Arguing with the Trending Subconscious…

His steps as eager as hers, they dashed to the elevator. The instant the sliding doors closed, he pulled her to him. His long-fingered hands cupped her ass through her skirt and his mouth devoured hers again. She stroked the taut, lean muscle of his back. She couldn't think. His mouth left hers to kiss and lick a path to her throat, and she groaned aloud with need. He nipped at her neck and the quick pain made her gasp. Desire flooded her senses.  (Excerpt from Lilly Cain's new print release Dark Harmony)  Check out more about Lilly's new release at: LRN

Were' getting a little hot and bothered here today because our guest blogger is erotic romance author Lilly Cain.  Lilly writes with Red Sage Publishing and the new Carina Press.  

Take it away Lilly!


Thanks Joanna!


We’ve all seen this headline in the news and in viral Twitter posts: The iPad – will it save publishing as we know it? My take: nope. Will it make my sales soar through the roof? I’d love to think so, but I’m not counting on it. But wait, you say, isn’t the world changing around us?  My answer – yes and no. We’ve seen this discussion again and again in various places over the last couple of years but it was finally driven home to me on a very personal level. Yes, some formats are changing, but the old formats are not disappearing as predicted, and probably never will. Some of us will read our books with an electronic device. Some will stick with paper copies. And in that, as an author, I am lucky.

DARK HARMONY, my debut novel with Red Sage Publishing, was initially released January 1, 2010 as an ebook. Available in five different formats it was poised to reach the electronic world. That, along with the incredible experience I’d had working with their talented head editor, Theresa Stevens, put me in a loving frame of mind for Red Sage. But still, in the back of my mind I held it, that tiny but irresistible urge to “hold my book in my hands” – and I don’t mean on a reader.

Imagine my delight when I heard that Red Sage decided that DARK HARMONY would be their first digital to print book, releasing June 1, 2010, offered as a print on demand book. Not too long after that I held my book in my hands. It felt good. But to be honest it didn’t feel better. The story was the same, the cover was the same. The book, according to my subconscious, had already been published. What? I proceeded to have an argument with that level of my mind, the very one that had demanded to have the book in print in the first place. The result of that heated (yet thankfully silent) discussion was that nothing had changed. This was my book; multiple formats. I’d already experienced the joy of the publication. Although satisfying to see it in paper print, it wasn’t a new experience.

So I wondered: had my subconscious been driven to desire a paper copy by the ingrained tradition of paper publishing? Was I secretly unimpressed by being electronically published? The quiet acceptance of my print copy verses the ecstatic feeling of my electronic release date put that to rest. Was then the joy of being e-pubbed driven then by the trend to go green, go electronic?  To ride the techno wave of the new e-readers? In the end I think I was happy to see my book complete and in the public eye in any format, and yet the satisfaction was completed by what I saw as its final format – paper. It was the completion of the story that counted, not the format.

Thanks to Joanna for inviting me here today! I’d like to offer a copy of DARK HARMONY to a commenter – electronic or paper?

Just answer a question: What do you think changes the way we read or what we read? Trends? Technology? Some would say that my book follows trends – an erotic vampire romance – and technology, being released in e-book first. (Winner's name will be drawn randomly)

Lilly Cain
“Stories of Darkly Seductive Fantasy and Sensual Romance”

About the book:

DARK HARMONY: Running from a lover that has twisted her very nature, Lena Townsend hunts alone. Her mildly adventurous sexual life reached its pinnacle, and its end, when she met sexually dominant vampire Darien. He stole her life, and used her sensual nature to bend her to his will. In making her his own, he placed her in a position where she must constantly submit to him, yet be dominant to his pack. It's a conflict that pulls her apart.

In leaving the pack, Lena strives for independence, but her vampire instincts push her to find more - to find a new pack, a new family. Alone, she cannot share what makes her vampire, and she cannot find a lover she can trust enough to reveal her submissive nature. In her escape Lena discovers a power that could save her - the ability to read and influence emotion. With this talent she might survive the loneliness.

Unfortunately, her old pack wants her back, no matter what.

Richard Heron has given up everything for his daughter since the murder of his wife, but what he misses most is the chance to explore his deeply sensual side once again. Once the owner of a popular S&M club, and its favored dom, he left everything he was to shelter his family. Lena could offer him more than he ever expected, a level of sensuality he never knew existed and a love that could never die, but he must reconcile the danger she brings with his need to shield his family - especially when what killed his wife was certainly not human.


Lilly's upcoming e-book is called Alien Revealed:

Inarrii agent Alinna Gaerrii was tasked with observing the Starforce base on Earth. Crash landing her observation pod onto the base was not part of her mission briefing. Neither was making m’ittar—mind contact—with Major David Brown, the human who discovered her amongst the wreckage.

David thinks she’s a psychologist sent to evaluate his Special Forces team, and Alinna goes along with his misconception, seizing the opportunity to observe humans up close. But their daily contact has unexpected side effects, and Alinna soon invades David’s dreams. Through their intimate mental connection she allows him to express his forbidden physical desires.

Alinna delights in the sensory exploration and grows excited by the prospect of a treaty with the humans and a potential life mate in David. But an attack from an unknown ship sends the base into chaos, and Alinna may be forced to reveal her lie, erasing all hope of a successful treaty, and driving David away forever…


To read more about Lilly check out her website at http://www.lillycain.com.

To purchase a copy of her book Dark Harmony or find out about other fantastic authors, check out http://www.eRedSage.com.