Business and Pleasure is on sale!

Yep that's right, this month, to celebrate the release of The Right Kind of Wrong (Rags and Riches #3) you'll be able to pick up the first novella of that series Business and Pleasure for just $0.99! Isn't that great news? Here's a bit more about it...

Blurb

Can mixing business and pleasure ever result in a happy ending?

When sexy, rich Lawrence Russo asks Mia to come and work for him in Italy for two weeks, she jumps at the chance. After all, it beats pole dancing, and the salary he offers her is practically obscene.

A relationship quickly begins to develop between the two, but Mia can't help but wonder if Lawrence's feelings for her are genuine or if he feels he's just paying for a service.

Even if their relationship is strong enough to survive her insecurities, what will happen when somebody from her past shows up and threatens to reveal her deepest, darkest secret?

Content Warning: explicit sex

 

Excerpt

Lucy looked around nervously. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"I…don't know," Mia admitted. Perhaps she was just being paranoid.

"Mia." She heard a familiar drawl coming from the shadows. Her heart raced in anticipation as she turned to see the speaker. He walked out of the shadows and toward them like a jaguar stalking his prey, but Mia didn't feel intimidated, only excited by his presence.

"You shouldn't go sneaking around in the darkness. You could give a girl a fright." Mia laughed.

"I could leave, if that would please you," he purred. She loved the way he emphasized please. He gave no indication that he was going to leave. Mia was glad.

"Er, maybe I'll just go wait around the corner," Lucy said awkwardly. Mia nodded to acknowledge her, feeling a little guilty, because she had actually forgotten Lucy was still there.

"So, what are you doing here?" Mia tried to seem nonchalant, despite the fact that her body was having some kind of chemical reaction to his presence.

As if from nowhere, the handsome man produced the bottle of champagne he had purchased earlier that night. "I do believe we have plans to share this." He took a step closer to her.

"Oh. I would, it's just we aren't supposed to socialize with the clients outside of the club," Mia said teasingly, although it was technically true.

"Tell me, Mia, do you always do what you're supposed to do?" It seemed as though he had expected her reaction.

"No, I guess not."

"I've been watching you, Mia."

"I've noticed." She took a step in his direction and looked challengingly into his dark eyes. "So, do you like what you see?"

They were close enough to touch, and Mia's every nerve was tingling, hoping to feel his fingers on her skin. He swayed forward and, for a moment, she thought he was going to kiss her, but he leaned toward her ear instead. "I have a business proposition for you," he breathed, sending a shiver through her body before he pulled away from her.

It took Mia a moment to compose herself, and his eyes sparkled with amusement, no doubt he was enjoying her confusion. "Business…a business proposition?" Mia attempted to sound as casual as she possibly could.

"I'm returning to my home in Tuscany tomorrow," he announced.

Mia felt her heart sink, but was determined not to let it show. "Oh, it must be beautiful in Italy this time of year. But what does that have to do with me?"

"I was hoping you would accompany me."

 

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My Books on tour!

Hi everybody! I know, I know, it's been ages since I actually wrote a proper post but I have been super busy recently, and quite honestly, when I haven't been busy I've been enjoying the sun. Rare as that is in Wales I hope you'll forgive my being away from the keyboard :)
Anyway, I'll be making that up to you by taking over everybody else's blogs during August! Starting tomorrow I'm going to be touring at a whole load of lovely places that were kind enough to have me. Over the next couple of weeks Business and Pleasure and The Best of Both World will be getting some reviews, excited? Nervous? lol!
Fancy following the tour? Be my guest! Here is a list of all the places you'll be able to find me between 29th July and 16th August:

July 29th- Aimee Duffy- (Business and Pleasure)
July 31st- Paws and Print (Business and Pleasure)
Aug 1st- Paws and Print (The Best of Both Worlds)
Aug 2nd- Faerie Tale Books (Both)

Aug 5th- I am a Book Addict...and Proud of it (Both)
Aug 6th- Illustrious Illusions (Both)
Aug 7th- Storm Goddess Book Reviews (The Best of Both Worlds)
Aug 8th- A Tasty Read Book Reviews (Both)
Aug 9th- Falling In Fall (Business and Pleasure)
(Stop 2) Urban Girl (Business and Pleasure)

Aug 12th- Fab Fun and Tantalizing Reads- (Both)
Aug 13th- Readaholics Reviews (Business and Pleasure)
Aug 14th- Busy Moms Book Reviews (Both)
Aug 15th- Racing to Read (Both)
(Stop 2) Readaholics Reviews (The Best of Both Worlds)
Aug 16th- The Guardian's Hangout (Both)
(Stop 2) Urban Girl (The Best of Both Worlds)

I'll also be giving away a $15 Amazon Giftcard during this time so be sure to stop by and enter!

