БогородицаA quick update to let you know that the AOI book page has been updated to include links to all the stores that are now selling Acting on Impulse, all for only 99 cents! I also posted a new review too.

Acting on Impulse is now available for sale at Amazon, All Romance eBooks, Barnes & Noble, Diesel, Kobo, Sony, Smashwords. Thanks to all of you who’ve purchased it so far.  We hope you love this story as much as we do.

We’d love to digitally autograph your copy, if you bought a Kindle copy. Request a Kindlegraph from us here: Ashleigh Raine Kindlegraph titles

More to come in 2012, with the release of the third book in the Hollywood Heat series, Starstruck, and hopefully a few more surprises along the way. Thanks for reading our books!

For those of you who buy and read your books on Kindle, I’ve added our available Kindle titles to Kindlegraph.

What’s Kindlegraph? It’s a really cool way authors can digitally autograph Kindle books. Find out more about it here.

Request a Kindlegraph from us here: Ashleigh Raine Kindlegraph titles

Acting on Impulse, the first book in the Hollywood Heat series, is available again.

Originally released in May 2003, Acting on Impulse was our very first release, though not the first book we wrote. When we got the rights back from our former publisher, we were excited to spend time with Samantha and Connor again. We revised the story and ended up adding an additional 3000 words–spicing the story up even more and letting Sam and Connor have fun with their fantasies, the sweet and the naughty ones.

And what’s the most exciting part about Acting on Impulse being available again? It’s only 99 cents! If you’re in the mood for a sweet and sexy short story, we hope you’ll give Sam and Connor’s love story a try.

Right now Acting on Impulse is only available for sale on Kindle, but it will be showing up at other vendors very soon. It should be available at Barnes & Noble within the next few days, and other vendors soon after. We’ll update the book page on our website as it becomes available at other locations.

Read the blurb here.
Read an excerpt here.

Update: Acting on Impulse is now available at All Romance eBooks.

Update: Acting on Impulse is now available at Barnes & Noble.

Or maybe hell has frozen over. Because finally–finally!–we’ve updated our site and can tell you that, yay!, we actually have a new release coming out. Starstruck, the third book in our Hollywood Heat series, is releasing with Samhain Publishing in February 2012.

Check out the book page for the blurb.

I lurve my pretty sexy cover. Pretty people kissing (and by kissing I mean full-body, gotta have you, give me more). Hard to go wrong there.

And that’s not the only new cover I get to share today.

The first book in our Hollywood Heat series, Acting on Impulse, has gotten a face lift. Gorgeous new cover with people doing sexy things with blindfolds–*gasp* *shock* *awesome*. Acting on Impulse was revised, rewritten, reedited, with 3000 more words added. That book will probably be coming out in October. We’ll announce it here when it’s up everywhere. You can read our new cover copy here and a shiny excerpt here.

That’s not all we’ve been working on though. We’re writing full steam ahead on Eternal Talisman, and we’re revising Magic in the Works–now titled Business or Pleasure–our long out of print erotic contemporary novella featuring lots of naughty happenings between two coworkers at a business convention. We don’t have release dates for either of those yet, but we’ll yell here when we do.

I’ll leave you with another YAY! It’s great to be back in the swing of things again. We’re hoping to have more releases to tell you about soon.

иконописикониLisa and I are spending the next couple weeks in a writing daze, trying to get a book done before my son’s off on summer vacation. But I wanted to share a couple fun things with you before I go.

Want to win autographed copies of some of our books, as well as books by awesome authors such as Carolyn Crane, Keith Melton, Robyn Bachar, Vivi Andrews and others? Check out the awesome iPad contest that our friends Bree and Donna of Moira Rogers and Vivian Arend are hosting.

This last weekend Lisa and I went to Disneyland with a good friend of ours. We were lucky enough to get tickets to the employee-only opening of the new Star Tours ride, which was absolutely fantastic. We didn’t take any pictures of the ride–it was frowned upon–but we did get this fun photo of Lisa and I shooting aliens on the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster ride. As you can tell by our expressions, we take shooting aliens seriously.

Talk to y’all once Lisa and I finish Starstruck!

Okay, so 2010 didn’t turn out exactly as we expected.

And 2011 hasn’t started the way we planned.

But that’s life, right? It’s all about the journey, the ups and downs and roller coaster spins that leave you a bit lightheaded and euphoric and topsy-turvy.

