GeminI Souls Wows them at SmexyBooks!

http://smexybooks.blogspot.com/2009/11/review-gemini-souls-by-myristica.html





"Gemini Souls is a very unique paranormal romance that I hope we see a sequel to. "


Rating: 3 1/2 stars ----Mandi

If Only Iraq were really like this...

For the fourth of July Dark Roast released

I'll Be Your Drill, Soldier by new author Crystal Rose,

and it's lovely and timely and got

four angels from Fallen Angel Reviews right off the bat.

You can read it here for yourself!

http://fallenangelreviews.com/2009/October/nickie-illbeyourdrillsoldier.htm




Not only that, the Literary Nymphs loved it as well.

Critter Nymph said,

"While this was my first story by Crystal Rose, I hope it will not be my last. Keep plenty of Kleenex handy while you enjoy this great story; you'll need them."

Read it all for yourself here.

http://literarynymphsreviewsonly.blogspot.com/2009/09/ill-be-your-drill-soldier.html?zx=1719f61477d99e35


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Samahain hits Helga in the DarkRoast this year!

We are in the horror business just in time for the holiday, muwhaha.
See great book trailers here.
http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkRoastPress



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http://www.darkroastpress.com/hallows.php

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http://www.darkroastpress.com/uprising2.php

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Carnal Cravings in the Top Ten!

Keta Diablo's Carnal Cravings tied for seventh place among historical M/M romances at Elisa Rolle's poll.

Here are the full results. http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/822268.html

So don't delay, see what they are on about! Buy here

http://www.darkroastpress.com/cravings.php





And stay tuned to Dark Roast Press for our Halloween releases....

Carnal Cravings Delights Divas!

4.5 Divas for Diablo's 'Carnal Cravings.'

Current mood: naughty

Category: Writing and Poetry

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4.5 DIVAS For CARNAL CRAVINGS by Keta Diablo

Carnal Cravings by Keta Diablo

Publisher: Dark Roast Press

Genre: Historical, BDSM, GLBT, M/M

BUY HERE:

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Summary:

Craven and his friend Anthony discover they're in over their heads the night they're caught spying on Beresford Hall. But when Craven meets the dark, mysterious Dominic Beresford, he wonders if fate really does step in and take you by surprise when you least expect.

My Review:

Carnal Cravings may be a short novella, but it had my heart pounding more than one time, and for completely different reasons. This book has a touch of suspense, a few horrible memories from Craven, and several very hot sex scenes between sexy men. What more could you ask for?

Despite the short length of the book, I was drawn in and held captive by the mysterious Dominic and the sweet, young Craven. This book moves along at a very fast pace, keeping you on the edge of your seat, panting for more. The only thing I can think of that would make this book better would have been use of lubrication and more length to the story.

Carnal Cravings is a great, quick read to heat you up and leave you satisfied. The scene in which Craven has memories of his childhood and Nurse Evans might make you shudder and cringe for poor young Craven, but his life is looking up just fine with Dominic in the picture.

Rated 4 ½ Delightful Divas by Melissa!

Blood Noir Makes a SmexyBooks Impression!

Mandi over at the Smexy Books blog has reviewed Blood Noir (Rated: 7)

Check it out here: http://smexybooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/blood-noir-jesse-fox.html


Jesse Fox
Author of Multi-genre Gay Erotic-Romance
Dark Roast Press: http://darkroastpress.com/
Word Press: http://jessefox1968.wordpress.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jesse_fox2008
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/FoxTracks
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JesseFox1968

why ebooks rule

http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/why-ebooks-rule/

Introducing Eva Hore, muwahaha

http://www.darkroastpress.com/images/books/realityorfantasy.jpg <--exerpts and buy link

She hasn't got her author info to us for the site page, but I googled her and got all this.

