A Totally Impulsive Give Away

Hands up if you’ve read Dark Destiny? Hands up if you can’t wait for the release of Dark Embrace?

Now, keep your hand up if you’d like to win a Principatus T-shirt with THIS logo on it?

 

 

In a completely impulsive decision, I’ve decided to give one away to one lucky person along with an ARC of Dark Embrace (which isn’t due for release until April 2). I’ll draw the winner in 7 days time and announce it here.

So, how do you go in the draw? Simple. Leave a comment about what you liked the most about Dark Destiny on my Facebook page (link here), tell me in a tweet (@lexxie_couper), review it on Goodreads (send me the link to the review) or leave a comment here on this blog post. If you haven’t read Dark Destiny, don’t stress, you can still enter the comp by telling me what’s your favourite line from either the Dark Destiny excerpt or the Dark Embrace excerpt which you can find here :) The more times you comment, tweet, post, review the more times you go into the draw.

How’s that sound?

Who wants to go first? Kiss kiss?

Hee hee hee.

 

 

 

Valentine’s Winners

It’s been a week since we posted our Valentine contest, and it’s now officially time to announce our winners.

I placed the names in a hat, and randomly drew out four:

MAI – you have won RC’s Valentine’s Dates

Z (Seawitch) – you win a choice of an ebook from Sami’s backlist

MARY P – you get an ebook of choice from Lex’s backlist

Kellie – you’re my winner. You get to choose an ebook from my backlist.

CONGRATS TO ALL OF YOU!!!!

Please send your email addresses to:

jess@jessdee.com

and I’ll link you to the appropriate Diva to organize your prize.

Jess

Celebrating Valentine’s Day with prizes

It’s the 14th of February (yep, it is in Australia), which means…

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

Seeing as V-day is a time for lovers and romance all over the world, the Divas would like to celebrate. (Er, hello? We live for romance! Of course we wanna celebrate.)

And what better way to celebrate than with books? Even better…

ROMANCE BOOKS!

Lexxie, Sami, Rhian and I are each giving away an ebook.

Rhian, has (appropriately) volunteered to give away a copy of her book, Valentine’s Dates, while the rest of the Divas are offering you an ebook of choice from our backlists.

So, how do you participate in the love?

It’s easy. Just tell us your most romantic (real-life) story…ever. Nope, it doesn’t have to be about Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t even have to be about you. Maybe it’s your sister or BFF who experienced it. But we wanna share in the romance and magic of falling love.

Post your story in the comments, and in a few days time we’ll pick four winners, each of whom will win a book.

GOOD LUCK.

And more importantly, have a wonderfully, happy, romantic day.

Jess

How Cool is This?

I’m so excited to announce that I finalled in the Menage Romances Fan’s Choice Awards! I’m listed in 3 categories for Erica’s Choice:

Best Contemporary Menage

Best Bisexual Menage

Best Cover (artist Angela Waters)

Thank you to everyone who voted for me and ensured I was nominated for this award, and thanks to review blog Mary’s Naughty Whispers for running the competition (Mary gave Erica’s Choice a truly wonderful review a while back)

If you read Erica’s Choice and enjoyed it, I’d really appreciate your support. Here’s the link to the voting form, or you can just click on the logo to your right. I’m up against some really stiff competition (no innuendo intended), so any and every vote counts.

Thanks everyone!

Sami

Tropical Island Holiday? Anyone?

Quick. Tell us.

What is your most perfect, fantasy holiday? You know, the one that takes place in your mind. The one no one else knows about.

Where is it? Who is it with? What do you do there?

Well, Lexxie Couper and I would like to make that holiday a reality.

So, if you can’t afford the plane fare, we’re here to help…

See, we’re celebrating the release of Tropical Desires, the print anthology containing three scorching, smoldering, romantic stories all set on the tropical island resort of Bandicoot Cove

And how are we celebrating?

With prizes of course!

We want to give away one copy of the book PLUS ARCs of the THREE NEW (so new they haven’t even released yet) Bandicoot Cove books.

