Official title for my Merry Kinkmas Quickie: ROSY CHEEKS.

ROSY CHEEKS
Merry Kinkmas Quickie
BDSM, Christmas
Coming this holiday from Ellora’s Cave

Vicki McClay wants one thing for Christmas—Mr. Robertson. While sucking on a juicy red lollipop and dressed in a short plaid skirt, killer heels and pigtails, she sets her plan in motion. Vicki struts into his office offering lip service to the straight laced teacher in exchange for a passing grade in algebra, but he will not be bribed. In fact her proposition earns her a spot over his knee and her skirt hiked up for one heck of a spanking. Before the night is through, Vicki learns several lessons at the capable hands of Mr. Robertson.

Contains lots of spanking!!!

NEWS….

Ellora’s Cave offered for my “Merry Kinkmas” Quickie to be released around the holidays later this year. The title is tentatively Rosy Cheeks & Silver Bells. The fetish? Adolescentilism. In other words, a schoolgirl fantasy. Lots of spanking and BDSM “fun” with a heroine decked out in a short plaid skirt, pigtails and “fuck me” heels and her disciplinary “teacher” complete with a wooden ruler. I still have to write up the blurb, so look for it soon.

Red Rose Publishing is the topic over on Dear Author and EREC. Apparently the owner sent out quite the tirade to the authors, and it found its way to Dear Author. (Shadows of Madris from New Concepts Publishing?) Many of you know I was with RRP at the beginning, even was friends with the owner, but that ended within a few months. You can’t run a publishing company like everyone is family. I had several issues, but the one I posted about in the past are still up and available for viewing: http://mariannelacroix.blogspot.com/2009/10/so-drama.html Yeah yeah, lawyers threats, etc. Never saw any lawyer communications, just threats. I wasn’t scared, I was pissed. I also would like to add that once my book was finally taken down, royalties for the cover art I’d done stopped. I didn’t fight it though. The loss of those royalties was a small price to pay to not deal with the owner of RRP.

As for my next writing project I will be getting back to my Regency vampire BDSM novella for Imajinn.

I am scrambling to get done this book for EC’s Merry Kinkmas themed Quickies. Not much time to put into posting today. Hard to write when you don’t feel like it, but it has to be done. I am so ready to move on to The Devil’s Web. That is the book I’ll be working on starting next week. Regency set story with a vampire hero into BDSM…I already love the hero and I haven’t written him yet. He is so clear in my mind. I admit, the story is a play on the poem “The Spider and the Fly”. A friend of mine inspired the story. Oh he is very much the predator… which is sooooo sexy. So I did the what if–what if the prey wanted to be captured by the sexy predator? Thus a story was born…

The Devil’s Web will be in Dark and Deadly Tales with M.A. DuBarry from Imajinn Books.

Personally, vampire heroes are natural dominants. Mmmm…  Chase me, catch me, cuff me…

*ahem*

Back to writing….

Finished the first chapter to my “Merry Kinkmas” story for Ellora’s Cave. I had a beta reader tell me it was excellent. Awesome. On to chapter two this weekend. I am trying to get this short done by the end of next week. I am having a lot of fun with the story. I feel focused…loving writing again. It’s a good thing. And I plan on coming back into publishing swinging with great new material.

I always liked writing the dominant male in my books. In Crossed Swords the pirate hero ties the heroine spread eagle to the bed and has his way with her (with the help of a belaying pin). In Sea Hawk’s Mistress the pirate hero makes certain demands and rules to his newly acquired sex slave–no clothes in his presence. It goes on and on.

I like the commanding male hero. Very Alpha. Very dominant. This will continue in my books, but stepped up a few notches. With the addition to more BDSM elements, these hot alpha men will burn the pages with their raw carnal sexual appeal. I am very excited about this awakening in my writing.

In the future rewrites of previously issued books, I will be stepping up the intensity in those as well. I only tapped the surface in those. There is much more explore.

