The always fabulous Ann Aguirre is throwing a contest as an incentive to help the fund-raising efforts for the people affected by the tragedy that struck Myanmar. If you have been living under a rock and don’t know what’s going on, here’s the scoop: A cyclone called Nargis hit Myanmar a few days ago and the death toll may reach 100,000. First Rambo, now this. Okay, that tiny bit of snarkage just made me feel really terrible. I’m sorry. Anyway, kids are starving. There’s no clean water or readily accessible food. Please help. Donate.

If the image of a starving child doesn’t warm up the cockles of your cold, dead heart, Ann Aguirre will give you $200 worth of books. Seriously. That woman does not fuck around. All you have to do is donate and send her the proof. Seriously. Go. Go now. Get yourself some good karma. Help make sure a child in Myanmar has something to eat and a warm blanket to sleep in tonight. Kthxbai.

Would you read a book called The Unfeasibly Tall Greek Billionaire’s Blackmailed Martyr-Complex Secretary Mistress Bride?

From Tumperkin’s blog:

There will be 6 chapters in all and I’ve got some people *tentatively* lined up to do a chapter. If you want to play - let me know.

These are the rules:-

1. Each chapter will be posted on the blog of that chapter’s author (if wished), and here at my place. Each chapter will appear on a weekly basis (though not necessarily exactly 7 days after the last one)

2. Each chapter must contain a minimum of three elements from the title. For example, chapter 1 establishes *unfeasibly tall*, *greek billionaire*, *martyr-complex* and *secretary*.

3. Max 750 words per chapter. (Vague story outline set out after chapter 1).

4. Pastiche category-romance feel please. No surprise vampires.

5. You get one point for every time:

- Molly indulges her martyr complex
- Nico mentions his belief that Molly’s a whore
- Nico cuts Molly off mid-sentence
- You make a reference to the global hummus industry

6. You get ten points for every time you use one of the following phrases

- To her consternation, Molly’s nipples hardened
- What was the point? Nico never believed her!
- He came, roaring his pleasure

Let me know if you want to play. Now: sit back and enjoy chapter 1.

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Rolling out after Lorelie Brown’s fabuuuuuuuuuuuulous Tarnished Angel:

Five years since Detective Xavier Landis walked away from the man who loved him.

One dead girl.

And now, an excerpt:

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Meredith Duran wrote an allegedly fabulous book, The Duke of Sin The Duke of Shadows (damn these Duke of titles). I say allegedly ’cause I haven’t read it yet. I want to judge its fabulousness by myself. Apparently, it was good enough to send Ann Aguirre into fits of ecstasy… *grin* She even threw a contest for it.

Check it out:

The Duke of Shadows Sweepstakes.

Prize packages

* Grand Prize: $25 gift card from Barnes and Noble
* First prize: $15 gift certificate from Amazon
* Runners up: Five more winners will receive a copy of The Duke of Shadows

Seven winners. Cool prizes. What do you have to do to get in on this?

Rules for entry for people with a blog:

* Step 1: Make a new post on your blog, entitled “Enter The Duke of Shadows Sweepstakes”
* Step 2: Post the graphic shown here, along with a link back to to this contest. If you aren’t sure how to add a picture to your blog, use TDoS Sweepstakes Code.
* Step 3: Add something like “I entered, you should too!” Publish blog post.
* Step 4: Leave your link in comments, letting me know you’re done.

For those who don’t have blogs, here’s what you do to enter:

* Step 1: Promise in comments to put a review on Amazon (or another online review site), if you win.
* Step 2: Tell at least one other person about the contest.

I hope everyone who enters will check out this book. It would be great if you told people about it, if you love it as much as I do. Winners also agree they’ll review the book somewhere as a condition of accepting their prize. This contest will run until midnight on April 13th. On the morning of April 14, I’ll announce the winners.

Find the contest here. Check out the book here.

(Yeah, see what I did there?)

Hey kids, hop on over to the Erotic Muses blog and check out Bonnie Dee’s serialization of a novella, Liberating Lucius, which I believe was previously published by the now defunct Venus Press. Here’s the information:

Today I’m going to begin serial installments of a novella.
Liberating Lucius was once available at a publisher, but I’m now giving it away as a free read. I’ll post a piece each Friday until the tale is complete, and then put a PDF up at my site for free download. This will give new readers an idea of my style and old readers a freebie to enjoy. Plus, let’s face it, a serial story gives me weeks and weeks where I don’t have to think of something to blog about! There may be an occasional interruption to the story if I have a new book to promote, but I’ll try to keep that to a minimum.

I swear I didn’t steal the serial story idea from Bam’s blog. I’ve planned to do this for a long time. Check out Eventide, Darragha Foster’s story at Bam’s The Serial, now.

If you’ve read Liberating Lucius in the past, you’ll find some changes in the story, more cosmetic than plot-based. I edited to bring it closer to my current style of writing.

“Helena, a Thracian noblewoman, has been stolen from her home and sold as a slave. She is determined to hate her new master and escape at the first opportunity. She certainly doesn’t expect to be physically attracted to the young Roman who possesses her or to connect with him on a deeper level.

Tribune Lucius Calpurnius is taken aback when he’s presented with a beautiful woman as a gift from a friend, yet he can hardly release her into a camp full of soldiers. He intends to keep her as a servant and return her to her home when he is able. But it gets more difficult every day to keep away from the woman he desires, first with his body and later with his heart.

As they become lovers and slowly forge a bond, the outside world threatens to tear them from one another. Can Helena rise above her slavery to save herself and the man she has come to love?”

Hey, I think I reviewed this book once.