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July 2008
CONTENTS:
GREETING
NEW RELEASES
UPCOMING RELEASES
GUEST AUTHOR: CLAIRE THOMPSON
EXCERPT FROM BINDING DISCOVERIES BY CLAIRE THOMPSON
POLLS
EXCERPT FROM MIRAGE
REVIEWS
Hello!
Welcome to the July issue of my newsletter.
This month's guest author is Claire Thompson, author of hot BDSM and m/m erotic romance. Find out more about Claire and her books by reading her interview below and the excerpt from her book, Binding Discoveries.
This month's Kink of the Month is Marty Rayne. Stop by the Kink of the Month page to read Marty's interview and learn about her m/m and BDSM stories.
If you have a chance, please stop by my blog and tell me about some of your favorite villains and antiheroes. The topic is baddies with potential.
Carnal Obsession, the last book in the Carnal 2 series, is now available from Changeling Press. The novella was released at the end of June and focuses on the vampire tribal leader, Ceres, and her two sexy werewolf guards, Noble and Pascal.
Mirage, my Changeling Press Heat Stroke has also been recently released. This futuristic short story is about a woman who crashes on a desert planet and finds more than water on an oasis.
On July 16th I'll be at the Changeling Press reader loop from 4pm-8pm EST and on July 20th I'll be at the Ellora's Cave chat loop from 4pm-8pm EST. Hope to see you there! Also on July 4th stop by the Literary Nymphs chat loop. They're having their annual m/m chat with lots of authors stopping by.
I hope you have a fantastic July! Feel free to drop me an email at katehill@sprintmail.com or katehill2@yahoo.com with any questions or comments.
Kate
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Carnal Obsession
(vampire/werewolf ménage)
From Changeling PressWolf guards Noble and Pascal have been assigned to serve the Vampire tribal leader Ceres. While they perform their duty with the utmost professionalism, they've lusted after their sexy mistress almost to the point of obsession.
Their fantasy finally comes true when they discover she feels the same way about them. The trio enter a heated affair that burns all boundaries between wolves and vampires, but what will they do when their romance causes problems for Ceres’ tribe?
Heat Stroke: Mirage
(short futuristic/sci-fi)
From Changeling PressOn her way to a much-needed vacation on Earth, Emilee’s ship crashes on a desert planet. After a few days she begins to fear the worst, until she finds an oasis and the sexiest human male she’s ever seen. The irresistible redhead is ready for action, but is he real or a mirage?
Triple Shot Tracy
(paranormal)Coming soon from Changeling Press.
Desperate for a break from her monotonous life, Tracy decides a trip to the country is exactly what she needs. Little does she know that when she drives into Hot River Campground she’s about to enter a real life and very adult fairytale.
After paying her fee at the campground, Tracy has no idea that the host, a pixie-like lady called Miranda, has hit her with fairy dust. The magic begins that very night when she is seduced three times by the most gorgeous man she has ever met. First he teases her with toasted marshmallows. Then he tempts her with a swim in the river. Finally he shows her just how erotic a sleeping bag can be.
She wonders how one man can have so much energy, but her curiosity is soon satisfied when she is attacked by a wolf in man’s clothing. To her surprise, her campsite lover comes to her rescue, except he’s not one, but three. The Princeton triplets—Oakes, Jeb, and Tripp—had come to protect Tracy. They’ve fallen for her as hard as she’s fallen for them, but will anyone be safe with a werewolf on the loose?
Victory Stallion
(erotic shapeshifter)Upcoming from Ellora's Cave.
From the first, Janelle and Wilder are meant to be together. He is everything she could want in a Horseman-- handsome, charming and courageous. He literally sweeps her off her feet and takes her on breath stealing flights that make her heart soar even higher than his mighty wings can carry her.
Then her seemingly unstoppable mate is struck down. Wilder is slowly losing his vision and is forced to resign from the Fighting Carriers. Unwilling to see him give up, Janelle convinces him that she can be his eyes. Together they retake the skies in time to help save the Horseman race from a disease that threatens to destroy them.
GUEST AUTHOR INTERVIEW: CLAIRE THOMPSON
KH: What are your favorite genres to read and write?
