Start the Countdown

Alanna Coca

Fine Print releas­es 2/1/2010! To cel­e­brate, I’m hav­ing a lit­tle give­away. All you have to do is com­ment on this post. I don’t care what, even just a smi­ley face, to get your name in the hat. I’ll noti­fy the win­ner, who will have his/her choice of an elec­tron­ic copy of any of my back­list books.

Con­test ends on 1⁄31, and I’ll announce the win­ner here on the first of February.

Also, don’t for­get my Print Book Read­er Appre­ci­a­tion Give­away, there is still some time to par­tic­i­pate. Buy a print copy, and get an ebook free!

Now, to whet your appetite, here is a short excerpt from Fine Print: (more…)

What’s Going On?

Alanna Coca

A whole lot of things, and a whole lot of noth­ing. I’ve start­ed yet anoth­er project. That makes num­ber sev­en that I’ve start­ed in the past four months. Some of these I’ve only writ­ten five thou­sand words, oth­ers up to fif­teen thou­sand. I write until anoth­er sto­ry starts scream­ing to be writ­ten. I sup­pose I’ll get them all fin­ished even­tu­al­ly.  A few projects for Olivia, a few for Alan­na. Some­times we switch in the mid­dle. No, I don’t have mul­ti­ple per­son­al­i­ty dis­or­der. Yet. I sup­pose there is time.

Present­ly, I’m work­ing on a 30k con­tem­po­rary west­ern, a joint project with two oth­er authors. We’re hop­ing to get three west­ern shorts togeth­er for an anthol­o­gy. More infor­ma­tion as that develops.

I’m tak­ing part in a pro­gres­sive sto­ry blog hop on Ground­hog Day, 2/2/10. I was assigned to chap­ter one, which means I have to wait to see what the rest of the authors on the tour will do with the sto­ry I set up. It should be a great time, and I expect some laughs when romance authors join forces with hor­ror writ­ers. Check back here on 2/2 for chap­ter one, and I’ll link to chap­ter two and so on.

Anoth­er blog tour on Valen­tine’s Day week­end. This one will be huge, already over thir­ty blog­gers have signed up for this one. Thanks to Michael from HartShine Design, this one will be a guid­ed tour. Want to learn more? Book­mark this page, this is where we’ll post the link to the tour launch page. Tons of prizes are up for grabs, so mark your calendars…you don’t want to miss this one.

Congrats!

Alanna Coca

Con­grat­u­la­tions go to Stephanie, the win­ner of Pre­ja Vu from the Fill-Your-Eread­er Blog Tour yes­ter­day. Also, I drew a win­ner for my week­ly ebook give­away, and con­grats go to Andrea who chose Retreat. (Good choice, since Andrea is the hero­ine’s name in Retreat!)

This morn­ing I was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised to find a smi­ley face in my in-box. Pre­ja Vu was read by Seri­ous­ly Reviewed. This review­er gave Pre­ja Vu a 9 for the sto­ry, and anoth­er 9 for presentation, for a final score of 18⁄20.  Here is the review:

“HOLY CRAP!!! Let me start by say­ing that I was skep­ti­cal when I first grabbed this one. Though the blurb was inter­est­ing it did­n’t just reach out and grab me by the nose.….BUT once I got start­ed read­ing, I just could­n’t stop!!!
What a nifty lit­tle mys­tery with some sex­i­ness right smack dab in the mid­dle! By page 30 I thought I had it all fig­ured out. I was sure I knew who the bad guy was and I was just wait­ing for the shoe to drop. BOY HOWDY did I get thrown a curve ball!
Ms Coca, SNAPS you did a great job! Total­ly kept me involved and inter­est­ed and then WHAM! gave me a big shock! LOVED IT! I will be look­ing for your name in the future :)”

Thank you Seri­ous­ly Reviewed! I’m glad you enjoyed Pre­ja Vu. Scroll down a bit for a small excerpt and pic­tures of Trevor Kear­ney, the hero who falls hard for Ryann.

We’re already plan­ning a week­end-long blog tour for Valen­tine’s week­end, so you’ll be able to spend time with your hon­ey, and also get in on some great eye can­dy and amaz­ing ebook prizes. More infor­ma­tion to fol­low, so keep check­ing back, or click on that lit­tle rss feed there in the upper right hand cor­ner of this blog page. No…a lit­tle to the right.…yeah there ya go.

Alright, back to the word proces­sor, the char­ac­ter­s are calling.

Blog Tour — Fill Your E‑Reader Here!

