Ella Jade Visits the ‘Verse: SURRENDER TO ME blog tour (#bdsm #erotica)

Ella Jade, welcome to the Skylarverse!

I’m pleased to announce the release of Surrender to Me, the sequel to Make Me Stay.

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What happens when a Dominant falls for his not-so-submissive attorney?

Martin Abrams, owner of Master M’s BDSM club, has become unfulfilled with his lifestyle. Ever since his sub, Gracie, left to marry her true love, Martin has lost his way. Living the life of the head Dominant in his circle isn’t as appealing as it once was. Something seems to be missing.

Sassy lawyer Arianna Covington relocates to New York City after a humiliating divorce. She’s looking for a fresh start when she agrees to become Martin’s exclusive attorney. She’s intrigued by his domineering personality and wants to know why women kneel at his feet.

Their attraction is undeniable despite Ari’s initial beliefs that she will never submit to Martin’s desires. But Martin is up for the challenge. Arianna is more than he ever imagined in a woman. He vows to claim her heart, with or without the games. Who will surrender first?

Featuring Cade and Gracie from Make Me Stay.

Available from Beachwalk Press

Check out the hot and sexy trailer for a peek into the plot.

~ Excerpt ~

“All the subs act that way around you?” Arianna asked.

“It’s the only way they know. It’s what’s expected of them.”

“I don’t understand how any woman would bow down like that. It’s not normal.”

“Maybe not for you.” Martin understood Arianna’s position. Most who didn’t participate in a Dominant and submissive relationship didn’t get it.

“It’s degrading. She can’t use the phone. She’s a grown woman.”

“Arianna, this is a lifestyle you can’t possibly comprehend because you know nothing about it. A submissive gets just as much as he or she gives. The arrangement they enter into with a Dom is consensual. Roxy is not forced into being here. Her Dom respects and cares for her. She has a very good life.”

“He punishes her.”

“When she disobeys. It’s in her contract.”

“A contract that can’t possibly be enforced in court.”

“Spoken like a true lawyer.” He finished his scotch. “The contract is to protect them both. It lists what is expected of a sub and what the Dominant’s responsibilities are. They outline hard and soft limits. We create a safe, sane, and consensual environment, and that contract maintains trust between the two parties. As long as it is upheld between the parties involved that’s all that matters.”

“To each his own, I suppose.” She shrugged. “I’m your real estate attorney. What you do here is none of my business.”

Then why are you here, kitten?

“I’m very open, Arianna. If you have questions, I’ll be happy to answer them. People should be educated in my lifestyle. It isn’t as uncommon or bizarre as you may think.” He reached for her hand. “I hope you won’t judge me without getting to know me.”

“Um, no.” She looked down at their joined hands. He liked the way her cheeks turned colors when he flustered her. “Of course not. This whole environment is different. It’s going to take some getting used to.”

“I understand.” He ran his thumb over the soft skin of her hand. “If you’d prefer not to meet here anymore—”

“It’s not a problem.”

“Very well.” He smiled because as he suspected she wanted to be there. “Will you join me for dinner?”

Martin couldn’t remember the last time he’d asked a woman to have dinner with him. He usually just summoned a sub when he was in the mood for company. Gracie was the last woman he’d spent any time with at all. Perhaps it was time to explore his options. Obviously, Arianna would be different than the women he dealt with, but he liked the change. When Gracie left him for Cade everything changed. He hadn’t been interested in another sub. As a matter of fact, he hadn’t been interested in another woman until now.

“I’d love to join you for dinner, Mr. Abrams.”

“I’d like you to call me Martin.” Allowing people to use his name wasn’t a privilege he granted often, but everything was different with her. He stood from the bar and picked up her briefcase. “I hope you like Italian. I ordered enough for six people. I wasn’t sure what you would want.”

“Italian is fine.” She took his extended hand and walked to the back of the club with him. “Why didn’t you just wait and ask what I would want?”

“I’m not used to asking.” He motioned for her to take a seat in the huge u-shaped booth that overlooked the Manhattan skyline.

“Oh, Martin.” She giggled. He liked the way his name tumbled off her lips. “You have a lot to learn about non-submissive women.”

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Surrender to Me is the sequel to Make Me Stay but both books stand alone so the reader can choose to read either one first. You may want to start with Make Me Stay to get the back story.

