March 2009 Contest Winners

Pot o' Gold Scavenger Hunt March 2009 Winners:

Margaret Sneyd (Surrey, UK)
Food for the Gods by Camille Anthony

Afshan Nawaz (NY)
The Other Half of Your Heart by Janis Susan May

Katika Floyd (VA)
Skin Deep by Marilyn Lee

Iris Santiago (IL)
Dangerous Bet: Troy's Revenge by Marie Rochelle

Sonya Hucks (OH)
Chamberlain's Knight by Skyler Grey

Trish Wakeman (Queensland, AUS)
Road To Casablanca By Leah Leonard

Phyllis N. Crabtree (FL)
Feathers on the Wind: The Cygnets by Camille Anthony

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RRP Yahoo Chat Membership Drive

Come join us for the Red Rose Publishing Membership Drive. The 500th, 550th, and 600th member to join will win a grab bag of prizes offered by the RRP authors.

All you have to do is join and send a post telling us how you found out about the drive. The winners will be announced and prizes mailed out once the 600th member joins.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/redrosepublishing/

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RRP Offered at More Places

Red Rose Publishing presents more ways to get at our content:

Print books are now available at Target.com, as well as Amazon.com. Also, our ebooks are now being carried by My Bookstore and More.

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ARe 2008 Awards

Congrats to Red Rose Publishing for best selling new publisher, and Marie Rochelle for being a best selling author!!

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RRP's 1st Anniversary Scavenger Hunt

Red Rose Publishing is having a Scavenger hunt to celbrate it's 1st Year Anniversary.

So all you need to do is go here : Red Rose Publishing Contest Page

And click on this icon ---->

Then follow the direction you find on the contest page. Each Icon will take you to the next author's website who is participating.

One lucky reader will win this --->

Along with e-book prizes.

Good luck.

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Marie Rochelle news

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It's All About... ME

I've been interviewed at Manic Readers. Stop by and check it out. :)

Zen-Ren
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Zenobia Renquist
Discover Different and Unique Romance
http://zenobiarenquist.com
A Valentine's Gift for Tori -- Contemp Romance (IR) -- Out Now
Acknowledging Meirion -- Sci-Fi Romance (MC/IR) -- Out Now

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The Attic Ball scheduled for May 8 release

My Mainstream Historical Paranormal Romance short will be available soon. The Attic Ball is scheduled for release on May 8 at Red Rose Publishing. I can’t wait. If you want a quick and easy romance read, check it out.

BLURB: A Walden woman heads to the attic to revive an ancient ritual, which has been handed down from generation to generation. With the aid of an old trunk, containing some ancient props consisting of a lovely antebellum ball gown and a Confederate uniform, she summons the main participants, her long deceased great great grandparents.

I’ll come by next week with an excerpt.
*doing the happy dance*
Taylor Kincaid

Step into the world of Taylor Kincaid
Where destiny is just a dream away.


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www.freewebs.com/kisskinauthornews
http://www.authorsden.com/taylorkincaid

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BLogging over at Midnight Seductions today!

Along with a few other red rose authors, I have blogged at http://midnightseductionsauthors.blogspot.com on my workshop, a thank you and some personal stuff, check it out!

Sascha illyvich
A proud red rose author

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Workshop for Writers Announcement

During the month of May at Coffee Time Romance, I will be hosting a workshop entitled BDSM in Romance

Authors, are you looking to increase your readership? Have you spotted the growing trend in erotic romance to include light kink? Desire to add kink to your writing but are unsure how?

Then this workshop is for you!

If during sex scenes the following have occurred: Characters being held down, role play/costuming, light bondage i.e., silk scarves, light spankings, corsets, incorporated food into your sex scene, then guess what?

You’re KINKY!

BDSM is not all about pain, leather or physical abuse, although those are some perks!

This workshop is for authors particularly in the romance genre who dabble in BDSM in any form, be it writing spanking stories, light bondage, or like myself, heavier darker things. What authors may not know about Kink and BDSM is that the term BDSM is a BLANKET TERM encompassing many different things that if utilized properly and marketed appropriately can expand an author’s audience.

Marketing, the toughest part of any author’s job IMO will make or break any author who relies solely on the publisher. An author’s job is a business and needs to be treated like such, even if we DO get to have a more fun than any corporate schmo.

After writing the novel, here is the order of author responsibilities (and an example):

1. Establish the Brand (I’m Sascha Illyvich, paranormal erotica/BDSM romance author)
2. Maintain the Brand (Primarily through PR. I write about wolves, fae, vampires, but you’ll never see me write a western!)
3. Grow the Brand (I write paranormal romances, which puts me in with the anime crowd who likes dark fantasy, the BDSM crowd because my characters engage in mental dominance AND the romance crowd because my stories have a HEA!)

