Cruise into Eden (Eden Series #1) by Lexi Post

 

Lexi Post has brought us another of her fabulously erotic stories pulled from the classics of literature.  An unusually passionate poem by Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights! Wild Nights!, prompts the storyline. 

Reluctantly convinced to vacation on a naked cruise, Erin Danielson teases herself that just maybe she’ll get lucky.  She has her doubts as she hasn’t had a boyfriend in eleven years.

Two literally out-of-this-world men, more precisely from the planet Eden, Nase and Ware want her more than anything. 

The three quickly share love and erotic passion which tempts Erin to remain with them, but there are a lot of “catches” to the deal.

An erotic delight, the first of the Eden Series will be released on September 5.  See if your heart racing compares to Erin’s while she enjoys the sensual abundance and life changing decisions she faces to keep the love of Nase and Ware.   

 

Happy reading,
Dawn

Cover Reveal for CRUISE INTO EDEN

 

I'm so excited to reveal the cover of my newest release Cruise into Eden which is coming out next weekend. Most of this erotic romance takes place on a nude cruise in the Caribbean and then it moves to the planet Eden. What do you think?

Always, Lexi

www.lexipostbooks.com

Stupid Girl At Work…Here’s Your Sign!

Hey there!  I hope your week has been fabulous so far…mine’s been fair to middlin’.  But now I’m looking forward to the long weekend.   Wahoo!  Three days off!  Doing the happy dance here!!!  Oh yeah.

Alright, so what am I going to blog about today?  Well, I’m blogging about stupidity.  Whose stupidity?  Mine.  And what better to blog about?  I’m talking about my struggle with electronics…computers and phones, to be exact.  I just cannot figure out how we humans can allow ourselves to become so dependent on things that are so damned frustrating.

Okay, I guess if you’re gonna follow me here, I’m gonna have to go back to the beginning and tell you what has set me off.  It’s my computer…my lifeline.  I spilled something on it today and immediately went into a panic.  What did I spill on my computer?  Well, no it wasn’t my coffee or a Coke.  It was salsa.  Now, I don’t know why I should have been surprised.   It’s not like the computer was sitting across the desk or on the other side of the table…it’s not like I was being careful and smart.  Oh no…I was actually eating on top of the computer.  Like…laptop open and in my lap and I’m eating a cheese quesadilla and salsa with it sitting on top of my computer.  Then Stupid Girl was shocked when she hit the bowl of salsa and then reached to steady it and turned the entire bowl upside down smack dab in the middle of my keyboard.  Uh-huh…that’s what I did.  Stupid Girl at work!

Now, before you get upset with me for negative self-talk, I want you to understand that Stupid Girl is not me.  She’s my alter-ego…sort of like Sybil.  I like to tell people that I’m a very intelligent woman with moments of incredible stupidity.  And when I have those moments, I hate to take responsibility for idiocy like eating salsa on your laptop…so I invented Stupid Girl.  She’s the scapegoat…the person I can blame so I don’t have to own my stupidity.  I spill salsa on the laptop…Stupid Girl did it…not me!  Got it?  Clear as mud?

Anyway, back to the salsa seeping into the keyboard.  I flew into an absolute panic and immediately jumped up and ran to the sink to wash the salsa off.  Yep, you heard me…I was gonna wash it off!  Holy freaking hell, Batman, what was Stupid Girl thinking?!  So I run to the sink and turn the water on, just barely catching myself before I submerged my laptop under a waterfall.  Sheesh, that was close.  If the salsa didn’t kill the laptop, I’m pretty sure drowning would have been fatal.  So I flip the machine over and begin wiping salsa off the keyboard into the sink.  Then when I think I’ve got it all, I turn the machine over and immediately begin wiping it down with a handful of paper towels.  Then I get a butter knife and start digging little bits of tomatoes and chilis from around the keys.  So when the keyboard is as clean as I can possibly get it, I start looking at the screen to see if it even works still.  It does!  Yes, Matilda, there is a God!  So I immediately take it to my desk and start the backup.  Because when that salsa dries in there, I’m thinking there’s still a good chance the accident could end in a fatality.

Okay, so that was the big event for today and it got me to thinking about other times that Stupid Girl made my life much more complicated than it should have to be.  There was that time that she left my cell phone outside on the BBQ grill…in the rain…overnight.  It rains once every 25 years at my house and it had to be that night.  Two weeks in a bag full of rice and the darn thing was resurrected…until…yep, you guessed it!  Stupid Girl again.  This time she had it stuffed in her bra while she was irrigating and when she bent over to open the irrigation gate, she didn’t notice it slip into the ditch full of water.  Argh!  So…off to get a new phone.  Unfortunately, that one didn’t have a real long shelf life either.  But this time it wasn’t my fault…it was a defect in the genes.  You see, a couple of months before, I laughed my ass off at my cousin when she told me she had dropped her cell phone in her coffee.  OMG!  Who does that?!  Her husband and I absolutely tormented her over that one.  So imagine my horror when Stupid Girl puts her cell phone on top of her coffee cup to keep a fly out and two minutes later hits the phone and plops it head-first into a brand new, full cup of coffee!  My first call was to my cousin to tell her I’d just drowned my cell phone in my coffee.  Her husband roared and said it must be in the genes.  See…again, not my fault!

