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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> IN 1917, 10,000 American some traveled abroad to nurse wounded Doughboys who fought for their country in WORLD WAR ONE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But in the insanity and bloodshed she learns the measures of her own desires. Dare she attempt to become a woman of accomplishment? Or has looking into the face of war and death given her the courage to live her life to the fullest?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After a blissful minute of silence, Gwen faced Pearl. “So you really are thinking of volunteering?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pearl stared over the rims of her glasses. “I am. Want to come? It’s a set of uniforms, an overcoat, two pairs of boots, a trip to France and all the work you can get until the war ends and all the men in the entire world are dead. Oh, and especially for you, Spencer, a raincoat. The one you never afforded for yourself because you gave half your pay to that ungrateful aunt of yours.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“A raincoat. Golly,” Gwen mused half-seriously. “A worthy reason to join. Plus, if I go with you, I could listen to you complain all the time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I might look into this, just to learn what it’s got to offer,” Gwen teased her, but inside a seed of interest grew roots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“She’s going. O’Bryan persuaded her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Doc is going to France?” Gwen couldn’t believe it. O’Bryan didn’t seem like the adventurous type, nor the noble type, either. She misjudged him. Why would he volunteer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“For a million soldiers,” Anna chimed in. “You need thousands of doctors and nurses. Dentists, too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Of course,” Gwen murmured. <i>How many people do you need to care for millions of men? How many scalpels and needles? How much ether and debridement solution? How many sterilizers and…just how do you get all that where it’s needed to save lives of men in pain and bleeding?</i> “I want to learn more.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A couple of
months ago, Ellora’s Cave put out an invitation to do an interview with someone
named “Curvy”. Being a more than generously proportioned woman, I couldn’t
resist and signed up to do the show. As the date for my interview drew near, I
decided to do a little research. You know…see what might confront me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Curvy’s link
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Fortunately, I
had her producer’s email address. Because of severe storms, both Vickey and
Curvy had experienced extensive power outages. Curvy’s home had some
significant damage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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wanted to know what kinds of questions Curvy would ask. Above all, having
signed up before doing any research about Curvy and her program, I wanted to
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Then there was
the added challenge of dialing into some kind of telephone conferencing port.
What if nobody was there? What if Curvy hated the book so much, she wouldn’t
even show?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Producer Vickey
knew the second I signed in and we had a nice visit until Curvy joined us. A
few minutes later we were on the air—me laughing, Curvy giggling as she asked
me all sorts of questions. How I got started? What was my favorite story? That
one I fell back on that cliché about which child I like best. Of course, I love
them all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The half hour
flew by. Curvy ended the broadcast with this review of <b><i>Temptress of Time</i></b>: “super
smokin’ sexy hotness.” And “Super sexy fun and super sexy guys.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can’t get much
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If you want to
see more about other Curvy stuff, go to curvysmuses.blogspot.com. Lots of sex
toys, among other items of interest.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To everyone in Boston, MA and West, TX you're in my prayers.</div>
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Dee Brice<o:p></o:p></div>
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Erotic
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Sometime after last Thanksgiving, my muse began to harry me
to finish my most recent work-in-progress: <b><i>Duty, Honor, Murder</i></b>. Since I’d
started to write—that is, <i>plot</i>
it—years earlier for an online class, I was equally anxious to finish the first
draft. I did, in fact, write <i>The End</i>
on December 31, 2012.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9_-S8rPtcVI/UUnNLKLvePI/AAAAAAAAAH4/g1WGZF53a9s/s1600/Her+Virtual+Frenzy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9_-S8rPtcVI/UUnNLKLvePI/AAAAAAAAAH4/g1WGZF53a9s/s200/Her+Virtual+Frenzy.jpg" width="125" /></a>I gave myself a round of applause, a few pats on the back
and mentally added another glass of champagne to my New Year celebration. My
mouth started to water, anticipating the extra large chocolate bar I’d get at
my next RWA chapter meeting as a reward for finishing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On January 2<sup>nd</sup> I reviewed and posted my critique
partners’ comments and suggestions. (I try not to start revisions until I
finish the first draft—otherwise I keep fiddling until even I can’t recognize
the story I intended to write.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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About the middle of February I finished adding a bunch of
scenes in my latter chapters and handed everything off to my cps for what I
hoped was a final review, but I found myself making excuses not to post what
they’d already given me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, every writer is used to the muse taking off for
vacation—sometimes for far longer than we like. This time, however, my muse was
waiting on me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I looked at other stories I had started, but those were
pages and pages (and pages)—all handwritten. Have I mentioned that I really
hate to type? Typing is at the very top of my least favorite writing tasks—a
fraction higher than trying to teach my dictation system to understand me. I
have the same issue with my cell phone not recognizing commands, so I can’t
blame the software—even though I’d like to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><br /> </o:p></div>
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Anyway…I was mired in a morass of my own making. Reduced to
watching television reruns while my muse whispered foul names and threatened to
leave me—this time forever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was while watching a program I’d recorded that inspiration
struck. I realized I’d procrastinated because I didn’t have something brand new
to work on; now I did! And I can type it in small increments.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If only I knew where the story was going! But that’s the joy
of being a pantser—the unexpected is such fun. And the muse is celebrating with
