An appeal to our readers….

We hope you enjoy your trips to the Blushing Books blog and Web site.  If you’re like most people, you come here because you enjoy downloading books to your e-reader. You’re likely tech-savvy and rely on the Internet for more than just shopping for books. But imagine for a moment if a large number of the informative and entertaining sites you visit and enjoy on a daily basis were shut down or altered to become mere shadows of what they are today – sites like Craigslist, Wikipedia, Twitter and more.

It could happen if corporate-backed lawmakers pass two pieces of legislation you should know about. Senate 968 (PIPA) and HR 3261 (SOPA) are being touted by supporters on the flimsy argument that it will stop piracy, but in fact these two bills will allow powerful interests to decide what you read, watch and hear online.

The list of supporters of PIPA and SOPA are your typical corporate fat cats. The entertainment industry supports the legislation. So does FOX News head Rupert Murdoch. Other supporters include Walmart, Rolex, Tiffany’s, Visa, Mastercard and TimeWarner Cable.

The list of those objecting to this attack on your Internet freedoms are the sites you probably use on a daily basis, like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Etsy, Tumbler, Mozilla and groups like the ACLU and Human Rights Watch.

This week, Web sites like Craigslist, Wikipedia, Word Press and others started a massive campaign to alert users to the threat of these two bills. The results have been encouraging. Due to the overwhelming response by Internet users just like you, politicians who were supporting PIPA and SOPA have reversed their position.

But that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop fighting.

The next step for the proponents of PIPA and SOPA will be an attempt to modify these bills, but these bills don’t need modification; they need to be killed before they go any further. So we’re asking you – our Blushing Books readers – to call or email your legislator today and demand that he or she support your right to access Internet information.

You can find out if your legislator supports PIPA or SOPA by going here. We hope you will. Any infringement on the Internet can be a slippery slope to lawmakers telling you what you can and cannot see and read online. Censorship should never take place in a free society; we hope you will get involved today.

 

 

Book trailer for “Ranch Christmas”

Everyone’s excited about the holidays. And those of you dreaming of switches in your stocking will just love Starla Kaye’s “Ranch Christmas.” In fact, you may just get so motivated you’ll end up on more than one Naughty List. Enjoy!

Holiday Cheer at Blushing Books!

Ho, Ho, Ho! It’s that time of year again, believe it or not, and we’re excited to help get you into the holiday spirit! We’ve got six naughty new stories for you, all Christmas-themed that will take the Bah from your Humbug.

Also, we have a brand new FREE story this month, “The Lord of Misrule by Sullivan Clarke” which you shouldn’t miss! Remember, this time next month, this story will be no longer free, so get it while you can!

We also don’t like to make you search high and low for other stories to get you into the holiday season with a good start, and so we’ve got all of our Christmas and Holiday stories available right here! But browse below so you can see those brand-new stories that will put that blush to your cheeks that should be there this time of year! Read the samples and get hooked!

Happy Holidays!

A NEW FREE STORY FOR DECEMBER, 2011! The Lord of Misrule Sullivan Clarke Was: 3.95 Now: Free! UNTIL December 31, 2011 Strong-willed Mary Cromwell is in love with a man who doesn’t know she exists, the handsome blonde servant, Edmund.  But Mary knows all about Edmund. She knows he’s different from the other servants, both in manner and appearance. She knows he’s strict, and when she takes to spying on him when he spanks his cousin her fascination only grows. Mary would love for Edmund to take her over his knee, but how can she get the attention of this straight-laced lad who respects the bounds of convention too much to even touch her. Mary begins to scheme, but Edmund won’t be so easily tricked. Mary is ready to give up on her dream until the last night of Christmas festivities, when the Feast of Epiphany culminates in a surprise that will change everything. Lots of hot action in this touching, historical tale sure to touch the heart of every spankable romantic. Now a sequel to this story is available: An Unlikely Lord: The MacNaughton’s First Christmas by Sullivan Clarke! Click on the link to purchase! (Part of this week’s newsletter!)

