Cover Refresh and Read An Ebook Week March 6 - 12!

 

Hello lovely people!

We had no idea how much we liked seeing people until we couldn't see people by order of the Health Department.

It is snowing heavily outside our window and it's hard to believe spring will ever return - or normal life - or peace on Earth - but it will. In the meantime, we have books to read. 

Much of this month was spent pondering the direction of romance cover art and consequently, we took a bold move in redesigning the covers for Constance Kent's Victorian Villains Saga. They have a broody gothic vibe that is fresh and right for a contemporary readership. Check them out on the Victorian Villains page and please let us know what you think! 

We were influenced by some change-makers in the genre, Julia Quinn's covers being one, to take the leap away from the style of forty years ago and into the present. Every series got a refresh and we're pretty happy with the result. 

The other exciting event on the horizon is Read An Ebook Week on Smashwords from March 6 to March 12, 2022.

This incredible sale of ebooks in every genre and sub-genre imaginable attracts thousands of readers each year from all over the globe. 

Evelyn Ellis has enrolled Forbidden, Passion, Obsession and Cherry Pop into the sale. Get your copies for free using the coupon Smashwords provides at the checkout. 

Constance Kent has enrolled new titles this time around. Come, Let Me Hold You and Come Let Me Love You is contemporary New Adult romance. Click on the American Gothic Contemporary Romance tab in the header to learn more about this new series of standalone fiction. 

Two of the three titles in Miss Kent's new medieval erotic romance, Mortain and Bedwyr Novella Trilogy are enrolled. Hidden in the Shadows and Whispers in the Fog are free with a coupon. But you'll have to buy the third novella, Revealed in the Mist to see how it all works out. Hah! We're evil.

Hey, it's a BOGO plus one!  Buy One, Get Two Free.  

Bookmark this page to return on March 6 and conveniently claim your freebies: Links to Smashword's pages are here:

Forbidden, Passion, Obsession - Erotica

Cherry Pop - Erotica

Come, Let Me Love You - New Adult contemporary romance

Come, Let Me Hold You - New Adult contemporary romance

Hidden in the Shadows - Medieval Erotic Romance Novella

Whispers in the Fog - Medieval Erotic Romance Novella

See you there and happy reading!

Smashwords Incredible Summer Winter Sale!

FREE on Smashwords from December 17, 2021 to Janunary 1, 2022. Click the link to be taken to our publisher page and scoop up your copies.

WRITEWOOD CREATIONS ON SMASHWORDS

Looking for more sizzle this holiday season? These Evelyn Ellis titles are available for FREE on Smashwords December 17, 2021 to January 1, 2022. Click the link below to be taken to our publisher page and scoop up your copies. 

WRITEWOOD CREATIONS ON SMASHWORDS

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Groundhogs and Heartstrings

Hot New Releases for February!

BETROTHED
Shy, stammering Clara Hamilton is shocked when her father announces her betrothal to a cousin she barely knows. Her uncle’s stepson, Branson Hamilton is handsome, avaricious and rumoured to be unstable. Nineteen-year-old Clara, anxious for her father’s approval, agrees to the union unaware of what is at stake. A sinister family secret surfaces and Clara soon discovers that master of Windemere Hall has a dark revenge in store when she enters into his power. GET IT FOR 0.99 IN FEBRUARY!

Betrothed is the first episode in Windemere Hall Trilogy and launches Catherine Lloyd’s Victorian Villains Gothic Romance Serials. Steamy gothic romance in the tradition of Phyllis A. Whitney and Victoria Holt, set in 1867 Victorian England. The novellas will be released in installments like the “penny dreadfuls” of the Age. Each episode ends in a cliff-hanger. They contain scenes, language and themes written for a mature audience.

FORBIDDEN PASSION OBSESSION

Three erotic stories set in Victorian America circa 1895, a time when social pressure puts the lid on simmering desires. Three inquisitive young women and three obsessive men are set on a collision course of taboo sexual encounters. In the Tent, a naturalist can’t stop thinking about a night of forbidden lovemaking with his young assistant. Backstage at the Bijou a young actor acts out a passionate illicit fantasy with his onstage ‘sister’. In When the Landlord Calls, a grotesque landlord is tormented by an obsessive desire for one of his beautiful female tenants. GET IT FOR 2.99 ON AMAZON! Coming soon to other retailers!

FREE ON SMASHWORDS!

Hot New Release!

Revisit the good old days when everything was forbidden. Three stories of three young women “losing it” in a time when nice girls saved it for marriage. The collection is part of Evelyn Ellis’s Historical First Time Forbidden Series, short stories and novellas of taboo couplings and lost innocence.
~ Satisfy Me ~ Tempt Me ~ Release Me 
Available on Amazon only until February 4, 2016
Buy it here: CHERRY POP

January Release: 
The Storm and Doctor Dixon
Lucy Dixon is locked out of the house after returning home from a disappointing evening in London’s West End. Her stepfather, the eminent Doctor Joel Dixon is fortunately still awake despite the late hour, to admit her. A fierce storm has the city in its grip and Dr. Dixon is on the brink of a breakthrough in his research. With his wife away, he asks Lucy to assist him in his laboratory. He has an experiment he would like to perform on her. The nature of her stepfather’s work has always been a mystery to Lucy, but it is midnight, they are alone and she is willing to learn. What she discovers transforms her forever. A Victorian Seduction and Surrender Novella

Fresh, Hot Releases!

