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First we want to thank all of you for coming to our blog. We love it here. Secondly, we have winners!
Eden Bradley has chosen Amy C! Congrats Amy! You’ve won an autographed copy of Forbidden Fruit. Email her at eden_bradley@yahoo.com and send your mailing address. YAY!
RG Alexander’s winner is Tamsyn Takamiya! Email me at r.g.alexander@hotmail.com and let me know which ebook you would like.
News: We have some fantastic and wonderful people coming to our blog in the month of April. Be sure you stop by often to win prizes and gossip.
Today is a big day for the Smutketeers! Both RG Alexander and Eden Bradley have releases today. Ooh-we’re releasing simultaneously-sounds kinky!
Eden’s new book, A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN, is out today! You can find it on Amazon, Borders.com or Barnes & Noble online, on Fictionwise, or at your local bookstores! Here’s a little blurb from A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN: She’s spent her life pleasuring others…Now it’s her turn…
She lives in a world of silk sheets, imported champagne, and endless erotic delight…
She fulfills the deepest fantasies of the most powerful men in the world. Sensual, seductive, and discreet, Valentine Day is a high class call girl, pampered and adored by her exclusive clientele. But Valentine has a secret. Always in control, she’s never experienced true pleasure outside of her work. But all that is about to change…Now, the woman who’s spent a decade pleasuring others is about to embark on an erotic journey of her own…
It happens one night at the opera. Seated next to her in the dark is a stranger. As the music swells, so does the sexual tension. Gorgeous, sophisticated Joshua Spencer invites her for a drink, and soon she’s fantasizing about taking him home. When they finally come together in a night of the wildest lovemaking Valentine has ever known, she’s hooked. But suddenly Valentine is questioning everything. Joshua has no idea what she does for a living. Can she risk everything—including her hard-earned freedom and one final, shattering secret—for one man? And would he still want her if he knew the truth?
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RG Alexander’s new book, SURRENDER DOROTHY, her sequel to NOT IN KANSAS (also available on the Samhain website) is out today from Samhain Publishing! You can find it on the Samhain website, and on Fictionwise
Here’s a little peek:
What Happens When a Wicked Wizard Woos a Wary Witch?
Dorothy knows her new neighbor is too wicked to be trusted. As a natural witch, she recognizes the Wizard for what he truly is. As a woman, she recognizes him as a threat to her sanity.
Z has tried everything. Pursued her in dreams, bribed her cat, enticed her with peep shows meant to whet her appetite and drive her crazy. And still she resists. What’s a Wizard to do? He came to Earth to have an adventure, not lose his heart to the one witch whose guard he can’t get past.
When he finally gets his hands on her, the power between them is undeniable. But Dorothy’s family secret could make him sorry she surrendered.
Warning: Voyeurism, lurid dreams, raunchy dirty wizard sex in public places.
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So, we thought we’d talk a bit about our books, life, writing, and smut in general (always a favorite topic). EDEN: So RG, tell me about SURRENDER DOROTHY. I mean stuff that’s not in the blurb. RG: SURRENDER DOROTHY is a sexy comedic romp full of strange characters that takes place partly in Venice Beach, California, and partly in an Oz-like world. I love to read the dark and mysterious, the down and dirty stuff, but as a writer I have so much fun writing humor in sex. I love to laugh and I love characters who are quirky, flawed and fun! EDEN: Tell me about the characters in SURRENDER DOROTHY-and do you have a favorite? RG: I don’t have Munchkins or flying monkeys-(insert Eden’s disappointment at the lack of flying monkeys, but do go on), but I do have a large assortment of other strange characters. I think my favorites are…well, I really like Dorothy’s horrible step-sister, Emily. She’s just horrid and selfish and very vain, but when she gets to Oz, you find that she’s not exactly what she seems. She has a humanity in her that comes to the surface there, and it makes her an interesting character with a lot of growth.
I also love Dorothy and Z, the wizard, and of course, Suki, Dorothy’s cat! She’s quite a character in her own right. She’s named after the real-life Suki, who is, as you know, Eden, our Samhain editor’s cat. EDEN: Z is the hero, and I know you write smokin’ hot heroes, so tell me about him. RG: He is! He’s golden and stunning and really dirty! He likes everybody-and I mean everybody. He made an appearance in the first book in this series, NOT IN KANSAS. In that story he was with Kansas and the King, pleasure droids (my version of the Tin Man), you name it. He’s a dirty bastard-lol! EDEN: Sounds like my kinda guy! RG:Absolutely! My book is a huge contrast to yours, Eden. Talk dark and dirty to me! EDEN: Oh, you know I like the dark and dirty! A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN is a dark, erotic story about Valentine Day, a woman who has spent her entire adult life as a high-class call girl, and when she meets a man outside of her profession who makes her re-think her entire existence, she has some tough choices to make.
