A lot of authors (myself included) are so involved in deadlines, promotion, schedules, etc. that they forget to stop and give a simple thank you to those who make that promotion easier for us: Bloggers. These are the people who read, review, spotlight, and generally get the word out about YOUR work.

They are the ones who have the following, who belong to book clubs and tell their friends how much they love your work. Yet they are undervalued and unappreciated, treated like machines at times. Post this excerpt. Post this blurb. Do this cover reveal. Review my book. Sometimes authors don’t even bother with reading the bloggers RULES or GUIDELINES before they search for a contact form and send a request. I am ashamed to admit I’ve done this. I’ve neglected to do something as simple as say thank you to quite a few. Even worse, ignored some of the regular protocol like ensure the blogger is accepting review or posts. To all you bloggers who I probably offended by sending my stuff late or not at all, or sent you an email without the proper address: I apologize.

But I’m not alone here. You have YA bloggers getting requests from Adult authors. Or Bloggers who aren’t taking reviews that are being sent information to post for an author. No please. No thank you. No if you can. Nothing. Just complete entitlement. Authors: Bloggers are our friends. They love us. They love our books. They don’t NEED to do this. They help us because they want to. Because they appreciate a good book and like authors.

Please, please, please, take a moment of your time to think about how often you’ve left a blogger sitting at their desk, waiting for a post that slipped your mind. Or maybe you waited until the last possible second to send it and were angry when they didn’t post it. Do you honestly think their lives revolve around you? Maybe you’ve forgotten that a blogger is a person, not a machine. Maybe the blogger forgot to put your book’s information up and you’re angry? Guess what? We’re all human. Errors happen. Emergencies happen. LIFE happens.

So I’m feeling a particular sort of way because Thanks to every single blogger who has been kind enough to share my books, I have new readers. I have new followers. And I appreciate them.

So thank you bloggers. You make this writing/promotion stuff that much easier.

~Milly

Hello lovely readers! Ready for Halloween? I sure am! Guess what I have coming to you in just a few (as in 3 days!?) A SUPER SEXY Halloween Anthology! It’s my favorite holiday and I wasn’t going to let it pass us by without something fun! So check out the new cover and the sexy stories that will be inside!

Naughty Tricks & Sinful Treats

Five sexy shorts to make your Halloween sizzle

Bitten by Night – Milly Taiden

When a wolf hunts for his mate, he’ll lay claim and take her for life. But Royce Night never thought Kiara Cruz would be both his biggest chase and the sexiest woman he’d ever had. She’s in heat and he’s on the prowl. And he definitely didn’t think he’d tangle with a tigress for a dance at an alpha love. 

 Pranks & Spanks – Rachel Firasek

No devil should be without his dark angel. Graham Taiden had great plans to torture, Allison McAnders, all through the night, but his sweet sub had a different plan of action. She’s tired of their on-again off-again relationship and ready to lead him to the next level or call a halt to their role playing. Together, through the language of lovers, they’ll reach a truce or risk losing the battle between heaven and hell.

His Naughty Succubus – Jennifer James

Ghost hunter Liam MacDonnell has decided to do a special Halloween investigation on an infamous haunted house. He’s hard up for some action of the ghostly kind, and is looking for a sure thing. Lucky for him, cursed succubus Trinity Bell is waiting for him, and has a special assignment only he can bring to completion. 

Seduced by Day – April Angel

It takes two to tango, but three’s never a crowd. When twin brothers, Bryan and Brent Day set their sights on Stephanie Almonte, their partner’s secretary, they won’t be deterred from the task of capturing her heart. With a wicked sense of curiosity, and kill-me bits of a dress, Stephanie explores the haunted mansion that sets the tone for their corporate Halloween party. She’s in for the shock of her life when she finds out that the men she’s panted after for months have arranged for a sweet seduction to claim her body and her future.

Her Wicked Bassist – Jennifer James

The bad news: This Halloween, Holly Darling’s sorority is having their annual fundraiser in a haunted house, and she’s freakin’ terrified.

The good news: Hot bassist Zander Phillips is performing with his band Wicked Lovely, and he’s got her back, front, and every other body part in between covered.

FIVE SEXY STORIES TO MAKE YOUR HALLOWEEN SIZZLE! 

Coming…

October 21st

Hi lovely readers! Today I’d like to welcome a good friend to show off her new cover for Bar Tricks, Nicole Kuhn! Go check out the beauty and then the surprise!

Blurb:

Title: Bar Tricks

Author: N Kuhn

Release Day: October 25, 2013

TODAY!!!!

Genre: Erotic Short Stories

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N Kuhn grew up in a small town in Western New York. Having spent her afternoons outside or with a book, she grew up with a love of reading and writing. Her mother and grandmother fully encouraged this in her. Many years later, after a husband and children, she made a promise to her dying grandmother to fulfill her dream of being an author. Her grandmother lived to see Nicole’s name in print. This was a turning moment for her. Driven by ambition and a promise made, she has since published several titles including the Mohawk Trilogy, Tucked In, Buffalo Rocker and the Tricks series. N Kuhn has signed on with Nevermore Press and WheelMan Press as well as still publishing titles on her own.

Before you go on to see the awesomeness that is this cover, I have to tell you how amazing this author is. Rachel has not only fought a major deadly disease and kicked its ass to the curb (F*CK YOU CANCER!) but she is the most amazing editor. EVAH! She’s done about 6 of my stories and all I can say is with each one not only do I learn something new, but I get better thanks to her. So please help me in welcoming Rachel Firasek (go add this book to your TBR on GR ASAP!) and the cover reveal of the first in her Tears of Sin Series, Drowning.

