Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts

Monday, December 16, 2013

12 Days of Christmas

Day 5 - Gettin' Lucky ebook and a $5 Amazon gift Card - Comment to win




A story in the Cougar Challenge series. But can be read as a standalone.
Marcy Brown can’t get enough of Lucky, her massage therapist. Lucky’s fingers always linger dangerously close to…sensitive areas, and ignite a fire she can’t ignore. Marcy isn’t looking for a relationship, but a friend with benefits would be right up her alley. The women of her fave blog, Tempt the Cougar, swear by younger men, but Marcy doesn’t want to train someone. She wants a man who can give her orgasm after orgasm.
Lucky offers to be her secret lover and help her realize all her fantasies. With Lucky, Marcy discovers the thrill of sexual positions and taboos she’s been missing out on—up to and including sex with two gorgeous men at once.
All bets are off when this Cougar is challenged to get her growl on.
An Excerpt From: GETTIN’ LUCKY
Copyright © AMBER SKYZE, 2010
All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Chapter One
“Isn’t he hot, sweetie?”
“Mom!” Marcy groaned.
“What? Is there something wrong with me thinking the young doctor is sexy?”
“Mother, please.” Not that there was anything wrong with her admiring the younger doctor. Shit Marcy fantasized about younger men, but she kept it under wraps. She didn’t speak the words out loud.
Marcy wished she could crawl under a rock and die. They were in the recovery room. Her mother had just undergone surgery for her broken wrist. It wasn’t like they were alone. The room was full of other people who had come from surgery too, along with their family members. Marcy looked around to see if anyone else was listening to her mother’s tirade. She couldn’t believe her mother was talking about how hot the doctor was in front of all these people. Christ, he was young enough to be her son, possibly grandson.
“Thank you,” the doctor said. “Now I want you to rest for the next few days. No using those fingers, either. You need to give your body time to recuperate.”
“Anything you say, Doctor.”
Marcy watched as her mother made googly eyes at the doctor.
“Do you make house calls?” she asked, reaching out with her good hand to touch him.
He chuckled.
“They don’t allow us to go to patients’ homes, but I’ll see you in a few days at my office. All right?”
“If you insist.”
“I’ll see you soon.” He patted her mother’s leg before rushing off to his next patient.
Marcy looked down at her mother.
“I can’t believe you just said those things to the doctor, Mother,” she whispered.
“It’s all right, Ms. Brown,” the nurse said. “There’s nothing to be ashamed of. Lots of women enjoy the company of younger men.”
Not my mother and certainly not me. Though she couldn’t deny the growing attraction she’d been feeling for Lucky. Lately every time he massaged her he came dangerously close to her pussy, stirring up tingling sensations she hadn’t felt in a very long time. Thankfully her vibrator gave her the relief she craved after leaving her weekly massages, because she couldn’t risk losing Lucky. Entering into anything sexual with him would cross too many boundaries for her. She might have to change massage therapists and that would be a pity.
“I appreciate your understanding, but that doctor could be her grandson.” She knew she was exaggerating, but seriously. Her mother was too old to be drooling over the doctor.
The nurse laughed.
Marcy didn’t find anything funny about her mother fawning over the young stud. Yes, he was cute, not her type, but nice-looking.
“Stop being so uptight, Marcy. Just because Dan wasn’t smart enough to stick around doesn’t mean you’re a dead fish. You can have a little fun if you know what I mean.” Her mother winked.
Marcy wanted to flee the recovery room.
“It’s the anesthesia.” The nurse patted her hand.
“Thanks.” Marcy looked at her name tag. “Elizabeth.”
“No problem. I have a few things to check on, but I’ll be back shortly. Don’t worry about your mother. Once the anesthesia wears off she’ll probably forget the things she said.”
God she prayed the nurse was right. She couldn’t have her mother talking like this.
“I appreciate your understanding.”
The nurse nodded before heading off. She returned an hour later.
“Here are your discharge papers,” Elizabeth said. “And here’s something just in case your mom is serious.”
Marcy took the business card.
“Tempt the Cougar? What’s this?”
In a hushed tone, Elizabeth explained. “It’s a blog where women who want to experience the thrill of younger men gather.”
“Oh no. My mother definitely doesn’t need this.” Marcy attempted to hand the card back to her.
“Take it. You never know.”
“I’m sorry, but I do know. This is not something my mother would be interested in.”
Elizabeth shrugged.


“Then keep it for yourself. You never know, you might find it interesting.” She rushed off before Marcy could object.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Winner Announcement

I used Random.org to pick a winner and the winner of this hop is:

I think my favorite is night time campfires with the entire family. heather1974 at gmail dot com Thanks!

I'll send an email. If the prize is not claimed in 10 days I'll pick another winner.

Thanks to everyone to dropped in and participated!

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Welcome Becky Black



Ebooks are the wave of the future. Even those publishers who don't want to believe it's true know it. I do most of my reading on my Kindle or tablet now. When people are reading ebooks they are reacting to them as people have always done to books. They react to the text. The text is the book, not the container the text is in.

And yet there is still something magical about having a print release...

