DORIANNA is OUT! Plus, new profile spotlights

DORIANNA releases today!!! I'm so excited to share this novel with you. I've been inspired by A Picture of Dorian Gray for many years, and I really wanted to create a new twist on it with a female lead. I wrote the first draft a few years ago during Nano, and I've been working on it ever since between other novels.

If you like edgy love triangles and psychological horror,
if you're intrigued by the idea of online meetup parties that get more and more out of control like a runaway rollercoaster, and you love a skeezy, carny boardwalk setting like Coney Island...
You just might get a kick out of this read!

You can buy the ebook here

Also, please help me celebrate by tweeting and sharing about the novel. I will be so, so grateful! Here are three pre-written tweets to make it easy:

DORIANNA is out! #YA twist on Dorian Gray.  http://www.amazon.com/Dorianna-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B00OU6OENY/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414120746&sr=8-1&keywords=dorianna #horror #YA #DorianGray #ConeyIsland #meetup #LoveTriangle

Internet followers? Beauty? Power? It sounded good, until... DORIANNA a #YA #horror is OUT! Twist on #DorianGray http://www.amazon.com/Dorianna-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B00OU6OENY/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414120746&sr=8-1&keywords=dorianna

Like #YA #horror? Toxic #LoveTriangles #MeetupParty fiascos?

DORIANNA! A YA twist on #DorianGray DORIANNA is out! http://www.amazon.com/Dorianna-Catherine-Stine-ebook/dp/B00OU6OENY/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414120746&sr=8-1&keywords=dorianna

On another note, I made these two character profiles for Sienna and Caz from my new adult Art of Love series. What do you think?

Private Internship Launch Week Special 2 for 1 book deal & plus cool Rafflecopter prizes!

Toss the confetti and do a happy dance. Private Internship, book two of my Art of Love series has  launched!
In huge appreciation of my readers, bloggers and fellow authors I'm offering a special limited launch deal! For the first 50 people who buy Private Internship, you will get Model Position absolutely free with an emailed proof of purchase! Email me at kitsy84557 (AT) gmail (DOT) com and let me know which ereading format & ebook you'd like. (If you've already read Model Position, choose one of my YA futuristic thrillers Fireseed One or Ruby's Fire, or even the new writers' cookbook, Bake, Love, Write, where I share a recipe & advice on love & writing)

Get Private Internship: Amazon, B&N, 
All Romance Ebooks, Kobo

*Caz is the most entertaining bada@s book boyfriend yet, with the most fireworks relationship, and I’m pretty sure you’ll get a kick out of his hijinks. The lowdown:

Sugar’s not so sweet and secrets can be deadly … especially with matters of the heart

Sienna’s bestie, Harper warned her not to intern for famous bad boy artist, Casper Mason. After all, he just fired Harper who helped Sienna get the interview. But the moment Sienna sees Casper—or Caz—sweaty and practically shirtless and swinging from chains while he works on his sculpture, she’s hooked. He’s the richest, hottest artist in New York, and he lives in the fabulous Williamsburg Sugar Factory. But he’s also an incorrigible game-player, who seems to relish testing Sienna’s loyalty with a string of unsettling tests.

She knows she should get away fast. But by the time Sienna sneaks into his locked storage room and begins to unearth his dark and terrifying secret, she’s fallen way too hard for the handsome, charismatic Caz.

To read about the inspiration for PI's unique setting on the Inkspell blog, click here.

Thank you, wonderful book bloggers and readers! I couldn't do it without you.
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Reviews! Obsessed by Books, Ashelyn Drake, Christine's Books

September 29
Old Victorian Quill, Books and Fandom, Reviewing in Chaos, The Reading Diaries, The Fantastical World of Wonders, Lisa Voisin, Stephanie Keyes, JM's Meanderings, Flutey Words, SA Larsen, Meradeth Houston, Brinda Berry, Ellie Garratt, C. Lee McKenzie, Sydney Aaliyah Michelle, Juliana Haygert, Cecilia Robert, Chandara Writes, Angie Sandro, The Warrior Muse, SM Johnston, Book Boyfriend Junkies

September 30
My Book Filled Life, Megpie93’s Book blog

October 1
Tome Tender, Pretty Little Pages, The Lusty Literate, Share my Destiny, Dimensions in Fiction, Margay Leah Justice

October 2
Just Booked, Scandalous Book Blog, Not Everyone’s Mama (Cutest blog name plus excerpt!), Sassy Book Lovers (wins for prettiest purple blog banner!), Haloangel Reads (with interview!), Michelle Abbott, S.J. Pajonas, Mythical Books (Read all about the real setting behind the novel's location-guest post), Talk Books to Me (Interview!)

