Anthology reading has its own special delight, it’s like sitting down with a bag of pick and mix sweets. You don’t really know what you’re going to get next and you will discover favourite flavours as you go through the bag and look forward to getting those ones again.

Sex in the City Paris, Edited by Maxim Jakubowski is a real mixed bag. You’ve got allsorts in between its covers and I am sure you will find stories in there which float your boat. The linking theme is, of course, the city of Paris but each story picks different areas of the city and each piece gives you a different impression of what many people consider to be the most romantic place in the world.

Each story is hot and sensual but like with my bag of pick and mix I have picked out a couple that are my very favourites. The Red Brassiere by EllaRegina is not only clever but entertainingly vivid and sensual too. It is flirty and light and then serious and passionate but it is a wonderful flight of fancy that carries you along with French abandonment from beginning to end.

Gargloyles and sidewalk café’s has a particularly artistic Parisian flair to it. Peter Baltensperger creates a very convincing artist named Jacqueline and her lusty adventures are both sensual and exotic and it is a story which could not be set anywhere else, it really does shout Paris with every written word.

Toni Sands story,Some Virgins Learn Quickly in theory, could have happened anywhere but in choosing Paris she has given it a very particular zest that adds to the excitement of the story. It is so detailed and descriptive that you feel you are there in Paris with Helen as she is seduced not only by the older Emile but by the city itself. It may well be a story that could sit in any town or city the world over but it is in Paris that it flourishes and becomes all the more arousing for its setting.

Not all the stories were particularly to my liking in this anthology, I have to be honest but I did find it to generally be an entertaining and erotic read. It is an adventure, where you’re not certain what might come next or who you will meet around the next corner but it will leave you with a desire to see Paris, to experience it and to be seduced in the city of lovers.

And in other news, I got the cover for Stopping Point today. It’s brilliant but I’m being evil and won’t let you all see it…yet. Watch this space, folks. I am sure I won’t be able to keep it to myself for very long!

Not even at home is Theresa safe from her fantasies and frustration. She weaves a steamy web around an awesome threesome, imagining both the stone god and the doctor pleasuring her. There’s great imagery here as the contrast between the cold, hard stone of the statue and the warm, soft flesh of the humans is explored. Theresa has the doctor telling her she’s a slut so we have the grimy statue, the dirty girl and the plummy-voiced doctor also getting down and dirty. Great stuff. But it’s not actually happening yet and boy, do I want it to.

If you want to read more just pop over to Toni’s website and check out the ‘reviews’ tab and you’ll find Restoration listed there.

So, do you fancy an excerpt from Restoration? Oh go on then, here’s one just for you:

I am exhausted. I’ve been working on Priapus till all hours. In my flat at night I lie in my bed, fantasising about the statue I’ve been working on all day. I imagine him in flesh, his cock red and throbbing and I rub myself raw attaining orgasm after orgasm but never feeling satisfied. My vibrators are too small, my fingers too familiar. I want his cock, I need Priapus to split me open and take his tribute from my wide spread verdant valleys.

“Well, he’s not such and ugly bastard after all, then.” Doctor Browning’s voice comes from the other side of the table, close to my ear and I jump, startled.

“I wish you’d announce yourself before walking in.” I hiss, my heart thumping.
“I did, but you were so engrossed with Priapus here, you didn’t hear me.”

“Oh, right. Well, you have to concentrate when you’re doing such delicate tasks, Doctor.”

“I imagine so, I certainly do. He’s looking good so far, Theresa.”

“Thank you,” I smile, “He’s definitely a Roman impression of the god. The Greeks had him down as some kind of ugly midget with a big prick. This Priapus is much too pretty and tall to be Greek.”

“I’d agree, and where he was found backs that up. He is a handsome chap, isn’t he?” Doctor Browning runs a finger over Priapus’ hair, over his nose and traces gently over his lips. I lick my own as these actions seem blatantly sexual to me, though they can’t be. I mean Doctor Browning just isn’t like that, is he?

“Anyway,” he pulls his hand away like he’s been scolded, “Great work Theresa. I’ll be back next week to check on the progress.”

“Okay.” I nod and then lower my eyes to my task once more.

