A HUGE THANK YOU!! To all the authors who stopped in this month!

I renamed the blog this month. For the month of June thus far, it's been the Kinky Bitches, focusing on authors who write kink - in whichever way they choose to write it. Some write from their own lives, some write with a very realistic approach and a lot of outside consultation, others write ... well, who would like to speculate about their activities? Hmmm?!

Throughout this month, I have been joined by an array of writers of kink/BDSM. Fabulous authors have answered some questions and I've been featuring some of their books.
A huge Thank You to all the participating authors for agreeing to this impromtu gathering of minds!

And another Thank You for all the donations of prizes for the month long giveaway - The prize pool is almost of epic proportions! Your generosity is amazing - Thank You so very much :)

As I still have had commitments for other blog posts, to differentiate between Kinky posts and normal posts, the sections had a make over too - Author Lowdown was Kinky Lowdown, Spotlights were Kinky Spotlights and so on.
Without the Kink, it was just a post!

During the next week, the kinksters has gone back to the Dungeon to play; can't keep them out of there for too long!! This week is dedicated to New Releases, Blog Tours and Cover Reveals!
On board the mid-June chugger, I have:
Dianna Hardy, Eve Langlais, R.S. Grey, Chelsea Camaron, David Michael and Becca Lee.
What a great bunch of authors! (I hope they all get along well together, otherwise your favourite author might get tossed overboard, and we wouldn't want that to happen now would we!)

The Kinky Rafflecopter is open til the end of June and if we're really good girls and boys, there might even be some more authors stopping by in the last week.

~The Queen B~


#lexiblake #redphoenix #ameliajames #jenniferjames #kallypsomasters # cherisesinclair #sierracartwright #fionaarcher #khloewren

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KINKY SPOTLIGHT - Jennifer James #4

NYMPHS OF NEW YORK VOLUME ONE

Poseidon, god of the sea, proclaims that any nymph from his harem who wishes to search out a mate may do so.

However, she only has three days to find someone he deems worthy.

Welcome to the world of the Nymphs of New York.

WET FOR THE TITAN

It's never good to piss off a goddess, even a minor one...

Telesto has been reasonably content as a member of Poseidon's harem, until he came along and ripped her free of her moorings, setting her adrift without gravity to keep her feet on the ground. She hadn't been looking for love, a relationship, or anything but a private room to retreat to in the castle. Now her fury has been unleashed, and she has no problem bringing an arrogant Titan back to Earth.

He's going to claim his mate whether she likes it or not...

Pyroeis has long been a wanderer, and a lucky hand of cards has gifted him with the one thing he always wanted, at the expense of what he never knew he needed. He'll travel to the ends of the universe if he must to convince Telly she belongs with him, and only him. Nothing will stand in his way, no creature, no matter how powerful, can stop this Titan from claiming his mate.

ROCK HARD AND WET

She’s a nymph on a mission.

Callianira, curvy, vivacious, and the life of the party at every orgy, has fallen prey to a depression no amount of hot lovin’ can shake. Her best friend Petra has a plan: a trip to New York City to find mates who can handle a couple of horny nymphs for a lifetime of hot sex and soul deep love.

Callie’s not buying the sales pitch Petra is hawking, but goes along for the ride. She figures she can find a male or two who won’t mind acting as multiple orgasm donors.

He’s sexy, rock hard, and has just been released from a five hundred year prison sentence.

Outcast from the Aerie of New York, grotesque Theo’s focused on guarding the humans of Brooklyn and keeping his twin Logan out of trouble. When gorgeous females who smell like salt water and sex invade his territory, his careful plan for regaining entrance to the secular aerie gets ripped out to sea.

They’re completely wrong for each other.

Callie’s magic is tied to the ocean.

Theo can’t swim.

Callie is carefree, sweet, and finds joy in bending the rules.

Theo toes the line and is ever vigilant.

He’ll sink to the bottom of the ocean, and she’ll fly above it to claim their happily ever after.

KINKY SPOTLIGHT - Jennifer James #3

COVERT CRAVING

Stripping is her super power.

Thirteen years after a glowing pond left Chloe Sanders with special abilities, she uses her “gift” to take out criminals when she can. If she’s got to be part of a freak show, she’s going to do some good while in the buff.

