Hot Blooded is up for review of the week. Winner receives a week long free promotion.
http://www.longandshortreviews.com/WC/recentrev.htm
Voting is only today (Sat) and tomorrow (Sun). If you can, pop over and vote for Hot Blooded. I'd really appreciate the vote. Don't forget to read the review. It's fabulous. ;)
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Here are the 4th of July Winners! I'm exhausted tonight but I'll start getting prizes sent out it the morning.

Zulmara - PDF of Marion’s Train

Drea - Genuine bead and semi-precious gemstone (quartz crystal, rose quartz, amethyst, etc) book thong

windycindy - Mesmerize Perfume

Jane - Rose Pin and fun stuff (pen, bookmarks, etc)

Tessa - PDF of e-Valentine by Jo Barrett

Estella - Genuine bead and semi-precious gemstone (quartz crystal, rose quartz, amethyst, etc) book thong

Michelle - Print copy of Marion’s Train

Kimberly B. - 3.00 Gift Certificate to The Wild Rose Press

Ruth C. - PDF of Marion’s Train

Good Morning,

Thank you to those who shared part of their holiday with me by stopping by my blog. Everyone who posted yesterday is a winner! I'll put the list up in a bit on what everyone will receive. I need everyone who posted yesterday to email me at KyAnnWaters@hotmail.com. I usually go find the email addy of the winner, but with so many, it would be a great favor to me if you would email me. thanks

Last night we had a blast at the demolition derby. I think my 8 year old sees a future career. lol. I've suspect my 10 year old is military bound. Although I'm sure at this age all little boys love GI Joe.

I've always loved to write. Started my first romance novel when I was in my early twenties, but didn't decide to attempt to become a publisher author until Jan of 2006. From there it's been a wild ride.

I signed an agent in April 2006 and my first contract for an e-publisher about the same time. I recently parted ways with my agent, but I have contracted/released stories with e-publishers. So yes, I am happy with my chosen career.

Do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up?

Today's winner will receive Eternal Rapture.

(if you don't read erotic romance, I have a substitution for you)

Long ago on the shore of the Sea of the Arabah five brothers were born... all immortal. To defend their destiny they must protect their eternal love.

Selene Farrell wasn't herself...or was she? Since arriving at Anthony Mager's remote castle to appraise ancient emeralds she's been thrown back and forth in an erotic history lesson. In each memory the man of the castle, kissed, inflamed... bloody well fucked the life out of her. Her drenched panties couldn't take another orgasm-real or imagined.

However, she's also remembered her death. How is that possible? And will discovering the truth once again put her life in danger?

Available at Ellora's Cave!

Congratulations to Jane for winning yesterday. Jane, I don't know how to get a hold of you. Please email me at Kyannwaters@hotmail.com so I can send you your PDF.

Happy 4th of July.

Today I just wanted to say how thankful I am to have my health, my family, a home to love them in, and the means to provide for them. I have a wonderful husband and we'll celebrate 15 years married. He's supportive of my dreams...even when writing takes time away from him and the kids.

We're spending some of today home watching movies like Transformers, Independance Day, and X-Men. Tonight it's the demolition derby and fireworks.

For those in the states, have a great and safe holiday. For others, have a great start to the weekend.

Today, tell me if you have any fun plans for the holiday or the weekend in general. Today's prize is a signed print copy of Marion's Train.

5 Hearts from the Romance Studio

I can promise you laughs, I can promise you tears, and I can promise that you will not be bored when you read this delightful novel! Ms. MacDonald has done an incredible job of writing a near-perfect story and she has won a place on my (and many others, I would imagine) keeper shelf! ....

5 Angels from Fallen Angel Reviews

Marion's Train is a wonderfully written tale that brings on laughter, and entertainment. It is a genuine story, with great believability, that surrounds a huge range of characters.

Marion's Train

Blurb: Life in 1880 Montana is ripe with opportunity for a gal who works on her back. And Marion Young likes her job, so when handsome, yet reserved Joseph Spenser, nicknamed Train, spends his savings to buy her services for one week, she's surprised when he doesn't want to climb aboard.Train isn't interested in being one of Marion's many patrons. He intends to convince her to marry him. Since he's wagered his money, why not bet it all? If he can withstand her charms, she'll marry him in one week giving up her profession. But if Marion is victorious, Train must give up talk about their future and give her a wild ride on his impressive locomotive.

http://www.lisadawnmacdonald.com/

(for those who don't know, this is the name I write under for my traditional romance =) )

Congratulation to Rhonda for winning yesterday.

