Anya Bast

….Lisa F., who said, “Kresley Cole…I would ask her to adopted me so that I can read her books as she types them out.”

Congrats, Lisa! Drop me an email at anyabast (at) gmail.com (or use the handy dandy contact form on my site) before May 5th to collect your prize.

Good luck to all in today’s contest for BIT BY THE BUG.

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Author Bio: Michelle M Pillow, Author of All Things Romance, is a multi-published, award winning author writing in many romance fiction genres including futuristic, paranormal, historical, contemporary, fantasy and dark paranormal. She co-hosts a live radio talk show, Raven Radio, which was recently mentioned in Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine.

Interview Questions:

1.) How did you get started in writing and how long have you been doing it? I’ve been writing professionally for five years. For the longest time, I thought I’d be a photographer and I did work freelance for a time. I’ve always loved to tell stories, whether it was with a photo or words.

2.) What genres/subgenres are your favorites to write within and do you have any aspirations to write outside your current genres/subgenres. Try something new? I currently write in romance genres—paranormal, contemporary, historical, futuristic, dark paranormal, fantasy and every combination thereof. I love to try out different genres. It’s what keeps my head fresh. Right now I have no plans to add more romance genres, but someday I would like to do some horror novels.

3.) What are you working on now and what releases do you have coming up? I just started a new alternate reality series with Ellora’s Cave called Divinity Warrior. It started March 25th with Lilith Enraptured. Book Two, Fighting Lady Jayne, releases in May 2009. Book Three, Keeping Paige, has just been contracted and I’m currently working on Book Four. I plan on writing several spin off series for these books on different planes of existence.

About the series:

In one of the many universes parallel to ours, Divinity Corporation has discovered the secret to moving between the planes. This has given them the power to do pretty much whatever they want without consequence or regulation. Whether it’s to ship unwilling brides in trade for minerals rights, to control everything from entertainment circuits to governments to academics, or simply gain that which every greedy corporation wants–Power.

4.) Anything else you’d like to share? Readers are welcome to join my newsletter where they’ll hear about all my new contracts and releases. (LINK: http://www.michellepillow.com/newsletter/?p=subscribe ) Or on my biweekly radio show every 2nd and 4th Wed. (LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ravenradio ) co-hosted with Mandy M Roth. We interview different people and take calls from listeners.

Michelle is asking this one — Since my newest books are about alternate realities and different versions of the same worlds, I’m curious, if you could live inside a movie’s world, which would you choose? And would you be a certain character?

Michelle says: I would have to say Pride and Prejudice. Come on, who wouldn’t want to live happily-ever-after with the handsomely rich Mr. Darcy in that mansion? Or, perhaps, a world filled with vampires and lycans. Yeah, I know, it’s a 180 turn from Mr. Darcy, but as long as I was the heroine and not the meal I think it could work.

So, readers, how about you?

Preye! Who said, “Got God, got knifes, got salt…guess I’m as prepared as can be! :-)”

Email me at anyabast (at) gmail.com, Preye, to collect your prize. You have until May 5th.

Everyone else. good luck in today’s contest for DANGEROUS GROUNDS!

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Author Bio:Shelli read her first romance novel when she snuck it off her mother’s bookshelf when she was eleven. One taste and she was forever hooked on romance novels. It wasn’t until many years later that she decided to pursue writing stories of her own. By then she acknowledged the voices in her head didn’t make her crazy, they made her a writer. Shelli currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her young daughter, where she is President of her local RWA (Romance Writers of America) chapter. When not writing, Shelli enjoy music, reading, being outdoors, exercising, and spending time with her family and friends.

Interview Questions:

1.) How did you get started in writing and how long have you been doing it? I’ve always been a writer. Even as a kid when I would write my own versions of Sweet Valley High. Granted they were a lot sexier.  I only became serious about writing in my early twenties though. I sought out advice from my dad’s cousin who wrote regencies, joined the RWA, and the rest is history.

2.) What genres/subgenres are your favorites to write within and do you have any aspirations to write outside your current genres/subgenres. Try something new? Gosh, I’m already a bit of a genre hopper. I’ve done contemporary, romantic suspense, paranormal, and futuristic. All pretty spicy/erotic. I love to write any story and have a suspense hook. So some day, I can see myself really going hardcore into a spicy romantic suspense. I love a good suspense thread. Action stuff.

