Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Big in Japan... sort of...
These arrived this morning!
They're my author copies of a Spice Briefs anthology that's been published in Japan. I don't know what the antho is actually called though. Maybe a Japanese speaker could help? But it includes my story Second Time Around, from my Risque Reunions trilogy. Other authors in the antho include Megan Hart and Jackie Barbosa...
I always get a kick from translations! Love to think of people reading my stories in lands so far away... :)
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Latest releases from PDC
My three Risqué Reunions Spice Briefs - TWICE THE PLEASURE, SECOND TIME AROUND and NO LONGER FORBIDDEN are now available rolled together as one spiffing audiobook from Audible.com
NO LONGER FORBIDDEN is now available in the UK from the lovely Mills & Boon Ebook Store. Which means all my Spice Brief titles are now available over here, yippee!

My story FIREWORKS INSIDE is published in the Black Lace anthology SEXY LITTLE NUMBERS #1 - now available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk and here's how the wonderful Ashley Lister describes my story:
‘Fireworks Inside’ is an exquisitely erotic romp from the high-priestess of erotica: Portia Da Costa.
It's a bit sad to be the high priestess of a dead religion... but hey, what can you do when a publisher decides they want to suspend your imprint? :(
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Hey, hey, hey! Another PDC for sale at Mills& Boon!
Most exciting and thrilling! Another of my Spice Briefs - TWICE THE PLEASURE - has been picked up for sale at the Mills and Boon Website, as well as the Harlequin one!
As Twice is the first part of the Risque Reunions trilogy, I'm hoping that the other two will also appear at M&B! Fingers crossed, eh? :)
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Eating: chocolate crunch creams
Watching: LOCI
Reading: Beyond Innocence - Emma Holly
Writing: sexay butler
Feeling: okay
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
NO LONGER FORBIDDEN now available at Fictionwise!
Yeehah! NO LONGER FORBIDDEN is now available at Fictionwise, for those of you who like to shop there for your ebook purchases!And here's a link to a tasty excerpt if you like to try before you buy! :)
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Eating: nectarine
Watching: poldark
Reading: beyond innocence - emma holly
Writing: story/novella, mentalist inspired
Feeling: still gutted about Black Lace
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
RISQUE REUNIONS... final instalment!

NO LONGER FORBIDDEN, the final story in the Risque Reunions trilogy is out today!
Ten years ago, when she was nineteen, Annette Fraser was wracked by a huge crush on her math teacher, Nicholas Laurence. In her heart, she knew her feelings were true, and that Mr Laurence reciprocated them, but his strict ethical code forbade him revealing his emotions, and her natural good sense prevented her from doing anything silly. Ten years later, and never having found a love such as she felt for her handsome, cultured teacher, she looks forward to meeting up with him again at a school reunion as adults and equals. But unfortunately fate has dealt Nicholas a painful blow. Badly injured in a car crash, but now recovered, he still bears the scars. Annette’s love is undiminished, and on seeing her, Nicholas knows his feelings are also unchanged, and more intense now that their love is no longer taboo.
Read an excerptAvailable from eHarlequin, Books on Board and Amazon Kindle
But if you want to know the full story of what happens at the Walton Wood High School ten year reunion... you need to read the other instalments too!

TWICE THE PLEASURE
Ten years after leaving Walton Wood High School, Caitlyn Green still has a crush on the class heart-throb she yearned for in her final year. Organising the catering for a school reunion seems to be a great, non obvious way to meet Drew Hartley again, and either finally hook up with him or get him out of her system for good. The trouble is, back in the day, Drew was always hanging with his buddy, Steve… and ten years later, the two men are closer than ever.
SECOND TIME AROUND
Sweethearts from their schooldays and wed too young, Willa Riley and James Adams, are now separated due to marital stresses and a different vision for their future together. Some years after their split, Willa attends their school reunion, unsure how she’ll react on seeing James again, but determined not to stay away, like a coward. She’s in for a surprise though. Her formerly diffident ex husband is a transformed, self assured man who’s grown into himself and found confidence in an outdoorsy career that really suits him. Always desirable, he’s ten times as sexy in his dominant, sexually adventurous new persona, and Willa responds to him with renewed passion that astonishes and shocks her. James has the measure of her bossy personality now, and there’s sweet joy for her in the act of submission to her newly masterful husband and the way he punishes her with delicious, loving pleasure-pain.
Available from eHarlequin, Fictionwise, Books on Board, Sony Ebook Store and Amazon Kindle
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Eating: banana
Watching: wimbledon later
Reading: A Hint of Wicked - Jennifer Haymore
Writing: thinking about a novella
Feeling: pleased about Risques
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Nipple twiddling!
I'm becoming a bit obsessed with what Willa is doing to James here... Actually, in the story, it's more the other way around, but I do like this cover image a helluva lot! I'm not usually a great one for mantitty covers, but even I have to admit his torso is pretty lush... :)And the good news today is that SECOND TIME AROUND is now listed at eHarlequin, so hie thee over there to see an even bigger version of this delicious cover... oh, and also buy the book too, if that's your fancy!
SECOND TIME AROUND - buy from Harlequin
And in other good news, the first story in the Risque Reunions trilogy, TWICE THE PLEASURE, has just received a lovely review from Wendy the Superlibrarian at The Good, The Bad and The Unread!
Well pleased about that! Check it out!