me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Am celebrating my ménages. Check them out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>Happy Spring!</o:p></div>
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<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
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<o:p>Dee Brice</o:p></div>
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<o:p>Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is Forbidden</o:p></div>
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For such a short month, February was really busy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It started with a radio interview set up by sister writer,
Cindy Sample, on our local public radio station. Beth Ruyak, well known to
Sacramento TV watchers and radio listeners, interviewed Cindy and me. Beth had
a variety of guests, the first several discussing gun control, which made some
listeners hot under the collar. Cindy and I built some heat of a different
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If you’d like to hear the interview, here’s the link: Radio
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Then, the Sunday before Valentine’s Day, we met up with two
more authors from the Sacramento Valley Rose Chapter of Romance Writers of
America. We talked about the different kinds of romance and how the genres have
grown and are continuing to grow. Had a pretty good turn out and sold some
books. From left to right: Cindy Sample, Dee Brice, Donna del Oro and Paisley Kirkpatrick.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Catch the panel discussion at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/MarketPlaceFolsom">http://www.youtube.com/MarketPlaceFolsom</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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My publisher, Ellora’s Cave, is offering the first book in
my Passion’s Treasures series for free. You may download the e-book from: <a href="http://www.ellorascave.com/passion-s-four-towers.html">http://www.ellorascave.com/passion-s-four-towers.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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And then…tomorrow (heavy sigh) we’re having our income taxes
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Have a wonderful rest of the month and may March fulfill all
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Dee Brice<o:p></o:p></div>
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Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is Forbidden<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I first became a published author, my DH was my first
and only critique partner. Then I realized a couple of things. First, while his
input was usually right on—and it took me a while to accept that—he was reader,
not a writer. And that’s what I needed—someone who could tell me “This part
drags” or “You had a pov shift here.” All that stuff another writer sees and
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revising based on solid criticism well worth it. Hang your ego on the porch and
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<!--EndFragment-->Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-31035796763958828412012-12-20T10:54:00.000-05:002012-12-20T10:54:16.059-05:00Merry ChristmasI was going to rant about the United Nations trying to take over the internet, but that issue has been resolved--for the time being anyway. So I'll just wish everyone a wonderful Merry Christmas and a prosperous and Happy New Year.<br />
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Dee Brice<br />
Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is ForbiddenDee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-26426762448374278142012-11-20T12:04:00.000-05:002012-11-20T12:04:24.247-05:00Happy Thanksgiving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last month DH and I were freezing our butts off in Canada. That was after attending another blowout RomantiCon conference, this one in Canton, Ohio, sponsored by Ellora's Cave. That's where this picture was taken. DH then worked his magic, making the text within my award almost readable.<br />
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Thanks to EC, I am now an award-winning author in the category <i>Sleeping with the Enemy</i> for my romantic suspense <b><i>It Takes a Thief.</i></b><br />
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Great fun and we're looking forward to attending next year. In the meantime, hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving.<br />
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Dee Brice<br />
Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is Forbidden.Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-2092130270380512172012-10-17T00:00:00.000-05:002012-10-17T00:00:07.207-05:001 Night Stand or NAUGHTY SLEEPOVER? Try my MORE THAN YOU KNOW!<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He is not scrumptious</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Who is he?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The bartender at The Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, Luke Hurley has the hots for one of his customers whom he sees rarely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">She <i>kills</i> him with her looks. And just who does she resemble?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Rita Hayworth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This is My Main Man in my newest, out tomorrow, <b>MORE THAN YOU KNOW</b> from <a href="http://decadentpublishing.com/">http://decadentpublishing.com</a> .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">One redhead. One bartender. Lots of laughter. A desire so tender that the sheets they burn up together could set the hotel on fire. But can he intrigue a woman who’s older? What if he never lets her out of bed? Will she still want him tomorrow?</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Excerpt, Copyright 2012, Cerise DeLand. All rights reserved.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hi, Luke Hurley.” His redhead stood right in front of him, beaming at him so the world glowed suddenly more brightly in this dark crowded room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hi, there,” he said to her, as she inched closer to the bar. “I’m so glad you came in.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i>Thish has got to be Rita. Right?</i>” Teresa took a slow gander at the woman he had told her kept him awake at night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Rita?” asked the lady in question, looking humored. “I’m—“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Rita Hayworth. You bet!” Teresa clamped a hand on his lady’s arm and peered at her like an X-ray machine. “Luke, you pegged her. That <i>is</i> who she looks like. Gee. Lucky you, huh?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rita questioned him with a sideways grin. “Luke, I—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Teresa is my friend,” he explained, trying to keep Rita here until he got her phone number and her real name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m his copyeditor!” Teresa put in. “His friend.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yes, Teresa, and the lady would like to have her arm back.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh, don’t chu worry yourself none, Luke and Rita. I am leaving. I am!