TEACH ME (real name) is available RIGHT NOW from Decadent Publishing. So fricking amazing! I’m so stoked Toby is finally available for all you peeps to enjoy.

And, because I am the awesome person I am, a contest#!

Comment below to win an ebook copy of my previous release, ENSLAVED, as well as a signed TEACH ME postcard and TEACH ME magnet. Your comment can be whatever you like, whether it’s an examination of the Hapsburg Empire and the factors responsible for its fall, or a dissertation on exactly how fricking hot Michael Fassbender is

Ohhh, I am so massively excited I can’t contain myself! Toby, I totally knew you could do it!

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# The small print: Comment before midnight on 27/02/2012 (Australian Central Daylight Saving Time) to be entered to win one (1) ebook copy of ENSLAVED, one (1) signed TEACH ME postcard, and one (1) TEACH ME magnet. Winner will be selected via random.org, with winner’s name posted on this blog by 01/03/2012. Cassandra will also contact the winner by e-mail; the winner will be required to reply with their postal address so Cassandra can send the prize to them. Only one entry per ISP address. International entries are welcome. No purchase necessary to enter. Odds of winning depend on number of entries received. Void where prohibited.

June M!

June M has won an ebook copy of ENSLAVED, a signed TEACH ME postcard, a TEACH ME magnet and a TEACH ME keyring.

I hope June M enjoys Lucia and Marcus’s story immensely, and that you all come back on 21 February when TEACH ME is released!

Congratulations again to June M and thank you to all who entered.

xx

Just a quick one! Came across ENSLAVED for cheap at Coffee Time Romance. Half-price! Can’t argue with that*

Get thee there now!

Enslaved @ Coffee Time Romance

I was to teach a slave.

Marcus, a gladiator in my father’s ludus, was compelled to my presence to learn of Rome’s gods, her legends. When first he came, fear consumed me – fear of this silent, resentful slave who burned with his anger.

Time, though, changes much. Marcus softened and I grew unafraid. As we became closer, I grew more than merely unafraid – I grew to love him. Never did I think we would be separated.

I was wrong.

I forced myself to forget. Forget Marcus, forget the almost-smile he gave to me alone, forget everything but my life as it was now. Then, one day, I wandered into a market and spied Marcus, and the truth I had always hidden, thought to forget, was thrust upon me.

I had never ceased to love my slave.

 
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* Well, you could argue, but that would probably harm both myself and koala bears. WHY MUST YOU HARM THE KOALA BEARS???

So what special treat do I have for you? Well, there’s a contest at the end, but first, I thought we’d check in with Elizabeth and Malvern from my soon! to be! released! book! TEACH ME!!! and see what they’re up to. Shenanigans, probably. Sexy shenanigans! Well, kinda sexy.

However, before even that, maybe a little about TEACH ME?

Ever curious, Elizabeth, Viscountess Rocksley, has turned her curiosity to erotic pleasure. Three years a widow, she boldly employs the madame of a brothel for guidance but never had she expected her education to be conducted by a coldly handsome peer of the realm.

To the Earl of Malvern, the erotic tutelage of a skittish widow is little more than sport, however the woman he teaches is far from the mouse he expects. With her sly humor and insistent joy, Elizabeth obliterates all his expectations and he, unwillingly fascinated, can’t prevent his fall.

Each more intrigued than they are willing to admit, Elizabeth and Malvern embark upon a tutelage that will challenge them, change them, come to mean everything to them…until a heartbreaking betrayal threatens to tear them apart forever.

Click the link below to be taken to a short story featuring Elizabeth and Malvern and their kinda sexy shenanigans. PG rated, for those playing at home.

***spoilers for TEACH ME, peeps***
 
A Second Valentine
 
So you’ve all clicked and enjoyed and now you’re back? Awesome. Sure seems like fun and adventure is Elizabeth and Malvern’s, hey? Nice one, guys.

Anyhoo, on with the CONTEST#!

Comment below on your favourite valentine tale. It can be your own romantic saga, or a favourite moment from a book, movie, or Sovereign Hill pantomime. Or, if you like, you could even make one up! Entirely up to you

One lucky commenter will win an ebook copy of my previous release, ENSLAVED, as well as a signed TEACH ME postcard, TEACH ME magnet and TEACH ME keyring!

Want to win some more stuff?  Go to the With Love Valentine’s Day Blog Hop page and have a gander at the other participating authors. Treat yourself, it’s Valentines!

