Fairy Tale Magic: The Thief & His Master

Welcome to the Fairy Tale Magic Blog Hop!

Ciao all! I’m Louisa Bacio, and I write naughty romance! I have three 1Night Stands with Decadent Publishing, and a Prepper Romance The Big One. When I heard the challenge for Beyond Fairytales, I had to accept.

My tale is based on “The Thief & His Master.” Doesn’t that call for BDSM? Here’s a link to the original: http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/grimm/bl-grimm-thiefmaster.htm

If you’re familiar with any of my paranormal writing, I’m a fan of shifters, so that original really called to me. When modernizing a classic, there certainly is a bit of magic that takes place. I let the idea percolate, and gave myself permission to create!

The Thief & His Master (Unedited Blurb)

Coming soon from Decadent Publishing

When Madeline places an ad on ThievesList for an apprentice, she wants more than an employee. She’s searching for her life mate. For only her fated one possesses the strength to overcome the life-altering challenges of the quest.

Feeling stuck, Sven drops out of college for an enticing job. Although the want ad mentions “discipline,” he doesn’t expect to find magic in the hands of his potential boss.

Sven’s world shifts to a new reality. He’ll battle danger and his destiny to find his true calling, and love.

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Stay tuned for release information. I’m currently in edits!

Contest: What’s your favorite fairytale? Leave a comment and valid email address, to be entered to win a $5 Amazon card, which you’ll hopefully use for a new BeyondFairytales!

Love...All things Fairy Tale? We're celebrating them in all their forms...originals, adaptations, twists and retellings. Sweet or steamy or a little bit twisted! Hop through all the blogs for giveaways at each stop! And don't forget to enter for the $100 Amazon gift card grand prize drawing too!

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Naughty Prof – 69 Tales of Submission

For the Love of a Good Book hop is one post below!

I love a good challenge. Rachel Kramer Bussel set the parameters: a kinky tale of submission in under 1,200 words. When you’re writing that short, every word matters!

Let me throw out the caveat, “Naughty Prof” isn’t written from personal experience. As a college professor, I figured I better get that cleared up. When brainstorming the topic, though, there’s that reversal of control. While the teacher rules the classroom, what happens when the student (or in this case, a former student) takes over?

“Naughty Prof” opens with: You say I’ve been a “bad girl” and ask if I want to be punished. If only you knew how naughty I’ve been.

The Big Book of Submission packs together a wonderful collection of authors. Check out treasures from C. Margery Kempe, Erzabet Bishop, Shenoa Carroll-Bradd, Lucy Felthouse, Salome Wilde, Annabeth Leong and so, so many more! Here’s a link to the full Table of Contents.

The anthology is available at most major retailers, including Amazon, B&N and ARe.

Want more behind-the-scenes of these naughty tales? Check out the other stops on the release tour.

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All the best,

Louisa Bacio

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For the Love of ... Friendships

Congratulations Beckey on your one-year anniversary of For the Love of a Good Book. You’re doing a GREAT service to authors and readers. Plus, it’s always fun to connect with others who enjoy the same things.

Hey, that almost sounds like friendship! The Hop runs from Aug. 29 through Sunday, Aug. 31.

When I heard about the topic of friendship, it made me think about Silver and Jana from my erotic paranormal series The Vampire, The Witch & The Werewolf. The two women meet first in The Wolfe Pack. Neither have many experiences with close friendships, and they hit it off right away.

Here’s a glimpse at their first interactions:

Jana led her forward. She was a petite woman with rich, dark curls resembling the approaching fall colors. While Silver sometimes felt like she lacked color in her appearance with her pale skin and light hair, this woman vibrated with life.

(…)

“My pleasure.” Jana held Silver’s hand. “I hope you’re comfortable here, and stay for a while. It’ll be nice to have a friend again.”

The relationship takes a different turn in the latest book Her Wolfe Ménage. While Silver stays in the forest with the wolf pack, Jana takes off to New Orleans. In a sense, they switch places. Here’s the blurb:

 Her Wolf Ménage

By Louisa Bacio

She seeks adventure

What’s the use of living in a wolf pack when one isn’t a shifter? Jana strikes out from Louisiana’s national forest to New Orleans to find herself, only to discover more questions.

