tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87273719483688331112024-03-13T23:32:30.183+00:00Raven & BlackRaven and Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00632172121525731555noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8727371948368833111.post-11290858716456845762014-12-31T18:09:00.000+00:002014-12-31T18:09:23.289+00:00Happy New Year from Raven and Black. A freebie, a bargain and a hot new release.<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy New Year from Raven and Black!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">2014 was a really good one for us. I hope it was for you too. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In December, we broke into the top 100 bestseller lists on Amazon and B&N with The Becoming Trilogy Box Set, which was a real buzz, even if it was just for a few days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Summoning, the second standalone book in the Celtic in the Blood series, is available on pre-order now for release this Saturday, January 3rd. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Liam McShane fancies himself as the village stud. Not difficult in a rural Irish backwater that boasts a bigger population of sheep than humans. Life is simple, until a fanged encounter with the mythical Dearg Due leaves him trapped in the limbo of the undead, where he must drink blood or face the prospect of becoming a mindless, flesh-eating revenant. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And Liam isn't the only one in Crooke guarding a secret. He meets his match in Hollywood movie star in hiding Odette Taylor. Escaping a past that's come back to haunt her, the media backlash of a sex tape that's gone viral, and an aggressive fiancé, she's come to the rural backwater hoping to find peace. Instead she encounters a horde of rabid paparazzi, all too eager to feast on the carcass of her tarnished celebrity stardom. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Her unlikely saviour is a hapless, hunky vampire who's failing miserably at keeping a low profile. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Liam and Odette find themselves increasingly embroiled in the train-wrecks of each other's lives, and it's all good fun, until somebody gets hurt. Then the Lost Boy of Crooke finds he has some serious growing-up to do. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The vampire and the movie star, a star-crossed couple with no foreseeable future together, must battle gods, mythical monsters and the relentless media if they are to stand the smallest chance of getting out of this mess unscathed.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When unwelcome stranger Jack Pembroke arrives in Darcy McShane’s rural coastal village, the last thing she anticipates is falling for him, but a deadly storm, a night of unrestrained passion and the rousing of an ancient Irish myth conspire to change her life irrevocably.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">From the authors of The Becoming Trilogy, The Rousing is an adult romance novella, set on the wild coast of Southern Ireland. The story blends mystery and eroticism with a paranormal twist on an ancient Celtic vampire legend said to have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Neva Raines is the only person who believes the death of her brother Daniel isn’t what it appears. Pumped full of drugs and dumped in a London underpass, the circumstances surrounding his murder—and their mother’s record as an addict—lead people to all the wrong assumptions. But Neva knows Daniel, who watched their mother fight her own demons for years, would never have walked that same path. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Determined to follow leads the police have no interest in pursuing, Neva goes on the hunt for Daniel’s killers. Instead, she finds Konstantyn. He’s dangerous, seductive, and seems to know something about Daniel’s murder. Getting information out of him proves impossible—as does keeping a safe distance. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As her world spirals ever deeper into sex clubs, corruption, and rumours of occult influences, nothing Neva has is safe: not her mind, her heart, or her life. If she can’t find a way out of the mess that claimed Daniel’s life, she’s in danger of losing all three.</span></span><br />
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Raven and Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00632172121525731555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8727371948368833111.post-24317894284915917282014-10-17T20:30:00.002+01:002014-10-17T20:30:49.504+01:00Pre-Order! Infernal - new book, new world, new sex, violence and intrigue.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">Neva Raines is the only person who believes the death of her brother Daniel isn’t what it appears. Gay, sexually abused, pumped full of drugs, and dumped in a London underpass, the circumstances surrounding his murder—and their mother’s record as an addict—lead people to all the wrong assumptions. But Neva knows Daniel, who watched their mother fight her own demons for years, would never have walked that same path. </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Determined to follow leads the police have no interest in pursuing, Neva goes on the hunt for Daniel’s killers. Instead, she finds Konstantyn. He’s dangerous, seductive, and seems to know something about Daniel’s murder. Getting information out of him proves impossible—as does keeping a safe distance. </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">As her world spirals ever deeper into sex clubs, corruption, and rumours of occult influences, nothing Neva has is safe: not her mind, her heart, or her life. If she can’t find a way out of the mess that claimed Daniel’s life, she’s in danger of losing all three. </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Explicit scenes of sex and violence make this book suited to an 18+ readership. Infernal is a stand-alone novel of 63K words. