Check this out! Romance Novel News has Coming Clean (Book #3 in the Dirty Laundry Series) as a recommended read for July!

*happy dancing author* weeeeeeeeee!

She also read TALK DIRTY TO ME(Book #2)!

Have I said lately how much I love my job?

In the past week, I have been a giver. I have awarded prizes upon prizes, from free books to two Dirty Laundry Baskets full of goodies!

Winners were:

Kris Starr

Wendi Haas

FredTownWard

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Stay tuned and follow me on Twitter. I loooooove to give things away.

Hurry! Today is my last day as the featured author on Long and Short Romance/Whipped Cream! Go read about my version of DIRTY LAUNDRY and be entered to win a very adult DIRTY LAUNDRY BASKET, complete with batteries!

Stay tuned for even more good stuff coming up!

From Romantic Times Book Review

Containing both sexual fantasy fulfillment as well as sweet courtship, this novella has it all. The characters are realistic and the story is straight-forward with nothing to distract from the intense attraction between the hero and heroine. Readers will be charmed by the authors’ seamless blend of delightful love story and naughty erotica.

Squeeeeeeeee!!!

Now head on over to Long and Short Romance/Whipped Cream. This week I am the spotlight author and you can enter to win a naughty Dirty Laundry Basket!

Quick note… I’m the feature author of the week over at Long and Short Romance/ Whipped Cream and *YOU* should enter to win an Adult Dirty laundry basket! Come talk to me and comment to enter!

And without further ado…

I have guy author David Bridger with me today , giving a sneak peek into his version of roMANce. Don’t you love his title?

Beauty and the Bastard

Saul the Bastard is a fallen angel who works as a bounty hunter for powerful urban demon families. Rebecca Drake, a modern day demon princess, is being hunted by dangerous desert demons. When Rebecca’s family hires Saul to protect her, they are both unhappy with the arrangement, but before long sparks fly as they try to resist their strong mutual attraction. For the first time in living memory, Saul has someone to love; someone he is scared of losing; someone the desert demons have marked to be their next sacrifice.

Interview with David Bridger

You’re the father of grown women, planning their weddings. Care to share your thoughts for them on their big day?

The eldest of our three daughters is getting married in September, and the second eldest in October. Our youngest will be bridesmaid for both her sisters, and the brides will also be bridesmaids for each other. My wife is making both three-tier wedding cakes, and the girls all inherited their mum’s arty crafty talents, so this year is a whirlwind of do-it-yourself design and manufacture. Also, we have a decorator in our house for two weeks (he started on Beauty’s release day) to paint and paper right through.

Stress. We haz it.

So my thoughts for them are:

• on your big day, put all the stressy stuff aside and enjoy yourselves

• I’m so proud of you I could burst

• I love you

What do your ‘girls’ think of Dad writing romance? Have they read your work?

Reading and writing paranormal romance and urban fantasy is as natural for me as breathing, so they don’t think there is anything unusual about it. They’re simply thrilled for me. They read a lot, and widely across various genres including romance, but they haven’t yet read my work. I’ll be happy for them to do so when they want to. And if they don’t want to, I’ll be happy with that too.

So talk, tell us who is David Bridger?

I’m a five-year-old boy whose yachtsman father just died.

I’m a fourteen-year-old swimming star who carries the secret shame of being sexually abused by a teacher.

I’m a young man who sails the oceans in search of my silent father’s approval and who finds freedom and forgiveness under the stars.

I’m a husband and a father to the four people I love most in the world.

These days, I’m a writer and a beachcomber. My preferred attire is bare feet, shorts and t-shirt, freshly washed but not ironed, for the lightly creased sun-bleached look that says: don’t worry, be happy. In my experience, when you feel happy and sexy, you are happy and sexy. Soft sand between my toes and a sea breeze on my skin make me feel happy and sexy.

What are the unique challenges about being a male romance writer? Are there any?

I spent a long time trying to think of a unique challenge, and I can’t come up with any. There are minor irritations, such as dickheads putting-down the genre, but those aren’t unique to male writers and they’re not even challenges.

This is your debut. What was your writing journey like for Beauty and the Bastard?

I always knew I would write when I came home from the sea, but I never expected the homecoming to happen in my early thirties. Nor did I expect it to be traumatic. It took me several years to recover my mobility, progressing slowly from paralysis, to bedbound, to a wheelchair, to up and about on sticks, until finally I stood and walked unaided. One of the things that helped me stay sane (ish) through that long process was learning how to write novels.

I’m a romantic (as many sailors are, whatever they might tell you) so it came as no surprise when everything I wrote contained romantic elements.

