#MidWeekTease wth the Orrsholm Ladies Supper Club...

Hi all, and Happy New Year to those of you I've not caught up with yet.

Welcome to the first #MidWeekTease of the New Year.

I'm in the strange situation of not having a book out until sometime in February, and then not until May.

So I had a dilemma. What to tease you with. After all, you'd all be sick to death of my romance on the Go that's due out next month, if I tease from that until then, and ditto my Katy Lilley chick lit.

I'm busy with a Regency, that was a 14K novella and is to be a 70K novel eventually, but Hmm... That will be out even later.

So instead I've got an idea. I do have them and sometimes they are even sensible...sometimes. Is this one of them? I'll leave you to judge.

Anyway,  for the next couple of weeks you have the dubious honour of reading this...

And I have no idea where it is going...

Do you know how hard it is living in a place whose name was written Orrsholm, and pronounced Awesome?

How many times you heard... ‘pity you don’t live up to the name eh,’ and ‘is it awesome is and awesome does, then?’  Even one snotty, ooops sorry snooty tourist saying... ‘Aww, this place needs some... Dynamite maybe...’

Bastard.

We might be small, and to many a dirty mark on the map, but to me and around a 100 other souls it was home.

And to around half a dozen of that number, the place where the Orrsholm Ladies Supper club met every Friday afternoon.

Yes I know you don’t have supper on an afternoon, but really you couldn’t call it the Orrsholm Ladies TGIF let’s get pissed and trash men club, now could you?

So, me (I’m DeAnne by the way,) Brandie, Carol, Marylou, Sandy and Rhonda, decided we’d try to be a bit circumspect.

Not easy I tell you. After all we’re all forty-something, self sufficient and no significant others to worry about.

That doesn’t mean we’ve sworn off sex, just permanence.

Why Friday afternoon? Well, strangely we all finish work at lunch time on a Friday. So around 3pm wherever we decide to rock up works perfectly.

This week, we’d decided on a walk up the local hill and a picnic with fizz to celebrate the allegedly coming of summer.

So here we were sitting on rugs with our backs to a convenient rock or three, swigging Moet, eating pate and dishing the dirt on out so called local hero.

One I knew rather well.

I used to be married to him.

Catch all the other #MidWeekTease here

Happy reading,

love Raven x

#SexySnippets...from Scotland with a wild Cat...

Hi all, welcome to this weeks #SexySnippets.

I've just got my fantastic cover art for Cat with the Blue Eyes, book one of The Cats of Craig Mhor, a brand new shifter series about Scottish Wild Cats.

(Cover art, Jay Aheer)

It's out on June 20th from Evernight Publishing, so of course I had to take my #SexySnippets from there.

~It’s not easy being among wild cat shifters, when you’re simply human. Especially, when you’re trying to keep your supposed mate at arm’s length.

Catlin Creamer isn’t buying into this destiny nonsense. What does that even mean?

Dylan MacSween might be her every fantasy on legs, but she will not be subjugated by any man, let alone an Alpha like him.

Give him a pack to rule any time. Wooing a female like Cat is a complete step into the unknown. However, this Alpha knows what he wants, and he wants his mate.

Persuading her might take some time, but when his leadership is challenged, Cat proves herself more than worthy as his life partner.~

And here's your seven sentences for #SexySnippets

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The cat next to her smiled—if that’s what you called the baring of canines—shook and morphed into a hot as hades male. One she’d sworn off ages ago.

 He was bad enough as a cat—as a human, a naked human, he was ten times worse.

Dylan MacSween stretched and her mouth went dry.

God, he was magnificent...those long tawny tresses with those gold and dark streaks in them, just like his fur when he’d shifted. A torso sprinkled with short strands of gold and black, which arrowed downward to where dark, wiry, hair made a nest for his, she had to admit, rather magnificent cock. To say she drooled was an understatement.

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Catch all the other

#SexySnippets

here

Happy reading,

love Raven x

Raven'sRoundup... New month, new Ramblings... What's on in Raven's world at the moment

Wow June already. This year is going past like a rate of knots. It's so great to have the light nights though. Where we are in Scotland, it hardly gets full dark for the next few weeks and I love it. The only downside are the midges, but hey ho you can't have everything. (or in the case of the midges you can have too much of them)

I've often wondered about a newsletter to let people know what's going on in my world, but technology and Raven aren't always the best of buddies. So I decided the best way to let anyone who is interested find out about my books and anything else that won't send you (them?) to sleep is to do a monthly round up.

Fair warning though... It might not be exactly a month. I'll aim for the first Saturday, and hope for the best.

Last month saw The Carpenter (Evernight Publishing) out. All about it here This is a Kera Faire, my dark side alter ego book, part of The Death Isle series. Book 6 (goodness), and so much fun to write.
All about an island on a loch, where the government send traitors to be interrogated.

Plus, the early download of The Earl and the Courtesan, the first in a new Regency series, Daring Ladies. This is from Totally Bound and the details are here

May was, in general a quiet month. I was lucky enough to have a friend visit for a few days, where we had great intentions of doing the tourist bit, and ended up chatting and drinking tea more than anything. (well and the odd glass of wine or two.)

Really relaxing and great fun. Plus, I had a Regency story accepted for publication, in October/November, and I began to plot a new idea out.
Then we had a week of good weather, and where we live they are so few and far between, it was sit in the garden time.

Now We're in June, and I'm half way through...okay a third of the way...my WIP, and having days where I don't add much to that WIP, but do a lot of research instead. (that can be done in the garden, luckily. Books, notepad, pen and I'm sorted)

So what's happening in June?

The Earl and the Courtesan is on general release, June 13th, and it is available to preorder on Amazon here and Kobo here

And on 20th, Cat with the Blue Eyes, the first in The Cats of Craig Mhor  comes out. Scottish Wild Cat shifters, and Cat, my feisty heroine is adamant she's doesn't fit in. 

as the blurb says...

It’s not easy being among wild cat shifters, when you’re simply human. Especially, when you’re trying to keep your supposed mate at arm’s length.

Catlin Creamer isn’t buying into this destiny nonsense. What does that even mean?

Dylan MacSween might be her every fantasy on legs, but she will not be subjugated by any man, let alone an Alpha like him.

Give him a pack to rule any time. Wooing a female like Cat is a complete step into the unknown. However, this Alpha knows what he wants, and he wants his mate.

Persuading her might take some time, but when his leadership is challenged, Cat proves herself more than worthy as his life partner.

I'm waiting on edits for In his Hands, an updated story that was originally in an anthology, (Dominant Persuasions) and is set in Hong Kong, in a typhoon. Hong Kong is probably my favourite city in the world, so after Hong Kong Heat and this, I've an idea for another book set there. I just need time to write it.

Plus, I really should try to reduce the ironing pile and the dust bunnies, neither of which appeals!

And that, folks is it, I think. Raven'sRoundup for June

Happy Reading,

love Raven x

Ps, I do love comments, so feel free to add what you'd like to hear, read or not.