That’s right. One print book and three ebooks!

How do you win this amazing trip to tropical paradise?

Easy. Tell us the following in the comments section of the identical post on the International Heat Blog:

1/ If you could go anywhere in the world on a holiday, where would you go?

2/ who would you go with?

Now here’s the twist for this question. Because all the stories in Tropical Desires are ménage books, you have to take TWO people with you on your fantasy trip. That’s right. Two.

Let your mind go wild. Indulge in the fantasy. And then tell us.

Hee hee hee.

If you want to know more about the books we’re offering, don’t be shy. Check them out here:

Tropical Desires at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Samhain Publishing

Afternoon Rhapsody at Amazon or Barnes & Noble

Sunset Heat at Amazon or Barnes & Noble

Moonlight Mirage at Amazon or Barnes & Noble

GOOD LUCK!

The contest will run for the next two days.

Please remember to leave your email address in the comments, so we can notify you if you are the winner. Otherwise keep watching the International Heat blog. We’ll post your name there.

Jess

Everything I Learnt About America…

…I learnt from Mari Carr.

‘Tis true. Honest. Until Mari Carr and I decided to write a series of books together, I was 100% convinced Thanksgiving was something Hollywood invented so movies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Son in Law and Home for the Holidays could be made. Okay, 60% convinced.

Until Mari Carr and I decided to write the Foreign Affairs series, about a group of Aussies from the Outback and the city-slicker Americans they seduce, I was more than convinced the only beer in America was Miller (and I thought it was Millers. With an “s”).

Okay, so I wasn’t that clueless to the North American world, but Google can only help you out some of the time. And Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and the Men in Black aren’t entirely the font of New York City knowledge this little Aussie hoped they would be.

For starters, Google doesn’t tell me you could walk twenty New York blocks and not once bump into someone you know. If I was to believe Jerry Seinfeld, my heroine–Monet Carmichael–should be running into her friends any time she decided to go for a stroll. It was Mari who pointed out the chances of that happening are slim.

Mari also told me exactly where an Aussie cowboy would go to buy a suite in New York–and it isn’t the local Target down the road.

When I sent Mari the first draft of Book Two of the Foreign Affairs series, Misplaced Cowboy (which sees an Aussie stockman come to New York to meet with a woman he met online) it was full of these

XXXX

Everytime I came to a bit of information or detail about New York or America I was clueless about, I would write XXXX and continue on. Poor Mari had a lot of XXXXs to address.

• What kind of beer is favoured in US bars (Miller Lite. No S)
• Where someone in the US would buy clothes a cowboy would wear (Urban Outfitters)
• The food ordered in a typical New York cafe (NB: it’s not fish and chips)
• Whether Americans consider Vegemite a condiment or a spread (apparently it’s neither. “That funny black shit” is the answer Mari gave me)
• How long it takes to walk four New York blocks (longer than ten minutes…which kinda sucks when you only want your character to be beside each other for that length of time)
• What a New Yorker does to a car that almost hits them in the street (flipping off the bird, as opposed to hurling abuse at them)
• and my all-time favourite…how big a Thanksgiving Day parade balloon is. The best way to show you how little I knew about Thanksgiving Day parade balloons is to cut and paste Mari’s email response to me when I asked if they were about twenty foot big:

ROTFLMAO Jesus no. They are hundreds of feet big. Like fucking HUGE.

Mari Carr

www.maricarr.com

New York Times Bestselling Author

Yes, it’s true. Everything important I know about America I learnt from Mari Carr…and my education is just beginning. There’s still another two books to write 

Foreign Affairs, Book One

Annie Prince has impetuously flown halfway ’round the world to visit a sexy cowboy she met online—only to find herself stranded in Sydney. Seems she and Dylan crossed wires, and he’s on his way to New York. His twin, Hunter, saves the day and whisks her back to the family cattle station. Hunter’s as easy on the eyes as Dylan, and even easier to talk to. Annie might have flown to Oz to meet one brother, but soon sparks are flying with the other.

