Sales

Totally Bound are having a 20% off sale across all ebooks.

Take advantage of the offer if you want to buy When Love Flue In for a last minute Christmas read. Or if you just want to extend those warm & fuzzy holiday feelings.

Also JMS Books are still running their sale until 2nd January 2015. 
Pick up Waiting for a Spark at 35% off.

A Five Star Review

YAY! A five star review for When Love Flue In, this review from Sinfully Sexy Books. 


"A true Christmas fairy tale."

"Reagan and Dominic are as sweet as Christmas fruit pies."

"Dominic's first time is funny, romantic, threaded with caring and so wonderfully hot."

"You have to read this one for Christmas. It will genuinely warm your heart."



Read the full review here.

Favourite reads in November

Yes, I know it's nearly the end of December but I noticed that with all the promo work for When Love Flue In I forgot to pimp my reading round up from November.

November’s reads were made up primarily of some free reads that hit my ereader that month, some more Halloween stories and two new series (one new new and one paperback that had been hanging around for too long and I only picked up because my Kindle has been playing up).

Books read: 15

5 star reads: 0

4 star reads: 7

DNFs:  0 (this is more because the ones that I really didn't care for were so short that I finished them. Had they been longer stories I would probably have DNF'd at least 3 of them)

5 star reads

None!

4 star reads

Trick or Treat by JL Merrow

Starstruck (Bluewater Bay 1) by L A Witt

There's Something About Ari (Bluewater Bay #2) by LB Gregg

An Erie Halloween by V L Locey

A Hundred Lonely Halloweens by Ari McKay

Posted To Death (Simon Kirby-Jones Mysteries #1) by Dean James

Steam Heat by Ari McKay

Thankfully I already have some five star reads for December.

Just when you thought it was safe to pop back to my blog

Yes, I'm still blogging about When Love Flue In. After several weeks of blogging silence on the subject I'm back, because when better to blog on a Christmas release than Christmas Eve.

I'll be talking once again about Mince Pies. I covered the history behind one of my favourite festive treats over at Katherine Halle's blog a couple of weeks ago. Today I'll be blogging over at Guys Like Romance Too about the many different styles of Mince Pies on the market today and when you can expect to have them thrust upon you.

Also there will be a pie-centric excerpt from the novella and a giveaway.

First draft in the bag

I have finally finished the first draft of New Lease of Life. This story started life with the intention of being a short for a dreamspinner anthology submission. I missed both the deadline and the maximum word count by a mile because it somehow morphed into just under 60K.

I was going to post this tomorrow as a Christmas present to you all but I remembered that I'm blogging over at Guys Like Romance Too and nobody would expect two posts from me in a day :)

So to celebrate the end of the first draft I decided to do one of those 7 from 7 things but instead I'm doing 12 from 23 (the date, see).

Twelve lines from page twenty-three.
(this is first draft and unbetaed)

“You have a website,” Colby said, the phrasing making the words a statement not a question despite his hesitancy. 
“Of course. I work online. It would be poor business practise not to have a website.”
“Uh-huh.” Colby shook his head and made a show of chewing.
Obviously, he had more to say on the subject and Pip tried to avoid staring, casting his gaze back to his lunch rather than watching and waiting for the undulation of Colby’s throat when he swallowed. Or the way he licked his lips to catch the oil from the semi-sundried tomatoes.
“The blog. Tweedle’s about. Nice play on words by the way.”
Fuck. The brioche seemed to expand to clog his throat. “I-I don’t know what you’re talking about.” 
“I found it. Your blog. I was researching tweed and you came up.”

Enjoy.

And it's your last chance to enter the giveaway for When Love Flue In. 

I got a B - Another review

Another great review for When Love Flue In, this time from The Bookpushers.

Since it's only a mini review I will post the whole of the main body of the review.

"A fun and sexy Christmas novella about a recently divorced lawyer and the man who cleans his chimney every year. We get POVs from both men which I really enjoyed because I found Dominic adorable with his crush and Reagan’s moment when he realized he was the object of it was priceless.

I had a great time with this read. I loved the MCs and the relationship between Reagan his mother was lovely. For a shorter read this packed a wonderful little emotional punch that didn’t rely solely on the incredibly hot sex but included the dialogue and fantasies as well.
Definitely checking out other books by the author.

I’m giving “When Love Flue In” a B"

Don't worry, last stop

And finally we arrive at the last stop of the tour. Today I'm sharing my thoughts at Therese Woodson's blog about epilogues and when you need one.


Have you been paying attention? Don't forget one lucky commenter could win a copy of When Love Flue In just by answering this simple question.

Which king alledgedly had his life saved by a chimney sweep?

That's it. All there is to it. The answer I'm looking for is in one of the posts from the blog tour.

Leave the answer in the comments along with your email address so that I can contact you. Then I'll pick a winner from all the correct answers. (I will check Goodreads in case anyone has answered at the blog post over there.) I'll be keeping the contest open for a couple of days so feel free to enter unless you see a comment from me confirming the winner.

Good luck and thanks for popping by.