Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Join me on Stalkcation! Meet Charlie Hunnam.

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that as of last week, I have signed with an agent at a very prominent literary agency. That's right! I'm officially a big deal. LOL!

I know that none of this would be happening without you - the readers. You discovered me. You told your friends about me. You hosted me on your blogs, invited me into your Facebook groups, you pimped me on Twitter.

You changed my life.

Thank you!

So here's some MORE awesome news: I know we've all been arguing about whom would play Caleb if Captive in the Dark and Seduced in the Dark were ever optioned for a film. Honestly, I thought all the talk was amazing, but was only conjecture. A movie? Not likely. BUT...these days - I'm dreaming super big!

I never thought I'd sell more than a handful of books - I've sold over 40,000.
I never thought I'd get mainstream attention - I had my pick of agents.
I never thought I'd be looking at a world full of possibilities - I AM.

SO...I'm thinking about that movie now and I'm thinking, what can't I do with all of  you in my corner?

Nothing!

Back to the point. The debate for whom play Caleb has been between:

PAUL WALKER


V.


Personally, I am in love with Charlie! In fact, I will be attending the Lone Star Rally in Galveston, Texas, November 1-4.

I even snagged VIP PASSES to meet him! Ready for the awesome? I want YOU to come with me!!! Yes, imagine it - you, me, Charlie...assorted body oils (just think about it - no pressure).

Here's the deal - I paid for these tickets. So if you enter, PLEASE be prepared to win and get your ass to Texas on time. I'd hate to waste these tickets.

I can only choose ONE winner to receive TWO tickets. You must be present with me at 1:30pm on Friday, November 2nd in order to be allowed inside. Our entire party must come in at once. Also, since I am hoping to shamelessly plug my books to Charlie in the hope he will contact my agent and light a fire under my getting an epic movie deal - you might have to wear a Dark Duet T-shirt (which I will of course provide).

I will choose the winner OCTOBER 26TH.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU! I wish I could take you all.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

CJ Roberts on Bullying (aka Being a Dick-face)


THIS POST WILL APPEAR WITH MANY OTHERS ON 'JUST MY OPINION' 10/15/2012

Introduction
Hello, my sexy fans. As you know, October is anti-bullying month. It may surprise you to learn that I have insight into the topic because I was, am, and probably always be, bullied in one way or another. To be honest, I think the term ‘bullying’ leaves a lot to be desired. When I see it or hear it, I imagine a bigger person physically shoving or taunting a smaller person; I think it goes much deeper than that. I prefer the term ‘being a dick-face’ because it is the most common form of bullying whether you’re a child or an adult. You’ll probably get a lot of great advice from the other authors participating. A lot of it will probably be better than mine, but for those of you who share my kind of spirit, I wanted to share my experiences, insights, and problem solving solutions with you.


 
Grade School
I know that today, I am a sexy vixen (um...see above!) with two great selling books, an entourage of biker friends, and a comedic  style that almost made two girls laugh themselves to death (literally, we almost died laughing). But once upon a time – I was…a nerd. GASP! To be honest, I’m still a nerd. But when you've suddenly become popular and people want to eat the food that falls out of your mouth, the fact you’re into things like reading books and watching Star Wars for the millionth time, doesn't seem to matter.



I was a tomboy, never liked combing my thick, bushy hair, and I wore purple pants with a zebra print shirt. I was about as uncool as you could possibly get! The girls used to make fun of me and put gum in my hair (peanut butter is your friend). They called me ‘Krusty’ (it’s an amateurish jibe at my name). They used to throw rocks at me when I walked to/from school. The boys liked to hang out with me sometimes, until the pretty girls would come around and they would all disappear. My best friend was the only special-needs girl in our class (this is before dyslexia was commonly known about). Her name was Tammy and I loved her. Every Thursday I was the only person she invited to the ‘ice cream party’ held by the special-needs teachers in the red bungalow. She never invited any of the other girls who promised to be her friend and not put gum in her hair anymore if she took them. LOYALTY! It is, was, and remains my top criteria for choosing friends.



My advice: Make friends with the misfits. There are more of us than there are of the ‘popular kids’. Also, we’re going to end up doing great things while those other kids are going to leave their best days behind them after high school (because they’re dick-faces!).

Junior High
More of the same, but with boobs.



My advice: Take self-defense classes. I only had to punch one dick-face in the mouth and word spread. They talked about me. I was still unpopular. But the important part is, they said it behind my back and stayed well-clear of my right hook.

