Another Winner!

Congratulatiuons, Amy J. Ramsey! You have won a pdf copy of Roxanne Rhoad's recent release, Eternal Desire! You should be hearing from Roxanne soon. Enjoy!

Please Welcome Guest Blogger Roxanne Rhoads!

It is my great pleasure to have paranormal romance author Roxanne Rhoads here today as my guest. Roxanne is the brains and beauty behind the successful blog sites, Roxanne's Realm and Fang-tastic Books, and she is also a reviewer for Night Owl Reviews.

Roxanne has numerous published novels and short stories, all of which you can find information and distribution information for at her above listed websites. Without any further adieu, I give you Roxanne's inspiring and insightful contribution to the New Sensuality.


The Allure of Paranormal Romance

What is it that continually draws readers to the world of paranormal romance? Is the steamy sex scenes? The escapism of being with the Other? Or is purely the love of anything and everything paranormal?

I love the possibilities.

Books are always filled with such wonderful possibilities- especially books that have paranormal/supernatural characters.

I mostly write in the paranormal romance/urban fantasy/ paranormal erotica genres so sex always plays a big part in my stories and writing sex scenes with supernatural characters leaves the door wide open for plenty of sexual creativity and experimentation.

My characters can shoot electricity from various body parts, absorb lightning, get so hot they are literally on fire, shape shift into animals, drink blood, share energy, and so much more. The possibilities are truly endless. The only thing that can’t be done is what my imagination can’t come up with.

Aside from the supernatural elements and wild magick what else is so alluring about paranormal romance? I think it is truly the allure of being with someone that is Other. Whether you are a human or a vampire having sex with a werewolf can be something extremely different. Then there’s always the forbidden appeal. We are taught to stick with our own, sometimes to the point where relationships with Others are actually forbidden by our family or society.

Yet we all long to cross the fence and be very naughty from time to time. Books offer us that option in a way where no one gets hurt. It’s a win/win situation. In my book Eternal Desire my main character LizBeth can see ghosts this leads her to a life submersed in the paranormal. While she is just a human, intimate relationships with humans become too hard because of her line of work as a hands-on parapsychologist/demon hunter. Her sexual partners- the few she has made time for- have been Other but nothing prepares her for what it is like to be with a vampire- or for how kinky ghosts can get on Halloween.

Eternal Desire was one of my favorite stories to write- filled with ghosts, vampires…and of course- steamy sex scenes. Setting the tale in New Orleans during Halloween opened the door for all kinds of myth and magick to be included.

I am offering a free pdf download of Eternal Desire to one lucky reader who leaves a comment on this post. Tell me, what would you like to see in a paranormal erotica story? More out of this world elements or just steamy sex?


Thank you so much for joining us today, Roxanne. I love your style, and I can't wait to discuss more with you and others about both the allure of paranormal romance and Eternal Desire!

Winners!

I want to thank everyone who entered the New Sensuality Blog Launch Party Contest. If you didn't win this time around, stay tuned--I'll have more contests coming up soon!

Extra entry question answers:

Love in Space can be found at http://www.cerebralwriter.com/new-releases.html

In "One Night Stand," the two vampires dress up as humans for Halloween.

Contest winners:

The winner of the $25.00 Amazon gift certificate is Andrea.

The three winners of the signed The Darkness and the Night: Blood and Coffee paperbacks are Bobbie, Theresa, and Sue.

Congratulations! Please contact me at LisaLane (at) cerebralwriter (dot) com, if you do not receive an e-mail from me within the next twenty-four hours.

Lisa

The New Sensuality Launch Party--Prizes!

The New Sensuality is now officially active, and I’m giving away some prizes to celebrate.

Here’s the deal: Visit this site between now and April 1 and add yourself to the list of blog followers, and you’ll be eligible to win one of three signed paperback copies of The Darkness and the Night: Blood and Coffee along with a The Darkness and the Night trilogy bookmark, or a $25.00 Amazon gift certificate. Already following? Then you’re already eligible to win. Make sure that I have some way of contacting you, either through your website or an e-mail address.

If you’re interested in increasing the odds in your favor, you can—in addition to the above—do one or more of the following for additional entries:

Readers

Go to my home website, at http://www.cerebralwriter.com/, find the page on which my novel, Love in Space, can be found, and then send me the link through my contact page: http://www.cerebralwriter.com/contact.html.

Read my free short story, “One Night Stand,” which can be found at http://www.cerebralwriter.com/erotic.html, and then (at the same above contact page) send me the answer to the following question: What does each vampire dress up as for Halloween?

Sign up to review any of my published books or short stories. For a list of what I have available, you can go here: http://www.cerebralwriter.com/erotic.html and here: http://www.cerebralwriter.com/new-releases.html

Authors, Artists, Etc.

Sign up to guest blog at this site (erotica and romance), or at the Cerebral Writer (literary, horror, and speculative science fiction). Send all guest blog inquiries to contests@cerebralwriter.com.

Add the Cerebral Writer and/or the New Sensuality to your blog roll (one entry for each link added, up to two entries max).

Anyone

Share the link to this contest at your blog, website, and/or social networking venues (one entry per venue, up to five entries max); make sure to let me know where I can find the shared links by leaving them below.

Thanks for stopping by—and good luck!

Lisa

Loving My New Poster!

Recently, I won a contest at Fangtastic Books, the prize being a free poster of my design, courtesy of onlineposterprinting.com. I had long fantasized about the prospect of decorating one or more of my walls with posters of my novel covers, and after much consideration I decided to send in a copy of the cover for The Darkness and the Night: Blood and Coffee. The website was easy to navigate, very professional, and I received my order two days after completing the form. I am delighted with the result, and might just buy posters for the rest of the trilogy. My thanks to both Roxanne at Fangtastic Books and onlineposterprinting.com. You rock!

Interview at the Galaxy Express

I will be at the Galaxy Express on Tuesday, March 4, where Heather has invited me to talk about my HSN exclusive sci-fi romance, Love in Space, and its kinky and erotic sister novel, Lust in Space.

http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/

In the interview, I will offer insights into both novels, a little about my writing background, and updates on Lust in Space's long-awaited sequel, Pandora's Hope.

Hope to see you there!

Join Me Today at Lana Griffin's!

Stop by the blog of Lana Griffin, NYT bestseller and author of Dusk, to chat about the allure of vampires in fiction. While you're there, leave a comment for a chance at a copy of The Darkness and the Night: Blood and Coffee, the first book in my erotic horror series that takes vampires to a darkly new level.

http://lanagriffin.blogspot.com/2010/03/allure-of-vampires-with-lisa-lane-win.html

See you there!