BIG SQUEE! Another Contract with Ellora's Cave!

I'm so excited! I just signed with Ellora's Cave for my new contemporary erotic romance Mr. Right-Now! I'm so psyched!

Here's the blurb!

Kate Gentry is always the bridesmaid, never the bride. When her best friend asks her to be maid of honor, it just reminds her of how crappy her luck is when it comes to finding her own Mr. Right. Her friends point out she's trying too hard to find Mr. Right instead of having fun with Mr. Right-Now. They convince her to put her search for the perfect man on hold and have some meaningless sex with a hot guy.

Kate takes their advice and propositions the gorgeous best man, Dawson McKenna. When he eagerly agrees, she finds herself doing things she never dreamed of doing, including spanking, bondage, and some amazing anal sex.

Despite telling herself Dawson isn't supposed to be Mr. Right, Kate finds herself falling for him big time anyway. But since she was the one who made the rules, how can she now tell him she wants more than just a weekend fling?

*hugs*
Paige

"Stories so hot, they'll make your cheeks blush!"

http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/
http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/

Watch Out! Babies On the Way!

The South is in a deep freeze this morning. And looks like it's going to stay that way for the next two or three weeks. And that means people will be staying inside a great deal more. It also means a helluva lot more snuggling time.

Yep, you got it--MORE SEX!

You may have heard about this before, but it's an actual fact. More babies are conceived in late fall and during winter than any other time of year. Spring being the next season for number of conceptions. All this according to the Center for Disease Control--I guess they keep up with this kind of thing. lol

It seems that all that indoor togetherness time is definitely the reason why winter is so busy. Anthropologists claim that in the days when humans were still gatherers and hunters, births were timed for spring. Animals still conceive in the spring months. Why? Nature knows there is less chance of an offspring dying from exposure then, and there is also more food available too. So it only makes sense that humans followed the same cycle. What I wonder about is how the cavemen abstained during the winter months. Maybe their sexual hungers didn't occur until spring? Interesting. More about that possibility below. LOL

But as man and the conveniences of the world evolved, there was no longer a need to limit births to the spring only. So all that winter snuggling to keep warm and because we're all indoors together now produces babies for the spring. Sounds about right.

Spring conceptions make sense too. Why? According to the medical experts, being exposed to more sunlight--being outdoors more in general--causes your retina to react differently which triggers hormonal changes in the body. Ever heard of spring fever? Well, it's not as far-fetched as you might think. Ask any teacher how their students behave in the spring as opposed to the colder months. Hormones are bouncing all over the place.

And it should be noted that exposing our bodies more might have something to do with that. It's all in presentation, isn't it? Being bundled up in layers of clothing to beat the cold just isn't sexy, but skimpy tee shirts, shorts, mini-skirts, and those buff boys with no shirt at all does indeed stir the savage beast in all of us. lol

Here's a fun fact. The month with the highest number of birth rates is September. And that means the most sex is happening between January and February. Conversely, February is the month with the least births which means the least amount of conceptions take place around June. HUH? Thought that was the big honeymoon month. lol

More fun facts for you: More babies are conceived during economic booms. That makes sense. If people feel like they can afford a child, they are more likely to make the decision to conceive. And what about those freak happenings? Researches have traced the Colorado baby boom of September 2007 directly to their big Christmas blizzard. Yep, people were snuggling in the great state of Colorado! There is even evidence of the big black out in New York years ago triggering a baby boom nine months later.

So what have we learned from all this? Snuggling, a bigger pay check, and cold weather all lead to baby makin'! For those of you who have children, can you trace the reason for conception to any of those things--in addition to just being plain horny that is. LOL And for those of you NOT looking to conceive, be afraid, be very afraid--THIS IS BABY MAKIN' SEASON!

The Short Work Week

Good morning all, or should I say afternoon. ;-D

Yes, it's past noon and I'm finally moving around. Seeing as how this will be the last four day week for quite a while I seemed to have taken advantage of it and stayed in bed until I felt like getting up.