Alanna Coca

So, you’ve found your way from Annie Nicholas’ blog! This is the last stop of the day, but of course you’re more than wel­come to go back to the begin­ning at Paige Tyler’s site, and start all over again. I would­n’t blame you at all. I’m giv­ing away a copy of my con­tem­po­rary nov­el For a Price, a sto­ry about what *real­ly* hap­pens in Vegas.

Any­one who knows me, knows my unhealthy crush on Mr. Chan­ning Tatum. Even though he still has yet to show up to my house for din­ner. That’s okay Chan…we can eat out…Oh, Mr. Tatum. How you tempt me with your stoicism.     I think there’s plen­ty of room on the back of that bike for me…maybe the front

Okay, so there are oth­er things about Chan­ning that I find tempting.

Oh, look at that, my hands were acci­den­tal­ly shown in the pic­ture. And no, I will not share all the mea­sure­ments I took *vbg*

I hope you all enjoyed the tour. Good luck to each of you! We’ll draw the win­ners tomor­row, and post them by 1pm EST in this Liq­uid Sil­ver Books Forum Thread. Now, since you’re all done with the tour, please come by the Chat Room host­ed by author Gem Sivad.

Fill Your E‑reader Blog Tour

Alanna Coca

Wel­come to my blog! You should have come from Ella Drake’s site, and if you’re just stum­bling across this post, head on over to Paige Tyler’s place, that’s where the fun began. I hope you take some time to look around. My con­tri­bu­tion to the grand prize is a copy of my con­tem­po­rary roman­tic sus­pense  Préjà Vu. Ryann can see the future, and one night she gets a glimpse of a steamy encounter with Trevor Kear­ney. Here is a tiny excerpt, and a pic­ture of how I see Trevor…just to get your imag­i­na­tions going. See those green eyes? I’m a suck­er for green eyes…

“Please!”

Ryann was sit­ting upright in her bed. The sheet fell away from her to pool at her waist. She had no idea if she actu­al­ly shout­ed the one word, or if it had been part of the dream, but it woke her just the same.

She gath­ered the sheet into a moist wad at her chest. She was shiv­er­ing. Cold? No, she was cov­ered with per­spi­ra­tion, even the tee shirt she wore was damp.

Oh yes … a dream. A won­der­ful dream. It was sin­ful in its eroti­cism, alarm­ing with its clar­i­ty. Ryann closed her eyes to replay it. It began with sound only. Black­ness sur­round­ed her.

She was lying in bed. Com­plete­ly nude. A heavy arm was wrapped around her, a wall of mas­culin­i­ty pressed against her back. She was being slow­ly awak­ened by a play­ful tongue bat­ting against her earlobe.

“Mmm … Trevor?”

“Yes ma’am. At your ser­vice,” his low voice rum­bled through the stillness.

She grinned, but didn’t open her eyes. “What are you doing?” she moaned.

“Shh … I’m sleep­ing. I’m hav­ing the most amaz­ing dream…”He con­tin­ued his seduc­tion of her ear, then moved his lips down along the slim line of her neck.

His breath felt hot on her skin. Her tem­per­a­ture rose to match it; blood flood­ed her from head to toe.

Ryann turned her head to reach his mouth. He met her lips with a kiss filled with car­nal ener­gy. His vel­vety tongue speared into her mouth and stroked hers until she writhed against him in effort to get ever clos­er. One strong hand slid up her tor­so until it cov­ered her breast, her nip­ple puck­ered in full arousal. When he rolled it between two fin­gers, she squealed then strug­gled to turn toward him. Only then did she open her eyes.

So now you know what Ryann saw when she opened her eyes. Not a bad way to wake up, right? Okay, so real­ly this guy’s name is Nic Luhrs, but I’m allowed cre­ative lib­er­ties, right?

I’ve had a few dreams that I wish were prophet­ic… not the show­ing-up-to-work-with­out-a-shirt dream…I can do with­out those.

Also, I’m run­ning a lit­tle give­away of my own. Buy any of my avail­able print books, and go into a week­ly draw­ing for your choice of ebook! Details are here on my GIVEAWAY page. The week­ly draw­ings will only go through the end of Feb­ru­ary, so do it now!

Okay folks, leave your com­ments, and it’s on to the next stop on our tour, which is Pinch­ing Abe’s blog.

Don’t get any crazy ideas, Abe isn’t one of our hotties…

Thanks for stop­ping by!

The Last Day, And The First Day

Alanna Coca

Today is the last day of 2009. What a year! Although I should lament about the state of the econ­o­my, or the fact that I’m not get­ting any younger, I have to say that I’ll always remem­ber 2009 as being a great year for me.