3.) What are you working on now and what releases do you have coming up? I’m working on a proposal for my option book with the Kensington Aphrodisia line. It’s a hot shifter story that shows what happens with two side characters I introduce in my novella in the Sexy Beast VII anthology.

Shelli says: Hmmm. I’d do lunch with Lora Leigh and ask her how she makes her heroes so damn yummy.

The winner of Daring Time is Anne, who said, “I’d use part of it to have built in books put in my book room. Then of course I’d have to get more books Anything else I’d probably give to the animal rescue group I work with.”

Congrats, Anne! You have until May 5th to contact me either by the contact form on my site or by emailing me at anyabast (at) gmail.com to collect your prize.

Good luck in today’s contest for THE VAMPIRE’S QUEST, all!!!

After escaping from the Otherworld Crime Unit, Kellen Falcon came to Nouveau Monde to crack a rare blood disease. But the European hotbed of temptation yielded sport no vampire could resist—criminologist Sophie St. Clair. And with only days to live, Kellen sought sweet release from her to escape a savage past.

The lycan beauty wasn’t one to stray from her pact. But an investigation into a downtown bombing now tied the two together. And it wasn’t long before Kellen’s smoldering eyes and Sophie’s fierce desire for this vampire put her loyalties to the test….

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Author Bio: Frequently on Recommended Reading lists, award-winning Canadian author, Vivi Anna likes to burn up the pages with her unique brand of fantasy fiction. Whether it’s in the Amazon jungle, an apocalyptic future, or the otherworld city of Necropolis, Vivi always writes fast paced action-adventure with strong independent women that can kick some butt, and dark delicious heroes to kill for.

Interview Questions:

1.) How did you get started in writing and how long have you been doing it? I started writing short erotic stories for adult magazines to make some quick money back in 2001. Then I started writing screenplays, wrote six, got all of them read a lot but even after some interest from various producers I never sold. So I got discouraged and decided to write books instead. That was in 2003. I started in epublishing, then made the move to NY in 2005. So I’ve been actively pursuing a writing career for eight years.

2.) What genres/subgenres are your favorites to write within and do you have any aspirations to write outside your current genres/subgenres. Try something new? I love writing anything paranormal. I’m currently writing urban fantasy and trying my hand at paranormal young adult. I’d love to one day try and write a huge space opera, ala Battlestar Galactica.

3.) What are you working on now and what releases do you have coming up? I’m working on book six of the Valorian Chronicles. Book 4, The Vampire’s Quest is out now, and coming soon will be book 5, The Vampire’s Kiss, and a short called, The Bewitching Hour. I will also have a release from Samhain Publishing called Demon Dreamer, and that should be out in ebook June/July, then in print shortly afterward.

4.) Anything else you’d like to share? Yup, thanks to Anya for the play date. She rocks. And if you haven’t read one of her books, you don’t know what you are missing.

Vivi says: Yes, I have a shovel and an ax. Both are good for knocking heads off. And ghosts are no problem with my shotgun loaded with rocksalt. I have my copy of The Supernatural book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons and Ghouls. Dean and Sam are my idols.

I had so many this year that I decided to do a slide show. Unfortunately, I have no way to post the slide show to this blog and I’m too tired and sick to do anything more than point you to my LJ, where it is posted. Go forth, view the pics and be entertained. 🙂

….from the time I was at RT and without Internet access (except for briefly one day by the pool bar).

Winner of Primordial, by Denise Agnew is: Estella! She said, “Crafty, retired ,grandmother.”

Winner of Witch Heart, by Anya Bast is: Janel! She said, “I don’t know where it came from, but my mom’s side of the family called me Granola. It never bothered me, but I have no idea why they called me that. Maybe I loved eating granola when I was little???”

Winner of Secrets 22, featuring “Heat,” by Ellie Marvel is: Karin! She said, “The three things I would wish for are:
1. Good health for me and my family. 2. The ability to travel to all the places I haven’t had a chance to get to yet. 3. A wonderful man to share my life with.”