Beauty and the Bastard was a delight to write. After years of experimentation, everything came together and stayed together from Chapter One to The End. I found my best method and my most natural voice – dark, foreboding, sharp, sensuous, and passionate – and I wrote it like a summer storm thundering in from the ocean.

Tell us something about each main character that is *NOT* on the page.

Rebecca is successful in her position as an internal fraud investigator, working mostly in the family business, and she is also a demon princess with a father who heads his family’s Vegas operation and an uncle who heads his family’s Wall Street operation. That much is clear in the story, as is the fact that these demon family businesses are similar to mafia operations.

I don’t go into too much detail about how Rebecca has always been kept away from the ugliness and violence, and how in her professional life she represents the respectable shop front of the operation. But knowing that she knows about and accepts this aspect of her family life helped me give her a hard edge.

Saul’s life on earth is a private torture. Physical, mental and emotional. As a fallen angel he retains the certain knowledge that heaven exists, and that he used to belong there, but he has no memory of it. He can’t even remember the sin he committed that brought about his fall. Most of his thoughts and all his actions are about serving out his open-ended sentence and getting back to heaven.

But (and this is the bit that isn’t on the page) sometimes he wishes he didn’t possess that certain knowledge. Sometimes he envies humans our faith-based beliefs, and our freedom of choice regarding what we believe and whether or not we want to believe in anything at all.

What did your research for Beauty and the Bastard teach you?

I learned a lot about the Mojave Desert, which I haven’t yet visited, and some about the geography of NYC, which I have visited. I read about alliances between mafia families and enjoyed watching The Godfather again. And I refreshed my memory about the Judeo-Christian tradition of the War in Heaven, which I studied years ago.

What is off limits sexually writing wise? What would you NEVER do in a sex scene?

Rape. Non-consensual sex is a hot topic, and people wiser and far more experienced than I have spoken about the various subtleties involved in writing “forced seduction” and “make me enjoy it” sex. I understand that harmless rape fantasies (harmless, that is, as opposed to real fears or the traumatic reliving of actual experiences) are enjoyed by many women – and perhaps by many men too. Many people love reading them, and some authors write them superbly. But not me.

Give us a glimpse into the future. What else do you have on deck?

I’m two chapters into another Angels and Demons novella, in the same world as Beauty and the Bastard but featuring new characters. I love it!

I also have an urban fantasy novel out there on submission, which, if it gets picked up, might become the first book in a series.

And waiting patiently on the back burner is a futuristic steampunk romantic sf adventure.

Let’s get a wee bit morbid. You have 10 words not counting name and dates. What is on your tombstone?

Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.

Now seriously, how do I compete with an ending like that? How about with the trailer for Beauty and the Bastard?

That’s me. *sheepish*

I tried to do a little promo and well, things snowballed. I scheduled a guest blog for this week (Shiloh Walker) and knew Carina Press would be putting up one Ginny and I did together(coming Tuesday) for our release. Then I found out I won a  spotlight slot on WHIPPED CREAM ROMANCES, a week long author feature that I was thrilled to have! I am offering an adult DIRTY LAUNDRY BASKET as a prize too.

That is not all. Romantic Times eMagazine reviewed TALK DIRTY TO ME (God, I hope they like it) and informed me that a guest blog Ginny and I did would also be posted Wednesday. That is 8 guest blogs in 5 days… oops.

This is the week of Inez-in-your-face. Sorry for the overkill, I didn’t mean it!

8.7 of 10 from Pearl’s World Of Romance

TALK DIRTY TO ME was hot, engaging and fast-paced. The dialogues were sharp, fast and funny. The talk was wicked and dirty, the characters were smart and witty, and the sex was sizzling. This reader pretty satisfied after reading the last page of this novella, which was short but very well written. I have but one complaint about this story and it’s the same one I had about COIN OPERATED (book 1): It’s too damn short! When I reached the end I wanted more of Nora and Jarod, much more, like pages and pages more. I couldn’t get enough of them and their chemistry.

TALK DIRTY TO ME is an enticing piece of erotic fiction and a worthy sequel to COIN OPERATED. It raised the bar a notch for the next installment in this series. A series that’s well on its way to becoming one of my favorite erotic romance series of late. Despite missing some sort of epilogue (just being greedy for more here, see a the paragraph above) in the merely 88 pages this story counted, Ginny Glass and Inez Kelley delivered not only a smoking hot book filled with all kinds of the good dirty, they also gave me a well-rounded, romantic love story that fits perfectly into the Dirty Laundry series. All I can say is: “Ladies, hit me with some more of the dirty stuff.”

