All-Girls Academy Release Day! I Luv Boobies Giveaway!

Who doesn’t love ’em? Babies love boobies. In fact, my daughter at four routinely pulls the neck of my shirt out, sticks her arm down there to feel me up, and takes a peek to confirm that they’re still around.

So with the release of my new book Sex University: All-Girls Academy, we’re going to celebrate … yep, you guessed it! Boobies!

Seriously, I’ve been hoarding these bracelet babies for a few months now, just waiting for the perfect time to give them away (ask my Facebook friends. I’ve teased a few times about them).

And just like we know that boobies come in all shapes and sizes, the I Love Boobies wristbands come in a variety of colors: Black with white lettering, white with black, hot pink with white, green with white …

Before we discuss the giveaway, let’s take a look at Sex University: All-Girls Academy

Raised by an over-controlling and manipulative father, Savannah “Van” Morgan flees the East Coast for the West, seeking sanctuary with her Aunt Lucy, headmistress of San Francisco Sex University. Rather than staying at the main campus, Van enrolls in SFSU’s more nurturing “sister” school, the All-Girls Academy. 

After visiting the main campus of SFSU, Margaret “Maggie” O’Neil hangs up her police badge in search of new experiences and hoping to awaken her own dormant sexuality.

With subject matters such as an “Art Sex-education” class with an Italian visiting professor who’s more than happy to schedule private tutoring after-hours, the All-Girls Academy invites all sorts of sexual exploration. In the end, Van and Maggie will either fall victim to the pressures of society, or come together to save each other.

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Thanks for stopping by. To read an excerpt, and purchase your copy, visit Ravenous Romance.

Show me yours, and I’ll show you mine: Got a funny or embarrassing boobie story? Share it! (Come on, we’re all friends here, right?) 

I’ll give away five bracelets to five people who comment on the blog. Make sure to leave an email address, so I can contact you to see where to ship! If you have a color preference, let me know … but realize that I have a limited selection. (I’ll pick the winners next Friday, July 8.) 

Bestseller for a Day: Dollars & Sense

 What’s the big deal with self-publishing?

Dollars & Sense: The Definitive Guide to Self-publishing Success

By Amber Scott, Carolyn McCray & Rachel Thompson

Dollars & Sense: The Definitive Guide to Self-publishing Success is a step-by-step actionable road map to increasing royalties for beginners and seasoned professionals alike. Divided into three sections; Producing a Sales-Friendly, Professional eBook, Establishing & Leveraging Your Social Media Platform, and Selling Smarter, Not Harder, Dollars & Sense walks authors through the process of creating then actually selling their eBook.

Available during this special Bestseller for a Day promotion of 99 cents through Amazon.

Once you buy the book, take your sales confirmation with a number to the Bestseller for a Day website and sign up for a newsletter and enter their sales confirmation number.  Signing up for the newsletter and entering their number will enter you into a drawing for a Kindle.  

You can also buy a copy of each of the three bonus buys and get the purchase price refunded.  So, that’s 4 books for 99 cents and a chance to win a kindle.

About the Authors

Amber Scott: Between naptimes and dishes, Amber Scott escapes into her characters’ addictive lives. She often burns dinner, is a sucker for chocolate and still believes in happily ever after. She makes her home in hot Arizona with her two children, husband, and one day, two cats.

Contact info:

amberscottbooks@gmail.com 

Twitter: @amberscottbooks

Weblog: http://amberscottbooks.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmberScottBooks

Carolyn McCray

Carolyn is the Founder of the Indie Book Collective, a group dedicated to helping authors use social media to its fullest potential to sell their books.  

The #IBC exploded within 4 months to have over 5,000 members and its work has already been covered in major, national publications.

She has been described as an eBook marketing guru (others’ words not hers), a volcano of Amazon.com eBook knowledge (again, not her words), and the Borg Queen (ok, maybe she coined that one herself).

Each one of her novels have reached bestselling status on Amazon.com and her super controversial thriller, “30 Pieces of Silver” topped  (as in #1) the Men’s Adventure category, #3 in the War sub-genre, and #183 overall (out of about1 million books) in the Kindle Top Bestsellers.

Carolyn also has contributed to Digital Book World.com and has been covered by the Huffington Post (Books).  Carolyn appeared on a panel with Jane Freidman at SXSW regarding the future of digital publishing and will appear on several panels at the NY Indie Book Event (7/2011).

RACHEL THOMPSON

Rachel Thompson (aka RachelintheOC) is the author of the consistently 5/5 star reviewed humorous and at times, poignant, collection of essays, A Walk In The Snark (released 1/2011), which recently hit #3 on the Amazon Humor/Parenting & Families Kindle list (beating out the likes of Jenny McCarthy!), after just a few months of release and has consistently stayed on the Amazon Top Humor Lists.

