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A drum tech hides her romantic feelings from her drummer until he finds out she wants to have a baby and offers to help with that.
It’s a slow burn with a steamy payoff and a touch of consensual kink, friends to lovers, with pregnancy as a major part of the plot. Enjoy!
You can get ROCK ICON READY here: https://books2read.com/rockiconready
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“You wrote a song with the guys,” she said to him as they walked back to their guesthouse. He didn’t take her hand or anything, though they walked with a companionable closeness. The earlier sexy mood was gone, and she wondered if he’d still want to sleep with her the next day, sober and without the New Year’s midnight magic.
💕 This is my last #FridayKiss for #RockIconReady which was published today. Next week, I'll be on to something new...💕
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CW: Book launch day! ROCK ICON READY is now available! (self-promo)
A drum tech hides her romantic feelings from her drummer until he finds out she wants to have a baby and offers to help with that.
It’s a slow burn with a steamy payoff and a touch of consensual kink, friends to lovers, with pregnancy as a major part of the plot. Enjoy!
You can get it here: https://books2read.com/rockiconready
#NewRelease #BookBirthday #RockIconReady #RockStarRomance #Smidge #SelfPromo
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Dice wrapped a friendly arm around Kimmy’s shoulders as they walked back to their guesthouse, both of them hyperaware of Crys and Blade on the path ahead of them and the rest of the group heading down to the beach. Don’t mind us, just negotiating some friendly sex, Kimmy thought, and a burble of laughter escaped her, making Dice jump. But he didn’t say anything.
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His sweet smile tempted her, even though *just kissing* seemed like it might fall outside of their arrangement — neither sexual experimentation nor babymaking. Dangerous. But he reached out to trace one fingertip down her arm, and the gentle touch stripped all caution from her mind. “Okay. One kiss.”
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He shifted his position for a better angle and brought one hand up to cup the back of her neck, tenderly but with a hint of strength that had her melting and helpless in his arms as he leaned down to kiss her. And it was as though any brakes or controls had come off between them. They’d kissed — a lot — but she’d never felt so adored or needed, and without the need to protect her heart any further, she gave herself up to the moment.
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*He’s too sweet a person to have dominant tendencies, isn’t he?* Yet with the way he called her Pretty Girl and asked her if she wanted to come, she wondered if she was wrong about that.
“You can call me whatever you like… Boss,” she offered, testing for his reaction. The deepening blush and the almost-ashamed flare of excitement and desire in his eyes was interesting, to say the least.
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#RomanceWonders for February 19: Start with a character & design a partner to fit, or start with two characters & figure out how to make them fall in love?
It depends on the book. In book 1, the two characters were crafted to fit a plot idea and each other, then the hero of book 2 existed from book 1 and I had to figure out who could love him and be what he needed. For my current WIP, book 3, both characters existed as best friends before I realized they belonged together.
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#RomanceWonders for February 17 and 18 (catching up!): Do they want to get married? / Do they live happily ever after?
Yes and yes. It's really hard to elaborate on this one without major spoilers, so I'll just leave it at that.
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#RomanceWonders for February 16: How important is sex to your couple? Also, what's your WIP's heat level?
Kimmy likes sex, and while she thinks "vanilla is a very good flavor too," she prefers a submissive role in bed and her needs are most deeply met through kink.
Dice doesn't feel arousal with strangers so sex hasn't been as easy for him as for his bandmates.
Sex is a key part of their emotional intimacy.
My books are usually medium steam, but this one leans into more heat.
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#RomanceWonders for February 15: Who opens stuck jars in their relationship?
They both do. Both are drummers, both have strong hands. Kimmy is petite but works smart so she'd know the turn-it-upside-down-and-slam-it-on-the-counter trick, and she would not be asking anyone for help. In fact, she probably taught Dice that trick at some point in case he came across any stuck jars.
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#RomanceWonders for February 14: What was their first date? Did it go well?
They're on a progression from friends to friends-with-benefits to publicly-dating-for-reasons to admitting they're in love.
While they're still just FWB, he says: “It’ll be Valentine’s Day. I know we aren’t — I mean, not really, but — I… would you let me take you out somewhere? Just the two of us?”
It involves a rooftop picnic, a teddy bear, balloons, and chocolate-dipped strawberries.
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#RomanceWonders for February 13: Can/do they wear each others' clothes?
Kimmy and Dice have a significant size difference — she's 5'2" and he's 6'3" — so her clothes would be pretty much useless to him. She likes his hoodies, though.
“She wore one of his hoodies, big enough to engulf her and thoroughly cover her sleep shorts and more, and he’d pulled on the same shorts he’d been wearing before and a tropical-print shirt that he hadn’t bothered to button.”
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#RomanceWonders for February 12: Introduce your characters. How did they meet?
Dice is a rock star drummer. At the time my WIP takes place, Kimmy is his drum tech and they have been best friends since they met 6 years before.