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# The small print: Comment before midnight on 17/02/2012 (Australian Central Daylight Saving Time) to be entered to win one (1) ebook copy of ENSLAVED, one (1) signed TEACH ME postcard, one (1) TEACH ME magnet and one (1) TEACH ME keyring. Winner will be selected via random.org, with winner’s name posted on this blog by 20/02/2012. Cassandra will also contact the winner by e-mail; the winner will be required to reply with their postal address so Cassandra can send the prize to them. Only one entry per ISP address. International entries are welcome. No purchase necessary to enter. Odds of winning depend on number of entries received. Void where prohibited.

Due to unforseen circumstances, the release date for TEACH ME has changed. The date is now…drumroll please…
 

21st FEBRUARY 2012!

The good news, you lovely peeps all have a few more days to save your pennies to purchase your very own copy:D

Also, I’m thinking we might need to have some sort of blog party fun on the big day. Yes, this could be a very good idea…Stay tuned…

Want some ebooks for the grand price of nothing? Well, Decadent Publishing are offering some of their titles for absolutely free!

If you have a Kindle, or a Kindle app, go to Amazon.com now for some fabulous FREE ebooks!

Caught Offside
Daughter of Lust
Panty Raid at Zombie High
Ushers, Inc.
The Kraken’s Mirror
Invasion of the Nylonians

Hey peeps! I just got back from a trip to Sovereign Hill and I’m all ready to dish on the particulars!

For those not in the know, Sovereign Hill is an open air museum in the goldrush town of Ballarat, about an hour north of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Frozen at 1856, Sovereign Hill celebrates the time in Australian history when the streets of Ballarat ran with gold, when the world’s two largest gold nuggets ever were discovered and when well known names such as David Jones were first coming to prominence.

When my friend invited me to come to make the eight hour (gulp!) drive to Ballarat to hang out at Sovereign Hill for a few days, I readily accepted. Due to Secret Squirrel Project, the potential for research gold (haha, see what I did there??) was astronomical. So I packed my brand new Samsonite suitcase, gathered six of my ten cameras, and joined my friend for a jounrey through time and space…unfortunately, not in a TARDIS or with the Mighty Boosh in tow

After the eight hours (gulp!) had passed, we arrived at Sovereign Hill just in time to enter the park for half an hour. As my friend has membership, I was able to pay a ridiculously small amount for unlimited entry into the park during our stay there, as well as super cheap accommodation on site. It was dorm accommodation, but I’m not going to argue when it was so economical! Anyhoo, we made it into the park for a little squizz before they shut the gates at 5.30pm.

The next day, a Saturday, it was Sovereign Hill extravaganza! We visited all the shops, including the boiled lolly shop (sweets made on site and with an hourly demonstration), the mercantile with lovely embroided tablecloths and doilies as well as ladies bits and bobs, the tin smiths with wonderful cooking implements, the apothecary, the foundry, the candle maker…I could go on and on! But I won’t

The first full day we were there was the last day of the School Holiday programme, so they had a lot of things on that aren’t part of the normal schedule. We spent a lot of time in the Victoria Theatre, where they had everything from an abridged reading of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to a Pantomine entiled “Little Red Robin Hood”.

Sunday was a celebration of Chinese New Year. At one stage during the Goldrush, Chinese immgrants made up a quarter of the population of Ballarat and, as you can imagine, they weren’t treated very well. However, it’s an important part of our history and Sovereign Hill have chosen to celebrate that history with a programme of Chinese-inspired events, the most spectacular of which was the Dragon and Lion parade down Main Street

Our final day, the programme was back to normal and, being a Monday and the first day back for school kids, it was very quiet. However, this made it a real delight to wander through the shops, purchasing at will, safe in the knowledge it wouldn’t be elbow to elbow. The last day we saw the gold pour, where a blacksmith melts a 3kg block of gold down and pours it back into a mould, demonstrating the smelting process for us. Then, somehow, I got to hold the gold! $140,000 worth of gold in my hands! It was a lot heavier than I was expecting, and surprisingly smooth.

Then, as all good things must do, it was time to pack up and go home. The eight hour (gulp!) drive home.

I had immense amounts of fun, gained some invaluable insight, and spent a bit of money If you have the means and the opportunity, I highly recommend a visit!

