It's the Tuesday Tease!

It’s Tuesday again! Welcome to the Tuesday Tease!

Great news~! Candle Wax (the song inspired by Logan and Skyla) is available through itunes! Quick go get it! It is amazing and awesome and sweet!

Also, the utopYA conference is getting so close and I cannot wait to meet those of you who are coming out. In addition to that, on Sunday June 30, I’ll be at the Vanderbilt Barnes and Noble with three other fabulous New York Times bestselling authors at the Passionista’s event. Please check out the link for details. You don’t need tickets for this one! I’ll have promotional copies of Someone to Love to give away to the first 100 people and tons of brand new bookmarks to sign and give away as well. I can’t wait to see all of you!

Enjoy the teasers!

THE SOLITUDE OF PASSION (turning it in for a second round of edits today!)

*Mitch’s POV 

They say you can never go back. Never go home. I never would have believed it if they would have told me Lee was happily married to Max Shepherd, having his babies, having the time of her life trying to weld Townsend and Shepherd together at the hip. I would have laughed in their faces. Not my Lee. My family wouldn’t let Max near Townsend let alone Lee.

Bull-f*cking-shit.

It was all some figment of my prideful imagination. What you fear the most and what you need the least will happen to you—Mitch’s law.   

ENTROPY (The Countenance Trilogy 3)

*Wesley’s POV

(Wes with Laken)

Laken and I just stare at one another locked at an impasse. Here it is, the moment of truth.

“God, I love you.” I step in and land my lips over hers. The entire universe just rearranged itself. This wasn’t anything like one of those kisses we shared last week, nothing about this was coated in a lie.

My shoulder gets pulled back from behind, and I spin as a fist lands over my jaw.

“You’re going to die, Coop.”

(CELESTRA FOREVER AFTER 1) 

*Skyla and Brielle in Skyla’s bedroom.

“What’s all this?” I stare at all the crap Brielle spilled onto my bed and carefully pick up a red, white, and blue bikini top with stars set in precarious places.

“This”—she picks up an industrial sized tub of margarine and cradles it like an infant—“is what you’re going to need to seduce him.”

“I’m not sure the U.S. flag was ever intended to be a nipple shield. And the butter? What is this, my ‘cupcakes in bikinis’ moment?”

“Oh, hon, the only thing that will be baking is him once he slathers this all over you. Just show up and volunteer to wash his car.” She makes a circular motion with her chest and suddenly I’m fearing for my lady parts. “Guys love that. And, since it’s summer, you’ll want to catch a tan.” She thrusts the margarine at me. “Just make sure he rubs you down in all the right places.”

Good grief. Brielle can turn an innocent carwash into a pornographic experience.

*Enjoy your week!

The Tuesday Tease~!

Thank you again to those of you who have read ELYSIAN. I appreciate all of the support and kind comments you’ve left. So HUGE thank you for that.

For those of you who asked about purchasing “Candle Wax” on iTunes, I talked to Charity and she’s working on it. For now, I’ve placed the song on the left sidebar of my blog. So you can continue to enjoy the song inspired by Logan and Skyla. I swear I cry each time I hear “Logan” sing. So beautiful. Thank you again, Charity!

Where I'll be: I have a few appearances scheduled this summer and I’d love to see you there. I’m not sure if any of the events are sold out but I’ll give you the links. I’d love to meet you!

UTopYA Tennessee June 27-29

Summer Lovin’ Indie Reader party Pamona, California July 12

The Naughty Mafia Vegas! August 17th 

I can’t wait to meet you guys!

In other news, I apologize in advance for my eyelash extensions. However, my husband let me know he loves me a little bit more because of them, and now I’m not sure which one of us is more shallow. In my defense I had a Groupon (and I secretly luv them.)

On to the teasers… BTW, I never give spoilers. ;)

THE SOLITUDE OF PASSION
(Contemporary Romance)

*Mitch’s POV (Mitch and Max arguing)

He roots his feet into the carpet. A minute of silence tracks by with nothing but cross-armed aggression spewing from him.
“This isn’t like you, Mitch.” You can see the fire in his eyes. You could light an entire solar system with the inferno brewing inside him. “I thought you were nice.” He spits it out like it was the world’s vilest expletive.

“Nice wears off after five years.” I butt my shoulder into his as I pass him.

He doesn’t bother with a response, just stalks through the living room and up the stairs to the bedroom he shares with my wife.

ENTROPY (The Countenance Trilogy 3)
(Young Adult)

*Coop’s POV (Cooper and Marky, his sister.)

Marky stares over at me, her hand still clutching at the refrigerator door.

“Do I have to spell everything out for you?” She gives a huff of frustration. “You have to kiss her with your tongue if you want her to like you, stupid.”

“Says who?”

“Says my friends.”

“Get new friends.”

(CELESTRA FOREVER AFTER 1) 
(New Adult)

*Skyla and Marshall at his estate.

“Where were you just now?” I lean in with suspicion. “You look like holy hell.” I take him in with his rumpled hair, his shirt unbuttoned down the front, his rock hard abs slicked with sweat. “If I didn’t know better…” I let the words hang in the air so thick you could hook a coat on them.

