Home Is Where The ? Is
I’m talking about what makes a home at Romancing The Readers!
http://romancingthereaders.blogspot.ca/2015/01/guest-post-giveaway-sinful-7-by-cynthia.html
Here is a snippet…
“When you hear the word ‘home’, what do you think of? For some of us, home is a place, a person, a smell, our pets, a country, a climate.”
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
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Interviewed at Harlequin Junkie!
I’m at Harlequin Junkie!
http://harlequinjunkie.com/spotlight-giveaway-sinful-rewards-7-by-cynthia-sax/
Here is a snippet…
“Bee is extremely loyal. I didn’t realize how heart wrenching a love triangle would be for a loyal heroine. When she chooses, it changes her AND it makes it even more painful for the unsuccessful hero. He knows what he has lost.”
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
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Sinful Rewards 7 – How To Take A Great Selfie
This post has adult content. If you are under the age of eighteen years old and/or sensitive to adult language/situations, please do not read this post.
In Sinful Rewards 7, Bee takes an erotic selfie of herself.
Nicolas, a.k.a. Friendly, might have requested the photo, but Hawke is the man I’m posing for. I’ll send my former marine a copy, to look at during breaks between high-risk assignments. My lips flatten. I position my phone on the desk, pointing the built-in camera toward me and setting the device on delay.
I brace my feet apart and bend over the desk, flattening my breasts against the hard surface. My nipples and mons are hidden by the wood, and my ass is tilted toward the ceiling. I spread my hair over my bare back, allowing a suggestion of curves, creating a sexy, not skanky pose.
The phone’s camera flashes. I study the image and frown. The angle in this first naughty selfie is unflattering, my face appearing humongous. I delete this photo.
It requires a couple of takes before I’m happy with the results. The photo I choose is erotic yet tasteful. Although my body is clearly naked, nothing sinful is showing, and it is visually stunning. The overhead lights cast reddish highlights in my hair and illuminate a hint of ass. My smile is seductive, my eyes soft. I’m beautiful, a woman worthy of forever.
Pleased and a little bit surprised by the results, I nod, embracing this side of me. If this image was forwarded to the world, I’d be proud, not upset.
I send the photo to Friendly, a man I’m almost certain is Nicolas, and to Hawke, the most honorable man I’ve ever met, trusting both men with this intimate portrait of me.
What are some tips on taking a great selfie (erotic or not)?
Digital Photo Secrets suggests
– Hold the camera higher than your face to make it appear thinner
– Turn one shoulder toward the lens
– Stick your neck out a little to eliminate the double chin
(I’ve watched actresses pose on the red carpet. They lean forward. It looks very unnatural.)
– Use natural light if at all possible (stand next to a window)
– Turn your head a few degrees to the left or right. This will make your face look less flat.
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
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Avon: http://www.avonromance.com/book/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-7
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Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_7?id=CGsOBAAAQBAJ
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Sinful Rewards 7 – Interviewed!
I’ve been interviewed at Paola’s Bookshelf.
http://paolasbookshelf.blogspot.ca/2015/01/tour-sinful-rewards-7-by-cynthia-sax.html
Here’s a snippet…
If you could sit down face to face with one of your characters, who would you choose and why?
If I thought he’d actually talk to me, I’d choose Nicolas, the jelly bean loving billionaire from Sinful Rewards, but it has taken Bee six installments to have him open up at all to her. He keeps his secrets close.
I’d love to have a beer with Hawke, our bad boy biker, at The Road Gator, the bar he frequents. He’s always surrounded by a group of sexy hot motorcycle men, all former military.
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
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Avon: http://www.avonromance.com/book/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-7
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Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_7?id=CGsOBAAAQBAJ
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Sinful Rewards 7 – Secrets
I’m talking about secrets on Ramblings From This Chick.
http://ramblingsfromthischick.blogspot.ca/2015/01/guest-post-with-author-cynthia-sax-and.html
Here’s a snippet…
“Part of the fun for me, as a writer, is hearing readers’ guesses about certain secrets. Who is Friendly? Whom will Bee end up with—Nicolas, the jellybean loving billionaire, or Hawke, the bad boy biker or is there a third option? What are Lona’s plans for Bee? What happened between Cole and Cyndi? Why does Cyndi never like to sleep alone?”
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards7-1718231-237.html
Avon: http://www.avonromance.com/book/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-7
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Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_7?id=CGsOBAAAQBAJ
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The Bikes Of The Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
The Consumer Electronics Show, being a boy’s paradise, also had pimped out cars and motorcycles.
(Click on the photos to enlarge them.)
This bike wins the award for cutest bike of the show. Look at that expression! “You want to WHAT with my engine?”
I picture Hawke’s bike in Sinful Rewards as looking something like this one. VERY sexy!
Here are some more boy toys.
And, of course, not every bike was on the exhibit floor. Vegas’ finest was controlling traffic on the strip with their bikes.
Yes, this nice policeman posed for me. (grins)
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
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Avon: http://www.avonromance.com/book/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-7
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Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_7?id=CGsOBAAAQBAJ
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Biker Names
I’m talking about nicknames, biker names and military handles on A Fortress Of Books
http://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/19/guest-post-author-cynthia-sax-giveaway/
Here’s a snippet…
Do you have a nickname or a biker name or a military handle? I bet there’s a story behind it, one that I’d love to hear. While our legal names are usually given at birth, our nicknames reflect our true personalities, who we are once our characters have been set.
One of my favorite nicknames is Broadzilla.
(click on the link to read more and find out why I was called this)
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards7-1718231-237.html
Avon: http://www.avonromance.com/book/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-7
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A Year Of Sizzling Hot Sax – Sinful Rewards 7 Read Along
Woot! Sinful Rewards 7, the seventh novella in Sinful Rewards, my hot, hot, HOT 12 novella contemporary erotic romance serial, releases today! A secret is shared in Sinful Rewards 7 that will change the way readers think about the first six stories. I had to reread the stories. Will you?