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I couldn’t look away from the sensuous, down and dirty grind he was taking across the stage. Oiled muscles rippled as he wound out moves and pumped his hips, putting the sexuality of my dance with him to shame. We’d been fighting. Now, he was screwing everyone in the audience without even touching them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I saw it the second he recognised me. Clearly, Infernal’s attempts at maintaining anonymity didn’t work, because he sure as hell knew who I was, from just half my face. He glared at me through the eyes of the mask, the flare of his nostrils and the punch of his hips at odds with the anger that burned in his gaze.</span></div>
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Raven and Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00632172121525731555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8727371948368833111.post-9406028967182915832014-04-12T17:22:00.000+01:002014-04-12T17:22:17.349+01:00The Rousing is LIVE! Erotic, mysterious and ready to drag you into a passionate storm<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A romantic, paranormal suspense novella that will have your heart racing.</span><div>
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Raven and Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00632172121525731555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8727371948368833111.post-29119814142627137722014-04-10T16:24:00.001+01:002014-04-10T16:24:59.579+01:00Cover Reveal: The Rousing<h1 style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 40px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.5px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 22.5px;">In the next few days, once he's all polished up, we'll be unleashing The Rousing on the unsuspecting public.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">When unwelcome stranger Jack Pembroke arrives in Darcy McShane’s rural coastal village, the last thing she anticipates is falling for him, but a deadly storm, a night of unrestrained passion and the rousing of an ancient Irish myth conspire to change her life irrevocably.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">From the authors of The Becoming Trilogy, The Rousing is an adult romance novella, set on the wild coast of Southern Ireland. The story blends mystery and eroticism with a paranormal twist on an ancient Celtic vampire legend said to have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em;">Due to graphic scenes of sex and violence, The Rousing is recommended to an 18+ readership.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;">Welcome! March 17th is just a few days away, and this St. Patrick's Day is extra special to us here at Raven and Black, because it happens to coincide with the full moon. </span><br>
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excelled at. He walked away. Yet, even as the front door closed on the bizarre encounter,
he felt the tug of something deep stir inside of him. Something primal and
addictive. The promise of a high more powerful even than the violence that
breathed life into his jaded existence. No, this definitely wasn't finished.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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still taste her mouth on him. His boots took the short flight of steps down to
the basement apartment on auto-pilot, two at a time, scuffing the familiar,
worn stone. He couldn’t tell if the gooseflesh raising tiny hairs on his skin
was down to the chill of the night air, or the residual echo of where her hands
had touched. As he fished the keys from the breast pocket of his leathers, his
hand grazed the flesh, still throbbing from where she’d tugged on his
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was drawn back up to the main house and the tall windows that stretched above
him, steel-grey eyes reflecting the clouds in the night sky. He pictured her,
spitting venom, lips curled back off bared teeth as she struggled to keep him
down, those jewelled blue eyes lit up with a fury that was dagger sharp. Fuck,
she was stunning, arrestingly, cock-poundingly, heart-stallingly beautiful. One
look in those eyes and he knew she was ‘the one’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Anann DeMorgan had set this female off limits? That was just the cherry in the
pie, wasn’t it? Damn, he was predictable. The old lady’s words goaded him now
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crossed the threshold into the sparsely furnished interior. The place looked
grim. About as warm and homey as a public toilet. For reasons he didn’t care to
explore, the abrupt climate shift upstairs had left him feeling equally bereft.
