Frisky Friday 5/16/08
May 16th, 2008
Anyone in need of a nice massage?
Sand Goddess now available
May 15th, 2008Sand Goddess is now available from Forbidden Publications and can also be purchased from All Romance eBooks.
Sand Goddess
By: Ann Cory | Other books by Ann Cory
Published By: Forbidden Publications
ISBN # ForbPub100161
Word Count: 6106
Heat Index 
Available in: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, HTML
About the book
Greed and lust drove Mason to the scorching hot desert.
Greed – in the form of gold and treasure that lay in the fields beyond the majestic guardian with crimson eyes that could burn him alive.
Lust – to be the one to seduce the beautiful sphinx Arcadia, his sand goddess, in the hope of distracting her long enough to become the richest man alive.
Arcadia has other plans for the selfish intruder, and a lesson to teach about what truly makes a man rich.
An excerpt from the book
Mason made his way down the relentless hill, stumbling in awkward steps. Clouds of sand filtered in his ears, eyes, and nose. For the moment, he didn’t care about his pain. Everything about his beautiful goddess excited him, bringing his cock to a sharp erection. She’d caught his attention from the moment he first saw her, but everyone said she was unattainable. They said there was no way he could gain her affections–that it was impossible. Mason wasn’t one to back down from a challenge, especially where a divine creature was concerned.
When he’d first seen Arcadia, she had been a monument of power, sex, and fortune. Her very essence filled his parched lungs with renewed vigor. Since then, he hadn’t been able to stop thinking about her: the way it would feel to touch her and caress her stately mounds. The way it would feel to conquer her.
One day, she would be his and no other man would dare to look her way. One day, he’d be her slave and do anything she wanted.
Mason would indeed worship her. But only after he’d taken her into the mighty throes of passion and desire. And only after he had his hands around the large bricks of gold that waited for him.
As he trudged on, he thought of Arcadia’s special powers. They aroused him and frightened him at the same time. She was a warrior in many ways, but he knew she had a soft side. The trick would be in finding it. Her eyes, seen for a brief moment, were two orbs of scintillating gems. So powerful, they’d possessed his soul from the moment he’d first tried to run from their deadly glance. She took her responsibility seriously, not allowing anyone to pass.
Mason shook his head. He’d never forget that moment of panic when he’d first dared to cross her path. The heat had sliced through his left side and melted the top layer of his skin like butter, leaving him forever scarred. Rather than deter him, it made him lust for her all the more.
Guest Blogger - Sapphire Phelan!
May 13th, 2008Hello, Sapphire Phelan here. First, I like to thank Ann Cory for letting me be a guest Blogger on her blog today. I decided to do an article on why reading a good scary story with romance and with sex is attractive to the reader and yes, writing it is even for the writer.
Under another name, Pamela K. Kinney, I write horror, fantasy and science fiction stories. One them is a love story of sorts, but with no HEA. It is in Parasitic Sands Anthology, under the title, “Dark Eyes.” There’s even sex in it. Imagine the heroine making love on the beach, in the dark, with a hero who is Cthulhu-like in nature. That happens in “Dark Eyes” at one point. But instead of the happily ever after, the heroine doesn’t get it.
When I started writing romance, particularly paranormal, fantasy and science fiction romance, what I write as Pamela carried over to my romance. First two stories accepted for a print anthology were two short sensual fantasy stories. The publisher closed its doors before the book was to be published but all authors got their rights back. One of those stories, “Shadow Lover” ended up in Coming Together: Under Fire anthology published by Phaze. The other one, “To Teach an Ancient God”, ended up at Romance All-eBooks as one of their free stories anyone can download. You can get that story at http://allromanceebooks.com/product-toteachanancientgod-8477-180.html .
I wanted to push the envelope, to see if the readers cared to read what I myself wanted to read. Stories beyond the norm. A hero that might scare the bejesuses out of them and yet, the reader would fall for him as much as the heroine or hero would. I wrote about parasitical aliens and werelions and vampires on alien worlds. Bad boy fairies, werewolf bitches, and sea creatures that to be with forever as their lover you had to die first. See the theme here: dark, oh so dark.
Now to dig into the psychology of why we want to read about a hero or heroine that is the stuff of nightmares.
