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Our fellow Spice author, the fabulous Victoria Janssen, is here to share her hot pirates with us! (Don’t we wish!). But we can certainly pretend…and we will-that’s why they call it fiction, darlings.
Sexy Pirates with Victoria Janssen

The Duke and the Pirate Queen is set in the same world as The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover and features characters who appeared in that novel, Duke Maxime and Captain Imena Leung. Captain Leung is forced to abduct Duke Maxime, who is her employer, to thwart an assassination plot against him. He wants her. She wants him. Unfortunately, issues of birth, rank, and their own pasts are in conflict with their desires. And then there are the pirates, the storm, the hostile islanders…not to mention the sharks.

So, why did I want to write about pirates? Well, because they’re sexy. It’s the outfits, you know. All that silk and tattered finery! The amazing tattoos. The cutlasses. The way they grab hostages and lock them in cabins for their own pleasure. And finally, the isolation. Being stuck on a ship together is like the traditional “trapped in a lonely cabin” story, only with the possibility of being eaten by sharks. It’s just plain fun.

I was never the biggest fan of pirates before. I enjoyed reading the classic Captain Blood in high school and, more recently, saw the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I’d read some pirate and sea adventure romances. I researched Asian pirates, particularly Japanese pirates in conflict with China and Korea, which was really fascinating. But my true loves so far as ocean novels goes are the Napoleonic sea adventure novels by C.S. Forester (the Hornblower series) and Patrick O’Brian (the Aubrey-Maturin series).

Since my novel was set in a fantasy world, I decided to combine these two sub-genres, pirate romances and sea adventures, for The Duke and the Pirate Queen. I took elements from my reading on Asian pirates and combined them with Napoleonic-era European ships and the tropes of sea adventure novels. The heroine, Imena Leung, is the daughter of an Imperial admiral who married one of her barbarian captives. Imena fought pirates, so really she’s a privateer, but the world doesn’t see her that way, and now pirates are after her again, when she thought she’d put it all behind her. And now she isn’t just protecting herself, but her lover.

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A winner will be announced in the comments section here on Friday, December 3rd!
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Excerpt:

She swung the door open a bit too hard, and it slammed against the temporary bulkhead. Maxime sat crosslegged on the deck, eating an orange. The tart scent perfumed the cabin. His lips and fingers were shiny with the sticky juice, forcibly reminding her of how he’d looked, smiling at her with her juices on his mouth.

“Keep your hands off my crew,” she said.

“Even if they ask nicely?” He rose slowly, effortlessly, and held out a crescent of fruit. “Orange?”

“Chetri didn’t ask.”

“He was certainly looking. I know that’s mostly frowned upon in the Empire, but surely you–”

“I should leave you locked in here.”

“That won’t be much fun,” Maxime said, and popped the slice of orange into his mouth. Hypnotized, she watched him chew and swallow.

She said, “I would leave you down here, but we need to shift the cargo. We stowed it hastily, and–never mind. Get your things. I’ll put you in my cabin.”

Maxime smiled and bowed. “Thank you. I’m at your command.”

“Hurry up, I have things to do.”

As they ascended the stairs, Imena first, Maxime said, “You really didn’t need to go to all this trouble. But if you enjoy games–”

Outraged, she exclaimed, “Is that what you think?” She’d left port with her ship barely provisioned and still bristling with barnacles, for his sake, to save him from potential murder, and all he could think about was making the tide. She bit back a longer retort.

“I must admit, the carpet was novel. Being carried off by two muscular young men–I assume they must have been muscular–the solitary confinement to think it over–”

She whirled on him. “I never realized you could be so utterly infuriating.” She would not fight with him now. She would not.

“It’s a talent I spent my entire childhood honing. If I had to live with Camille’s father after he’d killed my parents, I wasn’t about to make it easy for him.” He paused. “So, did I make you jealous? With Chetri? I’d be willing to go farther with him, if he’d consent, if that would make you jealous. Or if you’d like it.”

If he didn’t shut his mouth, she was going to have to kill him. Perhaps she’d better shut it for him. “In,” she said, swinging wide her cabin door.

“I’m to be a prisoner in your cabin now, am I?” He grinned and swept through the doorway. “I feel a flutter of virginal apprehension. I’ve always wondered what went on in the cabins of privateers. Though I did do it in a hammock once. That was terribly awkward, but it came out all right in the end.”

“Sit.” She pointed at one of her two trunks that doubled as seats; they were spread with folded layerings of cloth, to pad the hardware fittings. Maxime did her bidding, but he sat straddle-legged, lewdly on display through the cloth of his trousers. Idly, he stroked himself.