CT: I love to read all kinds of genres -- general fiction, historical fiction, erotic romance, BDSM erotica. My favorite thing to write right now is male/male BDSM. I love putting myself into the heads of these men (not to mention the bodies, yum!) and trying to imagine what it must be like. Much of the emotional reaction to an intense D/s situation is the same, but with a man’s perspective. I also enjoy m/m/f, with all the conflicts and sexy possibilities when two become three.
KH: What do you like best about writing romance?
CT: I like having things work out. I hate it sometimes when I invest a lot of time and emotion in a book and its characters and then, right at the end, sometimes it seems for no reason, wham, they’re killed off or leave. That infuriates me. With romance one knows, however bumpy the ride, the lovers will get there in the end!
KH: Would you tell us about your new book Binding Discoveries?
CT: Binding Discoveries is truly about discovery, really for all three of the characters. It’s a BDSM ménage, though EC wouldn’t let me bill it as a ménage, since Mark, who introduces Olivia and Tom to the intense sensuality of BDSM and ménages, ends up leaving them in the end to return to his own first true love, Lisette. The bulk of the book, however, deals in erotic detail with how Olivia and Tom come under the sensual spell of the very masterful Mark, going places sexually and sensually they never would have dared on their own. Lots of delicious D/s and m/m intensity, plus the real jealousies and difficulties that naturally arise when a third person is involved in matters of the heart.
KH: What are you currently working on?
CT: A new non-BDSM ménage a trois about a sexy Scottish wanderer named Kye who falls into the life of Cassidy and her on-again, off-again lover, Ian. Kye is one of those great listeners who can draw out anyone to tell their life story within minutes of knowing him. To top it off, he’s sizzling hot with a libido match. I’m only on chapter two at the moment, but the plan is for him to become involved with both Cassidy and Ian, first one at a time, creating the expected jealousies and confusion and unrequited lusts. . .but he will skillfully bring them around to a ménage, with all its explosive erotic potential.
KH: To you what makes a great romance hero?
CT: Strength coupled with utter honesty and a willingness to be vulnerable. A big cock helps too (laughing!).
KH: If you could meet one of your characters, which one would it be?
CT: Gosh, that’s a hard one. I want to meet them all, especially the men. I think I would like to have dinner with Eric Mendez, my Dom hero in Golden Boy and Golden Man. I really like him as a Dom because he’s authentic and deeply romantic. He’s very confident in himself as a Dom, but he’s human and vulnerable. He’s able to pull back and learn from his lover, Johnny, without it compromising who he is a man. Of course, once he met me, he would stop being gay and immediately become my hot, sexy Latino lover! Hey, I’m the author, I can make it happen.
KH: Do you have a website, blog, newsletter or email where readers can reach you?
CT: Yes, my website is www.clairethompson.net. I have a newsletter I send out about six times a year, filled with my newest releases, what’s in the pipeline, what I’m working on now and fun stuff like contests. If you wish to sign up, just stop by my website and click the button at the bottom of the home page. My email is Claire@clairethompson.net and I love hearing from readers. I’ll always write back.
KH: Thank you, Claire!
CT: And thank you, Kate, for allowing me to by your guest author. It was fun!
Also by Claire Thompson:
EXCERPT FROM BINDING DISCOVERIES BY CLAIRE THOMPSON
The two of them stood before him, only in their underwear, nipples and cock hard. Mark clamped down hard on his rising desire, forcing himself to go slow, to give them time. "Hands behind your backs," he said, moving behind them as they obeyed. Quickly he snapped the clasps together, binding first Tom and then Olivia's wrists. In fact, if they tried, they could get the clasps open themselves. The bondage was more symbolic than anything, designed to heighten the sense of vulnerability, of submission.
He stepped in front of the pair, standing side by side. Giving in a little to his desires, he cupped Olivia's breasts, one in each hand, and lightly lifted and dropped them. Taking each nipple between forefinger and thumb, he squeezed gently, and then not so gently, watching her wince, pleased she didn't protest.
Next he moved to Tom, who was blushing fiercely but who made no protest as Mark slid his fingers over Tom's underwear, stroking the long, thick cock with one hand while he cupped his heavy, warm balls in the other. After a moment he let him go and walked to the couch.
"You both have pleased me tremendously," he said as he sat and faced them, dropping a hand at last to the rock-hard erection protesting beneath his trousers. "I see great potential for a very sensual, very intense exchange of power between us. Come here and kneel in front of me. I'm going to tell you what I expect of you, and what you can expect of me. If at any time any of this feels uncomfortable, you tell me. Don't wait until afterward and don't hesitate to be honest and open."