Hunter considered Dylan a dumb arse for jetting off to America for some stranger—until he met Annie. Turns out the New Yorker is a smart, funny, hard-working jillaroo…and hotter than the Aussie desert. Hunter’s not normally one to poach his brother’s women, but he can’t keep his hands, lips, tongue and other body parts off this sexy city girl.

When raging lust leads to emotional attachment, where does that leave Annie and Hunter when her vacation comes to an end—or when Dylan finds out?

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To learn what Mari Carr learnt from me about Australia, check out her blog here. Suffice to say, I think Hugh Jackman taught her more than I did 

You can pre-order Misplaced Princess from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Ellora’s Cave already.Misplaced Princess will be available June 20. Misplaced Cowboy will be available end of August and on pre-sale soon.

CONTEST: I’m running a contest connected to this post over on my blog. In 10 hours time I will draw a winner from all the comments there and that lucky person will not only get a really sexy bound travel journal, they will also get a packet of Tims Tams AND a small jar of Vegemite, just to really experience the Aussieness of the Foreign Affairs series. Head on over to my blog (HERE) and leave a comment if you want to go into the draw

Oh, to go into the draw TWICE, also tell me your favourite sentence of the Misplaced Princess excerpt you can find HERE 

Three Of A Kind CONTEST WINNER

Okay, I know, I know, I’m a day late.

I promised to have a winner by Sunday, and now it’s already Monday. Still, I figure, better late than never.

First off, thanks to everyone who responded. And thank you for all the cool comments. (I just may have read them more than once.)

So, what I’ve done is taken all the names of commenters from my personal blog, International Heat and Down Under Divas and thrown them into a hat. Then I closed my eyes and picked one name.

And…the winner of the print copy of Three Of A Kind is:

MORAN!

CONGRATS

Moran, if you can please email me at

jess@jessdee.com

I can get that book in the post ASAP!

Jess

A sweet treat in the mail (And a contest)

Don’t you love opening the door to that special delivery?

Seeing a big box with your name on it?

A slight thrill runs up your spine, because you have no idea what’s in the box or who sent it to you, so the possibilities are endless.

Now, I can’t lie and say that’s exactly what happened to me a couple of days ago. Firstly, I didn’t open the door, my hubby did. Secondly, I wasn’t even in when the delivery came. I arrived home to find a box waiting for me. And thirdly, I had an inkling what it was. Okay…so I’d been obsessively waiting for the delivery for weeks! But that didn’t stop the excitement. Believe me, I fairly ripped into the box.

Here it is. A photo sequence of my experience:

1) I open the box with shaky hands

2) I pull the flaps apart to reveal the hidden treasure within.

Yes, it’s my author copies of Three Of A Kind, the print anthology of Raising The Stakes and Full House.

3) I reverently remove one and hold it in my hand:

4) I insert it ever so tenderly into its designated spot on my bookshelf:

And baby makes 8.

So, now I have 9 spare copies of Three Of A Kind sitting in my office. What to do…what to do…?

How about…I give one away?

Tell you what. Just let me know which your favorite novella from the Three Of A Kind trilogy was and why, and I’ll randomly pick a winner and send you a book.

No worries if you haven’t read the novellas yet. Just let me know which one you most want to read, and why.

Here are your choices:

Going All In, Raising The Stakes and Full House.

I’m gonna post this to my blog and to International Heat as well, and I’ll choose a winner on Sunday.

GOOD LUCK!

Three Of A Kind releases on the 5th of June, and is available now for pre-order at Samhain Publishing, Amazon and Barnes and Noble

Jess

Love’s Rhythm Blog Tour Giveaway BEGINS Today!!

The Nick Blackthorne World Blog Tour

Posted by Lexxie Couper on Thursday, March 15th, 2012

To celebrate Love’s Rhythm, my April 17 Samhain release I am taking Nick Blackthorne, the world’s biggest rock star and book’s hero, on a World Blog Tour.