“Stop that,” she said. “I need to speak with you.”

“Oh, I can speak and do this at the same time,” he said, grinning at her. “You’ve really made me wait quite a long time. I’m not sure I can wait much longer. I might have to ask Chetri to ease my pain–”

Imena’s hand closed over the coil of line Norris had left behind. It was fairly soft, chosen so it wouldn’t snag silk clothing. “You were less asinine before I let you bathe me,” she said.

His grin faded. “That was before you locked me up and left me, then sailed me out into the ocean without so much as a please or a thank you. I think that entitles me to be as asinine as I like.”

Imena strode over to him. “Give me your hands,” she said.

“Oh, no, you don’t,” he said. His irritation sounded genuine, and she felt a glimmer of triumph.

She said, “You won’t fight me.”

“Won’t I?”

Imena grabbed his wrists and, in a few swift movements, lashed them together with a series of hurricane knots.

Maxime stared down at his forearms, now wrapped in hempen line. “I didn’t think you truly would do it.”

Imena grinned at him. Suddenly, she felt much better.

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Visit Victoria’s website for more info about her and her books:
www.victoriajanssen.com
The Duke and the Pirate Queen
The Moonlight Mistress
The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover
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Be sure to stay tuned to the Smutketeers for an amazing lineup of guests December 4th-6th: Vivi Arend, Jess Dee, Moira Rogers and Vivi Andrews! And as if that’s not enough, our 12 Dirty Days of X-mas are coming beginning December 7th, with a HUGE special announcement, followed by a truly spectacular array of guest authors you’ll have to see to believe, including Jaci Burton, Larissa Ione, Lakota Phillips, Robin L. Rotham, Ashlyn Chase, Kate Pearce, Shelli Steverns, Melissa Schroeder and of course, the Smutketeers ourselves. There will be excerpts! There will be prizes! There will be dirty X-mas caroles!
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The Winner of the Demon Saint Thanks Contest is

PAM S!

YAY!!!!!

Send me an email to r.g.alexander@hotmail.com and I will send you your holiday prizes

Thanks to everyone for playing-Looks like we all have plenty to be thankful for. :)

Here it is, my last release of the year 2010! Book 2 of the Shifting Reality series at Samhain Publishing

MY DEMON SAINT

Publication Date: November 16, 2010
Cover art by Kanaxa

Would you like to play a game?

Shifting Reality, Book 2

Saint is half human, half demon…all trouble. With his roommate Thomas mated to Margo, and Mac on one of those long, lonely, feeling-eternally-sorry-for-yourself vampire vacations, Saint is on his own and restless.

A lovesick shifter’s request to locate a woman isn’t exactly his idea of fun—he’s no matchmaker—but he agrees. And finds not only his quarry, but a whole lot more than he bargained for: a top player in his own online game that, until now, has somehow escaped his notice. A woman so tempting that when she touches the keyboard with her fingertips, he can feel it right down to his bones.

Housebound for the last few years due to an accident, Ume’s only distraction from the endless physical therapy sessions has been an online role-playing game. When she logs in this time, though, something is different. She finds herself lost in the game—literally—and falling for a mysterious warrior on her way to face the Demon King in his lair.

And that’s before it gets weird.

Warning: Explicit sex. One sexy, smart-mouthed demon, an adventure game, and more than a touch of kink. Sex online and then sex ONLINE. Spanking, silk ropes, a blindfold, one wild threesome between a Mystic, a Warrior and a Kitsune…and every online gamer’s dream come true.

Buy MY DEMON SAINT now!

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I had a lot of fun with Saint and Ume…and I have to admit…I have sometimes wondered what it would be like to be a character in a video game. And if I had a guide like Saint, well, what more could you ask for? It, along with the upcoming season, got me to thinking about what I’m thankful for.

Being Thankful

I am thankful for my readers, for my Smutkedettes and Smutketeers. I am thankful for my family and that it’s finally getting cooler outside. I’m thankful for this year and the promise that the New Year is bringing. And I am so incredibly thankful that I get to play in my daydreams for a living.

How about you?

CONTEST

promote this  blog and/or my release on Twitter, Facebook, your blog etc

Come back here with the links of where you posted AND a little note about what you’re thankful for and you may win (Just in time for the holidays)

a $50 Amazon gift card!

a $50 Gamestop digital gift certificate!

and a copy of either My Shifter Showmance  (book one of the series) or any ebook from my backlist!

