hello all,

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. :)

Hello all, I’ve had one of the busiest weeks ever but it’s been filled with lots of good things.

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?

And the winner of 3 signed print anthologies and an e-copy of Big and Beautiful is

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!)

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