Earning A Christmas Bride by Korey Mae Johnson$3.95 When Edward Grimm awoke Christmas morning to find a beautiful young girl asleep on his couch, he knew his first ever year off the naughty list hadn’t been in vain. Her presence meant that last Christmas hadn’t been a dream, and that his life hadn’t changed for nothing. It meant he had another chance. Last year, Faith Claus had done the unthinkable: she had snuck onto her father’s sleigh and visited the human city of London. She hadn’t gotten far that night—she fell right off a rooftop and onto the head of Edward Grimm: London’s most lecherous, womanizing bachelor. After the most magical night Edward had ever spent with his clothes on, he had awoken to find her gone, and she had been hauled back to the North Pole for a strict chastisement from her loving father, Old Saint Nick. Now, with the help of her magical siblings and an enchanted snow globe, Faith has returned, and unbeknownst to him, Edward has only the Twelve Days of Christmas to prove himself worthy of the most wonderful gift of his life. He will need both a good heart and a firm hand. Size: 5 Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

Holiday Heat, Volume Twoby Assorted Authors $4.95 For the second time, we’ve compiled a listing of short Christmas-themed stories to heat up your holidays by a good selection of Blushing Authors! The Director’s Christmas Present by Chula Stone: The director of the Christmas choir gets a gift, and the gift of advice from an older member of the choir who has a good idea on how to get his be his intended wife to stop chatting it up with her friend at every practice… And her friend learns her own lesson from her own husband, as well. Fighting Angels by Danielle Smith: When Alicia becomes an assistant director to stern director Michael’s Christmas Revue, her “Angels”, the girls of her school, end up not the only ones getting paddled for their lack of discipline. But when Alicia accepts Michael’s punishment… Will it lead to something more Just What She Needed by Polly Cater: Molly doesn’t know what’s wrong, but she feels that something is. She feels the emotions boil up inside of her, without any chance of release… Until she lashed out on her husband in front of his family. She feels there’s no way this marriage can work… she’s too unhappy. But can her new husband’s plan on how to deal with her bad behavior and emotions be exactly what she needs this Christmas? Naughty or Nice by Vicki Blue: Virginia is surprised when her boss seems to have the same kink she has… Which he divulges when he admits he checked her naughty search history on her computer… Christmas Past and Present by Joey Chandler: Three years after the death of her husband, Laura got together with her childhood crush and is finally introducing him to her family over Christmas dinner… But the prep for the event is turning her bratty, and Ryan’s not beyond dealing with her brattiness by turning her over his knee… And then bringing her to bed for some Christmas fun… It’s A Wonderful Spanking! By Monica Vale: Georgia is getting spanked on Christmas Eve, and is pouting about it. She wishes that she had never agreed to let her husband spank her… And because it’s Christmas Eve, she gets to find out what her life would now be like if she never agreed to it. Let’s just say, she ends up realizing that spanking leads to a wonderful life! Size: 6 Short Stories Click HERE to sample

An Unlikely Lord: The MacNaughton’s First Christmas by Sullivan Clarke $3.95 Nearly a year has passed since Lord MacNaughton revealed that Edmund Leeds, a servant in the Cromwell household, was actually his unclaimed son. This revelation paved the way for Mary Cromwell to marry the handsome, strict servant she’d secretly falling in love with. But now that they are the new Lord and Lady MacNaughton, they face a new set of challenges. Edmund is as strict a disciplinarian as ever, which keeps Mary on pins and needles. And as their first Epiphany season as husband and wife approach, Edmund’s mother still has not spoken to him. This, coupled with the death of the father who’d just claimed him, brings sadness to Edmund. When Mary decides that the best gift she could give her husband is a reunion with his mother, she realizes the only way to make this happen is to defy him and set out alone to search the village. Will her journey be worth the risk? Or can defiance be overlooked for the greater good? This is a sequel to “The Lord of Misrule: An Epiphany Story” by Sullivan Clarke (which happens to be this month’s free story)! Size: 5 Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

