Night Owl Romance Bookmark Club & More!

Hi Vixens,

Thanks for having Night Owl Romance again. The month is just breezing by and it's almost Thanksgiving and then onto Christmas. It's such an exciting time of year.

This month we wanted to focus on a few items that Night Owl Romance has for readers and Authors.

To start out we'll talk a bit about the Bookmark Club and how readers in the USA can get a free package of bookmarks, excerpt brochures and other small items from romance and erotic romance authors. And it's all free to readers!

It's very simple - You just sign-up on here! Make sure you put in your full address and name. Every three months - JAN, APR, JUL, OCT you will get a special package in the mail of the above items!

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We also wanted to spotlight something that we think readers will love. It's the ARe Charity Calendar. It's full of hunks. You get them all for a great price and support a charity. To purchased the calendar just go to our homepage and click on the graphic. You can't miss it! It's a larger form of the graphic over here on the right. You can get the calendar both in print and as a Wallpaper download. How cool is that! Get the hunks on your wall and on your computer screen.

http://www.nightowlromance.com/
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Now for a few things we have for authors!

We have a lot of great opportunities for authors to promote their books on the website. Many are free!

Get Reviewed!

One way to get a book promoted is via a book review. We are not able to review every book that is sent to us, but we do as many as we can. We try to review 200 a month - both ebooks and prints. If you would like to get your book reviewed just read the requirements and fill out our easy online form. Getting reviewed is a free service to authors Get Reviewed

Schedule A Chat or Blog Date!

Night Owl Romance hosts live Internet chats and also has a blog. Readers love to come to the chats and find out about new authors and books. It's a great way to meet new readers and authors and just have fun, while also showcasing a book. Each featured author at the chat gets their book cover posted with a purchase link. So, it's like an online book signing without the signing. lol - Authors can also sign-up to have their own personal blog day where they do a journal entry on our blog - It's their day and they get to blog about what ever they think readers would be interested in - So, if you have never blogged with us make sure to take advantage of a great opportunity - This is also a free opportunity for authors - Schedule a Chat or Blog Date

Author Interviews!

Readers love to get to know authors and an author interview is a great opportunity for you to let them in on some unknow facts and interesting tidbits. It's also a great time to let readers know you have in the works and what's newly out. And of course this is also another free service for authors. Get Interviewed

On Site Book Promotion!

Last but not least we have some great paid for advertising options. Advertising on our site helps keep the doors open and the books shipping. Most of the procedes from advertising go directly back into the site. We have to ship books for reviewing, send out contest items and keep the the site online. We say thanks to all the authors who have helped keep the site continuing on. This December will mark 4 years! We have some of the best rates in the industry and even have discounts for authors who write for the publishers we review for. We give a generous 20% discount off our standard rates to those authors who write for publishers we review for - Some are Ellora's Cave, Cerridwen Press, The Wild Rose Press, Loose-Id, eXtasy Books, Total-E-Bound and the list goes on! So, if you want to get more readers looking at your book Promote Your Book Via Advertising

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Ok that's it for this month!

Withing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving. We'll see you again before Christmas.

Tammie King & the Night Owl Romance Ladies

erotica vs. erotic romance

I really think the difference between erotica vs. erotic romance needs to be explained. To me, romance in the name defines the story as a love story...be it between male and female; male and male; female, male and male; werewolf, vampire and stripper or what have you. Erotica is a sex story in which sex is the goal and motivation and there need be no conflict unless they disagree on positions.

Confusion is what keeps us from being recognized as a romance genre. This is what conservative judges "see" when they read graphic language even though some national bestsellers, use it. And you should know that "pure" erotica (pardon the oxymoron) venues, like the stores with blacked-out windows, want nothing to do with us and would probably appreciate our making the difference known too.

I once ventured into one of these stores with my paperback, promo matchbooks, and a press release for the manager. I was practically thrown out. “Our readers don’t want those books,” he said. “They want ranchy porn. Your books aren’t.” So, there you go, right from the erotica experts. Our genre isn’t pornography no matter what some people will tell you.

And just to be sure, I read one of these badly written books. A man on a motorcycle comes up beside a beautiful blonde in a convertible at a stoplight. She looks him over and cocks her head, inviting him to follow her. Of course, he follows her to her penthouse and they do it all over the sofa about half a dozen times. This is described in what would be graphic detail except the writer needed an anatomy lesson.

The only secondary character was the maid who walked in and walked out, disgusted. The woman mentioned her husband would be home at 5 o’clock so they carry on until about a quarter to five and the biker left. End of story. Would you call that guy a “hero?” I wouldn’t. Is the woman a “heroine?” Hardly. Would I rather read a story with a plot? A conflict to overcome? Some three dimensional characters? Absolutely! Give me a good erotic romance any day.

Now, since we’re talking about good erotic romances, I should absolutely recommend my newest one, Love Cuffs, releasing this Wednesday, Sept. 17th! It’s a BDSM comedy. Yes, you read that right. A BDSM comedy! I co-wrote it with Dalton Diaz. I had no problem writing the heroine’s voice or saucy attitude—but when it came to writing the Dom hero, well… I was in trouble! Dalton to the rescue!

It’s a unique set-up in that each chapter is in first person. Chapter One is Hope’s point of view and Chapter One and a half is Dorian’s. The book continues with whole and half chapters throughout where you get the benefit of both characters relating the adventure as they see it in their own words. I’m fairly sure you’ve never read anything like this before!

Love Cuffs
Ashlyn Chase
Dalton Diaz

At thirty-eight, Hope Daniels is a Jersey cop with superhuman hearing, a controlling mother, and she’s about to marry any sane woman’s last choice of a groom. Right before she walks down the aisle, she hears distant screams. Figuring someone should be rescued, she bolts from her mother’s vision of a royal wedding. But when she busts down the door of a BDSM club, she’s the one who winds up in handcuffs.

Dorian Markoff is intent on using a hypnotist to wipe the beautiful cop’s mind of his—and his club’s—existence. But the hypnotist is in Vegas so a mad romp ensues, involving lots of hot vanilla-ish sex that turns his BDSM lifestyle upside down.
Neither guesses what an adventure it will be to find the hypnotist, avoid one unintentionally snubbed Dominatrix, and explain it all to Hope’s mother. All while falling in love.

Available 9/17/08 from www.ellorascave.com
Visit us! www.ashlynchase.com and www.daltondiaz.com

If you’d like to read some excerpts or talk to Dalton and me, come to our chat at Ellora’s Cave yahoo group on 9/17 all afternoon! (Eastern time.)

And the following afternoon you can play with us at Fallen Angels Reviews yahoo chat group!

Ash