Snippet Saturday - First Kiss

Today’s snippet theme is First Kiss. That all important first kiss can be done in so many ways. Enjoy a look at a first kiss from one of my books.

An snippet from Seducing a God….

Narrowing her eyes Paula did something that she was sure he would not expect. Stepping forward she tugged out of his loosened grip reached up and grabbed him by the shirt, stood on her toes and kissed him.

Not used to being the aggressor Paula went with her instinct and kissed him thoroughly. She licked the seam of his lips and when he opened she swept her tongue deep inside. She devoured his mouth in a heated kiss. Markus’ heart beat rapidly. Murmuring she went closer to him and his arms wrapped around her. He wasn’t participating just taking her sensual assault. This wasn’t about anything more that unadulterated, unbridled lust.

Drawing back Paula looked at him to see what he would do. He said nothing just looked at her through heated eyes. Uneasy Paula wondered if she had overstepped a mark.

Finally he broke the silence. “Brace yourself.” His voice was a hoarse raw sound.

Markus pulled her deeper into his body and aligned her into him until every part of them touched, then he kissed her. Delved deep and swift with no pretense. He lapped at each crevice in her mouth, sucking strongly at her tongue. He murmured deepening the kiss stroking in and out slowly then harder. Her body stiffened in shock as her pussy started to vibrate in time with his kiss.

His murmer was all the warning she got before he let out a soft purr. Shards of pleasure racked her with each decisive stroke of his tongue. Shocked she felt an orgasm start to build. Markus tightened his hold on her. Paula went under. She murmured too while he ate at her mouth, sucking in her taste, trying to consume her.

God. Her body gushed as pleasure unlike anything she could ever imagine bombarded her. Growling deep in his throat Markus gentled his assault, changing the texture of his kiss.

The contrast from wild to soft rolled over her with the tenderness of a summer breeze and the power of a lightening storm. Paula was lost in the sensuality of his kiss. From the moment she had seen him across the room she wanted him. He growled again making her pussy pulse.

Sinking her hands into his silken hair it loosened from its binding, spreading out, tickling her hands. Holding on tightly Paula gripped him close. He purred in her mouth again sending off shock waves of pleasure to her pussy. His tongue stroked softly along the sides of her tongue then he nipped it startling her. Pleasure crashed into her as her orgasms overtook her driving her body insane. Gasping Paula bowed at the force of it. She hung onto him as pleasure jerked her body. Paula’s mind blanked under the force of her release.

Markus stiffened and mumbled, “Christ, sorry.”

Gently he leaned her against the wall, stepped back and walked rapidly away around the corner.

Leaning against the wall Paula tried to catch her breathe as small explosions of pleasure continued to rack her. With a kiss he made me come.

Raising a shaky hand she pushed back her hair from her face. She couldn’t imagine what would happen if they actually did the deed. On rubbery legs Paula pushed away from the wall, turned and walked to the door of her childhood bedroom. Fine shivers filled her as she walked. Tiny orgasms continued to flood her making her pussy cream. She had to change her panties. They were soaked.

Copyright © Taige Crenshaw, 2007.
All Rights Reserved, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, Inc.

Go to the following sites to check out these other great authors snippets:

Lauren Dane
Cynthia Eden
Vivi Anna
Sylvia Day
Moira Rogers
Mandy Roth
Anya Bast
Viv Arend
Beth Williamson
Elisabeth Naughton
Michelle Pillow
Jaci Burton
Taige Crenshaw
McKenna Jeffries
Victoria Janssen
Shelli Stevens
Maggie Robinson
Juliana Stone
Sasha White
Maura Anderson
Shelley Munro
Jody Wallace
Eliza Gayle
Kelly Maher

Satin Notes - New Chapter Posted

A new chapter has been posted on Satin Notes, the free read site. Go check out the new chapter of our current read at ~ http://www.satinnotes.com.

A Rousing Debate

I've mentioned a few times at various places I enjoy a good natured rousing debate when it comes to books. Since me and my friends are avid readers we have these talks often. If we like a book we can go on for hours about it and each get something different from the story. Anyway back to this current debate. Since I went to RT last month. I came back with books from various authors I have not tried. I had a good natured debate about a book a mutual friend and I had both read. She didn't like it and I loved it.

That led to a long debate of us both listing out points and countering why we liked or disliked the book. We got loud and emotionally about our point of view. I love a great debate on the merits of a book. Gets the blood pumping. Of course others around us joined in. And it lead to other discussion of various author’s work we liked, did not like, the reasons why or why not. It was a very reveling conversation.

Again I was given an example of the emotion of writing. As I said many time to various people. No matter if your book is not liked or liked. It has created an emotion. As an author this is what I want to do. Whether it is good or bad. I want you to feel it. The one thing I do not want is apathy. That is like a punch to any writer. Please NO APATHY. Give me any emotion and I will feel that I have done my job.