She’d looked at him like he was a monster. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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breathed in the stale air, hearing attuned to the scuttle of tiny feet inside
the walls. They said in this city you’re never more than a few feet from a rat,
and yet the real pestilence was the kind that made a plague-infested rodent
look like the damn Easter Bunny. The darkness was lurking unseen in the black
pools beneath Dublin’s Medieval walls, and it was that darkness she’d sensed in
him. He was her worst nightmare come to life, and he was living right beneath
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vision was more than up to navigating the darkness to the cramped, single
bedroom. The shabby apartment was a front that served to distract prying eyes
and random callers. What lay behind the bedroom alcove was cleverly concealed
by panelling as old as the house itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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warped panel cracked open to reveal the stainless steel of the vault door
behind. It was double reinforced steel, a foot-thick and weighing in at over a
ton. Built to deflect monsters, and to contain them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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stepped inside the inky darkness and located the wall panel by touch, a series
of codes closing him into the cellar space that held the familiar embrace of
home. The tension across his shoulders began to unwind immediately as the
cramped stairwell opened out onto the expansive interior. Inhaling deep, the
air down here smelled of cedar and candle wax. But still, he wore her scent on
his skin. They had barely exchanged un-pleasantries, yet, even in her absence,
that female dominated his senses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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beyond the quickening they all felt with the approaching full moon. Her scent
was like a chemical lure. It had drawn him to rub up on her coat like it was
erotic catnip. Like a drug, biological warfare. No latent female had ever
affected him this way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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footfalls echoed off the windowless expanse, light fixtures flickering
sequentially to life until the cathedral-sized space was sketched in their
candle-like glow. The industrial brick and iron was offset by an eclectic mix
of antiques Connal had acquired over his long lifetime. Existence, not
lifetime, he corrected his thoughts. You couldn’t exactly call what he had a
life. Life assumed an inevitable culmination in death. Connal bypassed the
heavy drapes sectioning off the various living spaces, and made for fireplace,
which was massive and flanked either side by floor to ceiling bookcases.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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DeMorgan had a granddaughter. Those soft, vulnerable features had little in
common with the hard-edged, calculating face of the old woman. Maybe, in
Anann’s younger years... but those weren’t memories Connal wanted to touch with
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">That she
was also a latent? That meant she had to have Fomorian blood too, and every
male in the city would be gunning for her, come full moon. Nan DeMorgan and her
secrets. What was the old witch playing at? Luring her own blood to this
godforsaken place. Like ... bait. He had been more than ready to take a bite
out of her. MacTire would eat her alive. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">He hoped
to hell she’d taken the time to prepare the girl, before throwing her to the
wolves. But their little dance upstairs on the wood floor screamed otherwise.
The weight of responsibility the old woman had dumped on him settled like an
anvil across his shoulders. Not for the first time since she’d stroked out, he
bared his teeth and cursed the day he struck his bargain with Anann DeMorgan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Needing
something to dull his edges, he reached for a handle of whiskey from the shelf.
