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Saturday, 29 January 2022

Backlist Saturday Spotlight features a hot snippet from Daryl Devore's Two O'clock with the Billionaire #hotread #billionaireromance

 

All this month I am featuring my first published book - Two O'clock with the Billionaire.

Each Saturday in January, I featured a short snippet and something about the book and this is the last one for this month. In February, I will move on to a new backlist book.

BE WARNED - sexual content


Hot Read

A seagull landed on the sand. It bobbed its head and screeched out a raucous song. Startled from his nap, Derek yawned and opened his eyes. Above him was a clear blue sky. The sun glistened off the edge of an airplane. Was that a sign? Was it time to go home? Arianne sighed. He rolled onto his side to face her and caressed her cheek. “Was it good for you?” he asked.

She yawned and contentedly sighed then her eyelids popped open. “You bastard!”

“That’s the second time you called me that.”

“You used my line on me.”

“Yes, and it worked, didn’t it?” Arianne glared and refused to answer him. “When you pulled that line on me, I had the most incredible orgasm. That’s what life is all about—who has the power. Who controls who? You want to dominate and control me. I want to control you. But as equals we are formidable. Pretty heady isn’t it.”

With a quick shove, she pushed Derek onto his back. Her eyes shone with a bestial passion and her voice was low. “I want you inside me. I should be exhausted and sore, but I want more.” Kneeling next to him, she stroked his flaccid penis.

“I don’t think there is anything left. I’m spent.”

* * * *

“I want you.” Her voice was edged with a passionate obsession. Something inside had taken control. Derek had no right to refuse her. She wanted him and he would please her. She straddled him and sat on his chest. “I want your mouth on me and in me. I want you to taste our mingled sex. Push me to my edge. Make me scream.” Before Derek could reply, Arianne settled her demanding pussy over his mouth, placed her hands under his head and held him in place.

* * * *

Puzzled by, but acutely aware of, the obsession that had overtaken Arianne, Derek slid his tongue along the outer edges of her folds. Fluttering little licks, he teased her. He could taste and smell the mixture of his sperm, her juices, and seawater. When he touched her clitoris, her body tensed. It was as if she had never released herself in their lovemaking. He could sense she was as aroused now as when he had her in the water. With the tip his tongue he flicked at her. Each touch brought a hissing release as if a whip had caressed her skin.

The muscles in his jaw and neck began to scream, but he didn’t stop. Arianne’s hips rocked to and fro. Glancing up he could see her erect nipples, hardened from her inflamed passion. Her eyes were closed. Her face contorted with an emotion he couldn’t fathom. Her chest rose and fell with each pant. With an unexpected suddenness, she released his head, allowing it to fall back onto the wet sand.

She pulled away and rotated one-hundred and eighty degrees then slipped his semi-hard cock into her mouth. Gripping him like a vice, she slid her wet lips along his shaft, urging him, forcing him to become aroused. Her hands alternated between tenderly squeezing and rolling his testicles to dragging her nails along his inner thighs. At last she had achieved her goal. He was fully erect and fully aroused. He struggled to get up, but Arianne stopped him. She pressed his shoulders into the sand.”

She dropped onto him, banging her buttocks onto his stomach. Derek tried to thrust up into her, but Arianne grabbed a testicle and softly directed, “Don’t move.”

He froze in obedience.

With a controlled dominance in her tone, Arianne said, “Look at me. I want to watch your eyes as you come. I want to see the burning desire in your soul and I want to see the moment it’s released.”

She raised herself dragging her wet sex up and down his shaft. With her index and middle fingers, she held herself open so he could watch himself slide in and out of her. She used her other hand to fondle her clitoris, ever so gently so she would not climax until she’d tortured him.

Derek’s eyes closed. “Arianne,” he moaned.

“Beg, Derek. Tell me what you want. Tell me what you need.”

“I want to come. I need you.”

“Why?” She increased her speed.

“Because I love you.”

“Why?”

“Arianne! Please! I can’t....”

“Answer me. Why do you love me?”

“I don’t know.”

Blurb and Buy Links

Two O’clock with the Billionaire is one of Daryl Devoré’s hot romance. A contemporary romance sweetened with a bit of vanilla sexcapades.

Where Derek Davenport is concerned, women only had one thing in mind: trap him into a marriage. The perfect way out? Hire a courtesan. While partying with his buddies he places an online ad that reads – Woman Wanted.

Unemployed and nearing financial desperation, Arianne is forced to step out of her comfort zone and answers an ad that reads Woman Wanted. With minimal hours and excellent pay, she accepts the position of courtesan to a handsome billionaire.

Their sexual antics cause emotions neither is willing to admit it. Will Arianne and Derek drive each other crazy…or will they fall in love first?

Tagline - Arianne’s just a regular girl pushed into a corner and desperately looking for a way out.

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Friday, 28 January 2022

My Books. My Blog. My Post. HIM - A Daryl Devore Flashette - a short free read based on a photo prompt #DarylDevore #flashette

 

Rules - prompt - word or photo.

Write 1,000 or less words.

Keep it family friendly.