Now I am not saying if I get a bad review or email that a reader didn’t like my work I won’t wonder why at first. But when it comes down to it I will be content and happy. I created a reaction.

An Emotion.

I touched the reader in someway. From that little debate I had the other day. I realized that people will remember you if they have enough emotion whether good or bad. Again I came away with a few new authors to try just from that conversation alone. My TBR pile is growing by leaps and bounds. Hey just because someone didn’t like a book doesn’t mean what they saw as flaws I or another reader wouldn’t see as treasures.

Come on and share the books you have read and created strong emotion. Don’t be shy it can be good or bad.

Snippet Saturday - Defining Moment

I’ve spoken of moments on my blog in the past and how they are powerful. They should be celebrated and observed in some way. Today’s snippet theme is defining moments. First a slight set up. Nigel Ha’gan my hero is having a hard time moving on with his life after his wife passed. Well until an intervention via a dream shakes him up.

An snippet from God Style Temptation….

“Nigel, you have to let me go,” Zarlu said in that soft voice of hers, then she smacked him on the head.

“Ow, what did you do that for?” Nigel looked at Zarlu’s twinkling blue eyes.

She smiled, a sweet twist of her lips and put her hands on her hips. He knew from her stance he was in trouble.

“Why are you holding me as a shield so no one can get close to you? Geesh. You’re a man for god’s sake. You have needs.” She paced back and forth in front of him. She stopped and gave him a sexy look. “I know you’re not a saint.” She chuckled sensuously. “So stop being an ass and start to live.”

Watching her Nigel ached to touch her one last time. She smiled as if she understood. Coming to him, she slid her arms around him. Sinking into her embrace Nigel felt her love and care for him.

Zarlu pulled back with her arms still around him and sighed. “Nigel, it’s time to get back to living. Stop holding onto the past.” She looked at him. “When you’re ready you’ll know it’s time.” She glanced over his shoulder. Following her gaze Nigel looked at himself and the woman on the bed.

“Her name is Aurora and she needs you as much as you need her, Nigel.” Zarlu touched his cheek gently, pulled his face close and kissed him softly and tenderly. “I love you, my warlious.” She started to fade.

Reaching for her he whispered. “I love you, my sesuioul.” She smiled and disappeared. Watching her leave Nigel knew it was the last time. Tears rained down his face as he returned to his body.

Gasping he came awake, careful not to jerk the sleeping woman. He felt the tears on his face. Taking them off his cheek he held them and watched as they turned into a handful of diamonds.

Copyright © Taige Crenshaw, 2008.
All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.

Go to the following sites to check out these other great authors snippets:

Lauren Dane
Cynthia Eden
Vivi Anna
SJ Day
Moira Rogers
Leah Braemel
Mandy Roth
Anya Bast
Viv Arend
Juliana Stone
Savannah Foley
Beth Williamson
Elisabeth Naughton
Michelle Pillow
Jaci Burton
Taige Crenshaw
McKenna Jeffries
Sasha White

Snippet Saturday - Starts tomorrow

 (Thanks to Valerie Tibbs for the header!)

Starting this Saturday there will be a new feature here on the blog. I along with some other wonderful authors are going to be posting snippets of our work. Each week snippets will be based on a theme. At the end of each post there will be url’s of all the participating authors for that day’s snippets so you can go on by to the various authors’ blogs and see their snippets too.

Thanks to Lauren Dane who had this fabulous idea and invited me to take part.

See you tomorrow for my first snippet!

Satin Notes - New Chapter Posted

A new chapter has been posted on Satin Notes, the free read site. Go check out the new chapter of our current read at ~ http://www.satinnotes.com.

TV pleasures: So You Think You Can Dance - 2009

I had to call my sister and give her what for earlier tonight. I could not believe she didn’t tell me one of my fav shows was starting. So You Think You Can Dance is back. She laughed at me when I told her why I was peeved. Humph.

I almost missed one of my fav shows because of her. Thankfully I didn’t. And from what I am seeing with this first show the season will be fab. Some of the tryouts were so great. I can’t wait to see what this season will bring.

As the season progresses I love watching the contestants learn dances out of there comfort zone. The wonderful choreography numbers they some up with. Lots of the dances last year moved me so much.

Can’t wait to see how the next few weeks plays out and I can’t wait to see who will win this year’s So You Think You Can Dance.

Versatility

One thing I’ve learned is to be versatile. No matter if it is in my daily life or in my writing. Things come up in both you don’t expect and you have to know how to bend what you have planned to suit the unexpected things. For example the other day I had my dinner all planned out. I was leaving from work in my day job when I thought of what I would eat for dinner when I got home. I remembered that I had some turkey pieces in the freezer and I figured I would make that with some rice. However when I got home I opened the freezer and saw no turkey. It was then I realized I had eaten the last of it. I had my mind set on the turkey but since I didn’t have any I had to come up with an alternate. Made chicken instead and it was just as filling.