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">He turned back to his redhead. “I’m glad you came in tonight. I’ve been trying to find out your name. Went to the catering manager and asked about the wedding here tomorrow, but she says the mother of the groom is a platinum blonde and short.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“She is,” Rita exclaimed, little chuckles escaping her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Someone shouted out that he had to stop holding hands with the bombshell and take his order. Where was his assistant bartender? He looked around but tugged at Rita’s hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Okay, okay!” Luke told him, but zeroed in on Rita. “I want to call you. Ask you to dinner or drinks. Coffee, anything. I need your phone number.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Really? Oh, Luke, please let me—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’ll find a pencil and pad. And by the way, that gown is unbelievable.” He had to tame his voice so he could speak about the gold-sequined mermaid thing that made his cock twitch. “I think I just went blind. Don’t move.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">He strode toward the register, found what he needed and stepped toward her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But her son and Blondie appeared beside her. Blondie was pouting. The son raked his hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m sorry. Tamara,” Rita bit off the words, never looking at her future daughter-in-law as she took Luke’s pen and wrote on his paper. “But I am the one who brought up Josh. And I will sit in the first pew. If you or your parents don’t like it, too bad. And Josh, if your father or his new wife don’t like it, tough.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The son cursed. “Tam, I want her to sit in the front pew. This is my mother, and she deserves to take precedence.”</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ouch. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke couldn’t help but look at Rita, who locked her gaze on his and grinned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blondie stomped her foot. “I won’t do this to my daddy. He wants this to look good for his friends. You know how he is about marriages made in heaven and no divorce.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well, Tam, next to golf, divorce is my father’s favorite pastime,” Josh retorted, as Blondie huffed and made a beeline toward the door. “Aw, hell. Mom, what can I do here?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Room 428. Rita<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<o:p> I have a release date! <b>October 5, 2012!</b></o:p></div>
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They, too, must
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<i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua Italic";">San Francisco, California<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua Italic";">Present day<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Diane de
Bourgh stared at the cover art for her next medieval romance and felt her
heartbeat double. The artist must have invaded her dreams, drawing not only two
physically perfect, warrior-like specimens, but their faces too. The dark-haired
man had the face of a fallen angel—cynical and weary. The blond looked like the
kid-next-door—open to any adventure that might come his way. Devil and angel in
the bodies of sculpted gods, hewn not by chisels but by long hours of training
with sword and mace and shield and by even longer hours on the battlefield.</div>
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What
made her heart race like a horse hitched to an old-fashioned fire engine was
the certainty that she knew them both. She could have met them at a release
party her publisher had hosted, but since she made it a point to arrive late
and leave early on those occasions, she doubted they’d met there. She despised
promotional conferences, attending solely because they increased sales.
Besides, the way she reacted to the men was so intense, so visceral, that were
they to appear in her home office she wouldn’t know which one to throw herself
at first. Given that they both looked accustomed to doing the ravishing, she
doubted they’d have any problems in the sex department. </div>
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She was
the problem. She had difficulty making choices and when she did…she usually
made the wrong one. On the other hand, if she met up with one or both of them,
she might learn more about true passion and real love—emotions she found it difficult
to write about with any degree of honesty. She did feel aroused—on occasion—but
it felt more like an itch that needed scratching than a precursor to undying
commitment.</div>
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With these
two, however, she’d bet her last dollar they’d make the choice for her— just
like her medieval hero tried to do with her spirited heroine. While her heroine
had to live within the morés and conventions of the time period, Diane always
imbued the young women in her books with spunk or wile or feminine charms that
made the hero realize his chosen mate wasn’t a carpet upon which he could tread
with muddy boots.</div>
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She
glanced at the cover art again. The pair seemed so much like her chauvinist
heroes, she vowed that if she ever met them in their own milieu, she’d teach
them a thing or two about how to treat a woman.</div>
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Reaching
out to shut off her computer, a wave of dizziness caught her off-guard. Nausea
roiled in her belly and bile bubbled in her throat. The room spun as if an
earthquake had struck, but it didn’t stop. It spun until she blacked out, lost
in blessed darkness.</div>
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<b>Available October 5, 2012</b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Ellora’s Cave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Amazon, Barnes and Noble, All Romance e-books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">ISBN: 9781419935619</span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-54714542866555564222012-08-20T09:59:00.001-05:002012-08-20T09:59:05.361-05:00Thoughts for a Summer Monday
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WwwjcMTtckM/UDJQNF-yf6I/AAAAAAAAAF8/UGICjTDzV6g/s1600/4x6_TemptressOfTime_front+postcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WwwjcMTtckM/UDJQNF-yf6I/AAAAAAAAAF8/UGICjTDzV6g/s320/4x6_TemptressOfTime_front+postcard.jpg" width="215" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></div>
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Some of you may already know how
I became a published erotic romance author. For those of you who don’t know or
remember, it all began at the RWA national conference in Reno, NV in 2005.
There I hooked up with former Sacramento chapter member Lynn LaFleur. She
insisted—in that very Texas Belle way of hers—that I attend a spotlight on her
publisher, Ellora’s Cave.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of course I attended. One does
not ignore an invitation from a Texas woman, belle or not. Some of them are
armed and all of them seem more than a little dangerous under all that
sweetness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Inspired after the spotlight, I
came home and wrote like crazy in a way I’d never written before: in scenes.