Yep, I'm sitting here drinking coffee in my pink snuggie that my honey bought me for Christmas with my cat on my lap and the boys watching television, that's right the AMC channel 'The Unforgiven'. Haven't seen that in awhile.

Thanks to this four day work week, I was able to sit down, finish my art form for A Lady's Challenge (sequel to A Slave's Way Out) , releasing in May 2010 with Whiskey Creek Press Torrid. As well as take a look at several I've had sitting on my computer for a few years, to edit and sent out. Yep, I said a few years, more like four. LOL. What can I say, sometimes the day job and homeschooling just plain poop me out by the end of the day and when I'm sitting on the couch vegging, I'm looking at my computer knowing I have work I could be doing. That's the reason I decided to take my newsletter from posting every month to posting quarterly.
So yes, she's up! LOL.

What about you guys? Any take advantage of a short work week because of the holiday?

New Year Resolutions

I want to start off by saying Happy New Year...I hope that you are starting off 2010 with a bang.

So with the start of the new year comes resolutions that we set for ourselves. I'm one of those people that will be getting a list done so that I can try to work on stuff during the year. I had started to think about the things I would want on this list when the new year rolled around.

I know one of the things I will put is to take time to relax and not overdo it.

Being an author I know I find myself doing way too many things that I forget about me. This is something I've been working on for a while and want to continue to work on.

I've been pretty good at getting the stuff done that I've written in previous years. Not everything got done but the bulk did. The list helps to keep me focused on what I want.

When it comes to new years resolutions are you one to make a list? Do you stick to the list?


Savannah
http://www.savannahchase.com

EROTIC EXPOSURE - My First Ellora's Cave Release!

I'm so excited! Erotic Exposure, my first book with Ellora's Cave, comes out tomorrow, Dec 31st! It's hot, sexy, and fun! Hope you like it!


Liz Bellamy agrees to pose for a provocative calendar to help raise money for the animal shelter where she volunteers. Although it's for a good cause, she's a little shy about posing half naked.

When she arrives at the photography studio and finds hot photographer Kent Draper waiting for her, she almost chickens out, but decides to go through with it anyway. Not only does she end up having one heck of a sexy photo shoot, but discovers being half naked in front of a hunky photographer and his camera is one hell of a turn-on. And when a girl gets that aroused, a little shyness isn't going to keep her from getting what she wants.


Excerpt:

Kent dropped to one knee in front of her, camera at the ready. "Okay, now that Godiva’s out of the room, show me your best sultry look."

Liz wasn’t exactly sure she knew how to do sultry, but she decided to give it her best shot. Putting her hands on the floor in front of her, she leaned forward to flash him a little more cleavage and gazed at him from beneath lowered lashes.

He immediately began snapping pictures. "Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. Work it."

She giggled at the words, unable to help herself.

He came out from behind the camera to give her a curious look. "Why’d you stop? That was perfect."

"I’m not so sure sultry is a good look for me," she told him.

"I beg to differ. And so does the camera. But if you don’t believe me, do the same thing and this time check yourself out on the monitor."

Hoping she didn’t look as silly as she felt, Liz struck the same pose, then glanced at the monitor after he’d snapped the picture. What she saw made her do a double take. With her full lips parted, her blue eyes half hidden underneath a thick fringe of dark lashes, and the tops of her lace-covered breasts peeking out enticingly from her silk robe, not only didn’t she look silly, she looked like the very definition of sultry. That thought sent another current of excitement shooting through her pussy.

"Beautiful," Kent said. "Now let your robe slip off your shoulders a little for me."

Liz did as he asked, waited for him to take a picture, then impulsively lifted her hair up with her free hand and blew him an air kiss over her bare shoulder.

He chuckled. "That’s it. Show me some more. Have fun with it."

