Lusana Taylor – Publishing Assistant I came to Choc Lit as an intern but have been working in the role of publisher’s assistant for nearly half a year. Before getting a job at Choc Lit, I worked in a bookshop for five years. I have a BA degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and a Master’s degree in Publishing Studies. A lot of people are under the impression that publishers sit around reading books all day…well, that’s not exactly the case at Choc Lit. We sit around reading books…
Hi Guys! Hope you’re having a great weekend, and for those of us here in the UK, the sunny Bank Holiday weekend. Here’s the low down on what happened at BCC this week… REVIEWS 5 Star Review – Iron Man 3 (Friday Film Review) 4.5 Star Review – Keeping Secrets in Seattle by Brooke Moss (Contemp-Rom) 4.5 Star Review – Angel’s Ink by Jocelynn Drake (Urban Fantasy) 4 Star Review – FanGirl by Angel Lawson (Contemporary-Romance) 4 Star Review – Flesh by Kylie Scott (Zombie-Apocalyptic Erotic Romance) 4 Star Review…
Welcome to Sunday Love-in! This is a new feature where an author shares one of their favourite smexy-time scenes from their latest book, tells us the reason for their choice and then shares the scene with us with a delicious excerpt. Enjoy. In the third Delicious novel, LUSH, the heroine, Mary Whaley is a woman who has a full life. She’s got several businesses and a plan for her future. She’s got friends and family around her who love her. She doesn’t need for anything. And into that life comes Damien Hurley,…
Grace Menary-Winefield – Editorial Assistant As an Editorial Assistant at Piatkus Books, I get to read a lot of gory, sexy, magical and sometimes scary genre fiction. It certainly keeps the excitement up in the offices! Of course, I’m around to help out the editors as well, keeping their lives in order just that little bit more and easing their administrative load so they can focus on bringing exciting new talent to the Piatkus imprint! Life can be busy! Oh yes, deadlines loom and proofs are rushed to production in…
Flesh by Kylie Scott (Flesh #1) Momentum (Oct 2012) Ebook, 284 pages Erotic Zombie-Apocalyptic Romance Flesh is an erotic romance set in a zombie-apocalyptic world. Ali is a woman in her 30s who has been hiding in an attic since the zombies started walking the Earth. After two months she decides to head out only to come face to face with Dan. Frightened senseless Ali reacts and holds a shot gun to his face. She’s scared, thinking that he wants nothing from her but to rape her. Dan on the…
Each month we’ll be sharing our best reads from the previous month. Theses books won’t be limited to new releases, but they will be books we loved and want you guys to know about. So here are our April recommendations. CAROLYN Love with a Chance of Zombies by Delphine Dryden is a fun novella packed full of lust, sex and zombies. But don’t worry, the sex isn’t between zombies or human and zombie, but between two humans – the best kind. Sex with a zombie? Um, no. But, being a huge…
Jenni Hill – Commissioning Editor I’ve wanted to get into publishing for a long time, probably because I was always the kid with my ‘nose in a book’! While studying English at university, I met Matt Smith, Editor of 2000 AD comics, who was speaking at a local library. I still don’t know how I worked up the nerve, but I asked for work experience with him and he said yes! Work experience is the most useful thing you can do if you want to get into publishing – even…
Lots of great deals on Amazon at the moment, both UK and US. I’ve also indicated what genre: Urban Fantasy [UF] | Paranormal Romance [PNR] | Historical Romance [HR] Contemporary Romance [CR] Erotic Romance [ER] Time-Travel Romance [TTR] – All prices were correct when writing this post. Free £0.00 • Temporary Arrangement (The Renaldi’s #0.5) by Karen Erickson • [CR] £0.00 • Indiana Wild (Spirit Pass) by S. E. Smith • [TTR] £0.00 • A Bit of Bite by Cynthia Eden • [PNR] £0.00 • The Accidental Demon Slayer (Biker Witches #1) by Angie Fox • [PNR] £0.99 (and under) £0.49 • He Watches Me (The Seen…
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Welcome to Sunday Love-in! This is a new feature where an author shares one of their favourite smexy-time scenes from their latest book, tells us the reason for their choice and then shares the scene with us with a delicious excerpt. Enjoy. That’s it. This is the end. The final book in the Dark Mission series is here. One for the Wicked represents the completion of a conspiracy that’s been brewing since Silas Smith walked into that strip joint way back in Blood of the Wicked. We’ve watched this story unfold from…
THE AUTHOR Jane is a writer of authentic, passionate and emotional love stories. She began her first historical novel at sixteen, but a life full of adversity derailed her as she lives with the restrictions of Ankylosing Spondylitis. When she finally completed a novel it was because she was determined not to reach forty still saying, I want to write a book. Now Jane is writing a Regency series for Sapphire Star Publishing and she is thrilled to be giving her characters life in others’ imaginations at last. Jane is…
APRIL’S BOOK CLUB PICK The Legend of the Crystal Lens by Samantha Graves Piatkus Books (May 2009) Paperback, 336 pages Romantic Suspense/Adventure Simon Bonner, tomb raider extraordinaire, has left his house pretty quickly after an old acquaintance dies after giving him the news that Simon’s ex-wife, Celina, has been kidnapped. In return the kidnappers want the crystal lens and a woman named Jillian Talbot in order to find the Archives of Man. Jillian Talbot is a museum curator and as she leaves the museum she is held at gunpoint, terrified she allows…
Today we are pleased to welcome Ashlyn Chase, author of the Strange Neighbours paranormal romance series. You can read our reviews of The Werewolf Upstairs and The Vampire Next Door. Ashlyn is here today to talk about the first book in her new paranormal romance series, Flirting Under a Full Moon. So, please welcome Ashlyn… Have you ever noticed the similarities between childbirth and authoring a book? I have. For those of you who are readers and not authors, please bear with me. We talk about conceiving an idea. All books begin…
NEW SERIES ALERT THE SERIES: Dragon Kings BOOK #1: Caged Warrior | GENRE: Paranormal Romance PUBLISHER: Pocket Books | RELEASE DATE: June 2013 The first installment in this fierce and sensual new paranormal romance series features demonic gladiators, ruthless mafia villains, and a proud race on the brink of extinction. Ten years ago, Audrey MacLaren chose to marry her human lover, making her an exile from the Dragon Kings, an ancient race of demons once worshiped as earthly gods. Audrey and her husband managed to conceive, and their son is the first natural-born Dragon…
