Showing posts with label Rock & Release. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock & Release. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2014

Pre-order Links! And a VIP Excerpt!!

Pre-order for VIP (Rock & Release, Act I) is LIVE at most retailers right for only $0.99!

So. Go get you some.

(Amazon | iBooks | Barnes & Noble | Kobo)

Or just have an awesome Friday and take a peek at this little excerpt from a scene where Cassidy's had maaaaybe just a touch too much to drink. But not so much that she can't still...enjoy herself. :)


I wonder if he's going to kiss me. 

I hope he's going to kiss me. 

I try to convey the message with my eyes, but he's a little blurred around the edges and I'm not sure I'm even focusing exactly where I should be, much less able to send any sort of meaning through a glance. 

He keeps talking, talking, talking. Something about bands. Something about where he's from. Something, something, something, but I keep forgetting his words the moment they breeze through his mouth. 

He's asking me questions. I'm giving him answers, though I can't be certain of their accuracy. We're laughing a lot, so I must be keeping him entertained. Or maybe it's the other way around. 

It's quiet for a beat too long—he's waiting for me to say something else, to answer a question, but I've lost track of all our words again. 

And he's meeting my eyes and then gazing lower toward my mouth. I realize I'm biting my lip, but it's got his attention so I keep it between my teeth, tugging a little. 

"There you go distracting me again." His mouth parts into a wolfish grin. "But this time you're doing it on purpose, aren't you?" 

Maybe, I almost tell him, but Demi Jade's first chords strike through the air, interrupting the word before it has a chance to come out. 

"So much for making the concert," I say instead. 

"So much for it," he agrees. 

We stare at each other for a moment that yawns out into eons. One second we're listening to Demi Jade sing about her lost lover and the next the world goes silent around me. There's an electric pause—like that moment after a violent thunderclap, when everything else is sucked away—and then my mouth is on his, or his is on mine, and he's teasing my lips with his tongue. I let him in, and he tastes like beer and like salt and like mint. 

Jesus, he's talented with his tongue. 

His hands wrap around my waist and he yanks me toward him and my hands are in his hair and I want to eat his fucking mouth, he tastes so good.



Happy Friday, y'all! xo

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Cover reveal for VIP!!

So excited to get to share my cover for VIP (Rock & Release, Act I) today! Designed by Okay Creations (who's basically a rock star among cover artists) and love, love, loved by me :)

In case you hadn't heard, VIP releases IN TWO WEEKS. November 17th. And it's only $0.99!!

AND stick around because I'll be revealing the covers for the final two acts (Starstruck & Show Stopper) VERY SOON.



VIP is the first act of the three part sexy romance serial, Rock & Release
The final two acts, Starstruck and Show Stopper, will release on December 1 and December 15.

Also, VIP's up for preorder on amazon now. I'm just gonna drop that lil fact and walk away. <3

Oh, and the link. Just gonna drop this lil preorder link and walk away. xo


Oh, wait. Lies. ONE MORE THING: It should be up for preorder soon on other vendors, too, if amazon isn't your thing. Check back for updates!

For real. Out this time.

xo, again.


Tuesday, October 7, 2014

VIP Teaser Tuesday #1!

I love this Teaser Tuesday trend! Checking out the images and teasers of other authors' work is becoming one of my favorite things.

 And so, I'm joining in.

Here's the first official teaser for VIP (Rock & Release, Act I).


It's a small piece of a rather yummy scene between Cassidy and Gage--one of my favorites.

And PS VIP is up on Goodreads. I'd love for you to add it! If sexy lil NA romances are your thing, anyway :)

Thursday, September 18, 2014

The road to New Adult and, ultimately, Rock & Release

Where to begin... where to begin...

*taps chin, all thoughtful-looking*

It was a cold day, the air scraping like the rough edges of icy bricks across my cheeks, when suddenly

Okay, on the real, here's how this all happened:

I started writing seriously with a career in mind back in 2009.

I wrote.

           a lot.

                  of books.

All YA.

Seriously. I love YA. Still do.

Then, in 2012 I got pregnant. Best decision I've ever made. Also one of the ones that's made me the sickest. (The only thing that even comes close is the great Salmonella Incident of 2011, which shall never, ever be discussed again.) So, considering I was too nauseated to do more than lie on the couch most days, I took a break from writing. Then when the sickness passed, I just wanted to figure out what this whole parenthood thing was going to be about.

"I'll start writing again three months after she's born," I told myself--and anyone else who'd listen.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

No.

The day my daughter was born was the best of my life. The next four months were the roughest. One word: Colic.

After that period of complete hell was over, I wanted a few months to spend some non-screaming-in-pain time with my daughter. Those few months spanned into the rest of her first year of life--and right around that one year mark, my husband and I were given VIP tickets to a concert (Steve Miller Band and Journey, oh yeah!) The tickets gave us access to this pre-concert VIP bar and deck area, and I sat there watching the college-aged staff work their shifts and found myself thinking that it could be a good setting for a book. That it could be really fun to imagine what it'd be like to work at a concert venue during that exciting "new adult" period of life.

All the sudden, that drive to write, the one I'd tucked away for so long, slammed back in full force. And the timing was perfect, as one of my best friends' husbands had, for her birthday, booked a writing retreat for us and one other writer friend to go on. (Husband of the year right there, huh??)

We retreated, we brainstormed, and Cassidy's story came pouring out. Never, in my entire life, have words come so easily for me. Never have I had a college-aged protagonist before, either. But I rolled with it, with Cassidy, and I'm really happy I did. Because now I get to launch Rock & Release into the world! And SOON.

VIP, the first act of Rock & Release, launches November 17th, and I hope you're as excited as I am!