Only after I finished did I collate the story—<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Passion’s Four Towers—</i></b>and
send it into the Ethernet. EC bought it and the rest is history. My twentieth
novel—<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Temptress of Time</i></b>—is targeted for release this year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Needless to say I become an
advocate for e-publishing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This year at RWA in Anaheim, CA a
young woman saw my badge and said, “This is all your fault!” And thanked me for
suggesting she submit to e-publishers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Keri Gregg… You are most welcome.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XibLU4lcsaQ/UDJQYxaOmTI/AAAAAAAAAGE/PHbAIX0cK7w/s1600/ittakesathief_HiRes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XibLU4lcsaQ/UDJQYxaOmTI/AAAAAAAAAGE/PHbAIX0cK7w/s320/ittakesathief_HiRes.jpg" width="196" /></a>Don’t get me wrong. E-Publishers
are just as difficult to sell to as traditional print publishers. And despite
the number of e-pubs, the competition is still pretty stiff. You still have to
write a good story and make sure your manuscript is the cleanest you can make
it. If you can’t spell, don’t rely on your spell-check—it won’t correct those
pesky little homophones like to, too and two. If you can’t punctuate to save
your soul, find a critique partner who can, but only <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after</i></b> you’ve made all the
corrections you can. Having recently threatened my DH with bodily harm if he
didn’t learn how to punctuate, I know the fastest way to lose a partner or an
editor is a poorly spelled, horribly punctuated manuscript.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You may be the best storyteller
on the planet, but if you can’t make it clear with proper spelling and
punctuation, nobody will read it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lecture over! Have a super day. <i><b>It Takes a Thief</b></i> is available now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dee Brice<o:p></o:p></div>
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Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is
Forbidden<o:p></o:p></div>
Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-3298757177088227122012-07-20T07:31:00.000-05:002012-07-20T07:31:19.317-05:00In Limbo<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Last weekend, DH and I flew to Denver to “boot” #1 Grandson
off to boot camp. He’s enlisted in the US Air Force and will report at the end
of July. Next week, DH and I will fly to Anaheim for the RWA conference. This
week…I’m feeling in limbo.</div>
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Want to pack, but can’t because everything will need ironing
when I get there if I do. Want to work on a new story, but typing eight
chapters of handwritten and almost illegible scribbles seems like too much
work. Two new dictation systems are giving me fits, so I’m setting them aside
until I no long feel furious about they’re lack of cooperation. It has to be
them, not me.</div>
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arrive the day before I leave for conference. And if that isn’t enough, I have
a dental appointment at 7:00 am.</div>
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Oh well, oh dear. Hope your day is going better than mine
is. I’m taking comfort in knowing things will change—one way or another.</div>
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Dee Brice</div>
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Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is Forbidden</div>
<!--EndFragment-->Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-43667713854997466052012-07-17T00:00:00.000-05:002012-07-17T00:00:04.537-05:00Corsets of yesteryear: BDSM for every woman.<br />
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French, late 17th century</div>
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Two weeks ago, my buddy and Sassy 7 gal, Nicole Austin, sent me an invitation to join Pinterest. I accepted, saying to self, another way to promote, and asking self, How Much Time will this one cost me?</div>
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But I am here to wave and shout and declare I am a convert!</div>
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Why? Cuz wow, I love being able to declare my interests by clicking.</div>
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Sounds weird, but I like it! And to my delight, I have folks who follow me!</div>
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1864-, American</div>
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1880, European. Silk.</div>
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Aside from astonishingly lovely pix of MEN (alleluia!) and couples in a clinch, I have a great time with finding vintage or museum quality attire that I crave to put into my historicals.</div>
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Looks painful!</div>
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Approx. 1775, French.</div>
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I have found items at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (one of my favorite museums especially for their medieval armor collection but also these) and at local museums which have been so kind as to post their priceless treasures.</div>
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With the RWA National conference
staring us in the face, I volunteered to act as an editor/agent so chapter
members could practice their pitches. Having been the pitcher so many times
I’ve lost count, I’m always glad to help others overcome their nervousness. I
know I still get butterflies when I lose my mind and pitch to an editor I don’t
know. And I’ve yet to brave the mysterious world of agents. I’d likely faint
or—like I did when I acted in my very first play—lose my voice on my only line.</div>
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Anyway, one thing I stressed to
the pitchers was a tight log line (no more than twenty-five words—shorter even
better).</div>
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Why?</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;">It tells the pitchee you know your story. In my mind
a polished log line equals a polished story. Not that my stories don’t
need editing—just saying a good log line may gain you a reading you might
not get if you ramble.</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;">No good log line goes to waste. You can use it in
your query letters and on your website and promotion materials. There’s
even a blog site dedicated to these polished kernels that, hopefully, will
intrigue readers to take a look at your book and buy it.</li>
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So while you’re writing,
manuscript or query letter or promo stuff, keep working toward that perfected
log line. You’ll be glad you made the effort.</div>
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Here’s mine for the book with the
hot cover:</div>
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<i>Sometimes a woman has to take
a flying leap of faith—even if it’s into the arms of a man hell-bent on her
destruction.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Available now at Ellora's Cave, Amazon and ARe</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17px;"><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/7v9lrpu">http://tinyurl.com/7v9lrpu</a></b></span> </div>
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Oops. Guess I need to get this
jewel posted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I'd upload my cover, but can't seem to do it. Maybe next time.<br />
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Happy Sunday,<br />
Dee Brice<br />
Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is ForbiddenDee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-90497735172821122072012-04-20T10:03:00.002-05:002012-04-20T10:06:37.374-05:00HUMOR<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>172</o:Words> <o:characters>983</o:Characters> <o:company>RVPS</o:Company> <o:lines>8</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>1207</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1539</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">After participating in a humor workshop at Romantic Times last week, I started thinking about why different kinds of humor appeal to different people.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I may have finally figured out why men like the Three Stooges, but generally women do not. Boys are allowed—sometimes even encouraged—to hit. Girls are taught hitting is wrong. Not all boys hit, of course, but a shiner or broken nose probably caused little concern for their parents. After all, boys will be boys.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">And don’t we all enjoy seeing those in authority make fools of themselves like the Keystone Cops? But what about the Marx Brothers and their less physical, more sophisticated comedy plots? Do they appeal more equally to men and women or more to one sex than the other?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">What about today’s kinds of humor? Bill Maher and his ilk? GCB and the B in Apartment whatever? What about homosexual jokes, bathroom humor, or racial comments like the Italian Stallion or the Jewish mother who wants her daughter to marry the doctor?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I guess all of it boils down to whatever floats your boat. For me, not all that’s advertised as humor is funny. How about you? Would love to hear what kinds of humor appeals to you. Drop by, leave a comment.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Dee Brice</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is Forbidden<o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-11646937309598588142012-03-20T09:35:00.004-05:002012-03-20T09:41:35.000-05:00Novel Inspirations Deux<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yCoU9amlRiQ/T2iWIK4kiZI/AAAAAAAAAFI/7Caz3MiKyx4/s1600/ittakesathief_HiRes.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 123px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yCoU9amlRiQ/T2iWIK4kiZI/AAAAAAAAAFI/7Caz3MiKyx4/s200/ittakesathief_HiRes.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721988393678965138" /></a><br /> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>331</o:Words> <o:characters>1890</o:Characters> <o:company>RVPS</o:Company> <o:lines>15</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>3</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>2321</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1539</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Yet another confession: I tend to write plot-driven rather than character-driven stories. Trying to put more emotion into my characters, I wrote <b><i>Temptress of Time</i></b><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"> (which started life as </span><b><i>That Other Diane</i></b><span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">). Well, I lucked out—Ellora’s Cave contracted the book, but required some pretty major revisions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">That worked out great—mainly because Kelli Gwen’s <i>Revisions Rock</i><span style="font-style: normal"> had me all fired up. Then, in an effort to dig even deeper into my newest characters, I applied Theresa Meyers’ techniques for using backstory effectively.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Chapter One, despite my intentions to avoid an info dump, was just that—too much backstory. Gotta love critique partners for letting you know.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">So I took another technique from Theresa and did a little numerology voodoo on my major characters. While I’ve used numerology to pick first names (I practically live in Ellin Dodge’s <b><i>You Are Your First Name</i></b><span style="font-weight: normal;font-style:normal">) I hadn’t applied it to a character’s first, middle and last names. Wow! All sorts of possibilities for creating internal and external conflict came forth with layer upon layer of new depths I can add.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Hooked, I did a numerology exercise for a few of my minor characters—first names only because they refuse to tell me any other names they may have. Despite lacking all the analysis, their first names revealed exactly the kinds of people I want them to be! </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">So I rewrote Chapter One of my Work in Progress—four times so far. Which, of course, meant major revisions to Chapters Two and Three. I have to wonder if Nora Roberts, Allison Brennan and Brenda Novak go through these machinations. I bet their characters flow from mind to page like the truly heroic and villainous people these talented ladies envisioned from line one, page one—even word one!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Now I’m trying to press on to finish the story without polishing the first three chapters as if I’m entering a contest. No insult intended, but finishing the book and making it the best my critique partners and I can make it, is my primary goal. What I’ll learn about my characters will satisfy my pantser soul.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">So, as the Devil said to the souls in Hell, “All right, everybody, back on your heads.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">That means, Lady Muse, it’s time for you to get back to work. Lady Muse? Hey, you! Get back here. Right now!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">The hot cover is for my upcoming romantic suspense. No release date yet, but I'll keep you posted.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Dee Brice</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is Forbidden</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-70474721286176535002012-02-20T10:40:00.004-05:002012-02-20T10:45:14.115-05:00Novel Inspirations<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EJ6ZR4t2tcU/T0JqRA-7IbI/AAAAAAAAAE8/vkkt43elrPE/s1600/His%2BVirtual%2BGift.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 155px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EJ6ZR4t2tcU/T0JqRA-7IbI/AAAAAAAAAE8/vkkt43elrPE/s200/His%2BVirtual%2BGift.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711244118013452722" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Imsx6pvSo20/T0Jp6gXWiwI/AAAAAAAAAEw/2eaqFFKqslY/s1600/Her%2BVirtual%2BFrenzy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 126px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Imsx6pvSo20/T0Jp6gXWiwI/AAAAAAAAAEw/2eaqFFKqslY/s200/Her%2BVirtual%2BFrenzy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711243731300420354" /></a><br /> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>716</o:Words> <o:characters>4082</o:Characters> <o:company>RVPS</o:Company> <o:lines>34</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>8</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>5012</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1539</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">I’m not sure where plotters get their inspirations. During a recent conversation with a plotter, she said she thinks in terms of umbrella themes and plots that then lead her to characters, their goals and their conflicts—both internal and external. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Just thinking about all that mental labor makes me tired. But it certainly accounts for that author’s depth of character and intricate storylines.