Restoration is just 99p from Xcite and right now you can choose 3 ebooks and only pay for 2 of them so have a browse through their erotic selection and treat yourself today.

Don’t forget, if you enjoy the excerpt form Spiced Vanilla you can pick up your copy from Total-E-Bound this week at 10% off, so now is the ideal time to buy!

6th July (Okay I’m a day late, don’t tell anyone) is international kissing day and I love kisses. One of my utmost favourite things to write is the first kiss between two new characters. It is exciting, passionate and the anticipation leading up to it is breath taking. I love it, love it, love it. So to celebrate International Kissing day I’m going to share with you 3 different first kisses.

Our first comes from the exhibitionist tale Naked Rain which you can find in eXcite’s Big and Beautiful Anthology.

“I walked outside and expected no one to be around. I was delighted when I looked over the bushes to see you standing there, so beautifully displaying your gorgeous body.”

“Oh, well, I don’t know about that.” She stuttered and the arms that had fallen to her side as she enjoyed the rain crept up towards covering her breasts again.

“No, no, please don’t cover yourself, you look so good. The water just caresses your beautiful curves.” Richard took a step forward and reached out a hand as if to touch her.

“No, don’t,” She cried, “we can’t- you mustn’t-I’m old enough to be your mother.”

“I doubt that, “he replied and stepped closer, “and honestly, I don’t care, you’re fucking hot and I want you.”

His fingers touched her as those words zinged through her mind. He skimmed his hands down her side, delicately sliding his thumb over her breast and stomach, his hand stopping just above her buttocks. Before she could protest he pulled her to him and their lips collided as his arm wrapped around her and pulled her tightly to him.

His lips pressed against hers, they vibrated with his moan of pleasure and Sandra’s mind stopped working and her instincts kicked in. She kissed back with fevered passion. She enjoyed the undulation of his soft, delicate lips against hers and revelled in the feeling. This was just what she’d imagined, just what she’d fantasised about and the heavy droplets of water covering her back just added to the arousal coursing through her veins.

This one is for all you people sweltering in hot July heat, it’s an excerpt from Making it Real. Maybe all this snow will cool you down a little!

“No, no, no.” I tried to wriggle from his grasp, but as he leant down to the ground to scoop up the snow, he pulled me with him. I kept giggling, shrieking and struggling to escape, but he was holding me fast and he pulled the zip down on my mac until my chest was exposed. He smooshed a massive handful of cold whiteness into the creamy flesh there, pressed it down and squashed it against my exposed skin. It took my breath away. He held his hands there as it melted. The icy shock tickled and made me giggle and gasp. When the mass of moistness melted completely, he left his cold hand pressed against my warming skin. The shock of his touch, so intimately pressed over my heart, took my breath away.

“I surrender.” I gasped, my heart thumping.

“Well, I’m not going to let you.” He grinned, turning to scoop up more snow.

“No!” I screamed and tried to pull away from him. All I managed to do was overbalance. I fell to the snow covered lawn, pulling Will down on top of me.

Laughing hysterically, he spluttered, “Are you okay?”

I was giggling, too.

“Yes, I’m fine.” I felt his body heat warming me. I became aware of my breath as it escaped in short pants.

“You’ve got bit of snow just here…” he barely whispered the words as his fingers brushed gently against my cheek. They were cold but they heated me up, slowly at first. The flames of lust licked down his fingers to my cheek and then to my neck and lower to suffuse my chest. His fingers traced a light pattern, softly stroking as our eyes locked. I was lost in the depths of those treacle-coloured orbs. I wanted to lean up and press my lips to his.

I thought I was dreaming when I realised his lips were pressed against mine. My eyes closed and my hands wrapped around his neck. His lips were cold, but then so were mine. As we gently undulated them, the heat flowed through from the points where we were joined to suffuse our lips, mouths, hearts and whole bodies with a burning urge, a fiery need.

The kiss was not satisfied with being small and tight-lipped. It compelled me to press my lips harder to his, to move them apart and slide them all over the surface of his mouth. His lips were soft, supple and giving. He was kissing me as strongly as I was kissing him, his hand gently cupped my face. The snow below me was cold, but it was a delicious contrast to the heat of his body on top of mine. He pulled his lips from me.

“We should go inside,” he gasped, “before you catch pneumonia.”

