Interview and Giveaway with Jasmine Haynes

Jasmine Haynes

Oh it's a great day today.  It's Friday and we have another very talented author spending some time with us today.  Jasmine Haynes writes some pretty hot books but that are also very emotional!  Have you had the chance to check them out?  You HAVE to!  Please help us welcome her to UTC today, thanks so much for being here today Jasmine!

Thank you so much for having me on the blog!

TAKE YOUR PLEASURE has a super hot cover that grabbed my attention. What was it about this story that made you want to write?

Thanks. I’m glad the cover grabbed you. My cover artist, Rae Monet, is wonderful. Don’t let my boss know, but the truth is, I was sitting in a boring meeting and I started daydreaming. Not about MY boss, but bosses in general. I suppose it’s politically incorrect to say that I find the whole boss/employee relationship very sexy. Not a forced thing—I would never condone sexual harassment—but a consensual fling. I’d also been toying with a BDSM theme. Lo and behold, it seemed perfect to combine the two things.

Here’s a little blurb of TAKE YOUR PLEASURE for your readers:

When Natalie Beaumonde catches her boyfriend with another woman, her boss Lincoln Masters hatches a plan to help her show her wandering man the error of his ways. Being a Master himself, Lincoln’s the perfect dom to help Natalie execute the punishment. But Lincoln has an agenda for Natalie of his own, one that involves a bit of bondage and a very good spanking!

Can you tell us any details about TWISTED BY LOVE, the first book in your Reincarnation Tales series?

I’ve wanted to write reincarnation since I read The Reincarnation of Peter Proud and watched the movie Dead Again. And I have to admit that I do believe in reincarnation. I’ve even done a couple of past life regressions. Readers can learn more about that on the 69 Shades of Smut blog, http://wp.me/p2p9iQ-ed. The reincarnation theme seems perfect for the whole endless love scenario. In the series, Reincarnation Tales, I introduce the Daniels family. TWISTED BY LOVE is Bern’s story, the eldest of the clan. Have you ever met someone that you felt like you’ve known forever? From the moment Bern Daniels sees Livie Scott in the lobby of his office building, he feels an uncanny sense of familiarity. And his desire for her is overpowering. Livie feels the same. The problem is her sister, whose goal is to keep them apart. Is it possible that they’ve lived this triangle in the past? Is their love doomed to end in tragedy?

What is your favorite scene in PAST MIDNIGHT, the first book in your DeKnight series?

PAST MIDNIGHT is a very emotional story about a married couple who have suffered a great tragedy: they’ve lost their son. Favorite is probably not the right word for this scene, but I do think one of the most powerful scenes is actually the first scene in the book, where Dominic is making love to his wife Erin. Here we see the deep chasm between them, how their lives have been blown apart and now all they have left is the physical. The reader feels Dominic’s gut-wrenching sense of loss, but also his great need to find his way back to Erin in both body and soul. My task with this story was to try to bring two broken people together again.

READ OUR REVIEW OF PAST MIDNIGHT HERE

If you could collaborate with another erotica romance author, who would you like to work with?

I must admit that I’m a bit of a control freak, so collaborating would be hard for me. However, my good friend Leigh Wyndfield and I once considered doing a story where she took the male POV and I’d take the female. We’d play off each other. Now that I think I could do and have a lot of fun. Plus she’s a wonderful writer!

What do you do when you aren't reading or writing? What are some of your hobbies?

I speedwalk every morning, and I love to hike. I just wore out my hiking boots and need to get another pair! I also enjoy working in my garden, and in the evenings, I love sitting down to watch a good movie or mystery show with my hubby. And while I’m watching, I work on my needlepoint. I have needlepoints all over my house!

Erotic Romance is taking the world by storm right now, but you've been doing it for awhile. What are your thoughts on the fascination of all things sexy?

The doors have been opened wide, and readers are loving the sexy books authors are putting out. But what I find they want in their books is not just gratuitous sex, but also highly emotionally stories with memorable characters. My readers also seem to enjoy reading about older heroines. And I love writing them, women who’ve seen and done things, who’ve lost some of their inhibitions. That’s not to say I don’t write a few younger ones, too, for variety! I think people are looking for something new, fresh, highly sexy, and very emotional, and they’re finding it in erotic romance!

Who are your favorite erotic romance authors and what books would you recommend to your readers?

I love Bella Andre. Her Sullivan series is fabulous. And I love Crystal Kauffman’s Guardian’s Realm series. It features gargoyles, which is fresh and different from many of the paranormal offerings out there. Of course, Nalini Singh is marvelous. I read everything she writes! But right now I’m engrossed in George RR Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. It’s not erotic romance, but if you loved the Game of Thrones on HBO, the books only get better.

We are asking authors participating in the event to share a favorite drink recipe with readers. Do you have one you'd like to share?