 Him

The early morning sun illuminates the arched stained glass windows as a solitary, dark figure glides across the rough cobblestone floor.

A cowl covering his lowered head allows him a quiet moment to think in the serenity of the… the… the… argh!

June glared at her computer screen. This is crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Maudlin crap. Crappier than crap.

Slamming her index finger on the backspace key 227 times, she deleted the opening scene of what was supposed to be her latest almost-guaranteed-to-be-a-NY-Times-#1-bestseller. Her publisher had been screaming at her agent. Her agent was screaming at her. Fans hounded her on Instagram – when is the next book coming out?!?

The rectangular black cursor blinked at her from a white, blank — very blank — screen.

A screen that was waiting for the first of the approximately 90,000 brilliantly inspired, heart-wrenching words.

Facing the truth was difficult. Worse than difficult — hard. Really hard.

June closed her eyes as she shook her head. Really hard. I’m a highly successful, enormously paid professional writer and all I can come up with is — really hard.

The truth is… She rubbed circles on her forehead, trying to ease the pain before it split her skull. There are no words. Books need words. I have no more words. I have — no — more — words.

A soothing New Age musical riff floated from her cellphone. She glanced at the text message. “It’s your birthday!!!!!!!! Happy!! Happy!! Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We must parteeeee!!!!!”

Even under the grip of her current funk, her BBF, Seelie’s love of exclamation marks always made her smile.

She tapped her fingers across the keyboard. “No party. Art gallery. I need… I need… ??”

A moment later came Seelie’s reply, “You need to get drunk and meet a guy and do things your mother told you never to do.”

June sighed. You’re probably right. “No. Art Gallery is calling. It’s telling me to visit. Soak in some art. Restore my spirit.”

“Then we can get drunk???”

“Yes.” She laughed then typed, “Then we can get drunk.”

“2-ish. SYL.” A tiny alligator emoji ended her sentence.

By 2:15, June had parked, waited for twelve minutes in the lobby and then suffered the humiliation of Seelie screeching that it was her birthday before wrapping her in a suffocating bear hug. Other gallery patrons frowned and moved aside.

Oblivious to their discomfort, Seelie grabbed June’s hand and pulled her through the tall glass doors and into the hushed silence of the art gallery.

It always bothered June’s sense of appropriateness when the gallery did not smell of old oil paint, dust and long ago. The sterile, disinfected air assaulted her nostrils. Stainless steel shone, marble floor glistened, and sky-high skylights cast pure light throughout the building.

“Which exhibit do we hit first? Sculptures? Picasso?”

“Old Masters.”

Seelie’s jaw did the cliché drop. “Old? Masters? Like Rembrandt? Like painted apples on a plate, old masters?”

June nodded, turning to the elevator. She pressed the 4 button, then waited while Seelie slid between the closing doors. She had no idea why she wanted to see the old masters. She’d been to this gallery a coupla dozen times. Visited the Old Masters Exhibition at least a dozen times. How could there be anything new in the Old Masters section?

But something told her to go. A little voice in the back of her head. The universe giving her a nudge. Who was she to ignore The Universe?

The doors slipped open. The brightness of the entrance lobby contrasted against the muted light. A sense of peace slid over June.

Yes, she was right. This was where she was supposed to be.

At this moment.

Why? She didn’t know.

Without hesitation, she turned and walked through the first room, to the second, then turned left into the third gallery.

A gasp of surprise breached her lips. She covered her mouth to silence any other expressions of delight. A gentle band of light caressed a small painting of exactly what Seelie complained about; two apples on a plate. Resting next to it was a tea set decorated with little blue flowers. On the left was a plant. Maybe a rose. Possibly a geranium. She wasn’t good with flowers.

June scratched her neck. These days she wasn’t good with words.

But what elicited the gasp was not the painting, but the man viewing it. That was the face she knew was hidden by the monk’s cowl.

She smiled. That’s why the Universe sent me here.

Him!!!!!!!!


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Saturday, 22 January 2022

Backlist Saturday Spotlight . Arianne’s just a regular girl pushed into a corner and desperately looking for a way out. Daryl Devore's Two O'clock with the Billionaire #hotread #billionaireromance

 

All this month I am featuring my first published book - Two O'clock with the Billionaire.

Each Saturday in January, I will feature a short snippet and something about the book - fingers crossed this week's idea works.

Jan 29 - Hot free read


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Excerpt - 

Arianne burst into her apartment, brushed past her roommate, threw her keys onto the coffee table and plopped onto her couch. “Men!”

Taylor looked up. “Me excluded, of course.”

“Straight men. There, is that better?”

“Well, I can commiserate with that. I quite often find straight men difficult.” He glanced at the floor. "Some of them can be so cruel."

She pulled out her hair tie and shook her shoulder-length hair free. “I hate my life.” After a deep depressed sigh, she snatched up Taylor's copy of the LGBT Community News. Wanting nothing more than a moment's distraction, she randomly flipped through it.

Taylor paused in keying in his text. “Now this sounds serious.”

“It's been two months and I still can’t find a job.”

