“I don’t think so, sweet thing.” She tried to ease away from him but
the back of her chair kept her in place. “I am most
definitely…all…grown…up.” He nuzzled her exotic-scented hair, drifted
his lips over the curve of her jaw, hovered near her mouth, her lips
parted. He waited. Neither of them breathed. Then he kissed her, a slow,
soft brush of mouths with just a hint of tongue lingering on her bottom
lip.
Hey everyone!
It's down to the last few days to get my Heller Brothers Hockey — A Five Book Hockey Romance Collection for just
$ .99 (TOTAL BUNDLE VALUE: $15.00). This sale prices ends September 1!
An amazing opportunity to own all 5 Heller Brothers Hockey romances In One Limited Edition Digital Boxed Set.
It's down to the last few days to get my Heller Brothers Hockey — A Five Book Hockey Romance Collection for just
$ .99 (TOTAL BUNDLE VALUE: $15.00). This sale prices ends September 1!
An amazing opportunity to own all 5 Heller Brothers Hockey romances In One Limited Edition Digital Boxed Set.
These
brothers play the game…but the women know the score…
Breakaway (Jase)
Faceoff
(Tag)
One Man Advantage (Logan)
Hat Trick – The Hellers are Home for the Holidays
Offside (Matt)
And we're on to another round in the Sex Scene Championship! I'm up against one of my favorite authors who writes some seriously hot stuff - Tessa Bailey. So head on over and read what we've got and vote!
October is still so far away! Who wants some hockey??
I've got my Heller Brothers Hockey series bundled up into a 5 book boxed set and it's on sale for only .99 for a limited time!
Heller Brothers Hockey — A Five Book Hockey Romance
Collection
*Just 99c For Limited Time Only*
(TOTAL BUNDLE VALUE: $15.00)
An amazing opportunity to own all 5 Heller Brothers Hockey romances In One Limited Edition Digital Boxed Set.
(TOTAL BUNDLE VALUE: $15.00)
An amazing opportunity to own all 5 Heller Brothers Hockey romances In One Limited Edition Digital Boxed Set.
These
brothers play the game…but the women know the score…
Breakaway (Jase)
Faceoff
(Tag)
One Man Advantage (Logan)
Hat Trick – The Hellers are Home for the Holidays
Offside (Matt)
I just read a great interview with fabulous author Kristan Higgins, where she says this about how she promotes herself:
"I write more books. It’s easy to believe that if you just promote enough, your book will get attention. I don’t think that’s true. Readers can’t be fooled or manipulated into loving an author. It’s always about the book. I know authors who are great on Facebook and write ragingly popular blogs about publishing, authors who have ten times the Twitter followers I have. But that’s not what I’m doing for a living. I don’t want to be a social media whiz; I want to write books. My readers want me to write books. You have to choose how you spend your time."
This really hit home for me because I feel exactly the same. Sometimes I get discouraged and think I need to do more promo stuff. It's not something I'm good at. I'm a quiet, introverted person who doesn't like to put myself out there, but even so, I do love interacting with readers (especially in my Sweet Heat Reader Group, which is a more personal environment). Sometimes finding the balance between that and writing is difficult. But I think Kristan's right -- readers probably want me to write more books rather than be a social media whiz.
So I'm still here on-line and I still want to interact with readers and have fun, but if I'm not here as much as some authors are, it's because I'm writing another book.
To celebrate the release of Her Stand-In Boyfriend, we have a blog tour and Rafflecopter contest going on for some Amazon gift cards!
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Her Stand-In Boyfriend is out today!
This boyfriend business is about to get a whole lot more personal...
Event planner Lexi Mannis has a busy life in Chicago - too busy to have a boyfriend. For special occasions, she has her Stand-In Boyfriend, Mac Northrop. Mac offers (almost) all the perks of a real boyfriend - furniture assembly, a date to big events, and someone to cook for. But they've never been "with benefits"...until one wickedly hot night crosses the line.