Australian born, Eva Hore exploded into the world of erotica while finishing her degree in Writing and Editing at the Centre of Adult Education in Melbourne. She attributes her good fortune to her short story teacher, Gary Smith, for drawing on her class exercises and encouraging her to delve into this genre and peruse submission guidelines, which she did exhaustively.
She is a prolific writer and through total perseverance has managed to capture many of the men’s and overseas markets such as Hustler, Forum, Desire, Penthouse, Newcummers, Leg Sex, XL Magazine, Naughty Neighbors, Scared Naked Magazine, For Women, Adult Spy FRM, Playgirl, In the Buff, Hot Spot, New Love Story Magazine and Swank.
Her work is also seen in anthologies and short story collections such as Seriously Sexy I &2 Accent Press, Ultimate Sins, Ultimate Sex, Naughty Spanking 1 & 2, Satisfy Me, Tie Me Up and Whip Me, as well as their Five Minute Fantasies. Also in Delicate Friction, Best Lesbian Fiction 2005 Cleis Press, Skin Deep 2 Alyson’s Publications, Mammoth Book of Erotic Fantasies, The Collective, Best Women’s Erotica Cleis Press, The Perfect Valentine Bella Books, After Midnight Anthology Cleis Press, The Sexiest Soles Alyson’s Books, Grass Roots Publishing, The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica and Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2007 Alyson’s Books.

http://pickapocketbook.com/catalog/writers.php

Eva writes F/F elsewhere and I hope she submits a few to us soon. The title we have above is kinky het with some F/F episodes.

Dark Roast is lusciously rich, and with added Eva it has become even richer.

Some wise perspective on small press realities

This is a reprint from The Pagan and the Pen Yahoogroup, fomented by one of our authors, dismayed by ebook piracy and considering abandoning us for print, just as hackers took to chopping at our buy site this week. Happily the site is now up and running again and in the words of the Boss, 'fortified like Ft Knox' !

http://www.darkroastpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=products_all&zenid=4e628b4b71d5823fd84798bb13c3f4c7 <--buy site

Re: Myristica--sharing books, piracy, ISBN's
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pagan_and_Pen/

Hi, A number of issues here:

When you lend a paper copy of a book to friends to read, you are not committing a piracy. An author recieves at most 8% royalty ona book, and that only after the advance has been paid off. For most authors,that means they only earn $5,000 on a book.

Most of the costs in paperbooks is printing, distribution (trucks! gas!), warehousing, and landfill. (If a new bookdoes not get sold in a bookstore within two weeks the cover is ripped off and sent to the publisher for a full refund to the store. The rest of the book is trashed, which means off to the land fill. Now walk into your local Barnes andNoble and imagine at least one copy of every book in the store going to a landfill every week, and this will give you a modest idea of the paper waste.)The publishers costs are editorial (a team to edit and proofread), design(jacket and print fonts) and advertisement.

If sharing print books was piracy the US would have no libraries. What I would suggest is that if you are part of a group that wants to read a certain book ask your library to buy it. Better still, ask your library if you can have a reading group and then give them alist of books you want to read for your reading group. If your group is big and your library won't buy the books raise Christians. (I've decided tosay "raiseChristians rather than raise Hell" when I'm among Pagans.) Publishers like me will adore you for getting your library to buy books. Libraries are great markets because they buy a lot of books at once, don't expect to return books,and don't demand impossible price reductions. They'll also keep buying the books as long as their patrons keep reading them into tatters. Libraries are not supposed to tell you what to read; it's a freedom of speech issue.

A library system for a big city, a group of towns, or a county will buy thousands of a book all at once. When a library system buys 10,000 books, all the costs of the book get covered with no warehousing needed because the libraries take all10,000 books. Even if a library only decided to buy three copies, the patrons will read it and get the word out. Books have suddenly become best sellersbecause of word of mouth started by library patrons. So if you need to share books, insist your libary buy them for you. That is the purpose of our libaries!

When you pass around an e-book, on the other hand, an author is getting a30%-50% royalty on every single e-book and does not get any advance, only theroyalties. Unlike the big publishers where the author gets the advance even if the book flops, the e-authors gets only royalites. The price of the e-bookcovers the publishers real costs of editing, design, promotion, and making available for sale. E-publishers are not filling up the nation's landfills with unread copies. E-publishers are not factoring printing, warehousing,transportation, and returns into the price of their books as the big publishinghouses do. When you pirate from them you are not just stealing profit, you are stealing costs, which means you are putting the authors and publishers in the red.