He waited while they both knelt before him, silently marveling that neither had said a word since entering the study. He'd expected Olivia at least to be babbling nervously, but she was silent except for the shallow breathing he knew stemmed from nervous excitement.
He put a hand on each of their shoulders, gently stroking them like favored pets before settling back against the sofa, fully in command. An unbidden image of Lisette, kneeling in exactly this position before him in their Paris apartment flashed before him, sliding like a knife into his heart. Again he willed the image away, focusing on the lovely pair before him.
"For today, we're just experimenting, feeling our way, me as much as you. Those toys I showed you," he waved toward the still-open cupboard, "are for me more symbols than tools. I don't use them often, and when I do, the object is to create a sensual rather than a punitive experience. Though I do consider myself sexually dominant, I'm not a sadist and I don't get off on giving pain for its own sake. But I do appreciate the intensity of well-delivered whipping." Olivia shuddered and Tom drew in his breath. They both had such sensitive, delicious potential. Mark struggled to maintain his concentration.
"If and when we do use these toys, it will be at your request and with a full understanding that though I will control the scene, you will control if we stop or continue. I don't believe in pushing a sub past his or her limits. I believe in listening, both to your words and your body. For me, it's ultimately about intensifying the sensual experience between us. I think you both have potential as sexual submissives, but I don't expect that to define our relationship. It's only a part of what you are, what I envision you can become."
They both looked so serious, as if attending a lecture by a famous professor, aware they would be quizzed afterward. Mark suddenly felt pompous and a little ridiculous. With a small laugh he stood, purposely breaking the intensity of the mood. Moving behind them, he released the clasps of their cuffs and pulled the leather from their wrists.
"I've been doing all the talking. Let's go down and unwind in the hot tub."
* * * * *
As the hot water frothed and bubbled over them, Olivia surreptitiously dropped her hand to her pussy, slipping two fingers into the slippery wetness. She'd felt somewhat let down when Mark had abruptly ended whatever it was that was going on up there in his study. Seeing those canes in the cupboard had made Olivia instantly cream in her panties, even as she shuddered at the thought of ever experiencing their fiery sting.
Since last night she had been obsessed with visions of the young woman at the club, the red, angry welts striping her flesh. She could still hear the woman's gasping cry just before the final, whistling blow had forced her from her calm acceptance of what surely must have been a very painful caning.
It wasn't that Olivia wanted to be caned, god no! She didn't herself understand why her attraction was so fierce and unremitting. She tried to accept Tom's assurances she wasn't a sick puppy but didn't quite succeed. Seeing the same cane, or at least one very similar, in Mark's cupboard of "toys" had taken her breath away. She could almost feel the sting of rattan against tender flesh as she touched the thin, misleadingly flimsy-looking implement. She'd sensed Tom's keen interest beside her, noting he focused on the cuffs.
Did it bother her that his interest veered alongside hers, submissive to Mark? She examined the question honestly and found she wasn't sure. She wouldn't have liked the idea of his submitting to her, but somehow with Mark it was a different matter. Mark seemed to command submission.
How easily he had transitioned from dominant lover to Dom, ordering them about in his study as if he were a king and they his subjects. His tone and attitude had brooked no disobedience, and it hadn't occurred to Olivia while in his thrall to protest. Nor, apparently, had it occurred to Tom. He couldn't hide his arousal, his sexy cock jutting hard against his underwear. He was as thrilled as she was with what was going on.
Tom slid closer to her, his hand reaching between her legs. She barely had time to pull her own hand away. He grinned at her as their hands brushed each other. Mark had poured them each a glass of cold Chardonnay. He sipped his, watching the pair with an indulgent smile as they snuggled and kissed.
"Talk to me," he said. "Tom, tell me your reaction to what happened in the study. Be honest. There is no right or wrong answer. Just tell me what you felt about it all."
"Well," Tom said, taking a drink from his glass. "You know I was turned on. I'm sure that was obvious." He gave a sheepish grin. "It's kind of strange because I've never thought of myself as submissive. I've never had fantasies involving scary-looking women in black corsets flicking bull whips and calling me a filthy little worm." He laughed.