Mac's been in love with Lexi for ages. He knows he should probably end it, but dammit, he just can't. When things get deliciously down and dirty, Mac is certain that he's made the leap out of the friend zone...until Lexi decides she wants to remain friends. With benefits.
What Lexi doesn't know is that she's running out of time. And if she won't promote Mac to Real Boyfriend, she might just lose her Stand-In Boyfriend to someone else...
This boyfriend business is about to get a whole lot more personal...
Event planner Lexi Mannis has a busy life in Chicago - too busy to have a boyfriend. For special occasions, she has her Stand-In Boyfriend, Mac Northrop. Mac offers (almost) all the perks of a real boyfriend - furniture assembly, a date to big events, and someone to cook for. But they've never been "with benefits"...until one wickedly hot night crosses the line.
Mac's been in love with Lexi for ages. He knows he should probably end it, but dammit, he just can't. When things get deliciously down and dirty, Mac is certain that he's made the leap out of the friend zone...until Lexi decides she wants to remain friends. With benefits.
What Lexi doesn't know is that she's running out of time. And if she won't promote Mac to Real Boyfriend, she might just lose her Stand-In Boyfriend to someone else...
Last week I stumbled across a reader review for my upcoming book Major Misconduct that really made me cringe. I know I shouldn’t be reading reviews and I know I shouldn’t respond to them, but after giving it some thought, I decided I would post this.
The reader was disappointed in Major Misconduct because the publisher has tagged it “perfect for readers of Sawyer Bennett and Toni Aleo” and she didn’t agree. Obviously she’s a big fan of those authors, but what made me cringe was when she implied that I’d read Toni’s and Sawyer’s (and Jaci Burton’s) books and tried to copy them.
I found that very offensive, but I’m going to choose to believe this
reader thought that was a way of describing the book and didn’t intend
to be insulting.
I’ve never read Toni or Sawyer or Jaci’s hockey books (I have read other Jaci Burton books). I’ve read pieces of Toni's and Sawyer’s books, and they do seem quite different from mine.This reader may also not have been aware that Major Misconduct is not the first hockey romance I've written - it's my sixth -- and that my first hockey romance was published in March 2011, which was before those other authors’ hockey romances were published.
Just wanted to clear that up.
I’ve never read Toni or Sawyer or Jaci’s hockey books (I have read other Jaci Burton books). I’ve read pieces of Toni's and Sawyer’s books, and they do seem quite different from mine.This reader may also not have been aware that Major Misconduct is not the first hockey romance I've written - it's my sixth -- and that my first hockey romance was published in March 2011, which was before those other authors’ hockey romances were published.
Just wanted to clear that up.
Here's a bit of one of my favorite scenes from Limited Time Offer...
Levi whistled as he strolled back to Scott’s office, where he was doing something crazy with Photoshop, working on the ideas they’d come up with. “Check it out.”
Levi peered at his monitor. A big hairy dude reclined in a bathtub full of bubbles reading a book, his feet hanging over the edge, a glass of wine sitting on the side of the tub. With no copy, the only words were on the label of the beer bottle in the bottom right corner—Flying Pigs Pale Ale.
Levi grinned. “Yeah! Perfect.” Just what they’d talked about.
“And this one.” Scott clicked his mouse. Another image appeared, this one two men holding hands.
Levi shook his head and sighed. “Nah. That one doesn’t work. Too homophobic.”
“I thought so too. One more.”
Another dude in a pink tank top and tiny athletic shorts appeared, again with the Flying Pigs Pale Ale bottle.
“Awesome.”
“Last one.”
Back to the hairy dude in the bathtub who had one leg out of the water covered with shaving foam and a shaver in his hand. Levi snorted with laughter. “I fucking love that one.”
Scott grinned. “Okay.” He turned away from his computer. “We need to get to work on the Natural Belgian Blonde. You know where we’re going with that one.”
“Pamela Anderson.”
“Dude. Natural blonde.”