This workshop will focus on Number 3: Grow the Brand. When including different elements like spanking or light bondage you are writing for a normal audience, but with a little more effort you could target not just the fringe readers; those who are closeted about their darker desires, but those who are a little open with their darker desires.

What we will learn
Definition of BDSM in all its forms
SSC – Safe, Sane and Consensual code of conduct
Explanation of the BDSM symbol
Mentality of the various players (there are truly only three but variants are fun!)
Definition and structure of a Scene (Music, equipment, etc)
Basics on toys and reasons we use them (hint, it’s for our fun!)
Sub and Dom/me Space
The Club Scene (along with a story about real estate and my ego beating, lol!)
Definition of Fetish
Basic types of fetishes
Fakers – Those who claim to be everything to all people!
Abuse defined – crossing the line between BDSM and Abuse
Where to go to ask questions and not feel embarrassed
How all of this relates to romance writing
And of course, resources galore, including some great online stores.

Attendants will receive a full PDF copy of the finished manuscript complete with examples from the forum in addition to the knowledge presented here.

The cost will be $25 payable via Paypal to stpbigbangbaby@yahoo.com and will provide attendants access to the private forums at Coffee Time Romance set up for this workshop.

About the Instructor

I have been writing in this genre for the last eight years, worked two large BDSM events in Houston with Houston People Exchanging Power, been actively involved on mailing list discussions, amassed a library, spent time with Jay Wiseman (Author of SM 101: A Realistic Introduction). My Mom is a Lifestyle Domme – meaning when she realized that she enjoyed kinky sex, she sought out knowledge and became who she is today, a loving dominant Lady of Power. My previous workshop, Writing from the Male POV and Creating Better Heroes was a success both at Coffee Time Romance and at Collette Thomas’s Erotic Workshop yahoo group.

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Just a little fun with Red Rose authors who are also Midnight Seductions Authors :)

Thought I'd remind everyone that we have a LOT of fun going on this month with the Midnight SEductions Authors!

First, our contest which I briefly mentioned yesterdayis stillgoing on, you can join our group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MidnightSeductions/

And for those who like to read blogs, you can check us out with a new author blogging from Midnight Seductions each day! Find us at: http://midnightseductionsauthors.blogspot.com

And where will we be next? Look for us at Romance Junkies Readers online chat tomorrow night I believe (you can ALWAYS go to the Midnight Seductions group homepage and check the calendar there :)

For those keeping up with Covenant of Wolves 1: Stalker (Dub Mix) and wondering where the next chapter is, fear not! I'll post a new chapter by the end of the week. I have some world building to do requirnig some research thanks to some great questions asked by author Stephanie Burke, who knows cyber punk really well compared to me!

xxx kisses,

Sascha Illyvich

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Midnight Seductions Authors contest!

The second contest is part of the Midnight Seductions Authors odyssey
in reading contest that is taking place all month long on our yahoo
group
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/MidnightSe ductions/
Each day a new question will be posted along with hints about where
you can find the answer. Since there are 30 days in the month we have
30 prizes lined up.

My day is April 26th, so hopefully I'll have my laptop completely up and running by then!

Good luck!

Sascha Illyvich

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Take advantage of a 50% discount

Don´t know exactly why or for how long, but all I can tell you is that all Red Rose Publishing books are at a 50% off at Fictionwise.

Yep, you read correct, 50% off.

So just clink HERE and don't miss this chance!

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eAuthors Association Now Open

eAA is an online magazine decicated to the ePublishing industry. Stop by and check out our very first issue!!!

eAA December 2007 Issue

We hope you enjoy it!

eAA Staff

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I've blogged at The Romance Studio

I've blogged at The Romance Studio: http://theromancestudio.blogspot.com/ It's full of inportant information about upcomming freebook contests.

These 2 books will be up for Book a Day Giveaways at TRS





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RRP Live Chat Tonight!

JOIN RRP AUTHORS IN A LIVE CHAT!

When? Tonight (25-Oct-2007)
Time? 9pm est
Where? eCata Romance

Hope to see you all there!

RRP Staff & Authors

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Chat Schedule

Please forgive me if I mispell anything I am very tired. LOL!

I have added a RRP Chat schedule to the blog. I hope ya'll find it helpful! The full schedule is also in the RRP Yahoo Group calendar.

XOXOXOX
Aloha,
Dee

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Welcome to the brand new RRP blog!

Hello everyone and welcome to our blog! Thank you very much for stopping by.

To the readers, you mean the world to us. Thank you for your support.

To the authors, you are all wonderful! Thank you for your stories. NOTE: All RRP Authors that will like to be part of this blog, click HERE to email Dee, and she will add you as an author and give you access to post on the blog.

Again, thank you so much for stopping by!

-RRP Staff

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