It starts today-and I will pick a winner Sunday the 21st

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Did you all know that the Smutketeers’ print books are also available on Kindle? You can find my backlist books now, like THE DARK GARDEN, THE DARKER SIDE OF PLEASURE, EXOTICA: SEVEN DAYS OF KAMA SUTRA, NINE DAYS OF ARABIAN NIGHTS, FORBIDDEN FRUIT, A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN, THE BEAUTY OF SURRENDER, the erotic anthology I did with Stephanie Tyler and Sydney Croft, HOT NIGHTS, DARK DESIRES, and the Spice Briefs anthology I’m in, NAUGHTY BITS, as well as my latest releases, THE LOVERS and PLEASURE’S EDGE (written under my new open name, Eve Berlin).
All the Smutketeers’ books can be found on Kindle and many for the Nook, so be sure to check for all our titles! Hours and hours of reading pleasure available for download now!
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The ever-fabulous Rachel Kramer Bussel, author and editor extraordinaire, is with us today to share a smutty excerpt from her latest book, PASSION: Erotic Romance for Women, out now from Cleis Press, and to do a giveaway! PASSION is a multi-author anthology by some of erotica’s star authors, including Portia Da Costa, Saskia Walker, Charlene Teglia, Delilah Devlin and more, plus Rachel’s own story, Five Senses. Let’s take a peek at some lovely, kinky smut, shall we?

Excerpt of “Getting It Right” by Teresa Noelle Roberts
From Passion: Erotic Romance for Women edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Cleis Press)

This time they pulled out all the stops. This time the room was full of flickering vanilla- and cinnamon-scented candles, adding a medieval, almost religious air to Jesse’s plain bedroom.
This time there was no anger, no exhaustion, no confusion, just lust and love and, at least on Heather’s side, a lot of sexy anxiety. Under the angst and foolishness, that first time, she’d caught hints that she’d like the cane under better circumstances.
But it still scared her.
And Jesse saw her fear and helped her through it.
They necked like teenagers on the couch before moving into the bedroom and kissing and caressing some more, so Heather was wet and quivering even before she began to undress.
This time, Jesse sat on the bed and put her over his knee, as he had their first night together. Starting with light, loving smacks that sent the blood rushing, stimulating her skin, stimulating her sex, he warmed her up until she was pushing her backside up to meet his hand. Then he stepped it up a little, cupping the sweet spot of her ass with each blow, half watching the color turning from creamy to pink to almost red, half watching Heather’s reaction, the pleading little yelps, the squirming, the way she parted her legs, letting loose some of her aroused musk.
“How I can resist that invitation?” Jesse stroked her vulva, then slapped it lightly, teasingly. His fingers came away wet and slick. “Now that’s what I like to see,” he said, his voice breathy, smoky.
He pulled her up and kissed her, lingering and deep. “Now lie on your back,” he commanded. “I have a vision.”
Then he started arranging her.
He arched her over so her thighs rested on her chest and told her to hold herself in place with her arms.
He tucked several pillows under her, raising her ass. “Perfect,” he said. “I have a gorgeous target, but I can watch your face.”
He didn’t add in case you need to safeword and can’t find your voice, but he didn’t need to.
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Ooh, a tantalizing tease! You can find Passion: Erotic Romance for Women now at your local bookstores, through the Cleis Press website, or these online outlets:

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And the winners of mine and Crystals’ Multiples contests are:

CONTEST #1: The winner of Eden/Eve’s Exotic Courtesan contest: signed copies of her contemporary erotic novels, A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN and EXOTICA: SEVEN DAYS OF KAMA SUTRA, NINE DAYS OF ARABIAN NIGHTS is:
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Michelle Cobb! Congrats, Michelle! See our instructions below for how to collect your prize!

CONTEST #2: The winner of Crystal’s Untamed Prowl contest: signed copies of her erotic shape shifter novels, ON THE PROWL and UNTAMED is:
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Beth C! Congrats, Beth! See our instructions below for how to collect your prize!

CONTEST #3: The winner of Eden/Eve’s Breeding Kisses contest: copies of her e-books, THE SEEKING KISS, Book One in her Midnight Playground Series, and THE BREEDER, Book Three in the Smutketeer’s Wasteland continuity series is:
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Zina! Congrats, Zina! See our instructions below for how to collect your prize!

CONTEST #4: The winner of Crystal’s Wandering Men contest: copies of her e-books, IT’S RAINING MEN and THE WANDERER, Book One in the Smutketeer’s Wasteland continuity series is:
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Kirsten Christensen! Congrats, Kirsten! See our instructions below for how to collect your prize!

