who are polar opposites (or so they believe at first), trying to find a magical jewel to save the lives of those near and dear to them. And I loved every second of it, effectively ruining my taste for historical facts as I pounded out words that created a new world full of airships and electromagnetic coil guns. Yes, they can figure out electromagnetics, but not electricity. And your point is…?
I did write another western-esque novella after the steampunk one. Except I decided to make it a romance/horror story and used some nasty creatures called boo hags to spice it up. They only tried to kill the heroine two or three times. That is as close to traditional historical romance as I’ve gotten in two years. I missed the boat. But I found a ride on a dirigible and I haven’t looked back.
A loss for the historical romance world? Maybe. A gain for the steampunk romance genre? I hope so. But I’m happy with my chosen genre. It’s silly and adventurous in a way that’s not possible in historical romance. I just finished writing the second book in my steampunk series and hopefully will have the third finished before the year is out. After that. . . well, I’m thinking about revising that historical romance/horror.
Blurb:
For years, Romy Farrington traveled at her world-famous archeologist father’s side, exploring new lands and uncovering ancient secrets. It was everything she ever wanted, until a near-fatal encounter with hostile natives forced her and her father into a life of retirement in Boston and an undesired advance into proper society.
Everything changes again when she’s saved from an accident by a brash Texan in a back alley. Abel Courte may act like a care-free cowboy, but he’s harboring a secret—he’s searching for the Diamond of Uktena, a legendary jewel that can cure any disease known to man. He needs information Romy’s father has in order to get to the jewel. When he traces the origin of the Diamond to Dakota Territory, he sets off to claim the treasure, only to find the archeologist’s fiery redheaded daughter stuck to him like a bug in sap.
In a race against time, Romy and Abel must learn to trust each other as they undertake a cross-country journey that will expose them to lands uncharted by white men, a deadly battle against the fearsome creature in possession of the Diamond and a fight to return to civilization where they might make the greatest discovery of all—love.
Buy Link
Bio:
A life-long love of reading turned Allison Merritt into an indie author who writes historical, paranormal and fantasy romances, often combining the sub-genres. She lives in a small town in the Ozark Mountains with her husband and dogs. When she’s not writing or reading, she hikes in national parks and conservation areas.
Allison graduated from College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri with a B.A. in mass communications that’s gathering dust after it was determined that she’s better at writing fluff than hard news.
Social networks:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/allison_merritt
Facebook: http://facebook.com/allisonmwrites
Blog: http://havenovelwilledit.blogspot.com
Sapphic Planet Anthology Released as an ebook today!
Sapphic Planet Anthology is released as an ebook! Check it out on Amazon
February 20th: Reader’s chat at Night Owl Reviews from 8EST to 9EST
I, along with Beth Wylde, edited this lesbian anthology. It was fun to work in a different role than I usually do. I have a story in this anthology, as does Beth, but we had to edit our own work, each other’s work and many other author’s work. I appreciate my editors so much more, let me tell you. As an author you know what your characters mean and everything about your story and your words, but it isn’t always that clear coming from a reader’s point of view. Luckily we had an awesome group of authors to work with!
Come hear more about how this anthology came about this evening at Night Owl Reviews…
Kindle-Graph- get your autograph today!
Free Kindle Book
Kristen Painter has her book available on Kindle and if you download before Sunday….it’s FREE!
Moonshine Murder
What a great title, right? Two words that drew me in from the get go! Moonshine is something my ancestors, okay maybe a few living right now, knew/know something about. We’ve had two family members get killed running moonshine. Keep in mind that Lookout Mountain, a fast car full of hooch and an angry revenuer don’t mix well. Murder, well heck who doesn’t like a good murder mystery? I’ve loved mysteries since delving into my mother’s collection of Agatha Christie books with a few Nancy Drews on the side.
My mind does dawdle. Back to the novel at hand. Betty Sullivan La Pierre does an excellent job of creating characters that intrigue. A sign of a good book is when you can’t hardly bear to put it down. That was the case with Moonshine Murder. I would read a chapter and mean to go to eat, bathroom, work, etc. but I’d get to the end and keep right on reading. It only took me a few days to read this story in its entirety. The integration of a realistic setting, a fast moving plot and brain tingling cliff hangers kept me enthralled ’til the end. The only problem I have with this series…I don’t have the first 13!
I encourage you to watch the entertaining trailer for this novel:
YouTube
And to buy the book either on Kindle:
Amazon
Or in print- autographed copy from the author’s website:
Betty Sullivan La Pierre
Preditors & Editors Poll for 2011
I’d like to thank every one of you who have already voted for me in one or more of the categories below. I really do appreciate it! Tomorrow is the last day to cast your vote and I urge you to vote in every category regardless of whom you vote for. Of course to make it easier on those who would like to vote for me I’ve included links! : )
Happy Monday to all!!
To Vote for The Last Waltz go here:
http://critters.org/predpoll/shortstoryr.shtml
To Vote for Aidan’s Story go here:
http://critters.org/predpoll/shortstory.shtml
To Vote for Sweet Kisses and Lesbian Wishes go here:
http://critters.org/predpoll/antho.shtml
To Vote for favorite author of 2011 go here:
http://critters.org/predpoll/author.shtml
Kissa Starling
www.kissastarling.com
How men think…
I think my husband made this up because he says I talk all the time. He also says that he told me he loves me when we got married. If anything changes, he’ll let me know! Hahaha. What a man.