Everyone old enough to be reading my books now grew up with books as things made of paper and card. Some with pictures in them as well as the text. Sometimes stunning colour plates. Books weighed down your schoolbag. Their pages got wrinkly from reading in the bath. Old books got worn out, pages yellow and foxed, starting to fall apart. But we held them in as much affection and considered them as precious as family photographs. A book signed by the author is especially exciting for some people and you can't really do that with an ebook.

Paper books have such strong emotional resonance for some people that it's hard to let them go entirely in favour of ebooks. It's like the switch from vinyl to CD. Some people resisted that for a long time. And though the ebook is on the rise, but it will be a long time before it replaces the kind of book that counts as a work of art in itself. Or cookbooks, with their glossy photos of fantasy food. Or children's books that babies appreciate for their chewiness as well as their content.

So as great as ebooks are, and as much as I'm delighted to be published by a "digital first" publisher, I can't deny that parcel of author copies gives me a thrill like no other.



I have three books in print now. For your chance to win a copy of the latest, Higher Ground, comment below by Sunday 14th April at 09:00 UK time. Make sure you leave an email address so I can contact you if you win.

Higher Ground Blurb



Zach is impatient and likes to hurry. Adam likes to take it slow and to tease. But, they’d have worked it all out – if only the end of the world hadn’t gotten in the way.

Zach Benesh is sure his prediction is right – the island colony of Zahara is about to sink into the ocean. Adam Gray isn’t as certain, but he’s happy to follow the intense, brilliant geophysicist into the mountains to escape the flooding. Though he’d be even happier without three hundred other people – and their pets – tagging along. He’d like to have Zach all to himself out there.

But Zach’s prediction is right and as disaster begins to unfold towards an unstoppable, inevitable conclusion, the two young scientists must become a team in the fight to save their people. They draw strength from their rapidly developing relationship, but the higher Zach and Adam climb, the more difficult the tests they face – as lovers and as men.


More information and more buy links (including print) at Higher Ground’s book page on my site.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Freebie Friday Winner

With the help of random.org my winner of the print book and sway is NURSEBOWEN... I don't have your email address so please contact me at: amberskyze AT aol DOT com to claim your prize.

I had so much fun with this I decided to give another commentor an ebook. The winner is MAYAS...please contact me at: amberskyze AT aol DOT com to discuss which ebook you'd like and which format.

Thanks to all those who dropped by and commented. I'll be doing giveaways from time to time, so be sure to drop by again!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Color Me Stupid

I thought the membership drive was for the Seven Sexy Scribes Blog. Well it was for the yahoo loop! I'm still giving the books away to those who have already contacted me letting me know they are following the blog.

Going forward you have to join the yahoo group to win a copy of an ebook. To Join go here:
On the loop we'll be having chats with lots of prizes, among other fun things. These are the books I'm offering a copy of.












It snowed last night. I woke up this morning to snow on the cars. Slush and snow. It’s too soon for this. Too soon! :o)
We had a GREAT weekend. I learned so much about my family history. It was truly amazing. Salem is a wonderful place and we look forward to going back in the summer to really explore the sights.
I had a wonderful birthday. The DH took me and the kids out to dinner. Only T came with us, her brother stayed home with his other grandmother. I’ll see him today.
In writing news, I’m writing today. I did write about 500 words yesterday, against doctor’s orders. I didn’t care. The urge came and I answered. Today I’m close to 1k and hoping to get more down.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Happy Monday!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Another eReader Giveaway!!!!!!

"The coroner will find ink in my veins
and blood on my typewriter keys."

~ C. Astrid Weber

I saw this in a newsletter I subscribe to and it fits perfectly for writers. Though, instead of a typewriter it’ll be a laptop.

In other news Aspen Mountain Press is having an Anniversary Bash with a Nook eReader as a prize! How cool, right? Here are the details:

From July 23-August 1, Aspen Mountain Press is conducting its big fourth anniversary bash and if you want the presents, here's what you have to do.
1. Post a comment to the Aspen Mountain Press blog .
2. Post a comment to the twin blog post at the Aurora Regency blog .
3. Sign up for the AMP newsletter at https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:Join/signupId:1400893/acctId:1400720
4. Participate in the AMP Anniversary bash party at the AMP Community Loop from 7 to 11 pm EST at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AMP_Community/?yguid=323193151. We'll have a thread specifically for entries there where you'll have to shout out.
And that's all you have to do to win a Nook e-reader from Aspen Mountain Press. Other prizes like downloads and gift baskets will be given away at specific chat events.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Still Recovering

Taking it easy today folks. Being put under took a toll on me. :) Got a clean bill of health, but still feel loopy. Just spent loads of $$$ buying books for my new purty pink Sony ereader. Shhh, don't tell the DH! hahahahahaha

Headed to NY for the weekend. Have to work the stupid DJ, holed up in a hotel room. Sunday will be fun though. Surprising MOM with a birthday party. Being an only child I've had to plan this all from a distance. Hope she has fun.

Until I blog again!

P.S. Thanks everyone who made my friend Heather Peters feel welcomed. I truly appreciate it! Smooches