Is it because we want that added thrill of fear mixed with our romance? The old romance books had their heroes as the town bad boy or wild aristocrat or the hero in the gothic castle. Tough alpha males. None were vampires or werewolves or ghouls. Not one hero or heroine came down to earth in a spaceship to take over our planet. But with today’s society a human male ma have become boring. Besides the human female today may be a Black Belt or able to take on the human male herself. So where does that leave us for an Alpha male in romance these days. Why to go where no woman has gone before: in the realm of supernatural or other planets.
The possible danger of a hero who might be a soul sucking alien shapeshifter that might fall in love with the frightened and yet willing female Earthling suddenly has the reader holding their breath through the entire story, hoping against hope that she would win him over and he would help her save the Earth. Which she does and all is saved, with the hero staying with her. And if the alien and she indulge in a little out of this world hanky panky between the pages who are we to deny them?
The additional perk for the reader? She/he can be the heroine/hero, they don’t have to worry taking on a real soul sucking alien or werewolf with claws and fangs, and instead they can enjoy a great story and be taken away from their mundane existence for just a little while. It will make their heart pound faster, they will cry a little and at the end, feel satisfied. With such books, they can forge through life a lot easier. I know I do after I read some of these stories.
As for the writer, it can hold some erotic and scary moments writing such a story too. The writer will have to add the dash of horror to the boy meets girl, or boy meets boy or boy meets girl meets boy angle. They have to let it all out, as they are no longer writing about the town bad boy, but penning a tale of a vampire who is badder than any bad boy. The writer will have to figure out how to have him brought down by love, so he can save the innocent mortal woman instead of having her for lunch. Love is never having to say your blood tastes good.
Next time you’re at the bookstore and want to pick up something scrumptious or checking out Fictionwise.com, All Romance eBooks or any of the e-publishers, pick up a scary and oh so sexy and tantalizing paranormal romance or futuristic romance, read it, then think on why you enjoyed it.
Just watch out for those soul sucking aliens though, they do know how to use their tentacles to make a woman scream with pleasure.
Happy Monday!
May 12th, 2008Good Monday morning everyone! Did you have a nice weekend? I certainly did - and my hubby and son helped make it an extra special one. I was treated to a delicious Mother’s Day brunch, mini golf, Iron Man - LOVED IT, some beautiful flowers, balloons, earrings, a favorite CD I wanted, a nice handmade card, and a scrumptious dinner! Talk about spoiled *BG* I couldn’t have asked for anything more.
May 14th you can catch me posting excerpts over at Bianca D’Arc’s group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biancadarc/
And on May 15th my short story Sand Goddess will be released by Forbidden Publications. So I look forward to that! Otherwise it’s a week of writing and edits. Hope you have a fantastic week!
~Ann
It’s that time again - Frisky Friday!
May 9th, 2008
So - who wants to wake him?
~Ann Cory 
It’s hard. It’s thick. It’s pink.
May 8th, 2008I’m talking about my new tradeback, you naughty-minded peeps! Nearly 400 pages, with a cover that radiates a pink sunset glow of pure pleasure, I am bloody thrilled about this book! Teaching Old Gods New Tricks can literally be, in-hand.
As an e-author, I have longed to see a second work go into print. My first book, Love’s Second Sight, is in print, but the cover is not nearly as shiny
Look at this cover! 
This is gorgeous. Gotta share here. The dedication for “Devil King of the Sixth Heaven” which is the first of three parts in the book:
Devil King of the Sixth Heaven is based upon an actual experience at Bellis Fair Mall. Yeah, some of this story actually happened. To me, the author. Can you tell fact from fiction? Will you ever be able to use a mall’s family restroom in peace again?
Oh! Wanna snippet? Something to whet your appetite for hard, thick and pink?
She couldn’t take her eyes off of him. He was simply beautiful. He had the tall,
athletic build of a super-athlete, but moved with the grace of a dancer. Liliah realized her
mouth was hanging open. Embarrassed and hoping no one had noticed, she locked her
lips together. The man was literally jaw-dropping gorgeous.
Her arms suddenly began to throb with an ache that she knew could only be cured by
wrapping them around his neck. Her hands tingled. She wanted to shake them out by
kneading his powerful shoulders. And as for that dire, empty sensation between her legs
… well … she knew what she needed there, too. Him.