In May, 2011 A Walk In The Snark hit #1 on Smashwords Entertainment Bestseller list also

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Rachel is also one of the cofounders of the Indie Book Collective, an organization with over 6,000 members which is dedicated to helping authors utilize social media to the fullest to sell their books.  The Collective offers free workshops, a live advice radio show, innovative programs such as Blog Tour de Force & Bestseller for a Day, and so much more to its members. 

You can find Rachel most days on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, giving daily tips on the IndieBookIBC Twitter stream, contributing posts to the IBC blog or her own popular blog, giving free social media workshops for writers, promoting her current book or working on her next book, The Mancode: A Survivor’s Tale. She lives in the OC aka Orange County, CA (home of Disneyland). Somewhere in there this redhead in a sea of blondes fits in being a full-time wife and mom to her two young children and just one husband. She loves coffee, dirty martinis, and sleep.  

Rachel and the IBC were recently profiled (April 13, 2011) in the Huffington Post Books section regarding social media and ePublishing.

Bonus Buys

Fierce Dawn

“X-MEN action meets True Blood heat.”

-Ann Charles

Nearly Departed In Deadwood, 2010 Daphne Winner

“Intensely satisfying!”  

-Carolyn McCray

Kindle Bestselling author, 30 Pieces of Silver

Snarling teeth, glowing eyes. Someone--something--is after Sadie Graves.  

Elijah Stokes, the man who haunts her dreams, enters her reality claiming she’s transforming into a changeling--not quite immortal but no longer human.

Battle lines are drawn and blood spills as the two fight not only for Sadie’s life, but for all of mankind's as well.

30 Pieces of Silver

Overview:

A Christian suicide bomber.

John the Baptist's bones inscribed in ancient Greek.

A secret carried from the foot of the crucifixion.

Can science solve the world's greatest mystery?

30 Pieces of Silver

For anyone who doesn't mind some serious controversy and can't get enough of James Rollins, Dan Brown, Steve Berry, and Brad Thor... "30 Pieces of Silver" is your next thrill fix!

A Walk in the Snark

“Sometimes I think I’m too jaded. But then I think no, it’s just the lighting.”

A Walk In The Snark now a bestseller! It reached Kindle Top 10 status (#3) on the Humor Parenting & Families list, Top 20 on Humor Essays (#11) in April 2011, and #1 on Smashwords Entertainment list in May!

With her trademark snarky humor and candor, Rachel whisks you into her caffeinated world where she deconstructs common phrases (I’m Fine) and makes up words (Refrigeratoritis) in order to help dudes understand chicks…and vice versa.

Rachel believes “Men are from Seinfeld, Women are from Friends,” and so do her legions of fans. She dares to ask “why do men want to change the world but can’t change a roll of toilet paper?”

Drawing on her decades (dear god has it been that long?) of marriage, friendships, and past relationships, Rachel’s specialty is observing male behavior and dissecting it with humor (Shopping is NOT a Verb). Think of her as the Scientist of Snark…without the ugly white labcoat of course. #asif

“Husband: Mumble, mumble, mumble.

11yo: What?

Me: It’s okay. I speak husband.”

But don’t let that witty veneer fool you. Sprinkled throughout these funny essays are some poignant stories of tragedy and loss (The Difficult Kind). This chick will tear at your heart. And then, you know, stitch it back together with humorous aplomb.

Don't take our word for it. The critics are going nuts for it too!

About Bestseller For a Day:

“Making authors dreams come true one promotion at a time.

Each month, for one day, readers, friends, family and peers rally together to drive an ebook up the Amazon Kindle rankings with a goal to pierce the top 100. The aim of the program is to help indie authors get a foothold in the traditionally published dominated market. Authors coordinate with book review sponsors to show readers that the 99 cent promotional price is worth every penny.

As thanks, each author creates giveaways for participants and drives traffic to participating review sites. Additionally, readers are offered Bonus Buy reads discounted to 99 cents for the event with that price offered to be rebated back by the participating authors when readers fill out the relevant form.”

A Hot Reading at Ravenous Nights in NYC

As if New York during the summer couldn’t get hot enough! Join yours truly along with several other sizzling romance authors during July's Ravenous Nights.

The event welcomes the Romance Writers Association conference and its attendees to New York City with a Hot Summer Nights reading. On the stage will be me, Louisa Bacio, Daisy Harris, Gwen Masters and Kathy Kulig.

The Ravenous Nights reading series celebrates erotica and erotic romance the first Friday of every month. Sponsored by erotic romance e-book publisher, Ravenous Romance, and hosted by its editorial director, Lori Perkins, Ravenous Nights spotlights authors and their works with readings, door prizes, and endless enthusiasm for hot, steamy fiction.

