The winners will have a choice of prize – a digital copy of either:

Platinum Passion, a menage erotic romance and the first in my Gods of Love series about the Greek gods of desire and their interactions in modern-day society, or

Pandora’s Gift, a contemporary paranormal erotic romance published by Red Sage.

Platinum Passion is available at:

Amazon | Smashwords | All Romance ebooks | Barnes & Noble |  Diesel

Pandora’s Gift is available at:

Amazon | Red Sage Publishing | Borders | Powells

Roz says –

One of the best things about being a fiction writer is living vicariously through my characters. I won’t lie – it’s a blast putting ideas into the heads of my characters, then following through on them. Believe me, my characters do many things I would never do myself! Isn’t that why we read fiction anyway?

I recently found myself in a wait and see situation with a group of my writer friends. We needed something to pass the time, so I pulled out a little pocket-sized book entitled What Every Woman Should Do Once. As we went through the list of sixty or so things, we had a few laughs, confessing to more than I would have thought, and respectfully declining to answer a few times. I believe we have some potential blackmail material now too, if the need ever arises!

We had such a good time, I thought you might enjoy playing along. There isn’t room to list them all, so I’ve chosen my favorites. I tried to limit myself to only ten, but I just couldn’t!

Things every woman should do once.

1.      Make up an alias. (This was a unanimous one, as you can imagine from a bunch of writers.)

2.      Give someone famous your autograph. (We actually had a couple of takers on this one!)

3.      Dance on top of a bar. (I’m embarrassed to tell you how many said they’d done this.)

4.      Audition for a Broadway show or a TV Reality show. (Yep. Had one of these too!)

5.      Go skydiving. (We all agreed not to jump out of perfectly good airplanes.)

6.      Try on very expensive clothes in a boutique you know you can’t afford. (Sadly, this was unanimous too.)

7.      Talk in a foreign accent all day. (Oh yeah, we’ve done this too!)

8.      Have a three martini lunch, and go back to work refreshed. (Well, we wouldn’t call it refreshed exactly. <grin>)

9.      Wear fake eyelashes and send him come hither looks. (Those with experience reported that trying to keep your eyelids open with all that extra weight could be mistaken for come hither looks. *wink*)

10.  Learn to tango. (Sadly, we only had one taker on this one. I think we need to fix that.)

11.  Kiss a guy from every state. (We weren’t clear if we had to go to each state or if we could kiss ‘em where we found ‘em.)

12.  Try bondage sex. (No, this one wasn’t in the book!!)

Yeah, I added that one because Candace, my heroine in FOUR OF HEARTS, asks her husband to tie her up and sets in motion a series of events that change their lives. It’s a story about the infinity capacity of the human heart to love.

Here’s a blurb and excerpt from book 4 in the Lothario series, FOUR OF HEARTS.

Blurb –

Marriage hasn’t tamed Candace Callahan’s sexual curiosity, something her husband Ryan is grateful for, but when she asks him to tie her up for her anniversary present, he knows he’s going to need the help of their friends, Richard Wolfe and his wife, Fallon.

Dr. Fallon Enright is the resident sex therapist aboard the Lothario – the cruise ship co-owned by her husband and Ryan Callahan. When Ryan asks to participate in one of their couple’s rope bondage classes, Richard isn’t sure it’s a good idea, but Fallon assures him all will be well.

What begins as innocent curiosity, blossoms into a polyamorous relationship none of them could have expected, but they are powerless to ignore. When the tabloids expose their new lifestyle, the foursome must choose between the love they feel for each other, or accepting society’s moral constraints.

Excerpt –

Ryan froze with his lips against the pulse in Candace’s neck. His erection surged with new vigor against her stomach. Why couldn’t his wife ask for something easy for their anniversary? Something like diamonds, a villa in France, hell, even an expedition to the North Pole. The image in his brain coalesced, and he knew he would give her whatever she wanted.

“You want me to tie you up?” he asked as soon as he found his voice.

“Don’t even try to tell me it doesn’t excite you.” Candace wiggled her soft mound against his cock. “I felt that.”

He had no intention of denying his interest. Only a fool would, and Ryan Callahan was no fool. He continued his exploration of his wife’s creamy soft skin, all the while forming and reforming the new image in his head. His lips left her neck, slipped to her shoulder where he tasted every inch of skin, before angling lower toward the perfect swell of her breasts. His hands held hers pinned flat on either side of her head. He’d tied her hands once, when he’d spirited her away from the Lothario and onto the Vixen, but that had been role-playing more than anything else. He was pretty sure she had something more in mind. He hoped to God she did.

Her request shouldn’t have been a surprise. She’d spent a lot of time lately talking to his best friend’s wife. Rope bondage was Fallon’s new research topic, and a passion shared with her husband Richard. Ryan inched his way lower, and teased one nipple to a marble hard peak with his tongue, before taking it in his mouth. Candace drew in a sharp breath and arched her back, encouraging him to suck harder. He obliged his wife.

His wife. The moniker still sent a thrill through his body every time he thought, or said the word. Candace Callahan. His wife. God, what a wondrous thing that was. For nearly a year, she’d been his constant companion, his lover, his…everything. Before he met Candace, he’d been lost and alone, searching for something he couldn’t name. Now it had a name. Love.

“Well?” Candace prodded on a gasp as Ryan switched breasts, sucking the poor, neglected one in his mouth without preamble.

Surely, she knew the answer. He couldn’t deny her anything. Still, he made her wait for his reply. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t given it any thought himself. There wasn’t much he hadn’t imagined doing with Candace.

