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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Outages

By Jambrea Jo Jones (Guest Blogger)


First—Thanks Lisabet for having me guest blog!

Now…on to the blog.

So I’ve had a fun weekend this past weekend. No power. I was caught in the big wind and rain storm. As I’m writing this, my home still doesn’t have power. I’m very lucky that my parents still have power. 
We’ve been crashing there. But think of all the things we take for granted. Air conditioning. Cold drinks. Your own bed. Food that isn’t rotten. Of course—all this is happening when we’re in a heat wave LOL. Doesn’t it figure? Now…if I had a couple of these hunks around—I might not care if I had power…

And the one thing I noticed is that no one knows how to properly do a four way stop. It’s like they’ve all gone crazy and just drive when they want to.

But what would happen if the whole world had no power, no way to communicate and the system of government as we now it now it had failed?

Well—I might have written about it. Of course I had this planned WAY before I experienced this little power outage. I have a series called Alliance. It’s m/m sci-fi erotic romance. (Well...Book two was m/m/f) and my newest book is more like a prequel. People get to see how and why the Alliance was formed. The latest volume is called Annihilation and it's due out the end of July from Total-E-Bound.

Blurb

It’s the end of the world as they know it...

Ricardo Clark is ex-military working a nine to five job on Earth, a planet that was almost wiped out by the big flood of 2050. The world was changing and trying to regroup under a new government called the Alliance. For most it was business as usual. That is until the old government tries to take back over.
Gilliland Carter was tired of living on the streets. He took a job at a bakery hoping to put some normal back into his life. There was no need for his kind anymore, an undercover cop. The Alliance had a lock down on things and if you weren’t military, you weren’t needed. He didn’t exactly have the look of someone who’d fit into the soldier lifestyle with his tattoos and piercings.

Ricardo and Gilliland take a journey neither of them were prepared for. It will bring them to the brink of death, but can it also bring love? 

For more info, check out my website: http://www.jambrea.com


BIO:
I wanted to be the youngest romance author published, but life impeded the dream. I put aside writing and went to college briefly, then enlisted in the Air Force. After serving for two years in the Air Force I returned to my home in Indiana and started a family. A few years later I discovered yahoo groups and book reviews. I haven’t turned my head over my shoulder since—there’s no sense in looking back. Reviewing books invoked my muse and called the writing bug back. Friends earned along the journey kept pushing me along until I submitted my first manuscript to a publisher. Since that time, I’ve submitted many more, had a few rejected, had a few published, and I’m working hard at getting more stories crafted.
I live with my family in Indiana where I read and play with my son when I’m not writing. I love to read and receive reader feedback and since I’m addicted to the internet, you can often find me lurking there.


Monday, July 2, 2012

Lisabet's July News

Quarantine Cover


New and Upcoming Releases

There's less than a week left before my M/M science fiction novel Quarantine is released! In case you haven't heard (LOL), I'm planning a huge celebration, including a thirteen stop blog hop with different excerpts and a prize at every stop! The hop kicks off on the 6th of July at Victoria Blisse's place, and concludes on the 24th. In addition to the individual prizes, I'll select one person who comments during that period, either at a guest blog or at Beyond Romance to receive the Grand Prize, a $50 gift certificate to All Romance Ebooks.

Here's the blog hop schedule:

Date Blog URL
July 6Victoria Blisse http://victoriablisse.co.uk/friends-friday
July 10Erica Pike http://www.ericapike.com
July 11Raine Delight http://authorrainedelight.wordpress.com/
July 12Brenda Williamson (An Eclectic Author) http://www.aneclecticauthor.blogspot.com/
July 13Jon Michaelson http://www.jonmichaelsen.net/
July 14Cerise DeLand http://www.cerisedeland.com
July 16K.D. Grace http://kdgrace.co.uk/
July 17Keta Diablo http://thestuffofmythandmen.blogspot.com
July 18Blak Rayne http://www.blakrayneblog.com/
July 19Romance Lives Forever (Kayelle Allen) http://romancelivesforever.blogspot.com
July 20Maria-Claire Payne http://maria-clairepayne.com/blog
July 21EM Lynley http://www.emlynley.com
July 24Silken Sheets and Seductions http://silkensheetsandseduction.wordpress.com/blog/

All my blog guests in July will be M/M authors, too. I'll be hosting great authors like Erika Pike, Keta Diablo, Talia Carmichael, EM Lynley, and more! So if you like gay romance, I hope you'll plan to spend some time over at my place this month.

Unfortunately, I have a business trip that's taking me overseas smack in the middle of the tour. So I may not be around as much as I'd like to respond to your comments. However, I'll pick winners at each blog when I return.

Anything For You CoverIn other news (yes, I do have other news!), my story Like Riding a Bicycle will be out next month as part of Rachel Kramer Bussel's anthology Anything for You: Erotica for Kinky Couples. You can read the blurb on my Coming Soon page and check out my new excerpt here.


Other News

In the Free Reading section of my site, I've added Lessons, a new BDSM piece, and a poem about unrequited love, Half Moon. I hope to have a new installment of "Cat Toy" for August.

TRR party poster Yesterday marked the start of The Romance Reviews huge summer party. They've got more than 400 prizes, including a $100 gift certificate grand prize. I'll be giving away a copy of Quarantine to one lucky reader on July 13th. All you have to do is answer a simple question about the book - and I'll even tell you where to go to find the answer! To play, just go to TRR's event page (http://www.theromancereviews.com/event.php).

August 1st is the submission deadline for Coming Together: In Vein. Please consider sharing your super sexy vampire fiction for a good cause. (Previously published work is acceptable.) For details visit my blog.

At the Erotica Readers & Writers Association, my latest column in my Erotogeek series is entitled "Backup Blues: or Murphy was a Freakin' Optimist". Trust me, one of these days your hard disk will fail. And what happens then?

Contests!

My Word of Mouth contest was something of a disappointment. I had so few entries that I've only picked a single winner, Tamsyn. Huge thanks to those of you who did spread the word. Guess I'll have to think of some other strategy to get my name known!

In fact - that's my contest for this month! Send an email to contest - at - lisabetsarai.com, using the subject line "Promo Suggestion". In the email, tell me the one most important thing you think I should do to promote my work to readers. Use your own experience as a guide. How do you find out about new authors? What do you think works best to get an author's name out?
Around the beginning of August, I'll randomly pick one entry. The prize is your choice of Master Me (BDSM anthology), Seeing Stars (Scifi anthology), or Treble (ménage anthology).

Lisabet's Pick of the Month

My Pick of the Month for July is the blog of newly published author Louisa Masters. Louisa will be my guest later in July at Beyond Romance. She's working really hard to get the word about her recently released Sexy Snax piece, One Night in a Bar.