Figgy Puddingby Melinda Barron $3.95 Book editor Alice Forrester has lost her job, and now she’s about to lose her home, too. At the suggestion of a friend she decides to pack up her belongings and start over in England, staying in the friend’s flat free of charge while she gets back on her feet. When she arrives, Alice meets banker Preston Walsh, and there is an instant attraction between the two. Preston says it’s fate, and while Alice is inclined to agree with him, she’s still a little skeptical about how fast things are moving between them. Still, she gives herself over to her desires to have Preston in her life, and learns she has new needs, including the wonderful spankings Preston delivers. Alice discovers a new life in Britain, and that taking a risk can bring about great happiness, delivered along with her Christmas figgy pudding. Size: 5 Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

Santa Simonby Joannie Kay $3.95 After Nellie’s sister and brother-in-law died, she quit her job at the academy to become a full-time parent to their two little girls. Six months later, Simon, her brother-in-law’s brother, showed up at the doorstep, and wants custody of his nieces since the rancher (past-gunslinger) had just heard of his brother’s death. Even though Simon has legal custody of the girls, someone had been intercepting his mail for the last three years, leaving his family to think he’d died, but he wants his nieces at home on the ranch, but their feisty aunt keeps them from his reach, and puts up a lawsuit. So isn’t it a surprise when the judge decrees a ruling that makes them realize that the best thing is to marry and provide a home for the girls… But can Nellie live out west? Will they ever become a true husband and wife, or will they butt heads forever? Size: 5 Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

A Christmas Holidayby Laurel Joseph $3.95 Anne Lambert was in terrible trouble and she had no one to turn to… except Laney Coddington Sawyer. Laney disliked her, but for some unknown reason Laney and her husband Seth agreed to give her a place to hide from her evil step-father. Anne wasn’t sure they would meet the stage, but they did, and Anne was promised protection. She is shocked when she discovers that Laney is spanked by her husband! Anne didn’t count on Mr. Grundy finding her so quickly, and neither did Seth or Harvey Coddington, who was left for dead with three bullets in him. The three men hired by Grundy to kidnap Anne were full of threats and delighted in terrorizing her as they took her farther and farther away from the Circle C Ranch. Seth tracked the group, hoping he could get to Anne in time to save her. He didn’t know that someone else was following them, too, Anne’s red hair leading White Eagle to believe it was Laney who was kidnapped. Anne uses the Derringer that Laney taught her to use, but is shocked when she is presented with an even worse fate… A Comanche brave! She shoots and White Eagle and then slaps him, and learns that he also believes in spanking! Size: 6 Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

New Thanksgiving Goodies at Blushing Books!

Yep, we have a lot to be thankful for here at Blushing Books! It’s been a fantastic year, full of all of our favorite things… Spankings, Sex, and Romance! And we want you guys to be happy, too! And so we’re giving you a NEW FREE Thanksgiving-themed story for the month, BRAND NEW STORIES, NEW AUTHORS, and Thanksgiving-themed stories on the shelf. Come and read our samples, get hooked, and enjoy! Free Thanksgiving Story We have the best romance and erotica out there that feature dominant men with firm hands. And we want to prove it, and so we give out free stories about once a month so you can see how blushingbooks.com works. Just check out the regular way, chose a payment method (if you only get this free story, you won’t have to put down any other information) and it will appear in your account, which you can create for free. Come back and read it whenever you’d like, read it on your reading device, or just download the PDF and read it on your browser. Also, stop by the “specials” section and look at our wonderful Thanksgiving-Themed selection! Happy Thanksgiving! This month’s free story is Thanksgiving Tarts by Miranda George Willa missed the open-land spaces of the Texas panhandle where she grew up… It just took seven years of living in New York City to realize it. Now she wanted to move back, and more importantly, she wanted what she had before she left–a handsome rancher who, in the past, made her toes curl with pleasure. Although Wolf never stopped loving Willa, even after she left him, he was still suffering a broken heart–one that had definitely hardened over time. When Willa tries to tempt him towards her with a sexy story about a spanking, though, will she want what she’s dreamed about? Or will she simply dig more of a void between them?

