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Perfect 5 Star Review for my Erotic Paranormal Romance Eva’s Last Dance from Book Junkie

I just got the most glorious review for Eva’s Last Dance from Brande over at Book Junkie yesterday, in conjunction with my guest blog there.

Normally, when I quote reviews here, I excerpt them, but this review is short enough, and glowing enough, I’m going to quote the whole review.

It’s worth it.

So are you ready for a super fast (less than 35pp), read that will fog up your windows, curl your toes and give you those warm fuzzies we all love…. If you answer is yes then I suggest you pick up Teal Ceagh’s Eva’s Last Dance which just released this last Tuesday from Ellora’s Cave .

This is the story of Eva and her lost love Edward, and a demon hunter and vampires or at least I thought it was. Confusing you yet, well good because until the last few pages of this highly engrossing little story, I was but consumed with figuring out what was going on. But through all the little mini twists and turns comes a story of love, true love that never dies, one that fights off evil (in the form of a vicious Gargoyle) and most seriously hot, wickedly passionate love scenes between Ryan and Eva which only increases their bond. The trust that and caring between the two melting my heart. I won’t tell you to many details as the blurb just about covers this short story, but what I can say is that Teal (aka Tracy Cooper-Posey), knows how to write some of the most erotic scenes and frankly I love every naughty word. I read this cooking mac & cheese for my son over the stove one night, a guilty little pleasure in between reads and a delightfully delicious scorcher! If I wasn’t already a Teal/Tracy Uber fan, I would be now. Somehow she knew just how to hit the spot. Love, vampires, romance, erotic sex, and a bunch of different paranormal creatures invading dancing away with your heart.

Book Junkie’s Rating: 5/5

You’ll find the original review here.

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I’m Guesting Today – Two Blogs, Two Chances to Win

The blog tour for Eva’s Last Dance kicks off with a double-header today, so you have two chances to win.  I’m guesting at Literary Escapsim and at Book Junkie today, so head on over, chat back at me and check out how to enter their contests to be in the draw for a chance to pick your prize.  Any one of the three books in the Destiny’s Trinities series is up for grabs — and you get to pick.

If you don’t come away from Literary Escapism looking over your shoulder and feeling totally paranoid, I’ve failed in my job!

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Nearly 100 years after their last dance together, Eva’s long lost love, Edward makes contact again.  Eva—petite, blonde, blue-eyed, lonely and a vampire now—can’t resist falling into his arm and under his erotic spell.  She’ll do anything he asks of her now.

Until the spell is rudely interrupted by human demon hunter, Ryan Jefferson, who is on the trail of an incubus.  He sets out to seduce Eva properly in a searing night of dance and passion.

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I’m For Sale In Japan.

If you’re a blog owner yourself, then you’ll understand how checking stats becomes a habit.  Every now and again you open up the statistics page and analyse the heck out of the suckers, and actually look at the really weird stuff and sometimes follow it back to the source just to find out where it takes you.

Surprise!   Look where it took me yesterday!  I’m published in Japanese!

I knew that Ellora’s Cave has a deal with a Japanese publisher, but usually that’s the last you hear of it.  There’s a Japanese blog owner who has built a list of romance book she (I presume) likes, and researched the authors and linked back to their blogs.  And that’s how I found my books.

It’s very interesting.  Very much like Amazon, but with Japanese script.  Unfortunately, Babelfish crashed when I tried to translate it.

Here’s Forbidden on the bookstore page, and here’s Red Leopard.

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February Issue of Stories Rule Is Out – Mini-Medium Contest This Month.

I just sent out the February issue of my monthly newsletter, Stories Rule. Only a day late.  Not too shabby, under the circumstances.  :)

I settled on a mini-medium contest for this month, as I have two books coming out.  It seemed appropriate.

The prizes up for grabs include:

1. $20 Amazon Gift Certificate

2. Copy of Dead Double*

3. Copy of Eva’s Last Dance*

[* If you don’t want to wait for the contest draw, you can go ahead and buy these, and then select any of my back list books instead, if you happen to win.  Alternatively, you can add their Ellora’s Cave value to your Amazon Gift Certificate.]

You must be a subscriber of the newsletter to enter, but subscription is free, and you get a free book when you subscribe, which is a real pain, huh?  Check here for details on how to subscribe.

Here’s this month’s contents:

Ohmydearlord!!!!…4

Mailbag…5

News & Gossip…7

The Big Secret…9

Eye Candy…11

Contest…12

Events & Next Issue…13

Contact Information…14

I’ve also indulged one of my personal preferences when it comes to the eye candy this month….  ;)

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Teal Ceagh’s Paranormal Romance, Eva’s Last Dance, is out today!

My Teal Ceagh erotic paranormal romance quickie from Ellora’s Cave is released today.  Eva’s Last Dance is part of the Dance of Desire series, and I believe it is the very first story in the series to be released.  I love the cover, too — the passion pulses between the pair.