The man’s pace was even and fluid. He nodded a greeting at the elderly gentlemen
sipping coffees near the mall entrance. He smiled at the owner of the Tandoori chicken
stand grinding spices for the day’s offerings. He waved his hand faintly at the uniformed
mall janitor pushing a broom around the theater entrance. He strolled by as if they were
his subjects and he, their king.
Dressed simply, he made a flannel shirt and Levi’s look good. His walk accentuated
the tightness of his faded blue jeans. His thigh muscles were clearly defined. So was his
package.
He must have a Hickory Farms Beef Log stuffed in his shorts. Damn! Liliah set her
brownie aside. He’s walking this way! And he’s sizing me up! Jeez—I hope it’s me he’s
looking at so intently.
Hers was not the only female attention he garnered. The silence of the teen girls and
the absence of whirring noise from the barista’s espresso machine proved that. Liliah
glanced over to the coffee bar. The girls were huddled together, trembling—gazing at the
man like cows staring into the headlights of an oncoming train.
The barista’s face had gone ashen.
Liliah snapped back to the real world as hot coffee dribbled onto her hand and lap.
“Dammit.” She slipped off her stool to retrieve some napkins.
Approaching the barista, she whispered, “He’s a babe, huh?”
The coffee bar attendant nodded. “I’ve never seen such a handsome man before in
my life. God, I hope he buys a coffee.”
Liliah nodded, whispering, “He walks as if he owns the mall and everyone in it. He
knows we’re looking at him. I’ll bet he’s counting on it. He’s a bad boy. He’s the kind of
guy that accepts nothing less than total adoration.”
The barista smoothed her apron. “I could use a bad boy about now.”
Liliah turned to face her. “Get in line, honey.”
An aura of sexual tension swelled out from the approaching man with the
unstoppable force of an incoming tide. The young girls giggled nervously. He was the
kind of guy their mothers had warned them about—a man who could smell their
innocence and taste their virginity. He was forbidden fruit. It frightened and titillated
them. They were going to remember him. Fantasize about him. See his face instead of
their boyfriends’ when doing it in the backseat of daddy’s car for the first time.
All righty then, dear ones of Ann’s blog…like many e-authors, I have a day job and must away to same. I’ll check back later. One poster, drawn at random, will receive their choice of ebook from the Darragha Collection!
Thank you, Ann, and thank you visitors to Ann’s blog!
Darragha
Cata Delurk Day - May 8th!
May 7th, 2008
New review for Vows of a Vampire!
May 6th, 2008“If you are in the mood for a nice vampire romance that hits all the right spots, Ann Cory’s VOWS OF A VAMPIRE may be the story you are looking for.” ~Reviewer Kate Garrabrant/RRTErotic
You can read the full rave review here: http://www.rrterotic.com/2008%20Reviews/Reviews/Paranormal%20-%20Short%20-%202008/vows%20of%20a%20vampire%20-%205-5-08.htm
Vows of a Vampire is available from Total-E-Bound Publishing, Fictionwise, and All Romance eBooks http://www.anncory.com/vows_of_a_vampire.shtml
This week with Ann!
May 5th, 2008As every Monday you can catch me at both the Moonglade Elite Authors Blog http://moongladeeliteauthors.com/blog/and the Paranormal Monday group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ParanormalMonday/.
On Thursday I’ll be at CataNetwork Readers group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/ for a very special DeLurk Day! TONS of prizes will be given away, so if you aren’t a member, please sign up and join us!
Also on Thursday I’ll have a special Guest Blogger here - Darragha Foster http://www.darraghafoster.com/! WOOT! I LOVE her work - it’s honestly unlike anything else out there. And I appreciate “out there” trust me. So be sure to stop on by and post some questions
And last but not least I’ll be at The Hot Spot blog http://totalebound.blogspot.com/ on Sunday.
In the meantime I’m finishing up 2 stories that are getting too close to deadline. Hubby has been home sick, which hasn’t helped.
Hope you have a wonderful week!
~Ann
Frisky Friday 5/2/08
May 2nd, 2008
I’m hoping to be whisked away to the beach
