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"The Denim Dom" available for pre-order!

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Woot! Siren-BookStrand has The Denim Dom up for pre-order! *Snoopy dance!*

http://www.bookstrand.com/the-denim-dom


Blurb:

Who needs leather when you can have denim? A denim Dom, that is.

Shayla Pierce dumped her lying ex and moved to Florida to start a job at a magazine. An assignment to write about BDSM leads her to discover a new world and make a slew of new friends, including the sinfully sexy Tony Daniels. She’s just not sure she can ever trust again.

Tony is used to teaching about BDSM, but he’s never trained a submissive he wasn’t dating before. After losing hope he’ll ever find the perfect submissive for him, Shayla walks into his life and asks him to train her for her series of articles. He knows about her bad break-up and their agreement is supposed to be nothing more than business. But as she raises the ante, he’s finding it harder to keep his heart under lock and key.

Will Shayla stay a hostage to her past, or allow Tony to become her Denim Dom?

Have a Kindle? No, you do NOT have to wait for my books to hit Amazon. Just sign up for a Siren account and input your device's email address, and they'll send the files to you. No more waiting! :) http://www.sirenbookstrand.com/customers/kindle.htm

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Have an iPad? iPhone or iPod?

They also have links on their site for SonyAndroid, Blackberry, and PC.

Shiny new book cover! "The Denim Dom"

*Drumroll!* Presenting for your perusal, the cover for The Denim Dom, coming 3/1/13 from Siren-BookStrand, and the sequel to Domme by Default and The Reluctant Dom.

Blurb:


Who needs leather when you can have denim? A denim Dom, that is.

Shayla Pierce dumped her lying ex and moved to Florida to start a job at a magazine. An assignment to write about BDSM leads her to discover a new world and make a slew of new friends, including the sinfully sexy Tony Daniels. She’s just not sure she can ever trust again.

Tony is used to teaching about BDSM, but he’s never trained a submissive he wasn’t dating before. After losing hope he’ll ever find the perfect submissive for him, Shayla walks into his life and asks him to train her for her series of articles. He knows about her bad break-up and their agreement is supposed to be nothing more than business. But as she raises the ante, he’s finding it harder to keep his heart under lock and key.

Will Shayla stay a hostage to her past, or allow Tony to become her Denim Dom?

--

Other books from this "world" and characters followed up by this book include:

The Reluctant Dom
Domme by Default
Safe Harbor
Cardinal's Rule

I've dubbed this group of stories "The Suncoast Society" and have several more books planned involving these and other characters.

They're all available at my author page on Siren-BookStrand's site:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton

You can go to my Siren-BookStrand author page, log into your account, and click on the Notify Me link to get an email from Siren when they update my page and add new books for pre-order. (It's also where you can find all my releases under my various pen names: Tymber Dalton, Lesli Richardson, Tessa Monroe, and Macy Largo.)

Sneak Peek from "The Denim Dom"

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Here's a little sneak peek to whet your whistle for The Denim Dom, coming 3/1/13 from Siren-BookStrand. (I don't have the official cover yet, sorry. LOL)

--

Leah apparently sensed it. After Valerie left, Leah turned to Tony and scrunched up her face. “Nada? Are you sure?”

He shrugged. “Sorry. She seems like a very nice woman, but—”

“She doesn’t flip your switch. I get it.”

He smiled. “Never say switch to a Dom, Leah. In either context. I don’t do one, and I’m liable to use the other.”

She laughed. “Yeah, if I ever saw you switch with someone I think I’d make them haul you to the hospital for a CAT scan.” She sighed. “I’d hoped you’d really like her.”

“I do like her. I just don’t lust after her. I’ll be happy to play with her if she wants. I wish more women were like her. I’d be playing all the time if they were all nice, charming, and lacking a full matching six-piece set of emotional baggage. I’m allergic to clingy and drama. You know that.”

--

You can log into your Siren-BookStrand account and go to my author page at http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton and click the Notify Me link at the top of the page to receive an email when they put The Denim Dom up for pre-order. :)

Stranger than fiction? (Stupid Sex Laws Edition)

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Guest Blog: Radical feminism and BDSM.