Crystal’s winners: just email her at crystal@crystaljordan.com
Winner#2-Beth-please put winner #2 in the subject line. She’ll need your name and snail mail address to send your books to you.
Winner#4-Kirsten-please put winner #4 in the subject line.She’ll email your books right away!

Eden/Eve’s winners: just email me at: eden_bradley@yahoo.com
Winner#1-Michelle-please put winner #1 in the subject line. I’ll need your name and snail mail address to send your books to you.
Winner#3-Zina-please put winner #3 in the subject line. I’ll email your books right away!

Thanks everyone for playing! Stay tuned for more smutty fun at Smutketeers, with book release celebrations, contests and fabulous guest authors, including Victoria Janssen and Rachel Kramer Bussel this month, and our amazing 12 Dirty Days of Christmas in December, with a special exciting announcement!

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Today the Smutketeers are having multiple releases! That sounds soooo dirty…and it is! Four smutty books for our reader’s pleasure. We almost wish they were textured…(for her pleasure…get it? *G*). But reading smut is the next best thing and boy, do we have plenty for you! Crystal Jordan and Eden Bradley/Eve Berlin are double-teaming this week-double your pleasure, double your fun, with four hot releases from two authors (or three if you include Eden/Eve’s split personality).

Releasing today we have:

Crystal Jordan’s PRIMAL HEAT from Kensington Aphrodisia-a two-in-one that’s double the fun because we just don’t wanna stop! A dark and dirty shape-shifter story with alpha heroes who will stop at nothing to claim their human mates! Talk about tigers and tigers and tigers, oh my!

Here’s a peek at PRIMAL HEAT:

With the ability to shapeshift into white tigers, the Kith have arrived on Earth in search of their “One”–the soul mates who are destined to satisfy their scorching lust…

Wicked Lord

U.S. Sergeant Major Bren Preston has no control over keeping half-human, half-tiger Kith Ambassador Lord Farid Arjun from entering her dreams at night–and surrendering to the feral hunger he sets off in her. Though powerless in dreams, she’s determined never to succumb to her desires in person. But seeing Farid transform into his magnificent feline form elicits a wild passion that won’t be denied…

Carnal Empress

Jana Townsend doesn’t know what’s more incredible: Falling in love with a shapeshifter or discovering that Kith Emperor Kyber traveled the universe to find her. Now together, their union is a perfect joining of sould and bodies as Jana discovers a ravenous desire that begs to be sated again and again…

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Also today we have Eden Bradley’s THE LOVERS, her first full-length novel from Harlequin Spice! This is a hot, steamy ménage story with a different twist-the ménage is between her heroine Bettina, the dark and sexy Jack, and the enchanting Audrey. Being with another woman is a top female fantasy, but few erotic romance authors are writing it, so be sure to read this one to find out why THE LOVERS is breaking ground in this sub-genre!

Let’s take a look at Bettina’s diary entry-and the book blurb:

Have you ever dreamed of having a single experience which would change you forever? I think I’d dreamed about exactly that sort of thing most of my life. In recent years I thought it was going to be about writing a New York Times best-seller. But a long time ago, before I lived through my teenage years and came out damaged on the other side, I thought it would be falling in love with a man and living happily ever after, like every other girl.

Who knew the one to change me would be a woman? But the story doesn’t end there. No, that in itself is a whole new beginning. Because right after I met Audrey, I met Jack.

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It seemed ideal —two months at a charming writers’ retreat, surrounded by kindred souls. But Bettina Boothe wasn’t prepared for just how long eight weeks truly was. Or that in the process, she would have to open up and reveal the most secret places in her body and soul.
Fortunately, her fellow authors do not share Bettina’s self-consciousness and begin to draw her out of her self-imposed shell. One in particular—Audrey LeClaire—seems to ooze confidence and self-assuredness. Dark and petite, Audrey’s potent sensuality draws the men and women in the workshop to her like flies to honey. Bettina is just as vulnerable, finding herself overwhelmed by a very unexpected attraction to Audrey who makes Bettina her special project.
But when Jack Curran arrives at the retreat, everything changes. Jack is tall, beautiful, masculine. A writer of dark thrillers, he is as mysterious and alluring as his books. He and Audrey are obviously an item, but they eagerly welcome Bettina into their bed. Suddenly Bettina finds herself swept up in a maelstrom of lust, obsession and jealousy, torn between her need for two very different people in a love triangle where she will either be cherished…or consumed.