I haven’t had a release from Ellora’s Cave since 2007 with the release of Crossed Swords. I had personal issues (hysterectomy, depression, etc.) and the feeling of being lost and burned out creatively for several years. I tried to fit my story ideas into a formulaic mold, and it didn’t work. I felt completely restrained. With the contracting of Let’s Get Naked, I feel rejuvenated. I can still write friggin’ hot. I can write what I want and a pub will want it.

Why the hell was I trying to fit my writing into a mold? I wanted to sell to NY. I wanted an agent to sign me on. I sent out stuff to both and got nothing but rejections. I had an agent say she wanted to see me write contemporary. Okay, so I did. Sent it. Never heard back. That is discouraging and made me doubt my talent. Not a good situation when an author is hereditary depressive. I totally understand why Hemingway turned to booze and why Stephen King turned to drugs. (I hope Stephen is still clean. He is so funny! His book On Writing is brilliant and I do take it out to read every few years. I want to meet him someday just to say hello and shake his hand.)

In the past 3 years I got 2 requests from a NY publisher. Okay, so not everyone hated my writing. I tried to write the books… Kripe, I spent a year on the ghost hunter one and it is still unfinished. I can’t write formulaic. I have an incredibly hard time writing straight contemporary. (I am going to go back to the ghost hunter book, but add more erotic content to it. Ghosts are a hard sell to NY, but with more kink, someone may look beyond the ghost theme.)

So what now? I am planning on coming out swinging with some new material. I have this goal in my head to be one of EC’s top authors. Hey, why not, right?

I had to share this. Tooooo funny!!!

I’m getting a lazy start to the day. I skipped the gym today, but will go back tomorrow. Promise.

Working on the “Kinkmas” story today, and maybe later some of of another BDSM novella. So many ideas, so little time.

I decided to go over The Gladiator and add about 10-15K to it. Then I am going do the sequel I intended to write to go with it–The Centurion. I plan on packing the two into one volume and subbing to NY. But this will come after I get my Marine adventure erotic romance done. Like I said, so many ideas, so little time.

I also decided to add to Stolen by the Sheik as well. Not sure where to submit that or what. Just at the “Yeah, I want to make it longer” stage. I may pair it with a rewrite of My Enemy, My Lover, another historical with a dominant hero. Of course, I will be changing titles.

The rewrite plans are for next year. I got enough new stuff I’m working on at the moment.

Like the “Kinkmas” story…

First day of school… SQUEEEEE!!!

*breathe*

I chatted with AM on the phone, wrote some emails, smiling way too much (hehehe), and feeling awesome.

I did some writing yesterday on something for EC, and today I am working on a trilogy I want to do for them. Kind of get re-established so to speak. Been a while since I had a release out there. I had been in a rut creatively for a while, but I seem to be at full steam these days. Lots of ideas…lots of motivation.

The trilogy (I won’t be mentioning titles until contracted) is BDSM. I want Exotika for them, but we will see what my editor says once she reads it. So, I am working on the first in that trilogy today. A hint? Okay… D/s. Bondage. Kink. Spanking. Etc.

Again… SQUEEEE!

*breathe*

Ahh…the coffee is brewing…smells soooo good.

Yesterday evening I wrote on my Marine novel in a Moleskine, and then I was jotting down ideas for future projects. I have a trilogy of BDSM novellas I am planning for Ellora’s Cave, a novella for Imajinn for an anthology with MA DuBarry (contracted!), and Captain Mendoza’s story. I also have a series in the works with Samara King and an anthology with Annmarie, both paranormal.

Black Heart’s Bride got a title change to Black Heart’s Prize, which I totally love! I wanted to put out a new pirate book because of the upcoming POTC movie. New pirate movie+renewed interest in pirates=good time to have a pirate romance! Anyway, Captain Mendoza will meet his destined love, but there will be definite barriers… I’m taking a classic theme involving a pirate….no, I don’t think I will tell more. I’d originally intended it to be historical, but since Sea Hawk’s Mistress was paranormal, that will continue into BHP. I want to write an additional book to follow BHP…no title as of yet.

Honestly, the idea book is filling up fast. I may need to get a bigger book!