Some more #SexySnippets from Business and Pleasure!

Here's another sexy snippet from Business and Pleasure!

He’d undone his shirt almost all the way down now to accommodate for the late afternoon heat. Just the glimpse she caught of his hard torso underneath took her breath away. When her eyes met his, a hint of desire had returned to them, and she suddenly wished she had worn something a little more flattering than what she had on.

"Most of the girls I know don’t really know the meaning of hard work, and I could see the way you charmed all of the men in the club, even when you weren’t dancing." The corners of his mouth turned up. "I feel like you’ll work hard for what I’m going to pay you. I hope I wasn’t mistaken."

Blurb - Can mixing business and pleasure ever result in a happy ending?

When sexy, rich Lawrence Russo asks Mia to come and work for him in Italy for two weeks, she jumps at the chance. After all, it beats pole dancing, and the salary he offers her is practically obscene.

A relationship quickly begins to develop between the two, but Mia can't help but wonder if Lawrence's feelings for her are genuine or if he feels he's just paying for a service.

Even if their relationship is strong enough to survive her insecurities, what will happen when somebody from her past shows up and threatens to reveal her deepest, darkest secret?


Sound like your kind of thing? You can pick up your copy from Amazon!

Check out some snippets from some other great books here!

#SexySnippets Business and Pleasure

This snippet is taken from my current release, Business and Pleasure, enjoy!

“Don’t worry, I’ve been dealing with difficult men for years.” Mia shrugged as she sat down on the king-size bed and ran her hand over the expensive, satin sheets.

“That’s exactly why I hired you,” Lawrence told her, keeping a few feet away from her, not trusting himself not to make a move on her right there, right now. She pulled the band out of her hair and shook her hair loose. She must have known how hot she was.

“Is that the only reason you hired me, Mr. Russo?” Mia was batting her eyelids suggestively, her head tilted to the side, her long neck just willing him to kiss it.




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A Good Start

Since the release of Business and Pleasure last month I’ve been keeping busy with quite a bit of promotion. Being the kind of person that just rushes head first into things and then pauses to try and figure out what’s going on, I didn’t really have a clue when I first got my contract about what actually goes into getting your book out there after release day. I have to say though, even though it’s time consuming and a bit daunting at first, it can really be a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the book tour I did when my book was released, not only were the interviews and guest spotlights great to do for me, but I also got to discover some great blogs and the great people behind them. I’ve totally become addicted to social media sites again, and due to networking and some really great writers out there I now have a to-read list on my kindle as long as my arm. Probably both arms, actually.
But I promise that being an internet addict has not kept me from my writing, in fact, I’ve had a pretty constructive couple of weeks. I’ve been very busy working on the other books in the Rags and Riches series in their various stages of edits, revisions and creation, and also, I’ve been typing away furiously at another project which for now, sadly, remains without a title, because naming things seems to be a ridiculously hard thing for me to do for some reason. I’ll let you know a bit more about that one soon though!

One of the reasons I’ve been doing so much writing while I can is because I know I’ll be really busy again over the next few weeks as the release day for The Best of Both Worlds is starting to draw closer, yay! But I’m really glad that I’ve had such a productive start to the year, because that means that 2013 is really going to be an interesting year for me, with hopefully a couple more releases!

Ready for the weekend

Apparently there’s going to be a lot of bad weather and snow in my part of the world this weekend. So while I’m probably going to be stuck indoors I decided I’ll take advantage of it and I’m going to start writing the final instalment for the Rags and Riches series, my fiancé has had some time off work this week to celebrate my sons second birthday, and we’ve had a lot of fun and spent a lot of money, but it’s time to get back down to work, and even though I’m a little bit sad that writing this story will mean that the writing part of this series is coming to a close for me, I’m super excited to finally get this down on paper (laptop).