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">As for pantser me:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Many of my story inspirations begin in bed. Not because I’m an erotic fantasy writer doing research… When making love, I ‘m totally in the moment.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">My subconscious self, however, may have conjured two people arguing at the top of their lungs. That argument may provide their external conflict and may also be part of their own internal issues. Either conflict may or may not have led to the argument. At this point, I haven’t a clue. I just have these characters who need to resolve their issues—whatever they may be.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">News stories or magazine articles sometimes inspire stories. A romantic suspense I’m still noodling on raises its hand and beckons with enticing, bejeweled fingers every presidential election year. Another romantic suspense that I’ve written and sold came from an article about emerald mining in Colombia. <i>It Takes a Thief</i><span style="font-style:normal"> came out of that article. I’m hoping to see it release from Ellora’s Cave (EC) in 2012.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Sometimes another author’s work inspires me. I’m not talking about plagiarism, but something more like a spin-off. Mary Stewart’s Arthurian Quartet (<i>The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, </i><span style="font-style:normal">etc.) not only left me awestruck but reluctant to let go of the magic. Whether hers or Merlin’s I can’t say.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Anyway, those books led me to write a Regency and a Victorian sequel sort of rooted in those Arthurian legends. Both sucked. But someday I may resurrect them as erotic fantasies.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">My first erotic novel and first ever sale was inspired by a short story by Charlotte Boyett-Campo titled <i>The Windsday Club</i><span style="font-style:normal">. Only two chapters long, it made me hot. It made me laugh. It made me wonder if I could write something that funny, that sexually arousing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Apparently I could. Ellora’s Cave (EC) bought <i>Passion’s Four Towers </i><span style="font-style:normal">(PFT) and the rest, as they say, is history.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Your own work can inspire you. For example, I set myself up to write a sequel to <i>Passion’s Four Towers</i><span style="font-style:normal">—maybe even more than a couple of sequels. But when I finished I had a problem. Two of my secondary heroes had let themselves be led into sexual satiation. Which meant my sequel went into the toilet.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Lucky for me, my heroines’ dead mother rescued me. Kerrie dragged her ghostly chains, wailed like a banshee and in general made herself a pain in the… She kept at me until I wrote <i>Kerrie’s Quest for Passion </i><span style="font-style:normal">(KQ)</span><i>.</i><span style="font-style:normal"> That filled my time until Gerard and Edgar had recovered enough to take their heroic roles in </span><i>Passion’s Twins </i><span style="font-style:normal">(PT)</span><i>.</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">And then, due to circumstances beyond my control…</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Between writing KQ’s and PT, Angela Lansbury’s <i>Murder, She Wrote</i><span style="font-style: normal"> caught me in the </span><i>what if</i><span style="font-style:normal"> of virtual reality. Sexy </span><i>Hercules </i><span style="font-style:normal">star Kevin Sorbo played a VR designer accused of murder. The crime aspect didn’t inspire me, but the VR did.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">That’s when I set out to become the Sue Grafton of erotic fantasies. Since every series needs a foundation story, I wrote <i>His Virtual Virgin</i><span style="font-style: normal">, followed by a sojourn I’m still taking through the alphabet. I’m up to G—</span><i>His Virtual Gift</i><span style="font-style:normal">—which released February 15, 2012 from eXtasy Books.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Your publisher may also inspire you to write a themed story. EC did and I wrote four short stories/novellas around food and the arts. EC didn’t buy one of them, but eXtasy Books contracted for all four. In fact, I now have a series called <i>Sensuous Seasonings. </i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Chapter members may also inspire stories. I have almost total recall of hooking up with SVR members at the Denver RWA national convention in 2000. We were talking about what we were writing and I described a plot I was noodling on and our own resident humorist, Judy Ashley said, “Oh, so you’re writing <i>Saving Ryan’s Privates</i><span style="font-style:normal">—which became my first sale to eXtasy Books.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Sometimes there’s just something in the air. How often have you seen stories by different authors that have the same core theme? Over the fifteen plus years I pursued becoming published, I’ve encountered this phenomena a lot. I don’t know if Laurel K. Hamilton got her inspiration for Jean-Claude from Anne Rice, but it’s easy to think that’s what inspired her vampire stories. And Shanna Abe’s magical, marvelous Drakons could certainly have inspired shape-shifting dragons. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Obviously, I’m a fan of all these talented authors.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Faces. I based a couple of my heroines on a little girl with reddish-blonde hair and sea-foam green eyes I saw on a cruise up the Sacramento River. A craggy-featured old man missing some teeth might inspire my next excursion into VR.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">All this is by way of saying inspiration can come from anywhere. You just need to listen and look.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">BTW, those two covers at the top are from my most recent releases. Check them out at eXtasy Books.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Dee Brice</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in">Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is Forbidden<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.3in"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-87242205168700689202012-01-20T11:02:00.002-05:002012-01-20T11:08:40.289-05:00Blatant Promotion<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NSXEQ7jJpak/TxmRauObEwI/AAAAAAAAAEk/7zWe4-5nktQ/s1600/His%2BVirtual%2BGift.tiff" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 155px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NSXEQ7jJpak/TxmRauObEwI/AAAAAAAAAEk/7zWe4-5nktQ/s200/His%2BVirtual%2BGift.tiff" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699746691685225218" /></a><br />My latest in the Virtual Seduction series releases on Valentine's Day. Hope this blurb will whet your appetite and you'll join Jynx and Kemen as they try to save three galaxies and fall in love.<div><br /></div><div> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>118</o:Words> <o:characters>678</o:Characters> <o:company>RVPS</o:Company> <o:lines>5</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>832</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1539</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">February 14, 3000: The destruction of the universe is at hand, unless their burning passion can grow into trust... and love.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.2in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Traveling through space to a secret rendezvous point, Venusian Princess Jynx can't help but dream of the sexy prince she has been ordered to negotiate a treaty with and to marry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Triangulum Prince Kemen is fascinated by the beautiful princess, but he is keeping a secret that threatens their galaxies' existence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.2in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Their negotiations with each other and with the third galaxy believed to be a threat don't seem to be going anywhere, but Jynx and Kemen's passion builds to peaks of ecstasy in dreams and in person. But their shared nightmares portend complete annihilation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.2in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Even with destruction looming, on the most romantic day in the universe, what can a man give a woman who has everything?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-2374317095099837132012-01-17T00:04:00.011-05:002012-01-17T00:04:01.515-05:00Research! Because someone must...go to France!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From collection at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I am planning a new book. And the research delights me.<br />