Pulling the cork in his teeth, he necked the bottle. Then he planted his ass on
the leather couch, shrugged out of his jacket and began sifting through the
cobwebbed database of his neglected memories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Eternity
seemed a manageable thing, desirable even, until you tried to walk its endless,
lonely, identical corridors. Live as long as he had, and experiences became
monotone, a jumble of faded prints, each blandly indistinct from the next. But
this one night, more than a decade ago, closer to two decades possibly, lit up
his synapses like a splash of vibrant red paint across a blank canvas. It was
her velvet coat in the hallway that nudged it to the surface of his
consciousness, though the memory of that night had stayed with him for another
reason. Two of them, in fact.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">The first
was that he’d finally taken out that cocky bastard who went by the name of
Crys. A vicious scrapper. Last time they’d fought, Connal took a sizeable chunk
out of his neck, but somewhere, in the thick of the fight, he’d limped his way
back to MacTire and gotten himself fixed up. This particular night in question,
Crys had come back with vengeance burning up his blood, no doubt looking for
payback on his ruined GQ cover prospects. Making shit personal was what got him
killed. Connal knew revenge better than any son of a bitch walking the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">He’d been
carrying Crys’ decapitated head in a duffle bag, and a couple of other
braincases in there for company, when he’d loped up the path to Nan DeMorgan’s
house. With the heavy bag slung over his shoulder, he was feeling pretty smug
after a fruitful night’s work. He’d dropped the considerable weight to the
footpath while he unlatched the iron gates, taking the reprieve to roll his
neck on his shoulders, working out the physical reminder that heads are the
heaviest of all body parts. He stopped, head cocked to the side, sure what he
was seeing must be an hallucination, because Nan DeMorgan never, ever left her
house.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Technically
she wasn’t leaving, though, she was stepping over the threshold into the hall,
and she wasn’t alone. She was ushering a small figure in a red coat inside the
door, her wizened hand a claw at the child’s back. For a horrible moment he
actually considered the possibility that the old bird was eating children for
kicks. That was a macabre thought too far, even for him, and all the more
disturbing because it didn’t seem entirely beyond the realms of possibility.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">‘Nan?’ he
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">She
froze. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">He
paused, and tried on the scenario again. She hustled the small form into the
hallway and snapped her head around in his direction. Her expression was all
shadows and jowls. That was the second memorable event of that night. Mercurial
on her best days, that night there was a fury in Anann DeMorgan’s eyes he had
never before witnessed, or seen since.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">‘What are
you doing here?’ She barked and threw a hand up to where the moon was still
hanging, full in the sky. ‘Don’t you have work to be doing?’<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">He hefted
the bag and its heavy contents front and forward and moved to untie it. ‘Oh, I
think you’ll like-’<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">She
sliced off his words with a hiss. ‘Don’t you bring that here to my doorstep!
Not now.’ She glared at his bag of hard-won trophies like they were so much dog
shit, and his high deflated like a wrinkled balloon. It wasn’t like he’d
expected her to fall on her knees, but who else did he have to share the small
victories that gave his interminable existence meaning? Generally, she mustered
some enthusiasm for his efforts, especially when he’d taken down one of
MacTire’s inner guard. She kept the heads, for God’s sake. Demanded them of him
after every hunt. He often wondered what she did with them. Mostly, he despised
the fact that some part of him craved her recognition, the psychological pat on
the head in return for bringing his quarry to her feet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">She’d
instructed him to be here, but he didn’t call her out on it, knew better than
to throw matches at that pile of tinder. So he’d shrugged it off, hefted the
bag back over his shoulder and stalked away, feeling like her dirty little
secret. For weeks, he’d brooded, down in his lair, the duffle bag thrown in a
corner, untouched.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">He’d
studiously ignored the unusual comings and goings at the DeMorgan house: lights
on in normally empty rooms, deliveries at odd times. Until one sunlit
afternoon, a police car pulled up to bundle away the young girl. Turned out
she’d been the subject of a month long manhunt, played out in sordid detail in
the gutter press. After that, Anann DeMorgan summoned him back to the house
where she demanded he bleed MacTire’s men with a zeal that bordered on messianic.
