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An artist on her way up… Artist Sadie MacElroy has landed a sweet gig as the personal assistant to her best friend, Felicia Waters. Despite her scattershot creative nature, she’s a whiz at organizing, planning, and ordering people around. But her sweet gig turns sour at a charity art auction she’s organized when she bumps into a stage lackey and sends a 17th century Qing Dynasty vase crashing to the ground. Electing to take the fall, Sadie attempts to arrange payment of the vase to its owner, eccentric billionaire and (extremely) amateur artist Malcolm Ward. A powerful man on his way down… Malcolm, however, doesn’t care about the money or the vase, or much of anything. His whimsical, eccentric side hides a dark pain and a grim future, and only the promise of Sadie gives him hope. Inspired by his “muse,” Malcolm decides he only wants her, any way he can have her: in front of his camera, under his brush… or in his bed. An intimate passion… Unbeknownst to Sadie, time is running out for Malcolm, and when she discovers his secrets, it’s up to her to convince him that life is worth living, painful scars and all. For a LIMITED TIME, the full book of The Billionaire’s Muse is available for only $2.99!!! Available at all major retailers, but since most of you use Amazon: Buy The Billionaire’s Muse on Amazon.com Buy The Billionaire’s Muse on Amazon.co.uk The amazing and talented Alice Xavier made the cover. It turned out shiiiiinyyyyy. *______* …Anyway. Working on a sequel to Dead Man’s Curves, since it took off fairly nicely. Called Dead Man’s Tails. Haha. I’m a genius. Hoping it will end up close to the size of a short novel. ~45k words. Then Exclusive Contract is up after that. Whee! This is all hopefully before the end of the month! HAHA. My hands are going to fall off.
Exclusive Interview (Rock Arrangement #1) — Out Now!
Exclusive Interview (Rock Arrangement, #1)
An impromptu improvisation…
Chronic loser Rebecca Alton is penniless, homeless, and sleeping on her sister’s couch. She needs a job, fast, but in this economy finding one is easier said than done. When she accidentally walks into the wrong office and finds herself auditioning for the role of babysitter to the out-of-control members of the up and coming rock band The Lonely Kings of Lifeless Things, can she pull it off? And considering who her boss would be–the band’s bassist, manager, and undisputed king of bad attitudes Kent Hudson–would she even want the job?
Rebecca isn’t sure. In fact, she’s not sure of much in her life, except one thing: Kent wants her, she wants him back, and the underlying animal attraction between them makes her interview rough, in more ways than one!
Exclusive Interview is a 19,200 word novelette, and is the first in the Rock Arrangement series!
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A note from Ava: To my everlasting shame, this book was published with several typos on the very first page. ALAS. So if you have already purchased it, you can most likely get an updated copy from the storefront where you bought it (although B&N might not go through for a couple days). ANYWAY. This is a fun story to write. Rebecca makes me smile, and Kent evolved into an Alpha Male Extraordinaire, so please enjoy the first installment of Rock Arrangement. It promises to be good, trashy fun, just like any good rock romance should be.
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Excerpt:
But he shook his head. “Never mind. Just a stray thought.” He cleared his throat and gunned the engine again. I felt my blood rise in response to the raw expression of power. His long fingers wrapped around the stick shift and moved the car into high gear. He wore silver rings on most of his fingers, and the tattoos on his wrists were bright flashes of color against his monochrome businessman’s uniform. I swallowed and forced myself to look at the road. An exit sign for LAX was coming up. How was it that we were already here?
“You say you think you can handle this job?” he said suddenly.
“What? Oh. Yeah, I bet I can. I worked as a bartender for years and I hung out with some people that were basically walking drama bombs. They all went off like clockwork, too.”
“I see,” he said, but he sounded as though he didn’t believe me. Suddenly he reached forward and turned on the radio player. It roared to life, right in the middle of a song I recognized.
High, beautiful vocals soared over a hard, grinding beat.
‘You came from nothing, nothing came to me, I missed your face as we passed by, in the boundless dark of the sky…’
“A Dark Moment,” one of the singles off the first album by The Lonely Kings. I recognized it because it wouldn’t stop playing everywhere.
Then Kent Hudson put his hand on my thigh and all my thoughts flew out the window. Continue reading
Rock Arrangement coming soon…
Chronic loser Rebecca Alton is penniless, homeless, and sleeping on her sister’s couch. She needs a job, fast, but in this economy finding one is easier said than done. When she accidentally walks into the wrong office and finds herself auditioning for the role of personal assistant to the members of the up and coming rock band The Lonely Kings of Lifeless Things, can she pull it off? And considering who her boss would be–the band’s bassist, manager, and undisputed king of bad attitudes Kent Huntson–would she even want the job? Rebecca isn’t sure. In fact, she’s not sure of much in her life, except one thing: Kent wants her, and she wants him back, and the underlying animal attraction between them makes her interview rough, in more ways than one!