“Can we make some kind of joke about the curtains matching the carpet?”
“Fuck no!” Scott paused. “Besides, these days there isn’t as much carpet.”
“Ahaha!” Levi laughed so hard he just about split a gut.
Scott laughed too.
Then… “I know!” Levi just about blew up. “There’s no actual blonde woman in the ad. Just a picture of carpet and drapes. That don’t match. No, no…they do match. Perfectly. With some kind of crazy pattern.”
“Ah!” They leaped up and high-fived each other. “Hang on, hang on.” Scott clicked his mouse a few times and Pharrell William’s “Happy” blasted from his computer. They both started dancing. Levi had his arms in the air and was thrusting his pelvis when Joseph Huxworth walked by. Joseph paused and eyed them. And he wasn’t alone. Presumably that was a client. Crap.
Levi dropped his arms and jerked his head at Scott, who lunged for his computer mouse and cut the music.
“Uh, hey, Mr. Huxworth.” Levi smiled. “Just celebrating our incredible creative genius.”
Levi whistled as he strolled back to Scott’s office, where he was doing something crazy with Photoshop, working on the ideas they’d come up with. “Check it out.”
Levi peered at his monitor. A big hairy dude reclined in a bathtub full of bubbles reading a book, his feet hanging over the edge, a glass of wine sitting on the side of the tub. With no copy, the only words were on the label of the beer bottle in the bottom right corner—Flying Pigs Pale Ale.
Levi grinned. “Yeah! Perfect.” Just what they’d talked about.
“And this one.” Scott clicked his mouse. Another image appeared, this one two men holding hands.
Levi shook his head and sighed. “Nah. That one doesn’t work. Too homophobic.”
“I thought so too. One more.”
Another dude in a pink tank top and tiny athletic shorts appeared, again with the Flying Pigs Pale Ale bottle.
“Awesome.”
“Last one.”
Back to the hairy dude in the bathtub who had one leg out of the water covered with shaving foam and a shaver in his hand. Levi snorted with laughter. “I fucking love that one.”
Scott grinned. “Okay.” He turned away from his computer. “We need to get to work on the Natural Belgian Blonde. You know where we’re going with that one.”
“Pamela Anderson.”
“Dude. Natural blonde.”
“Can we make some kind of joke about the curtains matching the carpet?”
“Fuck no!” Scott paused. “Besides, these days there isn’t as much carpet.”
“Ahaha!” Levi laughed so hard he just about split a gut.
Scott laughed too.
Then… “I know!” Levi just about blew up. “There’s no actual blonde woman in the ad. Just a picture of carpet and drapes. That don’t match. No, no…they do match. Perfectly. With some kind of crazy pattern.”
“Ah!” They leaped up and high-fived each other. “Hang on, hang on.” Scott clicked his mouse a few times and Pharrell William’s “Happy” blasted from his computer. They both started dancing. Levi had his arms in the air and was thrusting his pelvis when Joseph Huxworth walked by. Joseph paused and eyed them. And he wasn’t alone. Presumably that was a client. Crap.
Levi dropped his arms and jerked his head at Scott, who lunged for his computer mouse and cut the music.
“Uh, hey, Mr. Huxworth.” Levi smiled. “Just celebrating our incredible creative genius.”
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LIMITED TIME OFFER is now available! I can't wait for you to meet Levi and Sloane!!
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` RELEASE DAY!
LIMITED TIME OFFER is now available! I can't wait for you to meet Levi and Sloane!!
If you didn't see my link to the cover reveal the other day, here it is!! MAJOR MISCONDUCT -- Chicago Aces Book 1!
As the captain of the Chicago Aces, Marc Dupuis is all business. The apartment he shares with his teammate and best friend, Duncan, is a refuge from the pressures of fame. But when the sexiest woman he’s ever seen interrupts his early morning coffee wearing only a skimpy cami and matching panties, Marc can’t exactly say he minds. Their chemistry is off the charts. Unfortunately, this girl’s no random puck bunny. She’s Duncan’s little sister—and she’s moving in.