Event Details:

July 1, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Free. Casual dress.

Happy Ending Lounge

302 Broome Street

New York, NY 10002

(212) 334-9676

www.happyendinglounge.com

For more information: ravenous.journurl.com

Let’s take a quick look at the lovely ladies who’ll be sharing the spotlight:

Kathy Kulig

Multi-published author Kathy Kulig writes paranormal, contemporary and erotic romance for Ellora’s Cave. Her recent works include Damned and Desired, a 2011 EPIC Award finalist, Emerald Dungeon, and Dragon Witch, a 2011 PRISM Finalist. Besides her career in writing, she’s a cytotechnologist and has worked as a research scientist, medical technologist, dive master and stringer for a newspaper. When she’s not writing or dreaming up her next steamy story, she enjoys traveling, relaxing by the beach with a book, mountain biking, movies and dinners out. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband in a 100-year-old Victorian home, which has a garage built from rejected tombstones.

Kathy Kulig

Emerald Dungeon by Kathy Kulig 

Ellora’s Cave

When Dana, a harpist, gets a summer job in a medieval dinner show, she discovers a world of BDSM in the dungeon of the ancient Irish castle. Jack is a sexy Dominant who recognizes the submissive smoldering beneath the demure exterior. Under his skillful commands, he takes her beyond her darkest erotic fantasies. Secrets and strange events around the castle strain their relationship, and the appearance of a mysterious business card 1-800-DOM-help offers to guide them. Only with complete trust and surrender is ultimate pleasure and true love possible.

Visit Kathy at www.kathykulig.com  

www.twitter.com/kathykulig

www.facebook.com/kathykulig

Daisy Harris

Regular visitors to this blog met Daisy recently, with her new Ravenous Romance release, Mercury Rising: The Gods at Sea. At the reading, Daisy will be featuring her upcoming July release Lust After Death.

In the Pacific Northwest, where life hurries to keep pace with technology, a reanimated bride named Josie struggles to escape her creator and to find her identity in the half-erased circuitry of her mind and body.

Assassin Bane Connor just wants to get the girl to the Zombie Underground and receive his payoff—a mental re-set that will erase his memories as well as his guilt. But an attack by a rival faction derails his rescue, and the wide-eyed female whose circuitry requires a husband tears at his hardened heart and ignites desire like he’s never known.

Acting as Josie’s spouse-substitute is tougher than Bane expected. The newborn stein needs touch to live, and wanting her is a complication he doesn’t need. To make matters worse, she sees into the darkest recesses of his mind. The last thing a killer wants is for his lover to read his thoughts, but if Josie can love him the way he’s programmed, perhaps Bane can find a way to heal his past.

Gwen Masters

Gwen Masters has seen hundreds of her short stories published in print and online, and her erotic novels have been translated into half a dozen languages. When she's not writing smut, she is diving into research on interesting yet obscure topics, hopping a plane every few weeks, and masquerading as a serious news journalist. She splits her time between a home on the Georgia coast and a little place on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Check out Gwen at:  http://www.gwenmasters.blogspot.com

Gwen Masters

Her latest book, A Week in the Snow releases June 27 at Total E-Bound. Squee! Just in time for #RWA11!

And, yes, the event runs at the same time as the RITAs, but this time, think about taking on a new experience with Ravenous Nights.

Hope to see you there!

Yes, it’s a Blatant Promo Weekend!

And I mean that in every sense of the word. I’ve got a new release coming out shortly: Sex University: All-Girls Academy. Whoo-hoo. Stay tuned for more info!

Today, I’m over on Writers Gone Wild – Whoo-hoo. For their “Blatant Promo Weekend,” they feature up to five books from an author … and I’m more than thrilled so see all the covers laid out so prettily in one area. As an erotic romance writer, my first full-length novel Sex University: Physical Education release in June 2010, and look at the page now!

Check out Writers Gone Wild for 5 Fun Facts about Me, too – such as my favorite Disneyland ride.

Of Dreams and Realities

Author Ju Dimello also is featuring an interview with me, today, with a giveaway of The Vampire, The Witch & The Werewolf: A New Orleans Threesome. Ju has to be one of the most personable and zany interviewers I’ve come across. You can see all of her personality in her questions and follow-up responses.

Read it on her site Dreams and Realities

In the interview, I also highlight some creative support I’ve received at OCC/RWA, and also meeting new friends such as Ebony Dreams online. (Ebony’s also a SoCal local, so hopefully, we’ll be seeing her at a meeting one weekend soon.)

Thanks for spending part of your Saturday with me, and hopefully I’ll be seeing more of many in NYC next week!