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The books just keep coming, with the Smutketeer’s November 2nd releases!

Eden’s evil twin Eve Berlin (although she’ll tell you Eden is the wicked one) has her debut novel out from Berkley Heat with PLEASURE’S EDGE!

How do you know…

For beautiful erotica author Dylan Ivory, being in control is everything. Growing up in a dysfunctional home, she raised her younger brother–right up to the day he died in a motorcycle accident. Since then, she has lived a life of perfect order, leaving nothing to chance. Then she met the man who was everything she was not…and everything she wanted.

How far you can go…

Alec Walker is a writer of dark psychological thrillers–and a man who lives for thrills. From motorcycles to snowboards to swimming with sharks, there’s no end to his lust for excitement. His tastes extend into the bedroom as well, and into The Pleasure Dome, the local BDSM club where he lets no rules bind his desires. The only thing he truly fears is love, and allowing someone else to really know him…

Unless you go over the edge?

While researching a book on sexual extremes, Dylan interviews Alec–and longs to taste the temptation he offers. But he’s a self-proclaimed dominant and she refuses to surrender control. Slowly and seductively, though, Alec shows her that by letting go and submitting to his every desire she can experience the ultimate pleasure. But to keep the woman who for the first time brings him to his knees , can Alec take the ultimate risk and surrender his heart?

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And as if that’s not book overload, Crystal’s STOLEN PASSIONS is out from Samhain Publishing! No one writes hot, primal shifter sex like she does, and this kicks off her Forbidden Passion series, written with Loribelle Hunt. This time it’s sultry, sensual leopards against a sexy female wolf-they start out as enemies, but what’s that saying? Keep your enemies closer…and in this case that means sleeping with the enemy! When a wolf and a leopard come together, it’ll unleash the beast, bringing out the animals within…Let’s take a look…

Enemy mine…

Lyra Marcus tries to avoid her werewolf family’s political entanglements. Instead, she heals the wounds of the never-ending border skirmishes between lycans and wereleopards. It’s a bitter irony that she’s about to die in that war.

When she awakens after an attack, the horror of her situation dawns. She’s a wounded werewolf in the middle of wereleopard territory. And standing over her is a son of its most powerful family, Zander Leonidas. Her fate may be a swift and bloody end, but she intends to go down fighting.

Zander has no plan to fight the little she-wolf who’s landed at his Refuge Resort, a place where shifter species are free to be what they are—except wolves, of course. Yet Lyra fits him in a way she shouldn’t, and the urge to mark her as his mate is irresistible. A match like theirs, though, would rock the foundations of their world.

He intends to find out who left Lyra for dead on Leonidas land. And keep her safe from whoever wants to finish the job—not to mention the werewolf alpha who wants his niece back at any cost…

Warning: Two sexy shifters on the opposite sides of a war doing naughty, forbidden things to each other. Forward, backward, in bed, out of bed, you get the idea. All while trying to escape an assassin. Then it really gets exciting…

Buy it here: Samhain Publishing

It’s all about multiples this week, so that means multiple contests with multiple winners-because who doesn’t love multiples?

To enter, go to our websites: www.CrystalJordan.com, www.EdenBradley.com and www.EveBerlin.com and scroll through our book covers on our Books pages. Come back here and tell us which are your top two favorites and why. Specify which prize you are entering for (the contest numbers and prizes listed below). You can enter once for each prize, but you must give us different book covers for each entry.

**NOTE: print book prizes can only be shipped within the continental US due to prohibitive mailing costs-sorry!

We’ll choose one winner for each prize, and announce the winners here on Saturday, November 6th, so be sure to check back to see if you’ve won!

CONTEST #1: Exotic Courtesan contest: Eden/Eve will give away a signed copy of her contemporary erotic novels, A 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN and EXOTICA: SEVEN DAYS OF KAMA SUTRA, NINE DAYS OF ARABIAN NIGHTS.

CONTEST #2: Untamed Prowl contest: Crystal will give away will give away a signed copies of her erotic shape shifter novels, ON THE PROWL and UNTAMED.

CONTEST #3: Breeding Kisses contest: Ede/Even will give away copies of her e-books, THE SEEKING KISS, Book One in her Midnight Playground Series, and THE BREEDER, Book Three in the Smutketeer’s Wasteland continuity series.

CONTEST #4: Wandering Men contest: Crystal will give away copies of her e-books, IT’S RAINING MEN and THE WANDERER, Book One in the Smutketeer’s Wasteland continuity series.

Be sure to enter today! And all of our books are on sale now-check our websites for more details!

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