Next, regarding ISBN's. I've just gone through this process as a small publisher who now has her block of ISBN's. An author can not buy a single ISBN unless you are a publisher. You can get a single ISBN when publishing a print book through Lulu because Lulu negotiates a special arrangement and charges you for it, a lot. If you have a publisher, then your publisher would get the ISBN. If you got your own ISBN that would mean you have taken your book away from your publisher after your publisher has had the book edited, designed, promoted, and made available for sale on its website. How do you think you publisher would feel about you if you took the busisness away? Your publisher can get your booklisted at Amazon. Indeed, that's part of your publisher's work.

Now let's look at the piracy issue again. A publisher must buy a block of ISBN's. The smallest amount is a block of 10 for $275. However, a big publisher can buy a block of 1,000 ISBN's for $1,750.00. As you can see, the big publisher pays much less per individual ISBN than I do. I don't have the money currentlyto buy 1,000 ISBN's nor do I need that many. So I have to pay more for being a small company. And it is this way for every single publishing cost. I pay more for being a small company. So my loss to piracy is much greater than it is to big companies.

Cynthia

These are all excellent reasons to buy your own ebook from us at Dark Roast Press.

http://www.darkroastpress.com

Lookie at our four new titles!

Fireman Lucas Taylor and Paramedic Evan Singer are back in this sequel to Burnin' for You.
It's five months later and Lucas is nearly a full-fledged paramedic. But becoming a medic means no longer being able to work with Evan at Station 127 and giving up his chance at a promotion to Lieutenant. As graduation looms, will Lucas change his mind? Then add in a young man Lucas rescues from a fire that becomes an obsessed stalker, and Evan's altercation with a victim's husband that threatens his career, and things turn explosive at the FDNY.
M/M contemporary




Michael and Sarah, a normal married couple. Or are they? What happens when you fantasize? When fantasy and reality cross?
This couple finds out that pleasing each other with different scenarios might not be what they are really yearning for, and when Michael puts pen to paper he gets more than he bargained for when Sarah finds his hidden manuscript...

het erotic kink


The Dimenlien Chronicles" continues...


Past and present converge in this story of two mages, Razeal and Sevrin, who live out forbidden love and find that no matter where they escape to, or how many centuries they have remained hidden on Earth, they cannot escape forever the creature that wants Sevrin dead.
In this first installment: Razeal and Sevrin must remember what happened to them over five hundred years ago on another world in order to understand a threat that has found them on present day Earth.
(Guest appearance by Hampton from "Crimson Dawn".)
M/M paranormal mystery




Erin Calean, Aka Myst, works for the Scarlet Arm. A brothel for the wealthy and those pretending to be wealthy. But things aren't always what they seem, the girls at the Scarlet Arms are trained killers. Beautiful and deadly.
het Bdsm suspense

use this link to go to the information pages at Dark Roast Press:
http://www.darkroastpress.com
There are exerpts to tantalize you!

Hopefully the recent #@#**# hackers of the buy site will be defeated utterly by our tech department and we will shortly be ready to help you acquire your very own editions of these jewels of the erotic imagination.

Patience, my dears.

Myristica revealed at The Fox Hole!

I must lovingly inform you of another wonderful darkRoast author interview!

Myristica!

it's here
http://jessefox1968.wordpress.com/




The Fox Hole is a new Sunday author interview service. The Little Fox definitely dug a lot of tidbits out of the mysterious Myristica, whose new upcoming title from us is

going to be available at http://www.darkroastpress.com in October: GemInI Souls




Meanwhile your taste for Myristica must be sated by Crimson Dawn part One, here:

http://www.darkroastpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=22

Rie McGaha's Authors Offerings and Pagan & Pen Won Over

Two lucky Dark Roast Press authors were interviewed by Rie McGaha.