So what have we spent the last year doing? Unfortunately, we haven’t been writing as much as we’d hoped to. It’s that life thing again. It’s not that we don’t want to be writing. It’s that other responsibilities have to take precedence. See, one year ago my husband lost his job. The ever-changing economy struck his career field and across the state of California more than 10,000 jobs in his position were cut. It was scary, but we’d taken some precautions as the economy slipped and we saw other people in the same position losing their jobs. So in the year before his layoff we got our cars paid off, our credit card paid off and a bit of a cushion in savings. So while learning he really would be unemployed was something we hoped wouldn’t happen, when it came to fruition we were more prepared than we would’ve been. I took on extra work (hoorah for being a contract employee!), and although I now work 14-16 hours a day, 7 days a week, one year later we’re doing okay. We’re doing better than okay, actually. And we’ve learned to take things one day at a time.

Lisa’s been busy this last year too. When she’s not working on her very successful jewelry business, Twilight’s Fancy, she’s been employed in the Hollywood costuming industry working on such cool movies as Spider-Man. Yes, my girl worked on the spider himself. This is the major motion picture in the series that is rebooting next year. Pretty cool, huh? And when she’s not working on both of those things, she’s been schiiting with Schiit Audio. If you’re an audiophile, or you just want to see Lisa in solder/builder mode, check out the link and scroll down to see a photo of her at work.

When we weren’t working (and as you can tell we’ve both been working on average 14-16 hours a day, 7 days a week for the last year), we’ve gotten some writing done. Our goal for 2011 is to finish the next Hollywood Heat story and the long, long, looooong-awaited third book in our Talisman Bay series. We’ve got a good chunk of both books written, and we’re darn proud of them. So send us positive vibes that we can find the time to finish these stories, because we really want to share them with you.

In the meantime, we’re actually getting out and about again. This weekend, Lisa and I are attending ConDor in San Diego. We’ll be in the vendor room at the Twilight’s Fancy booth, where we’ll be selling Lisa’s jewelry and autographed copies of our paperbacks. If you’re in the Southern California area, we hope you’ll stop by and say hi. We’ll be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Then April 6-10, I’ll be attending the RT Booklovers Convention in Los Angeles. Lisa won’t be joining me this time. She’s heading to England to celebrate her tenth anniversary with her hubby. I guess I can forgive her…and I’ll pretend I’m not incredibly jealous. I’ll be signing copies of Lover’s Talisman, Forsaken Talisman and Driven to Distraction at the bookfair on Saturday, April 9. If you’re attending RT, stop by and say hello.

So that’s where 2010 and the first couple months of 2011 have disappeared to. But now we’re hoping to stop disappearing from the writing world for years on end. Thanks to everyone who continues to read our books, to send us fan letters, and to let us know we haven’t been forgotten. We love all of you!

Here’s to a productive and happy 2011!

Okay, so those three things don’t have a whole lot in common other than Jen and myself and how busy we’ve been this year.

My husband started an audio company and it took off like crazy, stealing a lot of my time because I’m the lucky devil who gets to solder all the circuit boards. The company name is Schiit. Yep, that makes my husband the SchiitHead. And he doesn’t even get mad when I call him that. So. Much. Fun!

If you’re an audiophile or know someone who is, you should check out this Schiit!

As you can see from the picture, I’ve got a new choker necklace…a vampire bite choker necklace…available in my ArtFire shop or from vampirebitechoker.com.

When Jen and I met in 1988, it was shortly after the Lost Boys was released. Y’know… ‘Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.’ Anyway, I had a VHS copy that I swear we wore out because we watched it so much. Jen had to see it at my place because her mom wouldn’t let her watch R-rated movies yet. Eventually her mom made an exception for the Lost Boys because she saw how much we really liked the movie. I recall bringing the tape over to Jen’s so that her mom could watch it with us once.

Okay, why am I suddenly feeling old? That was only 22 years ago…

Ummmm…okay, so it’s been awhile since I first saw that movie and just had to, had to, had to have a jacket like the one Alex Winter wore as Marko. I dunno if it was the patches or the chains or what, but his jacket rocked my world. I still want one just like it.

But instead of tracking that one down and paying an outrageous sum for it (if it even still exists!), I have the one I made all those years ago. Well, I had the jacket already. I just went to town adding chains and rhinestones and all sorts of broken jewelry and stuff to it. The darn thing weighs 10 pounds now!