The Rags and Riches journey actually began with this story. I used to write short stories (something I do want to get back into this year) but when I wrote this one I just couldn’t leave it as it was. I could see so much potential to the characters that were crisscrossing in and out of the story. So my 3000 words just didn’t seem adequate anymore. That was when I started writing Business and Pleasure, because the fiery best friend just wouldn’t get out of my head, and so Mia and Lawrence’s story was born.

So this weekend I’ll be opening my first draft, plus the seemingly endless pages of notes I’ve made along the way and I’ll be settling down to write it all out. This has got to be the most well planned story I’ve got so far, so I don’t see it taking me very long to write. This weekend will mean hard work, a lot of re-reading old material and an almost endless supply of coffee (I prepared well, I did a supermarket snow dash especially for it lol!)

So how will you be spending your weekend? If you’re like me and you face getting snowed in then I hope you, like me, have stockpiled the essentials J

One month to go...

So I know I haven’t been around for a while. I thought I’d have plenty of time to blog now that I got my exam out the way but the truth is I’ve actually been busier than ever the last month or so. I am very very excited because I realised this morning that I now have just under a month to go before the release of my first story ‘Business and Pleasure’! It gets released on the 17^th of December . So it really won’t be long until you can get your hands on it, and I really hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I’ll also be doing a blog tour the week that my story gets released. I’ll post all about the dates it closer to the time, but I’m very excited about the opportunity to hijack other people’s blogs! Lol!

If you are a regular to my blog you probably know by now that my posts are few and far between, but this month I’ve actually had a good excuse not to be here. As well as working on the finishing touches to ‘Business and Pleasure’ with my editor, I’ve also been editing the follow up ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ and finishing the third, which I think should be ready to send this weekend. Exciting times for me.

I also have two other projects in the pipeline apart from the ‘Rags and Riches’ series. One is another contemporary romance, which is actually an old story which I’m revamping. It’s quite a bit longer than the others, so it’s taking a while to sort out, but I’m pretty sure it will be worth it in the end, so watch this space. I hope I get to share this one with you all sometime soon. The second project, at the moment, is a lot more of a project than writing, because it’s my first attempt at writing a historical romance, and I’m determined to get as many facts right about the setting as possible, so the research for it is quite a big task right now, but again, it will be worth it in the end.

So I hope you’ll forgive me for not blogging too much recently, but in the run up to the release date of ‘Business and Pleasure’ you’ll be hearing from me a bit more, and again, I just really can’t wait to share this story with you, 28 days to go!

Summer Roundup

Has somebody flicked a switch? Because yesterday it was hot and sunny and I was all flip flops and ice cream…today, it’s raining and chilly, and I’m stuck inside looking after my son who’s come down with a cold. Britain is known for its erratic weather but I was hoping to hold on to summer for a few more weeks. That was wishful thinking, I know. It seems that winter is just around the corner, so while I’ve been wistfully looking out the window at the rain fall, I’ve had time to reflect over all that has happened this summer, and even though I didn’t get to go anywhere on holiday, it certainly has been an eventful couple of months.

As a nation, we have had the honour of enjoying the Olympics held in London this year. A few events even filtered down to our very own Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, so the fiancé got to experience a part of it without having to travel very far. The Paralympics are just finishing today, I do believe, and my only regret is that I didn’t get to go to London myself, as from what I have seen on the television, it certainly looked like the place to be this year.

It was also Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee of course, and the street parties held all over the country were special. I have to admit, the celebrations that took place in London for that kind of went over my head, because everybody seemed to be celebrating in their own way, and I was having such a good time in my town, but I think that makes it all the more memorable.

Of course, this summer was exciting for me and my little family, of course, as we welcomed our daughter into the world in June. Thank god I opted for a home birth, because I went from first twinge of labour to holding my baby in just half an hour! Scary!

I also got a contract with a publisher, which you probably already knew, this would have been the biggest news this summer if my daughter hadn’t stolen the spotlight. I’m so grateful to my publisher, obviously, but I also have to give a little shout out to my wonderful fiancé here, because I only began to send out my stories after he told me that I had nothing to lose, and that he had absolute faith in me, bless him!

So even though I’ve been stuck at home a lot this summer, it’s been pretty busy, and more than a little amazing, I’ll take that over a holiday any day. I’m looking forward to seeing what the winter brings, especially since my first book  'Business and Pleasure' gets released on December 17^th, at Beachwalk Press!