Read the interview at
http://authorofferings.blogspot.com/2009/08/author-offerings-from-jade-twilight.html

Scarlet Myst will be one of our newest freshest erotic titles, newborn in August! Welcome Jade to the DRP klatsch!


Read the interview at
http://authorofferings.blogspot.com/2009/07/author-offerings-from-jesse-fox.html

Blood Noir

By Jesse Fox

http://jessefox1968.wordpress.com/

Dark Roast Press

http://www.darkroastpress.com/bloodnoir.php

Genre: m/m, mystery, contemporary

The Pagan and The Pen Reviews is the most recent convert to the Jesse Fox Admiration Society. If we put good reviews on our books, this one would not have enough space on its cover.


"This is by far one of the best books I have ever read. Written with great insight, I literally could not put it down. Blood Noir is a solidly written story with depth, intensity and strength much akin to that of James Patterson and Dan Brown. The writing is gripping, mesmerizing, exciting and compelling. The story line is so realistic you’ll feel as if you have been grabbed by the collar and jerked into the middle of a mystery so terrifying you’ll hope you’re dreaming. The characters are written as if they are live, breathing human beings that might live next door, with an the ending will leave you breathless! Do not miss this book!"


http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/blood-noir-book-review/
Rating: 4.5 Cards

BOUND BY BLOOD: THE AWAKENING BOOK ONE
C.H. SCARLETT
ISBN: Unavailable
February 2009 Dark Roast Press
http://darkroastpress.com/
Ebook $8.99 714 Pages
Paranormal, Dark Fantasy, Romance/Erotica
Rating: 4 Cups

Because of a prophecy Samanthra Lampir is trying to keep her Awakening from occurring. If the prophecy is accurate, then her Awakening can trigger not only her beast from within, but may also bring about the death of her loved ones.Along comes Dareus Dracura, a man who is known as Father of the Blood and who is feared by many, including Samanthra's father, Dias. It was he who put Dareus away using The Sleep of the Damned.

Now Dareus and Samanthra must work together to save TERAH, the planet they live on, before it is overtaken by evil. While they struggle to fight against the evil powers that are waging a war against them, an even more pressing issue comes about. The Dark Matter, which is the source of evil's power, is slowly drawing upon subjects around it and forming an entity that is more dangerous and more deadly than any other being they have fought against. Will Dareus and Samanthra be able to stop evil from winning and if so, at what cost to those they love?

Ms. Scarlett will take you on a journey through time to a place before Earth was even a speck of dirt in the galaxy. Bound By Blood: The Awakening, is the first book in a new series. While most of the story gripped me and took me on a fantastic voyage, parts of it were confusing, possibly from all the eclectic group of characters throughout this tale. I thoroughly enjoyed watching how much Samanthra came out swinging when others tried to hold her down, and Dareus' love for her made this story all the better.

With a cliffhanger that will leave you breathless, this novel will leave you in suspense and have you pleading for more books to come about the planet, TERAH and all its inhabitants.

Danielle
Reviewer for Coffee Time Romance & More

Three Rave Reviews for Jesse's Third M/M!

Jesse Fox's 'Blood Noir' Reviewed by three and impresses three.

BLOOD NOIR

JESSE FOX

ISBN#: Unavailable

July 1, 2009 Dark Roast Press http://www.darkroastpress.com/

E-book $5.99

276 pages

GLBT/ Erotic Romance/ Suspense

Rating: 4 cups

Alex Klein is a professional artistic photographer. He has been given the opportunity to collaborate with a crime reporter on a book about murderers. The night terrors he has had his whole life disappeared when he met Harley Scott. With the upcoming trip approaching, the night terrors are back.

Being jumpy is not good when you are a private investigator and Harley Scott is feeling very jumpy. With his White Knight complex, Harley’s gut is telling him something is not right. When things start to go wrong in St. Louis and secrets are revealed, it takes everything within Harley to not drag Alex back home. Especially when all of the signs are pointing towards danger and Alex.