They want the same woman

The moment Jana steps into the French Quarter, Andre pursues the naïve beauty. An artist, he senses the hidden wolf beneath the surface, and her nature calls to him. It’s not until she leaves that long-time friend Dominick realizes what he wants. The two alpha weres must battle it out or learn to share to reach their happy ending.

Available via Amazon, Ravenous, ARe & B&N.

Now for prizes! There are a lot associated with the Hop. Leave a message here about one special friendship you’ve had, and you’ll be entered to win a $5 gift card to Amazon.

All the best,

Louisa Bacio

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Top 10 Reasons to Check Out Campus Cravings

There's a new M/M anthology on campus, and it's making the grade! I've got a lot of writer-friends in this blockbuster collection. 

Top Ten Reasons to Check Out Campus Cravings:

1. College is a time of eye-opening exploration and experimentation, and there's just something about a Cathia University man...

2. All the stories take place at fictional Cathia University—where not even homework or grading stands in the way of true love.

3. What's better than one hot man? Two! And what's better than two? Eighteen! (Nine stories, each with two heroes, yay!)

4. The stories are interrelated, so you'll see characters from stories appear in others, notice many of the same buildings being used etc. That was a lot of fun for us to write and we hope you enjoy that aspect too!

5. Every story is brand new! That's over 220k words! Four seasons of academic fun—from the first students arriving in Fall, to winter holidays, to March Madness and Spring Flings, to Summer loving—there’s something for every part of the academic year.

6. Unique pairings—whether you like friends-to-lovers, enemies-to-lovers, reunion romances, May-December pairings, first love, or hot-for-teacher flirtations, you arebound to find some of your favorite tropes! And if that's not enough, there are hot athletes, sophisticated professors, activist heroes, and lots more!

7. Sports galore—soccer, hockey, basketball, equestrian and more! Join the authors and the characters as we root for the Cathia Cougars!

8. Pranks, parties, and plenty of fun—you really want to find out who dyed the fountain red and who’s at Friday’s Frat party!

9. Fan favorite  m/m romance authors including L.A. Witt, Sara York, Cassandra Carr, Annabeth Albert, Bianca Sommerland, Whitley Gray, Dalton Diaz, Mia Downing, and KyAnn Waters.

10. Only $2.99 for a limited time!

To find out more information about Campus Cravings, including buy links, check out our group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/299579866886134/. Add us to your to-be-read list on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22738703-campus-cravings.

An excerpt from Winning Bracket...by Annabeth Albert

“Hold up. If I filled out a bracket and mine beat yours, you’d do whatever I wanted? Like anything?”

“Sure.” Ollie shrugged, an insolent lift of surprisingly wide shoulders inside a too-big shirt. “I mean not all day. But sure, you want me to be a slave for an hour or something, I can take it.”

Ka-pow. The firecracker exploded, hot want raining down on Edwin, sparking against his skin. Anything. Ollie-as-slave images began to run on repeat in his brain, Ollie getting considerably less clothing with each pass. Edwin could ask for anything, and it would just be a joke to Ollie—a lark to be laughed over later, no more of a big deal than opening up with a can of silly string or shorting his sheets every night for a week.

Oh my god. Would it work? Could he use something like this—a stupid bet on stupid basketball—to exorcise the Ollie demons that had plagued him for years, all without having to admit how he felt about Ollie? Because while Ollie had been busy with the jock-crush-of-the-month plan, Edwin had been hung up on Ollie. For three and a half years. If a stupid bet could shake Edwin free, then it was worth having to learn something about basketball.

“Okay,” he whispered.

“Yay!” Ollie clambered off the bed, springs squeaking as he hit the floor. “You’ll see. This is going to be a great couple of weeks! So what are we going to play for this week? If my bracket does better by Sunday night, you send an email supporting the next watch party and you show up. And if you win…”

“I want a kiss.” The words escaped Edwin before he could call them back, before he could temper them with logic or suppress them with reality.