High School
I joined the Thespian Society, LOL. This goes back to my ‘make friends with misfits’ advice. My entire high school career was like one long episode of Glee. I still wasn't overly popular, but the fact I had accepted my weirdness and found a place to share it meant the world to me.



My advice: If you find yourself in a theatre class v. football team face off…just run. Again, most of them end up reliving high school as their ‘glory days’, while you go on to being on Broadway and making a PA get you things like bottled water from the mountains of Peru and sorting your M&M’s by color (I like the red ones).

Adulthood
I haven’t changed much. However, what has made all the difference in my life is that I have a clear sense of who I am and what is important to me. I have very few friends, because my bar is set high. I love deeply and I expect that kind of devotion in return (and I get it). I embrace the fact I have a twisted sense of humor. Sometimes I wear a mustache in public because I think making people simultaneously disgusted/nervous to be around me is AMUSING!



When I first started sharing my writing with people there were some that called me sick. They said the fact I wrote erotica was ‘pedestrian’ and ‘the last refuge of a person who has no talent’. It hurt my feelings, but the fact I had been around dick-faces my entire life PREPARED ME for the criticism I face as an adult from fully grown dick-faces who have graduated high school but also haven’t changed much.

All said and done – I have sold over 40,000 copies of my ‘pedestrian’ books. Meanwhile, they’re still toiling away on that non-fiction manuscript that will never see the inside of a Barnes & Noble.

My advice: EAT IT! DICK-FACE.


Friday, September 21, 2012

Getting to know an Indie, Volume 1, Ep. 2


Indie Author:

Anthony Beal*

*Indie crush of CJ Roberts


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What do you love most about being a writer? 

I love that it has made me good with arranging and organizing my thoughts.  I love that its helped me improve my skill at putting them to paper in a manner that is not just coherent, but also can evoke moods depending on what words I choose and how I use them.  I also love that it has given voice and form to the storm of images and fictional situations constantly swirling inside my head, and allowed me to share them with like-minded readers and writers.

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What do you like the least about being a writer? 

That I don’t yet earn enough at it to support myself in the manner to which I’ve grown accustomed (smiles.) The day job remains a necessity, however, I’m committed to working hard and to seeing that my writing style continues to improve and evolve so that one day, perhaps I can financially sustain myself by doing what I love.
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What are you working on now? 

I’m working on a sequel to my first erotic novel, “The Escapists.”**  There are a lot more stories to be told on the island where the events of the novel take place.  I want to tell them all in as many books as it takes.



Is there a question you hate answering

There are several, though I’ve never encountered any of them during an interview.  Two that spring immediately to mind, and are questions I’ve actually had posed to me, are:
1.      “How much did you get paid for (insert recently-published title of one of my stories that does not exceed 3K words)?  Like, a thousand dollars?”
2.      “The part where (insert name of character from one of my written works that the speaker has read) said/did (insert what character said/did)…Is that from something, or did you make that up?)” 
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Mankind: Good or evil? Explain. 

At risk of sounding arrogant, I think concepts of “good and “evil” are often subjective and that mankind is best described as a work in progress. That’s why I’m simultaneously amused and saddened by knowing entire demographics continue to be considered altogether superior or inferior to others, and that this will probably always be so. The idea that an entire group of people without exception should be considered less savage or loving or honest or moral than another based on something as superficial as skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc. is so ridiculous that it would be hilarious if I didn’t know how damaging it is to the progress of human hearts and minds. I feel the same about those so convinced that Earth is not only our universe’s sole life-sustaining planet, but the only one capable of sustaining intelligent life. I sincerely hope this isn’t true.  I can’t tell you how sad it would make me if I were to receive irrefutable proof that humanity (with all its malice and greed and schadenfreude) is the absolute pinnacle of intelligent life in the universe. For the sake of all living things, there needs to be something better than us out there (and no, I’m not talking about a god or divinity). If there were not, and we are truly the single most evolved species in existence right now, then to my thinking, that speaks very poorly of the universe.

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Friday, September 7, 2012

Getting to Know an Indie, Volume 1, Ep. 1


Indie Author: 
K. Rowe



What do you love most about being a writer?

I like the freedom to tell stories and make stuff up that people like to read. Besides, my brain is jammed up with hundreds of stories; it’d just explode if I didn't get them out.

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What do you like the least about being a writer?

I really hate formatting my own work, but being Indie means you live on a budget and can’t always afford luxuries. I do pay for an editor who does my novels, and an artist who occasionally work for me. Otherwise, I’m a one woman band.
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Which of your works would you say is your best?  

The Space series (Space Crazy, Space Junk, Space Available, Space Invaded)

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Why is this your favorite?