At the airport on his flight from St. Louis, Missouri to Seattle, Washington, Alex meets a lady who is dressed in a retro manner. When Harley calls to demand Alex come home, he tells Alex about the woman who was following them one evening. Alex refuses to leave Seattle, though he has been having feelings that this job might not be what he wanted. There are secrets which could threaten their ten year relationship, if someone does not kill one of them first.

This book is a nail biter. It kept me on the edge of my seat, flipping the pages as quickly as I could. Rarely do I find myself yelling at characters in a book, but I did at these characters! Leo, chauffeur/ babysitter for Alex, was the cherry on top. He added a level of humor to this story which kept it from becoming too dark.

This story is dark and spooky, but one I could not put down until the last page was read. Ms. Fox has once again taken this reviewer on an adventure and I look forward to reading more from her in the future.

Kimberly

Reviewer for Coffee Time Romance & More

And more! Shaz of Rainbow Reviews:

"Blood Noir" follows the mystery genre in gay fiction that I adore completely. Jesse Fox has done a great job with this book, and I anticipate many more books to come. The great thing about the mystery aspect of this story, is the fact that the author puts the killer in plain sight, and right at the end switches it up to catch you off guard. I loved how she kept the suspense rolling till the very end. The structure of the story was solid, and the prose and editing were also smooth.

Shaz @ Rainbow Reviews

4.5 out of 5 Stars

FULL REVIEW HERE http://rainbow-reviews.com/?p=1692

and the Literary Nymphs love it!

An excellent mystery, Blood Noir by Jesse Fox is one of those books where you have to be careful not to spill all its secrets. The fast-paced story keeps you enthralled from the beginning and while the author lets you know who the bad guy is, you really do not know who the bad guy is.

Critter Nymph @ Literary Nymph Reviews

FULL REVIEW HERE http://literarynymphsreviewsonly.blogspot.com/2009/07/blood-noir.html?zx=c1826ceeb889434

5 out of 5 Nymph Rating

Chris Newman's Uprising Zombies Impress Romantic Reviewer...

Believe it or not, yessssssssss.....


Title: Uprising by Christopher C. Newman

Genre: Horror and Non Erotic Romance

November 2008

EBook Price: $7.99

Author site: http://www.christophercnewman.wordpress.com/

Publisher: Dark Roast Press (http://www.darkroastpress.com )/

Buy link: http://www.darkroastpress.com/uprising.php



Book Description:




Imagine a world where the undead have been conquered and are now just another resource to be utilized. You go into your local DMV to renew your drivers' license. The clerk asks, What do you want marked for your Undead Clause? A No answer means upon your reanimation a specialized government team will capture and terminate you. A Yes response directs them to transport you instead to a factory where you are prepared for entrance into the Reanimated Working Class. Due to the Outbreak of 2015, the United States population has sunk dangerously low and the illegal immigrants are gone. There just aren't enough people to do all the jobs that are necessary.


The average American hardly notices them--the red masked members of a new lower caste who walk rich people's dogs, collect errant grocery carts, pick up litter, and shove snow or rake leaves. They go about their mundane tasks faceless and with clamped jaws, apparently harmless to the general public. RWCS are just another humdrum fact of the aftermath of Supernatural Act of 2018.

　
But an RWC's existence isn't what most people think it is. How long can something so hungry - and angry-- be kept in check? With protest groups moving through the halls of Congress, these creatures have become a political hot topic. How far will these lobbyists go to see justice done and the dead interned into American soil? What would happen if they are finally freed to prove a point? They can only do what zombies do best...feed on human flesh.
　
　
　
Book Review:





It started off as an ordinary day for many of these characters. But for many, it would be their last. The calm these humans have felt will soon be history.


They soon realize that nothing last forever. This is not your usual good versus evil novel. Ordinary men and women will discover their inner strengths and fight to survive.


The ‘cages’ humans have place upon the undead ones called RWC’s will soon be let free. But will the cost of their freedom be too high for the human race.

