HE MEETS HIS MATCH.
SHE MEETS HER MASTER.

Art gallery curator Joy Montgomery has never liked her body’s generous curves. And she’s always been too shy to explore her wild side. But tonight, everything is going to change…Desperate to save her job, Joy approaches bad-boy artist Ash Hunter and asks him to exhibit his erotic work at her gallery. Ash agrees on one condition: Joy must pose as his model. But business soon turns to pleasure, as Joy experiences a passion beyond her wildest imaginings and Ash finds more than just inspiration in his voluptuous new muse.

“Coming” February 1, 2010 from Grand Central Publishing

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BROKEN by Shiloh Walker This is an except from her upcoming novel and i CAN’T WAIT, i mean just check out this one line if you don’t want to read the entire except:

The last thing Quinn needed to be around was another lost soul, not when he still struggled to find his own.

Doesn’t that just make you want to *swoon*?

I have been VERY lucky indeed to receive an ARC copy of Lynn Viehl’s latest book Shadowlight. I can’t wait to read it! I absolutely love her books and i’m very excited to see what this new series is like. For those who don’t know what i’m talking about, here’s the info:

With a single touch, Jessa Bellamy can see anyone’s darkest secrets. She’s tried to hide her psychic ability from everyone, but a biotech company called GenHance has discovered her talent, and intends to take her, kill her and harvest her priceless DNA to sell it to the highest bidder.

A mysterious photographer named Gaven Matthias is also interested in Jessa; he’s been trying to find her for months. When GenHance makes their move, Gaven has no choice but to kidnap Jessa himself so he can protect her and convince her to join him in helping protect others like her. Jessa discovers that she can’t see any of Gaven’s secrets, so she doesn’t know if he’s telling the truth, but as a monstrous assassin created by GenHance’s experiments closes in on them, she must decide if the strong attraction they share is proof enough that Gaven is her greatest ally — or is a smokescreen hiding a terrible secret.

You can find a pre-order link to the book on the following links. here and here

Hello! this is my first time doing “Excerpt Monday,” a scheme that my good friends on the Divas came up with to show off some of your work every first monday of the month. So, without further ado, here is my contrabution.

Tea Break.

Poetry should be a musical
thing, like music should be
physical. A complicated
dance, a flair of perfection,
a concise blending of two
worlds. A triumph of wit
but with a songlike sound,
an imagining of epic
proportions with a haunted
melody, or a joyful burble
of noises joined together
through the nonsense of language.

It’s just a pity my orchestra is on a tea break.

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This is one of my favourite poems (that i’ve written) because it is so unintentionally good. I wrote it in a Poetry class in University because i couldn’t think of a poem to write. I think it’s one of my best ones now

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Primal Thrill

Graceful but deadly. Pacing back and forth, a fluid motion. Grunts and roars of frustration hang in the air. One thick sheet of glass between predator and possible prey. One looks mournful, the other fascinated. Endlessly marking the perimeter of his diminutive kingdom.

This is no great lion of the Serengeti, but a captured force, held in the frozen lands of a zoo far from home. Where people pay to act like paparazzi and look on meekly, denying his misery.

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I wrote this poem after a trip to a zoo not far from where i live. It was quite the experience for me as i got to be up close and personal with these amazing lions, literally seperated by that thin sheet of glass mentioned in the poem. i was so deeply affected by it that i had to write a poem. This style is called a “prose poem” but you could equally call it flash fiction. the only difference is the poetic inflection (or so i was taught )

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The Museum

Marbled floor and vaulted ceilings,
brass handled doors too heavy to move.
The constant murmur of voices
surge and ebb like the sea. Flocks
of school children run and gawk,
as music swells while coffee cups clink.

There are many things to see here,
Like a Meteorite polished by the touch
of many small fingers,
and the bones of a mighty mammoth
- a spectre of the past.
And a gallery of priceless art,
staring into an empty room.

The bones of our ancestors,
the rough cut gems of the earth,
the icons of worship,
they all reside in this temple of antiquity.
The only flash of modern life resides
with the visitors themselves
as they wearily make their way out of the past
And into the modern light of day.