And last but not least, this is the first kiss between Jack and Emma in Spiced Vanilla which is available as an eBook and as an audiobook too!

I straightened, bending my elbows and bringing my bound hands together in front of me as if I were venerating him as my leader. He stared at me for a moment, his gaze taking in the bound hands, the chocolate-smudged breasts, the long, exposed legs in little ankle boots, that must look ridiculous with my general nakedness. A noise rumbled from his chest to his lips and sent my senses into overdrive.

He ripped off his T-shirt, his apron already wrapped around my wrists, and strode over. He pushed me until my bum was level with the table. His legs rested between my thighs, his arms around my waist, and he lifted me onto the table, with no outward sign of exertion. I wanted to run my hands up and down his shoulder muscles. They bulged so magnificently, I guessed that baking built good upper body strength. It must have done for him to lift me with so little effort.
It was strange how his next action seemed so much more intimate, so much more sexual than anything that had gone before. As he rested between my thighs, he cupped my cheeks with his strong, slightly sticky hands and leant in for a long, hard and demanding kiss.

It pulled my desire through me and I found it all to be displayed there, where our lips touched and met. He could feel how turned on I was , how desperate I was for this, for him, and I did not feel embarrassed. I felt empowered as he forced his tongue between my lips and I pressed my pelvis up, longing to feel his fingers, his tongue or his cock thrust inside me there.

I hope you will make the most of international Kissing Day, now go and kiss someone, quick, it’s the perfect excuse to pucker up!

I hope you’ve had a good and relaxing weekend. Mine was full of fun and family, you can’t beat that really. I discovered once more that I am a complete softie when I spent the last half hour or so of Princess and the Frog in tears. What can I say? I’m a sucker for a good love story.

Now, talking about suckers, I want to mention to you my vampire story, The Point.

Toni Sands, a fellow author and all round lovely lady has reviewed The Point and this is part of what she has to say about it:

Lush descriptions of blood dripping, juices flowing and good intentions dissolving inhabit The Point. It’s not just a vampire story. It’s a story of lust and love. And that, my friend, is too potent a combination to resist.

To read the rest pop over to tonisands.co.uk and look at the review page.

I had a really busy week last week and am happy to say this one should be fair less stressful. I did finish my Christmas story ‘Snowed in at School’ and I am waiting to hear back from my editor about it. I also got in my edits for Stopping Point, book two of the Point Vamp series and that will be released in October.

Stopping Point is about Josh, one of three vampires we meet briefly in The point and we follow his journey from the moment he is turned to discovering who his sire is and how he copes with being a brand new vampire. It is a funny, sexy and touching story and the romance in it will take you by surprise I’m sure.

I am cruel teasing you with details 3 months before it’ll be released, but I’m excited about it.

Now I have to decide on what to write next! I like this bit. :)

Firstly I got a fantastic review for The Point from the ever lovely Lucy Felthouse.

She said:

I really enjoyed this novella. I whizzed through it pretty quickly, mainly because Blisse’s writing style is so easy to read. The tone is light and fun, and the sex is deliciously steamy. The main characters, Hugh and Elizabeth, are very likeable and I think this is important, particularly if an author wants people to want to keep reading about them.

To read the whole thing pop over to her website and check it out.

This was a lovely start to a week full of hard work. I had to finish a short story to submit it on Wednesday. It was hard work but I got there in the end. I will let you know what happens with Snowed in at School as soon as I hear anything. It’s quite a cute little romance about two teachers who fancy the socks off each other but never pluck up the courage to ask each other out but then they get snowed in at school on Christmas Eve and finally they confront their attraction head on.

It was interesting writing about winter and snow and feeling cold in the middle of summer! It certainly helped me to cool down!

So once I finished writing I had to get stuck in to the Stopping Point Edits that my wonderful Total-E-Bound editor Delaney had sent me. Yep, Stopping Point will be out on the 18th October and is book two in the Point Vamp series. I’m glad to say the edits are now done and back with my lovely editor. Hurrah.

And now the best and biggest hurrah of the week. An interview with Miranda Forbes and yours truly appeared in this month’s Writers’ Forum magazine and yesterday I picked up a copy from my local newsagents and squealed in the aisle!