Oddly enough, there’s more of me in Valentine than in any other character I’ve written. Not that I’ve ever been a prostitute (insert RG: You mean there’s some sexual scenario you haven’t experienced??! EDEN: Only a very few…*G*), but a lot of her issues came from deep in my own psyche.
I loved this book because my editor let me do some things that are hard to get away with in New York publishing: it’s written in first person, which I loved doing, and I got to put sex scenes with her clients on the page. Hot! RG: I love that character, I love the depth. What was so fascinating to me was that it’s a scenario I couldn’t even fathom in real life, yet I knew her-I connected with her in a way that made me root for her. EDEN: Aw! So, you’re really rooting for me. My Smutketeers always have my back. :) RG: Tell me about Joshua! EDEN: Ohhhhh, Joshua…he’s based on someone I once knew and had unfinished business with. It was great to write the ending I would have wanted to have with him-although I’ve since moved on. But it was therapeutic to write him. And he’s wicked sexy! Sophisticated, yet a little rough and dirty around the edges. RG: So…speaking of dirty, what’s new with you? EDEN: Currently, I’m working on revisions for my next Bantam/Delta book, THE BEAUTY OF SURRENDER, which is about Shibari, the ancient erotic art of Japanese rope bondage. I’m also breathlessly awaiting the April 7th release of my first menage story, TEMPT ME TWICE, coming from Samhain Publishing! And yes, I’ve done my research! Have I mentioned how much fun research is for an erotica author? Especially if you have a willing partner, which I do (Yay! And thank you, S.) I know you have The Cookie, and I know he’s a dirty, dirty man (lucky girl!). What sort of things have you two been researching? RG: LOL! (actually, it was more a thirty second spurt of girlish giggling). I’m finishing final edits on TWILIGHT GUARDIAN, which is coming out from Samhain in May, Book Three of The Children of the Goddess series. And I’m getting ready to polish up a novella for Samhain called THREE FOR ME?, a foursome story that I hope will be out some time in the summer. And I’m still working on my Steampunk series that is my homage to my Smutketeers. Everything else we’ve been researching is private and wrong-not for public consumption, anyway. (another thirty second spurt of girlish giggling). EDEN: So…let’s talk about our contest! RG: Two lucky winners will be chosen from all of you who comment between now and Sunday night, 12:00AM PST, and winners will be announced on Monday the 30th! Win either a copy of Eden’s FORBIDDEN FRUIT (print book), her hot food fetish novel, or a copy of RG’s REGINA IN THE SUN, book one of the The Children of the Goddess series or NOT IN KANSAS, which takes place in the same world as SURRENDER DOROTHY (e-books). When entering, let us know if you’re in the US or elsewhere, and the winner of RG’s book can choose which one they’d like to have.
Meanwhile, a little video for your entertainment:
As promised…
Don’t forget to see my new video! And come back for another sneak peek at A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN before it’s release on the 24th!
The house lights flash.
“Time to go back in,” he says. “Let me get rid of these glasses.”
He takes mine, holding it between his fingers along with his, brings them to the rapidly emptying bar while I stand there, feeling a bit lost. Then he’s back at my side, his hand going to the small of my back as he guides me through the theater doors.
His palm is warm through the thin silk of my dress. And my sex is going so damp from this nearly innocent touch, I’m almost afraid to sit down. To try to hold still for another hour or more, next to him in the dark.
I manage to do it. But the entire time I am more aware than ever of his tall, muscular body next to mine. I don’t dare to look at him. I don’t have to. I can feel him. And I’m soaked the entire time.
Torture.
When the show is over we stand and I feel awkward again. Do I simply leave and say good bye?
“Did you drive?” he asks.
“I took a cab.”
“Let me find one for you.”
His hand at my waist again as we walk out of the theater. I can hardly stand for him to touch me. To touch me but not touch me.
At the curb he waves a taxi down.
“I won’t be so rude as to ask for your address, so you’ll have to tell the driver where you’re going. But I hope you’ll call me.”
He pulls a business card from his pocket and slips it into my hand, grasping it with his fingers for a moment. He’s looking into my eyes, and even in the dark I swear I can see a dim green and gold glow in his. He is too beautiful, this man.
I want him to kiss me. I want to pull him into the cab with me. I want to take him home and f**k him. But I do none of this.
“Thank you for the drink. And for the conversation.”
He gives my fingers a final squeeze. “It was my pleasure. Call me, Valentine.”
I smile, nod, and he hands me into the cab. He shuts the door, and I give one last shiver.