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Eating: breakfast
Watching: nothing yet
Reading: nothing yet
Writing: thinking about ideas
Feeling: OK
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
SECOND TIME AROUND is out!

SECOND TIME AROUND is the 2nd instalment of my Risque Reunions trilogy of Spice Briefs, three stories about lovers who meet again at a ten year school reunion.
When Willa spots her ex-husband, James, eyeing her seductively at their high school reunion, she doesn't know what to think--or how to control her body's reaction to him. James has changed from the mild, non-confrontational man she married. Now he's darker, sexier and eager to be in command. For the first time in their relationship, Willa is helpless before him--and she likes it. It's time for her to make things right, starting by surrendering to pleasure...and to James's will.
Read an excerpt here
Available from Fictionwise, Books on Board and Amazon Kindle
If you like the BDSM theme of SECOND TIME AROUND, you will also enjoy another Harlequin ebook out this month, from Victoria Dahl, a lovely author I met at the Romance Writers of America literary signing last year.
THE WICKED WEST is a sexy western story of a hot sheriff with some dark, dangerous urges who meets a superficially prim English widow with secrets of her own.

Available from Fictionwise, Books on Board and Amazon Kindle.
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Eating: beans on toast
Watching: lots of Poirot
Reading: The Wicked West
Writing: nowt
Feeling: weird
Friday, 1 May 2009
TWICE THE PLEASURE - out today!

Blurb:
In high school, Caitlyn once got the chance to make out with her crush Drew Hartley in the gym storeroom...until they were interrupted by Drew's friend, Steve.
Now at their ten-year reunion, Caitlyn finds herself sharing another passionate encounter with Drew—with Steve arriving on-scene once again. But this time he's not going to stop them. He's there to join in....
TWICE THE PLEASURE is available from eHarlequin, Fictionwise, Books on Board and Amazon Kindle
Eating: Value Chocolate Wafer
Watching: Lots of Sherlock Holmes
Reading: The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King
Writing: planning a short story
Feeling: all over the place
Friday, 28 November 2008
Bits and bats...
READ A HOT EXCERPT OF 'CHANCE OF A LIFETIME' AT LUSTBITES!
Well, I've finished writing KISS IT BETTER and the manuscript file has gone off to the editor now. After quite a wrangle with this mutha throughout the months I've been writing it, I did end up liking the story and the characters very much. It's very sexy, in a playful sort of way, and has a rather touching [hopefully] romantic storyline at the heart of it. It's also a Stoneworld story, although characters from previous books only appear in a peripheral sort of way, and then only one or two of them. I didn't want to shoehorn everyone into it, and it seem too contrived in consequence. ;)
I've also just sent off a story for the Black Lace 'Misbehaviour' anthology. This isn't a commissioned piece, so fingers crossed everyone that the editor likes it and wants to include it. 'The Distraction' is a rather naughty BDSM type story, and another of my older woman/younger man tales... although not cougarish, as it's definitely the guy who's the hunter in this case!
With those two projects off my desk, I now have to decide what to do next. I've been working on the second of my Risque Reunions novelettes for Spice Briefs, and have a first draft of SECOND TIME AROUND. That's currently sitting and 'fermenting', ready for me to go back to it and edit and polish it with a fresh eye in a little while. I have the third of the Risque Reunions to write, but I need to give that some serious thought, as it's going to be the most emotional of the three and will need careful handling.
Aside from that, I'd like to sub to two more Black Lace anthos, The Affair and Sexy Little Numbers, although I must admit I don't have the foggiest clue what to write for either of those as yet.
What else? Who knows... I don't seem to be the most efficient of career planners, as there's nothing commissioned in the hopper after Risque Reunions. :(
I've got some ideas, but there's nothing 'big' enough somehow... no high concepts, no storylines that grab me by the throat and demand that I write them. It's hard... I feel I should be stretching myself and pushing myself, but I'm not quite sure in what direction.
Anybody out there got any suggestions? What would you like to see ol' PDC write?

