Previous Book Covers

Here are some book covers that were once used for my books. I love all of my book covers, but over time, some of them need updates. This can be because trends change, or because I’ve decided to add more books in the series and need a new look to go with the new books, or sometimes just because they need a face-lift. While these covers are not currently on the books for sale, they’re still all beautiful covers that I wanted to share with you. Enjoy.

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Behind the Scenes look at The K Club & The K Club Dark Side 

To Sir was the first kinky book I ever wrote, and I LOVED this book so much. I did tons of research on the lifestyle and the world of kink before diving into writing To Sir, and I also ended up developing this new character building method while I was crafting the heroine in this story, Liz Clark. I picked out a tattoo that Liz has, a scorpion, and then worked on why she would have that tattoo, and I ended up thinking, oh, she could be a Scorpio. So I was looking up the astrological characteristics of a Scorpio and it completely fit Liz’s personality. Now I use this method a lot to create characters, and I even teach it to other writers. The workshop is called Hey Baby, What’s Your Sign? I knew as soon as I wrote “the end” on To Sir that I wanted to write more kinky books. It just took me a while to get back to The K Club. I veered off to write the Dommes by Night books, about three female dominant phone sex operators. Before I got back to another book in The K Club series, I got this idea for this couple.

Jacey and Clayton came to me while I was thinking about what else I wanted to write in the kink genre. With some changes in the publishing landscape, when I first wrote the submission books, they were intended to be little 5,000-8,000 serials, but after a while, I decided that I wanted to expand their story, and really give them several full-length books. This was the first time I’d written in first person, and the only time I’ve ever written a piece in present tense. But those methods both lent themselves so so well to Jacey’s POV, that it was the right choice for these books.

Because they are different in tense and POV, and also in that they are even hotter than my other works (if you can believe it!) and the HEA for Jacey and Clayton happens in book 3, not book 1, I wanted a separate but connected series title. I was originally going to give them the series title of The ABCs of Submission, but to show that they were connected, Mr. Nichole helped me brainstorm and come up with The K Club Dark Side to show that they are interconnected with the series that was launched by Chase and Liz, but to help designate them as darker, more erotic tales.

So for a while, The K Club Dark Side series, which was the spinoff series, had more books in it than The K Club series. But I got back more closely to Chase and Liz’s story, and wrote a short story which was originally published in a charity anthology raising money for breast cancer. That anthology is no longer available, but the short story is. It’s been re-released as For Sir, with some modifications, and now serves as book 1 in the series. There are also two other novels in the main K Club series now, From Sir with Love and Between Sirs.

There will definitely be more books in this series.

Behind the Scenes Look: The Marietta Hotels Series

In the summer of 2011, I met an editor while reading my work in a hotel lobby, and she asked me if I wrote erotic romance, to which I said, no, but when asked if I was opposed to doing so, I also said no. This editor asked me to write one for her, and I told her I would. I had no idea at that time what the book would be about, or anything like that.

But the following week, I was in Times Square for a conference, and realized that from my hotel room window, you could see into the windows of the businesses across the Square. I promptly closed the curtains before changing, but Layla Morgan does not. I was struck with this idea of what it would be like for a woman in a hotel room very similar to the one I was occupying if she caught the eye of a man across times square late one night or early one morning, when it would seem like they were the only two people on the planet. An idea was born!

I started writing the draft of An Affair Across Times Square a couple months later, while I was on a train in the countryside of France. At first, the book was called A Lawyer Across Times Square, but I didn’t think it had quite enough punch. I finished the draft and sent it to the editor in February, and it was published in June of that year! It was a whirlwind. I loved that book so much, and I still love it today. It was my first publication and will always hold a special place in my heart, and so I wanted to build a series around it. So I wrote a prequel with A Love Affair in Las Vegas, starring Barnaby and Dawn, and also the book after Times Square starring Tyler’s younger sister Mandy, and her French boyfriend, Julien. That one is set in Paris, the city of my heart.

I decided to take the Marietta Hotels and set them all over the world, where the connection for the series was this hotel chain where people stayed in cities all over the place.

So Las Vegas came about because An Affair Across Times Square was such a long book, and I wanted something a bit shorter to have as a lead-in to the series, and I wasn’t ready to write the books that came after Paris just yet, so I wrote it as a prequel. I already had Barney the manager at the Marietta Times Square hotel as a minor character in Layla and Tyler’s story, and so I wanted to expand more on his character and give him his own story. While I was working on what that book might be about, Mr. Nichole and I were discussing what would make a nice premise, and he suggested making the love interest a competing hotel’s manager. Instant conflict! I loved this idea. So I ran with it. I also knew I didn’t want to set the whole book in New York City. So enter a conference in Las Vegas. Barnaby and Dawn get up to some hi-jinks at the Marietta Las Vegas, and then again when they’re back home in New York. The book then leads in to a scene that happens just before the start of An Affair Across Times Square.

An Engagement in Paris was a book that was like a love letter to my City of Lights. I lived in France twice in my early twenties, though never in Paris. I visited that city a bunch, though. I loved bringing the city to life in this book. I also featured a French hero, and some French culture and law that helped Mandy and Julien out of their relationship woes. I won’t share any more details on that one lest I spoil the book for you! Layla and Tyler also have a prominent role in Mandy and Julien’s story. Mandy is Tyler’s younger sister.