Larkin’s Cowboy by Kira Barcelo (New Author to Blushing Books!) $4.95 When Larkin Gregory arrives at her sister’s house in the (very) small town of Santo Pueblo Texas, her intention is to take a Thanksgiving vacation break from her life in New York and then return to the city to patch things up with her boyfriend Eric. In spite of the fact that Larkin’s sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew are her only remaining close family, she KNOWS she could never live outside the hustle and bustle of New York. She doesn’t think much of small town life. There are no Starbucks within a hundred miles, and the biggest form of entertainment on the weekend is dancing to country tunes at the local bar. It only gets worse when, at Larkin’s first visit to the bar with her sister and brother-in-law, she goes outside to catch a breath of fresh air and stumbles across a young woman bare-bottomed across her boyfriend’s knee, getting her tail tanned. When she reports the sight to her sister, to Larkin’s shock, her sister shrugs it off and tells Larkin matter-of-factly that sometimes she gets spanked too. Larkin decides then and there that it’s back to the big city for her, no doubt about it. But then she meets real-life cowboy Adam McLeod, and her perspective starts changing. She’s not exactly interested in him, but one dark night, bored, she decides to check out his ranch she’s heard so much about, and he catches her snooping. Adam is a widower and he makes no effort to hide the fact that he’s interested in Larkin. He also makes no effort to hide the fact that he shares the small-town “values” that so shocked Larkin, and that he has a pretty clear idea of what should happen to snoopy trespassers. Can Larkin learn to love the gruff cowboy, even if it means an occasional bare bottomed spanking? Can she maybe even learn to love the spankings? As Larkin and Adam come to terms with where their lives are going, they both have the best Thanksgiving ever. Size: 5 Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

Arrested by Love (Blushing Books Exclusive!) by Kathryn R. Blake (Brand New Author!) $5.95 She broke the law to catch a police officer. Only he caught her first, and then put her over his knee. Tiffany Morgan has been in love with Kyle Sinclair since she was ten years old, when he’d turned her over his knee for attempting to swim, but instead nearly drowning, in a raging white water river. Though she’d been furious with him at the time, Tiffany never told her family what Kyle did. Instead, she began trailing after him like an annoying younger sister as she tried to gain his attention. Now, eleven years later, Kyle, a patrol officer, is finding it much more difficult to maintain his distance from the irresistible and vivacious redhead who continues to invent ingenious ways to attract his interest. Though he dismissed her initial attraction to him as infatuation, as she grew-up, his own feelings of desire and protectiveness deepened. So, despite his constant struggle to resist the spirited little minx’s lures, Kyle has to finally admit that he is losing that battle–badly. However, when Tiffany’s attention-seeking pranks escalate to the point of endangering her life, Kyle decides it is past time for him to take a much firmer hand to Miss Morgan’s deliciously rounded backside. Kyle is a firm supporter of law and order, and a man’s rightful dominion over the woman he loves. So, to make sure Tiffany understands and accepts his mastery when it comes to her safety and well-being, Kyle lays down the law, and his hand, with loving firmness. Tiffany will learn to obey him, or else. Especially now that he’s decided she is going to be his wife. Size: Eighteen Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

Thankful For by Starla Kaye $4.95 Sandi married young to the cowboy of her dreams… Who she never really felt she lived up to. After a few short years of marriage, she ran out, trying to better herself and trying to shake the handsome rancher from her head… But shaking a man like Jet Black from her head is impossible. She yearns to return home to him… Only to find him dating another woman. Still, the feelings are there, but will she have the guts to do what she has to do to win him back? And will he let her back into his heart after she’s broken it? Size: Five Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

