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Alpha Appeal: Why We Love To Read About Shifters by Callie McKenna
Hi, I’m Callie McKenna (author of the S Files series) and today I’d like to discuss the many reasons why we love shifters so much. They are everywhere – books, movies, TV shows…so what makes them so great?
- Alpha Man – Shifters are the essence of masculinity; the strong alpha male that so many women love. They know what they want and they’ll get it… especially if what they want is to push you up against a wall and roughly kiss you…
- Loyalty – Sometimes they can be bad boys, but when they’ve found their true mate, all that goes out the window and they’ll always remain faithful. One of the most valued things in a shifter’s life is this unfailing loyalty to their friends, family and mate.
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The Lasting Appeal of Cowboy Romance Heroes by Nan Comargue
Totally Bound are running two blog tours in conjunction with their Wild Western week promotion, one MF/MFM and one MM. Visit their facebook page to find out more about the blog tour stops, discounts and deals on offer!
Romantic fiction gives us many heroes to choose from: the businessman, the man in uniform, the millionaire who came into his riches by mysterious means (lately replaced by the billionaire with the same murky antecedents). They all have their benefits as well as their personal flaws. Why then does the writer choose to cede the main character position to a cowboy/ rancher?
Why indeed.
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My Favourite Place to Write, Or, In Other Words, Full Circle by Sierra Cartwright (@sierrawrites)
When I started writing, I used to drag yellow legal pads everywhere. I’d scribble ideas while making dinner, writing the grocery list, folding the laundry, waiting for the kids in the car after school, in the doctor’s waiting rooms, anywhere and everywhere. I wasn’t picky, but I was compulsive.
All of my habits changed when I got my first computer. It was a desktop, and it didn’t take me long to abandon the yellow legal pad complete with its dog-eared pages filled with scribbles, doodles of swans and clouds, crossed out sections, underlined and misspelled words, dozens of exclamation points and ideas that were scrawled in the margins.
Erotic Romance: I Have a Dirty Mind and I’m Not Afraid to Use It by Jayne Blue (@AuthorJayneBlue)
This week is all Fifty Shades all the time. The lip biting, the gasping sighs, the Civil War…wait, what? Sorry, different love story. My point is, erotic romance is king this week and I’m loving every second of it. As a reader and as a writer, here are the top five reasons we (okay…really just me…but ya feel me am I right?) love erom!
#5 – Billionaires are Better Than Thousandaires
I love me a dirty billionaire. He’s got nice clothes. He can afford to fly his lady anywhere day or night. Sure, he has the resources to track her every movement via GPS and in most states that might lead to a restraining order…but our man’s heart is in the right place. And the things you know are coming when he finds her? Swoon! You had me at credit card tracking!
In Expert Hands by Lily Harlem (@lily_harlem)
Out now from Lily Harlem, hot BDSM billionaire novel – IN EXPERT HANDS – available from Amazon –
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Imogen White has it all—a high-flying career, a prestigious London home and friends she knows will fight her corner. She’s going up, and she’s in control, she’s also got the hots for one very important, very sexy client.
Kane Ward is a self-made billionaire whose determination to be the best of the best has left him alone. He has everything money can buy, yachts, jets, and villas in all four corners of the globe, but even he can’t buy time to suit his needs.
And his needs are very specific, his desires a particular shade of kink and his tastes anything but vanilla. So when he sets his sights on Imogen it’s a given that things are going to get dark, that pleasure will be laced with pain and determining his success will be measured by her blushes and gasps and cries of delight. But Imogen doesn’t need to worry, she’s in expert hands and her every fantasy is about to come true—and then some she’d never imagined in her wildest dreams.
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