A sly grin plays on his lips as he stares out the window.

“You do know better, don’t you, Ms. Messenger.”

“Who is she?” It comes from me barely audible.

He cuts a quick glance in my direction and reverts his gaze back out toward the barn, guilty as hell.

“Oh God, no.” Everything in me seizes. 

“I believe the words you used just moments before were, ‘Oh God, yes, yes, yes.’”

“Shit.”

“Language.” He gives a sly smile as he walks on by.

*Check out Sophie Mansell’s awesome YouTube video as she reviews the entire Celestra Series! It is truly sweet!

The Tuesday Tease

(Be sure to listen to a special song inspired by Celestra, for Logan and Skyla at the bottom of the post. It. Is. Incredible.)

Happy Tuesday! BIG THANK YOU for your amazing support of ELYSIAN. In truth, I cannot begin to thank you enough. Really, there are no words. Hugs to all! XOXO

Celestra really was an intense journey for me. It was fun, and emotional, and I loved visiting that island every single day for the past two years. Sharing it with you made it a dream come true so thank you again. 

Celestra in and of itself is complete, but I would love to invite anyone who is interested in more of Skyla's life to join me on the island in her new series, Celestra Forever After. Be warned, it will be steamy.

So what am I working on now? 

* I'm turning a book into Amazon (my publisher) next week. SOMEONE LIKE YOU is book two in the SOMEONE TO LOVE Series. It follows the story of Ally and Morgan (Kendall's BFF and big bro). Morgan Jordan is naughty and hawt, hawt, HAWT. That is all. Cannot wait to share this with you in early 2014. 

*The Countenance Trilogy! I'll be penning the final book, ENTROPY in July with a fall release. Yay! Laken *sigh* Lucky, lucky Laken has a very good and tragic time in book 3. So much crazy fun still to be had at the Ephemeral Academy. 

*THE SOLITUDE OF PASSION - Mmm, Mitch and Max, Max and Mitch, mix and match... OK, sorry I got momentarily distracted by all the yumminess running rampant. Have I mentioned there are vineyards involved? I love this book. It's the very next book I'm putting out and I'm hoping for a late June early July release. This is a story I wrote years ago but it's always stuck with me. I hope you'll fall in love with the characters and their unusual predicament like I did. I've mentioned this before but those two men were forerunners to Logan and Gage. Odd, I know.

*Secret Project!!! New Adult~! I'm pushing for a cover/title reveal SOON! LOVE this title, LOVE this cover. Will share soon. 

*CELESTRA FOREVER AFTER - OK, I admit it- I've already started penning this one, like months ago. I couldn't help myself it was too tempting not to. I'll release book 1 soon after I release ENTROPY (Counts 3). This series is arced out a little different from Celestra but it will be a fun way for those who enjoyed the young adult series to dip their foot into Paragon waters once again. And finally we will enjoy a release to all that hormonal angst Skyla went through. *fans self* This series will be written in multiple point of views! Let's hear it for the boyz!!!!!! And Skyla. 

*New Adult Christmas novella~! Coming November 1st! It's a part of the 12 NA's of Christmas that I'm working on with a group of talented authors, and I can't wait to share the holiday fun. Here's the dedicated website where you can keep tabs on all 12 novella's set to release on the same day.

News: BIG thank you to Apple ibookstore for featuring ETHEREAL in a special promotion~! I very much appreciate it and am way honored that you chose my novel among the many thousands out there.   Thank you from the bottom of my Mac-loving heart! 

OK, so wordy much today? Sheesh! 

Onto the teasers!

THE SOLITUDE OF PASSION

(Mitch and Max arguing.)

*Mitch's POV

“Chinese okay for dinner?” I ask, mockingly.

“It is if you’re going to China to get it.” He gives a placid smile. “I’m okay if it’s a decade or two late.”

“F*ck you,” I say it low for his ears only.

His eyes steady in on mine. “No Mitch, that’s what life did to you.”  

ENTROPY (The Countenance Trilogy 3)

*Laken’s POV (Laken with someone)

He comes in close with those lips that I’ve dreamed about diving into for so long. Close. So Close.

“I’m going to kiss you.” His heated breath rakes over my mouth.

“God, I hope so.”

(CELESTRA FOREVER AFTER 1) 

I speed down to the kitchen ready to tell Mom everything. I’m sick of all the secrets. I’m sick of all the lies. I’m finally going to—

“What the hell?” I stop short and take a breath.

Tad sits at the table with a napkin twisted up each nostril while everyone around him proceeds to nosh on their bacon and eggs as if his ability to sprout spontaneous tusks were an everyday occurrence.

“He’s got a severe nasal drip.” Mom glances up before returning to the task of folding miniature sanitary napkins for her husband’s currently defunct sniffer.

Drake points his fork in Tad’s direction. “You probably have your brain leaking out of your nose. You hear about that all the time now. I bet that’s what’s happening.”

I shake my head. “Makes total sense.”

*And finally it is with intense pleasure that I share with you a song written and performed by Charity Shatwell. This song was inspired by Logan and Skyla and it made me weepy!!! I have mad love for this, times a million. I hope you enjoy it. It is truly incredible.

"Candle Wax"