F is for Fantasy

APRIL-2013-CALENDAR-001I’m so excited to join in the A to Z blog hop!!! Truly, I regard it as a terrific challenge and a wonderful kick-start to my new website. My topic for the entire 26 days will be romance, particularly erotic romance. My structure will be as follows: I am going to first list the pertinent words for the day and then discuss one of them in alphabetical order , of course.

F: fickle, fantasy, fellatio, f**k, and fuzzy pickle.

The above are my list of sexy and/or erotic and/or romantic F words. Feel free to chime in with your own!

For the sixth day of the A to Z blog hop challenge – I choose the word fantasy.

Fantasy: The faculty or activity of imagining things that are impossible or improbable.

I love this word and its definition because we human beings spend much of our time on this earth struggling to live out our fantasies, and you know what—we’re all the better for it.

Everyone’s fantasy is different and, as the saying goes, that’s what makes the world go around. I have several and each one surges or abates depending upon what’s happening in my life. One abiding fantasy is to eat my way around the world and, lord, would I love that one to come true.

The thing about fantasies though, is that there are some you really don’t want to live out. That’s why, in my opinion, erotic romances about ménages are so popular. Women like the idea, but they’d prefer to read about it than to actually experience it.

What do you think?

To continue on the hop, click on one of the links below or the badge at the top of this post:

Lucys Reality (PR)

A is for Anxiety

Ordinary Never Sleeps

Collateral Damn-Edge (WR)

The Cherry On Top

Cheers,

Jianne

Does Exotic = Erotic?

VengeanceHammer_ByJianneCarlo-453x680I’m so excited to join in the A to Z blog hop!!! Truly, I regard it as a terrific challenge and a wonderful kick-start to my new website. My topic for the entire 26 days will be romance, particularly erotic romance. My structure will be as follows: I am going to first list the pertinent words for the day and then discuss one of them in alphabetical order , of course.

E: exotic, ecstatic, evocative, erection, ejaculate, and erotic.

The above are my list of sexy and/or erotic and/or romantic E words. Feel free to chime in with your own!

For the fifth day of the A to Z blog hop challenge – I choose two words erotic and it’s kissing cousin exotic.

Erotic: Of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.

Exotic: Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange: From another part of the world; foreign

If someone or something is exotic, does that make them or it automatically erotic? And does the reverse work?

Antonio Banderas is both exotic and erotic as far as I’m concerned. So are Salma Hayek and Shakira. the cover above is for my coming release, Vengeance Hammer. Is it erotic, or exotic, or both?

What do you think?

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Meet Adam Jones (AC)

Freelance Tourist: Travel Tips (TR)

Lisa Buie-Collard (WR)

As the World Flops

Whirled Peas

Cheers,

Jianne

B is for Breast

APRIL-2013-CALENDAR-001I’m so excited to join in the A to Z blog hop!!! Truly, I regard it as a terrific challenge and a wonderful kick-start to my new website. My topic for the entire 26 days will be romance, particularly erotic romance. My structure will be as follows:

I am going to first list the pertinent words for the day and then discuss one of them in alphabetical order , of course.

B:  breast, bawdy, bitch, booty, balls, ballocks, and bugger.

The above are my list of sexy and/or erotic and/or romantic B words. Feel free to chime in with your own!

For the second day of the A to Z blog hop challenge – I choose the word Breast.

Breast definition: either of two soft rounded organs on each side of the chest in women and men. In women the organs are more prominent and produce milk after childbirth.

What is it about the female mammary glands that so fascinates men and boys? And has since the dawn of time? True there are leg men and ass men, but do you know a single man (heterosexual or otherwise inclined) who doesn’t fixate on the TV screen when the Baywatch intro with Pamela Anderson running in slow motion plays?

And the obsession is not regulated to adolescents and older males. I remember vividly vacationing with my two youngest sons on a beach where a couple of European women were suntanning topless. My sons were happily digging in the sand and fetching water from the sea. They ran up and down the beach past the women for ten minutes or so. Then, on the way to the water, my youngest son dropped his pail, squatted next to one of the women, gleefully grinned, and then jiggled both her breasts. He must have been all of five at the time. I was mortified.

Did you know that Breast Cancer is the leading cancer killer of women? In 2011 an estimated 40,000 women will die from breast cancer in the U.S. Three of my good friends have been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. One had to have two radical mastectomies and her insurance refused to pay for reconstructive surgery. She was twenty-seven a the time. I was – am – appalled and enraged. It’s time we started a campaign to change this.

To go to another blog on this challenge hop, click on one of the following or on the badge at the top of the post:

Wanna buy a duck

Between the Keys (AC)

Surrounded by Books Reviews (BO)

Tropical Territory

Cherie Reich – Author (WR)

Cheers,

Jianne

 

Alpha Me Not – Blog Barrage – March 27-28, 2013

amn-barragebannerToday and Tomorrow I’m on a Blog Barrage for Alpha Me Not courtesy of CBLS Promotions! Alpha Me Not was recently nominated for Best Book 2012 by The Romance Reviews!

 Here is the schedule:

March 27, 2013
Bea’s Book Nook
Books to Light Your Fire
Crazy Four Books (Review)
Harlie Williams, Writer
In Love with Romance
My Bookshelf
Veiled Secrets Reviews

March 28, 2013
A Little Fiction of Every Flavour
Brianna’s Bookshelf
Bunny’s Review
It’s All About the Romance!
Lindsay’s Scribblings
   Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Mystery and More!
Rachel Leigh – erotic romance
The Printed Fox (Review)

Follow this tour and enter at each participating stop for a chance to win an eBook copy of “Alpha Me Not”. More entries = More chances to win! Contest is tour-wide, open internationally and ends Apr 2. Must be 18 years of age or older to enter.

I hope you’ll drop by and enter and Good Luck in the contest!

Cheers,

Jianne

Alpha Me Not & Demon Seed nominated for Best Book 2012

2012nomineeWriters lead a solitary life in terms of their trade. So we tend to rely on outside sources for verification, that yes, someone (and it may be only one) is reading my work/blog/tweets …you get the gist. Reviews, awards, and nominations make us giddy with delight.

Giddy doesn’t begin to describe what it was like to receive two emails from Carole at The Romance Reviews informing me that not one but two of my books had been nominated for Best Book of 2012 by their reviewers. Whoo-Hooo!

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My congratulations go out to all the nominees. To me, simply being selected is an honor in itself, but to be included in the company of such illustrious authors as Emma Holly,  Lisa Renee Jones and the others listed below is truly humbling.

Here’s a list of the nominees for two categories (goto here to see the others: http://www.theromancereviews.com/bookvote.php)

 

Erotic Romance – Action-Adventure / Romantic Suspense

NOMINEES

A Little Harmless Fascination by Melissa Schroeder

Demon Seed by Jianne Carlo

Fever by Joan Swan

IF I WERE YOU by Lisa Renee Jones

The Devil’s Pawn by Elizabeth Finn

Erotic Romance – Paranormal Romance

NOMINEES

Alpha Me Not by Jianne Carlo

Bear Meets Girl by Shelly Laurenston

Enslave by Felicity Heaton

Hidden Crimes by Emma Holly

His Mortal Soul by a.c. Mason

Hunted by Rebecca Zanetti

The Protector by Ambrielle Kirk

Wild Things: Fanged by Jocelyn Michel

The winners are determined by vote and,in order to vote, you must login to The Romance Reviews. If you have the chance and feel the inclination, please do. If not—heck, I made the list!

Cheers,

 

Jianne