The first of June and we were still getting snow in Utah. well, that's over. today it's going to be 101 and tomorrow 103. My yard is suffering. At the first of the season, my excuse had been, it's too cold, I'll get to it when it warms up. then I missed the "warmed up" time and now my excuse is it's too hot. my dh wants to strangle me. he's threatening to rip out my flowerbeds and put down rocks.

the truth is, I hate yardwork. if there is an excuse I can use to put it off for another day, oh yeah, I'll use it. I didn't clean out the flowerbeds last fall, and I haven't cleaned them out this spring. it'll be fall and if I'm lucky we'll get early snow and I won't have to clean them out then either.

Maybe i should just concede to my husband and get the rocks.

ere anything you procrastinate doing to the point it doesn't get done?

Today the prize is When A Rose Blooms by Tarah Scott. (because at my house, if a rose blooms, it's lucky the overgrowing weeds didn't kill it =)) My thanks and appreciation to Tarah for participating on my blog event and also being part of the Christmas in July event. You can check out Tarah at http://tarahscott.com/

When A Rose Blooms by Tarah Scott

Blurb: On the fifth year anniversary of Margaret Moncreiffe's death, her husband Nathaniel kneels at her grave, asking the questions he fears were answered the night she died of a mysterious fever. As the evening progresses, however, a flesh and blood woman enters the battlefield he has created around his heart, forcing him to choose between life among the living, or life with nothing but memories of the dead.

Congratulations to Danette for winning Delicious Darkness yesterday.

Today I'm giving away Multi-published author Jo Barrett's Chaste Kiss. My thanks and appreciation to Jo for participating in my blog event. You can check out Jo at http://www.jobarrett.net/


Blurb: Lord William Ashenhurst is cursed to walk the earth, forced to observe and never know the touch of a living being, until he meets Isabel Derrington. They dare to love, bridging the gap between this world and the next.

My first kiss was in elementary school. His name was Eddy. I ran home crying and told me dad. My first real kiss was 7th grade. I did not go crying home that time. lol but had my first boyfriend.

Do you remember your first kiss?

KyAnn

Welcome to the Christmas in July blog event. Tuesday is amusement/waterpark day for me. I take my two boys to the local fun spot. Today I'm packing the cooler and going to the waterpark.

Today my winner will receive a digital PDF download of Delicious Darkness.

Reviews

A Recommended Read - Dark Angels Reviews

5 Angels- Fallen Angel Reviews

5 Roses - Sensual Reads and Reviews

5 Flutes - Cocktail Reviews

4.5 Cherries - Whipped Cream Reviews

4.5 Blue Ribbons - Romance Junkies Reviews

To Win - Just introduce yourself and tell me your favorite summertime activity.

EC Jewels of the Nile Cavemen Anthology Vol II is here! in both e book and Print.

My story is After Dark.

Here is the blurb

Kayla March has never reached orgasm...not even with a vibrator. However, she has the feeling that could all change when she meets Alandro Blackwood at the club After Dark.

Few vampires can breed. Alandro carries the unique recessive gene. His blood match, believed to have been killed by a vampire slayer, has been found. Unless her dormant vampire gene had already been awakened by a breeder, why would she go to After Dark, the feeding grounds? He'd soon find out.

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excerpt: “Haven’t you ever wanted to walk into a bar, pick out the hottest guy in the place, take him home and fuck his brains out?” Kayla March sat across from her best friend Nita at the local brewhouse, Coffee Grounds. She sipped a latte with an extra shot. Caffeine equated to energy and she needed a jolt.

“Absolutely not,” Nita said.

“Well, I have and tonight I intend to make it happen.”

Yesterday, the final divorce papers arrived in the mail. Kayla was single again after seven years of marriage.

“I’m glad my grandma isn’t around to see this day. She loved Tom.” Kayla fingered the bloodstone ankh pendant around her neck. She’d found it in her grandmother’s belongings next to a picture of her deceased mother. An ankh symbolized eternal life. Knowing that, wearing the pendant gave her comfort. She hadn’t taken it off since.

“She’s the reason you married him,” Nita said. “I loved your grandma, too. She was a sweet lady, but she controlled your life.”

“She wanted what she thought was best for me.” Kayla sighed, and then shrugged away the gloominess. When Grandma died Kayla had lost the only family she had left. “Maybe that’s why I stayed with Tom for so long. I knew the marriage was a mistake five minutes after the ceremony.” It hadn’t taken Kayla long to realize Tom saw marriage as a shortcut to financial independence with Grandma’s money. More than that, Grandma had ensured that even after her death, Tom controlled the money because Grandma had declared him executor of her will.