Winner of Asking For It, featuring “Ablaze,” by Kit Tunstall is: Colleen! She said, “I would probably run screaming and hoping that a handsome sexy hero would come along to save me!” Good answer, Colleen!

Congrats all winners! Drop me an email via the contact form on my site or email me at anyabast (at) gmail.com before May 5th to claim your prize!

Good luck in today’s contest for DARING TIME, by Beth Kery. I met her at RT and she’s so sweet. Speaking of RT, I’ll do a post with pictures and stuff, but I require a bit of recovery time first. I’m down sick with the bug that attacks me every time I travel. I’ll put up a RT post as soon as I’m able. I’m reading through all the comments I missed over the last week and a lot of them are making me LOL. You guys are a hoot. I’m so glad I decided to host this contest.

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Author Bio: Beth Kery grew up in a huge house built in the nineteenth century where she cultivated her love of mystery and the paranormal. When she wasn’t hunting for secret passageways and ghosts with her friends, she was gobbling up fantasy and romance novels along with any other books she could get her hands on. Currently she juggles the demands of her career, her love of the city and the arts and a busy family life. Her writing today reflects her passion for all of the above. Beth writes for Berkley, Ellora’s Cave, Samhain and Whiskey Creek Press.

Interview Questions:

1.) How did you get started in writing and how long have you been doing it? I was first published with Ellora’s Cave in January of 2007. Before publication, I wrote for about two years.

2.) What genres/subgenres are your favorites to write within and do you have any aspirations to write outside your current genres/subgenres. Try something new? I’m in an erotic contemporary phase at the moment, but I also love paranormal and historical. Daring Time, which is a time travel, was ideal for me, because it contains elements of a contemporary, paranormal and historical. I’d like to try a romantic suspense. Several of my books already contain suspense elements, but I’ve never done a pure romantic suspense.

3.) What are you working on now and what releases do you have coming up? I just finished up an erotic contemporary for Berkley Heat called Release, which will come out in February of 2010. As far as upcoming releases, I have a paranormal coming out at Ellora’s Cave on 4/29/9 called Through Her Eyes, Daring Time on 5/5/9, an erotic contemporary from Berkley entitled Sweet Restraint on 7/7/9, and another erotic contemporary called Paradise Rules on 10/6/9.

4.)Anything else you’d like to share? Not that I can think of, Anya. Thank you for having me, and hello to all of your readers.

Beth says: Oh, fun question. I’d use it to travel in Europe and Egypt. I love to travel, and although I’ve been to various places in Europe several times, I’ve always had a dream about seeing the pyramids. Travel is so expensive at present with the exchange rate, so yeah…thank you long lost relative and hello Sphinx and the Eiffel Tower.

In these steamy stories, sexy women really turn up the heat….

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Author Bio: Kit Tunstall lives in Idaho with her husband, son, and two spoiled dog-children. She enjoys writing erotic romance because it allows for full exploration of the developing relationship of the main characters. In her free time, she attends college, reads, gardens, travels, plays golf (badly), goes bowling with her family, and cooks.

Interview Questions:

1.) How did you get started in writing and how long have you been doing it? I’ve always been a scribbler and had several teachers in school tell me I had a gift. I didn’t consider it as a real career option until after I got married. My husband encouraged me to quit my day job and try writing full-time. I’ve been writing seriously since 2000.

2.) What genres/subgenres are your favorites to write within and do you have any aspirations to write outside your current genres/subgenres. Try something new? I enjoy all forms for romance, and erotic romance is probably the most fun to write. I also write horror and children’s novels, but probably won’t be crossing genres any time soon.

3.) What are you working on now and what releases do you have coming up? I’m working on a contemporary for Ellora’s Cave. Aside from the Vegas 2 release, I anticipate having another in the Hunters series out at Loose Id later in 2009 or early 2010.

4.) Anything else you’d like to share? Nope.

Readers, here is the contest part. Answer this question in the comments to be entered in a drawing for a copy of ASKING FOR IT. Check back to tomorrow for the announcement of the winner. The winner will have until May 5th (that’s the last day of the contest) to contact me in order to collect the prize. This contest IS open to non-US entrants.

Kit says: I’d rip open the collar of my shirt to help them along with the task. LOL.