Photos below, from begining to end:

discarded iron at the blacksmiths, a lady’s undergarments, narrow laneways, a chair at Victoria Theatre, Charlie Napier Hotel Gentlemen’s Parlour, a sign on the street, just-poured gold creating sparks with a wooden stick, dragon and lion parade, the dragon

Elizabeth (BookAttict)!

Elizabeth has won any ebook from Decadent Publishing‘s backlist, a signed TEACH ME postcard, a TEACH ME magnet and a TEACH ME keyring.

I am also very happy to say Elizabeth has chosen ENSLAVED as her ebook! I hope she enjoys Lucia and Marcus’s story immensely, and that you all come back on 21 February when TEACH ME is released!

Congratulations again to Elizabeth and thank you to all who entered.

xx

Welcome to the Shameless blog hop! Big thanks to Jen from Red Hot Books, Brie from Romance Around The Corner and Michelle from Michelle’s Book Blog for putting it all together.

So, the theme of the day is Shameless and my wordy, if TEACH ME doesn’t tie into that, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. What a wonderful topic to discuss, and what a fantabulous way to discuss it.

So, I guess now I have to prove how shameless TEACH ME is after the big wind up, right? Gosh, I hope I don’t disappoint!

In TEACH ME, our fearless heroine is rather shameless in pursuing what she wants. Elizabeth, Viscountess Rocksley, decides she will pursue pleasure of the erotic variety (ooo er, said the actor to the bishop – oh my gosh, I am so lame sometimes!) and she’s not going to let something as silly as shame stand in her way.  To that end, she engages the services of the madam of a brothel and expects a tutorial based upon books and lectures. She’s shameless, but she’s not quite that shameless. However, when she rocks up for her first lesson she finds not the madam she expected, but instead an elegant man who coldly informs her he will be her tutor.

At this point, I reckon I would chuck it in. I’d have already screwed all my courage just to approach the madam and now to be confronted with this dude who tells me he’s going to teach me? I would not be at all hesitant about turning on my heel and chalking it all up to experience. Elizabeth, however, is from a different kettle of fish – and how lucky that is for us, as there certainly wouldn’t be a story if she turned tail!

She doesn’t let such a thing stop her and she agrees to be tutuored by this man, who she discovers is the Earl of Malvern. Without shame or hestitation, she permits him to teach her about erotic pleasure, and in return, she teaches him a thing or two…

Man, how awesome is that? Shamelessness has a bit to recommend it, methinks. I bet if Elizabeth had access to the internet, she would definitely search for pictures of  a naked Michael Fassbender…oh, um, maybe that’s just me.

And now – The Contest#!

Comment below on your favourite shameless moment. It can be your own scandalousness, or a favourite moment from a story. One lucky commenter will win a copy of any ebook in Decadent Publishing‘s backlist, as well as a signed TEACH ME postcard, TEACH ME magnet and TEACH ME keyring!

Want to win some more stuff?  Go to Shameless blog hop page and have a squiz at the other participating authors. Go on, go nuts! Australia Day is coming up!*

*Hey, it’s as good an excuse as any. I know I’ll be getting my national pride on, throwing snags (sausages for those not of Oz extraction) on the bbq and listening to Triple J’s Hottest 100. Treat yourselves, peeps!

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# The small print: Comment before midnight on 28/01/2012 (Australian Central Daylight Saving Time) to be entered to win one (1) ebook copy from Decadent Publishing’s backlist (http://www.decadentpublishing.com), one (1) signed TEACH ME postcard, one (1) TEACH ME magnet and one (1) TEACH ME keyring. Winner will be selected via random.org, with winner’s name posted on this blog by 01/02/2012. Cassandra will also contact the winner by e-mail; the winner will be required to reply with their postal address so Cassandra can send the prize to them. Only one entry per ISP address. International entries are welcome. No purchase necessary to enter. Odds of winning depend on number of entries received. Void where prohibited.

Need something new and awesome to read? Want some quality ebooks for not-much-at-all? Well, you are in luck, my friends! My publisher, Decadent Publishing, is having a sale!

These titles are longer format ebooks, so these reduced prices are an awesomesauce deal. You can follow the links below to Decadent’s website, but they are also on sale at Amazon.com.

Check ‘em out!

The Kraken’s Mirror
Echoes at Dawn
Joy Ride
What Not to Fear
A Queen Seduced
The Wayward Child
Soul Catcher
Tender is the Knight
Kya’s King
Blood Moon
Out of Joint
When a Mullo Loves a Woman
Crushed Sugar
Sugar Rush
The Music of Chaos