Book Tour & Giveaway: Meet Jennifer James’ Miri & Daniel from Hunger Embraced!
We have a very special guest for you today. If you don’t yet recognize the name Jennifer James, you may know this author as “The Captain”, a reviewer known for her wit and colorfully entertaining prose. Ms. James was one of the first to join the GraveTells review team and her posts quickly gained a fan following. If you’ve read any of them, you know why! Now imagine that free-spirited creativity turned loose on a full-length novel… or, even better, let us give you a taste!
In less than a year, Jennifer James has published three stories with two different presses. Today is the launch for the book I have been impatiently awaiting the chance to share with all of you: Hunger Embraced…
Please help me give a warm welcome to Ms. Jennifer James in her very first appearance on GT as a published author!
Hi! Thanks for having me on GraveTells today. It’s sort of weird, to be here as an author, and not a reviewer. In any case, I’m excited to be kicking off the tour for my erotic paranormal romance HUNGER EMBRACED stuffed full of vampires, demons, witches, and crazy goddesses here on GT. Today I’m going to introduce you to my heroine Miranda and hero Daniel. Miranda is going to interview her guy for y’all…and I have a feeling shenanigans are going to ensue. Take it away Miri!
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Just to let you guys know, I’ve been chasing this stubborn ass vampire all over the condo trying to get him to sit down and answer some questions but he’s been avoiding me by cleaning. So I left a few things out in the bathroom and a few dishes in the sink. His OCD is going to send me straight for the looney bin. I finally lured him to the kitchen with dark chocolate M&M’s.
Miranda: So, Daniel, are you a natural blonde or you got a hard-on for peroxide?
Daniel: Lowers his chin to his chest and gives me a cocky half-smile. You know the answer to that. The proof is below the belt.
M: Heat rises to my cheeks and I squiggle in the kitchen chair. Hey, you never know. People do some weird stuff with their bits and pieces.
D: True. Well, if you need further proof, I’m happy to show you again.
M: I root out a few jellybeans from the bag on my lap and pretend to ignore him, but every nerve ending is taut with arousal and anticipation. Later. I’m supposed to be interviewing you. Now, why are you so obsessed with cleaning? I’m not *that* messy.
D: He snorts and pops an M&M into his mouth, then leans his elbows onto the table as he chews. I spent some time in a monastery a long time ago. I find cleaning to be a restful exercise. And, you *are* that messy.
M: Am not. I cross my arms and lean toward him. A monastery? Really? Why?
D: He shrugs. I needed a break. He brings his hand up toward my mouth and slips a piece of candy coated chocolate past my lips, pushing his fingertips inside enough to graze my tongue. The ever-present scent of the ocean that clings to him intensifies. Why don’t we continue this later?
M: I make short work of the candy and shake my head. Mmm…. Can’t, I promised.
D: Tugs his shirt off over his head to reveal a tanned, sculpted chest with a small patch of blonde curls in the middle and abs with a tantalizing strip of hair that disappears into the waistband of his shorts. He begins to rip the shirt into strips. Are you sure?
M: The play of his muscles in his chest and arms as he destroys the shirt captures my attention. What are you doing?
D: You’ll see soon. He puts his hand palm up on the table and waits until I place mine in it. Other one as well.
When both of my hands are in his he grins, and his irises light up with power. Daniel wraps my wrists in a strip of the cloth, tying it off in a knot. My heart beat accelerates and I suck in a deep breath, my lower body swelling.
M: This is new.
D: I promised you that I had more things to show you. Now then, come with me.
He tugs on my bindings and I get to my feet. I’m happy to follow wherever he’s leading. Sorry peeps, this interview will have to wait for later.
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So, I’m sure some of you are wondering, if these people are vampires, how the heck are they eating and breathing? Let’s just say these guys aren’t dead or undead. They’re very much alive.
Read an excerpt
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You can buy Hunger Embraced on Amazon here!
About the author
Multi-published author are not three words that Jennifer James ever thought she would be associated with. Author of erotica and erotic romance, what she likes best are happy endings – whatever that might mean for the characters. Wife, mother of two Tiny Divas, and college student, when not writing Jenn enjoys the outdoors, adventures of all sorts, horror movies, and the occasional comic book.
Stalk Jenn on…
Giveaway (Us/Int)
Jennifer is giving away a tour-wide $10 gift card to Amazon.com. To enter to win, just fill out the Rafflecopter below then leave us a comment telling us what you think of the excerpt!
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the book looks really intresting. i have added it to my tbr list
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Wow, what a hot excerpt, definitely left me wanting more. I also love jelly beans and m&ms. I just added this to my TBR list.
Awww, thank you very much Ann! I’m glad you enjoyed it. …And there’s a lot more hotness where that came from. *grin*
Sounds great can’t wait to read!