Somebody had seriously ruffled the old woman’s feathers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">He cast
his gaze up to the vaulted ceiling, locking onto the solidity of the curved
iron girders, with their bolts and rivets and their patina of long-standing
antiquity. Tossing back another hard draft from the bottle, he tried to fill
the void that was opening up inside him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;">Once
again, it was <i>her</i> scent that reeled him back in, rising up from the
ragged shreds of his shirt. He grasped at the torn fabric, breathed her in, and
the air became charged, like inhaling the aftermath of a wild, electrical
storm. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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wiped the wet residue of the spirit from his lips with the back of his hand and
rose from the couch. He peeled out of his clothes, abandoning them on a path
that lead to the bathroom. He cranked the handle and the shower burst into
steaming life. Stepping beneath the spray, he allowed the pressure to pummel
the tight muscles across his shoulders, saturating his skin, drenching the
dreadlocked coils of his hair in the streaming torrent. The sound of it roared
in his ears, drowning out all thoughts of anything but her. He closed his eyes
and conjured up her face, imagined he could feel the weight of her gaze on him,
watching him through lust-darkened, sapphire blue eyes. He fisted the substantial
length of his erection, wrapping a large hand around the hard, veined flesh,
cupping the heavy sac beneath with the other. Gripping just under the head, he
ran the rough surface of his palm up and down the thick shaft, sliding velvet
soft skin over the steel-hard core. From behind closed lids, he called up an
image of her mouth, lush lips glossed and parted. She was biting on the pad of
her thumb, tense with anticipation. A husky moan escaped his throat. Bringing a
closed fist to his mouth, he stifled the sound, canines biting down into his
knuckles. He permitted himself to feel her mouth on his again, ravaging and
impossibly soft. He bit down harder, hard enough to draw blood this time. His
fist tightened, pumping his shaft, imagining himself moving inside her,
slapping up against her parted thighs. His spine arched, one knee flexing as
his thigh trembled a contraction. His breath quickened and with his palm
squeezing over the sensitive head, he dragged down once again, and felt his
cock pulsing in his own grip, in time with the pounding of his heart. Now her
hand was coasting down, slipping between her breasts, to the apex of her
thighs, her fingers dipping into the glistening folds of her sex and her mouth
was shaping the words, commanding him ... <i>Come for me!</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘Fuck.
No!’ A snarl contorted his face as his instincts rebelled against the dominance
of her demand, but his body was already on its knees to her. Buckling, he
reached out blindly to slam a forearm flush against the wet tile, bracing himself
against the shower wall as his pace quickened. Pumping furiously now, drilling
down to the base, slipping up over the head, he ratcheted up the tempo until
his breaths were hard, fevered pants. He found his free hand coasting up his
abs to grip one nipple ring. With a hard tug, he twisted his own flesh and
cried out, a ragged, lusty rasp. His pecs tightened, the muscles standing out
in corded relief, teeth buried in his lower lip as he worked that delicious
friction to his head, picturing her beautiful, lush mouth now sealed around his
cock. He came for her in shuddering spasms, over and over, until spent and
boneless, he slumped. Head lolling forward on his shoulders, his forehead
pressed against the steamed glass of the shower wall and he slowly slid down
its wet surface, on a downward slope that was far beyond his control.</span></span></div>
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Raven and Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00632172121525731555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8727371948368833111.post-82069700984732952642013-12-25T14:02:00.001+00:002013-12-25T14:02:05.486+00:00Have a very Becoming Christmas and get the gift of a giveaway!<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
<span style="color: red;">It's Christmas!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We hope you're all having a wonderful wolfy holiday season and today is all about food, family and fantasy fulfilment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">In keeping with that, we thought we'd give a little glimpse into the Becoming world, an exclusive excerpt from </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Blood-Novels-Jess-Raven-ebook/dp/B00HAR3QNE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1387975085" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Becoming Blood</span></a><span style="color: red;"> that's all naughty ;) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;">Let's not forget a chance to spread the holiday cheer and win ebook copies of the entire trilogy in the format of your choice! Yes, books 1, 2 and 3 could be yours, and all you have to do is RT, Like and/or Share this post on </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/raven.black.33449?fref=ts" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Facebook</span></a><span style="color: red;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/RavenandBlack" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Twitter</span></a><span style="color: red;"> up until the 27th December. If you do all three, that's three entries into the hat (there may be an actual hat involved.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Go do!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From a corner of the room, Connal watched Ash as she perched
on the edge of Liath’s bed and drew the long mane of her dark hair over one
shoulder. Liath panted, lax and needy with anticipation, as though she sensed
them in the room, but was too weak to react. Ash leaned in and spread her pink
lips across the delicate skin of Liath’s throat. Connal’s lids drifted to
half-mast, hypnotized by the sight of her sharp, white canines dimpling Liath’s
pulsing flesh. With the threat of penetration, Ash’s throat bobbed on a swallow
and he could taste her nervous hesitation. He knew he wasn’t supposed to be
getting off on this, but damn, he was a man, and this was his mate, performing
an act of intimacy with another woman. His body would have to be paralysed not
to respond. Grunting quietly, he readjusted the towel on his hips, concealing
the rock-hard evidence that he was well and truly cured of that ailment. He
cast a sidelong glance at Madden and caught him running his fingers under the
collar of his shirt. A sudden movement in his peripheral whipped his attention
back to Ash. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was Liath who struck, clutching fistfuls of Ash’s hair
and crying out as she arched her throat and impaled herself on her fangs. Held
fast in the crook of Liath’s neck, Ash growled into her flesh as the blonde
jerked in ecstasy, milking her for the drug her body craved. Feral thrashing
calmed to seductive grinding as she got her fix, her body softening, wrapping
around Ash’s and pulling her closer. Liath moaned and the noise was pure sex.