As the captain of the Chicago Aces, Marc Dupuis is all business. The apartment he shares with his teammate and best friend, Duncan, is a refuge from the pressures of fame. But when the sexiest woman he’s ever seen interrupts his early morning coffee wearing only a skimpy cami and matching panties, Marc can’t exactly say he minds. Their chemistry is off the charts. Unfortunately, this girl’s no random puck bunny. She’s Duncan’s little sister—and she’s moving in.
Lovey Armstrong could stare at Marc’s chiseled abs and listen to his
French-Canadian accent all day. She just has no idea what’s going on
inside his head: When he’s not charming her pants off, Marc makes a
Zamboni machine seem warm and cuddly. Lovey knows the team’s bro code
says no messing with sisters, but all these mixed messages are hard on a
girl’s self-esteem—especially since she’s finally getting her new life
together in Chicago. She decides he’s worth another shot . . . because
if anyone can melt the ice around Marc’s heart, it’s Lovey.
The exclusive cover reveal for Major Misconduct - Chicago Aces Book1 - is up at Heroes and Heartbreakers! Head on over and have a peek. And there are pre-order links. :-)
http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2015/06/cover-tuesday-exclusive-reveals-from-samantha-young-soraya-lane-vonnie-davis-kelly-jamieson-shiloh-walker-and-jessica-lemmon
http://www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2015/06/cover-tuesday-exclusive-reveals-from-samantha-young-soraya-lane-vonnie-davis-kelly-jamieson-shiloh-walker-and-jessica-lemmon
Hey all! My upcoming release will be available in digital and print formats on release day! I'm giving away three copies at Goodreads...go enter!
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Limited Time Offer
by Kelly Jamieson
Giveaway ends June 16, 2015.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
One week from today I'll be in Dallas at the RT Booklovers Convention!
If you're going to be there, I hope you'll look for me and say hi! I'll for sure be at the Giant Book Fair on Saturday and there's a good chance you can find me in the bar in between other events! :-)
If you're going to be there, I hope you'll look for me and say hi! I'll for sure be at the Giant Book Fair on Saturday and there's a good chance you can find me in the bar in between other events! :-)
I'm so thrilled to announce that my Heller Brothers Hockey series is back, and it's new and improved!
I recently got the rights back to Breakaway, Faceoff and One Man Advantage. I’m re-releasing them now, with
beautiful new covers that match the covers of Hat Track and Offside.
If you’ve already read them, you may not want purchase them again. Although I’ll tempt you by sharing that I did add a few
scenes to Breakaway—in the middle and at the end of the book. I also tweaked a
few things that some readers had complained about, mostly with Remi.
Also, I added quite a few scenes to Faceoff—taking it from a
novella to a short novel that will also be available in print. When I wrote
Faceoff, it was for a specific call for submissions for my publisher and
couldn’t be more than 30,000 words. I had to keep it short, but I always felt
there was more to Kyla and Tag’s story, so now I got to tell it.
One Man Advantage has been cleaned up a little but probably
isn’t noticeably different than the first version.
Oh, and one more thing to tempt you…Breakaway is on sale for
just .99 as a special re-release promotion. It will go up to 3.99 June 1. Faceoff is 2.99 and One Man Advantage is 3.99.
I’m hopeful that with
pretty new covers and lower prices, I’ll be able to reach out to more readers,
especially hockey lovers, so even if you don’t re-purchase the books I hope
you’ll help spread the word about them!
Loving Maddie from A to Z
Zack’s a different
man now. He’s seen terrible things. He’s come to terms with his sexuality and
embraced his need to dominate. Maddie and Aidan would be shocked to know the
kinds of things he likes to do. A guy like him will never have a relationship
like theirs. But when Zack realizes he might be able to show Maddie and Aidan
what they’re missing, he faces a dilemma. Do something? Do nothing? Pretend
everything’s fine? Help them if he can? But will showing them what they’re
missing help save their relationship…or destroy it?
