Kerri Carpenter's Book, FLIRTING WITH THE COMPETITION is out today!!

Hi Friends!Fl It's finally here... Release Day for my first book, "Flirting with the Competition," and I couldn't be more excited! This story was a blast to work on. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Happy Reading! Kerri Buy links are below. For more options, click on the cover. Lawyers Whitney March and Jordan Campbell are interviewing at a prestigious law firm. For the same job. And Jordan is determined to win, despite his sexy, capable, and fiery rival. But when the elevator they're sharing comes to an abrupt stop, they're stuck—together. The only thing they have in common is determination to get the job...and an unexpected and escalating attraction. And it's only a matter of time before these competitors indulge in a very sexy little connection between floors.   Did you know... My two main characters, Whitney and Jordan, get stuck in an elevator on their way to a really important job interview. Personally, I've never been trapped in an elevator. Good thing too, since I have a touch of claustrophobia just like one of my characters. Can you guess which one? Facebook Twitter Website Copyright © 2014 Kerri Carpenter, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are interested in Kerri Carpenter's writing news. Our mailing address is: Kerri Carpenter P.O. Box 40893 Arlington, VA 22204 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

In Time for the Holidays--The Christmas Star

I have the great honor of announcing the soon to be released Christmas Star by the talented Christine Ashworth.

Let me tell you a bit about the book:

After a whirlwind courtship and surprise proposal, makeup artist Elle Houston is in a fairytale setting, awaiting her Christmas Eve wedding to a movie star. But when the resort’s chef starts cooking, Elle finds that more than her appetite is being tempted, and she realizes just how wrong fairytales can be…

Sounds fun! Hey, chef's COOK! They know how to raise the heat...

And coming from a family of authors, Christine knows how to write. So heeerrreee's Christine!

Christine Ashworth grew up listening to the sound of her father’s manual typewriter as he wrote and sold over 300 novels. Now, to her delight, she’s the one writing novels. But as her dad is still writing away, she’s got some major catching up to do.

Christine is a romantic from way back, having first picked up Harlequin romances at the age of twelve, then falling in love with bigger books when she swiped her mother’s copy of Rosemary Rogers’ Sweet Savage Love. She’s happily married to an actor/dancer/guitarist/hippy, has two sons, and tends to her garden and her family in southern California. You can read about her cooking, gardening, and wine picks at her website at http://christine-ashworth.com.

She'll also be at my Facebook Party tonight so stop in and say "Hi"!

Laura Kaye's JUST GOTTA SAY-Release Day

I am so darn delighted to be telling you about my friend Laura Kaye's release. This is one of those books -- you know the ones: Hot, Sexy and still has the tender warmth of finding love with the one you were always meant to be with. Be warned: this one is very HOT! 

I could tell you all about it but I don't like to spoil the fun. So instead I will let the book speak for itself.

Super Sexy Cover

Just Gotta Say is a super sexy friends-to-lovers story and a contemporary ménage a quatres. Here’s the blurb:

Callie Davis stumbles upon two of her three male roommates in a surprising, molten-hot midnight tryst and discovers a side of herself she never knew existed. Desire to play with them grips her, and she can’t stop fantasizing about having multiple men, particularly her three long-time best friends.

Callie is thrilled when a guys’ night out gives her the perfect opportunity to recreate her fantasy, with the help of a threesome porn video and a bag of sex toys. That is, until Lucas, Jack and Noah return early and catch her in the act. More than anything, the guys want to make her fantasy come true. But Callie has a secret, and she can’t help wondering if being with all three men will risk the future she’s always wanted with one of them.

As three strong sets of hands caress and undress her, Callie surrenders to desire, because sometimes you just gotta say...yes.

Just Gotta Say Excerpt:

The set-up: Callie’s most secret fantasy was just unexpectedly revealed to her three male roommates…

The invitation he laid out for her—the invitation to be with them, to act out this fantasy for real with them—was completely outside anything she imagined possible.

She sat for a long moment, still mostly curled into herself. Her gaze lit on the rough bobbing of Jack’s Adams apple as he swallowed. His apparent case of nerves eased hers. A little. Soft, sandy-colored strands brushed against her forehead. Her nose filled with the scent of him, all night air and masculinity.