My first book Wyoming Solace came out two weeks before 2008 end­ed. Since then, I’ve writ­ten and sold anoth­er six books. I’ve learned a lot, grown a lot, met some great authors, edi­tors, pub­lish­ers, cov­er artists, and twit­ter friends (you know who you are). I’ve learned more than I ever thought I want­ed to know about the inter­net, blog­ging, web­site upkeep, (I now know what CSS stands for, but HTML is still a mys­tery), and social net­work­ing, and I’ve learned a frac­tion of what I want to know about writ­ing and publishing.

There’s always next decade, right?

I hope that all of you had a great 2009, and will have an even bet­ter 2010.

So what’s on tap? I’ve got sev­er­al sto­ries in the works, a few for me, a few for Olivia. I’m sure that my recent slump of writ­ing angst is over (right?!) and I’ll be kick­ing out at least anoth­er six nov­els this year. I also have a trip com­ing up in April to the RT Con­ven­tion in Colum­bus OH. I hope I get to meet a pletho­ra of romance genius­es, and if I rub up on them, their great­ness will soak in by osmosis.

Short Stories

Alanna Coca

I just fin­ished round one of edits for Posi­tion Secured, my short sto­ry at Samhain Pub­lish­ing. It was fair­ly pain­less, but what do you expect from a short? I made a Â few sil­ly errors, so I’m glad that my edi­tor Lin­da caught them before I embar­rassed myself.  Also, I found out that Aman­da Kelsey does cov­er work for Samhain, and I did a lit­tle hap­py dance. I’ll be request­ing her hand­i­work on Posi­tion Secured, so cross your fin­gers that they’ll let me have her.

In oth­er news, I’m about half-way through anoth­er short sto­ry, still unti­tled. Short sto­ries are eas­i­er in some ways — if I con­cen­trate, I could have one done in a few days — but it’s extreme­ly hard to make a sen­si­ble plot and devel­oped char­ac­ters in 20k words. Some­one once told me that a short sto­ry is just one long scene. I think that’s a pret­ty good way to look at it. I might throw a few flash­backs in there, or two semi-long scenes instead of one…who knows. This is new to me. I’ll nev­er stop writ­ing longer nov­els though; I real­ly like get­ting into these char­ac­ter’s heads. As a read­er I like to feel along with the hero­ine. Heartache, loss, love, fear…whatever she’s got going on. I like per­son­al involve­ment. The trick is to write sto­ries that do the same for my readers.

Okay, I’d bet­ter get back to work. 2009 was great for me, I hope 2010 is even bet­ter. Hap­py New Year everyone!

Sunday Flash Holiday Blog Tour

Alanna Coca

Don’t you just love flash­ing?? You’re wel­come to stay here and see when this guy will drop the sign, but I’ve been watch­ing care­ful­ly for the past few hours, and I can’t get him to flinch.

You should have just come from Christa Paige’s blog for chap­ter nine of each sto­ry. This is the last stop on the tour, but the fun will con­tin­ue back at the Sil­ver Expres­sions Blog, or feel free to join us all as we rehash the flash, and engage in some oth­er Hol­i­day spir­it where Gem Sivad is hav­ing a Hol­i­day open house in her Chat Room.

If you’re just stum­bling across this post, make sure you go back to the begin­ning, because you real­ly don’t want to read the com­ments here, you’ll want the full effect. Ten authors and ten pro­gres­sive stories…that’s like ten Christ­mas presents!

You must be eigh­teen or old­er to con­tin­ue read­ing this sexy adult mate­r­i­al. Click on the com­ments below, and then we’ll head over to Gem’s chat room for the post flash celebration!

Click for more infor­ma­tion about books by Alan­na Coca:

Bastina’s Necklace by Roscoe James

Alanna Coca

bastinasnecklaceOkay, I’m no pro­fes­sion­al review­er, but I just fin­ished read­ing this nov­el, and it deserves a shout out.

Bastina’s Neck­lace is a sci-fi erot­ic romance with a pirate, a princess, an inter­ra­cial love affair, action, adven­ture, and… geez, what more could you ask for? Here’s a lit­tle syn­op­sis (Don’t wor­ry, no spoilers)

The Galac­tic League of Plan­ets cre­at­ed a ter­raformed world for the Basti­nans. They also pro­vid­ed the biggest and fastest space ves­sel ever built to trans­port them to their new home. Princess Anleen decid­ed that the space-ark could be put to bet­ter use. She defies the law and even her own father the King when she qui­et­ly steers the ark toward her home plan­et. She is deter­mined to prove once and for all that the leg­end known as plan­et Basti­na isn’t just a fairytale.