“Then why are you annoyed with the straight men?”

“Because some man caused the downturn and made it difficult for people to buy stuff and now I don’t have a job.” Unsuccessfully tossing the paper across the room, it fluttered to the carpet near her feet. “And to top it off, Kyle broke up with me. He suddenly woke up and found that he’s in a different place and I don’t belong there with him. Whatever the hell that means.”

“This is where—”

“And, I’m living a stereotype. I’m like in one of those sitcoms. Straight girl lives with gay guy. Hell, I can’t even screw you ‘cause we like the same thing - men! Except, I hate men!”

When her ranting subsided, Taylor tried again. “This is where I get practical and ask, you do have some money saved up, right?”

Arianne shook her head.

“How can you be employed for two years and not have saved anything?”

“Well, I had to pay off my college loan.”

“Not to mention a new pair of shoes every other week. So how much do you have or do I have to start looking for a new rent paying roommate?”

“I’m broke. I was sort of hoping to move in with Kyle while I hunted for something.”

“I love you dearly Arianne, but I can’t afford the rent on my own. And I cannot afford to feed you. Guess I start looking for a paying roommate. Or you could beg a loan off mommy and daddy.” Arianne sighed. Taylor pointed at her phone. “Keep looking for a job.”

Arianne glanced at one of the newspaper pages. “Oh, look. The personal ads. And here’s a job for me. Woman wanted. Apply to e-box twenty-four. I’m a woman. So I’m qualified for that one. Was that a little sarcastic?”

Blurb and Buy Links

Two O’clock with the Billionaire is one of Daryl Devoré’s hot romance. A contemporary romance sweetened with a bit of vanilla sexcapades.

Where Derek Davenport is concerned, women only had one thing in mind: trap him into a marriage. The perfect way out? Hire a courtesan. While partying with his buddies he places an online ad that reads – Woman Wanted.

Unemployed and nearing financial desperation, Arianne is forced to step out of her comfort zone and answers an ad that reads Woman Wanted. With minimal hours and excellent pay, she accepts the position of courtesan to a handsome billionaire.

Their sexual antics cause emotions neither is willing to admit it. Will Arianne and Derek drive each other crazy…or will they fall in love first?

Tagline - Arianne’s just a regular girl pushed into a corner and desperately looking for a way out.

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Friday, 21 January 2022

My Books. My Blog. My Post. Writers and Writer Groups. #author #writer #critiquegroup #writingcommunity

 My Thoughts on Writing Groups.

I used to belong to one of the best writing groups on the internet. Why "used to"? Did I quit? 

No, I am still a member. The group quit on me.

The group used to be a group. People were active- putting up chapters, critiquing chapters, commenting in the group chats.

Now, there are less than 10 people who engage in even the remotest of ways.

And that makes me very sad.

Writing is a lonely business. We get into our heads and live with our characters rather and interact with actual humans. I do understand that - I AM a writer and I am an introvert. But we have to engage with humans at some point.

When I am interviewed, quite often I am asked - what advice do you give a new writer?

My answer is usually - find a writer's group. The gigantic amount of knowledge available in a group is a true treasure. 

In our group, we have indie authors, agented authors, best sellers, cover designers, formatters, editors - the list goes on.

A person could ask the simplest of writer related questions and be bombarded with knowledgeable advice.

And that vast library of knowledge is being ignored and wasted. Members will drop out. Our library will shrink. Human engagement will become less and less.

I guess my advice to new authors will be more along the lines of - get a good inline editing app. 

Sad.

Very sad, indeed.

 

On a happier note - 2 months to Spring.




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23 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday

24 – #OpenBook Blog Hop

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26 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor

27 – Flashette – free read

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Thursday, 20 January 2022

Orion. My favourite constellation - NASA view and my view #Orion #constellation

 Orion has always been a special constellation to me. When I was a child, it rose up over the garage at my parent's house. When I got married and we bought a house, it rises over the field across the street. On cold winter nights I could view it and fondly think of home.

My daughter is now grown and owns a home of her own, but she knows where Orion is and it makes her think of home.

The first picture is from NASA.

STS-54 astronomical observation of the constellation Orion

STS054-97-018 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- The STS-54 crew used a handheld 70mm camera to record this view of the constellation Orion. Five astronauts spent six days aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in Earth orbit.

 Date Created: 1993-01-19

 


 The second photo I took with my iphone on a dark night in February. Yes, NASA's picture is better, but if you look closely the belt and 4 corner points are visible. Not bad for a complete and total amateur.

 

 What's happening in January on Romance – Sweet to Heat

21 – My Blog. My Post. My Books

22 – Backlist Saturday Spotlight – Two O’clock with the Billionaire

23 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday

24 – #OpenBook Blog Hop

25 – SPOTLIGHT – Darren Simon - Tripp Unleashed

26 – Book Hooks #MFRWhooks #MFRWAuthor

27 – Flashette – free read

28 – My Blog. My Post. My Books

29 – Backlist Saturday Spotlight – Two O’clock with the Billionaire

30 – Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday

31 - #OpenBook Blog Hop

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