Guest Post and Giveaway: Jory Strong

Please join me in welcoming Jory Strong to Debbie's Book Bag, today. Jory is here to talk about her latest release Inked Magic. The publisher is sponsoring a giveaway for one copy of Jory's book, see details at the end of the post.

Inked Magic - On being the object of their desire

First, thanks so much for the invite to be here as I continue to celebrate the release of Inked Magic, my first erotic romance from Berkley. I’m so totally thrilled to have it now out and in reader hands.

It’s a ménage, my favorite kind of story to write. Why?

Hold on…

I’m imagining myself stretched out on a shrink’s couch.

Woops, don’t think the good doctor is going to earn much if payment is by the hour J.

Why ménages?

Well, I can remember my very first crushes. The first time my little heart sped up and instead of listening to the teacher at the front of the room I was daydreaming about growing up and getting married.

This was second grade. I couldn’t decide between the blond-haired, blue-eyed preacher’s son, Matthew, who sat next to me. Or the dark-haired, dark-eyed, Denny who sat in the next row and two kids up. So, in my innocent fantasies, I married them both and the three of us lived happily ever after.

Flash forward to seventh grade. The fantasies were a little racier, but there was the dark-haired, Will, and the brown-haired Mike, not yet bad boys, but on their way.

Bad boys…Now that’s the subject for a whole different shrink session.

Getting off the mental couch now.

More years later than I want to admit to, I am so so glad, both as an author and a reader, that the publishing doors were kicked open and the erotic romance genre stepped through. Off came the blinders, down came the walls. And finally women could emerge from the closet and boldly say, “We have sexual fantasies too! We’re sexually curious and OKAY with that, even if we might never act on any of it. And no, porn written for men and by men doesn’t even come close. We want happy ever after, but we also want to read sexually explicit scenes, and by the way, please, we’re good with more graphic language. Hold…errr…make that substitute the “turgid length” or “swollen member” with a term we’d actually use in our fantasies.

When the topic of ménage in romance comes up, I’ve heard and read others say, “I don’t get it. It doesn’t do anything for me. It’s not romance.”

Okay. No biggie. For them it’s not. One person’s romance is another’s porn, and someone else’s total dreck.

That’s the beauty of having choice. There are romantic fantasies I don’t get either, whether they involve multiple partners or monogamous ones.

But ménages, I understand that fantasy! I’d swap places with Etaín, the heroine of Inked Magic in a heartbeat! She’s the object of not just one man’s desire, but two.

There’s Cathal, the son of a mob boss. On meeting Etaín…

He fought against inhaling deeply. She smelled good. Like some kind of exotic flower that could only be found by hunting for it.
The feel of her hand in his had him aching to shove it beneath his waistband. His skin was coated in a light sheen of sweat, as if there’d already been an hour of foreplay.

And then there’s Eamon, an elf lord in a human world where supernatural beings remain hidden.

He stood in his office, captivated by the sight of the changeling visible through the glassed ceiling of the terraced dining area. Her aura was deep gold, more Elven than human though her ears were still rounded.

They’d be sensitive now, an erogenous zone he already longed to tease with lips and tongue and the stroke of his fingertips. She’d stepped through his wards and taken his breath away with the touch of magic to magic, and then he’d seen her.
Mine. It was a decision made in a heartbeat.

Both men are far too used to getting what they want. But with Etaín, the cravings of the body soon give way to the desperate cravings of the heart-even as the future can only take one form, a threesome, because anything else will lead to her death.

Thanks again for the invite to be here. I love hearing from readers, jory@jorystrong.com 

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:

The publisher is sponsoring a giveaway for one copy of Inked Magic by Jory Strong.

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~ The deadline to enter this giveaway is Midnight EST March 5th.

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