The cab pulls into the night, and we are immediately stuck in traffic. I don’t dare look behind me to see if he is standing there.
Joshua.
I clear my throat, smooth a hand over my hair. His card is in the other hand. I should tear it up. Toss it out the window. But instead I slip it into my bag. I can throw it away later. That’s exactly what I should do. Anything else would be ridiculous. Unrealistic. And life has taught me to be realistic. I am the poster child for accepting reality, no matter how ugly. It’s this beautiful, nice man who’s thrown me off balance.
I know what I should do. But I close my purse, my fingers tightening on the metal clasp, as though I am still holding the card in my hand. As though I really can call him tomorrow, go on a date. One in which I don’t get paid.
I’m not the sort of woman who can afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy. I will toss the card the moment I get home.
Won’t I?
My next novel from Bantam/Delta, A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN, will be out on March 24th, so I thought I’d post a teaser here for you curious folks. I’ll post more as we get closer, a new excerpt every few days, so be sure to come back! But first, a little about the book…
She’s spent her life pleasuring others.
Now it’s her turn…
A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN
Eden Bradley
She lives in a world of silk sheets, imported champagne,
and endless erotic delight…
She fulfills the deepest fantasies of the most powerful men in the world. Sensual, seductive, and discreet, Valentine Day is a high class call girl, pampered and adored by her exclusive clientele. But Valentine has a secret. Always in control, she’s never experienced true pleasure outside of her work. But all that is about to change…Now, the woman who’s spent a decade pleasuring others is about to embark on an erotic journey of her own…
It happens one night at the opera. Seated next to her in the dark is a stranger. As the music swells, so does the sexual tension. Gorgeous, sophisticated Joshua Spencer invites her for a drink, and soon she’s fantasizing about taking him home. When they finally come together in a night of the wildest lovemaking Valentine has ever known, she’s hooked. But suddenly Valentine is questioning everything. Joshua has no idea what she does for a living. Can she risk everything—including her hard-earned freedom and one final, shattering secret—for one man? And would he still want her if he knew the truth?
I learned about something called suspension of disbelief a number of years ago in one of my English Lit classes. This is when a writer must make their reader suspend their disbelief in the unusual long enough to be drawn in and believe in the world the writer has created.
It’s something like that with my line of work. Our clients must suspend their disbelief long enough to believe the girl likes it. My particular ‘talent’, if you want to call it that-my particular perversion, really-is that they don’t have to do that with me. The truth is, I love it.
This is my dirty little secret. Because this is supposed to be taboo among the professionals of my world. Call girls. Prostitutes. Hookers. It doesn’t matter what you call us. The fact is, I get paid for sex. And it’s the only kind of sex I can get off on.
Who knew a nice Jewish girl from the Valley could end up here? Well, half Jewish, anyway, my father being a lapsed Catholic. And maybe I’ve never been all that nice.
I grew up in Van Nuys. Van Nuys is possibly the most generic, boring place on earth. Middle class, cardboard box houses that all look the same, block after block. The entire area looks as though a dull film has settled over it.
My family was at the lower end of the middle class. Not that we were poor. We always had a roof over our heads, food on the table. My father, a construction foreman, worked a lot, but he spent his money anywhere but at home. My mother never did much other than drink. Strange that he wasn’t the drinker. Jews don’t tend to be drinkers. Not that it ever stopped my mother. But my life has been a combination of the utterly dull and the most perverse, in every way, on every level. Classic hard life story, I know, but that’s my life. Or it was. Too fucking bad.
I make a lot of money. Enough to keep me very comfortable in my Hollywood Hills home. Enough to pay for the expensive clothes I buy at Barney’s and Kitson, my weekly facials and massage at the spa. Enough to pay for the breezy little Mercedes I drive, if it hadn’t been a gift from a happy client. This is why I do it.
Actually, that’s a lie. It’s what I tell myself when I’m not in the mood for the kind of deep, soul-searching honesty that keeps me up at night. How I justify it in the most basic, simple terms.
The truth, or part of it, anyway, is that I began in this business because I needed to distance myself from what I was before. From that lower middle class Jewish girl from the Valley whose mother was always passed out on the couch, surrounded by a sticky puddle of whatever she was drinking on the floor, the overflowing ashtrays. Repulsive. I won’t even allow my clients to smoke around me. If they don’t like it, they can find another girl. I’m at a point in my career where I can make a few demands of my own, and I do.
I am someone else entirely now.
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That’s all you get for now, unless you’d like to pre-order it on Amazon….Meanwhile, you can pick up my Harlequin Spice anthology, NAUGHTY BITS, at your local bookstore or on Amazon, Barnes & Noble online, or Border’s online. This is an amazing collection of sexy stories from some of Spice’s best authors!
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