She dropped her hand, letting her hair fall down her back as she shifted positions. Lying over on her hip, she leaned forward to give him a sexy come-hither look. As she did, the robe slid down to her elbows, completely exposing her lace-trimmed bra to the camera and the man behind it. Kent’s low groan of approval was all the encouragement she needed to keep going.


Watch the Trailer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lE1YZdf2Us

Buy it at Ellora's Cave!
http://www.ellorascave.com/

And for a sneak peek at Just Right and Good Cop, Bad Girl, my other upcoming releases from Ellora's Cave, visit my website at http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/ComingSoon.html

*hugs*
Paige

"Stories so hot, they'll make your cheeks blush!"

http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/

http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/

The Love Bottle

By A.J. Llewellyn

One of my dearest, closest friends (let's call him Steve) works for a millionaire who gave his employees a Christmas gift of a Love Bottle. My friend Steve was devastated. He's worked just over a year for this guy, working long hours but earning a low salary in a job in which he can progress.
Steve feels lucky to have the job considering the current climate. He showed me the Love Bottle and asked me what I thought.
It's an empty milk bottle with a lid and one of those rubber bracelets charities are so fond of, dangling around the neck.
A small card attached read that a donation had been made in Steve's name to a charity in Haiti that provides food for hungry people.
That's nice. But there are hungry people right here in the US.
Steve being one of them.
Forget Haiti. Forget Katrina.
There are people secretly starving all over our country not from natural disasters, but man-made ones.
People like Steve are the secret victims. His boss has no way of knowing that Steve is struggling to pay his bills. So much so that he has spent the last three weeks eating hot dogs and buns purchased at the 99 Cent Store. Three times a day.
He landed in the hospital a few days ago when he became so severely ill from his poor diet that he collapsed in his apartment building hallway.
"I have to tell you, I didn't mind what I was eating. I liked the hot dogs," Steve told me when I visited him in the hospital yesterday.
"But the doctors here told me that hot dogs have such high sodium it sent my organs and blood sugar reeling. I was constipated, but I was still hungry. Then I started to feel really, really sick one day. That was the day I collapsed."
Steve's sister thinks he probably felt bad long before the day he collapsed but said nothing out of his secret shame.
He's got so many bills, food became the last priority. His family feels terrible that they didn't know and yesterday, they filled his fridge with food in preparation for his return home.
"I fed my cat every day," he said with pride. "I fed her before I even fed myself."
Steve is not the only person I know living this way. We have another mutual friend who confessed he was eating Top Ramen every day and became so sick his wife had him hospitalized. Both of these men are good, decent, hard-working individuals with JOBS!
In both cases, they've had to take severe pay cuts to stay employed. Their income decreased, their work load and financial responsibilities have not.
When Steve became ill, many of his friends came forward with similar stories. Steve and I both lived on pita bread and salad for months until I swallowed a bit of crushed glass one time. Steve hasn't bought bagged lettuce since. Besides, he confessed, when he purchased his hot dogs, there were more dogs in the bag than there was lettuce in the lettuce bag.
He was trying to shop smart and nearly died.
I know making donations in people's names is a fashionable thing, but I believe it's a bogus gift. Why? Nine times out of ten, the really rich people doing this are making the donations anyway and are given bottles, badges or whatever to give to employees and friends as a token.
Give them a gift card or gift certificate instead.
Now that Steve is better, he finds his Love Bottle humorous. "I got an empty bottle for Christmas," he said. "That's the story of my life."

Aloha oe,

A.J.

Live Gifts

No, no dogs or cats, LOL, but we did received this Norfolk Island Pine as a Christmas present. I thought it was great! Very innovative and original and it's good for the environment.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep it alive even with the instructions :-)

I'm planning on keeping it as a potted plant so I can take it with us easily if/when we move.

So what do you think? Live plants/shrubs/trees a good idea for a gift?

Have you ever given one or gotten one?