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Anyone who knows me well knows that i spend a LOT of time in my local museum. It is one of my favourite places to go and think, and to go and research things. There are so many amazing things that people just don’t even think about in a museum. I wrote this poem to reflect that and hopefully i’ve done it right. Too many people my age have no iterest in the past, which is a shame because it is what shapes our futures.

Thank you for visiting and i hope you enjoyed my poetry! after the Jump is the links to the other participants of this amazing venture so do me a favour and go visit a few.

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So i’ll tell you how the Writers Holiday went in slideshow format!

So i’ve been a little busy. Life has this habit of getting in the way sometimes. Life wise, things are going as well as can be expected, writing wise? not so much.

I received another Rejection a few days ago (poem didn’t fit the theme) and i realised that i’d written my entire novel wrong. Yes, you heard (well, read) me. 47,883 words down the drain.

I went to the Writers Holiday in Caerleon and learnt so many new and brilliant things which helped me develop my mad englesh skillz like init. yeah Kate Walker’s amazing Romance writing course really helped me see where my story was lacking and therefore why it wasn’t working. The only solution i could see was to start again. So writing wise it’s not going very well but i’m slowly getting back into it. In a few days i should have a post about my trip to the Holiday as well as something called “Excerpt Monday” which apparently i have to post poems for. (Thanks to Kim Knox and Leigh Royals there.)

So a full catch up is on it’s way

by god, I think i’ve got it. I was just having a lay down and suddenly all my YA’s (Young Adults) started talking to me at once. If i can some how combine the best elements of each story, (umm apart from the half demon one, that’s a good stand alone) then i could have one kick ass story.

Of course it’s going to be a challenge since all the stories are so different, but seeing as how i’m stuck on pretty much all of them, i think the answer is to blend them together. Except now i have some kind of Love Squiggle (instead of triangle) and several very large plot holes. Hmmm i will ponder on this further and work out what to do.

Oh yeah, and my space opera is going no where. Bloody characters just won’t listen to me.

PS i have a website (again) now: www.ajodonovan.co.uk

starts NOW!

My free read is only five pages (including title etc ) and is an emotional story between two lovers. It is about forbidden love, aching loneliness and the desire to touch. Enjoy!

Figments

Other links on the Trail (i recommend opening them in new tabs/windows):

YA and Middle School – Deb Logan – Deirdre’s Dragon

Sweet and Non-Romantic – Jodi Henley – Kill Velocity

Sexy Romance – INEZ KELLEY – JINXED (excerpt)

To visit the trail head page click on the Voirey Linger link

Any wonderful journey begins with a single step. Voirey Linger, a friend and aspiring author, has spearheaded a SUMMER READING TRAIL on her website. Basically, each step is a free read, a step toward discovering a whole bunch of new authors out there you might never have heard of or tried otherwise.

The first day of every month this summer, the trail gets a new breath of life, meaning a whole new set of steps and stories to read. You read JANE AUTHOR. one her site is a link to JOAN AUTHOR. On her site is a link to MABEL AUTHOR and so on and so forth. You can read at your leisure. For free. No blisters on your feet. Skip the ones you have no interest in. discover a fresh voice you enjoy. It is all good.

Here is how Voirey describes it:
Follow this trail and discover great new writers this summer. These free reads include short stories, serial installments, deleted scenes and book excerpts from published and unpublished authors. This trail will run from the beginning of June through the end of September, and stops will be updated on the first of every month, so you can enjoy a summer of reading. You are encouraged to explore authors’ websites and blogs, to take a moment to leave them a comment and to bookmark sites and visit often.

YA and Middle School Authors
Heather S. Ingemar – The Wolf’s Kiss
Deb Logan – Deirdre’s Dragon

Non-Romantic and Sweets
Jodi Henley – Kill Velocity
AJ O’Donovan – Figments (me!)
Grace Draven – A Darkness of Gods
Voirey Linger – Her Little Boy

Sexy Romance
Inez Kelley – Jinxed
Moriah Jovan – Beltane
Barbara Romo – Undercover Alien

Erotic and Adult Content
Alina Morgan – Severed Spirits Rising, Part 1
J. Hali Steele – WITH EXTRA CREAM
Joely Sue Burkhart – The Shadowed Blood
Emily Ryan-Davis and Elise Logan – GMS: MERCY

HAPPY TRAILS!!

(this blog post was brought to you by Inez Kelley at Chicks-n-scratching )