Monday, February 18, 2013
In my typically head-first, full-tilt charge no-holds-barred tactful way, I take on radical feminist views about BDSM over at The Playroom. Feel free to stop by and give your thoughts.

To radical feminists who hate BDSM: Fuck. You.

DIY: new TV console

Sunday, February 17, 2013
This is DIY in the sense that I assembled it myself. I ordered this TV console from Overstock.com and it arrived Wednesday morning. (I was hoping it'd get here Thursday because I wasn't ready for it, but oh, well.)

What I had for a TV stand was, again, left over from my grandparents. Two of them, one holding the printer, one for the TV, etc.


As you can see, they weren't exactly...um...there are no words. Functional is the kindest one I can use.

So I unpacked the box for the new one, got the pieces inside, and it took me under an hour to assemble the new one.



Yes, I think it's a huge improvement, too. LOL It'll look even better once I finish painting the walls and get the carpet ripped up and new flooring put down.

Now to get rid of the other two! Ugh. A trip to Goodwill is in our future.


Another DIY project: kitchen blinds.

Saturday, February 16, 2013
Another quickie DIY project. The kitchen will eventually get a full remodel. But for now, I needed to get the disgustingly gross, not to mention non-working cheapie blind in the kitchen windows replaced. My grandfather had put them up several years earlier, and it's one thing I hadn't gotten around to doing. They were working until an act of kitten *cough* broke them a few weeks earlier.



I had some help from the same "help" that broke the old one in the first place.



Yes, I replaced it with equally cheap, but not gross (and working) blinds for now. (Less than $6 each at Lowe's.) I went with two instead of one long one. I still need to put window tint in these windows as well, but didn't feel up to wrestling with it tonight.


And voila! Took me all of thirty minutes or so, from start to finish.

Another project checked off the list.


Quick romance term primer for readers.

Friday, February 15, 2013
A discussion on a writer's group I'm on prompted this post. While many readers understand what the different acronyms mean on romance book descriptions, some don't. (Witness how many people complain about male-male sex in a book labelled MMF. LOL)

So here is a quick primer of terms for you. (Feel free to share the link.)

Pairings:

MF - Male/Female
MM - Male/Male
MMM - Male menage (a + sign might mean more men)
FF - Female/Female
FFF - Female menage (a + sign might mean more men)
MMF - Male/Male/Female (meaning the guys do each other as well as the woman in the book)
MFM - Male/Female/Male (meaning the guys ONLY do the woman, not each other)
MFMM (or MFMM+) - One Alpha male who gets the woman, but there are other males in the menage as well, who only do the woman, not each other.
MMMF (or MMM+F) - The guys "do" each other in addition to the woman.
(Note: The + sign is added on sometimes rather than writing out all the letters. LOL)

General rule of thumb: The pairings that come before the F designation determine if it's GLBT or not. Yes, it's an alphabet soup, but careful reading when warnings are given can help you find what you're interested in.

WHY are these designations important? Because if you do not enjoy guy-on-guy action and you buy a MMF book, if the book description or publisher warning lists it as such, it's not fair to ding the author for having male-male action in their book when it's labelled. (Obviously, if it's not labelled, unless you read reviews that listed it, it'd be hard to know ahead of time.)

Other terms:

HFN - Happy-For-Now (meaning the pair/menage ends up happy for the immediate future)
HEA - Happily-Ever-After (meaning they metaphorically ride off into the sunset together.)
DubCon - Dubious Consent. Seen more in historical, paranormal, and sci-fi than in contemporary books, it's basically where the heroine (or beta hero) is "taken." Some equate this to rape, and in some cases it isn't much better than rape, but in some cases the heroine/beta hero does give consent before the relationship is consummated.


Happy Valentine's Day!

Thursday, February 14, 2013
Happy Valentine's Day, y'all. :) Whether you have a partner(s) or are single, I hope you have a great day today. Here is a various selection of items stolen pulled from my Facebook feed for your enjoyment.

Have a great one!











Ikea hack #2: cat scratching mat.

This is absurdly...absurd. I picked up two of the Ikea Sindal floor mats for $4.99 each at the Tampa Ikea store.

As you can see from the comparison, Grimmy is standing on the new mat, upon which I've laid an EXPENSIVE store-bought cat-scratch mat.