I worked on it all the way through high school. When Jen was into peace signs, I put one on a pocket. I was into infinity signs so naturally there’s a bunch of those on there. Our best bud Wendy was into ankhs so, that’s on a pocket. Carrie was exciting, so there’s an exclamation point on a sleeve. And Jen’s sister Laura…well…she inspired the question mark on the other sleeve. You’d have to’ve known us girls back then to really understand that jacket. But I still love it after all these years.

Through the 250 hours I put in on that thing, I taught myself how to attach all sorts of stuff to fabric…in several different ways, too. I tried all sorts of methods. Some worked far better than others.

Putting what I learned on that jacket to good use, I have made my vampire bite chokers reversible. Yeah. You can wear the bite on your left or on your right without having to unhook, unwind or untwist anything. Just flip the choker around and reclasp it around your neck. That’s it.

What I’m particularly enjoying is that while I’m making vampire bite chokers, I’m brainstorming about the next book in the Talisman Bay series. Without giving too much away, let’s just say that Jen and I are actively working on it and there’s more than one vampire…and a decent amount of biting going on.

Good golly, I’m getting excited just thinking about drafting the next scene. A big thing just happened after a couple smaller things which had an even bigger thing before them and right now, I gotta get everyone set for the beginning of the next big thing.

That wasn’t vague enough, was it?

I should quit teasing and go work on the scene so that the book can get finished sooner and ya’ll can read for yourself all the vampiry goodness…

In the mean time, check out my vampire bite choker at ArtFire and receive a Talisman Bay tote bag with your purchase, using coupon code TALISMANBAY during checkout.

Our February contest celebrating the paperback release of Forsaken Talisman has drawn to a close, but with the end, it means it’s time to give out the prizes.

The winner of the autographed paperback copy of the first book in the Talisman Bay series, Lover’s Talisman, a matching ribbon choker and bracelet set and a Talisman Bay tote bag is Melissa Keith!

Congratulations, Melissa!

Thanks to everyone who entered our contest. For those of you who didn’t win, you can pick up your copy of Lover’s Talisman and Forsaken Talisman at most any online book retailer in either digital or paperback. And you can pick up your very own ribbon chokers at Lisa’s Twilight’s Fancy Artfire shop.

Thanks for playing, and keep an eye on the blog. Hopefully we’ll have some writing news for you soon.

Yesterday on the Samhain blog, Lisa and I were invited to talk about Forsaken Talisman’s paperback release. While we’re way beyond excited that Forsaken Talisman is available in paperback again, we wanted to do more than giggle and squee about how happy we are. But apparently our excitement has gotten the best of us, because we couldn’t figure out what to say. (Us, speechless? I know, right?)

So rather than us telling you about Forsaken Talisman, we let the characters speak for us. If you want to know how each of the Shadow Walkers and other Talisman Bay characters feel about the happenings in Forsaken Talisman, head on over to our post on the Samhain blog and hear about it directly from them.

I met Lucy Monroe several years ago at a convention, and she’s one of the nicest, sweetest authors in the industry. She’s giving, she’s friendly, and she’s a huge supporter of romance. I’m proud to call her a friend. So when she mentioned she had a new release, I wanted to mention it here to share the news with all our readers.

Moon Craving
Feb 2010 – Berkley Sensation

ISBN-13: 978-0425233047
Children of the Moon Book 2

If it were up to him, Talorc—laird of the Sinclair clan and leader of his werewolf pack— would never marry. But when the king orders that Talorc wed an Englishwoman, the lone wolf is shocked to find his mate in the strong-willed Abigail. And after an intensely climactic wedding night, the two fiercely independent souls sense an unbreakable bond…

Deaf since childhood, Abigail hopes to keep her affliction from Talorc as long as possible. And for his part, he has no intention of telling her about being a werewolf. But when Abigail learns that the husband she’s begun to love has deceived her, it will take all of his warrior’s strength—and his wolf’s cunning—to win his wife back. And Talorc will have to face his biggest challenge yet: the vulnerability of a man in love…

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As a special thank you to readers, Lucy is giving away a prize pack of pamper yourself products and paranormal romance. All you have to do to enter is send an email with Moon Craving Contest in the subject line to moon_craving at yahoo dot com before February 28th, 2010. The drawing will be held March 1st and the winner will be announced on her blog at http://www.lucymonroeblog.blogspot.com.