Feature and Giveaway: Sinful Seconds Box Set by Elisabeth Naughton, Alexandra Ivy, Cynthia Eden, Laura Wright, Katie Reus and Joan Swan

From the six USA Today and New York Times bestselling authors who brought you WICKED FIRSTS, comes an all new contemporary set of six sexy, suspenseful and very SINFUL SECONDS.

Purchase: | Amazon | B&N | All Romance |

Feature and Giveaway: First Temptation by Joan Swan

Counterterrorist agent Taft Walker is up for the challenge of posing as an adult store owner with a new female undercover partner who is also a sex-toy virgin. At least until he sees the real woman beneath her tough façade.

Border Patrol Agent Zoe Brooks is ready to get off the front lines. She's willing to tolerate a swaggering partner like Taft for a new opportunity. But she's not prepared for the way he understands her deepest, sexiest desires.

Weekly Winners

Below is a list of all of the winners from the past week.


Tammy
eBook of choice from Tina Donahue

JenM
$10 Amazon Gift Card courtesy of Heather Thurmeier

Patricia
Take This Man by Nona Raines

Patricia
The Tudor Revival by Sky Purington

bn100
The Russian Seduction by Nikki Navarre

Yadira
Blaze by Joan Swan

bn100
Contract for Marriage by Barbara DeLeo

Mina
A Highlander's Conquest by Eliza Knight

All winners have been notified via email. Thank you to everyone that stopped by and entered. =)

Interview with Author Joan Swan and Giveaway

Today I am happy to welcome back to RFTC, author Joan Swan. Joan is celebrating her newest release Blaze and has stopped by to answer a few questions. But first let's get to know a little about Joan.

I was never a star English student or a Literature buff, but I’ve always had a creative soul and an active imagination. Writing was a natural culmination of those two talents.

Sexy romantic suspense is my genre of choice, and, occasionally, I like to dabble in the lighter side of paranormal as well. I write the Phoenix Rising Series, FEVER, BLAZE, and two more books coming in 2013, for Kensington and the Covert Affairs Series, INTIMATE ENEMIES, independently.

A triple RWA Golden Heart finalist, I am a lover of craft and closet-hoarder of writing craft how-to books. I’m a recovering OCD perfectionist…bet you can just imagine how well that’s going.

In my day job, I work as a sonographer at UCSF Medical Center, rated one of the top ten best medical centers in the nation – a location with an intensity that makes me slightly—okay majorly—insane. This seems to work well with my inner writer. Access to abundant character material—and I’m not only talking about my patients—is a fringe benefit.

I’m married to my own personal hero, a veteran firefighter, we have two beautiful daughters and are blessed to live in the heart of wine country on the gorgeous Central Coast of California.

Places to find Joan:
| Site | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads |

Weekly Winners

Congratulations to:

Chris Bails 

On winning the Amazon Gift Card from Lois Greiman

Jennifer Haile

On winning a copy of Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas and a Lisa's Diva's Tank Top

GR Hovorka

On winning a copy of Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas

Jeanne Miro

On winning a Book Safe from Heather Snow

Rhiannon Tala
On winning a copy of Supernaturally Kissed by Stacey Kennedy

GR Hovorka
On winning a copy of The Rake and The Recluse Redux by Jenn LeBlanc

Yadira A.
On winning a copy of Fever by Joan Swan

Shelley Best Bagby
On winning a copy of Always You by Shilpa Mudiganti

All winners have been contacted via email. Thank you to everyone that stopped by and entered. 

Guest Post with Author Joan Swan and Giveaway

Today I would like to welcome to the blog author Joan Swan. Joan is currently on tour promoting the release of her debut Fever and has stopped by with some of the characters from Fever to chat. But before we speak to everyone lets get to know Joan a little bit.

Joan Swan is a triple RWA® Golden Heart finalist and writes sexy romantic suspense with a paranormal twist. Her debut novel with Kensington Brava, FEVER, releases February 28, 2012. Her second novel, BLAZE, follows in October, 2012.

In her day job, she works as a sonographer for one of the top ten medical facilities in the nation and lives on the California central coast in beautiful wine country with her husband and two daughters.

Places to find Joan:

| Site | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads |

Joan Swan Bookmark and Cover Flat Winners

Congratulations to:

Diane S (Di)

Missy

Sebrina C

Tina Buried Under Books

Lolarific

On winning a custom bookmark and a cover flat of Fever by Joan Swan

All winners have been contact via email. Thank you to everyone who participated. =)

Guest Post with Author Joan Swan and Giveaway

Today I am happy to welcome Debut author Joan Swan to the blog. Joan is the author of Fever and is scheduled to release at the end of February and I can't wait. This book looks hot, hot, hot. So everyone please help me in welcoming the lovely Joan Swan to the blog. 

Hey everyone!

Danielle, thanks so much for inviting me over here to hang with you and your...would they be chickadees?

Some of you may already know me pretty well (condolences), but for those I’m meeting for the first time, don’t believe anything those others tell you. Unless its good stuff, then they’re right on the money.

I’m the debut author of FEVER, a paranormal romantic suspense, which releases this spring from Kensington Brava. I’m very excited about this milestone, more so with each passing week.

Someone recently commented on one of my blogs that getting a book published is such a long process it must be a lot having a baby. I can’t quite equate the two, but then my babies were born so long ago, that could simply be memory problems. I do have to say one part of the two journeys that are similar is how after the fact you look at your results and say, “That wasn’t so bad. Look how beautiful this is. I hardly remember all the pain and suffering and worry and pain and suffering and…”

Of course, I’m in the midst of writing another novel, so the process turns over and over again, but for any one particular book, I often can’t remember the day-to-day trials and tribulations. Just as with pregnancy you don’t remember every back ache, every cramp that led to fleeting fear, every morning spent kneeling at the toilet – well, okay, maybe you do, but just go with me here – as an author, I don’t remember every revision, every plot block, every rejection letter – okay, maybe I do remember the rejection letters. (I mean, there were so many.) Over time, the hardships seem to congeal into that familiar burden you may hear voiced when two or more authors get together, the same way mothers lament about pregnancy and tell endless stories about childbirth.

Yep, it’s all fun and games until someone turns up pregnant…or in my case, turns up with a twisted plot and characters that won’t leave me the hell alone.

Honestly, throughout the lengthy process, now going on two years from the time I signed with my agent, I have to say that to date, this – being out here and actually connecting with readers who are excited about FEVER’s release – is the best part of the trip. The other highs of the journey, signing with my agent, selling to my editor, and so many more, have been fabulous. But this is different. And very hard to explain. If I was to bring the analogy back around, it would be a little like looking at your new baby, thinking she is the most beautiful thing on earth, but fearing that when you bring her out into the world, others may not quite think she’s all that. And when you bring her into the grocery store for the first time, strangers’ exclamations of “Isn’t she beautiful?” and “What a sweet baby”, and “Precious”, are balms to a nervous soul.

Truly, I don’t think of my books as my babies. It really is just an analogy. I’ve worked in one creative capacity or another for decades and have long since learned to separate myself from my work after it is complete. I take the lessons I’ve learned from crafting the end result, hopefully grow and improve and move on to the next project with the intention of pushing the envelope.

So, this is a very long way of illustrating (or at least trying to) how much you, as readers, mean to us little people debut authors. I’ve gained more fluttery thrills from your simplest accolade than almost any other experience during the trip. You are that powerful. And deeply appreciated.

What are you deeply appreciative for?