I’m not sure it’s a recipe, but my favorite drink is a champagne cocktail. Drop a sugar cube in the bottom of a champagne flute, add a teaspoon of Angostura bitters, then fill the glass with champagne. Be careful, though, the sugar will make the champagne foam quickly, so pour very slowly.

Let's give the readers something to drool over! Can you give us a sexy excerpt from one of your books?

We haven’t talked about my West Coast hotwifing series. So why don’t I give readers a taste of Book 1, Revenge Sex, which I’m offering as a prize on this blog!

Tough, autocratic CFO Clay Blackwell strikes both fear and loyalty into the hearts of his employees. But he’s got one quirk no one at West Coast Manufacturing knows: he loves the idea of his live-in girlfriend Ruby being with another man...then coming home to him for the best sex of his life as she describes every naughty detail. He’s got only three stipulations: no sex with anyone from work, no sex with another man in their own home, and she always has to tell him when she has a date. The problem? What to do with a “hotwife” who has all the freedom any woman could want, but still can’t follow three simple rules.

Jessica Murphy has the utmost respect and admiration for her CFO. She also has wild sex fantasies about Clay every night. Not that she’d ever tell anyone. Until she walks in on Clay’s girlfriend Ruby screwing Bradley the financial analyst right on Clay’s desk.

After that, all bets are off and a little revenge sex is the name of the game. Ruby thinks she’ll placate Clay by telling him to have sex with another woman to pay her back for all her rule-breaking. When Jessica learns about that, she makes up her mind to seduce her boss for keeps, not just one night of revenge.

But can she become the more-than-one-man woman Clay Blackwell wants? Or will his desires tear them apart?

Excerpt of Revenge Sex
Copyright Jasmine Haynes

Jessica Murphy jerked, then snapped to a sitting position on the break room sofa. In the dark, the microwave clock flipped to ten-oh-five in bright blue letters. Good Lord, all she’d wanted to do was rest her eyes, a five-minute catnap; she’d slept for over an hour. The board meeting was on Friday, and she needed to review the March quarterly financials tomorrow with Clay Blackwell, the Chief Financial Officer. But there was an issue in CIP, the construction-in-progress account.

A noise had woken her. It couldn’t be the cleaning staff; they’d left before her so-called catnap. She rose from the couch, crossing to the door by the illumination of the microwave clock. The hallway was dark. She’d turned out all the lights, not wanting to waste electricity, especially when she was accounting manager for West Coast Manufacturing, which meant she knew exactly how much the PG&E bill was.

There it was again. Bracing herself against the doorframe, she strained to hear. A moan. Then she was sure she could make out voices, though the words were indistinguishable. She shivered slightly. The automatic thermostat turned the heating down at nine, raising it again at six in the morning. Despite being the beginning of April, the San Francisco Bay Area was still chilly at night.

Stepping out into the hallway, which bordered all the cubicles in the middle of the large accounting department, she made out lights on the far side. From the CFO’s office. But Clay had been long gone before she’d crashed on the break room sofa. Obviously, he’d come back.

What if he’d discovered her sleeping? Jessica fluffed her hair, which was curly and tended to get mashed after she slept on it. It must look like a rat’s nest. And her lipstick was probably smudged. She ran a finger under each eye to get rid of any mascara, then smoothed beneath her lips, hoping that was good enough to fix the lipstick. She hated the idea of Clay Blackwell seeing her at anything less than her best. He lived with the CEO’s executive admin, Ruby Williams, and Jessica didn’t have designs on him—she wasn’t a home wrecker—but she admired Clay immensely and...well...a woman could have her fantasies in the middle of the night when no one else suspected.

All right, nothing could be done about her appearance now. She marched down the small walkway between the cubicles, and the sounds from the other side of the thin dividers grew exponentially louder with every step she took. Jessica’s heart started to pound, and she thought about turning around and getting the hell out. Because really, what was Clay doing in his office? And just who was he with?

She might have run, too, if she hadn’t heard distinct words in a female voice—“Clay’s never taken me like this”—punctuated by a man’s low growl of pleasure.

Turning the corner by the end of a cubicle wall, Jessica could see straight into Clay’s office. Her breath stopped in her chest.

Ruby Williams was facedown on the desk, skirt pushed up over her butt, dark hair flowing around her shoulders, eyes closed, her red lips parted on a moan of intense pleasure. Behind her, Bradley Palmer was tall, his features strained, his stubbled jaw line rigid. The AP girls oohed and aahed over his resemblance to Brad Pitt. Jessica had never liked Brad Pitt. She didn’t particularly like Bradley Palmer either.

And she hated Ruby for letting Bradley screw her right on Clay’s desk. Ruby and Clay had lived together for three years, since shortly before Jessica had started at West Coast Manufacturing. Even if they weren’t married, Clay was Ruby’s significant other in every sense of the word. And Ruby worked at West Coast, too, for God’s sake. This was so totally wrong.

Jessica should have run away right then, but her feet were rooted to the carpet right outside the pool of light spilling from the open door. She couldn’t move. She could only watch. And listen.