Her hips rocked up, her lips finding Ash’s fingers, her pink tongue laving and
suckling while she sought friction for the heat at her centre. She curled
around Ash’s leg, grinding her sex to the bare thigh she had trapped. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘Enough,’ Connal snarled, lunging to untangle Ash from
Liath’s clutches and drag her away from the bed. She swung about and came to a
shaky halt, staring up at him. Her glassy eyes were tinged with red, her cheeks
flushed, hair snagged and wild. She was feral, a tinderbox of sex pheromones
that sparked a fever in his blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Throbbing, he swept her up in his arms and ignoring Liath’s
whines of protest, carried her out of the room and over the threshold into
another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">'I’m sorry, Little Red, but this is going to be rough.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Slamming the door closed, he tossed her, face down, like a rag
doll onto the chintz bedspread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When she made to crawl away, he hitched her ass up by the
belt of her housecoat and hauled her back down the bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">'Where do you think you're going?' he growled. Yanking the
belt from her waist, he tore the quilted monstrosity off her back and ran a
possessive hand down the curve of her naked spine. She arched in response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He kicked her legs wide with his knees and the towel fell
from his hips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">'Gods, yes,' he groaned at the sight of her glistening,
swollen lips. Grasping the sweet mounds of her ass, he drove himself hilt-deep
into her tight, wet heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She clenched around his girth and kicked back against his
abs, forcing him so deep that she whimpered and gouged her claws into the
bedspread. His growl of approval was guttural and, fingers imprinting the flesh
of her ass, he answered by pumping, hard and ruthless, inside her. Hips
pistoning, abs tight, he slapped up against her buttocks, watching the thick
girth of his cock slide in and out of the tight glove of her sex, glossed in
her arousal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But it wasn’t enough.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘Give me your eyes,’ he demanded, withdrawing only long
enough to flip her onto her back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">***<!--[endif]--></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And if looks could burn, he was raw, smouldering possession.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">His gaze never left hers as he grasped the backs of her legs
and spread her wide. He dropped to his knees and his tongue parted her cleft in
a long, velvet stroke. Her thighs trembled as he sucked at her clit, growling
into her flesh, watching all the time as the torment played out on her face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She was already hovering on that sweet, bladed edge when he
reared up, hooked her knees, and slammed back inside her. Ash came up off the
mattress with a howl, her eyes still locked with his. Blistering pleasure tore
through her body in waves so hard, they bordered pain. She’d never get enough
of him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Long strokes cleaved her, inner muscles fisting tight around
the rigid length of his cock as he hit deep and she arched for deeper. She
mewled at the friction, sparks flitting along a circuit of hyper-aware
nerve-endings, broadcasting erotic pulses to every inch of her. His rhythm was
relentless, passion blazing so hot that its embers licked along her skin and
settled red fire in his eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ecstasy tightened her lower body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘Connal ...’ Growling his name, Ash pleaded, sinking her
claws into his hard thighs. He punished her in quick-fire strokes that stole
her breath and twisted her core with vicious pleasure. She detonated on a
visceral howl, her orgasm so hard and strong, it lifted her up in a fiery wave
and the only tether she had was Connal. His snarls surrounded her while she
soared, quaking in bliss, the rippling power in his body unleashed as he
snapped his hips to lock with hers, finding his own release, burying the hot
pulses of his passion inside her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He was sheened in the lightest layer of sweat, his powerful
chest heaving with ragged, snarling breaths, fangs so long he couldn’t shut his
mouth, and Ash thought he’d never looked so magnificent. Or so animal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘I should bite girls more often,’ she laughed huskily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘I’m not sure we’d survive a rematch,’ he said, stretching
out alongside her in all his gloriously hard nakedness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘I can’t bear the thought of any other woman touching you,’
she breathed. ‘Makes me want to rip their hearts out.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘No killing,’ he smiled lazily against her lips. ‘I need to
get that knife.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">‘Yeah, and I need to speak with this Master guy, to find out
