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I'm pleased to have two new-to-Romance With SASS guests - Lani Rhea and JP Archer! The three of us write for Renaissance Ebooks (aka Sizzler).  These two women are living in the heart of Oklahoma, carrying out their dream. They write in the paranormal and contemporary erotic romance genre. You can find them either reading or writing. They’d love to hear from you.  

Margie: What’s your biggest joy as a writer?

JP: Bringing characters to life that evokes an emotional response from a reader.  I love it when the words we write make someone laugh out loud, or sigh or get horny and go jump their man….lol. That’s awesome. It’s powerful.

LR: The spark of one idea, of how it can grow into so many possibilities, then trying to find the right character to fit the role. The whole process is fun.

Margie: Do your characters speak to you?

LR: Yes. I swear I’m not crazy. If you see me staring into space and mumble something I’m planning the next big thing with which ever character is in my head at the moment.

JP: Yes. And the long distance bills are getting way out of control. Ha Ha Ha. Seriously, they speak to me but not in a conversational way. It’s more like I can feel who they are and how they think and I am able to channel that onto the page.

Margie: What’s the craziest plot you never wrote?

JP: I had this dream one night about a girl who could step outside of time and move around people like they were statues, she was stealing a bracelet from a jewelry counter. She then discovers that she is her own mother. That she is part of a time loop. I thought about having that as a supernatural ability and what other purposes it could be used for or what else she might be able to do. It still tickles my mind but I haven’t been able to resolve it yet.

LR: I’ve started writing this, but never finished. My time travel doppelganger story, I call it Time of Unity. A man is created in a government lab and has never seen the outside world his entire childhood or teen years. He is sent back in time to save the lives of important people of our past. During all his time travel he meets a lady. A prophecy of an unborn child comes true and is stolen after birth by a witch. So yeah, one day I’ll finish this story. 

Margie: Dumbest thing you ever did and didn’t get caught?

LR: On our honeymoon, my husband slipped his hand down inside my pants on a ride at Epcot. We tried to find another place to go to have fun, but were out of luck. So this ride held dark potential.

JP: Making out with my boyfriend in my mom’s car in the middle of the afternoon while in the parking lot of her job, waiting for her to get off work. We steamed up the windows good and proper! LOL. We had just barely got zipped up and him out of the car when she and about 200 other employees started out of the building at 4:30 pm.

Margie: Tell us something unexpected about yourself?

JP: I am a recovering sex addict. Proudly five years monogamous now. That is why Lani writes the sex and I write the romance. I have to keep certain boundaries and limits to be able to keep and enjoy my recovery.

LR: Well, I can’t top JP here, and I’m very proud of her. She is so brave writing alongside me with these erotic stories. Something people don’t know about me is I’ve had open heart and lung surgery as a baby. I have multiple scars all over my body. The last time I ever wore a bikini in public I was seven.  I’m also very, fair-skinned. Whenever I sunbathe I gain A LOT of freckles. Thanks to my redheaded granny and the Irish that runs through me.

Margie: When holding a cocktail party, five guests are on the invitation list, living or dead. Who are they and why?

LR: LR:   Of course JP, because she is my best friend. *grin*

2.      An ancestor I never knew I was kin to until I found out on ancestory.com, Jane Austen. I would love to sit at the table with her and talk books.

3.      Julia Roberts, because I love her in Pretty Woman.

4.      Johnny Depp. He’s so hot! He’s traveled the lands, but yet to discover my… yeah! JK btw I love how he speaks.

5.      My gang from Will Blog for Sex on Facebook. We always have the best Flash Fiction Friday’s to ever grace the Internet. They are all supportive. So I guess this means I would have more than five guests, right? Lol

JP: Aaw. Thanks Lani. Of course you’re invited to any party I have. Standing invitation.

1)      Whoopi Goldberg- because she’s funny and smart.

2)      Queen Elizabeth the First- Would love to find out if she actually did Robert Dudley or not.

3)      Stevie Nicks- she is one of my favorite singers and very reclusive.

4)      Laurel K. Hamilton- awesome writer. I’ve read all of her book and she’s the best in her genre.

5)      Andy Warhol- so he could take a picture of all of us.

Margie: And now a blurb and excerpt from the newly released The Ark Hotel: Before the Dawn, part of The Sexiest Time of the Year an anthology from Renaissance eBooks Inc.

Blurb:

With the Mayan’s predicted doomsday a year away, inspires many to take a spin on the Wheel of Pleasure at the risqué Ark Hotel.

Running north from an abusive relationship, Angie Perkins, never suspected her life would change by a chance encounter. Repulsed, she despises the Ark Hotel.

Noah Hawthorne, part owner and CEO of The Ark Hotel, can’t know that fate would serve up his true love in a small town diner.

With Christmas around the corner, can these two give of their hearts, finding their way past their pasts to each other as the clock ticks down on the world’s final moments?

Excerpt:

Her need to lick his pure, male skin, overpowered all rational thought. She wanted to flick her tongue across a flat male nipple and have him groan for more. Her heart raced with the picture projected in her mind.

Her hand slipped inside his shirt to his smooth, hairless chest. Her hand slid over his pec.

Angie became aware of the lifting of her tight sweater.

Noah palmed her breast through the lace of her bra.

The heat of his hand in competition with the freezing temperature created a paradox of pleasure.

He rolled a turgid nipple between a thumb and index finger. Oh, definitely a breast man.

Angie placed a kiss at the crease of the shirt's V. She played with one of his nipples.

He moaned and clenched a handful of her hair.

Placing her cheek on his warm skin to listen to his out of control pounding heart, she came back to reality. She glanced up to Noah's handsome face.

Heavy lidded, eyes slit open, he stared down. His smile was beautiful, frustrated. "Always the wrong time or the wrong place," he chuckled.

"Ain't that the truth." She offered a rueful grin. "You know, we could always go to my apartment when we're done here."

A wild pace settled behind his eyes. She barely kept her balance when Noah spun away with her hand in his.

"We're done," he growled.

Angie giggled at his impatience. The reflection of her needs helped her keep speed with Noah's lengthy strides. They almost jogged towards his truck, leaving the gazebo and sleigh behind.

Margie:  GREAT excerpt ladies! Where can your readers find you?

Jp Archer:

Blog: http://jp-archer.blogspot.com

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100002049742744

Lani Rhea:

Blog:  http://lanirhea.blogspot.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001398447891

Facebook Fan Page:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Lani-Rhea/286017144766071

Twitter  https://twitter.com/#!/RheasRomance

Website  http://www.lanirhea.webs.com/

Email them at rheaarcherbooks@gmail.com or find their communal blog at http://rheaarcherbooks.blogspot.com which houses their personal social media links.

Margie: Where can people buy the anthology your story The Ark Hotel: Before the Dawn is featured in?

Renaissance eBooks Inc. http://shop.renebooks.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ANTHO-04

Amazon  http://www.amazon.com/SEXIEST-TIME-YEAR-ENCOUNTERS-ebook/dp/B006FLVZCU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322613583&sr=1-1

Barnes & Noble  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-sexiest-time-of-the-year-sascha-illyvich/1107522929?ean=2940013494596&itm=1&usri=the+sexiest+time+of+the+year%3a+erotic+encounters+at+the+yule+season+-+edited+by+sascha+illyvich&workid=1036548088

Thank you so much for having us today, Margie. *grin* We are giving away a free copy of The Sexiest Time of the Year. Leave us a comment with your email and tomorrow, Dec. 21^st, we will choose a winner. To better your odds of winning, send a friend to comment mentioning your name. Each time your name is mentioned you get another entry. So be watching your emails tomorrow!

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