Because I’ve never fallen in love with a character until Dar Meltom.  He’s half-alien, funny, athletic, sexy, and generally a diverse character to work with because I can do so much with him. And being half-alien, sex scenes with him are really interesting to write.
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What are you working on now?

A variety of erotic short stories, Space Invaded, and editing my first novel, Project: Dragonslayers,  for a release of a second edition. I also have a supernatural thriller coming out Halloween.

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Which of your characters do you resemble the most (in manner)?

Oh, tough one! I’d say probably Colonel Eagle Tryggvesson in the Dragonslayers saga. She’s a bit stiff and starched; occasionally uptight, and knows what needs to happen to get the job done. She doesn’t pull any punches, and people respect her.
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Is there a question you hate answering?

Mankind: Good or evil? Explain.

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Biography


K. Rowe is a multi-genre author and retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant. She has been writing for the last twenty plus years. Stationed at various bases around the U.S.A. and in Europe, she draws from her years of active service. Blending fact and fiction, she spends hours researching technology and locations for her work.

She lives on a 100-acre farm in eastern Kentucky with her husband, three dogs, two cats, and three horses. When not pounding out several novels a year on her laptop, she can be found working in the garden, or in the fields proudly driving her 1953 Ferguson tractor.


Her favorite part about being an author is interacting with her fans, and she appreciates reviews and feedback. You can find more info on her here:

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Upcoming Appearances

Since the release of Captive in the Dark in 2011, I have been overwhelmed by the love and support of all the readers, bloggers, and authors. These days, I am always saying thank you to someone and I couldn't be happier about that. I never expected any of this would happen. Hoped and dreamed it would? Yes. Worked hard to acheive it? You bet your ass. Believed it would happen? Never!
There is so much about Captive in the Dark that is precious and sacred to me. It's more than a book I wrote, it's been my source of hope.  I will never stop being grateful to everyone who has made my dream reachable. Thank you.
With the upcoming release of Seduced in the Dark on September 1, 2012, I am happy to report I am going to attend TWO book signing events this year. I hope this is the beginning of many appearances.

Launch Party for Seduced in the Dark

When: August 30, 2012
Where: Vino 100/Tinderbox, Rapid City, SD
RSVP: Let me know you're coming (Open to the public, 21&up)


TFEiC 2012 Author Meet & Greet

When: September 29, 2012
Where: The Palmer House, Hilton, Chicago, IL
RSVP: Let me know you're coming (Open to the public)

Monday, June 18, 2012

Almost there, could use some help. OH! And there's stuff in it for you, too.


Attention: My Pervy Fans
Seduced in the Dark will most likely be finished this week! Just the 1st draft, but so excited. Lots to come in the next several weeks and I'll need your help.

I've signed up for a Kickstarter account. They help creative types like me get their projects off the ground. In order to finish SITD on time and in the hopes of being a full-time writer, I quit my day job.

Great, except I need capital to get the book launched: posters, post-cards, postage, upfront book buy, editor etc.

SO...I have decided to offer a pre-sale of SITD in order to raise the money I need. For $25 you can get an advanced and autographed copy of SITD once it's available to me through the printers (possibly before it’s officially released!)

Please check out the link below and help a b***h out! Tell a friend! Without the necessary funds, I will have to wait to put out the paperback until I’ve raised the capital through the sales on the ebook.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Monday Sucks, Here's Some Smut from my WIP


Because it's Monday and you deserve something good, here's a scene from SITD and Caleb jerking it. ;)


Seduced in Dark (The Dark Duet, Book #2) by CJ Roberts


Coming September 2012


“Uh!” That was the noise. Like a grunt mixed with a whimper.

“Uh!” This time something inside my belly tightened, muscle memory. I should have ignored it, but I couldn’t. In spite of everything that had happened to me, everything Caleb had put me through by deed or design, I still thought him the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.

“Min fadlik!” he sighed loudly, but I didn’t know what it meant. Whatever it was though, it sounded…needy. What did Caleb need? And why did I find the idea of his need so intriguing?

I needed him to touch me, not want, because I didn’t want him to, I needed him to. Only his arms wrapped around me could make the nightmare dissipate, only the smell of him made me forget the fetid breath of the men who had attacked me. Only his. I was always grateful for his presence and resentful of it.

More sounds came from the bathroom and I couldn’t resist. I couldn't stop the rush of adrenaline coursing through my veins urging me into some kind of action, anything that would reveal to me what was happening behind the closed door.