I've done all the "book learning" about it and sat in far too many dusty libraries. At Walter Reed Army Medical Center. At the National Archives in Washington. At Carlysle Barracks in Carlysle, PA. I've also gone to The Imperial War Museum in London and gathered invaluable experience.<br />
In all these wonderful places, I've read letters and reports. I've looked at old old photos. Catalogued them.<br />
Learned about medical practices during wartime.<br />
And now I am prepping for my last bit of research.<br />
A FIELD TRIP!<br />
To France!<br />
So excited I cannot stand myself.<br />
But yes, I am going to France for 3 weeks to take pictures, visit battlefields and learn the terrain. Literally.<br />
I have lists, cross referenced with facts, ready to be woven into an accurately portrayed novel.<br />
In the 1980s, I wrote this book and allllllllmost published it. Made a lot of people happy, astonished and interested. So much so that these people remember this book VIVIDLY.<br />
Now, after more than sixty published novels and novellas, I am a much better writer and this time, when I finish this book, I know there will be an audience for it.<br />
"War Horse" tells me so. "Downton Abbey" does, too. I am certain there will be more pointing to the fact that the public will now see the first World War as a subject that bears honest scrutiny and that it should be studied for what it tells us about ourselves, good and bad.<br />
And what of my novel?<br />
<i>The time period?</i> 1917-1918.<br />
<i>The place?</i> America and in France with the AEF, American Expeditionary Forces.<br />
<i>The subject my friends cannot forget?</i> A woman's view of World War I.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-30951199129296815442012-01-15T02:53:00.000-05:002012-01-15T02:53:49.232-05:00Well, this blog is pretty well finished...<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's time to mosey on into the sunset...this blog, that is.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When nearly thirty authors dwindle down to three or so, it's time to disband a co-op blog, I think. So goodbye, my friends. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take care, and if any of you decide to continue here, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">good luck.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fran Lee</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-58590532062909148712011-12-26T00:01:00.056-05:002011-12-26T00:01:02.692-05:00Hope your Christmas was wonderful!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OlFf8hM3xkU/TuPPseyN9aI/AAAAAAAACgM/slBlL_-AoNw/s1600/LIGHTS.GIF" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="18" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OlFf8hM3xkU/TuPPseyN9aI/AAAAAAAACgM/slBlL_-AoNw/s320/LIGHTS.GIF" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rxd_nwST8lc/TuPPd4TikYI/AAAAAAAACgE/I6TO21UwdHM/s1600/uncertainly+yours_msr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rxd_nwST8lc/TuPPd4TikYI/AAAAAAAACgE/I6TO21UwdHM/s320/uncertainly+yours_msr.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OlFf8hM3xkU/TuPPseyN9aI/AAAAAAAACgM/slBlL_-AoNw/s1600/LIGHTS.GIF" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="18" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OlFf8hM3xkU/TuPPseyN9aI/AAAAAAAACgM/slBlL_-AoNw/s320/LIGHTS.GIF" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9808-uncertainly-yours.aspx"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Uncertainly Yours</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> is now available over at Ellora's Cave!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Visit my book page for the blurb and the excerpt. Since this is a PG-13 blog, I don't want to shock any readers. LOL!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The New Year is coming quickly and I have made my resolutions...submit at least one book every two months...get my lazy fanny busy.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> I have been so buried in other things, I have neglected my</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> writing. Time to get busy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am wondering, dear friends, why we are continuing this blog. Only 35 posts have been left here in the entire year 2011. So sad! No one bothers to come over and comment or read other author's posts. I have read all of the comments that have been left, and have deleted many of them that have nothing to do with the post, but have been advertisements left as "comments" by companies wanting to promote their own products...which have absolutely nothing to do with romance. Sigh.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After this post, I am removing myself from membership on this blog group. I am sorry, but there is so little interest in it, and we get NO exposure from it (except an occasional spammer) it appears to be of no value anymore. Dee, Cerise, and those who have bothered to come and post, I salute you.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Contact me if you are truly interested in continuing to post here. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hugs, and Happy Holidays!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fran Lee</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.franleeromance.com%20/"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://www.franleeromance.com </span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-74711126807722389292011-12-20T10:28:00.003-05:002011-12-20T10:32:17.306-05:00Revisions Rock<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I4ZkjC9FTPY/TvCqL8Er9-I/AAAAAAAAAEY/EAjm2Yya4b4/s1600/HERVIRTUALFRENZY-2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I4ZkjC9FTPY/TvCqL8Er9-I/AAAAAAAAAEY/EAjm2Yya4b4/s200/HERVIRTUALFRENZY-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688233451450005474" /></a><br /> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>199</o:Words> <o:characters>1137</o:Characters> <o:company>RVPS</o:Company> <o:lines>9</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>2</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>1396</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1539</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">They do—at least according to Kelli Gwen, inspirational romance writer and Sacramento Valley Rose chapter member.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Today I stood at the beginning of that rocky path—massive revisions to a contracted manuscript that has been waiting for months. I wasn’t avoiding the task. My editor and I had agreed to leave it alone until after the holidays. She had a pile of manuscripts to edit. I had a couple of stories to write for another publisher, so the delay worked for both of us.