Title: Paradise Island Author: Beverly Rae Artist: Jinger Heaston ISBN: 978-1-60168-100-3 Genre: Paranormal Contemporary Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press Publication Date: 4/25/2008 Sexual Content: Sensual Erotic

Macy Maitland loses her fiancé and her job all in the same day. But things start looking up when she receives an invitation from a mysterious benefactor for an all-expense-paid vacation to an exclusive island resort.

Upon her arrival, Macy is greeted by the odd caretaker and the island’s only other guest…her ex-lover. Macy tries to stay away from his irresistible draw, but magic and and the lure of treasure throw them together. Can they survive Paradise Island?

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Title: Working Man: Lunch Break Author: J.M. Snyder Artist: Nikita Gordyn ISBN: 978-1-60168-098-3 Genre: Contemporary M/M Erotica Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press Publication Date: 4/2008 Sexual Content: Erotic M/M

Earning his way through school is what working at a grocery store gets Nick. He does his best to be polite but when Kevin comes in with his friends, Nick doesn’t feel like much more to the man than a can of fruit. Too bad really, since Kevin is the most perfect man Nick has seen in a long, long time.

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Check out the Fantasm Award Blog!! Despite some fierce competition, the first book in Aspen’s Del Fantasma series has won the award for Best Shapeshifter (Non-Wolf) Romance!

Title: Del Fantasma: Texas Tea Author: Maura Anderson Artist: Nikita Gordyn ISBN: 978-1-60168-052-5 Genre: Paranormal Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press Publication Date: 8/17/2007 Sexual Content: Erotic

Photographer Lara Saunders has a lifelong secret — she can see and hear ghosts. When she was rescued from a near drowning by the ghost of a lighthouse keeper, he set her on a mission to document historic lighthouses and the lives of their keepers so they were not forgotten. Now on her third book in the series, Lara has arrived in San Diego to document the Old Point Loma Lighthouse but hasn’t counted on becoming the target of Cody Warren, the matchmaking owner of the Del Fantasma bar. Or falling in love with a handsome Park Ranger whose secret is even more strange than her own.

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Editors and friends have asked where I get my inspiration to write erotic romance. It’s simple since I’ve traveled to some of the most romantic countries in the world. How could a word lover not be flooded with plot lines when looking at the gorgeous gondoliers of Venice? There’s alwats a virile bobby with his stick strolling the parks in London. In Paris there’s enough kissable French men strolling the Champs-Elysees to make any woman’s heart flutter.

My most romantic city is Venice. St. Mark’s Square is filled with enough motivation for me to pick up a pen and scrawl everything I see and hear. There’s always a pair of lovers strolling through, wrapped in each others arms, with no outside world to interfere. You might even find them sharing a Cinzano while the soft strings of an orchestra fill the chilly night air.

So how can you remember everything you see to use in future books? It’s easy thanks to modern technology.

1 - Inspiration is all around you every single minute of the day and night. Take the time to notice it, absorb it, feel it, then let your imagination soar.

2 – Always carry a pen and paper with you to record those scenes blossoming before you.

3 – Carry a disposable camera to photograph anything of interest, no matter how trivial. In a pinch use your cell phone camera. Drop the pictures into a file for future use.

4 – I like to work with visual aids and compile images of location, people, clothing, maps, language, and anything else that lands me feel smack-dab in the middle of my story. Nothing is too trivial to Glue Stic to my poster board. It puts me in the mood but I always make sure it’s hidden before company arrives.

Now I’m off to dig out those photos from London for my latest book PHOTO OP! Look for it this fall coming from Aspen Mountain Press.

Sloane Taylor
Sweet as Honey…Hotter than Hell
Francine On Fire www.aspenmountainpress.com
www.sloanetaylor.com   

Title: Tango Spank Author: Elizabeth Ansett Artist: Nikita Gordyn ISBN: Genre: Contemporary Erotica/Spanking Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press Publication Date: 4/4/2008 Sexual Content: BDSM/Spanking

Rohan Black, eligible and sought after owner of Unicorn Airways, didn’t really expect to find his perfect match online. He certainly didn’t expect to find so much enjoyment in the sparring and challenge provided by the feisty and entirely too opinionated “Difficult to Define”. As the pin-up boy of Australia , he had his pick of hundreds of doting, compliant women. So why did a woman he’d never met and who described her appearance as, “… not sending stray dogs howling,” infuriate and fascinate him so much?

Madison Taylor needed someone, but not just anyone. Dragon Slayer had piqued her interest and his dare to go rafting, parachuting, and then end their weekend with a tango lesson had her wondering if he were the one to meet her needs, needs she wasn’t all that sure of herself. She’d meet him, but on her terms not his. No one dominated Madison, no one. She was totally in control of her life and that’s how things would stay.

Until she meets Rohan Black and nothing is what it seems.

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