October 3
Once upon a Twilight, Girls With Books (Today's win for cutest blog banner!), True Story Book Blog, Books Direct, Kimber Leigh Writes, Naughty Book Eden, Escape into a Book, SunShy Book Reviews, Two Ends of the Pen, 101 Ways to Make Love to a Spoon, Paola’s Bookshelf,  My Favorite Things, Confessions of a Y.A. and N.A. Book Addict, Renee Entress’s blog, Oops, I Read a Book Again, Between the Lines, Kitty Kats Crazy About Books, We Stole Your Book Boyfriend, So Many Books, So Little Time, Meleth Bookaddicted

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Teaser lines, Preorders, Sales!

It's nerve-wracking and exciting! The process is starting. Preorders are now available for Private Internship.

on Amazon

also

if you haven't yet read Model Position, 

here's your chance to catch up with the first in the 

Art of Love series. 

It's on sale! 

Reduced from $3.99 to $2.99 

at Amazon.

Teaser lines from Private Internship:

This is dangerous. He’s my boss. I’m committing professional suicide here. Caz runs scalding hot and icy-cold, he’s bound to turn on me. Is this what happened with Harper? She got too close and then . . .  “Hey, I tagged you,” I whisper into his hair. “What do you intend to do about it?”

******

I spin around and stare at him. The candlelight lends everything a witchy, theatrical flair. Figures, after all, it is Halloween. 
His face is a fast moving flurry of emotion: fury, that elusive, unnamed sadness, and could it be—a glimmer of sudden lust? 

My chest fills with waves of unexpected, guilty desire. “Am I close?” I whisper, mirroring his words.

“Close,” he whispers back, his voice thick. He rises and stalks slowly toward me, locking onto his quarry, the inked panther on his neck rising and falling.

******

“Fun’s over,” he huffs.
I quirk up an eyebrow. “We can always have more.” What’s with me? A second ago I was thinking that we’d never work together. It’s his fault! He’s so adorable even when he’s fuming that I can’t make promises, even to myself.
When he rises and stalks off toward his studio, I know I haven’t softened him. 

“I have work to do,” he announces. “I have a big career.”

My mood slips right back into darkness, to stark, raw reality. Fuck your big career.

News, news, news!

This has been a busy time, and it's only going to get busier! With good stuff. First of all, Private Internship, my new adult novel (sequel to my novella Model Position) is coming out on September 29th with Inkspell!
Also, I signed my YA contemporary horror, Dorianna with Evernight Teen!

Dorianna is a fresh yet toxic twist (think daisies, snakes and burlesque dancers at Coney Island) on the Oscar Wilde classic, A Picture of Dorian Gray. It's a cautionary tale for the Internet generation. More on that soon . . .

Private Internship is . . .

In the meantime, I'd LOVE for anyone who's up for it, to help me with my cover reveal (or release day blitz) for Private Internship!! It's a really pretty cover, and I'm proud to say that I helped design it with the lovely and talented Najla who does the covers over at Inkspell. The cover reveal will be on Wednesday, August 27, but August 28 & 29 are fine days to post as well! (The blitz will be on Sept 29) Just fill out this easy peasy sign-up form here. Once you sign up, I'll send you all the info you'll need to post. (Plus you'll get a magical chocolate sundae & bestie sticker)

What's your news/obsession/thrill/fave summer activity, and how's your July going so far?

My big news! Book #2, Private Internship is forthcoming in the Art of Love series

My big news is that Inkspell Publishing picked up the second in my new adult Art of Love series, Private Internship, to be launched this fall! *Happy Dance* It follows artist, Sienna Karr into her first wonderful and horrific paid internship. Here's a summary:

Sienna’s bestie, Harper warned her not to intern for famous bad boy artist, Casper Mason. After all, he just fired Harper who helped Sienna land the interview. But the moment Sienna sees Casper—or Caz—sweaty and practically shirtless and swinging from chains while he works on his sculpture, she’s hooked. He’s the richest, hottest artist in New York, and he lives in the fabulous Williamsburg Sugar Factory. But he’s also an incorrigible game-player, who seems to relish testing Sienna’s loyalty with a string of unsettling tests.