Thanks Sophia! 🙂
Wow, a steamy excerpt!! Sounds like a hot read…quite literally =)
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I can promise that your temperature will rise. *coughcough* 🙂
Congratulations on your new release! I can’t wait to read it ♥
Thanks Alyssa! I hope you enjoy it. 🙂 Now, I need to get a good post together for you, too.
I’m so excited for you and have no doubt that everyone will love this story as much as I have. Congratulations!!!
I hope so. *fingers crossed* 🙂
Book sounds fabulous!
Thanks Stephaie! Good luck in the giveaway!
Sounds really good!! Thanks for the chance to win!
You’re very welcome. 🙂
That’s how I am. I just hate people telling “the thing”. I need to know what this that thing, they are referring to.
Yep. Miranda would totally agree with you…or she’d say, don’t freakin’ tell me, because the “Thing” is sure to mess up my life!
🙂 Thanks for commenting!
Holy wow, what an excerpt!! Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
*grin* I’m glad you liked it. 😀
Thanks for the interview! This book sounds great!
Thank you for reading and commenting Stephanie! I get all giddy when I can talk to readers. (cause I’m a writer, and a dork. 🙂 )
Thanks for hosting this author on your blog today and providing us with a HOT excerpt 😉
What’s the point of an excerpt if it’s not hot? Then it’s sorta like sex without an orgasm…all that build up, then nothin’. 🙂
I’m glad you liked it.
This book sounds like fun! Not to mention the hotness. I already have a fondness for Daniel since he’s a bit OCD and so am I. 🙂
*Snort* Well then you’ll be able to appreciate how he goes around cleaning…constantly.
Of course Miranda then does things to mess with him.
Thanks for commenting.
Wooo, sexy steamy excerpt! Made my night! Def going on the TBR list!
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Thanks April! *You* just made my night with that comment! 🙂
Ooh! Def gonna have to get this on my Kindle! 😉
Really?! yay! That makes me so happy! Thanks for commenting!
WOOOHOOOOOOO (((Huggles))) grats on the full length novel release! I’m super psyched to read your vampires…even more so now I’ve read the excerpt.
Thanks babe! I’m excited about it too. 🙂 I hope you like it.
On MY! That was good ;). Thank you for a really steamy way to send me off to lunch.
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LOL! Viki, you are very welcome. 😀 I’m here to help. No, really, I am.
Hi Jennifer
Hunger Embraced sounds awesome! I cannot wait to read it!
Hi Milly! Well thanks ever so.
*sneaks away, grumbling to herself…..”I think this chick is stalking me…”
Whew! (fanning self) . . . um, nice interview!
Heehee Ally…what do you think happens next? 😉
Hmmm…..
Steamy, hot excerpt! I love it!!
Thanks Dani-Lyn! That’s the reaction I was hoping for.
And there’s more where that came from.
Hunger Embraced sounds absolutely tiltilating and Miranda is wicked funny. Definitely a stocking stuffer on my wish list this year. *fingers crossed* Yummy.
Thanks Susan. 🙂 She’s very funny, and tends to say/think all sorts of inappropriate things.
I hope you get a copy for Christmas too.
That was some excerpt, glad to have come across your work, looks like a book I’m definitely going to have to read! Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
Thank you very much Christy! Good luck!
Hot excerpt! Thanks for sharing it with us today 🙂
I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
Just when I think my head can’t be turned by another vampire along comes a blond surfer-boy vamp & I’m a puddle on the floor!
Very nice excerpt, I’m looking forward to the whole story! 😀
Heeheeheee…Oh that Daniel, he’s something else. 😀
I have loved this story since Daniel & Miri were still finding their crazy, smexy way through Ms. James’s head all those months ago. I am SO excited it’s finally out there for everyone to enjoy! Can’t wait to read the final version.
*hat off* to you, Jenn. Give yourself some well-deserved down-time. You’ve earned it!
down time? What’s down time? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
I finished the rough draft of book two about two and a half weeks ago….It’s calling me. 🙂
After I finish my gigantic paper for school I’m diving into that sucker. It’s epic. It’s my new favorite book. I’m calling it Hunger Unbound…for now. That might change.
It’s sooooooo cool! Just wait and see! Ah, the smexy times get smexier, and the bloody demon guts are all over the place. Good times.
A huge congrats on being published. Its an awesome achievement. I wish you well.
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Thank you DL. 🙂 xoxo to you too.
Such a fabulous excerpt thank you.
Thanks Mary, I’m glad you liked it.
I adore the idea of a vampire with OCD! LOL. Great interview. congratulations on the book. : )
Hi Tara! Thanks. It’s fun to watch Miranda mess with him. LOL.
And congrats on your new release as well!