He released her hands and slid lower until he lay pillowed between her thighs. He brushed his thumbs over the neatly trimmed auburn triangle that drew him like a compass needle to magnetic north. The scent of her arousal filled his nostrils and fueled a primal need. He swept his tongue through her juices. She ground her swollen flesh against his face, and he knew she’d forgotten everything but this. He dedicated himself to keeping the status quo for the foreseeable future.

About Roz Lee –

Roz Lee has been married to her best friend, and high school sweetheart, for over three decades. These days she splits her time between their home in rural New Jersey, and Southern California, where her husband works. Even though she’s lived on both coasts, her heart lies in between, in Texas. A Texan by birth, she can trace her family back to the Republic of Texas. With roots that deep, she says, “You can’t ever really leave.”

Roz and her husband have two grown daughters they couldn’t be more proud of, and are currently raising a eleven-year-old Labrador Retriever, Betty Boop, who isn’t aware of her canine heritage.

When Roz isn’t writing, she’s reading, or traipsing around the country on one adventure or another. No trip is too small, no tourist trap too cheesy, and no road unworthy of traveling.

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How many of the things on the list have you done, and…what would you add to the list?

What are you looking for in a romance hero? I’d love to hear what you think.

Leave a comment on the ARRA post between 4th and 10th September 2011 and go in the draw to win an electronic copy of my erotic romance, Pandora’s Gift.

Jennifer Lynne (You know what the smiley face is for!)

Jennifer Lynne’s books on Goodreads

Pandora’s Gift

reviews: 1
ratings: 17 (avg rating 4.00)

Secrets Volume 28: Sensual Cravings

reviews: 4
ratings: 83 (avg rating 4.40)

I’m pretty sure of the answer, actually. But I want to put it down here on my own blog, where I can see it clearly in black and white (well, technically white on purple) and hopefully, I can face it more directly that way.

Fear. Fear of failure. Fear of having “lost it”. Fear that this time around, I’ll get a rejection and everyone will know I just fluked it before. But that’s what the second one was for, wasn’t it? To prove to everyone (make that, myself) that it wasn’t just a one-off. And truth be told, I liked Pandora’s Gift even more than Seducing Serena. (Is it okay for an author to have a favourite book? Seems kind of disloyal to my firstborn, Serena, but I love her too not least because she was my first!). Its just that the writing seemed to flow much more easily the second time. It felt right.

But I stopped writing for a bit. Worked a day job, ran an internet business at night, ran teenage kids around all over the place, sold a house, moved, got sick, got better, got sick again. Hmm. Well. Now that I’m finally on the mend, the business is sold, the house is unpacked and the kids’ activities are relatively under control, I’m gonna give myself a piece of advice:

If you’re a writer, you write. Only 500 words at a time if thats what it takes to make it achievable. When, and only when, the story is finished, you edit. Then you think about submitting and all the emotional angst that comes with it. Not before. For today, just write, damn it!

I’m going to print that last sentence out and put it on the cork board above my computer. Hope it works!

Jennifer Lynne writes erotic romance and is published by Red Sage. Her first novella, Seducing Serena, appeared in the popular Secrets anthology (Secrets Volume 28 Sensual Cravings). Her second, Pandora’s Gift, is available as an e-book from Red Sage.

I love coffee, and I adore writing romance, so what better combination? If you’d like to read a bit more about the writing processes behind my two erotic romance novellas – Seducing Serena (appearing in Red Sage Secrets Volume 28) and Pandora’s Gift – head on over and have a look!

Let me know what you think!

Cheers

Jennifer Lynne

Click on Coffee Time Romance to read the full review.

Click on Red Sage Publishing to read an EXCERPT from Pandora’s Gift, or to buy your copy.

Personally, I love the cover for Pandora’s Gift as it reflects almost exactly what I had in mind when I wrote this story. The team at Red Sage really captured the Flint of my imagination. He is as steeped in darkness, as hard, as tortured, and as utterly compelling as he was when he first appeared in my head. It is a strange but wonderful feeling to know that through your words someone else has been able to see the real Flint, and to capture the essence of his magnetic personality in a cover as sizzling as this!

Hope he is as captivating to everyone else as he has been to me, and that the book cover piques your interest enough to vote!

Cheers,

Jennifer Lynne

Pandora’s Gift is my latest erotic romance. This July release from Red Sage introduces Flint McCallum, a man on the edge of darkness, and Pandora Paige, a free spirit who helps guide troubled souls toward the light. Flint doesn’t believe in magic, but the mystic Pandora challenges the very beliefs on which his life has been built. These polar opposites are destined to join together in a blaze of passion that Pandora hopes will blast away the darkness keeping Flint captive. But as she becomes more deeply ensnared in his magnetic personality (and I mean, look at that book cover – can you blame her?!) how will she protect her own heart from the dangerous lure of the dark?

My first Red Sage novella, Seducing Serena, appeared last December in the popular erotic romance anthology, Secrets Volume 28 Sensual Cravings, which is still receiving great reviews.

To read an excerpt from Pandora’s Gift, or buy a copy from Red Sage Publishing, CLICK HERE.

The Whipped Cream review says in part: “Sensual cravings is definitely what this collection created…Seducing Serena proved to be a very sensual and erotic story…Serena and Nicholas’s story really touched me because so many women have a damaged heart from previous relationships…This was a couple I wanted to see more of even after the story was complete. You will find yourself wanting to read more after these stories. With great plots and exceptional characters each story will be remembered.”

Secrets Volume 28 Sensual Cravings was released last December by Red Sage Publishing. Seducing Serena was Jennifer Lynne’s first erotic romance. Her second, Pandora’s Gift, was released by Red Sage as an e-book earlier this month.

Read an excerpt or buy a copy of Secrets Volume 28 Sensual Cravings HERE.