Which is less than HALF the size, and about two-thirds MORE than the Ikea mat.

Not to mention, the Ikea mat has a latex backing on it that keeps it from sliding, whereas the cat-scratch mat will slide on smooth floors (and on carpet).

I'm kicking myself that I only bought two of the darn things while I was there. When I go back, I'm going to buy a BUNCH of them. The cats were all over them when I got them home and put them down.

Chat with me at Righteous Perverts tonight!

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tonight (Wednesday) I'll be chatting live with the Righteous Perverts on their site. (Scroll all the way down their page to find the chat log-in box.)

8pm CST/9pm EST

It's always a blast, and I'll be kvetching about my current home improvement hell, dishing about Tony's story (The Denim Dom) that releases 3/1, and more!

http://therighteouspervertpulpit.blogspot.com

Ikea hack: Stuva litterbox camouflage.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013
I've been buried in home improvement hell for a while now. I decided while Hubby was gone I was going to paint and re-floor the living room.

Then I busted my knee, and a dear friend of ours died, and my steam has sort of...fizzled.

But at least one third of my living room looks great. LOL

Well, we have cats. Seven, to be exact, in addition to the three dogs and two birds. We have litter pans all over, including one in the crate the nearly-grown kittens were confined to at night and while we were out of the house.

Eh, not so much.

Yes, they're the dome-type, so it's not so bad. But I'm sooo over having litter pans "out" in the house. Yet with that many cats, one central litter pan will NOT work for a variety of reasons. I'd looked at some of those pre-made "litter pan houses" that look like furniture, but I wasn't impressed with them (or their prices).

Then I stumbled across www.ikeahackers.net.

*Cue trumpets!*

There were a TON of ideas on how to hide litter pans. (And I'm guessing if keeping food away from dogs is an issue for you, you could also use them for that purpose as well.)

So I dragged my butt over to Ikea in Tampa yesterday (my first time there). Used lunch to help quell the panic attack at the sheer size of the place before I started my journey through the bowels of Scandinavian furniture hell.

My problem was, I wanted EVERYTHING. LOL I'd find one good idea, then discard it for another...and another...and...

You get the idea.

Ironically, I settled on one idea for the living room rather quickly, a Besta shelf unit and doors that I'll add a cat-flap door to the side. The second one, a smaller one for the dining room, eluded me until literally almost the end. I got a small Stuva frame, the Stuva Grundlig drawer and drawer front, and knew it'd work.

It wasn't until after I got home I realized I should have also picked up a shelf. *head/desk*

So that means another trip to Ikea in the next few days. (Oh, darn. LOL Although, seriously, next time I will take Hubby with me. I was overwhelmed by the time I hit the warehouse part.)

Dewey checking out the new pan.
I had originally planned to put the drawer in the top and use the bottom for the litter pan, and hide it with a piece of fabric or something. Then I decided to put the drawer in the bottom, which makes cleaning the litter pan super-easy (If your cats kick the drawer out, just add a magnetic cabinet latch to the sides to give it extra hold.) I'll put the shelf in to take up some of the gap and hold cat food cans, and I can still staple a piece of screening or fabric or something to hide the gap if I want.

Assembly time: 30 minutes, approximately.
Cost: $54 (and I think the shelf is like $5 or so)
Difficulty: Easy-peasy.

Compare that to over $100 some of those places want for the pre-made litter pan houses. Yes, it's definitely worth doing it myself. LOL

I was in USA Today!!!!

Thursday, February 7, 2013
WOW. I was stumbling out around in the yard walking dogs pre-coffee and no glasses and trying to scroll through my email on my phone when I found this!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/happyeverafter/2013/02/06/tbt-throwback-thursday-patricia-briggs-lauren-dane-lesli-richardson/1896973/

*clears throat*

OHMYFRAKKINGGODDESSIWASFEATUREDINUSATODAY!!!!!!!!*

Sorry. I had to scream it.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!

Sorry. I think I'm done screaming in joy now. Okay, yes, I have 41, not 12 books out, but OMG!!!!! I would SOOOOO girl kiss this woman on the lips for writing this!!!!!! I'm just...WOW! I'm stunned in a good way, and yes, after the horrible last week I had, this was... WOW!

