Sexy Today ~ @oddlynn3 #LynnCrain #MySexySaturday #MySexyAuthors #Saturday7 #MSS111

Welcome to week 111^th week of My Sexy Saturday. There really isn’t a theme this week but it’s all about Sexy Today. This week we’re allowed to post whatever we want because we are celebrating the End of Summer 100^th Blog Anniversary Bash. You can find the Facebook event here. And while you’re at it, you might as well go check out the new My Sexy Saturday Author Central. I know that the Rafflecopter for the Anniversary Bash will be posted there today and there will be lots of cool events hosted there. Also, I’m going to ask that you visit us this week because there are 55 authors who are sharing snippets…how awesome is that?!?

As for me, please visit Monday’s Austria Scoop and a Tuesday’s My So-Called Writing Life columns this week. Last week I was planning for the Anniversary Bash and didn’t post anything. So sorry. This week, I think you’ll love what I have. Something is always happening here and if you comment on any of the weekly columns, you might just win a $25 monthly Amazon gift certificate, which is awarded the week after the last day of any month.  

When trying to decide just what I was going to share, I decided to go back to what has become my favorite contemporary novel, Loving the Scotsman. This story is with my agent and I have great hopes for it. If you don’t know what this novel is about, just search on the title and you’ll get a lot of exciting excerpts. Before that it was called Where’s My Underwear and you can find previous references to this story here:

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Here’s the setup:

Eryn Delancie is ready to move away from corporate law and find something new. When she runs into her ex-lover, Logan MacKenzie, through a chance encounter she wonders if he could be part of her new life since their horrible breakup fifteen years ago. The barriers between them are immense and fraught with secrets on both sides, forcing them to overcome past wrongs as they forge a future together.

Here’s my seven sexy paragraphs from Loving the Scotsman:

He began kissing and rubbing my body, pinching my nipples before sucking them briskly with his mouth as he arched me back over his arm. I could feel his hard dick push my inner buttons with firm hits as the sound of bare flesh against bare flesh filled the room. Sweat glistened our bodies. I groaned and leaned in to kiss him yet again as I craved even more contact with this man. I gazed at him through lowered lids as he pushed into my body slowly, the sensations even more intense than before.

“Logan—please—” I panted, realizing this man was right. I would fly with the stars with a few more well placed strokes.

“Please what, Eryn?”

His voice, thick with passion, slid down me again like a well-placed caress, making me even more responsive to him. All of the sudden, my concentration was on where we were joined, the feel of his hardness in my ultra-slick body, the movement of him going in and out, the awareness and wonder of just how he could do this to me over and over again yet I never seemed to get enough. I was doomed to a lonely existence if I couldn’t be with this man.

My head went back as a low keening sound erupted from me. He was true to his promise as my very being was flung to the stars and beyond. It would be a long time before I returned to earth from this one. He leisurely thrust himself into me again and again, the sensitivity in my body doing double time. The force of the second orgasm slammed into me with the power of a meteor hitting our fair planet. It was that intense, that much over the edge than anything I’d ever felt before.

I cried out and clutched him to me, trying my best not to let my emotions get the best of me. No power, no power, I kept reminding myself as I tried to concentrate on him and his need. “Lay back,” I whispered and tried to push him down.

I went with him as he went back on the bed. I moved my hands over his chest and saw the desire still blazing in his eyes. Nothing changed, yet everything had. Then it hit me, hit me hard, I really would never love anyone like I loved this man. He would have been my whole world if life hadn’t intervened. I vowed to myself right then to fill these two weeks with moments and memories to last a lifetime.

My traditional ePublisher, eXtasy Books, is still having a sale on some of my books at their website. Today is the time to get them at a great discount and see if I write stories you might like. Don’t forget to pick up your copies!

The Thing About Elves ~ Book 2 in the Santa’s Elves series

The Haunting of Maggie Grey ~ Award-winning Scottish Historical about a woman doctor

Captive Illusions: Iain and Kelsey ~ Story about a woman’s darkest fantasy

Fluke ~ Book 1 of the Orchid series, sci-fi romance

An Elf’s Desire ~ Book 3 in the Santa’s Elves series

A Love for Eggther ~ Book 3.5 in the Santa’s Elves series

Shopping Spree ~ Story about a very special dress shop

Please visit all the great authors at the My Sexy Saturday weekly blog hop listed below. Their sexy snippets will keep you back for more. If you do, please share via Facebook or Twitter. It helps out a lot and every author appreciates it each and every time. If you’d like to do them all at once, search for the #hashtag #MySexySaturday or #MSSAuthors to get all tweets of the day then retweet them to your heart’s content. You can even search by the #hashtags on Facebook and share the posts there as well. Remember, we love each and every one of you!