Both books available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and ARE

Ella Jade has been writing for as long as she can remember. As a child, she often had a notebook and pen with her, and now as an adult, the laptop is never far. The plots and dialogue have always played out in her head, but she never knew what to do with them. That all changed when she discovered the eBook industry. She started penning novels at a rapid pace and now she can’t be stopped.

Ella resides in New Jersey with her husband and two young boys. When she’s not chasing after her kids, she’s busy writing, attending PTO meetings, kickboxing, and scrapbooking. She hopes you’ll get lost in her words.

Find Ella online: Website | Facebook

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Sara Brookes Visits the ‘Verse: TAKING OVER ME blog tour and giveaway

Age 18+ — Adults Only

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He’s everything she didn’t know she needed…

Allison would rather fix computers than worry about sex. That is, until the newest barista in town changes everything. All it takes is one hot stare with his sinful baby blues to remind her she’s not just one of the guys. She has lusty needs only he can fulfill.

Patrick’s coffee shop is on the verge of an epic failure, until Allison takes charge of his computer system. He may not know anything about motherboards, but he does know how to take control both in and out of bed. Now Patrick is determined to get what he wants—Allison in his cuffs. His sensual mastery awakens an intense passion and under his command, he’ll unlock the geek girl’s darkest desires.

Warning: Collars. Cuffs. Clamps. Coffee. You may never look at your local barista the same way again.

VBT Taking Over Me BannerSara will be awarding a $50.00 gift card to Starbucks and a Perfect Shot (coffeehouse in Taking Over Me) coffee mug to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour

Click here to see a listing of all the blog stops–the more you comment, the better your chances of winning! 

~Interview~

Skylar: Why/how did you start writing romance?
Sara: Despite the fact I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the most romantic soul in the world, I am a sucker for a love story. When I wrote, I found that I tended to focus on the romance storyline, and the rest, they say, is history.

Skylar: Do you have any unusual writing routines?
Sara: I still write a lot of my stories by hand and then transcribe it to a document. Most people think I’m a little crazy to do this, given today’s age of computers. But I can’t always be near a computer 24/7. Writing by hand allows me to write any where at any time, regardless if I have my laptop handy.

Skylar: What are you working on at the moment?
Sara: I just started the third book of the Geek Kink series, Break Me In. The first half of the book is already complete, I just need to sit down and finally get everything onto the computer. I also just finished the first draft of another full-length novel that I’ve been working on for a while.

Skylar: What is your favorite quote and why?
Sara: “It’s better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you aren’t.” It’s been one of my favorite quotes since high school and a reminder to me to always be myself no matter what.

Skylar: What’s the best writing tip you’ve ever been given?
Sara: “Give yourself permission to suck.” There was a time when I focused on getting a perfect first draft. And I always ended up having to trash what I’d completed because it never worked. Someone reminded me I needed to just relax and first drafts were allowed to suck. You can always go back and fix what you’ve written, but you can’t fix a blank page.

Skylar: What’s the biggest writing challenge you’ve ever taken on? Did you succeed?
Sara: Until 2008, I’d always written fairly short works, most around 20K words in length. I wanted to write longer stories, but I didn’t know if I could. So I challenged myself. It wasn’t easy, but I finally completed a 60K word book. Not truly “full length” but it was a step in the right direction. Now full length is my preferred length. I still enjoy novella format, but I love digging into deeper characterization and plot with upward of 90K words.

~Excerpt~

“Impressive.” A line formed between his eyebrows as he frowned. He leaned forward, peeking over the gold bar that ran the length of the knee wall. “Good-sized crowd down there. And we’re the only ones up here. Is that normal?”

She led him to a row, sitting in the center seat. “It is if you know the projectionist. Gamer buddy of mine, Cooper, puts on these festivals once a month, a different theme each time. Most of the time the movies are older, classic Hollywood. Bogey and Bacall. The Rat Pack. John Wayne. This month he picked Hitchcock.”

“An extraordinary storyteller.”

“I agree. We tend to sit up here because while crowds have their place, a lot of people tend to dilute the sound quality.”

Patrick smirked. “Well now, that makes sense. Movie buffs would go for where the sweet spot is in the theater.”

“We tend to be creatures of habit, sadly.” She shrugged off the light sweater she’d worn to keep the chilly spring night air off her bare shoulders. Comprehension sank in at something he’d said. She turned to find him smiling almost expectantly. “Wait a second. You know about the sweet spot?”

His smile widened, melting her insides a little. Great, as if I wasn’t already infatuated enough, he has to flash that intoxicating grin.