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Truth is, I started the revisions several months ago. Truth is, I had to fight myself not to focus on them, throw myself into them wholeheartedly. Discipline—which I usually lack—kept me intent on where I needed to be—on those two other stories.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Now…A prologue is drafted and I’m actually feeling the same anticipation, the same joy as when I wrote the story the first time.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> But first… Yep, that second story I wrote for another publisher needs revisions before I can send it off. Hopefully, I can keep my enthusiasm for that one as I have for the one still sitting here…waiting.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The wonderful cover is for my December 15, 2011 release from eXtasy Books. It has a holiday there if you want a hot holiday gift for your significant other. Drop by my website to read an excerpt: deebrice.com.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Dee Brice</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Erotic Fantasies Where Nothing is Forbidden</p> <!--EndFragment-->Dee Bricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647845371475429937noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-29578319178145997792011-12-14T05:24:00.000-05:002011-12-14T05:24:00.403-05:00Christmas Stories for .99Available on Kindle and Barnes and Noble for your holiday fun! Only .99<br />
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Blurb:<br />
Nick has fought his attraction to Emily since the summer. Work and other commitments have kept him from pursuing a relationship. Christmas is upon them and Nick finds he has free time on his hands. He devices a little plan to get her sexy body prepared for what he hopes will be a night of passion she’ll never forget.<br />
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Someone is sending Emily erotic toys. The naughty notes attached are charging her dormant body to life with promises of red hot sex. She’s not sure who her secret Santa is, but if he’s truly following the Twelve Days of Christmas she’s about to find out.<br />
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Will Emily succumb to this Naughty St. Nick?<br />
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Excerpt:<br />
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Emily pattered over to the front door. She peered through the peephole. <br />
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"Hmmm, I swear I heard the doorbell." She threw opened the door against the bitter cold of the winter storm brewing outside. Shivering, she bent over the threshold and glanced in both directions. Her skin pebbled from the snowflakes landing on her bare arms.<br />
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"Strange, I know the doorbell rang." She was about to close the door when she noticed a small brown box, sitting off to the right.<br />
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Intrigued, she placed a sock covered foot into the icy snow and retrieved the box. She quickly slammed the door and hurried back to her blanket on the couch. She nestled under the red fuzzy blanket. Turning the box in her hands she looked for an addressee. <br />
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"Nothing." She couldn’t help but wonder if it were meant for her or if someone left it on her doorstep mistakenly. She shook the box. Something bounced around inside. <br />
Unable to fight her curiosity any longer she tore open the package. There inside was a mistletoe-colored finger butt plug, with little white snowmen on it. Tingling sensations warmed her body straight down to her core. Thoughts of teasing the rim of her ass with the humming vibrator tantalized her.<br />
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She needed to know who sent it. Digging deeper into the box she searched for a card or anything cluing her in to who the sender was. She found a tiny note card that read:<br />
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me to, one butt plug a hummin’.<br />
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Emily thought she’d explode into orgasm right then and there. The idea of someone wanting to charge her ass to life enthralled her. Filled with an arousal that ran deep, Emily knew she had to pleasure herself. <br />
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Heat from the flames crackling in the fireplace warmed her chilled body, smoothing her skin. The television blared in the background, but Emily tuned it out. She’d been watching a movie about a money heist on a train or something crazy. It hadn’t held her attention. Turning the plug over in her hands, she found something that gripped her total attention. She couldn’t imagine who would send her something so erotic.<br />
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Settling into the pillow she closed her eyes and pictured the guy from Six A, as the bearer of her gift. His wavy blond hair and those piercing green eyes charged her body. She’d fantasized about him a few times. Oh who was she kidding she masturbated to the image of his shit eating grin too many times to count. <br />
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Emily longed to run her hand over his taunt abs. She wanted to trace a finger along the vee that disappeared below the trim of his pants to see if it went down to his cock, which she knew would be large and bulging. It seemed hard to believe she’d been drooling over him since summer.<br />
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After she witnessed his body in scant clothing she wanted a piece of him.<br />
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Blurb:<br />
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Meg Trainor has one wish for Christmas every year: Two men who will fulfill all her fantasies.<br />
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Santa's in a giving mood this year.<br />
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Brothers and co-owners of Turquoise Toys, Brad and Shane Griffin will give her a Christmas she'll never forget.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244564493291133822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3809516973071462364.post-7022148764481342842011-11-26T00:01:00.018-05:002011-12-10T16:26:53.307-05:00SPAMMERS...PLEASE NOTE...<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Please note...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">This blog site is for the Goddesses of Storytelling, and it is mainly here to allow a group of authors to drop in a note about their latest book, book signings, or what-have-you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">I don't come over here as often as I should, but yesterday when I visited, I read the comments as I always do...and I was amazed at how many people "drop by" this blog to put advertisements for their own sites or products instead of "comments" about the author's post.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">So, to those of you who have blatantly abused this blog by sticking advertisements for products, other websites, or what-have-you </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">in the comments, you have been reported to Google for spamming.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I wonder how you would react if someone came over to your website and spammed your readers with ads and other garbage?</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Please do not be that rude or inconsiderate in the future.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Your actions will be reported as spam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Oh...and I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! </span><br />
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