The House of Erotica Winter Warmers Collection - Explanation

Hi all! 

Well this should mark the first of many posts on my blog about the Winter Warmers Collection but today I'm going to focus on my story in the collection A Meeting of Seasons. 

 

When the submission call came through I was watching a nature programme and it had one of those time stop scenes. Watching it the world changed slowly over about five minutes but in that time the viewer was taken from Summer through to Autumn and all the way into Winter. Being a writer this sent off sparks of inspiration and I started to ponder about what would happen if the seasons were real people. This resulted in Autumn and Winter both becoming real entities that could interact with one another. Of course Spring and Summer also exist but maybe they should be kept ready for another story.

A Meeting of Seasons blurb:

At the end of her season Autumn makes her way to the forest where she will meet Winter for the first time in a year. A meeting that will bring them together even just for a fleeting moment.

A Meeting of Seasons exerpt:

In this short excerpt Autumn is about to meet Winter again for the first time in a year. 

Looking around she watched as a layer of frost began to spread across the forest. Leaves curled as ice
crystals formed over them hiding their colour beneath a layer of white. A low mist began to creep through the forest and she fought hard to hold her ground and not shrink away from it though she felt
fear begin to make its way up her spine.

The mist reached her winding around her ankles tickling her legs as it wound up. She took a deep breath but the air was cold and it took her breath away. Biting her lip she stayed still as the mist
continued its journey up her body exploring her and sending her senses into overload as it cooled her with the faintest breath.

The Winter Warmers Collection is available both as an ebook and in print and you can find it here:

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GMRCXG4

Amazon USA:http://amzn.com/B00GMRCXG4

All Romance Ebooks: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thehouseoferoticawinterwarmerscollection-1344464-362.html

Phew it's been a busy two weeks!

So for the past few weeks I've been busy getting those words down (no I wasn't taking part in NANOWRIMO but I hope all that did finished all that they wanted to do!) instead I was trying to clear the decks for putting the next process of putting together Coming Together: Through the Storm. The deadline for this charity anthology is this Saturday (or the end of it really) details can be found here: http://www.nicolegestalt.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/submissions-for-coming-together-through.html (or just click on the image below)

I'm very happy and honoured to be a part of this anthology as the Coming Together project is very close to my heart so to be able to put together one of the anthologies has been fantastic. I have also loved every minute of reading the submissions as they have been coming in it is truely awe inspiring to see the different stories people can weave. 

Now in other news!! 

Winter Warmers the erotic collection by House of Erotica that contains my short story A Meeting of Seasons is also now available in print! If you click on the gorgeous cover below you will be taken straight to the print link (but if you are in America please click here instead: http://amzn.com/1783333952)

Keep an eye out for more information on the Winter Warmers collection as we will be running a blog tour from December 1st which will be great fun.

Finally

Here is a very special sneak peek of a book you can all look forward to reading when it is released in January next year. Sun, Sea and Seduction is my second all lesbian anthology and all the stories have a lovely holiday theme to them. I just love the cover!

Weekly Round Up

Well this is the second week in a row I'm actually doing a round-up but I'm not yet ready to call this a thing yet! 

This week has been very much of a blur of things. On Tuesday I sat down with my writing head on and actually managed to write over 5000 words during the day which is the best writing day I've had for a long time. I even managed to finish a submission and get well into half way of my pirate story, which is awesome because I'm really having far more fun writing it then I was expecting to. 

So the week has ended up with me submitting one story, finishing off one more and beginning Chapter 5 of a longer piece. Yet that isn't all! This week I was also asked to edit an anthology for Coming Together. They are a charity that creates erotic anthologies for different causes, if you look down the left hand side of this site you will see a few Coming Together titles (With a Twist, Alfresco, With Pride and Under Fire) all of these I have stories within. None of the contributors get any payment apart from a copy of the final pdf and the money of the sales go to the charity's picked. 

The anthology I'll be editing will be going to help Mercy Corps especially with the most recent natural disaster in the Phillipines. 

All submission guidelines can be found by clicking the picture on the left that says Coming Together: Through the Storm. This anthology will have a quick turn around due to the fact that the disaster has already happened and aid is needed now. It reminds me of Coming Together: Under Fire which contains my story Melting Point, the stories in that anthology were written in even less time and all proceeds of that anthology went and still go to helping victims of the California Wildfires. 

Finally the last bit of the news from this week is the latest House of Erotica collections is now out and available to buy. This one is called House of Erotica Winter Warmers Collections and contains my story A Meeting of Seasons which is a male/female fantasy story based around the seasons (as the name may suggest). We will be running a blog tour for this so if there are any authors/readers who would like to have us invade for a day or say please let us know and we'll send you all the information! Otherwise watch this space for information about it all. And whilst you are waiting here is the sexy front cover. 

It's Release Day!

So a while back one of my publishers House of Erotica had a call out for sexy winter stories. Now I love the season (although not as much as my partner does!) and had already been toying around with a story when the call came through. 

Today The House of Erotica Winter Warmers Collection is officially released and it includes my story A Meeting of Seasons. It also includes a vast array of stories from other great authors and as always anthologies are an awesome way of discovering new writers. 

So without further ado here is the gorgeous cover and links where you can buy the ebook from:

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GMRCXG4
Amazon USA: http://amzn.com/B00GMRCXG4
All Romance Ebooks: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thehouseoferoticawinterwarmerscollection-1344464-362.html

I will be posting up more about my story in a another blog post however in the meantime here is the blurb for the book.

Inside you will find a collection of ten Christmas-themed erotic stories. From dressing up to light BDSM and even carol singing, there’s a story to give everyone that warm, fuzzy feeling during the cold winter months.

Authors included are: Annabeth Leong, Nicole Gestalt, Maxine Hooper, Angela R Sargenti, Jamie Rose, Nicky Raven, Victoria Blisse, Gemma Parkes, Tilly Hunter and Jade Taylor.