So here I sit still worried that my laptop might not fire up in the morning once that salsa has had a chance to ooze all over the guts and dry, with little pieces of chilis hanging off computer chips like a jalapeno factory exploded inside the darn machine.  And I think even worse than the moment when I find the machine won’t turn on or it gives me the blue screen of death would be the moment when I might have to hand it over to a technician and admit that Stupid Girl spilled salsa on it.

Okay, it’s your turn.  I can’t possibly be the only person in the world who has spilled salsa on her machine or drowned her phone in the ditch or in her morning coffee.  What about you?  Leave a comment and share your Stupid Girl moment with us…puhleez!  It'll make me feel better.  :-)

That’s my story, saucy and stupid, and I’m stickin’ to it.  Hang on tight now ‘cuz we’re gonna go real, real fast!

Love ya, Kayce

Paw and Order (A Chet and Bernie Mystery) by Spencer Quinn

 

Paw and Order is the seventh in its series and the characters continue to entertain in a light hearted and canine way.

Chet, dog PI extraordinaire, takes up the trail his owner Bernie, human PI, leaves full of loose ends. 

Chet takes great pride in riding shotgun in Bernie’s convertible all the way to Washington DC.  What a perfect place to solve a murder, amongst other crimes, and to fertilize the love between Bernie and his girlfriend, Susie, who moved to DC.

Susie, a reporter with a short lead on a story, finds herself smack-dab in the middle of Bernie and Chet’s case.  This provides an opportunity for Chet to work his licks and barks into Bernie and Susie’s relationship.

An engaging and fun novel, full of crime, mishaps, animal insight, and a romance encouraged by Chet and Bernie.  After reading this novel you’ll be sure to back track and pick up the former members of the series if you haven’t already.

Happy reading,

Dawn

 

Interview with Mary Buckham and a Giveaway!

Alexis: Today we have USA Today Bestselling author, Mary Buckham visiting and she is giving away an ecopy of INVISIBLE FEARS to one lucky commenter!

Welcome Mary.  What are you working on now?

Mary: I’m working on the next full-length book in the IR (Invisible Recruits) series. This one is called INVISIBLE SECRETS and as the fifth full-length book in the series it has some major twists to the lives of the core IR team members. It should be released late September or early October. I’m also finishing up the final tweaks on my next non-fiction writing craft book—WRITING ACTIVE HOOKS Book 1 which will be released this September.

Alexis: Wow, you are busy. Where did you get the idea for Invisible Recruits?

Mary: Originally the idea came from noticing a speed trap and realizing that since a lot of law enforcement agencies use the same types of cars, some speed traps are really easy to spot. Same issue happens in undercover work, that criminals get very savvy about spotting a cop so what if you used agents who were not trained in law enforcement ~ that would be invisible to criminals because they’d look and act like the regular people they are—a kindergarten teacher, debutante, etc. Then I threw in the paranormal and preternatural element. What if you were a woman that hid your gift your whole life and now all of a sudden have a chance to use that gift to battle preternaturals in a world unaware that preternaturals exist?

Alexis: I love it! So what is your favorite trait of Kelly McAllister?

Mary: Kelly McAllister, former kindergarten teacher and current IR agent represents the good girl in most women. The way we’ve been taught to behave, to hold back, to acknowledge others’ strengths but not always our own. Placed in a position of leading her first mission I keep placing her in more and more danger, testing her mettle, putting her through multiple trials of fire. That’s when we discover who we truly are, not when things are easy but when things get tough. It’s a fascinating journey of self-discovery even as the reader finds herself rooting for Kelly even as they worry about her through each step of her story.

Alexis: What has been the best piece of advice you ever received for your writing career?

Mary: Never give up. Never surrender. Oh, wait, that’s the motto from Galaxy Quest. Actually it’s very applicable. As a writer I have the opportunity, every day, to give up, to stop writing, to turn away and take another job that’s not fraught with so much insecurity and variables outside of my control. It takes a daily leap of faith to face a blank page, to assume there are readers that love the kind of stories I love to read and write, that all the time invested in learning how to write and write better and keep on writing, will be worth the time and attention. I’ve been very fortunate in finding a very receptive audience for my stories, who encourage me in so many ways, and, by taking the time to write a review or send me an email, reaffirm that the risks are worth it, that I can truly say I won’t give up and won’t surrender.

