Jeri Smith-Ready, author of the absolutely wonderful WICKED GAME (a great new take on vampires!) is guest-blogging over at The Bradford Bunch today–and she’s going to give away a copy of WICKED GAME to one commenter.  Get thee over for commenting!

And have a lovely Saturday!

I’m blogging over at Fresh Fiction today–talking about just how easy it is to get lost in a book.  Have you gotten lost in any good books lately?

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

(And, psst–happy birthday, Nick!)

Wow–Affaire de Coeur gave HOTTER AFTER MIDNIGHT five stars!  Lani Roberts said the book was, “”A page-turning erotic adventure that you won’t want to put down until the end.”   I will consider this review a most awesome early birthday present!  🙂

(Thank you so much, Lani!)

And, speaking of Affaire de Coeur…there is a fantastic article up on their website about creating a romance book club.  Now I’ve been wanting to create a romance book club for quite a while.  I just can’t get into the “Oprah Book Club” type books.  I like my romance.  Give me historicals, give me funny contemporaries, or give me my dark paranormals–but I need my romance and I have to get my happy ending in order to be a, well, happy woman.

I’m going to try following the guidelines for the romance club–I’ll keep you posted and let you know how things work out.

I’m out blogging today–I’m at the Brava Blog and at The Bradford Bunch.

Come and visit if you have the chance!

WHEN HE WAS BAD should now by on the shelves in a bookstore near you.  🙂  Yay!  Just in time for the summer reading season.

In “Wicked Ways” (my contribution to the anthology), my hero is a jaguar shifter.  As I was researching jaguars, I discovered some interesting facts:

(Okay, interesting to me, anyway…)

*The jaguar was once worshipped by several early cultures–like the Aztecs and the Maya.

*The word jaguar roughly translates to mean “the killer that takes its prey in a single bound.”

*During mating, jaguars in the wild “can copulate up to 100 times a day.”  Seriously.  That fact kinda blew my mind.

I have an excerpt from “Wicked Ways” on my site–so if you haven’t already taken a peek, do go and read the sample from the story.  (Who knows?  You might find more fun jaguar facts…)