See you all next week!

Lynn 

Loving the Scotsman ~ A Wicked Sexy Game ~ @MySexySaturday #MSS19 #Saturday7 #LynnCrain

It’s week 19 at My Sexy Saturday and welcome.

My Sexy Saturday is a weekly blog hop where authors share sexy snippets of their books with 7 words, 7 sentences or 7 paragraphs. Each week we aim to entertain readers through our snippets and excerpts posted. This is for our readers as we value and appreciate each one of you.

We’re moving on this week from my Santa’s Elves series for the moment. I promise we will revisit it at a later time. This week we’re going to one of my WIP that has recently been retitled to Loving the Scotsman. It’s going through major renovations right now and I’d love to see if you think I’m heading in the right direction. This is a story told in 1^st person POV from both the heroine and hero. It’s a unique approach and I hope you like it. When the story starts, the lovers are being drawn together after a 15 year hiatus. And yes, the picture is from Scotland. It was taken at the farm we stayed at on both my trips to that wonderful country. Here’s my sexy 7 sentences for the week. Enjoy!

 

“What? No pithy comeback…nothing…you’re just going to lay your head there and say nothing?” She snorted as she always does, the sound unladylike and ill-mannered. “I thought you’d have at least some smart-ass comment to make.”

The table felt cool against my cheek. I tried to concentrate on its chill while I plotted my response. Maybe saying nothing would be better in this case but I doubted that scenario. “Let’s make sure we’re talking about ‘the stud,’ if you know what I mean.”

I hope that this book will find a home very, very soon and I’ll keep you posted!

Don’t forget to visit all the great authors from My Sexy Saturday weekly blog hop listed below. Have a great weekend...see you next week!

Lynn

Those Naughty Couples

Hi Everyone!

Hope your day has been a wonderful one so far...I’m hoping to make it more so...LOL! See, I haven’t gotten very many comments during this blog hop so far and that makes me sad, very sad. I’ve been trying to get the word out to you all about the Naughty After Dark Blog Hop but apparently it’s not good enough.

Which is why I waited so long to see if anyone commented. See, I tweeted that I would be giving a $10 gift certificate to the first one who commented on yesterday’s blog. I did this at 8:52 am PST and have been waiting ever since. Noon was the cutoff...sigh. Does that mean I don’t love you guys? NO!! It doesn’t. What it does mean is that I’m upping the ante and going to give away an ebook AND a $10 gift certificate to the first one that comments today.

But now...what to talk about, what to talk about? Yeah, a writer who doesn’t know how to yap? How unlikely is that one? LOL!

Today I want to talk about all those naughty lovers in our stories. Yesterday, I mentioned Gini Koch’s Alien series that has the naughty lovers, Kitty Katt and Jeff Martini. All I can say is hot, hot, HOT!

Now, I have my fair share of hot lovers in my books as well. In each of my Santa’s Elves books, I have a sexy elf combined with an extremely sexy leading lady that’s human. I had fun writing each one of those characters and hope that some of you have had a great time reading them as well. My favorite all time heroes to write about are those that seem bigger than life. Most of them seem to be of the Scottish persuation and are in upcoming books. I love Logan MacKenzie from Where’s My Underwear? and Alfred the dragon from A Dragon’s Lady. Here’s a little tidbit from Where’s My Underwear? to get you going. Please remember this has not been professionally edited but it has going through lots of critiques and tons of self-editing. Yeah, it’s getting more. LOL!

“No, Ronald, this is something I should be doing myself.” I stepped from the lift and straight to the door, pressing my finger against the button. I turned slightly when I heard the doors of the elevator close as the penthouse door was flung open.

“What the bloody hell is it now?”

And there he stood in all his wild glory. This was not going to be easy because this man looked better now than when we had been younger. His hair still had that wild, jostled look but in a more refined way. His eyes were still as green, his face still as angular but where the leanness of a young man had been were the more masculine hard lines of a fully mature male. While the shirt looked to be a designer style, he still wore jeans and they still left nothing to the imagination. I swallowed hard. He was sex incarnate.