Oh, he’d been proud to have her on his arm in public, but once the door closed she existed in a private hell of indifference. Tom had never been abusive, but inflicted deep wounds nonetheless. And, although they’d had sex occasionally early in the marriage he’d never given her an orgasm. No one had given her an orgasm. Apparently, that was her fault as well. Determination swelled within to prove she wasn’t frigid, she wasn’t a cold-hearted bitch, and she was indeed sexy, intelligent and desirable.

Kayla wanted to experience passion, hot as hell, and without consequence. And

she told Nita so. “Does that make me a slut?” She twirled a lock of her shoulder-length hair around her finger.

Nita snorted. “No, but maybe slightly desperate.”

“Desperate I can live with.” She pulled a napkin from the dispenser. “I heard about this new club called After Dark. I want to check it out. I have this feeling about the place.” She touched the pendant again. Whenever she thought of the club, the bloodstone in the center of the ankh warmed her skin. It had to be a sign.

Okay, I admit, I read the Viagra emails that come into my inbox. with the program I use, I don't have to actually open the email, but the first few line of text are visible.

Some of my personal favorite colorful descriptors of a cock.

Be proud of your fuckstick

Get your corn really big!

It's time to GROW up big boy!
and

Get your love muscle bigger and faster.

lol

Eternal Rapture is out!

Book One in the Ancient Awakening series

Long ago on the shore of the Sea of the Arabah five brothers were born…all immortal. To defend their destiny they must protect their eternal love.

Selene Farrell wasn't herself…or was she? Since arriving at Anthony Mager's remote castle to appraise ancient emeralds, she's been thrown back and forth in an erotic history lesson. In each memory, the man of the castle kissed, inflamed…bloody well fucked the life out of her. Her drenched panties couldn't take another orgasm — real or imagined.


However, she's also remembered her death. How is that possible? And will discovering the truth once again put her life in danger?


to purchase


excerpt


“I’ve never seen such exquisite examples of emeralds from the Ptolemy Dynasty.” Selene Ferrell adjusted her glasses. “You have an impressive collection.”

Anthony Mager leaned against the wall of his office, cloaked in shadow, and quietly watched. The still air around him pulsed with anticipation. The woman had her dark hair pulled into a conservative knot at the nape of her neck. And if she was whom he believed her to be, there was a highly sexual woman simmering beneath her reserved outward appearance.

She hummed a soft tune and shifted her weight from one foot to the other.
Anthony relished the sight of her trim hips and rounded backside. She had a small waist and narrow shoulders. The faint scent of her perfume drifted on the air—he closed his eyes long enough to deeply inhale—he could also detect the essence of her feminine musk. His heart pounded. “I’m glad you’re impressed.”

She leaned forward for a closer look at the stones displayed on black velvet on the desk. “Well, yes, when I received your letter I couldn’t resist your invitation to this castle.” She glanced around the dark-paneled room, masculine elegance with leather furniture and lived-in comfort. “And the chance to examine Cleopatra’s emeralds,” she grinned, “was simply too tempting. I should tell you that I hadn’t really believed they were genuine.”

“I assure you, the pieces did belong to Cleopatra.”

“Were they part of the 1817 find in northern Etbai?”

The answer to her question was no, but she wasn’t ready to hear the reason why these emeralds had never been documented. If all went as planned, within a few hours she wouldn’t need his explanation. She would remember.

He didn’t need the appraisal. The emerald pieces were genuine artifacts from Cleopatra VII’s emerald mines. Commissioning Selene to appraise the emeralds had been an easy guise to lure her to the castle. His heart rate jumped. Even now, watching her at his desk, he could scarcely believe his soul mate at last sat before him. As he’d followed her through eternity, weaving in and out of many shared lifetimes, she had been the only salvation in his immortal life. And now she was here, in his castle for the weekend…for another lifetime.

Selene selected a ring with an oval stone in the center. She twisted it in the light, scratched some findings on a sheet of paper, then numbered and photographed the piece with her compact digital camera. None of her efforts were necessary because Anthony would never part with the stones regardless of their value.

Selene set her camera to the side and picked up the long tubular artifact. “This is beautiful.” The piece was ten inches in length and had a nearly three-inch diameter. A rounded, natural emerald capped the top. The stones along the sides were polished until smooth, yet the emeralds shone with a brilliant green in the sunlight streaming through the window. “I believe the base is made from bone.”

“Yes,” he replied. The piece she held in her hand was one he had given to Cleopatra on a warm spring night. The memory returned in vivid detail.

He lived as Mark Antony then, and had found his eternal love in Cleopatra VII.

I've sold to Samhain Publishing. With or Without You has a home!

Yay, I have a cover for Eternal Rapture.

He's SEXY! What do you think?