　
Many of those who think that the undead ones still have a bit of their souls and humanity left inside of them. One of those people is Sandy Shelby. Sandy is in charge of one the biggest activists group called ICARE. She has many eating of the palm of her hand. Sandy is great at what she does. She’s willing do to whatever takes to get her agenda passed. What Sandy is willing to do make her one cold hearted bitch.


There are many other interesting characters like Chuck and Elaine. They are the heart of this novel. The fighting the humans have to do to survive is just tip of the iceberg of Uprising. Just when things calm down… then boom, all hell break loose.


Christopher C. Newman has written many books. Uprising is one that will keep readers anxious to discover his other books.


If you enjoy reading horror and zombie novels, then Uprising will be the blood that runs to your heart.

　
What I found thoroughly entertaining about Uprising is that the great background description that Mr. Newman wrote. He kept my mind on the story with each new page.


To tell you the truth, I was a bit nervous about reading Mr. Newman’s Uprising. It’s not my usual cup of tea. But I took chance and I am glad I did.


What I enjoy most about Uprising is that it wasn’t what I expected. It went beyond my imagination and loved almost every moment of Uprising.


There is one character that I love to hate and wished the author went another direction. If you want to know who I am referring, you will have to read Uprising by Christopher C. Newman.



Don’t let a little horror and zombies keep you from reading a great novel.


Zombies need some loving too.


Won’t you give those poor zombies some love?　
　
　
I give Uprising a rating of 4 Stars.


　
Reviewed by


Estefanie
Night Time Romance Reviews
　more at http://ntromancereviews.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-uprising-by-christopher-c-newman.html

WitchGiggles loves us!

Review of Inservice by J.C. Natal Current mood: breezyCategory: Writing and Poetry
[http://www.darkroastpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=9]
Title: In Service
Author: J.C. Natal
Website of Publisher: http://www.darkroastpress.com/
Genre: Thriller, M/M, Erotic Fiction
Publication Date: August 2008
ISBN: N/A
Length: 515 Pages
Format: eBook
Reviewer: WitchGiggles, Alternative-Read.com

In a modern time where sex and prostitution is turned into servitude in order to keep it safe for both sides, where Lords hold power where they will and spoiled is a normal state of being, Elias Doherty is about to set in motion more trouble than ever conceived by his little mind. All because he wants one spectacularly beautiful Servant trained for one exceptionally powerful and unforgiving Lord.

Jared Karan, trained from a small child to be the sexual slave of a lord knows no other way of life, misunderstands why he is being "thrown away" to this other lord and is afraid to trust in the one thing he has never known in his entire adult life- the love of an adult for his unworthy person; but with slow steps he slowly learns that he can make decisions for himself and trust his own heart.

At the very beginning of this I thought it was going to turn into "simply another spoiled boy getting his way" type of romance. Ms. Natal however, gave me a very surprising wake up call in that this was a book that never got boring, never dragged, always had things going on that you never expected and most of all the characters are stunning to watch in their growth and the sex was enough to scorch.

I recommend this one most heartily.

Latest rave review for Carnal Cravings!

CARNAL CRAVINGS
By Keta Diablo
Buy From Dark Roast Press
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BLURB:
Craven and Anthony find themselves in a cauldron of trouble while spying on Beresford Hall. A man in a black hood has routed them while they spied, and now he’s escorted them to the manor and secluded them in separate rooms.

One thing haunts Craven, the ice-blue eyes behind the hood and Anthony’s words, ‘Only one man possesses such eyes . . . Dominic Beresford, the most magnificent creature God ever breathed life into.’
Review of CARNAL CRAVINGS, Author Keta Diablo
Moonlight, Lace and Mayhem Blog http://moonlightlacemayhem.blogspot.com/

Warning: m/m gay fiction
I went into this story thinking it was a quick read (a novella I believe with a total of 44 pages), and I could get through it quickly because gay romance hasn’t been my thing so far. No offense to the gay romance writers out there, I’ve not read any that entertained me…until now. After reading Keta’s m/m gay fiction, it has me wondering if she has any f/f gay fiction.Just like with Decadent Deceptions by Keta Diablo, she drew me in again and I couldn’t tear myself away. From almost the beginning, she had me holding my breath when Craven and Anthony are caught by the hooded figure on Beresford’s property. And then anxious again as Crave awaits his punishment for trespassing.