You have the right to remain naked.

Color blind detective, Jacob Greiff, has a few "gifts" of his own and would like to find a solution to his quirks, but his priority right now is busting the vigilante leaving burglars tied up with panty hose and women’s scarves. He wasn't ready for the petite, bare foot brunette in an enormous trench coat at his crime scenes--or seeing her in vivid color.

A match made in nuclear waste....

Despite his own supernatural abilities and the raging lust between them, Greiff wonders if Chloe isn’t some kind of nut who gets off on public nudity. She insists she can disappear from view when naked, and that he’s the only one who can see her when she’s in disguise.

...or is it love?

Their shared past comes to a treacherous intersection when a man shows up at Chloe’s apartment and informs them at gun point it’s time to report for duty—or else. A hero and his reluctant eye-witness will have to come to a truce, find a way to keep their clothes on, and save the world in the blink of color-blind eye.

KINKY SPOTLIGHT - Jennifer James #2

PEYTON'S RIDE

She's about to trade her treasured motorcycle in on a much wilder ride--Ian Coghlan.

Divorcee Peyton Reynolds is ready to escape the the judgement of a small town, bad memories of her failed marriage, and the grief of her mother's death. A month long, cross-country ride should do just the trick. One last check-up on her new cruiser has her tripping over her hormones while alone in the garage with the town's sexy bad boy, Ian Coghlan.

Tattooed, pierced, and able to shape-shift, Ian will give her the ride of her life.

Ian Coghlan knows he's nothing but disaster for a woman like Peyton. His place in the Wild Hunt and killer instincts have held him back from acting on a five-year attraction. When the curvy brunette responds to one tiny grin with a spark of interest, sockets fly out of the toolboxes and Peyton is knocked to the floor.

That month of solitude she wanted just disappeared, but the consolation prize is looking pretty...damn...hot.

With the magic of the Hunt in the air, Pixie pranks abound, and his old biker gang roars into the parking lot, dousing the heat in the garage with the cold dredges of mayhem. Peyton's life is on the line with his bad brothers' return to his world, and Ian has to decide if he can let her go or if he's willing risk her eternal hatred by changing her life forever.

KINKY SPOTLIGHT - Jennifer James #1

HUNGER EMBRACED

She’s fed up with being fed on.

All Miranda Thibodeaux really wants to do is survive corporate hell and be left alone. But as the daughter of the Incubi king, being left along isn’t on her schedule. And as an avatar to a goddess with multiple personality issues, taking things in stride isn’t either.

Daniel looks like an ordinary surfer boy--T. T. B.--Tall, Tanned, and Blonde. Hot he may be, but ordinary he’s not. Beneath the pretty packaging lies a ruthless warrior, a servant to the Vampire Council. His mission is to find Miranda and present her to the council, then get the hell out of Dodge before he loses his focus. The last thing he needs is the distraction of the testy female.

When circumstances force Miranda to turn to T.T.B. for help, they both end up with more than they bargained for. And that normal human life she wanted? Not really doable when everyone wants a piece of her...

KINKY LOWDOWN with Jennifer James

You can take 5 items/men to a fully catered desert island – what/who would you take?   J

Honestly...I’m not taking men. All the men around me want food and clean clothes and shit all the time. So I’m taking my laptop, sunscreen cause I burn like bacon left on the sidewalk in Vegas, my Kindle, sunglasses, and a big ass cocktail glass for endless cold drinks. I’d love to be alone for awhile with no one to bug me.

Do you have a favourite author(s)? Who is it/are they?

Of course I do. Kim Harrison, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, Cherise Sinclair ... crap I’m wracking my brain and my kid is next to me playing an obnoxious ass game and I can’t concentrate.

I love UF and PNR and high fantasy best. A strong storyline with lots of twists and turns and magical realism are what really do it for me. Cherise Sinclair is just fucking awesome, so anything she writes is going to be amazing, regardless of genre.

How did you start your writing career?

One day, early in the morning, I woke up and my hands had detached themselves. They were busy scribbling in a notebook ... and I couldn’t stop them. Off they went all around the house with a marker.

J  Actually I’ve been writing for a long time. I wrote stories as a child, I took a few classes in high school and college. Then I went back to college and took more writing courses. I landed my first contract with Decadent publishing for Love Kinection.