how we use it,’ she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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</span><span lang="GA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: GA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: red;">Remember, just RT, Share and/or Like up until the 27th December for entry into the giveaway. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas everyone!</span><br />
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</span></span>Raven and Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00632172121525731555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8727371948368833111.post-2592103074583838762013-12-14T15:59:00.000+00:002013-12-14T17:28:10.763+00:00Happy Release Day. Becoming Blood is here!<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>No more cliff-hangers. </strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The electrifying Becoming Trilogy concludes.</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Becoming Blood is here!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-27d6e17b-f1c5-afb0-bb4d-0860e52a75e4" style="font-weight: normal;"></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-27d6e17b-f1c5-afb0-bb4d-0860e52a75e4" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ashling DeMorgan has survived becoming wolf, escaped the death-trap of Fomor and found the love she’d feared dead. But, when you’re a pawn in the Morrígan’s apocalyptic scheming, freedom, and survival, comes at a price. Is it one they are prepared to pay?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-27d6e17b-f1c5-afb0-bb4d-0860e52a75e4" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They've been to Hell and got the t-shirts. Now, Hell is coming for them.</span></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As two ancient enemies prepare to converge on Dublin City, Ash and Connal find themselves drawn into a battle of mythological proportions. But will their secrets and divided loyalties put them on opposite sides of a war that neither wants?</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In a dark and dangerous world where sex is an addiction, will Ash and Connal’s happy ever after end in Hell, or can the very thing that cursed them set them free?</span></span></b> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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Raven and Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00632172121525731555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8727371948368833111.post-54015296178779288602013-09-14T09:59:00.001+01:002013-09-14T09:59:44.076+01:00Raven and Black are in the Irish Independent Newspaper!<span lang=""></span><span style="color: #a5a5a5;">Raven & Black are very excited to be in the national Irish Media today, being interviewed by journalist Maura McBride for the Irish Independent Newspaper</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/editor/static_files/www.independent.ie"><u><span lang=""><span style="color: #cc0000;">www.independent.ie</span></span></u></a><span style="color: #a5a5a5;"><span lang=""><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>Weekend Magazine. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So, we've been travelling the internet, blog-hopping and standing in spotlights. It's been one hell of a trek and we have had an amazing time. Not only did we discover brilliant blogs and wonderful hosts, we got to write fun guest posts and answer not usually asked questions. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">If you're nosy and want to know a little bit more about us, this tour has delved into our personal lives, how we write and the weird quirks we have. Interviews are a pretty good way to get to know someone, and we've done FOUR! *laughs* You can check them out at the awesome blogs below.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.books-n-kisses.com/2013/08/interview-with-jess-raven-paula-black/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Books-n-kisses+%28Books-n-Kisses%29" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Books-N-Kisses</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.romancejunkies.com/rjblog/?p=5142" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Romance Junkies</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://booklovinmamas.com/2013/08/22/jess-raven-paula-blacks-becoming-bad-blog-tour-interview-giveaway/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Book Lovin' Mamas</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://miscellaneousthoughtsofabookaholic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-becoming-series-by-jess-raven-paula.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Miscellaneous Thoughts of a Bookaholic</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">This tour challenged us to write something new, something not about the world we constantly have our heads immersed in. Some very strange and random guest posts came into being and we stole a few spaces on some lovely blogs to showcase our efforts ;) We bring you kinky celtic facts, daydreams of Mr Darcy, The Perfect Book Boyfriend (or our gorgeous Guymera), the truth about our characters names, a 10 Things You Didn't Know About Ash and Connal and a delicious dish at the Alpha Male Diner. We promise you, they're decadent.</span><br />