(We’ll be discussing these in more details on our Goodreads group – https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/139616-a-year-of-sizzling-hot-sax-read-along ).
Nicolas And His Ultimatum
Nicolas issues an ultimatum to Bee in Sinful Rewards 7. Your first impression might be “What a controlling a$$hole” but Nicolas DOES have his reasons. He’s thinking of Bee and wants to protect her. Why doesn’t he tell her this? Well, if he voices his suspicions of what or whom he thinks he’s protecting her from, he might hurt her even more.
Mack And The Other Motorcycle Club Members
In Sinful Rewards 7, we meet some of the men Hawke hangs out with in the Organization and at The Road Gator. We’ve already met Dawg (in Sinful Rewards 3) and Eighty Proof, the bartender (though we didn’t find out his name in that installment). In Sinful Rewards 7, we meet Mack and Prick.
I love these two men, especially Mack. They will play increasingly large roles in the story. In this installment, that Prick is clueless about women hints to Bee that Hawke’s men might need her, something that’s very important to our heroine.
Speaking of Hawke’s buddies, we find out more about Rock, the buddy he lost in the war. Sinful Rewards 7 is very much about friendship, the good, the bad, and the silly. Can a friendship survive a betrayal? Can we be truly happy if a good friend is unhappy (or, in Rock’s case, dead)?
For more discussions about Sinful Rewards 7, please join us on our Goodreads group!
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/139616-a-year-of-sizzling-hot-sax-read-along
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards7-1718231-237.html
Avon: http://www.avonromance.com/book/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-7
Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-7-cynthia-sax/1119919841
Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_7?id=CGsOBAAAQBAJ
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-7/id870582006
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Diversity In (My) Erotic Romances
My dear wonderful hubby and I have an interracial, interfaith marriage. We were born on different continents. We came from different cultures. When I first met his family, I couldn’t figure out what they were saying because I wasn’t accustomed to the accent. (grins) We now live in a city where every possible country of origin is represented.
This is MY reality and I reflect that reality in my erotic romances. I don’t announce racial differences. I never say that Miss Yen from the Blaine Technologies series (He Claims Me, Flashes Of Me, Breaking All The Rules) is Chinese, that Nikhil Baagh from Tiger Byte was born in India, that many of my tall, dark and handsome heroes (such as Prince Reiter from Night Rides) are truly tall, DARK and handsome. Why? Because race is a tiny part of what makes these characters special.
I also don’t promote these stories as being interracial. An editor whom I respect and trust explained to me once that an interracial romance has race as its main conflict. The plot revolves around this issue. Race is what keeps the couple apart or brings them together. My stories don’t qualify under this definition. That Nikhil is a tiger shifter is a bigger issue than where he was born (though India’s caste system does play a factor in the story).
My characters are diverse in other ways also. I have curvaceous heroines (Gale in Warlord Unarmed is one of my favorites), gay heroes (Sarge in Speed Demon), bisexual characters (Furu and Xan in Menage Lost are two of my favorites), ugly heroes (Henley in Flashes Of Me), and characters with all sorts of occupations (on both sides of the law). Again, this single trait doesn’t define any of these characters.
Do I suggest that all writers have this wide range of diversity in their characters?
No, of course not. The only ‘has-to’ in erotic romance is a happy ever after or happy for now. Many M/M readers only read M/M stories. When they find out that Speed Demon is my solitary M/M story, they become frustrated. My ménage reading buddies continue to campaign to make Sinful Rewards a ménage (with Bee, Nicolas and Hawke getting together) and not a love triangle.
But I DO feel it is important that there are writers writing diverse characters, that not all of us are writing the same characters in our erotic romances. I love that when a reader tells me “I’m looking for an erotic romance with a XYZ character”, I can point her toward a book with an XYZ character.
Have you spotted any diverse characters in the erotic romances you’ve recently read?
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards7-1718231-237.html
Avon: http://www.avonromance.com/book/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-7
Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-7-cynthia-sax/1119919841
Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_7?id=CGsOBAAAQBAJ
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sinful-rewards-7/id870582006
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Talking Technology On Dear Author
I’m talking about some of the technologies I loved at the CES on Dear Author today
Here is a snippet…
“I had the good fortune of attending the Consumer Electronics Show ( http://www.cesweb.org/about-us ) in Las Vegas. This celebration of emerging technology has over 3,600 exhibitors and 2.2 million net square feet of display space, with innovations ranging from life-sized androids to Girl Scouts promoting their cookie app, from automatic-ordering refrigerators to virtual reality everything.”
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Bee Carter has been offered everything she has ever dreamed of—a caring, lasting relationship with a handsome, often charming billionaire; the permanent home she’s never had but has always craved; and wealth to buy the designer fashions she loves, support her hard-working mother, and ensure her acceptance by Chicago’s elite.
To obtain what she’s desired for so long, she has to do only two things: Walk away from her best friend, a woman who is destined to betray her … and end her passionate nightly encounters with a certain tattooed biker, a former Marine who can never give her what she needs.
Her answer should be clear, but the heart has a way of complicating even the most straightforward decisions.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sinful-Rewards-Billionaires-Bikers-Novella-ebook/dp/B00JZOVYQG
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sinfulrewards7-1718231-237.html
Avon: http://www.avonromance.com/book/cynthia-sax-sinful-rewards-7
Barnes And Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sinful-rewards-7-cynthia-sax/1119919841
Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Cynthia_Sax_Sinful_Rewards_7?id=CGsOBAAAQBAJ
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