I forced my steps toward the bathroom door, my body trembled and my palms were wet with sweat, but I couldn’t stop myself from knowing.

“Fuck.” The obscenity was little more than a whisper beyond the door as I pressed my ear against it. “Oh…yes baby” then something in another language, then “open your pussy.” I nearly fell against the door as my knees went weak. Between my legs I felt a gentle throbbing, that seemed to keep pace with my heart. Please, please don’t be fucking someone else.

I could hear the fan was on, which might have been why he felt safe making sounds. If I hadn’t been awake, I wouldn’t have heard him. I wondered if this was the first time. Forcing bravery I didn’t really feel I pressed on the latch to open the door. I gripped the latch in my fist until sweat seemed to squeeze between my fingers. The shower was to the left of the door, and I worried I wouldn’t be able to see without opening it fully and making my presence known, but there was a mirror to the right where I might be able to see his reflection. I could only pray he wasn’t directly facing the door or the mirror.

The door opened, just a crack, barely enough to get a finger through, but still my heart felt crammed into my throat for those breathless seconds I waited, hoping not to hear him yell at me or make a startled sound. Instead I only heard his heavy breathing and those same groaning sounds from before accompanied by a wet staccato rhythm. I knelt on the floor, not trusting my legs to support me as I pressed my cheek flush with the door and peeked inside. The room was steamy even with the fan and it aggravated me to no end. But soon, some of it cleared and I could just make out a shape in the mirror.

I dared to open the door a little wider, my adrenaline pumping through me in proportionate degrees to the opening in front of me. More steam drifted out of the room and settled on my face and neck, dripping like sweat into the well of my breasts before being absorbed by my shirt. The mirror was much clearer and finally I could make out the image in the shower.

I gasped, but Caleb didn’t hear me. I was sure he couldn’t. He was much too absorbed in what he was doing alone in the shower, only a few feet away from my prying eyes. I should have felt embarrassed or guilty but there was no way I could feel those things. All I could feel was the throbbing between my legs and the sharp pang of lust that punched me in the belly. He was fucking…perfect. Sooo fucking perfect.

He was facing the shower so I could only see him in profile. His skin was pink and white from the intensity of the water. One arm was braced against the wall, his long legs spread for balance as his head dipped toward his chest and he panted. His other arm was ridged; the muscles tense while his large hand held his enormous erection in his hand. I swallowed hard and licked steam from my lips.

The head was thick and a deep dusky pink as it slipped through his fist. The column of his cock seemed to get thicker the closer it got to his body, until his fingers had to grip hard to keep him contained at the base, as though his cock were an arrow and his fist the quiver. He didn’t shuttle his hand up and down the length of it, instead he rocked his hips into his fist, making the well-muscled globes of his ass hollow on each side as he thrust forward, his large, heavy-looking balls swaying between his splayed legs in a fluent rhythm.

I couldn’t tear my eyes away, didn’t even try. I wondered how much cum he held inside those large balls and if he’d given me all of it when he’d cum in my hand and on my breasts. I thought about the only time he’d been inside me and I could remember the sound of them slapping against the wet flesh of my pussy as he held me bent over and drove that meaty cock into me. The throbbing between my legs was intense. My own thoughts had me panting and wet. My thoughts were dirty and sexy and they flooded my body with every sensation imaginable.
“Make him love you,” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you.”
“I can’t,” I whispered back. “I tried. He said my attempts are laughable. He doesn’t.”
“He will.”
“Uh…mmm…come on.” Caleb’s eyes were shut tight; his beautiful mouth open and the sexiest sounds I’d heard in my life were coming out of him.

His hips were thrusting faster, the cheeks of his ass flexing up and down as he put real effort into reaching his climax. He leaned his body forward resting his forehead against his forearm as he gritted his teeth and pumped that monstrous thing he called a cock back and forth through his wet fist. Rivulets of water fell from all over his gorgeous body and I was suddenly so thirsty. I wanted to kneel at his feet and lick water off of him, especially that impressive cock. I wanted to lick water off of it and suck it.

I was thinking of all the things I wanted to do when he let out a grunt, followed by a painful whine as ropes of thick semen burst out of his dick and covered his large hand before dripping down toward those heavy balls and eventually the shower floor.

Caleb was panting hard, his shoulders rising and falling with the effort. His beautiful face was red with exertion, but if possible, it made him look even more handsome. I wanted to continue to admire him, but doing so felt like a betrayal – of me. The facts were still the facts and the facts were that he didn’t really care about me. He was using me and each day I didn’t find a way out of this predicament was another day closer to the one when he would sell me to a cruel stranger.

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