“It’s only me, Logan.” I waved at him. 

He stopped and stared back at me. I wondered what he saw but I knew it wasn’t that young kid any more. However, I’m not sure the mature woman was better than the young girl I had been but I knew I wasn’t the worst thing around either. I must have sighed then because it seemed to bring him out of his trance.

“I suppose you’ve come to collect your property.” His predatory stare  would make any girl squirm but then again, I wasn’t just any girl.

No ‘hello, how have you been the last fifteen years’ from this man. It was all strictly business. I’m sure this would be only the first change of many I would be seeing. The Logan I knew really couldn’t give a rat’s ass about business or anything else for that matter. He had been warm and loving and carefree. It had caused a rift between him and his father which was something I couldn’t understand in the least. My parents had died in a car crash when I had been half way through grad school but we were always close. At that point my Grandmother took over for the parents who were gone.

“Good…straight to the point. I’m sure your wife loves that quality about you.” I nodded my head in agreement. “If I can come in and collect my underwear…”

He cut me off mid-sentence as he opened the door to usher me in. “No wife.”

This caused me to stop even with him and look up into his smoldering green eyes. “No wife?” I murmured as my heart beat faster.

“No wife,” he whispered back and dipped his head slightly toward mine.

What I wouldn’t do to feel those lips on mine. Until I had my property back I had to maintain focus. Maybe this working vacation would turn out better than I thought. “I – I need to get my underwear back from you.”

“No can do.” He stepped back, his hand pressing into my back, moving me inside.

Stepping a few feet away, I turned and looked at him. “What do you mean ‘no can do’?”

The door shut firmly behind him, he leaned back against it. “What do you want it to mean?”

I sighed out loud this time, realizing this would be harder than I thought especially since there was no wife in the picture. Logan had never been a push-over as he was proving once again. “Logan, I’m not here to play games. I want my underwear back.”

He stared at me a moment more before he pushed himself away from the door where he leaned, watching me as his eyes meandered up and down my body. “Why don’t you follow me and then we can discuss it.”

As I followed him through the large penthouse flat, I noticed the artful blending of old and new. The sofa might have been new but the knitted blanket I recognized as one his mother had knitted. Past and present dotted the walls in the form of pictures and other memorabilia.“It looks like you’ve done really well for yourself.”

“I get by.” He continued walking, not even turning to acknowledge the fact I had actually enquired about something personal.

“Boy, friendly, aren’t you?” I muttered under my breath. Suddenly, I found myself pinned against the wall. Not in a bad way mind you but in a sexual, predatory way. My heart felt like it would leap from my chest any moment now. I watched him consume me with his eyes, hot smoldering eyes that spoke of sin and sex and heaven only knew what other delights.

“What do you want me to say, Aeryn?” He leaned into my hair as if breathing in the scent. “Did you expect me to say something like ‘hi honey I’ve missed you these past fifteen years’? Or would you rather I cut right to the chase and take you right here?”

My eyes opened wide and I felt my body drip with desire as my nipples hardened. I wanted this man like no other but I couldn’t…no it wouldn’t do to let him know that fact…not one little bit. But I hadn’t expected the anger and maybe it had something to do with last night. “Ah – actually – ah, I really just came for my underwear.” I swallowed hard and watched him look at the workings of my throat. I realized it would take little to entice him to place his mouth there.

Slowly, he leveraged himself away from me, making sure I felt every bulge and muscle in his entire body. “Like I said, no can do.” He turned to continue on down the hall and as I followed him I saw he lead me to a rather large office with a splendid view of Edinburgh Castle.

“Wow.” I could only stare at the castle dominating the scene. “You get to look at that everyday?” I glanced at him amazed at the wonder I saw in his eyes. He was just as affected by what stood out the window as I was.

“I do.” He indicated a dark leather chair in front of his desk as I returned to the reality of the situation.

Turning away from the window, I slowly sat in the chair when my eyes caught something above his desk. I gasped and leaned forward to get a better look. In a beautiful display case were my underwear artfully presented like any other piece of art I had seen while walking through the penthouse. “Just what do you think you’re doing?” I finally managed to grind out through clenched teeth. This wasn’t funny one little bit.

See...I can write them really hot! Hope you enjoyed that little snippet. It’s your turn. Tell me about your favorite naughty couples and let me know what you like about them. I can’t wait to see your answers!

