Mar 20 2015

The Fine Line Of Classifying Your Book

I’m having a real problem with my books.

Here’s the deal. I write books that have to be classified as “erotic” because they contain descriptive sex. That’s the way publishing platforms work and I get that. You don’t want some twelve year old picking up a book with detailed sexual content (though they can find that in fanfic all over the net anytime they want…so go figure).

At the same time, the advent of indie publishing opened the doors for a whole lot of people who write hardcore erotica, and quite a bit of it is just porn scenes with a plot haphazardly slapped around it. There’s also a lot of “outside the mainstream m/f romance model” stuff involving same sex couples, group scenes, BDSM, fetishes….the list is endless. And when you mix in fantasy/paranormal, you don’t even have to be having sex with people anymore. Continue reading →

Mar 19 2015

Only Two More Days To Buy My Book CHEAP – And Here’s A Tease!

Eight Nights At Sea is a Kindle Countdown Deal until Tuesday, March 24th! Right now you can have your very own copy steaming up your sweaty little hands (and various other body parts) for a mere $.99!

Do you like pirates? Funny, clever pirates? Do you like girls who are smart and sexy and stronger than they appear? Do you like vivid fantasy and mysterious secrets and romance that makes you sigh and have to catch your breath?

This is your book! And here’s a little tease.

In this scene, Zephyr and Rina are enjoying a day at a secluded cove, and here we see one of Rina’s dilemmas: she has a secret issue with being kissed. That doesn’t stop them from enjoying themselves, however… Continue reading →

Mar 18 2015

Come And Get It! Eight Nights At Sea Is A Kindle Countdown Deal!

You read that right! Eight Nights At Sea is now a Kindle Countdown Deal and for the next three days you can own it for $.99!!

Do you like sexy, saucy, sarcastic pirates? Do you like sensual, mysterious women who give as good as they get? Do you like secrets that tear people apart, attraction and heart that pull people together, adventure and a touch of fantasy to add to the fun?

Then Eight Nights At Sea is your book! And you can have it for less than a buck!!

Mar 17 2015

Happy St. Paddy’s Day! Enjoy A Free Read of “Under The Rainbow”

Caren is trying to get her life back together after a devastating diagnosis. When she meets the handsome and mysterious Aengus, she realizes she’s stumbled upon a world of shamrocks and magic in the middle of her harsh reality. He offers her one wish – and she doesn’t waste it on gold.

You can read “Under The Rainbow” for free at Smashwords, formatted for all e-reading devices or for PC, if you prefer. This was one of my favorite short-stories, it really is. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed having them in my head!

“A very well written mysterious short story (book). It was very easy to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment.”

“The ending was very beautiful…I kept rooting for them to be together. “

Mar 16 2015

Here’s Your Chance To Buy Eight Nights At Sea For A Song!

And once you read the book, you’ll know how appropriate that is! I’m offering Eight Nights At Sea on a Kindle Countdown Deal beginning at 8am EDT (US) on Wednesday, March 18th!

The book will blaze in at $.99, then hop up to $1.99 before moving back to its normal list price of $2.99. The promo will run through the 24th, so grab it while it’s hot!

Unfortunately, this also means that I have to unpublish the book from Smashwords for a while, as Amazon requires that I make this book a Kindle Select purchase, making it exclusive to Kindle for the next 90 days. I’ll be putting it back up to Smashwords once that deal expires.

So if you want the book for your Nook or other device (or on your PC), get it from Smashwords now – it’s coming down tomorrow.

Here’s a blurb, to give you a taste:

Zephyr Jamieson is a pirate, sailing the seas of a magical realm. He encounters a beauty named Rina, a woman with a body that sets him aflame and a secret that she cannot tell. Rina barters passage aboard Zephyr’s ship for herself and her secretive twin brother with the only thing the pirate captain appears to be interested in. Can eight nights at sea lead to more? Or will her secret tear them apart?

Set your countdown clocks – Eight Nights At Sea goes on sale soon!

Mar 13 2015

FanFic Friday – Today You Get A Taste Of Family Life, Once Upon A Time-style

It’s FanFiction Friday once again, and today I’m going to take a slightly different tack. No smut, but some good, hard dialogue. I pride myself on writing my FanFic characters in authentic voice, and I think this particular argument captures the essence of Hook and Emma beautifully.

In this scene from “Finn’s Tale” (which is part 3 of my Memory Keeper trilogy), young Finn Jones has just stepped through a portal to go and find the woman who holds the key to his destiny, much to the dismay of his mother, Emma, who has decided to voice her opinion to the lad’s father, the one and only Killian Jones.

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Mar 11 2015

Hump Day! I Won’t Make A Dirty Joke – I’ll Just Tease Some Steamy Stuff

In Changeling, the third book of my Seeder Saga, Lizzie is abducted by Indar, a man from the Seeder Corps, and they spend a few weeks in close quarters on his ship, which causes all sorts of mayhem when they find themselves overwhelmingly attracted to each other. Continue reading →

Mar 10 2015

I Wrote All Night To Get To You (Is That All Right?)

I woke up at 1:30 am and I was wide awake. So I looked out the window at the stars and the overly bright moon and I knew I had to write.

Problem is, I had to write the story that’s three stories away from what I’m working on right now. I’m knee deep in Someday In Dublin, working on a non-fiction book under another pen name, and piecing together a novella due out April 1st.

This story shouldn’t be a priority. But the night was dark and magical, the stars were shining, and the fact is, this story is about a girl in the desert who sings stories to the stars. The mood was there and ideas were flickering and I would have been a fool not to take advantage of it.

By the same token, now that story is overtaking my brain because I allowed it to unfurl and now I need to clip its wings and get back to work on Someday In Dublin or it’ll never get done.

This writer thing….very frustrating sometimes.

Back to work.

Mar 9 2015

Fanfiction Tease – These Dreams, Chapter 14: Leftenant Jones

I got so bogged down on Friday with all the other crap I had to do that I forgot to do a Friday Fanfic tease – sorry! So today I’m teasing out part of one of my favorite chapters from my Fanfic “These Dreams.” In “These Dreams,” Killian and Emma are stuck in the dreamscape, moving through their own dreams and the dreams of everyone in Storybrooke. In this chapter, “Leftenant Jones” (Yes, I know it’s spelled “Lieutenant” and pronounced differently, but for the sake of readability, I went with the phonetic spelling), Killian is dreaming himself back to his navy days with his brother, Liam. Emma finds herself dumped on the dock the day Killian is promoted to Leftenant…

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Mar 6 2015

I Need This Medal Today

It’s been a week.

It started with two sick kids, which morphed into me getting really sick and taking care of two sick kids, add in a broken dryer, a foot of snow, and a workload at the dayjob that borders on the psychotic, and you have a perfect storm of shit that gets in a writer’s way.

But I still managed to write somehow. Not as much as I would have liked, but I did it. Go me.

Holy God, do I need a drink.

Anyway, this blog is paying the price today because I am spread too freaking thin. I’ll do better next week, I promise.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Britt DeLaney

Romance Author