Here’s a photo of part of the article for your viewing pleasure!

How awesome is that, huh?

Rachel Sparks! Congratulations I will email soon.

Comiserations to all who took part and didn’t win, keep an eye out for another BIG Blisse competition in the next couple of weeks.

Now, as a consolation here is an excerpt from my story Naked Rain that features in the fantastically sexy anthology, Big and Beautiful.

. Before she could protest he pulled her to him and their lips collided as his arm wrapped around her and pulled her tightly to him.

His lips pressed against hers, they vibrated with his moan of pleasure and Sandra’s mind stopped working and her instincts kicked in. She kissed back with fevered passion. She enjoyed the undulation of his soft, delicate lips against hers and revelled in the feeling. This was just what she’d imagined, just what she’d fantasised about and the heavy droplets of water covering her back just added to the arousal coursing through her veins.

“You’re so beautiful,” he gasped, as he broke from her lips for a moment. His hands moved from their position on her waist and slipped up to her breasts. She started to pull away, she felt embarrassed. “No, don’t move,” he sighed, “I want to touch you.”

“But, I’m too old for you.” Sandra replied wrapping her fingers around his wrists, meaning to pull him away.
“Stop saying that, age doesn’t matter. Do you know how many times I have fantasised about seeing your beautiful tits? Whenever I see you I get all tongue tied because I become instantly hard and I can’t think for the arousal coursing through my veins.”

“Really?” She couldn’t believe what she was hearing and her grip loosened as his hands moved higher to cup her breasts. They both moaned as his thumbs grazed her excited nipples.

“Really, really. I seriously want to fuck you, Sandra. I have done since you moved in.”

His fingers tickled and teased her skin as the rain continued to ping onto her body, the intense cold making her shiver. She wanted to say more, she wanted to deny him, she was outside, in the pouring rain naked and vulnerable and people could see. But as he bent and fell to his knees so that he could caress her and suck on her nipples at the same time she simply whimpered and threw her head back. She knew it was wrong, that she shouldn’t let him do this to her but she didn’t care. She wanted him, she wanted this and she didn’t want it to stop at all.

To read more about Sandra, her sexy, younger neighbour and the joy of rain after days of heat pick up your copy of Big and Beautiful from Xcite today for just £2.99 and you’ll get 4 other hot stories from other excellent erotic authors too!

If you pick up this month’s copy of Writers’ Forum from your newsagent then in it you will find a fantastic interview with Miranda Forbes from Xcite books and included in that interview are some comments from me and some writing tips too. If you follow this link you can find details of how to pick up your copy and you can also download a PDF of the contents page and you’ll see my photo at the top of the page with a red 12 next to it!

It’s all very Xciting stuff, isn’t it?

(Sorry, I can never resist a pun!)

Well, lets start with the ever delicious Jaconelli’s lemon top ice cream. I love these babies, I know I am on holiday for sure when I’m licking around the cold, creamy ice cream which is topped by sharp, tangy lemon sorbet. Yum yum!

And carrying on the sweet theme we had a lovely visit to the John Bull rock factory where I rolled my own rock (it came out square and broke-oops) and made my own chocolate lolly. This is a photo of me in my chocolate lolly making get up!

We were in Scarborough so obviously we saw alot of the sea and the beach. Now sadly the weather was fairly unpleasant all week (we stayed mostly dry and had fun though) so we only got to play on the beach on the last day. We walked past and admired it lots though!

One of my favourite things to do when in Scarborough is to go on the Miniature railway. It takes me right back to my childhood!

And lastly a photo of me, enjoying the bracing Scarborough air overlooking the beach.

I have been going to Scarborough for a holiday for the last 25 years and have been once a year most years and occassionally even made it there twice in a year. I love it, it’s home from home for me and my family. I hope you’ve enjoyed my holiday snaps.

Now I’m back from my holiday and ready to work. I’ve got my Christmas 2010 story in the works right now and am preparing to do another interview for total-e-talk radio which I know is going to be great fun. I promise to be better at updating my blog this week!

Hi all, a quick one today just to let you know that in the latest Total-E-Bound Newsletter you will find a little short story by me! It’s called ‘To Comfort a Vampire‘ and is set in The Point, the club that has the same name as my very first Point Vamp book.