And yes, despite my bad knee, Pink Panther bathrobe, and pajamas, I sort of look a little like this this morning:



Adult Excerpt: "It's a Sweet Life - Coffeeshop Coven Prequel" (mfm) by Tymber Dalton

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Here is an adult excerpt from my book It's a Sweet Life, a standalone prequel to my new Coffeeshop Coven series, and now available from Siren-BookStrand:

http://www.bookstrand.com/its-a-sweet-life

Blurb:

Libbie Addams has a mortgage on her struggling bakery, no love life, no health insurance…and fibromyalgia. She's worried about making ends meet when two hunks show up to rent her extra apartment. Not only do cousins Ken Dougherty and Charles Stackhouse make her money worries disappear, they offer to help out in their spare time.

They also make her panties damp. Too bad they're gay, but they’re great eye candy.

The men have a secret—they're not gay cousins. They're twin brothers hiding from a vengeful mob boss. Charles is Allan Donohue, a prosecutor with the State Attorney's office in Miami. Benjamin Donohue is the undercover detective who helped break the case wide open. Now they're marked for death.

They hope their ruse can keep them, and Libbie, safe. Because now that they've fallen in love with the delicious baker, they’ll never let her go. But when vengeance comes calling, will they ever get to enjoy their sweet life together?

--


Story Excerpt

“So,” Ken teased, “does he screen your boyfriends for you?”

She let out another snort. “That’s a laugh. What boyfriends?” She took a sip of her tea. “This dinner with you two is the closest thing I’ve had to a date in a year.” Time to quit talking about myself. “So tell me about your families. What’s Nebraska like?”


* * * *

Allan frantically groped for a way to fill in the blanks while praying they didn’t end up contradicting themselves or each other in the process. “Well, it’s not Florida.” What he knew about Nebraska was that they had a team called the Cornhuskers, and Penny from The Big Bang Theory hailed from there.

I’m going to need a trip to Wikipedia later if I’m going to do this convincingly for any length of time.

“Thank god,” Ben added, throwing a warning glance his way.

They’d agreed to keep the details to a minimum, lessening the chance of screwing things up. Allan hated lying. As a prosecutor, his job was getting to the truth. Ben on the other hand had way more practical experience in staying undercover and keeping a story straight.

Hell, it was all he could do to remember he wasn’t supposed to be straight and to not start flirting with her. She’d seemed so sad when skimming over the details of her divorce and her parents’ deaths. He longed to reach over and give her a hug, give her a comforting set of arms to relax into.

He mentally shook his head. Must. Focus.

“How are you guys related?” she asked. “You said you were cousins?”

The men spoke at the same time.

“Our fathers—” Ben said.

“Our mothers—” Allan said.

Both men’s mouths snapped shut. Allan thought the fastest and beat Ben to the punch while Libbie’s brow furrowed in confusion. “My dad and his brother married his mom and her sister,” he quickly said.

He noted the desperate look on Ben’s face, so Allan quickly threw in, “It was a double wedding.”

Libbie was looking at him and missed the arched brow and warning look Ben gave him from across the table. When she looked at Ben, Allan sent him an apologetic shrug.

“What?” she asked.

“Two brothers married two sisters,” Ben added. “Sorry, he always says that confusing. We’re double cousins. Our fathers are brothers and our mothers are sisters.”

“Oh,” she said, not looking like she was any less confused. “Does that happen a lot?”

“It apparently does in Nebraska,” Allan muttered as he took a swig of tea.


* * * *

If Ben could, he’d reach across the table and slap the crap out of his brother.

So much for keeping it simple.

“They grew up in the same town,” he added as he glared at Allan when Libbie focused on his brother again. “Small town outside of Omaha,” he quickly added when he remembered they were supposed to be from Omaha.

“I imagine the winters are cold there, huh?”

“So do I,” Allan said. “I mean, yeah, you’re right, they are,” he quickly added upon spotting Ben’s frantic warning look.

“Well, I guess that explains why you both look so much alike,” she observed. “Makes sense.”

“Yeah, we’ve gotten that all our lives,” Ben said. He hoped they made it through dinner without blowing their cover. The guys would never let me hear the end of it back at the station. I made it three years in a New Jersey mob family, just to have a baker find out the truth in one dinner because my brother’s an idiot.