There will be prizes aplenty along the way, as well as a GRAND PRIZE drawn on the 16^th April which includes an ARC of Love’s Rhythm, as well as ecopies of Tropical Sin and Suck and Blow (the two other books Nick has made an appearance in) PLUS a Thomas Sabo black crystal charm bracelet and sterling silver guitar charm.

How do you join Nick on his World Tour? Read the Instructions below and get ready to feel the music…

***Rules and Information***

This contest runs from today (March 15) to April 15. The GRAND PRIZE will be drawn on the 16^th April and announced on my blog. Individual blog prizes will be drawn on the day of the post or the next day.

Nick’s tour shall take in various blogs throughout the world and on each one, there will be a line from his Global Chart Topper, Night Whispers, revealed.

There are sixteen participating blogs. To be in the draw for the individual blog prizes (an ebook of the winner’s choice from my backlist) just leave a comment or ask me a question on the blogs.

The participating blogs are:

International Heat http://internationalheat.wordpress.com/

Smitten With Reading http://smittenwithreading.blogspot.com/ 16th March

Shelli Stevens http://www.shellistevens.com/blog/ 19th March

Cari Quinn http://cariquinn.blogspot.com.au/ 22nd March

Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews http://www.guiltypleasuresbookreviews.com 24th March

The Smutty Kitty http://thesmuttykitty.wordpress.com/ 26th March

Jess Dee http://jessdee.wordpress.com/ 29th March

Seductive Musings Book Reviews http://seductivemusings.blogspot.com.au/ 30th March

Vivian Arend http://www.vivianarend.com/blog/ 1st April

Day Drmzzz Blog http://daydrmzzz.blogspot.com.au/ 2nd April

Mari Carr http://maricarr.com/blog/ 4th April

Dee Carney http://www.deecarney.com/blog 5th April

The Smutketeers http://www.smutketeers.com/ 6-7th April

Nine Naughty Novelists http://ninenaughtynovelists.blogspot.com.au/ 9th April

Maldivian Book Reviews http://www.maldivianbookreviewer.com/ 10th April

Down Under Divas http://downunderdivas.wordpress.com/ 15th April

***To receive the GRAND PRIZE for the World Tour YOU MUST***

Comment on my blog, then go follow Nick on his tour to the other blogs and take note of the single line of lyric found somewhere on Nick’s post (remember to leave a comment if you want to go into the draw for the daily prize).

Once you’ve found at least six of the lines, email me at lexxie@lexxiecouper.com (with the subject header Nick’s World Tour) and tell me which line you found on which site.

On the 16^th April I shall draw the winner from all correct entries and announce it on my blog.

Don’t know who Nick is? Here he is in a snippet from Tropical Sin

Nick Blackthorne weaved his way through the smattering of guests milling around the Bandicoot Resort’s massive reception area, a small smile curling at the corners of his mouth. It wasn’t the fact he was here, at the soft opening of the resort, that made him happy, nor the fact he was walking around without a minder or bodyguard or groupie to be seen. It was simply because the woman laughing behind him had a delightfully throaty, infectious laugh.

He stopped himself from shooting a look over his shoulder, concentrating instead on finding the correct passageway that would lead him to the Oasis Bar. He was a touch jetlagged and needed something more than coffee to wake up.

A touch? You’ve been on one plane or the other for the last three days. You’re more than jetlagged, you’re jet-freaking-dragged-through-the-turbines stoned. Besides, the need for something more than caffeine has nothing to do with jetlag. You just want to sit out in the sun and pretend you’re a normal person for a short while, don’t you?

He smiled wider. The truth was always less sensational. It had been a long time since he’d been able to sit at a bar and relax. When his agent had offered him the chance to attend the resort’s soft opening he’d jumped at it. Minimum number of guests, all hand-picked by the hotel’s manager, all—Frankie assured him—too discreet or important in their own rights to worry about him being in their presence. A nice change from where he’d just been, that was for sure.