Geeee, no pressure there Pearl. *snicker* I love that she loved it! I really loved that she couldn’t tell who wrote what part of the story. Our styles are so very similar that it just blended.

Wanna see something HOT?

Come visit me on Teresa D’Amario’s blog and comment to be entered to win a copy of SALOME AT SUNRISE. CLICK HERE

This is cool, a husband/wife writing team. See, I love Big G with everything in me but if I had to write with him, images of a shallow grave come to mind. So just sit back and get to know this dynamic duo and their Carina Press book CADDYGIRLS.

Hi, Inez!  Thanks so much for having us!  And, yep.  V.K. Sykes isn’t one person, but two—Vanessa Kelly and Randy Sykes, a wife/husband writing team who love writing romance as much as you gals do.  Although it might seem kind of strange that a guy would get such a kick out of writing romance, Randy does enjoy it.  Well, most of it, anyway.  There’s one aspect that makes him mutter under his breath and slowly back away from the keyboard.  Can you guess what it is?  That’s right.  Sex scenes.  He HATES writing sex scenes.

You might well ask, why don’t I just write the sex scenes?  In large part I do, but Randy always pens the first draft, including the naughty bits.  Only when he’s finished that draft does he hand it over to me, and then I do revisions.  It’s our technique for keeping the writing as seamless as possible, without choppy transitions from his voice to mine.

And it works, most of the time.  Except, dear Lord, for the sex scenes.

Vanessa:  This sex scene is only two pages long.  This is supposed to be a HOT book, remember?

Randy:  *silence*

Vanessa:  And why do the hero and heroine still have their clothes on?

Randy:  Um, they do?

Vanessa:  And they’re in the shower.  With their clothes on.

Randy:  Huh.  I wonder how that happened.

At this point, Vanessa mumbles something x-rated and takes over.  She, er, massages the sex scenes, adding lots of hot, fun sex in as many interesting places as she can come up with.  And since our latest book, CaddyGirls, takes place in Las Vegas, there are lots of great settings for steamy action—including outdoors on the hood of a Corvette.  She knows her work is done when she hands the draft back to Randy and he gets embarrassed when he reads the sex scenes.  It’s her most reliable barometer for gauging the appropriate heat level of the book.

Here’s the cover blurb for CaddyGirls:

Torrey Green once had a promising golf career, but now she’s stuck caddying for butt-pinching businessmen. She doesn’t mind playing dumb while hauling clubs if it means she can get her golf career back on track, and she’s going to need an influx of cash to focus on the pro circuit. A booking from video game mogul Julian Grant could be Torrey’s cash-flow solution.

In town for a business deal, Julian’s partners plan for a little action on the greens. They’re looking for some fun with their rent-a-caddy girls, and have a lot riding on who can score, on the course and off. This type of gamble isn’t Julian’s style, but he’ll do whatever it takes to keep his partners happy – even if that includes breaking a few hearts along the way.

Julian soon discovers that Torrey is more than just a caddy girl and they spark an intriguing attraction – but if Torrey discovers the truth behind his idiotic wager, all bets are off…

You can find us on the web and a read an excerpt from CaddyGirls at: http://www.vksykes.comhttp://www.vanessakellyauthor.com Vanessa also writes Regency-set historical romance for Kensington Zebra.  You can find her on the web at:  http://www.vanessakellyauthor.com

**please note Inez was good and DID NOT ask how much , ahem, research, they had to do for all those steamy scenes and if the Corvette burned Vanessa’s ass. Something belong to the sanctity of marriage**

Could YOU write with your spouse and remain married? Me, hmmmm, I dunno.

Laughter never gets old and neither do reviews. Pearl of Pearl’s World of Romance stumbled across JINXED while scoping out my site and chose to review it. She rated it 9/10 stars!

…one of the most funny and endearing contemporary romances I’ve read in a while. I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants and my stomach was still hurting the day after I’d finished the book. But I also cried at some wonderfully emotional scenes where both Frannie’s and Jinx’s pain seeped through the pages and made me want them to work it out and find the happiness they both deserved.

As said JINXED is funny, touching and a great contemporary read that underneath the laugh-out-loud humor, packed an emotional punch that won’t leave you for a while after finishing the book.

First, I love the review (of course)

Second, I made her laugh and cry (score!)

Third, Her belly hurt from laughing so hard the day AFTER reading. (this thrills me, which says I am a sick, twisted person for enjoying her discomfort)

and fourth… I really want to get back to my next romantic comedy now. *sigh* I need more hands and the ability to write several stories at one time.