Impulsive Pleasures is available now at Ellora's Cave

Jamie's daughter is getting married and now Jamie has to endure a weekend with her ex-husband and his new wife, the home-wrecking trollop. Jamie can be nice…yeah right. The asshole doesn't deserve nice. However, Jamie's bitterness just might be sweetened when young and sexy best man Mark Bentley arrives for the rehearsal dinner. Oh Yum! He might prove to be just the distraction Jamie needs. And if the ex has a problem with it…good.

Only Mark isn't interested in a little flirtation with the mother of the bride. He'd like the cougar to scratch her nails down his back. Will she invite him into her bed…or will he have to fuck her on the floor?

5 Angels from Fallen Angel Reviews
"Although May-December romances are often trite and boring, Impulsive Pleasures most definitely isn’t! Jamie is a woman still bearing the scars from her divorce and only with Mark’s attention does she truly begin to move past that pain."

Beth is my blogspot Impulsive Pleasures winner. Please email me at KyAnnWaters@hotmail.com

thanks!

May 1st Impulsive Pleasures will be released from Ellora's Cave. In celebration I will be impulsive all week long...beginning today!

Today, leave me a blog comment on the most Impulsive thing you've done or the one Impulsive thing you didn't do and now regret.

I'll draw a name from those who have left a comment.

Mother's Day Contest
It's that time of year where mothers are revered. Twelve authors are going the extra step to celebrate for our readers. All you need do to enter to be in the pot to win many fabulous prizes is to visit each of the 12 websites and locate the 12 bouquets of flowers left for entrants to find. We wanted you to at least get flowers for Mother's Day!
visit http://www.kyannwaters.com/ and click on my contest page.
thanks
KyAnn

It is hard to find a joke today without a dirty word or two in it, but here is one:

Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods. A small tree begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch, "Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?

The birch says he cannot tell.

Just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling.

The birch says, "Woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?"

The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree. He replies, "It is neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch. It is, however, the best piece of ash I have ever put my pecker in."

Now wipe that smile off your face. And pass it on!

Title: Black Dragon’s Blood
ISBN: 1- 60154 – 232 - 1
Author: Anita Philmar
Price: $4.50
At The Wilder Roses
http://www.thewildrosepress.com/wilderroses/index.php
Egg-cerpt:
She stood toe to toe with him, aware that his height gave the man a distinct advantage. His close proximity sent tingles of awareness racing over her skin. "But we’re not married."
"We soon will be." His hands settled around her waist.
Swallowing the wet need gathering on her tongue, she quickly tried to think of a way to work her way out of the current situation. "I don’t think you understand, William. I don’t want to marry you."
"You will."
His arrogant statement hit her in the gut. She had no recourse. The law wouldn’t protect her. After the last war, the government had granted men with dragon slayer ancestors any mate of their choosing, a prize for gaining the country its freedom. If he wanted her as his wife, she couldn’t turn him down. But she might be able to get him to rethink his plans.
"But why would you want to marry me?"

Have a great day of fun-loving sex.
Anita Philmar
http://www.anitaphilmar.com/

www.myspace.com/anitaphilmar
http://anitaphilmar.blogspot.com/

Snow snow and more snow.

Pulling into my driveway is like shooting the deathstar! It seems like at least once a week we're getting slammed. Yesterday another foot fell. These pictures were taken before yesterday's storm. now the snow is taller than the fence line. and the slide is completely buried. We have a flat yard, but because we're having to pile the shoveled snow in one location, my kids are sliding with their sleds down the mound.

Sharpen your claws the cougar is coming...literally....again and again....even if she doesn't want to.

Coming this Febuary - The Cougar Meets Her Master - http://www.wilderroses.com/

Taylor Davis is turning 40. Her high powered job leaves little room for romance outside of her high powered vibrator that sleeps under her pillow. No pillow talk allowed. And no complaints from her. The rabbit never quits before she's done, doesn't complicate her calendar, and Taylor doesn't have to concoct excuses to make it go home after orgasms.

Enter Colt Foster. Has the bitch of the Beau Monde Hotel and Casino met her match? The hot, young detective has his own rules...and expects Taylor to play by them. Can she say no when Colt slaps on the cuffs? Does she want to...will he let her?

Okay New Year New Effort.
Blog or not to blog. Well Hell
I decided I do want to do something with the blog. I'm not sure anyone is reading it.
So I will start by saying that hard plastic is the great if you don't have neighbors living nearby. Damn things are noisy. But glass has real potential when you're with your partner. What is your opinion. The poll is on the right. Vote for your favorite and leave me a post with recommendations.

KyAnn