Callie took a deep breath, her body remembering her unfulfilled arousal even as her brain struggled to keep up. “What are you saying, Jack?” she whispered, buying herself time to think and needing him to spell it out.

One hand stroked her back while the other combed her hair off the side of her face. “I’m saying”—he nibbled at her ear, but this time his lips lingered, his warm exhalation caressing her skin—“that the three of us want to bring that fantasy to life for you. If you want.”

Every nerve ending tingled with the promise of what he offered. Her heart rose from where it had plummeted into her gut and now hammered against her chest. Images of the three of them kissing her, fucking her, swamped her brain. Blood roared through her ears. “Are you teasing me?”

“Look at me,” he said, sliding his large hand under her cheek.

The commanding press of his skin on hers skittered electrical charges down her neck to her breasts. Her nipples hardened. She acquiesced and sat up just enough to face one of her three dearest friends.

“We want to do this for you.” He quirked the sexiest of crooked smiles and shrugged with one shoulder. “You know we’d be good together.”

She didn’t know whether his “we” meant her and him or the four of them. An encouraging voice in her mind said both interpretations were true.

He cupped her neck, his grasp comforting and reassuring, and brushed his lips against her right cheekbone. Her right eye. Her forehead. Tilting his head to the other side, he repeated the action against her left eye, the apple of her left cheek. She gasped when his last kiss fell on that tender, hollow spot just below her ear.

“What do you want, Callie? Whatever you want, we want. Always.”

Whew!! See? I told you so! Hot!

But you thought that was all to this treat of a post. Nope. Laura has some more fun for you:

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All of this excitement and heat comes from the wonderfully talented mind of the one and only, not just USA Today bestselling author but a New York Times bestselling author, too, Laura Kaye.

The Lovely Laura Kaye

Laura is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nearly twenty books in contemporary and paranormal romance. Growing up, Laura’s large extended family believed in the supernatural, and family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with storytelling and all things paranormal. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two daughters, and cute-but-bad dog, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day.

You can get to know Laura and her books by visiting her at:

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And the links to JUST GOTTA SAY:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501023764/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1501023764&linkCode=as2&tag=laukay-20&linkId=GART4DN7YXSQHVWS

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/just-gotta-say-laura-kaye/1106027596?ean=2940150464483

Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/just-gotta-say-1

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The Next Big Thing

A big THANK YOU to writer Carlene Love Flores, author of Sidewalk Flower (coming in January 2013 from Evernight), for inviting me to participate in The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. You can click on over to Carlene's blog where she will answer the same ten questions about her fantastic book in progress, Sin's Flower, that I will be answering about my work in progress.

The Next Big Thing was started by blogger She Writes to help authors promote their current work in progress by answering ten questions and then “tagging” a few other women writers inviting them to share the status of their own current works in progress. My answers are below, followed by links to the writer friends I’ve “tagged” for The Next Big Thing.

1. What is the working title of your book? Right now, "Intoxicating Spirit"

2. Where did the idea for your book come from? In a unique, round about way. I needed a free-read 500 word or less ghost, short story for my wonderful group, Waterworld Mermaids in October. I had no idea what to write until one of my mermaid sisters suggested using one of my minor characters from my book, "Wanted: One Ghost" which is coming out, June 2013 with Crescent Moon Press. I liked my free-read character, Millie Taylor so much--and the story, that I had a great idea to start a sequel with November's, NaNoWriMo program.

3. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?  A two hundred year old tavern maid is brought to life in 2012 and falls in love with the local police officer who saw her as a ghost. But is their love short lived when the tavern Millie's been a part of for two centuries is destined to be demolished? (I guess that's two sentences. Oh, well.)

 

4. What genre does your book fall under? Paranormal/Fantasy Romance

5. What actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition? When I started the idea it was before he became People's Sexiest Man, Channing Tatum as Sean Lightfoot. As far as Millie Taylor, either Amy Smart or perhaps Scarlet Johannson.

6. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? Planning to submit it for a sequel to "Wanted: One Ghost" to Crescent Moon Press.  I can only hope.

7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript? Thirty days, give or take a few. I did most of it with 2012 NaNoWriMo competition and became a winner again! (I did NaNo back in 2010 for Wanted: One Ghost--only fitting I would do so again.)

8. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre? I was honored during a pitch session with Wanted:One Ghost back a few years ago to have it compared to Jude Deveraux's, "A Knight in Shining Armor" (one of my favorite books ever). This one, not sure yet and not sure I would put it up against any other. It's definitely an honor when people can place it--but I can't because I feel every book is unique, no matter who writes it. I can't give myself credit to think that I'm up there to be compared to the wonderful authors who've paved the way.

9. Who or what inspired you to write this book? My theme is based on fate. Fate drives us all in the direction that we are supposed to be...sometimes against our better judgement. In this case, as I said early in question #2 my mermaid sisters had a pretty big influence in this step...but it was my Muse at 2 a.m. one Saturday morning in September that drove the plot and premise. The characters just take over.

10. What else about your book might pique readers interest?  I write a lot about paranormal/metaphysics and ideas that may or may not hold scientific ideals for those who study and believe strongly in these issues. My books are about 'what if...' fiction and putting two people together at great odds. They are light, fun reads. Don't try to over-analyze.

Authors that I’ve tagged are:

Amelia Adler http://www.ameliaadlerauthor.wordpress.com/

 

 

The Next Big Thing

A big THANK YOU to writer Carlene Love Flores, author of Sidewalk Flower (coming in January 2013 from Evernight), for inviting me to participate in The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. You can click on over to Carlene's blog where she will answer the same ten questions about her fantastic book in progress, Sin's Flower, that I will be answering about my work in progress.

The Next Big Thing was started by blogger She Writes to help authors promote their current work in progress by answering ten questions and then “tagging” a few other women writers inviting them to share the status of their own current works in progress. My answers are below, followed by links to the writer friends I’ve “tagged” for The Next Big Thing.

1. What is the working title of your book? Right now, "Intoxicating Spirit"

2. Where did the idea for your book come from? In a unique, round about way. I needed a free-read 500 word or less ghost, short story for my wonderful group, Waterworld Mermaids in October. I had no idea what to write until one of my mermaid sisters suggested using one of my minor characters from my book, "Wanted: One Ghost" which is coming out, June 2013 with Crescent Moon Press. I liked my free-read character, Millie Taylor so much--and the story, that I had a great idea to start a sequel with November's, NaNoWriMo program.

3. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?  A two hundred year old tavern maid is brought to life in 2012 and falls in love with the local police officer who saw her as a ghost. But is their love short lived when the tavern Millie's been a part of for two centuries is destined to be demolished? (I guess that's two sentences. Oh, well.)

 

4. What genre does your book fall under? Paranormal/Fantasy Romance

5. What actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition? When I started the idea it was before he became People's Sexiest Man, Channing Tatum as Sean Lightfoot. As far as Millie Taylor, either Amy Smart or perhaps Scarlet Johannson.

6. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? Planning to submit it for a sequel to "Wanted: One Ghost" to Crescent Moon Press.  I can only hope.

7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript? Thirty days, give or take a few. I did most of it with 2012 NaNoWriMo competition and became a winner again! (I did NaNo back in 2010 for Wanted: One Ghost--only fitting I would do so again.)

8. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre? I was honored during a pitch session with Wanted:One Ghost back a few years ago to have it compared to Jude Deveraux's, "A Knight in Shining Armor" (one of my favorite books ever). This one, not sure yet and not sure I would put it up against any other. It's definitely an honor when people can place it--but I can't because I feel every book is unique, no matter who writes it. I can't give myself credit to think that I'm up there to be compared to the wonderful authors who've paved the way.

9. Who or what inspired you to write this book? My theme is based on fate. Fate drives us all in the direction that we are supposed to be...sometimes against our better judgement. In this case, as I said early in question #2 my mermaid sisters had a pretty big influence in this step...but it was my Muse at 2 a.m. one Saturday morning in September that drove the plot and premise. The characters just take over.

10. What else about your book might pique readers interest?  I write a lot about paranormal/metaphysics and ideas that may or may not hold scientific ideals for those who study and believe strongly in these issues. My books are about 'what if...' fiction and putting two people together at great odds. They are light, fun reads. Don't try to over-analyze.

Authors that I’ve tagged are:

Amelia Adler http://www.ameliaadlerauthor.wordpress.com/