She knows she should get away fast. But by the time Sienna sneaks into his locked storage room and begins to unearth his dark and terrifying secret, she’s fallen way too hard for the handsome, charismatic Caz.

The shuttered Domino Sugar Factory

The odd thing is that I set it in a place that is now getting tons of attention: the old Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I've been obsessed with that place for many, many years, ever since I moved in around the corner from it when I first came to NYC. 

Kara Walker's gorgeous sugar sphinx

So, it was news to me this year when I heard it was slated for partial demolition, and even bigger news to me when I read that well-known sculptress Kara Walker had crafted a gigantic Sphinx mama, made from sugar in the defunct annex there, and it was attracting lines around the block. You see, my main character's love interest, Caz lives and works in the factory, and he makes . . . wait for it . . . sugar sculptures!!!! 

I had to pay a visit my old haunt. And it did not disappoint! It brought back strong memories of my very first visit and it still smelled like burnt sugar. I'm sad that the place is now closed, and will be altered in preparation for an ambitious waterfront building project that have many in Brooklyn up in arms.

But I'll have Sienna and Casper Mason's love story set in the factory to cheer me up. And

hopefully, if and when you read it, you'll fall in love with the sugar castle too. In the meantime, here are a few other amazing sculptors who spin sugar art.

Raining Romance Books Giveaway Hop, Tons of books!

It's time for the Raining Romance Books giveaway blog hop, hosted by Stuck in Books! Idea City's giving away a couple of juicy picks. Check 'em out below and see who else is playing!

The Star Catcher by Stephanie Keyes Paranormal Romance

Magick and destiny intertwine as he fights to save his kingdom and the goddess he loves. Her kiss…the feel of her skin…the beat of her heart…For seventeen-year-old Kellen St. James, each memory is marred by a single sentence on a lone strip of paper. Cali has been taken…

Armed with an amulet that channels the ultimate power of Faerie, Kellen searches for his love. However, control of the amulet’s energy comes with a price, and Kellen soon learns that Cali’s captor has plans for the stone. With the threat of the Star Catcher’s evil looming above Kellen and his kingdom, he’ll have to free the Heart of Faerie and break the curse the binds the Children of Danu to the darkness. But before that, he has to find his real father, the king. No pressure, right?

Kellen and Cali will battle bewitched armies and unknown foes as they fight to stay together. Will Kellen embrace his immortal destiny? Or will his world, and the man he is fated to become, be destroyed by The Star Catcher?

Model Position by Kitsy Clare New adult romance novella

In Manhattan’s glitzy gallery scene love and art are perilous games. Will Sienna dare to play?

All too soon, artist Sienna Karr will graduate art school and be flung out into Manhattan’s glamorous but cutthroat gallery scene. Luckily, she’s just met Dave Hightower, heir to the hippest gallery ever. He’s asked her on a date, and offered to introduce her to the gallery owner, his intimidating Aunt Lydia. Sienna’s excited! Now she’ll be able to climb the ranks and make those all-important art connections.
Trouble is, she’s falling hard for the sexy live drawing model, Erik, whose sizzling green eyes seem to pierce right into her soul. Dare she risk losing those potential art contacts for love? Erik insists that Sienna is a real talent and her painting stands out above all the others. But she worries that he whispers this come-on line to every pretty art student who flocks around him during breaks. And her friends worry, is Erik up to her pay grade? What kind of guy chooses modeling for a living? Who is he, really? Her choice may be her ruin… or not, but she must decide fast. Everything in Sienna’s super-organized life is turning to terrifying yet sweet chaos.

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Indie Girl March Hop & What's Up for Spring?!

The Model Position tour is over. If you missed any posts the tour schedule is here. Thanks so much to the lovely Kel over at Literary Nook, and my publishers over at Inkspell, who both helped tour my novella. You did an admirable job. I've made some great new online friends and have a fledgling, but growing flock of new readers. Thanks, readers!!! 
In the next week or two I'll post a couple of my fave top 10 lists, and feature some authors.
In the meantime, there's tons of new activity pushing into the light like the purple crocuses below.

Indie Girl March Hop is going strong until the end of March! The brainchild of Escaping One Book at a Time's Tiffany M., it's a festival of interviews, giveaways and posts of great indie authors. Pop over to Indie Girl March Hop and enter the giveaway to win FREE COPIES of my futuristic thriller, Ruby's Fire and Model Position, my romance novella.
To see the entire schedule click here.

I'm over at A Little R & R today, and Ren's running a great giveaway, so hey, more freebies to be had!!!   Here's the link.