I spent some time writing book reviews for GraveTells as Captain Dirty Pants, but once I was contracted it was recommended we not write book reviews (since as an author you could be seen as being shady ... or mean or whatever.) So that part of my life was over.

Which character was the hardest to write and why? 

They’re all hard in their own ways. They’re all different people with individual hurts, hopes, fears, jobs, families. I had a very hard time with Ronin from Unmasking Her Dom in the Sin Circus anthology. I cried a lot over him.

Ronin is a veteran who was injured while in service and he gets shafted when he comes home. Overcoming his hang-ups and shoving him out of the shadows was difficult. Plus, I had a limited word count to do it in. I’ve had several requests for more about Ronin and Maggie/Elektra, so I might write them another book. (Elektra is Maggie’s stage name.)

Who’s your favourite character? And what would let him/her do to you in the Dungeon?

My favourite character? Wait, there’s a Dungeon? You’re asking me to willingly go into a Dungeon with these people? You do realize it’s my job to torment them, screw up their lives as bad as possible, right?

Ummm ... yeah I dunno that I’m going in the Dungeon. They would have me for breakfast thank you very much. I mean, sure they got a happy ending, but I think given the opportunity these people would spank me and it wouldn’t be funishment.

I’m not going. No. I am a chickenshit.

Although ... I do kinda sorta have a crush on the Masters from Cherise Sinclair’s Shadowlands. So if I was single, and they weren’t fictional ... yeah. *cough*

If you write under an alias/Nome de plume, how do you deal with being addressed by that name?

Well, no one has ever called me by my alias in real life. Occasionally I am called JJ by a few people, and that seems normal, I guess. Jennifer is my real first name. J I’ve been writing for a few years, so being Jennifer James is real to me. I have another alias I write under, but I don’t advertise it.

I know now you’re wondering what the fuck that is, and why am I saying that and not telling ...Well, I dunno. It slipped out. I don’t advertise it much because my kids know that I write, and what I write as JJ is pretty explicit ... and under that name I get even a little bit dirtier. Plus, I kinda like to have a sorta secret name. It’s like being Peter Parker and Spiderman or something. I dunno. Someday I’ll shout it from the rooftops. Just not today. J Sorry.

*ducks* Stop throwing stuff at my head.

Quit. Or no books for you. *glares*

Actually I’m kidding. Here’s your book back. :D

What made you decide to pick an alias?

Weird internet interactions. I’ve gotten some strange messages on FB, emails and things. So I’m glad I went with an alias. Plus I have kids, and since I’m a crazy worried person who wonders if everyone I see is a psycho killer, I like to think this keeps them a little safer.

What was it about kink that made you choose the genre?

I think sex is awesome. I’m good at writing sex scenes. My brain is rather ... naughty and it comes naturally.

What extent do you go to, to research for what you write?

I Google search and read lots of articles about subjects I might explore or am interested in. (That goes for everything from ménage to toys to BDSM to PTSD to famous landmarks.) I’m kinda like Number Five from Short Circuit. I want to learn about everything and have an intense curiosity that leads me in all sorts of directions.

If you’re trying to ask if I ever engage in the things I write about ... well you are a naughty minx and I don’t discuss my personal sex life online. *Spanks Amanda* But I will say I’ve been married for 15 years and I’m a happy girl. Very happy. J

 ~I can't believe I just got spanked in an interview!!~ Amanda ~

If you weren’t an author, what would you have ended up doing?

Well I’m a dental assistant. So I’d still be doing that, and my evenings would be filled with more sewing and crafting and cross stitching and drawing and painting and reading and bike riding.

I’m not a full time writer, although I do aspire to be. That’d be amazeballs. With cherries on top. And also whipped cream and shaved chocolate.

Honestly, thinking about that question my stomach curdles. I can’t NOT be an author. This is how I came outta the womb. I’ve tried to not write before. Tried to walk away from it when I was having personal issues. The less I wrote, the more depressed I got. Absolute misery. I must write.

Do you have any rituals/habits when you write?

Sometimes I listen to music. I like to move the places that I sit now and then if I’m having a hard time and the words aren’t flowing. So I could start at my desk and end up on my bed or the couch or the porch. I almost always have a drink with me. Water, hard cider, coffee, spiked cocoa, something. No eating though. That’s distracting.

