After years of writing, and more than a few months of eager anticipation (by us…and hopefully some of you), Starstruck is now available.

To say that Lisa and I are happy and giddy would be one giant understatement. Our first new release in four and a half years is out. We’re ready to throw a freakin’ parade. Instead, we’re holding a weeklong contest here on the blog. We’re giving away an ebook a day and one winner will get our Hollywood gift set. Head over to this blog post to enter.

Behind the scenes, beneath the covers…

Hollywood Heat, Book 3

Jenna Byers approaches her first day as a background actor on Sexy M.D. with one goal in mind—impress the right people with her acting, make connections, and prove she’s a hard worker. Things go sideways when an up-close-and-personal encounter with the uber-sexy lead ends with Jenna flat on her butt, and she’s noticed for all the wrong reasons.

In all his years of acting, there’s only one thing Micah Watley hasn’t done: accidentally punch an extra in the face. Going against protocol, he hunts her down to apologize and discovers a rare phenomenon in the entertainment industry. A sweet, uncorrupted-by-Hollywood woman, whose smile grabs him by the heart—and other not-so-innocent body parts—and won’t let go.

Their attraction is instant and intense, and Micah finds himself desperate to believe the woman with the beautiful smile, hot body and naughty mind wants him, not the doors he could open for her. When the press catches on, twisting Jenna and Micah’s love story into a Hollywood scandal, they’re forced to fight for their happy ending—both on and off camera.

Warning: This book contains a hero and a heroine who don’t know a household surface they won’t get horizontal on. Sometimes vertical too. Counters, sinks, showers, sofas, washing machines, beds, walls…they’ve got all the angles covered.

Digital versions
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Samhain, Kobo

Read the first chapter

Read the first kiss

We’ve gotten a couple AWESOME early reviews.

Rating: B

“I seriously enjoyed this novella…The sexy times were hot as all get out, and yet didn’t feel frivolous in any way either…the romance played out so beautifully, the characters were fun and the ending left me felling all warm and gooey inside.”

–MinnChica from The Book Pushers

4 1/2 stars and a Recommended Read!

“I have a feeling this is going to be a favorite of mine for 2012 and I can’t wait to read more from this author. She has managed to write a heartfelt, hilarious love story in just a few short pages…Readers can rest assured that they won’t be let down by Starstruck! It takes true talent to write characters as sincere and real as Jenna and Micah.”

–Lee from Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews

Thank you to all of you who’ve sent us encouraging notes, who’ve visited us at conventions with stacks of our books and smiles on your faces. We have the best readers in the universe. No one can tell us otherwise.

Thank you to all of the readers only just now reading us for the first time. Thanks for choosing to read an Ashleigh Raine book. There are a ton of options for your reading pleasure, and it’s an honor for you to choose us.

We hope you enjoy getting Starstruck by Micah as much as we did. Drop us a line and let us know what you think.

Starstruck releases tomorrow. Eeeee! Thank you to all of our readers for being awesome and patient and amazing. We finally have a new release for you! Hopefully more to come soon too.

To celebrate we’re throwing a contest. Every day this week we’ll be giving away a digital download of Acting on Impulse, the first book in our Hollywood Heat series.

It’s super-duper easy to enter. All you gotta do is leave a comment on this post and share your Hollywood crush. It’s that simple. To get it started, I’ll share my Hollywood crush with you. I’m madly in love with Chris Hemsworth. *sigh* *swoon* I will be first in line to see all four of his movies this year in the theater. I need a Chris fix! I love him so.

You only have to enter once, but you’ll be eligible to win every day. Don’t forget to include your email address so we can contact you if you win.

And that’s not all…

On Monday, February 27 we’ll pick one grand prize winner to win our Hollywood gift set, which includes an autographed paperback copy of Driven to Distraction, a Hollywood magnet, deck of cards, other Hollywood memorabilia, and a star ribbon choker, just like the one Jenna wears in Starstruck.

So who’s your Hollywood crush?

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!

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.

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!

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!