This is what I mean about being versatile. It is the same in my writing. Sometimes I have a plan in my mind how a story will go but when I write all of a sudden it changes. I’ve learned to go with the changes and let the story go where it must. Believe me when I try to stop a flow it gets me stuck. So by going with it I am able to write. More times than not it is a good flow. This is what is happening in my latest book. The story is taking me places I didn’t expect and it is a great thing. I can’t wait to see where it will go next.

By learning to listen to my versatile side I’ve experienced lots of great things.

What happened today that made you go with your versatile side?

Blogging at Hitting the Hot Spot

Blogging for my monthly blog day at Hitting the Hot Spot – Total E Bound. Check me out here.

Weekly Wrap Up - Edits and Web Updates

I’ve been editing my 2 upcoming summer releases. Also writing on a special project I am working on. No details to share yet and probably not for a while. So working on some writing things.

For now the updates that I mentioned have been done to my website. They were more behind the scenes sort of thing. If you have bookmarked a page on the site and go by and cannot find the page go to the main page of site http://www.taigecrenshaw.com and search for your page from there.

We’ll that is all I have been up to.

SCi-Fi & Writing Day

I'm a huge fan of the sci-fi channel. Today is my sci fi day. As well a writing day. Although I write during the week after I get home from day job I use the weekends to write more than I can during the week. I look forward to those sci fi Saturdays when there is a theme of sorts leading up to a new to sci fi movie (well somewhat new). As I write the sci fi movies play in the background. Imagine writing a sex scene as a shark eats someone or an alien. LOL. Sci Fi entertains me as I write and relaxes me. I checked and tomorrow looks like it is alien day. Whoo hooo. Come on Sci-Fi day - take me away. LOL.

Satin Notes Story - Osborne’s Shelter

A new Satin Notes story has started. Here are the details.

Osborne’s Shelter
by Aliyah Burke, McKenna Jeffries, and Taige Crenshaw
Genre: Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
Length: Novel
Price: Free
Publication Date: May 15, 2009 - July 3, 2009
Cover art by MMJ Designs

A man in need of a chance. A woman in need of tenderness after the darkness. A couple in need of each other…

Jared Buckman, co-owner of J&R Construction, readily agrees when his partner asks him to step in for him at a meeting. He has wanted to get near the sexy woman for a long time. Nina Osborne has consumed his thoughts, and he longs to discover all her secrets. In her eyes, he has seen for certain that there is more to her than she lets on.

Nina Osborne has given up her former lifestyle, settled in Trescott Cove, and has opened a café. She has fought hard for the peace she has finally achieved. She’s doing some renovations on her café, but the contactor she’s expecting isn’t the man she gets. And she isn't sure she likes her immediate physical reaction to the enigmatic Jared Buckman. He is one tantalization she cannot afford to have. Yet the gentleness in his eyes makes her long to be the woman she once was…the woman she buried long ago.

As the remodeling unfolds, Nina finds herself constantly at odds with this man who, despite his kind demeanor, does not back down when he believes in something. He has layers she’s sure he doesn’t let many people see. She is trying hard to ignore the emotions below the surface, while Jared is pursuing her with a gentle seduction that makes her need. Will their tenuous relationship survive not only the slanders on Jared's character, but also the darkness from Nina's past which surfaces? Can Nina stop being so stubborn and let him in? Will Jared be able to help her understand...he will always be Osborne’s Shelter?

Check out Osborne’s Shelter on Satin Notes ~ http://www.satinnotes.com starting today - May 15, 2009.

Blogging at Romance Junkies

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Blogging at The Romance Studio

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Winners - Crenshaw Reading Contest – RT 2009

This was a special contest that I had exclusively for RT Convention attendees.

The 2 winners of the small personalized leather book cover are:

Darlene Krogol

and

Shelita Thomas

Congratulations to the winners.

Winners have been notified by the email they provided at the Romantic Times Convention 2009. Winners you must reply using that email address you entered with at the RT 2009 Convention to be awarded the prize. Please provide the information requested in the email. Please note the winners contacted by email must contact me by May 15th 2009 so they can get their prize! After that the prize is void.

If you did not get the email.

Winners if by some chance you did not get the email I sent you can also contact me to collect your prize in the following way:

Go to the contact form here - http://taigecrenshaw.com/contact.shtml on my website then do the following:

1.)In the subject line please choose “contest winner”.
2.) Type in your full name
3.) Type in the email address you provided at RT 2009 Convention when you entered the contest (please note this is very important if you do not provide the correct email there is no way I will know it is you and you will not be awarded the prize)

In the comments section please state the following:

1.) Crenshaw Reading Contest – RT 2009
2.) Include your physical address.
3.) Personalize: State what you want your personalization to say. This is up to 15 letters or numbers only. This includes spacing. The personalization is usually on the bottom right of the cover.

Please note: Follow the directions above to claim your prize.

Winner claiming prize: Please note you must contact me by May 15th 2009 so you can your prize! After that the prize is void.

Thanks to everyone who entered my contest.