Halloween has passed over leaving candy in its wake. Put your feet up and dive into two steamy romantic reads from Evelyn Ellis and Catherine Lloyd. These stories are hot enough to burn off those calories we've ingested this weekend.

SOLDIER - A Medieval Christmas Story
Two stories. Two amoral men. Two women who love them. Set in 13th Century England at Christmas, a time of sex, love, danger, and redemption. In Mercenary, Broderick is a soldier who takes what he wants until tragedy strikes. In Jester, Dumas is a hunchback whose perverse passion for his young female assistant takes an unexpected turn.
Buy or Borrow on Amazon

MY BEST FRIEND'S BOYFRIEND - a sensual supernatural romance
When the dead don’t pass over, there are disturbingly erotic encounters with the living as Violet Rayburn discovers when her best friend’s boyfriend is killed. Alive, Ricky Dillinger didn’t seem to notice her, except on the race track. Dead, the biker won’t leave her alone. A short erotic ghost story, 26 pages, for 0.99.
Buy at Amazon

New Release from Evelyn Ellis!

The Taboo Club opens the door to erotic fulfillment for a suburban husband and father when he discovers a business card in his coat pocket that says: Experience your darkest fantasies ... if you dare. Set in 1969, Atticus Gilchrist’s visit to a mysterious building in Greenwich Village opens the door to experiencing a forbidden passion and sets in motion a heart-stopping love affair.

The Taboo Club is erotica—a love story written for adults and can be enjoyed as a stand-alone. The novella is part of Evelyn Ellis’s Historical First Time Forbidden Series, erotic stories of taboo encounters between young women and the older men who desire them. It contains scenes, language and themes intended for an adult audience. Sensitive readers are strongly cautioned.

Buy it on Amazon $2.99

Love. In a dangerous time.

Dark Redeemer Boxed Set Edition. Three exciting novels of medieval adventure romance. Dark heroes and courageous heroines. Disguise and deception rule the day and forbidden love rules the night.

Buy it on Amazon for $4.99

Falling in Love, Staying in Love and Keeping the Fire Hot

Hope your summer is sizzling!

A recurring theme around here is what makes two people fall in love? Is it sexual desirability? Or is there something deeper going on when two people can't keep their hands off each other.

Catherine Lloyd is attempting to dissect this thorny subject in her next book: An Ordinary Day. At the same time, she's working on a new Dark Redeemer Historical Romance: Mercenary. 
So many ideas! So little time! She is heard to squawk from her writing cave.

Evelyn Ellis has solved this problem by returning to short erotic romance. She cannot stay away from the short format! The opportunity to explore a wide-range of time periods, attitudes and sexual subjects in short fiction is just too tempting. She'll release her latest short The Taboo Club on Amazon for 0.99 in the coming weeks. She says the story is just long enough for a stress break at work or on the ride home. Cheaper than a chocolate bar and your significant other will thank you for it.

Now get outside and enjoy the summer!

The KU Effect on a Small Publisher

Amazon announced a new royalty plan to its Kindle Unlimited/Select Program. Authors are paid for the number of pages a borrower reads. It's fair and reasonable for everyone, unless you write short fiction, in which case it's a scramble to adapt.

The nature of Erotica is that it does not write "long" but its writers are flexible and open to change. Evelyn Ellis's short stories have been bundled like chocolates on a rainy day into Forbidden Fruit - Five stories of taboo erotica. Simon Graystoke's Niece is now one novella and ditto for His Wife's Little Sister.

The good news is we won't break the bank on stock images for individual titles. The bad news is it will take a little longer to see a new release.

Catherine Lloyd's contemporary romance titles will be joining the Kindle Unlimited family in July while Traitor will be leaving it.

Personally, we like the new royalty structure. It's like boot camp for authors. We believe some overlooked gems will start making a living while some over-hyped tomes will waste away. At the end of the day, it'll likely put a stop to the flood of scamlets being published.

Due out at the end of June is Evelyn Ellis's Victorian Games.

Victorian parlour games take a taboo twist when disguises are the means to forbidden couplings, seduction and surrender. The Secret Society of Sensualists was introduced in Simon Graystoke’s Niece. Lord Carrington receives the shock of his life when a night of Viking role-playing opens the door to an erotic adventure with a mysterious young woman. The Secret Life of a Puritan introduces a young American husband to carnal delight with a surprising partner and Night of the Pantomime leads to a taboo night of bliss for one unlikely couple.

Have a great week!

Meet the Authors

CATHERINE LLOYD

Catherine Lloyd is a psychological suspense writer by day and a romance writer by night. Catherine has two grown children, three grandchildren and a cat named Harry. She loves reading first and foremost, writing second, red wine and a fire in the hearth are third. If she got all of the above, all at the same time, it would mean she was dead because that is heaven.

Visit her Author Page on Amazon

EVELYN ELLIS

Evelyn Ellis has had a passion for historical romance from an early age. She liked the spicy ones best, but they were never spiced in the right way to her taste, so she began writing her own. She particularly enjoys writing erotic short stories and novellas. The shorter format allows for deeper character examination over the course of a very hot erotic story. Her stories are all standalone shorter fiction with themes that explore taboo sexual subjects in time periods from Medieval to the Swinging Sixties with locations all over the world. Evelyn is retired, lives in the country with her long-suffering spouse who swears he is her inspiration. Subscribe to Evelyn Ellis's Newsletter to be informed of her latest releases.