Third time's a charm...

I was surprised to find a third cover in my inbox yesterday. This one is for a Halloween short, part of a promotion being put together by Loose Id featuring authors such as Angela Knight, Jet Mykles, Doreen DeSalvo, Treva Harte, Bobby Michaels, Kit Tunstall, Amanda Young, Samantha Winston, Cameron Dane, Essence, Marie Harte, Tuesday Morrigan and myself. I'm thrilled to be included in this special event with such talented authors.

My contribution is a "Trick," titled Graceful Mischief, featuring Grace and Toffer, characters from my Loose Id novel Graceful Submission. Graceful Submission is one of my best-selling novels to date, and has received great reviews, including a Recommended Read from Joyfully Reviewed. If you haven't read it yet, run to Loose Id to get your copy and get ready for Graceful Mischief.

Here's a blurb to get things rolling.

On their third Halloween together, Toffer and Grace are in England, where Toffer is filming a movie about Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. They are staying, with the rest of the cast and crew, in an old castle complete with a moat and a maze.
Grace thinks her Master is taking her to a fancy restaurant in London so they can be alone together on Halloween.
Grace is surprised, then, when Toffer takes her to the maze and tells her to strip down to her corset. A costume party is going on just hundreds of feet away, and Toffer plans on playing a game with the woman he loves.
If he wins, he gets to top her in the maze. There’s always the chance that anyone could walk up and see Grace being topped. If she makes it to the middle without him catching her, she gets the treat. But, in this case, Grace thinks the trick might just be the best part of Halloween.

Wish Me Up....

Rub Me Down.... The cover fairy blessed me several times today. I also got the cover for my newly contracted story with Resplendence Publishing, an adult fairy tale titled "Wish Me Up, Rub Me Down."

The story is loosely based on the Aladdin and the Lamp tale. Here's a small blurb to wet your appetite, and the cover, which is awesome.

BBW Anya Bartholomew has everything, or so it seems. A successful advertising agent, at the age of 33 she’s risen in the ranks of her firm to be the top moneymaker.

She owns a beautiful brownstone in New York City, a car, and takes trips to Europe every summer. The one thing she doesn’t have is a boyfriend. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t seem to find the right man for her.

All that changes, though, when Anya and her friends take a trip to the small town of Pleasant, Maine. They think it will be a nice change of pace from the hustle and bustle of New York. But Anya finds something else.

While visiting a shop on the main street, Anya discovers a lamp that looks like it could belong to Aladdin. After much teasing from her friends, and the store owner, she rubs it, and nothing happens.

The next Monday, however, two gorgeous Djinn show up at her office, and tell her they’re there to fulfill her every desire. What a great way to start the work week.

Sweet Perfection - for real

I received the cover today for Sweet Perfection, my Sept. 11th release from Loose Id.

It's such a trip to get a new cover. Here you are working on a new story, the old one already finished and ready for release, and you get the perfect thing to brighten your morning. I can hardly wait for Eric and Angel's story to release.

I had numerous computer troubles while writing Sweet Perfection, so it was anything but perfect at the time. Now, though, seeing the cover and knowing that it's finished is the closest thing to perfection that I can think of at the moment.

Enjoy!

Melinda

A release date, and a new contract

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to pop by and let you know that Sweet Perfection will release on Sept. 11th from Loose Id. The story features Eric Neal, a detective you first met in Sweet Vibrations, out now from Loose.

It follows his recovery from a shooting he was involved with. Helping him to mend is Angelica Vega, a baker. The story is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'll list the burb at the end of this post.

Also, today I signed a contract with Loose Id for a story titled Sweet Silence, which features Diego Fuentes, another cop whom you first met in Sweet Vibrations. It deals with events started in Sweet Perfection.

Each story is a stand alone, and can be read separately, but I think they're better read in order.

Here's the blurb for Sweet Perfection:

Albuquerque Detective Eric Neal likes things perfect, in his job and in his personal life. As a sexual dominant he’s always been able to lead submissives to a higher plane, teaching them about themselves and helping them to grow.

But now, Eric himself is wounded. He killed a man in the line of duty and is having trouble coming to terms with the fact. He now doubts himself in all aspects of his own life. His job has suffered, and he no longer has the self-assurance to play at Tygers, a BDSM club that he absolutely loves.

Angelica Vega, owns and operates La Tienda Dulce, a bakery. Nicknamed Angel, she is anything but angelic. She’s been a little wild in her life, searching for just the right thing, but never quite finding it.

After Angel’s store is broken into two nights in a row, Eric’s boss assigns him the case, and tells him he needs to make sure that he doesn’t screw it up. Right away, Eric can tell that one of Angel’s employees is hiding a secret, and has used Dulce Tienda as the perfect hiding place.

Now, Eric has to overcome his self-doubts to solve the crime, and lead the woman that he’s come to love into the world of BDSM.