When Cap­tain Dirk Roberts seeks safe haven at the doomed plan­et Aznate, he’s only look­ing for a hot show­er, a drink or three at the last spac­er bar on the edge of known civ­i­liza­tion, and repairs for his ship. What he finds instead is Anleen, the gold­en-haired princess with a plan. She’s dead set on find­ing her lost peo­ple, and he can’t seem to keep away from her long enough to deny her any­thing, includ­ing his assis­tance. Now…if only he believed that her fairy­tale could come true, per­haps he could help her rewrite the ending.

Intrigu­ing? Yeah it is. Would you like to read my unof­fi­cial review? (more…)

Doll by Juniper Bell

Alanna Coca

Doll by Juniper BellLook­ing for a great read while you relax after spend­ing a day at the mall? Or maybe you browsed book­store after book­store look­ing for a per­fect gift…

Good thing you stopped by. This is Doll by Juniper Bell. You’ll be able to pick this up from Samhain Pub­lish­ing on Tues­day 12/15/09.

What is Doll all about? Glad you asked…

Even a play­thing can be pushed too far…

Chloe Barnes thought her mar­riage to a wealthy politi­cian would be the stuff of fairy tales. Instead, he took advan­tage of her naiveté and used her as a play­thing to ful­fill his twist­ed sex­u­al needs. Ten years is enough. She returns to Bell­haven Island to sell the sum­mer cot­tage she inher­it­ed, hop­ing the mon­ey will buy her freedom–and cus­tody of her daughters.

Fish­er­man Dustin McDou­gal nev­er for­got the child­hood crush he once had on the fairy-like Chloe. The woman she’s become has a haunt­ed look that brings his feel­ings back, stronger than ever…with a mature edge. Along with all his pro­tec­tive instincts.

Their pas­sion blows stronger than a Maine nor’easter, awak­en­ing Chloe to the joy of true love. Yet it may not be strong enough to free her from the past…

Warn­ing: This title con­tains politi­cians doing all sorts of nasty things and flash­backs of male dom­i­na­tion. It also fea­tures hot sex on a boat, hot sex in an attic, hot sex on a work bench…you get the idea. Want to read a very sexy excerpt? (more…)

Holiday Hottie Blog Tour

Alanna Coca

Wel­come blog hop­pers! You should have come from Juniper Bel­l’s blog, and the tour start­ed at Tri­na M. Lee’s place, so if you’re just stum­bling on this post, be sure to start there!

Don't mind me....I'm just on my knees praying...

Poor Santa, needs a backrub

Dear Santa....

Yeah, I know they don’t have any­thing to do with the hol­i­days.  I was going to add some bows and rib­bon, or maybe a San­ta hat, but I could­n’t bring myself to cov­er any­thing. I like to think of them as Christ­mas angels.

Also, I’ve just GOT to plug my web design­er’s con­test. One lucky win­ner will receive a web­site design or redesign and a year of host­ing! Today’s the last day to enter that con­test, so hur­ry! Run over there and sign up. Quick and easy! HartShine Designs

Then pop back here and leave your com­ment to be entered in the draw­ing, where I’m giv­ing away a copy of my roman­tic sus­pense Pre­ja Vu. Now…on to the next blog, which is the Sil­ver Expres­sions blog, affec­tion­ate­ly known as the SEx blog, where Liq­uid Sil­ver authors take turns blog­ging. Today we’ll have a spe­cial treat, Roscoe James is host­ing SEx. See you there! http://www.liquidsilverbooks.com/blog/

Holiday Hottie Blog Tour

Alanna Coca

Wel­come hoppers!  You should have come from Shara’s blog.  If you’re just hap­pen­ing by and aren’t sure what I’m talk­ing about, go to the first blog stop on the tour, Tri­na M. Lee, and fol­low the links through. Com­ment on every post along the way, and you’re entered to win a pletho­ra of yum­my ebooks from the authors you’re meet­ing today. Now for my Hol­i­day Hot­ties. Today’s theme…helping hands:

 

 

Before you go, don’t for­get to leave a com­ment so that you’ll be entered to win one of 30 ebooks! Also, Alan­na’s web design­er is hav­ing a con­test, be sure to enter in that.…today is the last day! http://hartshine.com. Now…on to the next deli­cious sug­arplum blog, Dhymp­na du Mau­ri­er.

Chat With Me!

Alanna Coca

As if I don’t talk enough. 

I’ll be parked in a chat room host­ed by Gem Sivad on 12⁄7, Mon­day evening (from 7 pm east­ern until word­press kicks us out) cel­e­brat­ing my new release Falling Star. I hope you stop by and join me. You don’t have to sign up for any­thing, and we won’t ask any per­son­al infor­ma­tion, just click to enter the chat room.

Adam will be there.…

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