“Any brothers or sisters?” she asked.

“Nope,” Ben said. “We’re both only children. We grew up like brothers, though. Very close.”

“Ah. Oh, I was curious. I noticed you didn’t have a Nebraska plate on the front of your car when I went out. Are they like Florida and just use one tag?”

Ben didn’t dare risk throwing a glance Allan’s way because he sensed his brother had frozen up. “I hit the tag office first thing this morning,” Ben said before taking a swig of tea to buy him some time. “Already changed them.”

“Oh.”

“Ready for soup?” Allan quickly asked to change the topic.

Ben breathed a sigh of relief and hoped he could steer the conversation clear of their fictitious families of origin and license plates that didn’t exist. He mentally smacked himself in the head. The truck they’d borrowed belonged to another retired cop friend of his, one he knew was clean, who lived in Palm Beach. His own car was safely stashed in his friend’s garage. Stupidly, in the rush to get out of Miami, he’d forgotten that little detail about license plates.

I need to get my head on straight. Ben stood and picked up his salad bowl, offering to take hers as well since she’d finished.

“Thanks.” She gave him a warm smile with more than just a hint of sadness coloring her features.

His heart raced. For a moment he wasn’t able to make his feet move. “You’re welcome.” Man up, Donohue. This isn’t like you. He pulled himself away from her green gaze and joined Allan in the kitchen.

They were too close to the table for them to say anything to each other, so he stomped on Allan’s foot instead.

When Allan looked at him, Ben made a “quit fucking this up” face at him. Well, he hoped Allan interpreted it correctly.

For all he knew, maybe his twin would think he was constipated.

--

Adult Excerpt

Blinking, she looked from one identical pair of killer blue eyes to the other. She nodded.

“Any special requests?” Charles asked.

Heat rebounded from her pussy to her face and back again. “Some of…the books…” She couldn’t believe she was actually saying this! “They…you know, the guys…front and back at the same time.”

“Ahh,” Charles said, a pleased smile on his face. “Double penetration. We can oblige. It’s one of our favorite things, too.” His face flashed back to serious. “But only if you want to. We can’t just go to town and have you enjoy it. We need to loosen you up first, or it’ll hurt and you won’t enjoy it. Okay?”

She nodded.

“But first.” His mouth slanted down on hers. She closed her eyes, moaning as her arms found his neck again and she held on for dear life as the world melted away. “First,” he repeated when he broke their kiss, “we need to do something else, or we won’t make it five seconds inside you doing DP. We’re good, but we’re not that good.”

She nodded.

Ken turned her to face him. She found her arms automatically wrapping around his neck as they had with Charles. “And you’re going to have to talk to us,” he said. “We need you to tell us what feels good, as well as what doesn’t. We don’t want to hurt you.” He brushed a stray strand of hair from her forehead, tucking it behind her ear with a tenderness that nearly broke her heart. “We know you have a lot of pain in your life. We only want to bring you pleasure.”

The power of speech had apparently escaped her. She nodded.

Charles nibbled at her earlobe again. “That’s our good girl.”

She felt her heart crumbling into pieces as she fell in love with them. Both of them. It was stupid and irrational and most likely the result of her hormones and lack of real sex in a long, long time. She also knew she could never admit it to them, so she wouldn’t be faced with the humiliating prospect of them not returning her feelings.

But there, deep inside her, she knew the truth, even if she couldn’t admit it.

Charles stepped away for a moment as Ken took over kissing her again. She caught a flurry of movement out of the corner of her eye and realized Charles had stripped. If there was a world record for getting naked without the use of Velcro seams, he’d probably set the bar high.

He pulled her from Ken and kissed her. She ran her hands over his body, over the light dusting of dark hair sprinkled across his pecs, including a treasure trail that led down to a gorgeous and rigid cock jutting from his body. Beside them, Ken dropped his clothes, too, then turned on the bedside lamp and turned off the overhead light. His body looked identical to his cousin’s, his cock every bit as deliciously large and hard as Charles’s.