"That's a rather banal stereotype surely," Mark commented, laughing with him. Sobering, he added, "That sort of thing has little to do with a sensual exchange of power. That's more about humiliation game playing. I never saw the appeal in that myself. I have a feeling your interests, what moves you, involves a relinquishing of control. You went straight for those cuffs," he added, his lip curling in a smile. Softly he continued. "Imagine yourself bound, your wrists behind your back or high over your head, your ankles tethered to the posts of a bed, unable to move, unable to get free, completely at the mercy of your lover."
Tom swallowed and looked down. Olivia knew Mark had struck a chord. She felt herself responding to the image as well, though in her mind's eye it was she, not Tom, bound and helpless. "And you, Olivia," Mark said, shifting his focus to her. "Take it a step further. Imagine yourself bent naked over a sawhorse, your wrists and ankles bound to the legs with rope. You can hear the whistle of the cane just before it strikes your ass, just before you scream…"
"No!" Olivia burst out involuntarily. She felt at once hot and cold, her blood rushing from her head, suffusing her nipples, engorging her sex. "No," she insisted again, though less forcefully. "I don't want that. I don't want to be caned. I don't like pain."
"No, of course you don't," Mark said soothingly, his gaze intense upon her. "I was just creating an image. A fantasy. I'm trying to gauge what moves you, what excites you. I understand very well that isn't necessarily what you want to have happen to you. That's why it's called fantasy, you see." He grinned, releasing her from his dark, compelling stare. She smiled back weakly and felt for Tom's hand beneath the water.
"Now answer me as truthfully as you can," Mark continued. "As a fantasy, how does the thought of being tied down and caned affect you, Olivia? Is it something that might flash through your mind when you're making love?"
Olivia felt heat suffusing her cheeks. She stared down into the tumbling steamy water, the image he'd created swirling there like a vision. Something stirred deep inside her, like a fire banked that needs only a breath of air to set it blazing. She felt Tom's hand squeeze her thigh. She felt Mark's dark eyes watching her, daring her to deny it. With her heart beating high, slowly she nodded.
"Yes," she whispered. "Yes."
This month's poll is:
Poll
Can a book be romantic but not have a happily ever after? Version 2.03 The results of last month's poll question are:
Do you enjoy erotic romance stories with sexually submissive males?
It depends on the story (27)
Yes (13)
No (15)Total votes: (55)
EXCERPT FROM MIRAGE BY KATE HILL:
From Changeling Press.
Without saying a word, he cupped the back of her head and his mouth descended upon hers.
Emilee didn't even think about protesting. This was her fantasy -- her mirage -- and she meant to enjoy it.
She placed her hands on his waist, relishing his warmth and solidity. His mouth moved sensually against hers and as the kiss became more real, he used the moist tip of his tongue to trace the shape of her lips.
Moaning softly with desire, she closed her eyes and parted her lips to his gently probing tongue. Her tongue met it and they teased each other with hot, wet strokes. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her so close her breasts pressed against his hard, hair-dusted chest. Even standing in the water her temperature rose. This man felt wonderful, tasted delicious and smelled so good she longed to bury her face in his fiery hair or press her nose against his skin and let his scent fill her with every breath.
She slid her hands from his waist to his ass. Her fingers bit into the rock-hard spheres. What a gorgeous ass! She hadn't felt anything this good in… come to think of it, she'd never felt an ass this good. And she'd never been this attracted to a male of any species. Reluctantly, her hands left that perfect ass to roam up his back. The muscles rippled beneath his flesh. He had such a tight, strong body. Being this close to him made her clit throb and her breasts ache with desire.
By the hard bulge in the front of his shorts, she aroused him just as much, but why not? It was, after all, her fantasy.
He broke the kiss and their gazes met. Looking into his eyes provided the same giddy, carefree sensation as being drunk on fine wine. He touched her face and the rough yet desirable feel of his callused palm against her flesh momentarily brought her back to reality. She'd been so certain he was a figment of her imagination but now she knew he was real. The caress of his breath against her, the gentle scratch of his beard when he'd kissed her and the expression of wonder and longing in his intoxicating eyes confirmed that he was no illusion, but a man as real and passionate as she was. By all the stars in the sky, she wanted him to fuck her.
FOR CARNAL INHERITANCE
Elise is true to her vampire nature and a sexual being, but she is also full of feeling and honor.
-Jennell, RRT Erotic
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