31st Mar 2012

Why the lilac rose?

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So, I’ve been thinking about my author logo, I know you’ve all seen it many times!

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A good friend created this for me and I have always been awed by how he took my very airy-fairy ideas and came up with something so sexy, so British and so me! I’d tell you who he is but he wishes to remain anonymous but I thank him every time I see my logo for the work he did on it.

One thing I very definitely wanted in my logo was a lilac rose.

Why?

Good question! I am very taken with purple, I’ve got lots of clothes in various shades of purple including this T-shirt, sadly too big for me now, that I wore for my David Woolfall photo shoot.

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But that wasn’t it. No. Did you know that there is a secret language of roses? Well, there is!

Now we all know that Red roses are a symbol of love

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It’s actually a symbol of romantic love.

It’s a Victorian phenomenon where people would send secret messages via floral arrangements. It was a way to express emotions that one really couldn’t voice in respectable company.

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So I picked out the Lilac rose for a reason. Here’s the meaning of a lilac rose:


Lilac roses indicate the sender has fallen in love at first sight with the recipient and is enchanted.

I want readers to fall in love with my work at first sight, to become enchanted with Blisse. Has my lilac rose trick worked on you?

30th Mar 2012

Reviews for Transported and Over My Head.

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Hi folks, I know you’re expecting Friends Friday and hopefully I’ll get one up later today but if not look out for it’s return next week.

I’ve recently had the pleasure of reading two great books by two talented authors who I’m pleased to count as friends. Let me tell you a little about each author and their book in turn!

Sharazade says:

I am a professional writer, editor, and consultant, with more than 20 books published under another name. I divide my time among Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S. I enjoy stories that are realistic enough that they might have happened and fanciful enough that they might not have. I value communication, adventure, exploration, passion, and love.

And I read her book Transported:Erotic Travel Tales

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Here’s what I thought of it.

As a person who doesn’t have my own car, I spend a lot of time of public transport, in fact I come up with some of my best idea when I’m staring out of the window or a bus or a train. This collection brings together tales of the unexpectedly erotic amongst the mundanity of travel.

There is a good variety of tales, all hot and all well written. I was particularly taken with ‘Flaws’ as I could identify with the woman’s point of view that so often concentrated on her flaws. I think it’s very easy to fall into this mind set and I love the way that Sharazade shows the difference a little confidence can make. It also contains a smoking hot sex scene that definitely sticks in my memory. A sexy story with a moral, what could be better?

My other favourite is “Just browsing’ any bibliophile will appreciate this story of lust in a store between shelves stacked with lovely books, lots of lovely books. It’s the classic encounter with a stranger but with a bookish twist. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

So if you fancy being whisked off to exotic locations, or to find out ways to keep yourself occupied on a long flight, a lay over or on a busy train then this is the book for you!

Pick it up at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Now onto the Lovely Wendi Zwaduk! She says:

I always dreamed of writing the stories in my head. Tall, dark, and handsome heroes are my favorites, as long as he has an independent woman keeping him in line. I tend to write books with titles taken from songs because music is one of my many muses. I earned a BA in education and as well as a Masters in Education. I’ve tried my hand at teaching, waitressing, and retail sales, but writing holds my heart.

I love NASCAR, romance, books in general, farmland, dirt racing, and my menagerie of animals. I books under contract with Total-E-Bound, Liquid Silver Books, and the Wild Rose Press. But then again, I’ve got more stories percolating than my brain can handle. I can’t wait to share them with you!

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Over my Head by Wendi Zwaduk

This is a wonderfully romantic story set in a seedy club. We have a hero, an undercover cop. I’m not giving anything away there, you find this out from the book blurb! And a girl who needs rescuing, Astra, a dancer, a lover and a girl with troubles.

I love a story where the guy whisks the gal off her feet. This is one of those but worked in a deliciously subtle way. I love how Wendi writes from the perspective of Slade and Astra. You get to see the world from both of their points of view and I felt it took me deeper into their story.

And hot? wowzers, there are some really, really sexy scenes in Over my Head, oh my. You’ll not be disappointed I can tell you!

If you like a sexy romance with a bit of grit then pick this up pronto!

So there you go, a couple of hot reads for the weekend!

29th Mar 2012

Prizes galore!

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Hey folks, Blisse Kiss with Heart is still running and there’s lots of prizes still to be won.

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Check out my Snog for the chance to pick a Blisse ebook of your choice!

Lily Harlem is offering a copy of Orchestrating Manoeuvres as her prize.

Over at Lisabet Sarai’s snog you can win a copy of Treble, a menage anthology and at Tilly Greene’s kiss there’s the chance to win a copy of Missing in Paradise.

And then Lucy Felthouse is offering any one of her single author titles for you to choose from if you win. Again just comment to be in with a chance to win.

But hurry, Blisse Kiss with Heart finishes tomorrow, so get in there now while there are still chances to win! Visit blissekiss.co.uk today for more info.

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And as if that’s not enough, you could win a copy of Naughty Rendezvous today (and loads of other books, actually. At the TRR Anniversary bash. Just look down the page, find my question then come back here and look up the answer (it’s a multiple choice question) and submit it and you could win, simple as that!

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And one last contest. As you all know Authors love feedback on their stories. So I’m going to ask you all for some.
Have you bought a Blisse book to read? You have? Good. Did you review it for me? If the answer is yes then you have my undying love already, yep, I’m *that* easy. But if the answer is no, then here’s your chance to make me hap-hap-happy AND win yourself another bit of Blisse to enjoy.

I will give a Blisse ebook from my backlist -any SINGLE AUTHOR book of your choice- to anyone who writes a review of one of my books on amazon.com, amazon.co.uk goodreads or your own website or in fact anywhere else you can write reviews of my work. I’ll run this contest for just over a month. So the 1st May is your cut off date.

So, some of you might well be sat there thinking ‘Well, I can’t write a review, I don’t know how.’ And I understand that but what I want to say to you is that yes, you can write a review. All I want is people’s opinions. It doesn’t have to be hundreds of words long, you don’t have to dissect my plot or write pages on how amazing my characters are (though that would be lovely!) all you need to do is write a few lines of your opinion.

And yes, that counts. That really counts! When you’ve posted your review, let me know where I can find it. Just drop me an email at victoria @ victoriablisse. co. uk (no spaces) with the link and the Blisse ebook you’d like as your prize.

Please note, if you’ve written a review in the last month and send me the link to it, you can also have a Blisse book of your choice. :)