Alexis: Mary, thank you so much for visiting us here at Happily Ever After Thoughts. It has been so fun chatting with you.

Check out the blurb on INVISIBLE FEARS below.

INVISIBLE FEARS Blurb:

He’s a preternatural fighting for the humans.

She's a human fighting for the preternaturals.

Kelly McAllister’s Invisible Recruit mission in Sierra Leone is to locate and secure a threat to humans and preternaturals. Van Noziak is also there, with his own secret mission, one that’s on a collision course with Kelly’s. In deepest Africa the race against a deadly bloom reveals secrets, exposes fears, and forces unlikely alliances.

About Mary:

I love conflict. The conflict between dark magic and white. The conflict between beings

created with different needs and wants. Witches. Mage warlocks. Shifters, Weres, and demons all trying to co-exist against their natures. Bring it on!

I'm a huge paranormal and fantasy lover. Especially Urban Fantasy and any paranormal fantasy series that allows me to throw myself into magic and mystery page after page, book after book.

The paranormal world of the Invisible Recruits is built on women who must learn to embrace their preternatural talents to fight good and evil. Talents that they've hidden from the human population for fear of being different.

But because I love conflict I've dropped these women into a world where magic and fantasy exist side by side with humans intentionally kept in the dark about Shifters, Weres, warlocks, witches, and especially about magic.

Throw in a strong dose of romantic suspense, emotional relationships to add more conflict, and paranormal beings you've never heard of before, and you'll know why readers can't get enough of this fast-paced paranormal thriller series.

Website: www.MaryBuckham.com

FaceBook:https://www.facebook.com/mary.buckham?fref=ts

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryBuckham

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Buckham/e/B001HCZW8U

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/674828.Mary_Buckham

Nude Cruise Rules

My next release, Cruise into Eden, is coming out in two weeks and it takes place on a nude cruise. Actually, it is referred to as a “clothing optional” cruise and they do exist. What was so interesting about setting this story on a nude cruise was all the interesting “rules” that come with these trips. 

For instance, all the passengers must wear clothes when the ship is at port. I’m guessing this is out of respect for the various cultures it comes into contact with at its different ports of call. Another interesting rule is that the passengers must wear clothing if they dine in the main dining room or any of the various restaurants on the ship, but they don’t have to at the bars, nightclubs and casinos. Also, when the nude passengers sit anywhere, they must use a towel, a robe, or their own clothing to sit on. The cruise line will actually put out stacks of towels in many of the public places so the passengers can follow this etiquette.

There were other rules as well, but those are an important part of the story and I don’t want to spoil it :-) I have to say that setting an erotic romance on a nude cruise was incredibly fun! My cover reveal happens tomorrow for all my Update subscribers. If you would like to be the first to see it, sign up here http://eepurl.com/D3MqT  I can’t wait for this release!

Always, Lexi

Nanu Nanu

    Normally, this blog is about writing and reading and things book related (and yes, movie and television related too) but today….today I’m doing something a little different. I have to say I am stunned by the passing of Robin Williams. A talented man, and from all accounts, a gentle soul, I grew up watching and listening to him (I feel the same about Bill Cosby…funny, funny men).  I loved his stand-up routines (I would have loved to have seen him in person, but some things are better on DVD or VHS and I’ll tell you why…you can play it again, hit that rewind button and catch all the things you missed while you were laughing/crying (and yes, I will admit, there were a few times when I laughed so hard, I almost peed my pants!)

     His appearances on the late night talk shows always had me staying up later than my usual bedtime but I couldn’t miss them because you never knew what would come out of his mouth (and I loved how Johnny Carson and David Letterman would crack up! That in itself was a reason to watch). 
     Then there were his movies. My favorites are Mrs. Doubtfire (“My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flashes”), Jack, Dead Poets Society, and Aladdin. And of course, Hook.

      Not only did his movies make you laugh (as we know, laughing is good for one’s soul…it has healing properties) but there was always a life lesson hidden within the laughter.  

     Lauren Bacall passed away last week as well. A Classy Dame my father called her (coming from my father, this was high praise) and she truly was a class act. From Key Largo and To Have and Have Not (“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?”) to How to Marry a Millionaire and The Mirror Has Two Faces, she’d come on the screen with her distinct voice and beautiful face and you were mesmerized. At least, I was.  

     Both actors left an impression on me, both for different reasons, and I am grateful for having the opportunity to watch and be entertained.

     To quote Bob Hope (another great, in my opinion), thanks for the memories!

Keep laughing (and reading and writing)!

Marie