Showing posts with label Cari Quinn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cari Quinn. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Allure of the Vampire

Buy Love Bites HERE!

By Cari Quinn
What is it about vampires that makes them so sexy? Is it the whole immortal thing? The fact that they bite to sustain their existence, an act that is admittedly sexual? Or is it just that they can often look so human while clearly being other?
For me it’s all the above. I went through many years of refusing to read vampire fiction. Then, all of a sudden, I read a Lynsay Sands vampire novel and suddenly I couldn’t get enough of them! For a year or two after that, I read vampire romance exclusively.
Yesterday saw the release of my very first paranormal romance release, LOVE BITES. It’s available at Decadent’s site as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble & All Romance Ebooks. To give you a taste of *my* sexy, humorous vampires, I’m sharing a scene below.
And—it gets better! Want a chance to be entered to win an ebook copy of my first Decadent Publishing romance, VIRGIN TERRITORY? Just leave a comment with your email address answering this question: when it comes to paranormal creatures, do you prefer yours with fur or fangs?

LOVE BITES blurb:

Vampire Kellan Barstow is tired of watching his best friend Lucas Phillips pine after his one true mate. Though he’s jealous that Lucas found his before he found his own, he wants him to be happy and hopes to spur him on to make a move toward his chosen human, librarian Emily Yost. But Kellan’s sick of Lucas's moping and decides one thing will convince Luke he needs to act.

Sleeping with another woman.

Except when Kellan and Lucas sleep with Sydney, a woman Kellan has flirted with for weeks, things quickly spiral out of control. Because Sydney may be more than merely a woman, and Kellan’s feelings for her soon go way beyond desire. Before long, Kellan and Sydney and Emily and Lucas are caught in a dangerous web of lust and love. And this love may do more than bite—it might end them all.

Genre: Paranormal, erotic romance, vampires, ménage

Heat level: 5
Word count – 50k
Cover art by Mina Carter


LOVE BITES R-rated excerpt:

What were they going to do with her? Oh God, where was she? What had happened to her car? 
Terror blinded Sydney as she tried to claw, kick, and scratch her way free. It did no good. Without breaking a sweat, the men trussed her limbs to the posts of the bed so she lay exposed like a human sacrifice. 
But they weren’t looking at her nude body. They were too busy arguing with each other. 
“Christ, Kell, is your brain in your balls? I already told you what we had to do. But you wouldn’t.” 
“She has to agree.” 
A low stream of curse words reached her ears. “This isn’t like with Emily. There is no choice here.” 
The darker one’s fingertips tenderly sculpted her jaw. She couldn’t shrink back fast enough. 
“There is always a choice.” 
“Damn you and your gentlemanly ethics, Kell.” 
Ethics? Her mind screamed. Ethics? He’d fucked her and bitten her and then he’d tied her up to a bed. What the hell was wrong with them? 
“I can’t turn her without her permission. I won’t do it.” 
“So instead you leave her writhing in pain! Does that make sense? Goddammit, you got a little pussy. It’s not worth risking our whole existence for. We both know what she is to you now.” 
A long silence. “I’ll wait until our blood’s left her system and wipe her mind.” 
“There are no guarantees. If something slips through—” 
“You’re drugging me, too?” The tears pinpricking her eyes vanished in a wave of indignation.
“This is why people won’t pick up hitchhikers!”

Visit USA TODAY bestselling author Cari Quinn at www.cariquinn.com

Friday, April 13, 2012

Moving past your comfort zone


by Cari Quinn

Today marks my first release with Decadent Publishing, VIRGIN TERRITORY. I’m so excited for this book to hit the virtual shelves because for a while, I wasn’t sure it would see the light of day. It went through several rounds of revisions before I submitted it, all in the hopes to make the story closer to what I’d envisioned it as in my head. Luckily Decadent loved the story and my terrific editor Rie Langston helped make it shine!

In VIRGIN TERRITORY, the hero, Vincent, is a man with a problem. He has a looming deadline for a Christmas erotic romance and he hasn’t been able to get his muse talking. Normally when he can’t write hot, he engages in a steamy no-strings affair to crank the mojo, but this time, the only woman he wants to, ahem, engage with isn’t interested. Or is she? Before he can find out for sure, he’s shot in a convenience store holdup protecting Kiki. Next thing he knows he’s in a hospital bed with a painful shoulder injury and Kiki offers his only hope to get his book done on time. Luckily she’s more than woman enough for the job. Now if they can only stop arguing long enough to write love, not make war…

One common recurring theme in the book is moving past your comfort zone. IT geek Vincent had to in order to start writing sexy books in the first place. He also has a few opportunities in the book to do so as well, thanks to Kiki’s insistence. And Kiki, well, after suffering through a bad breakup, even giving in to her urges in Vincent’s direction is moving outside her comfort zone. And writing erotic romance with her crush? Hoo boy, she’s definitely overwhelmed there. But both of them find how exciting it can be to emerge on the other side of that comfort zone, especially when you have someone amazing waiting for you.

What about you? Is there something you’ve done lately that’s taken you beyond your comfort zone? Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win a Decadent ebook of YOUR CHOICE!

Before I go, here’s the blurb for VIRGIN TERRITORY if you’d like to find out more!

Network analyst by day, erotic romance writer by night, Vincent Buonfiglio is dealing with a work-in-progress that has gone colder than winter in his hometown of Ridgley, North Dakota. So what does a man who needs to write hot do to get cranking? 

Search out a woman for a night of no-strings sex, of course.
 

But his choice of partner, Katherine "Kiki" Wyatt, manager of the Quikky Snak Gas & Lube, isn't biting. Flirting over his nightly chili dog is one thing. But a date? Sex? Not happening. Dangerously sexy geeks are off-limits no matter what they might have to offer outside the bedroom.
 

When an armed gunman changes everything, will deadlines, exes, and mind-blowing sex prove opposites don’t always attract or allow two unlikely lovers to pen a happy ending?

Visit Cari Quinn at www.cariquinn.com and at http://cariquinn.blogspot.com!