But I’m not sacrificing goats or poking voodoo dolls or burning incense below a picture of my editor. Although maybe I should have a shrine for her. She’s amazing.

My desk is in a corner now, and I like to have stuff hanging on the walls around my area there that have my goals, quotes, pretty pictures, that kind of thing around it. I’m a big believer in writing my goals and dreams down and then seeing those things all the time to help me stay focused. It does help with the depression that always accompanies finishing a book, poor sales, paying the bills ... you know, the poopy part of writing.

Is there anything on your current/upcoming release schedule?

Nymphs of New York Volume One (Has Wet For The Titan and Rock Hard and Wet in it) just became available as a bundle. In print too! Yay!

Um, I’m rereleasing some short stories/short novellas that were in anthologies.  They’ll be up soon for $0.99, so if people missed the anthos, those will be out. I released Peyton’s Ride back in February, and I’m busting ass on this full length NA contemporary thing I’ve tentatively titled Pants On Fire. It’s trying to kill me, but my editor loves the pages she’s seen so far. I have the follow up to Hunger Embraced that I’m hoping to release this year, but I don’t know for sure when it’ll be out. It’s called Hunger Unbound.

As far as other series stuff, I’m going to be releasing another ménage book under my other alias ASAP, then I’ll be doing a werewolf short featuring my characters Kayla and Jack from Marked. After that I’d like to do a follow up to Covert Craving (cause it’s sorta sci-fi and I love it, even though the book is pretty much invisible) and then more Nymphs of New York and maybe, if I’m insane enough, I’ll manage another Riding With The Hunt story.

Where are your books available?

Amazon, B&N, ARe, Kobo, iBooks, Diesel. A few are up on Smashwords and BookStrand. I’m trying to get them all up everywhere, but as I’m only *me* I have a hard time doing all the writer/business person stuff, and still actually writing. So if I have to choose between the two, I pick writing.

Stalker Links

Website

Twitter

FaceBook

GoodReads

Pinterest

Or, if you’re a chatty sort, you can email me at jenn@authorjenniferjames.com. I love to hear from readers.

KINKY INTRODUCTION - Jennifer James

For a girl whose first book was called “The Scariest Forest Ever,” the jump to romance may seem to be a far one. But a love of happy endings and the stories she kept making up in her head for strangers on the street lead to an unhealthy amount of time spent behind the keyboard typing away and giggling mischievously over sassy heroines,
sexy heroes, and healthy sprinklings of geek humor.

With time split between a day job staring at teeth, two little girls, college courses, workaholic husband, and too many voices in her head, Jennifer still finds time to sneak off and devour all the books she can find – even if it means hiding in the closet to read them.

She insists on her jokes being dirty, drinks spiked, and tattoos placed in intriguing, muscular places you can only find when the clothes come off.

KINKY GIVEAWAY!! Jennifer James

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KINKY BITCHES!! Get your Kink on in June!!!

I'm renaming this blog. It's now going to be called 'Kinky Bitches' - just for June though, then the Picky will be back!

Throughout this month, I'll be joined by an array of writers of kink/BDSM. Fabulous authors will be answering some questions and featuring some of their books.
A huge Thank You in advance to all the participating authors for agreeing to this impromtu gathering of minds!
As I still have commitments for other blog posts, to differentiate between Kinky posts and normal posts, the sections will have a make over too - Author Lowdown is now Kinky Lowdown, Spotlights are now Kinky Spotlights and so on.
Without the Kink, it's just a post!

And now, let the fun begin ...

~The Queen B~

(all dates are AEST!)

1st - 2nd June ~ Lexi Blake
3rd - 5th June ~ Red Phoenix
6th - 8th June ~ Amelia James
8th - 9th June ~ Jennifer James
10th - 11th June ~ Sierra Cartwright
12th - 13th June ~ Cherise Sinclair
14th - 15th June ~ Kallypso Masters
~Kinky Sabatical~ Coz everyone needs a few days off!
17th - 20th June ~ Blog Tours for Dianna Hardy, Eve Langlais, RS Grey and Chelsea Camaron
21st June (20th EST) Dom Wars Round 5 is released!!



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