Ken rummaged through the bag Mandaline had given her and pulled out the condoms. “I hope you’ll indulge me, but I need you, baby. I need to feel my cock in you right now.” He ripped the foil pouch open and rolled it on over his cock. Then he grabbed her, kissing her hard and fierce and sucking the breath right out of her. As she felt her body nearly go limp, he gently pushed her facedown onto the bed, her feet on the floor.

He pulled her skirt up around her hips as her clit throbbed, her whole pussy aching. She felt her face heat as his hands found and yanked down her panties.

“Oh,” he moaned, “you’re soaked, baby.” She helped him by stepping out of the sodden garment as his fingers pressed for entrance. As the bed dipped in front of her, she let out a loud moan as one, then two fingers slipped inside her cunt, slowly thrusting.

She wanted to cry from how good it felt. Not enough to get her off, but more than enough to drive her close to the edge.

Charles cupped her cheeks with his palms and lifted her face from the bed. She found herself inches from that delicious cock. With a will of their own, her lips parted and her tongue tried to reach out, to lick the pearly drop of pre-cum sliding from the slit at the end of the engorged head.

He obliged by scooting a little closer. She didn’t know who moaned more loudly, him or her, when the hot, silken iron of his shaft slid between her lips and down her tongue, filling her mouth. Behind her, she felt Ken step between her legs, his sheathed cock nudging between her labia for entrance. When he slid home, deep and hard and pushing her farther onto Charles’ cock, she moaned again.

Ken’s voice sounded strained. “Can you come just from being fucked, baby?”

Charles pulled out long enough so she could answer. “Sometimes, I don’t know. Not all the time.” She reached for Charles, grabbing at his thighs to pull his cock back into her mouth.

“Okay, baby,” Ken said. “This is going to be hard and fast and I’m sorry if you don’t come this time, but I promise I’ll make it up to you.” He started slow, making her whimper as he bottomed out inside her, the pleasant ache that turned into pleasure as his cock stretched her pussy and churned her juices.

Every time she moaned, Charles moaned, too. He scooped her hair into his hand, holding it out of her way as he flexed his hips to thrust between her lips. As hot and hard as he was, she suspected he wouldn’t last long, either. Lost in the spiral of passion, she sucked down the pre-cum streaming from his cock, sweet and tangy and salty at the same time.

She imagined what she must look like, still dressed while being spit-roasted between these two hunks, how wild they were being, and how good it felt. Then Ken reached around her and slowed his strokes, fumbling and finally locating her swollen clit.

--


It's a Sweet Life is a mfm contemporary with just a TINY hint of paranormal elements from secondary characters.The Coffeeshop Coven series will center around Many Blessings, the New Age shop introduced in my book, Out of the Darkness. Not quite the heavy paranormal of my shifters and vampires, I'm hoping my contemporary fans will also enjoy this series.

If you haven't read Out of the Darkness yet, it's my 2010 EPIC winner that also provides some backstory for Many Blessings. You don't have to read it to read "It's a Sweet Life" or the rest of the series, but if you want the full backstory, you might enjoy it:

http://www.bookstrand.com/out-of-the-darkness

You can go to my Siren-BookStrand author page and click on the Notify Me link to get an email from Siren when they update my page and add new books for pre-order:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton

(It's also where you can find all my releases under my various pen names: Tymber Dalton, Lesli Richardson, Tessa Monroe, and Macy Largo.)

Thanks, and a request.

Monday, February 4, 2013
Sorry I've been quiet this past week. We had a very dear friend suddenly die early Tuesday morning, and it's been rough. Thank you to everyone on Facebook and who's privately emailed me. I'm sorry I'm so buried in emails. I'm trying to work through the backlog, but the notes and your care and concern are greatly appreciated.

Today, I'm making a request. You know I don't normally do this, but this is a cause near and dear to my heart. A good friend of mine goes on overseas dental mission trips. Regardless of your spiritual views, I can personally attest to the fact that they do on-the-ground work that makes a real difference in the lives of people who normally might never have access to dental care.

Even if you can't donate, please consider sharing the link via your social networks. Let's try to get her to her goal as soon as possible. I've always bragged to her that I have the world's best readers, and you all have never let me down. ((HUGS))

http://www.gofundme.com/1z9u40

Thanks, everyone. :)