The way Keta breathes life into her characters is fabulous. From the sexy mysterious Dominic Beresford--who I would do by the way...lol--to the unassuming student Craven, I was hooked from page one. I loved both characters equally. What I found very poignant was how vulnerable both Dominic and Craven were. Even though Dominic came from money, had a title and property, he was still longing for that special someone and was unsure how Craven would accept him in the end.Carnal Cravings was a great read from beginning to end, spicy hot, but you’re forewarned, if you don’t enjoy gay fiction, then skip it. But if you do, pick it up and be prepared to love it as much as I did.

they are stealing from us!

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=265246655&blogID=500684665 This goes to AJ Llewellyn's blog about an ebook pirating ring. ooh the nerve!

Another theft ring site is http://www.4shared.com/signup.jsp 4shared.com. I joined it to leave protest emails at book pirates pages. The one AJ mentions is called Astatalk. I strongly advise anyone published to check these sites and set up a stink about unauthorized ebook 'sharing'. It's a crime.

more at Pagan & Pen on the problem: http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/here-there-be-pirates/

helgaleena says -- highlights from Myspace

http://blog.myspace.com/helgaleena The original location of Helgaleena says-- has been scrambling all the links and labeling them spam. I can't stay there.

Thought I'd put in Frida Kahlo to bless the commencement of my offering the highlights from there over here.

I started helgaleena says back when I earned the title of Senior editor at Aphrodites Apples Press, a fine endeavor that fell apart too soon. The blogging kept me sane through rough times between there and the birth of Dark Roast Press. I have stepped into the larger world of the Internet and escaped the confines of my own personal engines of self-defeat. So many at Myspace I have come to love and admire, like Livejournal before it.

But I can't be labeled a spammer and my Press a phishing site without some sort of consequences. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=153752216&blogId=225855388 February 4 2007 was my first post, a listing of all the myspace groups i was joining.

Next, http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=153752216&blogId=228021674 Tyree Kimber, author of Apocalypse Woman the excellent paranormal erotic fantasy we have since had the pleasure of re-releasing at Dark Roast Press http://www.darkroastpress.com , got satirical about the World of Warcraft, that devourer of brains. I hadn't laughed so much since the National Lampoon's Bored of the Rings.

Yes, they were the obscure times, the best and worst of times. I remain dead serious about my veneration for His/Her Noodliness the Flying Spaghetti Monster as the liminal guardian of absurdity in the human psyche. Only by this standard can we judge what is nonlogic.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=153752216&blogId=229348281 As I said then...
I admit, not everyone can see the beauty of this universally balanced symbolic evocation of androgyny and healthy hedonism. Male and female, sentient and inert, protein and carbohydrate, solid and liquid, nuturing and withholding, static and dynamic, attack and embrace, the raw and the cooked, all are evoked simultneously by this iconography. Not since I became acquainted with the avatar of Vishnu as Lord Jaganatha have I been so moved by the depiction of a deity. My personal leanings had always been toward the abstract and ineffable understanding of the divine. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=153752216&blogId=234874853
Take it from helgaleena: so-called parody religions are the healthiest.

That is the foundation of my ministry to romance editing-- my admittedly obscure perception of beauty and harmony at its widest embrace.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=153752216&blogId=238946502 was the International Womens Day post 2007. There are some important images there. Sadly, slavery worldwide, including sexual slavery, has since been on the rise-- or at least more in the news. Here is a 2009 example: http://helgaleena.mylivepage.com/blog/141/1683_The_Lord%27s_Army_from_Hell

As we do offer BDSM erotic romances, I think it's wise to point out that it only is acceptable as play.

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=153752216&blogId=239085307 Speaking of romantic role play, these were memorable hook-up strategies for Star Wars enthusiasts. Muwahaha, Helga the Hutt recommended.

Ah but now I am blogging weary and shall resume the retrospective in another post.