April brings flowers and also the A to Z challenge. This April I am posting about fabulous fantasy creatures with my Untethered Realms buddies. My days are H and R, but every day will being a cool new critter with a cool new picture! So think about following our Untethered Realms blog to catch lots of these posts.

It feels good to actually have a moment to write a new blog post! I've missed all of you. So, what are you up to this spring? 

Release Day for Model Position! Party & More

OMG! It's actually happening. Model Position has launched. A huge thanks to everyone helping with features, tweeting, joining my street team, or who has donated a giveaway item to the launch party. I also want to thank the blog community in general because you've all helped keep me going with your posts and blogs and savvy author talk!

If you like romance, stories about art and artists, and tales about striving to live out your dreams, please consider loading your kindle or iPad or Nook with Model Position! It's a fast-paced novella, inspired by my actual days showing my paintings in NYC. Now I'm writing Private Internship, the second in the series, and hopefully it will be a series you'll want to follow!

Find Model Position here: Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Inkspell

In Manhattan’s glitzy gallery scene love and art are perilous games. Will Sienna dare to play?

Sienna is a beautiful, talented artist poised on the precipice of soaring into the glamorous, yet cutthroat Manhattan art scene.
Dave Hightower is a hooked-up, handsome heir to the hippest gallery in NYC, Gallery Hightower.
Erik is the live drawing model with his sizzling green eyes fixed only on Sienna.
Three’s a crowd, so Sienna must make a choice: date Dave and ride the fast track to landing a show at Gallery Hightower and hobnobbing with the art glitterati, or follow her heart and take a chance with Erik, the stunning male model who’s stealing her heart. But Erik has some worrisome secrets, and who in their right mind would make live modeling their career? 

"Kitsy Clare paints a provocative picture with words - a sexy 

montage of art, beauty, lust and love as colorful 
as any artist’s canvas."  -Share my Destiny, romance book blogger

"A captivating and sensual work of art!" -Jaycee DeLorenzo, 
author of The Truths About Dating and Mating

Here are the bloggers helping to celebrate:
Christine Rains' blog
Nevaeh's New Adult Books
Books Books Books!
Lexa Cain
Karen Pokras Toz
***more bloggers to come & tour in March!

Also I invite you to PARTY & WIN MAJOR SWAG today, Feb 21 at a Model Position party on the  Romance Novel Promotions blog There will be multiple giveaways and fun Q&A, so do pop in! Click on the invite to join us!
The Friday party lineup:
9 am CST : Kitsy Clare
10 am CST: Piper Malone
11 am CST: Kennedy Layne
12 PM CST: Elizabeth Arroyo
1 PM CST: Lee Strauss
2 PM CST: Lisa Casia
3 PM CST: Stephanie Keyes
4 PM CST Lisa Voisin
5 PM CST: Final post from Kitsy Clare

Here are two tweets to choose from if you feel like tweeting about the launch. Thanks in advance!

"I imagine myself posing with him. It has me blushing as permanent rose as the paint on my palette." http://tinyurl.com/oetbu8o  #NA #romance

"A sexy montage of art, beauty, lust & love as colorful as any artist’s canvas."-Share my Destiny http://tinyurl.com/oetbu8o #NA #romance

Cover reveal for Model Position by Kitsy Clare!

Hi everyone. I'm excited because today is the cover reveal for my new adult romance novella, Model Position! Inkspell's cover artist, Najla has outdone herself. She says that black and white with a pop of color is a growing trend, and I think it's cool. What do you think? Another cool thing is that Model Position is available for pre-order right here at e-junkie.com!

Here are the bloggers participating in the reveal. Stop by to say hi. And thanks to all of you who are helping out. You rock! Stay tuned for the book's launch on February 20. In the meantime, you can Like my Kitsy Clare FB page and my newsletter to get updates.

elliegarratt.blogspot.com
www.bellasshelf.com
www.chandarawrites.blogspot.com
http://drugscalledbooks.blogspot.com
http://paulettespapers.com
http://www.avidreadermusings.com
http://cicistheories.com
http://to-procrastinate.blogspot.com
http://raelori.blogspot.com
www.findyournextread.blogspot.com
http://kellyhashway.blogspot.com
ashelyndrake.wordpress.com
http://meradethhouston.blogspot.com
http://crystalcollier.blogspot.com
http://jackiesbookworld.blogspot.com/
extraordinaryreads.com
The Story of a Writer
vanessaebooks.blogspot.com

Gratitude list & Kitsy Clare on Love Romances Cafe

Happy New Year! It's a popular time to make resolutions, though I prefer to make a gratitude list and a fresh work plan. 