It’s about a curvy young barmaid who falls for a vampire, a vampire with a gorgeous girlfriend at that but one night he comes in to the club alone and seems upset so Zoe, our barmaid, tries her utmost to cheer him up!

If you read this hot shot story and enjoy it, you might want to check out my other Paranormal titles, The Point and Moon Shy which appears in the Over the Moon anthology.

Here’s the part in Book one where Josh, my new hero makes his first appearance.

“Hey, pretty girl.” A voice at her ear made her jump, “wanna come in here with us?”
Three tall men stood in front her in a semicircle and between them; they were wearing more leather than your average cow.

“Me?” she asked and all of them nodded in unison, the same wickedly sexual smile etched on their faces, “oh well, yes, I’d love too.” She flustered. She really didn’t want to go anywhere with them but she had to find Hugh or the person who looked like him but wasn’t him, to put her mind at rest.

They walked past two burley men who smirked and laughed as she was escorted through, surrounded on all sides by tall men in leather. The VIP section turned out to be a small room with a bar and at the far end a corridor led off into what she guessed were private rooms. The room was dark, wood cladded and enclosed. Some people might say ‘intimate’ the guys around her talked among themselves a moment, then one leaned in and whispered in her ear.

“Erm, just a coke please, I’m driving.” They laughed but the one closest to the bar walked over to order and the other two took a hand each and led Elizabeth to a little table in a dark corner. The music was quieter here.

“So, darlin’ are you up for a little fun?” The leader of the pack smirked. He was the one who’d spoken to her before and he was the one sitting closest to her.

“What kind of fun?”

“Oh, you know the kind. It’s the kind that takes place behind closed door in a private room. Just you and us and a big, comfy bed.”

“That kind.” She gulped and was relieved when the errand runner came back and slipped a drink into her hand. She took a sip of her coke and immediately she suspected it had been spiked with something. She put the glass down.
“Yes, the special kind you get here in this club if you know what we mean. We’ll make your kinkiest fantasies come true babe and we’ll pay you one hundred quid each for a sucking.”

“I am not that kind of girl!” Sshe threw the drink in main guys face and bolted in the ensuing craziness. She ran for the corridor and ignored the shouts behind her. The first doors were all ajar, she assumed this meant they were free she kept going until she hit a door that was different from the rest. It said ‘reserved for management’ in golden letters on it and that door was closed.

She had no time to think so she yanked it open and walked in then she shut it behind her. The couple on the bed were too engrossed in their sexual act to have noticed her slipping in. The guy was on top, pumping into the girl below. She was writhing, panting, and clinging onto his shoulders for dear life.

Elizabeth watched in stunned silence as he muttered in her ear and she moaned loudly, “yes, come for me.” And the guy stilled. She couldn’t see details. A few tall candles lighted the room and she was in the shadows, making her way round to the far side of the bed just in case those mad guys came in looking for her.

“Now do it,” she begged, Elizabeth thought that was weird. He had just done it, quite obviously, what more could she be wanting? As she wondered, the guy leaned in and bit the girl’s neck. Hard. She yelped then moaned and started to babble incoherently. She didn’t try to pull him away. She arced up to him.

Elizabeth couldn’t believe it. This girl was letting some bloke suck her blood, enthusiastically so in fact. She took a step forward. She didn’t want another one ending up in A&E with blood loss. As she moved, his head turned and his dark eyes fixed her.

“Hugh!” She gasped. Her eyes bulged with shock and her hand rose to her mouth of its own accord.
“Elizabeth!” He pulled his mouth from the girl’s neck and she saw the blood around his lips, the fangs obvious, sticky and red in his mouth, “what are you doing here?”

The leader of the Pack is a guy named Josh and book two tells us how he became a vampire and introduces us to his Sire, Cara and his two best friends Steve and Kyle, who you also meet in the above quote. Here’s the Blurb for Point Vamp Book two:

Josh is a vampire he just doesn’t quite know it yet.

He is confused and his voluptuous sire, Cara is far too busy being mysterious to really help him unlock the secrets of his Afterlife. However, he pieces it together by himself and decides to turn his best mates into Vampire’s too. This doesn’t quite go to plan but he does discover The Point and its unique ten second rule.