Blurb, as always, a work in progress until I hit the publish button. So yeah, this is happening soon. Sunday at the latest, Friday at the earliest. Kent Huntson turned into the most alpha of males somehow, so this one is going to be pure trashy fun, I think!
And, as an aside, I am tickled pink that both Baiting the Beast and Mating the Beast have picked up in sales. I’m dying to know why and where it got recommended, so if you’re here looking for beast erotic romance, let me know how you found me! Glamorous Life of a Smut Peddler, Part 3
Me: *stands in shower, staring off into the distance, poofy loofah dangling forgotten from one hand* Shower: *pppppsssssssshhhhhhhhh* Me: … Shower: *pppppsssssssshhhhhhhhh* Me: … Shower: *pppppsssssssshhhhhhhhh* Me: … Shower: *pppppsssssssshhhhhhhhh* Me: *writing epiphany happens* Me: …FUCKING FINALLY, JESUS CHRIST Shower: *pppppsssssssshhhhhhhhh*
All my bolts of smut writing inspiration come in the shower, I am a latter day Archimedes, goddam. You heard it here first, folks: “FUCKING FINALLY JESUS CHRIST” is the new “EUREKA!” …Which is to say that I finally figured out the titles and series name for my Rock Star Romance. World, prepare thyself for the upcoming Exclusive Interview (Rock Arrangement, #1)! Coming soon to an e-book distributor near you!Dead Man’s Curves — Out Now!
Dead Man’s Curves
A BBW Vampire Erotic Romance
Full-figured librarian Chloe Banks has had a bad day – her fiance left her for her best friend, she lost her apartment, all her money has mysteriously disappeared, her boss won’t stop dogging her, and to top it all off she’s cornered by an angel-faced vampire in the rare books room. The vampire, Gabriel, is a little worse for wear after spending the last hundred years interred underground but now that he is free he needs blood and little help navigating the modern world. What he gets is a genre-savvy woman with a body that he can’t keep his hands off of, and Chloe, despite nursing a broken heart, can’t deny the primal attraction between them. Is she prepared to trust her body–and her life–to a vampire, if only for a night?
Dead Man’s Curves is a 19,500 word erotic novelette for readers who like a little blood, a little revenge, and a secretly chivalrous vampire who lusts for lush, full curves.
Only $2.99! Available now at these major retailers:
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A note from Ava: Hmmm, which came first, the title or the story? (SPOILER ALERT it was the title) Anyway, I like to think of this sort of release as a bedtime story. Quick, fun, raunchy, and just long enough to read before going to sleep at night. Or, perhaps, just long enough to read and then jump your partner for a quickie before going to sleep at night. 😉 Happy reading!
Excerpt:
“Ooooh, this is an interesting twist of events,” Chloe said, unable to help herself. “Am I now the mysterious heroine of our story, no longer the hapless vampire victim, unable to resist the charms of a bloodsucking monster from beyond the grave?”
“I beg your pardon,” the vampire said stiffly. “I take issue with that characterization. And you are still unable to resist my charms.”
And to prove his point, he flowed across the space between them and kissed her.
Chloe didn’t realize what was happening fast enough to escape, and, well, there was the issue that she probably didn’t really want to escape. When his ice cold lips landed on hers, she inhaled sharply, but didn’t have the presence of mind to pull away.
Her eyes slipped closed. Chill invaded her, but it was a strange sort of cold, the kind that burned as well as numbed. His hands had fastened in her hair, holding her in a firm, unyielding grip, and as his lips worked against hers the same sweet euphoria of his bite began to invade her body.
Any thoughts she may have had of escaping dissipated with the sensation of his kiss. His mouth was commanding, dominant, but instead of just taking what he wanted, as he had in the library, he teased and coaxed her lips with his, slowly persuading them to open before him. When they did, his tongue, cool and strong, slipped between her teeth and brushed against hers, a light, sweet question.
Let me in?
Oh, Chloe thought, yes, please. Continue reading
A quick update!
All right, since completing The Billionaire’s Muse, I’ve been feeling pretty good about the world and about all of you who have let me know you enjoyed it. I’m so glad! And I have something really fun in my upcoming rock star series for you guys. 😉 That will be coming out soon, although first I’ll be publishing Dead Man’s Curves, a fun little BBW vampire novelette. A tentative publishing schedule:
- Dead Man’s Curves — before the end of the month
- Rock Star Romance (STILL untitled, argh) — first thing in march
- RSR #2
- Craving the Beast — Project Loup Garou #3
- RSR #3
- RSR #4
- Taming the Beast — Project Loup Garou #4