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Welcome, Guest Blogger Lilly Cain!

1/5/2010

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Today guest author Lilly Cain is taking over my blog to talk to you about her new release, Dark Harmony.  Welcome, Lilly!  Your new series looks really interesting.  Tell us a little about it!
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Vampires aren’t dead. No really, I mean that literally, although I am referring to the publishing trend as well. Vampires are hot, living, breathing, fantastically powerful creatures. They live in packs, addicted to the emotional and psychological impact of feeding and loving as a group. There is an alpha male and an alpha female – the only ones powerful enough to turn new vampires, and the only ones powerful enough to keep the rest of the pack under control. Vampires are highly sexual beings who really could live forever, if they can stay sane enough to remain in control.

Hi, I am Lilly Cain, author of Dark Harmony, the first book of the Dark Seduction Series, erotic vampire books about life in the pack, or the escape from it. I want to thank Lisa Lane for inviting me here to her blog to celebrate the release of my first e-novel. Thanks also to her guests, and I’ll be stopping by to respond and to offer a free e-copy of Dark Harmony to someone who comments here.

About the book: Dark Harmony – The first in the series, this is also my first novel (to be published, LOL). I wrote the book during the time of my separation and divorce and I put a lot of the feelings I had about loss and freedom into the two main characters, Lena and Richard. They both have experienced personal loss and the illusion of freedom in and out of relationships. Here’s a back-cover blurb about the story:

Running from a lover that has twisted her very nature, Lena Townsend hunts on her own. 

Lena has been the object of many desires. Now she is all too aware that being an obsession can be deadly. 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.

In a flight that leads her thousands of miles from her territory and into the province of a dragon, independence is not what Lena expected. But if she can finally learn to trust, she can find harmony with her submissive and vampiric natures, and join with Richard into a new blend of family – a Dark Harmony.

They say that authors should write what we know. I can’t say that I have known any vampire’s personally (that I am aware! LOL) but I felt I did know about how these people would feel. Loss, love, freedom, surrender. As always, control and freedom are opposable issues – in order to be in control, you give up your freedom. If you are being controlled, you are sometimes more free than those that think to control you. What do you think?

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For more information about me and my books, come and visit me at my website, www.lillycain.com.

Also be sure to check out my publisher eRedSage and all the fantastic stories you can find there at www.eRedSage.com. 

I’ll be stopping by here over the next day or two to answer any questions. Share your thoughts and qualify for a chance to win an e-copy of the first book of the Dark Seduction series, Dark Harmony!

Thanks,

Lilly Cain

35 Comments
Anne MacFarlane link
1/5/2010 12:39:14 am

Congratulations on your first published book Lilly. Sounds like a fantastic - and hot - read.

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Lilly Cain link
1/5/2010 01:00:49 am

Thanks Anne,

It is really exciting to have my first book out there, and this is the first of a series as well! The series is called Dark Seduction from Red Sage Presents.

Lilly

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Judy Cox
1/5/2010 01:31:18 am

Congrats on your first book!! I hope it does good. It sounds like a very good read and you are batting a thousand in the cover department :) I love that cover!!

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Lilly Cain link
1/5/2010 02:27:08 am

Thanks Judy!

I love him too! I was really excited at the fact that the cover was being designed by Rae Monet. She does great work and is designing a series of websites for a dear friend of mine, author Renee Field. I thought her choice of a hero image was perfect, giving the reader the image of someone strong, with a hint of maturity (he is a father). Plus, his body is rockin'! LOL

Lilly

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Lisa Lane link
1/5/2010 04:54:51 am

It really is a great cover.

How many books do you have planned so far for the series?

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Valerie
1/5/2010 05:43:16 am

Looks like a great debut book!1 I also love the cover....yum!!! Thanks for sharing with us.

Valerie
in Germany

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Liane Gentry Skye link
1/5/2010 06:59:42 am

Just when i think my appetite for vamps is whetted, I find a fantastic new series I just have to....um...bite into! :)

Congrats on your new release!

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Lilly Cain link
1/5/2010 10:16:01 am

Thanks Lisa!

I currently have 3 books planned in the Dark Seduction series. I have a second series that will be launched from Red Sage Presents as well, the first likely in late spring entitled Building Magic - it is a shape shifter series, novella length. :)

Lilly

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Lilly Cain link
1/5/2010 10:18:40 am

Thanks Valerie!

I am really pleased with how my first book turned out. Writing, revising and editing was all a great experience, one I wil going to continue to love I hope for the rest of my life. Writing is a joy!

Lilly

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Lilly Cain link
1/5/2010 10:25:11 am

Thank you Liane! That's a wonderful thing to hear! :) My editor, Theresa Stevens said she wouldn't normally look at a vampire story, but she ended up buying mine! I don't think the genre is oversold, but it is a bit full. But a good story is always welcome.

Lilly

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Lindsey Ekland
1/5/2010 08:20:38 pm

Even though this is a vampire book I can tell from the description you put your own stamp on the idea. I look forward to exploring this world and the vampires that live there. Congrats on your first release and to the second this spring.

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Lilly Cain link
1/5/2010 09:07:54 pm

Thank you Lindsey!

Yes, I tried to give the genre my own spin - I think that is very important when you are working with a subgenre that has been very popular.

In my world the vampires have psychic powers that many have ignored or refused to accept, and they live in packs or extended families, with an alpha male and female as leaders. They are the only ones strong enough, or old enough to make new vampires. In such a pack the level of group sexuality is high, feeding their psychic needs as well as physical.

Lilly

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Pam Callow link
1/6/2010 01:58:18 am

Congrats, Lilly! Love the title, cover and premise for your series. Can't wait to read it.

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Lilly Cain link
1/6/2010 05:08:11 am

Thanks Pam!

I'm having a lot of fun with the second book right now - Dark Melody. The writting is just popping along! A little teaser - we have more of Evan and Drake from Dark Harmony!

Lilly

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Deanna Jewel link
1/6/2010 11:38:39 am

Congrats, Lilly! I love the cover and the plot. I wish you the best and hope your sales sky rocket! Would love to include you as an author on my website, email me.

Deanna

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Lilly Cain link
1/6/2010 11:59:06 am

Thank you Deana! :) I will email you in a few days, I am working and writing like crazy at the moment! :)

Lilly

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Lilly Cain link
1/6/2010 12:03:07 pm

Thanks to everyone for dropping by the blog! And thank you Lisa for hosting me and celebrating the release of my first novel. :)

I've randomly selected Judy Cox to win a copy of the book - I really hope you enjoy it!

Lilly

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Lisa Lane link
1/6/2010 02:35:00 pm

Congratulations, Judy Cox, for winning a free copy of Dark Harmony!

Thanks again, Lilly, for the great guest blog. I look forward to more!

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Judy Cox
1/7/2010 10:23:04 am

Thanks, Lilly and Lisa!! This looks very good. I am going to enjoy it!!

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