There’s a very long excerpt on the book’s page here on my site, so if you’d like a sneak peek, click here.  To jump straight to the book’s page on Ellora’s Cave, click here.

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Nearly 100 years after their last dance together, Eva’s long lost love, Edward makes contact again.  Eva—petite, blonde, blue-eyed, lonely and a vampire now—can’t resist falling into his arm and under his erotic spell.  She’ll do anything he asks of her now.

Until the spell is rudely interrupted by human demon hunter, Ryan Jefferson, who is on the trail of an incubus.  He sets out to seduce Eva properly in a searing night of dance and passion.

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Top Five Posts for January 2010.

And Oded Fehr hangs in there by a whisker yet again!  I guess that shows the true staying power of a genuine, yummy hero.  He’s in the #5 spot, but hey, that’s still the top five.  That’s not too shabby considering the huge amount of traffic this site sees.

And without further ado, from fifth to top spot:

5.  Hero Moment of the Week – Oded Fehr ~Sigh~

4. RomantiCon 2010 — October 7 to 10, Richfield Ohio. Start Saving Your Pennies!

3.  The Complete Ellora’s Cave Primer for Newbies Who Are Too Afraid To Ask – Part 3

2.  Tina Donahue gets down deep and dark! Comment and win!

1.  The Big Secret…and A Big Contest.

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I Survived the Killer Deadline!

3:03AM is when I hit “send”.

I am so sleep deprived right now the letters on the screen keep jumping around, and I have to stop and focus to get them to line up.

The title I put on the book was so bad I’m not even going to announce it publically because I know that Ellora’s Cave will ask me to change it.  But that’s okay.  I got the book turned into them, and that’s what counts.  Titles can be changed.  By the time it got to thinking up titles, I was not exactly firing on any sort of cylinders at all.

I hope I go a long, long time before I have to do another binge-writing session like that again.

Gimme a few hours, some more caffeine and some solid food (I’m also really deprived of good, decent food, too), and I’ll sort out the winners of the various contests, get the newsletter out, and start behaving like a normal human being…well, as close to normal as I get, anyway. :)

Have you have ever crammed for something with a deadline that you just had to hit, then had to try to function the next day like a normal person?  Any interesting near-misses?  Out-of-body moments?  (College and chemicals don’t count here — too common!)

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Postcards From The Edge – My Ever-Lovin’s Match Last Night.

So Mark’s on the road this weekend, and you might get postcards from yours saying “here’s where we had lunch looking out over the Great Falls, honey!”

I get postcards saying “looking at the great match I had, honey!”

Here’s the photo I got this morning — it was taken with a Blackberry, so it’s a bit grainy.

Yeah, that’s real blood.

Yeah, that’s his blood.

Yeah, I think my killer deadline just got screwed over.

Men.

Sigh.

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Last Chance Today — Two contest close by end of day, both with big prizes.

There’s two contests running here that close by midnight MST, so if you haven’t entered yet, this is a quick reminder.

1.  The Teal Ceagh expose-all, 12 book package. — click here to enter.

2.  The “How Reading Erotic Romance Changed my Sex Life” contest, with 6 books up for grabs — which started on the Teal Ceagh site and is still running here.  Click here to enter.

I’m on the deadline from hell, also with a midnight cut-off, so I’m keeping it short and sweet today.

That’s it — good luck!

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Nice Review for Mia’s Return

I just love Google Alerts.  You end up finding little kernels of joy you otherwise might have missed.  Like this review.  It’s a bit old now, but I just found it yesterday.

Mandi at Smexy Books reviewed Mia’s Return for me – well – Teal.

Apart from a masterful plot summary that you should go over to Smexy to read (and I’ve seen some absolute stinkers, including reader reviews that have the plot so screwed up no one will ever want to buy the book after reading the review!), Mandi had this to say:

Mia’s Return is the second book in the Destiny Trinity series and it is just as steamy as the first, Beth’s Acceptance. If you want really well written sex scenes, this is definitely the book for you. Teal Ceagh does a great job of including many steamy scenes, but also writes enough plot to keep the story going.

I really enjoyed Alexander’s back story. Many times when an author puts a flashback in a book, I tend to get antsy to get back to present tense but this is not the case here. It is integral that we see Alexander’s and Mia’s relationship start and grow and I was greatly entertained to get their story. Teal Ceagh does a great job in a novella length book giving the reader an emotional connection to both Mia and Alexander. As I say that, I think Wyatt, the third in their trinity, gets left behind. I understand they can’t pick who is going to be part of their bond, but I just felt like we never really got to know Wyatt. He comes out of nowhere towards the end of the book and his part felt rushed and I think more background on him is definitely needed.

I am very interested to see where the story goes from here. We did not get a lot of the actual battle in this book, and I wonder how that will play out in the third book, Sera’s Gift.

You can read the full review here.

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