The thought made his smile falter. A little. He wasn’t going to let his mind turn to where he’d just been. Not when he was walking through Eden.

Ah, so the romantic you used to be is still buried in that craven pit you call a soul, is he?

Behind him the woman laughed again, another low, throaty chuckle and, before he could help himself, Nick turned.

Whoa.

She was only a few feet behind, grinning up at a guy almost half again her height, her long, strawberry blonde hair a flaming halo in the sun’s warm rays, her pink lips stretched in a grin that said very clearly, “Yes, I am completely in charge of this situation.”

Nick let his gaze flick to her companion, noting with an experienced eye the man’s latent strength in his six-foot-plus form, his fluid, steady movements, and his utter adoration for the woman gripping his arm.

Christ, they were a sexy couple. Damn sexy.

His prick twitched in his jeans and he scowled, turning away from the young lovers. There was a time he’d have walked straight on up to them and suggested something far more depraved than either could probably imagine. Something very dirty and very enjoyable. That time had passed, however.

The woman laughed again, the delicious sound accompanied by a lower, deeper chuckle. The guy’s laugh. Relaxed. Easygoing. Coming up from his chest to slip past his lips in a humored rumble. Equally as infectious as hers.

Nick’s cock gave an eager spasm, rubbing with a certain amount of pleasant insistency against the denim of his favorite jeans.

He drove his nails into his palms and scanned the lush gardens on the other side of the glass wall. Where the hell was this bar? Somewhere outside beside a pool? He needed a drink.

No, not a drink. You need—

A face of an angel with filth on her mind,

I pray to burn in her fire.

I pray to die in her arms

The words—lyrics of a song he hadn’t written yet—whispered through Nick’s head and he raised his eyebrows, his heartbeat quickening. Just as it had been too long since he could relax in public, it had been even longer since words of music came to him. Whoever the redhead was, she stirred something in him.

Yet the arms of her lover reach out for more.

Like a sinner I will burn in his fire

I will die in his fire as she pleads for more.

Nick came to a halt, the unexpected lyrics floating through his head. It seemed they’d both stirred something in him he hadn’t felt for a long time, not just the woman.

The whisper of a rhythm teased him and he closed his eyes, a familiar sensation stirring in the pit of his gut. Carnal thoughts and lyrics? Coming to Bandicoot Cove really was a good—

“Excuse me, but can I ask you a question?”

The soft, husky voice speaking beside him could only belong to one person. Opening his eyes, Nick turned around, leaving his sunglasses firmly in place as he fixed his gaze on the flame-haired woman smiling up at him. This close she wasn’t just sexy, she was stunning. Stunning and gorgeous. As was the man standing next to her, his expression unreadable, that sleeping strength radiating from him in waves of…

Like a sinner I will burn in his fire

I will die in his fire and beg her for—

“You’re Nick Blackthorne, yes?”

The woman’s question took Nick by jarring surprise. It shouldn’t have, but with the words of a hidden song taunting him and the unexpected lick of sexual interest teasing him, he wasn’t prepared. Especially for what she said next.

“I’m McKenzie Wood from Goss Weekly.” Her clear blue eyes turned direct. Intent. “I’m wondering if you’d like to comment on your stay at the Vergnügen sex clinic in Germany?”

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What do you think? Are you ready to go on tour with Nick? Head over to my blog and get ready to feel the music

 

So Who Wins 12 Sexy Australian Firefighters?

Bet you all thought I’d forgotten this, hadn’t you? Hee hee hee.

Okay, yeah, I did. My only excuse is I’ve been gazing at 12 really sexy Aussie firefighters for a month… *grin*

So, the winner is…

Asha
Feb 07, 2012 @ 12:13:53 

Asha, if you can send me an email with your postal details I’ll get your prize in the mail ASAP (and that actually means today cause I’ve got to post a contract off to Ellora’s Cave. Yay!!!) Thanks everyone who entered. Next time I’ll be far more organised (ie, I’ll tell my iPad to remind me). Promise