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Monday, May 5, 2014

Pictures of spring in NYC

Rather than write a post about how wonderful it is that spring is finally here in New York City, I thought I'd just say it in pictures.

Flowers in Peter Stuyvesant Park

Wisteria!
Cherry Blossoms in Stuyvesant Park
 Macy's perfume display
Upper East Side brownstone display

The Red Queen, Macy's Flower Show
 
The Red Queen's moat



What's your favorite image of spring in your city?

Monday, March 3, 2014

Model Position on Tour with mega-prizes!

The Model Position tour kicks off with Inkspell and Literary Nook! We have great giveaway prizes: a Kindle, a $50 gift cert, Art of Love swag and pretty Nicole L. bookmarks. Stops include guests posts that discuss the new adult genre and how it got started. I also have fun top ten lists, including the top ten reasons why artists and writers are hot and my most quirky work habits.

But the main thing is to celebrate the release of Model Position, and the most meaningful thing you can do to help celebrate is to buy a copy. For us hard-working indies this helps a lot! If Model Position rises in the rankings more people will learn about it. It's a digital-only book, so please, load up your ereader of choice. I'm at work on the 2nd novella, and I hope you'll want to travel with Sienna further on her journey. Guaranteed it'll be a wild ride!

Model Position on: Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Inkspell

TOUR SCHEDULE (Links go live the day of-click blogs to visit)

March 3 My Devotional Thoughts-Top 10 Fun Things to Do with Your Lover List!, Seeing Double in Neverland-Feature
March 4 XoXo Book Blog-Review, Lusty Penguin-Top 10 Quirky Work Habits List!
March 5 Some Like it Hotter-Excerpt, Brooke Blogs-Top 10 Teaser Lines List!, Writer's Alley-Guest Post
March 6 My Nook, Books & More-Feature, Urban Girl Reader-Excerpt, Cherie Reich-Review
March 7 The Girl Bookaholic-Review, Seeing Double in Neverland-Review
March 9 Deal Sharing Aunt-Feature
March 10 Marked by Books-Review
March 11 Living in a Bookworld-Review, Harlie's Books-Top 10 Reasons why Artists are Hot, Hot, Hot!, Book Reviews by Xunaira-Excerpt & Feature
March 12 Crazy Four Books-Review, Mythical Books-Guest Post All About NewAdult Lit!, Ramblings of a Book Lunatic-Feature
March 14 Queen of the Night-Excerpt, Spiced Latte-Review, Ashelyn Drake-Review
March 15 Donna Galanti-Review, Ramblings from this Chick-Spotlight/Review
March 17 Literary Nook-Review, Boekies Reviews-Review
March 18 Battery Operated Book Blog-Review, We Love Kink-Review
March 19 Rage, Sex and Teddy Bears-Guest Post, Reading Cafe-Interview
March 21 Aspired Writer-Guest Post on Tips for Writing New Adult Lit!, Jody's Book Reviews, Giveaways & Tours-Feature
March 24 The Phantom Paragrapher-Review, Crystal's Many Reviewers-Review
March 25 Lustful Literature-Feature, A Little Bit of R & R-excerpt & giveaway, Escaping One Book at a Time-feature & giveaway!

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

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


Monday, December 16, 2013

Holiday Picture Fun. December in NYC!

Santacon Saturday. Lookout! A bunch of drunken Santas
are wandering around Gramercy.

Mr. Bulldog says No Smoking, yo!

December is always a magical time in New York City! Check out some of the holiday flavors in this all-pix post.


Pete's Tavern, Gramercy
Brownstone door


Hieronymus under the tree, gussied window & the lion guards a hotel


The National Arts Club, all duded out

Okay, this isn't Manhattan, but I had to sneak in my snowman family.

What's your favorite wintery scene in your hometown?