Cara does not approve of Josh visiting The Point but that night she turns up at his door bloodied and much more dead than usual and accepts Josh’s help to escape from her much older and much crazier Sire Leopold. How is Josh going to defeat an older, wiser and more powerful vampire? He hasn’t a clue but for Cara he is willing to find out.

I do hope you don’t think it’s too cruel of me to be telling you all about a story that won’t be out for another four months yet, I just couldn’t help myself!

I’m excited. in just over SEVEN Days I’ll be off on my holiday to Scarborough. I will bring you back a stick of rock, promise!

Anyway, on to the point of this blog. I’m going to share an excerpt with you from my latest release Big and Beautiful. This is an eXcite anthology and is filled with HOT (I know, I’ve read’em) sexy stories about ladies who have ample curves and know how to use them. My story, Naked rain, was written around this time last year. We experienced a rare heatwave in lat May/early June and it was hot, hot, hot for days and days and days and I could not stand it. I don’t do well with heat.

Well one day the weather finally broke and the rain came. I think it was the first time I screamed for joy at the sight of rain! I immediately ran outside to let the cooling drops fall on my skin and as I stood there in my little yard, Arms outstretched I seriously thought about stripping off and enjoying the cooling effect all over me. If I wasn’t over-looked by 4 different houses I might have tried it!

So, Naked Rain was born. Here’s the blurb:

It’s a rare, hot British summer and when the rain comes curvy Sandra runs out into the garden and gives in to temptation. As she enjoys the caress of the cold raindrops on her hot skin she realises her sexy, younger neighbour is enjoying the same thing and is as naked as herself. Will either of them run and hide or will they come together to enjoy the Naked Rain?

It really is a hot little story and I was thrilled when Miranda accepted it for inclusion in this anthology. I love that Xcite are so eager to promote the sexy, curvy rubenesque ladies as we have been ignored for far too long in my opinion.

Now here’s a HOT excerpt from Naked Rain:

“Bugger it.” She exclaimed and pulled the dress up and over her head and threw it over towards the back door. She’d pick it up when she went in. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the trickling of cold water over her body. Drips and drops rolled down her back and over her buttocks, between her breasts and over her rounded stomach. She felt wanton and sexual but most of all she felt cool.

“It feels good, doesn’t it?” A low, sexy male voice seemed to boom from the side of her. She jumped and opened her eyes at the same time she wrapper her arms around her to cover her breasts. “Oh, please don’t cover up. You looked beautiful there, enjoying the rain.”

“I’m sorry,” she said, her cheeks painfully hot and flushing red, “I didn’t realise you were home, I better go in, I’m terribly sorry.”

“Don’t be sorry,” he said and pushed a hand forcefully out in front of him, like a stop sign, “and please don’t go in. Just stay there. Just right where you are.”

She obeyed him, she didn’t know why. Her brain wasn’t working properly. She watched him track down the wall and bushes that separated their houses until he came to a gap. He climbed over the dividing wall and strode over to her. He was naked too and he looked even better than she imagined. His chest was long and lithe but not scrawny and she noted other parts of him were long and lithe too and seemed to be a little hardened. She bit her lip and tried hard not to stare.
“You see, I’m doing the same thing,” he said as he walked closer, “it’s been too damn hot and I just couldn’t resist.” The rain chose the moment to intensify, the drops came down harder still and the rain roared as it fell to the ground, some of it via the body parts of Sandra and Richard.

He groaned and leant back his head. “Oh, fuck, it feels so good.” Sandra watched as the cold drops dripped down him, off his chin onto his hard torso and lower to his now significantly hard cock. He was aroused, definitely aroused but Sandra put it down to the cold caress of the rain that was tickling her too making her skin fizzle and pop with every impact, her whole body being teased by spots of cold liquid.

To read more pick up your copy of Big and Beautiful from eXcite for just £2.99 and download 5 hot stories including mine to sit back and enjoy on your computer, laptop or eBook reader!

And don’t forget you can win an e-copy of Big and Beautiful as well as 3 print anthologies containing Blisse stories in my latest Big and Beuatiful competition. You will find the question you need to answer on my facebook fan page. Simply email me your answer to victoria @ victoria blisse. co. uk (no spaces) and you could win!