Don’t forget to look at yesterday’s blog entry and visit some of the other kick-ass blogs on the list. Our prizes are simple this week. Tomorrow, I’ll be giving away an ebook from my backlist as well as a $10 gift certificate to the first one who comments on today’s blog. At the end of the Blog Hop, I will be giving one lucky person a $25 gift certificate to Amazon or ARe.

Again, I’d also like to thank these two ladies for sponsoring another great blog hop! Please stop by and show them some love!

Thanks, Nikki http://closeencounterswiththenightkind.blogspot.com/ and Natasha Blackthorne http://natashablackthorneblog.blogspot.com/ for doing this wonderful blog hop!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lynn

 

Realizing the Dream

Today is the day that I decided I’m going to try and post to this blog daily. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking...she’s gonna do it for a while...then one of those stories she writes will take her away. Probably. LOL! But I have enough in me to keep this whole thing going for a while.

Today also was the day I realized I never told you all what happened at my conference in April. I posted this message on my critique group loop on Friday, April 16, 2010 while still at the Desert Dreams conference. Since that time, I have been working on what I’ve always called my breakout novel. You know it, I’ve been putting the first few chapters up here and there to keep it alive for me. Read this and you’ll see just how alive it is!

Okay...I've got to tell you a story...and how it made me speechless. I know, I know...next to impossible...LOL!

Part of this trip has been for me and a friend to get away. My friend, Brenda, loves books and has gone to an RT conference with me before. She's also an aspiring writer that I'm trying to get interested in RWA. She's also had a horrible time this year with her husband losing her job and 3 kids under 18. So this was my Christmas and birthday present to her. So today we did some girl things and didn't get back to register for the con until about 4 this afternoon.

I get my registration packet and start looking at everything as we'd found a quiet, out-of-the-way place to discuss where, what and when. I found my Realizing the Dream score sheets and pulled them out. I thought the score terrible, 48 out of 50, and knew I blew it. I put it back in the envelope and found my appointments with an editor and an agent. This is really why I came here and entered the contest. For the contest, you had to be an attendee and not published by a NYC house or represented by a NYC agent.

At the time I entered, I talked extensively with the contest chair as I had so many books epublished and I didn't want to take advantage of the contest. She assured me that the contest was for someone just like me. They wanted entrees from every genre and at every level. I sent off my entry and forgot about it until this week. And when I saw my score, I felt I had blown it because I know people do get perfect scores.

So, we're at the genre dinner tonight and they make some announcements, they do the raffle and then they turn it over to the contest chair. I don't pay attention because I've blown it in my mind. The first finalist was a gal sitting at my table and she jumps right up plus her enthusiasm is contagious. The next name they call is...mine...and I'm blown away. My friend Brenda pushes me out of my chair toward the stage and the gal at my table walks up with me. The third gal is from the middle of the room and we're all on stage.

The contest chair states how close the scores were and still I'm thinking, 'No friggin' way' and 'what am I doing up here?' And she announces the winner...and it was me...and I was speechless. I can barely say thank you to everyone because I am shaking so hard. The whole time back to my seat I'm thinking/saying 'OMG, I can't believe it.' And it took me twenty minutes of people talking to me to get me grounded.

I have an appointment with two editors tomorrow, Laurie Rauch of Samhain and Kate Sevier of Berkley Sensation, and one agent, Miriam Kriss. All these people were on the seven or eight (I'm not sure) judging committee who voted my proposal the best.

And can you all guess which one it was? Sigh. "Where's My Underwear?" garnered the top spot in the Realizing the Dream contest. Another thing, I would not be here if it weren't for each and every one of you. All of you had input to this story and have helped me every step of the way. I owe you all dinner and plan to take you all out when we can do it.

One more thing, I can guarantee they want changes...LOL! I hope you all are up for a final round of Underwear. I'd start now but I don't have everything here.

Thanks for all your support...let's see if I can bring it home!

This was one of the best things to happen in a very, very long time. I’ve been on Cloud 9 since it happened. I’ve also been working my butt off as every editor/agent I saw or described this story to all want a peak. So I’m polishing up the proposal and re-editing the rest of the story.

So see…I haven’t forgotten you…I’ve just been really, really busy. I’ll be back on this subject in the next few weeks with an update on my progress. See you all then!

 

Lynn