DROWNING

Tears of Sin

“I dare you.” 

Those words would change adrenaline junkie, Alice Harrison’s life forever. She’s a party girl that doesn’t believe in love until she meets a man that only writes about it.

Seth James escaped his overbearing father and moved into one of the James family’s vacant condos, hoping to create the music he loves in peace. But the fragile calm he’s envisioned shatters when a tiny woman with a world full of energy bounces out of the elevator and nearly takes him out.

With the patience of a saint, Seth seeks the dark that keeps Alice from enjoying life. He challenges her to exorcise the demons in her past in order to discover the true meaning of love. But when the walls fall down, the hidden deceptions will bare the ugly truth about a woman drowning in sorrow and a man who may not know how to be her hero.

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Meet the lovely Rachel

Rachel Firasek spends her days daydreaming of stories and her nights putting the ideas to ink. She has spent a dull life following the rules, meeting deadlines, and toeing the line, but in her made up worlds, she can let the wild side loose. Her wonderful husband and three children support her love of the written word and only ask for the occasional American Idol or Swamp People quality hour.

She has a philosophy about love. It must devastate or it isn’t truly worth loving. She hopes that you all find your devastating love and cling to it with all your heart!

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Hi and welcome to my stop on the six-pack stud-a-thon blog hop!

Let’s talk about smexy covers with some amazing six packs! I am one of those people. Yes, a cover buyer. The cover of a book will either catch my attention or turn me off so bad I won’t even read the blurb. Sexy covers always get my attention. Especially covers with men. Sexy men. Half nekkid men. And men with spectacular abs. Those are enough to get me to give the blurb a read through. If it sounds interesting I’ll buy it. But it is the cover that first sells the book to me. I think one of my all time favorite covers is my Wolf Fever cover. Holy moly check out them abs.

Changes she can’t understand…
When Raine Bowe volunteers for a sleep study for the extra cash, she didn’t expect to wake in a lab or to be victimized by a mad scientist. She escapes with one objective–to find someone strong enough to wage war with the evil growing inside her.

A job he won’t accept…
Ryder Storm is a man with a reputation–the bad boy of his own universe. He doesn’t take prisoners, won’t give into a sweet smile, and doesn’t cut his pack an inch of slack. He knows the desperate woman in his bar is his the moment he lays eyes on her. He’ll give her anything she wants, except the one thing she’s begging for. Death.

Passion neither can fight…
Raine enlists Ryder’s help to unravel the mystery surrounding the hours she lost in the lab and to help tame the beast inside her. In their search for answers, the road will lead them to a twisted experiment involving shifters, humans, and the creation of the ultimate Alpha. He’s ready for the adventure and she’s ready for her answers. Neither are ready for the lust that calls down from the mating moon. But a wolf knows its mate, and an alpha will not stop until he or she gets what they want.

Buy Links:

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You can visually (and physically) lick those abs for hours and hours. I have another that’s super smexy too! And it goes so well with the story too! Considering Wolf Fever is about a super hot alpha who will do anything for his mate and can kick ass, I’d say that covers will definately make a woman stop and notice.

This following one is my BFF Mina Carter’s brand new release, Blood Mate (Werewolves, Vampires and Spider Zombies!) Darce Foster is the main character for Blood Mate. He is as badass as you can get. I mean SUPER sarcastic, funny, sexy and all around wanna-tie-him-to-your-bed perfect.

The only thing they have in common? Really…sharp…teeth.

Major Antonia Fielding has one goal: to escape the clutches of the Project. With the blood-virus infecting her system, though, a body bag is likely her only way out. Until her boss lets slip that he may just have a cure for her—if she brings in an escaped Lycan.

Can she trust him? Now there’s the million-dollar question. Then again, can she afford to take that chance?

Darce Foster was a Special Forces soldier, until the Project got hold of him. Now he’s a Lycan, a lab-created werewolf, this close to escaping his creators—until another of the projects experiments stops him in his tracks. Not because she has the power to hold him, but because he instantly recognizes the impossible. The vampiress is his mate.

Allowing her to bring him in is his only choice—and possibly the last mistake of his life.

Enemies or lovers, it doesn’t matter. When they discover that the Project is hiding yet more secrets, they must work together to bring it down…or die in the attempt.

 Buy Links:

eBook Available from  Amazon  | B&N

And last but certainly not least my newest release which doesn’t feature abs but you have to admit this cover is oh so sexy!

Scent of a Mate

Sassy Mates Series ~ Book 1

 Mission: Scent a Mate



Jordan Alvarez knew that a promise to her best friend involved staking out the local wolf pack’s scenting ceremony and recording the graphic details, but she was the writer and the only one with the balls to finish the task. No one would know that four human women had sneaked proof of their rituals, or at least, that was the plan until Aric Wolfe showed up.

Mission: Stake a Claim


Aric Wolfe knew his baby sister was up to something, and expected her best friend, Jordan, to be in on the chaos. He finally had an opportunity to lay claim to a mate that had been under his nose for years. Jordan’s scent called to both the man and the animal, and he was done fighting the call of the beast. It was time to mark his mate.

Mission: Survive an Alpha



When a good intention creates a problem for the Wolfe family, Jordan finds herself being stalked by a woman intent on claiming Aric as her own. Battle lines will be drawn, love will be put to the test, and Aric will have to fight Jordan’s strong personality to keep her alive. Two alpha hearts seeking control will either find the balance or risk losing their love forever.

 Buy Links:

Ebook available from: Amazon ~ B&N

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