The opening chapter includes a flashback to that meeting, outside a stage door at the back of a theater where Kimmy had been waiting to see if she could get the band to sign her t-shirt.
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CW: Friday Kiss (NSFW)
“Drummer jokes at a time like this?” she managed to ask, borderline exasperated at being just out of reach of her orgasm.
He chuckled. “Come on my tongue, then.” And he bent down and did something utterly magic with fingers and tongue and she was gone in seconds, shredded into tiny stars and coalescing back into her body limp and moaning with delight.
“Well, hidden talents, who knew…” she muttered when she could speak again.
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“Do you think people are like that sometimes? Not what it says on the cover?” Dice asked thoughtfully.
“Like all sex and kink underneath but walking along looking like cotton candy?”
“Or the other way around. Looking like a sex bomb but secretly uptight.”
“Maybe.” Kimmy thought about that. After all, her short hair and practical work clothes hid a taste for pretty lingerie and pedicures. Lots of people hid things — weird food preferences, crushes, secret longings…
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“It felt so wrong to use thoughts of you like that,” he said, his voice quiet and small, muffled by his hands. “I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be.” She rubbed his shoulder encouragingly. “Private thoughts don’t hurt anyone. It’s not like you told anyone, or made me feel uncomfortable, or creeped on me. I’m flattered to have been your fantasy pin-up. You have my permission to imagine whatever you like, anytime.”
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Eventually, he pulled back, his eyes slightly wild at what they’d just done, his cardboard tiara askew.
“That was lovely,” she assured him. So lovely, better than she could have imagined. When he didn’t say anything, she moved one hand to his shoulder and gave it a comforting squeeze.
He sighed. “Oh, Kimber,” he whispered. “I don’t want to break what we have, but that was so damn good. And I want to keep doing it.”
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CW: I made a pretty graphic for my book!
I was trolling around on Depositphotos and found the prettiest picture of tea and macarons so I had to make a promo graphic for my book. Please excuse the self-promo, I just think it's pretty! And there's even macarons in the book (not in a huge way, just a mention in passing at a bakery because I adore them).
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She stepped into his embrace, then squeaked as he lifted her to eliminate their height difference, so she had to wrap her arms and legs around him and hold tight. “I’m not going to drop you, Kimber,” he assured her with a soft laugh, one arm securely under her backside as his other hand cupped the back of her head. Then he brought his lips to hers, and the world stopped.
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The air was breathtakingly cold, with frost on the trees and bushes reminding them that February was still very much part of winter. The paths were slippery in spots and Dice put his arm around Kimmy as her foot skidded on a patch of black ice. “I got you,” he said, and kept his arm around her.
She tucked her arm around his waist and leaned into his warmth.
“Look, Kimmy, the stars are out,” he said, pointing upward with his free hand. “You should make a wish.”
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There were many things she could have said. Wished him a happy new year too, for instance. Commented on the beauty of the fireworks, the islands, the night itself with all its stars. But she wanted what had just happened to count, and ignoring it meant it didn’t count. “That wasn’t much of a kiss,” Kimmy commented, and she could hear the daring, teasing sound in her own voice. Flirting. She’d always been so careful not to cross that line. But so had he.
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“They’re just wishes,” she said. “I know they don’t really change anything. But I like wishing on stars.”
“Do I know what you just wished for?”
“I hope not,” she said, feeling a chill trickle down her spine. “Please don’t try to guess, it ruins the wish.” He mustn’t know, ever. If they were just fooling around having fun sex, she could tell him she was having romantic feelings. But she’d asked him for a baby and promised there’d be no strings.
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CW: Cover Reveal for Rock Icon Ready!
I'm so happy to finally be revealing the cover for ROCK ICON READY! Kimmy & Dice's story will be here on March 24, 2023.
friends to lovers • cinnamon roll hero • this one's about the drummer
Add it to your Goodreads TBR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64664069-rock-icon-ready
Preorder the ebook at your favorite retailer: https://books2read.com/rockiconready
#Promo #AuthorPromo #CoverReveal #RockStarRomance #RockIconReady #Bookstodon
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CW: Friday Kiss (spicy talk)
“You like that idea, huh?” she asked. “You want to jerk yourself off while I watch and shoot your load all over me?” It was adorable to see him light up and blush and get flustered when she put it into blunt words like that, and she thrilled at how quickly he got over the embarrassment and leaned into the moment.
“Pull your dress up higher, Pretty Girl, I want more of a canvas for my art.”
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They pushed themselves away from the wall and walked along the path, still holding hands, and she had the sense than neither of them wanted to lose the physical connection that was grounding them, as though they’d spin off into the starry night if they weren’t anchored to each other. But when they came to the porch of their guesthouse, he let go and dropped onto the end of one of the sun loungers there, twisting his tiara in his hands, staring down at it.