Celebration, sale & visit me at the Brooklyn Book Festival!

September is here and with it come autumn sales, the Brooklyn Book Festival and renewed writing pushes. I'm hard at work on book three in my Art of Love romance series, tentatively called Girl and the Gamer. To help celebrate the series so far, Shades of Rose is running a three-day book blast and a great sale for the boxed set, which includes the first two books. It is marked down from $3.99 to $1.99! If you're curious about Book three, it has Sienna dashing back to her hometown in Pennsylvania to see her mom in the hospital, who is hanging on with a strange ailment. Sienna runs into some old friends and a very sexy former enemy, who is mind-blowingly different than he was when she knew him in middle school.

I'm signing at the Brooklyn Book Festival:
I will be signing Art of Love and Ruby's Fire paperbacks at the Brooklyn Book Festival from 4 to 6 on September 20 (this Sunday!). So come visit me at the Romance Writers of New York City booth if you're in the area. That's booth #250. It's adjacent to the corridor along the Brooklyn courthouse.
Buy the boxed set here. Limited time sale reduced to only $1.99 down from $3.99! The Shades of Rose Book Blast tour for the Art of Love Boxed set (links go live the day of)
*** Enter the Rafflecopter on any of these blogs to be in the running for a $20 gift card & an eBook of book one, Model Position***

September 14
Reading, Writing & Roses
Owltastic Promotions
Tamaria Soana
Ella Jade

September 15
Sweet Books
SapphyriasBookReviews
Star Angel Reviews
Laurie's Thoughts & Reviews

September 16
Harlie's Books
New Age Mama
Literary Nook

Giving you virtual hugs if you help spread word by tweeting about the book blast. 
Here are two pre-written tweets. Thanks!!!!!!!!!
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More boxed sets for the beach. Sale ones too!

Summer Crush is a wonderfully romantic boxed set of YA stories (for the 14+ crowd) by some of Evernight Teen's hottest authors. 

Summer is the time for lazy days at the beach, sun-kissed hair, flip-flops, and sizzling nights with a new crush.  Those stolen glances and first kisses can quickly spark a flame. However, the road to love isn’t always a smooth ride.

Every Summer has a story, whether it’s a second chance on love, seeing a friend in a different light, or taking a step in a new direction with someone special. Love and long days create endless possibilities, but can a summer crush really last?

The lineup:

Sutton Summer by Sasha Hibbs 

Exquisite Torture by S.D. Wasley 

Forbidden by Melissa Frost 

Taking the Plunge by Diana Stager 

Boarderline Love by Deanna Dee 

An Ocean of Their Own by Bridie Hall

Get Summer Crush from Amazon, Evernight, All Romance ebooks

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Two more great boxed sets on SALE!

Secret Worlds was #1 in three categories (new adult, fairytale, myth) for four solid weeks. Now it can be yours for FREE if you have KU! See it on Amazon.

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I'm hard at work on book three of The Art of Love. If you haven't read books one and two in this romance series yet, now's a great time! Because the boxed set is on sale (only through early September). Reduced two dollars to $1.99!

“Original & vivid”-Marked by Books

“Crazy fun, couldn’t put it down!” - Netgalley reader

“I fell in love with the characters … Sienna had me cracking up & in tears.” - Breezy Book Reviews

Grab The Art of Love ebook boxed set at Amazon

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.
Enter Rafflecopter for great swag & books *open until OCT 10!

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?”

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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.

Stephen Tremp's novel is on SALE, plus my first moments in Greece

I want to give a shout out to alert folks that fellow blogger and author, Stephen Tremp’s sci-fi novel Breakthrough, The Adventures of Chase Manhattan is free on Amazon, June 18 and 19. Be sure to grab your copy of this futuristic page-turner!

Praise for Breakthrough:

“In a world about to be radically changed by a scientific discovery that will trump for good or evil purposes, a power-play struggle unfolds with breakneck speed and riveting drama in Breakthrough. Filled with intrigue, romance, betrayal, action scenes that have you gripping, some spiritual contemplation and quandary, emotions that run deep and strong, and packed with a multi-faceted cast of varied and multi-dimensional characters, Breakthrough is a novel you will find next to impossible to put down once you start reading” - Marvin Wilson, author and editor.”

For more info, a synopsis or reviews go to Stephen’s website here or his Goodreads author page here. 


I am in an obscure location in Greece, teaching for a few weeks and it's no small miracle that I found an Internet spot that works. I'm glad I got this post up and running for Stephen's sale. Now that I know which cafe is the place, I plan to connect a bit more. The Aegean sea is spectacularly blue, and the sun is sci-fi bright. I'll be posting about some of my experiences here, so stay tuned.
I'll leave you with some English words that come from the Greek:
agoraphobia= agora (marketplace) + phobia (fear) literally means fear of the marketplace, or fear of crowds!
Pornai=prostitute
polis= an ancient city state such as Athens-in America, think Indianapolis, metropolis, etc.
Know any more good ones?