Topping my list is the extreme gratitude I feel for getting back to the USA after two nerve-wracking days stuck in the Dominican Republic airport. Ack, I was trying to fly Jetblue during that snow fiasco!

I have gratitude that my new novella, Model Position is going forward with Inkspell using my romance pseudonym, Kitsy Clare. Inkspell authors will be chatting about all things romance tonight (Jan 10) from 7 to 9 pm on Yahoo's Love Romances Cafe, and you're all invited to drop by!

For Sienna, love and art are perilous games. Is she ready to take that gamble? The cover reveal for Model Position is on for January 20! I'll give anyone who wants to participate in the cover reveal virtual hugs and a big, fat virtual box of delicious chocolates with no icky jelly centers--only the caramel and hazelnut ones. If you're interested in helping out with the reveal, please email my publisher, Shilpa at marketing@inkspellpublishing.com

I'm also grateful that I immediately came up with a wicked fun plot for novella #2, Private Internship, to keep the Art of Love series going strong, because sometimes it takes a while to think up good plots. I'm looking forward to tying up the last third of the story with some crazy switchback plot twists.

I had fun creating a new Facebook author page for Kitsy Clare. Click to see it. What do you think? The new book cover will appear on the right side of the FB banner on the day of the cover reveal. I'd be thrilled if you Like my author page! That way, you can be informed of the Model Position launch, giveaways and tours.
Thanks! That's it for me. How about you? What are you grateful for?

How's your Nano experience? Or if you're not Nano-ing, what are you up to?

Are you Nano-ing this November? For the few who have no idea what I'm referring to, it's National Novel Writing Month, and to "win" Nano one must write at least 50 thousand words in 30 days. Are you on track? Not even close? Way far ahead? Whatever your speed it's a great way to fast draft!

I'm working on the second in my new adult novella series. The first novella, Model Position, comes out with Inkspell (under my pen name, Kitsy Clare) in January or February! I already had an idea for the second story, so I figured why not strike while the iron is hot. Pretty soon, I'll reveal more about Model Position, but I'm keeping you in suspense just a little bit longer, at least until the cover's ready.

Just know that it's about an artist, Sienna Karr who lives in New York City, and is experiencing the spice, glitz, peril and sexy temptations that are part and parcel of that world. I know it intimately, having gone to art school and shown my paintings in galleries for at least 12 years. I find that writing about the experience is wicked fun. Because there is so much narcissism, bad art, posturing, and a whole big mess of bizarro art dealers. Get this, one of my friend's dealers actually had a physical altercation over my friend's painting, and he grabbed my friend's shirt and tore it. How's that for three scoops of crazy? 

Oh, sure, there are visionary artists, and many of them are hot as anything. Artists can be quite the sex-bombs! Like Sienna's Erik, and in novella 2, the great and terrible Casper Mason...
But I'm getting way ahead of myself!

So, tell me, are YOU Nano-ing? If so, why? If not, why not? And what are you up to instead? If you are, but not totally sweating the word count (like me) why? Any Nano food obsessions? New writing habits? Dish here!

My Big News! Offer on my New Adult Romance Novella. Launching this Winter!

So, the big news that I've hinted at in my last two posts is this:
I accepted an offer from the fabulous Inkspell Publishing for my new adult romance novella!!! The working title is Model Position, and it's about an artist, Sienna Karr who falls for her live drawing model. It will be published in January or February as a digital first ebook. And I'll be using the pen name, Kitsy Clare.
Why use a pen name? The novella is a bit steamy, and I'd like to have an obvious, clear boundary between my work for kids/teens and adults. Why not be totally anonymous and not connect it to the name Catherine Stine at all? Because people make it their business to find out who you are anyway, and also because I've worked hard to create a platform on social media so why reinvent the wheel?
Exciting, huh?! I'm really pumped!
I've discovered, while writing my last three YAs (one of which involves a sizzling, thorny love triangle) that I really enjoy writing love/lust/wooing scenes, whether it's for the YA audience or for "new adults", so why not explore it to my heart's delight?

Model Position is set in a fictitious art grad school, and in the giddying, high stakes New York City art world, where the weak are tempted into Faustian bargains, and even the strongest can pay a price.
More soon!
Oh, and Happy Nanowrimo-ing! I'll be working on the next in the series. You?