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<a href="http://ktbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/blog-tour-becoming-series-by-jess-raven.html?spref=tw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">K&T Book Reviews</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ismellsheep.com/2013/08/alpha-male-diner-connal-savage-becoming.html?spref=bl" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I Smell Sheep</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://mamasreadingbreak.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/tour-and-giveaway-becoming-bad.html?spref=bl" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mama's Reading Break</span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.bookmonsterreviews.com/2013/08/raven-blacks-becoming-bad-blog-tour.html?spref=tw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Book Monster Reviews</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://madhatterreads.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/guest-post-with-jess-raven-paula-black.html?spref=tw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mad Hatter Reads</span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://romance.nightowlreviews.com/v5/blog/articles/jess-raven-paula-black-becoming-red" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Night Owl Reviews</span></a> <br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Like any author, we adore getting reviews. Even the critical ones, because they let us know what we're doing wrong and help us grow and get better at something we love. It's an amazing feeling to hear someone's thoughts on your books, and when they love them, all the better. Some of the blogs on our tour were incredibly kind and took the time to read our series and show us how they felt. :D You can read their thoughts on their sites, below. </span><br />
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<a href="http://4myreadingobsession.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/raven-black-becoming-red-blog-tour.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">My Reading Obsession</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://vampireswerewolvesfairiesohmy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/becoming-bad-blog-tour-jess-raven-and.html?zx=1cd152ef74e576f5" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Vampires, Werewolves and Fairies, Oh My!</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
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<a href="http://dalenesbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/becoming-bad-by-jess-raven-paula-black.html?spref=bl" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Dalene's Book Reviews</span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.mysecretromancebookreviews.com/2013/08/blog-tour-giveaway-becoming-red.html?zx=6185407c7097dc50" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">My Secret Romance</span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://ktbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/blog-tour-becoming-series-by-jess-raven.html?spref=tw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">K&T Book Reviews</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">And we know how you love sneaky peeks, so if you haven't read Becoming Bad yet, we have a couple of choice morsels from its pages to share with you as part of our tour :) Just a few of the tasty bits ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.literaladdiction.com/new-news-nook-2.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Literal Addiction</span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://mythicalbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/excerpt-and-giveaway-becoming-bad.html?spref=tw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mythical Books</span></a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Our tour would have been a lot shorter if not for the wonderful blogs who gave up their time to spotlight us, casting us into the paths of their audiences and showing of our best bits :) </span><br />
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<a href="http://paranormal-bookclub.com/raven-back-becoming-bad-tour%e2%80%8f-with-giveaway/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Paranormal Book Club</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://paranormalromancefanforlife.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/book-spotlight-becoming-red-by-jess.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Paranormal Romance Fans For Life</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wickedreadingsbytawania.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/vbt-series-spotlight-giveaway-becoming.html?zx=666b3513bfe23a5b" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Wicked Readings By Tawania</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://sassybooklovers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/becoming-bad-blog-tour-series-spotlight.html?zx=7ecfeab66731c5f1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sassy Book Lovers</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://unitedbybooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/series-promo-post-becoming-series-by.html?zx=d16d275e74d41238" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">United By Books</span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://elfie-books.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/raven-and-black-becoming-red-series.html?spref=bl" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Elfie Books</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">A BIG, BIG BAD THANK YOU to all the blogs who were lovely enough to host us on our hopping journey, you are amazing and brilliant and we had an epic time with you all. Thank you so much! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Thank you to our readers, you can't know what you mean to us, but we think you are awesome. Keep reading, keep reviewing, keep recommending. We love you. </span><br />
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