“Isn’t it hot, baby? Tomorrow when you’re meeting with Clay”—Ruby giggled—“you can think about what you were doing to me right here.”

Lastly, what's next for Jasmine Haynes?

I’ve got lots in store for readers! Twisted by Love should be available sometime in August. Readers have asked for an update on the erstwhile foursome in Kinky Neighbors, so I’m working on a short sequel, which should also be available by the end of summer. The third book in my West Coast Series, The Boss’s Daughter, is in the works. I’m also pleased to say that I’ll be writing two more books for Berkley! I’m still discussing the plots with my editor, but readers will probably see those books starting in 2013.

Author Bio:

Jasmine Haynes, Rita Finalist for Somebody’s Lover, plus two-time Holt Medallion and National Readers Choice Award winner, is the author of over 30 classy, erotic romance tales. Look for more in the West Coast series coming soon. Of course, she’s also the author of the award-winning Max Starr psychic mystery series. And don’t miss her writing as Jennifer Skully, KOD Daphne award-winning author, bringing you poignant tales peopled with hilarious characters that will make you laugh and make you cry.

Stalk Her:

Visit her website at www.jasminehaynes.com and her blog at www.jasminehaynes.blogspot.com. Jasmine is also on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/JasmineHaynesAuthor, and Twitter: @jasminehaynes1.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by today Jasmine, we loved having you here!

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Review: Past Midnight by Jasmine Haynes

Past Midnight

by Jasmine Haynes

(DeKnight # 1)

Ms. Haynes is the Nicolas Sparks of the Erotic/Rom world. Like Sparks novel, she pulled me in a roller coaster ride full of emotions but Ms. Haynes story is with shit loads of erotica.

Dominic and Erin lost their son Jay about a year ago and had not recovered since. In fact, not only that their marriage had fallen apart, their company (DeKnight Guages) has a big problem that is driving them further apart. Sad to say that both Dominic and Erin have become so distant that the only way they show emotions is through their “Past Midnight” rendezvous. As anyone would know, that is just not enough in a relationship. Especially with a recent loss, marital or other form of support is probably the most important factor of healing.

In an attempt to save his marriage, Dominic will do anything and everything including going beyond his sexual boundaries. He is determine to shock the hell out of Erin by exploring his and her deepest fantasy. And way to go Dominic! Your tactics worked even for me but that's a whole different story. ;).

I love Dominic and Erin’s story. Their situations are very realistic; from business problems, social issues, marital issues to death of a loved one.

Ms. Haynes did a wonderful job reminding me that life is anything but perfect and marriage is hard work. This may be TMI but damn, I got some ideas about exploring. This book is full of extremely hot scenes that include voyeurism, threesomes, exhibitionist and some bondage.

I have to note that I went about this series the wrong way. I first read Principal’s Office (which I loved), knowing it was book 3. I could beat myself for doing that and for waiting so long to get to this book. This one I would recommend for this summer’s hot and heartfelt read.

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ARC Review: The Principal's Office by Jasmine Haynes

The Principal's Office

by Jasmine Haynes

DeKnight # 3

I had met Ms. Haynes at a book signing not too long ago and had been intrigued with her work but didn't have the chance to read any. So, when this book fell on my lap to review, I was happy to get the chance. And as shallow as this sounds, I was fascinated by the cover. It was pretty and it had so much promise; I could not wait to devour it.

A promise well delivered, indeed. This book is full of love scenes that are extremely hot with believable characters, realistic circumstances and even realistic locations. I loved both H/h, their experiences together and I was fascinated with the locations mentioned in this book.

Rachel Delaney, a divorcee, with two teenage sons was not looking for a relationship. However, a body to keep her warm would not be a bad idea. But will fate allow her that? Well, if not, “Law of Attraction” will.

Rand just recently moved to the Bay Area, *cough-my neck of the woods-cough* for a new job. Though he is not looking for a relationship, he is “open” to what fate might bring him.

Meeting by chance not once but three times, this couple decided to give in to fate, as some might call it. They both agreed to a no-strings-attached, booty call relationship. A perfect match as Rand, a sexy, tall, Viking-like man is very comfortable and very experienced with his sexuality and Rachel, though has been married, is on the timid side. She has never tried anything more than vanilla love making and Rand will definitely teach her a thing or two. These two explored everything from different places and positions to voyeurism to exhibitionism with occasional toys included. Hold their explorations aside, this couple also learned of unavoidable feelings for each other that grew from shallow sex dates to something deeper, possibly love?

The romance and build up are not as strong but it’s there. Obviously, the sex scenes were plenty and very kinky.

It is rather, uplifting to see a divorcee of any kind to finally get some. It's a hard predicament when past, family and present relations collide but Ms. Hayes made it easy for readers to understand it. I truly enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who is looking for a light, fast paced, kinky read. 

*ARC provided by publisher

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