“My life isn’t just about coffee and tea, Allison. I may not be as technologically savvy as you are, but there are a few things I can hold my own with.” His voice dropped a bit as he leaned over the padded armrest. “And just for clarification purposes, I know about quite a few sweet spots.”

Sara Brookes is an award-winning author who has always been fascinated by the strange, the unusual, the twisted and the lost (tortured heroes are her personal favorite). She is an action movie junkie, addicted to coffee and has been known to stay up until the wee hours of the morning playing RPG video games. Despite all this, she is a romantic at heart and is always a sucker for an excellent love story. Born and bred in Virginia, Sara still lives there with her husband and daughter. The entire family is owned by two cats, Galahad and Loki, who graciously allow the family to cater to their every desire.

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Review for “Heat Up the Night”

“I recommend this read to anyone whose looking to spend an evening curled up in a chair and be swept away into an erotic fantasy.”

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#FridayReads: Nailed to the Wall by Jayne Rylon

NailedToTheWall72LGI’m behind, I know! But I keep hearing wonderful things about Jayne Rylon‘s connected series, Hot Rods, and I need to catch up on Powertools before jumping into that. So I’m doing Nailed to the Wall (that’s what she said!)

The crew is back and they’re dirtier than ever.

Five sexy men with a penchant for love and lust in any variation have formed a crew. They work hard and play harder—together. Though their partnership began in construction, renovating houses and selling them for a mint, they’ve formed a bond around their shared goal to provide women, and each other, with the ultimate sexual experience.

Over the past year, as each member discovered his soul mate—or two—they expanded the reach of their circle, lighting up their nights along with their souls. Monogamous relationships and the desire to start families threaten to put their libertine revelry on the back burner. Will the passion that bonded them fade away? How will the crew’s new wives cope with the complex relationship the men will always cherish and crave?

Determined to prove they stand by their men, the women decide it’s time to flex some muscle and give the crew a dose of girl power. They collude to take the guys as their horny hostages, using some big guns: boudoir photos, a pillow fight and a calculated foray into partner swapping. But will they have the guts to go through with their plans?

Warning: By Book Five in this series, fans will attest that anything goes in the crew. Be prepared for ménage in every flavor–m/f, f/f, m/f/m, f/m/f, m/m/f and more–along with a slew of that’s what he said jokes. No throwing tomatoes at the author, please!

#FridayReads: The Dom with the Perfect Brats by Black-Shaw-Silverwood

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After reading The Dom with a Safeword and The Dom on the Naughty List, I couldn’t wait for The Dom with the Perfect Brats. The writing trio of Sorcha Black, Leia Shaw, and Cari Silverwood create wonderful characters and authentic BDSM interactions.

Godfrey Cross is a big, tattooed Dom with no tolerance for brats. But when he meets two mouthy vanilla girls, he begins to see their charm.Gemma and Izzy seem more into each other than into him and he wonders if he’s wasting his time. Yet despite the clash between his strict version of BDSM and their rebellious natures, he finds himself growing to love them.
When his need for control tears their relationship apart, they must learn to compromise or they will lose each other. People may not be perfect, but could these two be perfect for him?

Warning: this book contains a saucy tattoo artist with a love for the strap, a Dom who turns bratty girls into sex zombies, and a Big Evil Bed that’s used to tie up unsuspecting subs

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#Thursday13: Tweeps who share intellectual tidbits

If you’re going to spend hours on Twitter, as one is wont to do, you might as well learn some cool shit in the process. These thirteen Twitter accounts will help! Know of others? Feed my insatiable brainy parts and tell me who else to follow in the comments.

1. OMG Facts

2. The Word of the Day

3. CERN

4. Random Facts

5. OMG Facts-Sex

6. Maria Popova

7. Elon Musk

8. DARPA

9. Armed with Science

10. NASA

11. Joanne Manaster

12. Neil deGrasse Tyson

13. Mental Floss

Lori Toland Visits the ‘Verse: Dangerous Submission blog tour and giveaway

Age 18+ — Adults Only

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British Agent Drake Steele never thought when he was hired on at the Serious Organised Crime Agency that his job would involve spanking a co-worker. But when the colleague is Lord Robbie Covington, the sexy red-headed computer hacker for SOCA and MI-6, Drake can’t agree fast enough to pop Robbie’s cherry and pull him into the sensual world of BDSM.