Home is where the hearts are…
Award-winning
photojournalist Zack Donovan is happy to be alive after being held captive by a
band of rebels in Syria. He’s not so
happy to be on his way back to Chicago to recuperate with his college friends
Maddie and Aidan, who are now a couple. The fear while being held prisoner was
nothing compared to how he feels about facing the two people who unknowingly
broke his heart seven years ago.
Maddie and
Aidan are deeply in love, but lately they feel something is missing for them.
They’d do anything to make the other happy, but are struggling to figure out
what that is. Those problems are set aside, however, when their best friend
from college is taken hostage in Syria. After graduation, Maddie and Aidan were
hurt by Zack’s refusal to ever come home to visit, but he’s still their friend
and he has no family, so when he’s finally free they insist he come stay with
them to recover.
I'm so happy to share that I have obtained the rights back to the first three books in my Heller Brothers Hockey series! Watch for new covers and re-released stories with some added content later this month!
So excited to share this beautiful cover for my upcoming release, Loving Maddie from A to Z!
To help celebrate, the lovely ladies at Shh Mom's Reading are doing a giveaway, so hop on over there to get in on it - you could win an e ARC!
Here's the blurb:
Home is where the hearts are…
Award-winning photojournalist Zack Donovan is happy to be alive after being held captive by a band of rebels in Syria. He’s not so happy to be on his way back to Chicago to recuperate with his college friends Maddie and Aidan, who are now a couple. The fear while being held prisoner was nothing compared to how he feels about facing the two people who unknowingly broke his heart seven years ago.
Maddie and Aidan are deeply in love, but lately they feel something is missing for them. They’d do anything to make the other happy, but are struggling to figure out what that is. Those problems are set aside, however, when their best friend from college is taken hostage in Syria. After graduation, Maddie and Aidan were hurt by Zack’s refusal to ever come home to visit, but he’s still their friend and he has no family, so when he’s finally free they insist he come stay with them to recover.
Zack’s a different man now. He’s seen terrible things. He’s come to terms with his sexuality and embraced his need to dominate. Maddie and Aidan would be shocked to know the kinds of things he likes to do. A guy like him will never have a relationship like theirs. But when Zack realizes he might be able to show Maddie and Aidan what they’re missing, he faces a dilemma. Do something? Do nothing? Pretend everything’s fine? Help them if he can? But will showing them what they’re missing help save their relationship…or destroy it?
Release date: April 7, 2015
You can it to your Goodreads shelf here!
To help celebrate, the lovely ladies at Shh Mom's Reading are doing a giveaway, so hop on over there to get in on it - you could win an e ARC!
Here's the blurb:
Home is where the hearts are…
Award-winning photojournalist Zack Donovan is happy to be alive after being held captive by a band of rebels in Syria. He’s not so happy to be on his way back to Chicago to recuperate with his college friends Maddie and Aidan, who are now a couple. The fear while being held prisoner was nothing compared to how he feels about facing the two people who unknowingly broke his heart seven years ago.
Maddie and Aidan are deeply in love, but lately they feel something is missing for them. They’d do anything to make the other happy, but are struggling to figure out what that is. Those problems are set aside, however, when their best friend from college is taken hostage in Syria. After graduation, Maddie and Aidan were hurt by Zack’s refusal to ever come home to visit, but he’s still their friend and he has no family, so when he’s finally free they insist he come stay with them to recover.
Zack’s a different man now. He’s seen terrible things. He’s come to terms with his sexuality and embraced his need to dominate. Maddie and Aidan would be shocked to know the kinds of things he likes to do. A guy like him will never have a relationship like theirs. But when Zack realizes he might be able to show Maddie and Aidan what they’re missing, he faces a dilemma. Do something? Do nothing? Pretend everything’s fine? Help them if he can? But will showing them what they’re missing help save their relationship…or destroy it?
Release date: April 7, 2015
You can it to your Goodreads shelf here!