A Thanksgiving Holiday by Laurel Joseph $3.95 Laney’s plans for a peaceful Thanksgiving with her Granddad are ruined when the stage in which she is riding is attacked by Comanche and she is taken captive. Laney is determined to fight her captor, but White Eagle easily subdues her by taking her over his knee and setting her backside on fire when she displeases him. Laney promises the big man that her Granddad will come for her, but is shocked when White Eagle turns mean and hateful when she mentions her Granddad’s name. Harvey Coddington is worried sick when he learns his little Laney is with the Comanche and he sends his foreman, Seth Sawyer to go after the feisty little redhead. Seth was raised by the Comanche and if any man could rescue her, it would be Seth. White Eagle is determined to use Laney to punish her Granddad and Seth knows he is going to have a fight on his hands… One with White Eagle, and another with the little brat who had more spirit than common sense! Size: Five Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One Spending Spree by Kimber Davis $3.95 Larissa Keaton has a problem. Her husband, Toby, has set a thousand dollar spending limit for Christmas. The problem is Larissa can’t keep to a budget. When she goes over she does the unthinkable. She lies to her husband and hides the proof. Then, behind his back she takes a job to help cover the costs. When Toby finds out he is none too happy, and he lets his wife know it, with more than a few spankings. Size: Five Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One I Do… I Don’t $3.95by Sharon Green Freya left home and became a mercenary because she didn’t fit into anyone’s cookie-cutter mold of who she should be… She was NOT a “good girl”… And she didn’t want to be. But now she’s returning home with her mercenary brethren to train an army and she finds that the mold her parents were trying to fit her into was to be the eventual wife of the man who is now the King of the Kingdom… In fact, they had been married when they were young children. Will Freya learn how to be a Queen–the Queen she was born to be? Or will she resist and propel herself into utter ruin? And will her new husband be able to fix the mistakes he made with her? Will he get his wife to love him with his dark secret and a few very firm spankings, or will they be forever butting heads? Size: 6 Chapters Click HERE for Chapter One

New Halloween Updates at Blushing Books!

On Oct. 17th, we’ve released 6 brand-new stories for those of you who love something spooktacular. Also, we have a new FREE story for downloading!

Free story available until Oct. 31st! This month’s story is Girl’s School Ghost by Mona Whitlock As a psychic with a natural gift for seeing and communicating with departed spirits, Fern isn’t easily rattled. But when she’s asked to investigate a former girls’ school haunted by its former headmaster’s spirit, she learns that ghosts can be more than stubborn. They can also be stern. Something is holding Jared Lockwood at the former school where he taught for years before dying of Yellow Fever. But what? Can Fern convince him to leave? Or will she wear out his patience- and get worn out herself- before she discovers the secret that his keeping him tied to the world of the living.

The other NEW STORIES available! 

Under the Lash  Carolyn Faulkner	The Watchers  Mona Whitlock	Devil’s Night  Fiona Wilde
Hell’s Little Angel  Loki Renard	Dancing in the Moonlight  Melinda Barron	Whispers of Fog  Autumn Brooks

Book Trailer: Under the Lash

Avast, readers!

What be better than a treasure chest? A brand new pirate romance written by that saucy wench Carolyn Faulkner!

Under the Lash  be her newest novel, and if you enjoy a good yarn about pirates not only capturing fine booty, but warmin’ it good and proper then ye need look no farther.

We here at Blushing Books be awfully proud to introduce this trailer to give you a taste of what treasures you’ll find in this hot book:

 

Ye’ll be wantin’ to go here to order it.

Get caught reading…

“Reading again?” he asked. “It’s been hours and I’m ready for you to join me in bed!”

“Sorry,” she replied, her tone distracted as her eyes continued to scan the page. “I just can’t tear myself away from these titles from Blushing Books. They just updated their online store and the stories are just so….”

She sighed. ” But I won’t bore you, You wouldn’t understand.”

“Try me,” he said. “Tell me what’s so great about them.”

She put the book in her lap and looked shyly up at her husband. “Well, they’re not your average romance novels. They’re so much more. They’re full of dominant men and submissive women and the men. And the men….”

“What about them?”

She hesitated before answering. “They spank the women.”

Her face colored slightly as she told him. For so long she’d lived vicariously through the characters on the page, but had always been too embarrassed to tell the man she loved how she put herself in the position of women like the gypsy girl taken in by a stern English gentleman, or the married shopkeeper who flings caution to the wind to enter a torrid affair with a skilled dominant.

She picked up her book, preparing to read again, but as she did she felt his hand slide over her shoulder and then down to clutch her breast.

“Is that what you want? A spanking? You’re reading such naughty books. You clearly deserve one. A hard one. On your bare bottom while facedown across my lap…”

She smiled, for there was only one thing that could entice her away from one of the latest titles from Blushing Books. And that one thing was….

….acting out what she’d read.