Now they are caught up in a web of lies as they pose as members of the jet-setting crowd. Drake and Robbie have to race against the clock to stop a weapons haul that could threaten the safety of all Europe. As their covers begin to fade and danger is closing in, protecting Robbie is Drake’s most important task, but neither man is ready for the moment when their hearts are put on the line.

Lori will be awarding a $50 Amazon, ARe, BN or Loose Id gift certificate (winner’s choice) to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. See a full list of tour stops here.

Interview

Skylar: Who are some of your favorite romance authors?
Lori: I love Johanna Lindsey, Mary Calmes, RJ Scott, Emily Cale, Kele Moon, Jay Starre, Jessica Freely, Kay Berrisford, JA Rock and Lisa Henry. I could go on for a very long time.

Skylar: Do you have any unusual writing routines?
Lori: I can write anywhere, at any time so there is nothing usual about my writing routine, other than I’ve adapted to writing anywhere. I am trying to write each scene one at a time until it’s done. I do get interrupted. Dangerous Submission was written like that, where I stuck with a scene, not letting anything interrupt me for anything. I think it worked very well.

Skylar: What is your favorite quote, and why?
Lori: I’ve always loved one quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation that Picard says during Season 7 when he’s connected to Dr. Crusher. He talks about leadership and how leaders don’t always know for sure we are making the right decision but we have to keep the appearance of confidence. I took that with me into my business and it’s served me well in rough times.
Skylar: Captain Picard was full of awesome wisdom–Patrick Stewart is a true leader on and off screen!

Skylar: Who is your favorite character from one of your own stories, and why?
Lori: I have to choose one? Each time I write a book, I fall in love with the characters. I do really love Drake and Tony, also Stefan. I think if I had to choose, it would Tony for sure because even though I intensely disliked Bradley in The Long Con, I adored Tony. He kept me writing through the whole book.

Skylar: What’s the best writing tip you’ve ever been given?
Lori: Never give up. Don’t stop writing for anything, not matter how many times you hear no. If you put your words on paper enough times and keep dedicated to learning your craft, you will succeed. All you need is a great idea.

Skylar: If you get writer’s block, how do you get around it?
Lori: If I have writer’s block, it means my story has a problem with it so I back up and find out where the problem is inside the manuscript. It’s never “my muse is on vacation.” I have many muses though. Their names are Tony, Drake, Stefan… I could go on ;)

Skylar: What’s the biggest writing challenge you’ve ever taken on?
Lori: I think The Long Con was very difficult. I was at a crossroads in my career and in my life when I started writing that. The few scenes I started with were written in some of my most painful and darkest hours but once I put it on paper, I could move on. I did very quickly start on Dangerous Submission and with that book, I really felt like I broke free and found my voice. So yes, I think letting go of the past and moving on to the next book was my greatest writing challenge and I think I did that.

Excerpt

As we reached the edge of the crowd surrounding the presentation area, a blond gentleman stepped in front of us. “Robbie Covington, it’s been quite some time since you’ve been to Prague,” he said in accented English.

“Joseph!” Robbie exclaimed and widened his eyes. “I’m surprised to see you here.”

Joseph pulled Robbie loose from my hold and hugged him hard. “I can’t believe you’re here.” Joseph grinned. “You said the last time we talked it would be a couple years before you could come here. Why didn’t you ring me to let me know you’d be in town?”

“I didn’t know until the last minute,” Robbie said as he pulled away and smiled. “It was a surprise.”

When they separated, the thick gold-and-diamond bracelets surrounding Joseph’s wrists disappeared beneath his sleeves again. They proclaimed him a slave, most likely to the dark-haired man standing right behind him.

“I apologize for my slave,” he said. “But he was so eager to see his old schoolmate again, he forgot his manners completely. I’m Erich.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m Drake Steele.” I shook his proffered hand as the other men separated.

Joseph dropped his gaze. “I’m sorry to have embarrassed you, Sir.”

Robbie opened his mouth, no doubt to give Erich a piece of his mind for being high-handed. Gripping his elbow to stop him, I sighed indulgently and then pulled him back to my side. “It seems we both have insolent subs. I’ll punish him later,” I said with a chuckle.

Joseph’s dom smirked. “I think my sub needs it now, or he’ll never behave properly tonight. Care to watch?”

CEO by day, erotic romance writer by night, Lori Toland lives in Orlando where the summers are hot but the romance between her characters is even hotter. Writing since the tender age of 13, Lori somehow finds time to play video games and watch movies while taking care of her beloved cats and a husband who will forever be her hero.

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