J. Kenner-Guest Post and Giveaway

J. Kenner-Guest Post and Giveaway Blog Tour

ReleaseMe

Sex, Kink, and Really Hot Men

I was talking to a guy I knew from college over the holidays, and he asked me about my upcoming book, Release Me. He’d been trolling the internet and ran across my webpage and my Facebook page. “So it’s like that Fifty Shades book?” he asked.  “All kinky sex, huh?  Should I get a copy for my wife? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).”

I smiled and did the polite chit chat thing, and wandered off to talk to another cluster of party folks, partly frustrated by his perception and partly frustrated with myself for not correcting his misimpressions.

But here’s the thing:  on the drive home, it occurred to me that he was right.  He just wasn’t entirely right.

Because there is kinky sex (albeit on the lighter end of the scale, but  it’s there) and there are scenes that have a definite turn-on factor.

And there’s nothing wrong with that.

But what is wrong is the assumption that erotic romances are nothing but sex and titillation.  Because that is very much not true.  Why not?

Simple:  It’s not about the Sex. It’s not about the Kink.  It’s not even about the Really Hot Men (well, okay, maybe it is).  What it is about are the characters and the story.

Yes, there are some books on the market that are little more than Penthouse Forum letters.  But true erotic romance centers around the characters and their relationship, both in and out of the bedroom.  Characters with issues and struggles.  Characters that readers want to spend time with again and again and again.

Maybe I’ll bump into him at another party next year when Book Three comes out.  If I do, I’ll give him the entire trilogy (Release Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me.).  And I’ll tell him to read them for the story … and he can thank me for a lovely evening with his wife later.

Do you read or write erotic romance?  How would you have responded to my friend?

Thanks so much to The Reading Café for hosting me today!  Leave a comment to be entered to win a copy of Release Me courtesy of Random House!

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READ AN EXCERPT from RELEASE ME by J. Kenner

J. Kenner is the pen name of USA Today bestselling author Julie Kenner (who also writes as J.K. Beck).  Release Me, an erotic romance, will be available in the U.S. and the U.K. on January 1, and in over a dozen other countries later in 2013.

You can hang out with J.K., learn more about Release Me and her other novels, or just poke around and see what catches your eye at her website, www.jkenner.com, and also at her J. Kenner Facebook page, www.facebook.com/jkennerbooks and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/juliekenner

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Release Me


ORDER LINKS: Random House / Amazon / Barnes and Noble / The Book Depository /

Book copy:
For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You comes an erotic, emotionally charged romance between a powerful man who’s never heard “no” and a fiery woman who says “yes” on her own terms. 
 
He was the one man I couldn’t avoid. And the one man I couldn’t resist. 
 
Damien Stark could have his way with any woman. He was sexy, confident, and commanding: Anything he wanted, he got. And what he wanted was me. Our attraction was unmistakable, almost beyond control, but as much as I ached to be his, I feared the pressures of his demands. Submitting to Damien meant I had to bare the darkest truth about my past—and risk breaking us apart.
 
But Damien was haunted, too. And as our passion came to obsess us both, his secrets threatened to destroy him—and us—forever.

Release Me is an erotic romance intended for mature audiences.

Release Me by J. Kenner (an excerpt)

 

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Release Me by J. Kenner-a review

Release Me by J. Kenner – a review

 

RELEASE ME by J. Kenner

RELEASE ME is the first storyline (January 2013 release) in J. Kenner’s new erotic romance series featuring Damien Stark and Nichole (Nikki) Fairchild.  Like many of latest popular serial erotic romance storylines such as Fifty Shades of Grey and The Crossfire Trilogy by Sylvia Day, Nikki and Damien have secrets from their pasts, overcome insurmountable odds, and are pursued by the ghosts of painful childhood memories. But wait…before you say….”oh no, not another one.”..it will suck you in from the very start.


 
 A billionaire who knows what he wants- Damien Stark is our hero. Starting at four years of age Damien became the poster child for junior tennis but a manipulative father and a controlling coach destroyed Damien’s life leaving him with some issues of control.

 
Damien wants Nikki.  As the story progresses, we learn that Nikki and Damien had met six years previous and Nikki believes that Damien does not remember their meeting.  But like many of our stalkerish type heroes, Damien has kept up with Nikki’s life, so much so, that most of her adult life has been choreographed through Damien Stark. And with their latest ‘accidental’ meeting, Damien pursues Nikki to make her-his own. If you are a fan of Fifty Shades or Crossfire Trilogy you will like Release Me.

 
Damien likes his games of sex.  From phone sex to light BDSM, Damien is a man who gets what he wants, but he will not hurt Nikki knowing the horrific past she has had to endure.  But along with Nikki’s secrets Damien has a few of his own that he is reluctant to reveal.
 
Nikki Fairchild is our heroine.  Forced into the pageant circuit at a young age, Nikki and her sister became their mother’s ticket to fame and fortune. But pageant life and life at home were never easy for Nikki and her sister and in the end guilt will weighed heavily on Nikki Fairchild’s shoulders.


 
Release me follows a similar path as the other well-known and successful series written the same genre.  We have the requisite BFF, manipulative and vindictive boss and an ex-boyfriend who wants nothing more than to become something more.

 
I enjoyed RELEASE ME because there were some differences if only in the actual content and overall story outline. J. Kenner has written a sensually seductive storyline that catches your imagination and pulls you in because of its’ familiarity and recognizable premise.  Either way, a tortured and brooding hero is always high on my TBR list.

 

LINKS TO PRE ORDER: Amazon / Barnes and Noble / The Book Depository

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Reviewed by Sandy

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