A freebie for the New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Back to "to be paid for" status now, alas...

To celebrate the New Year, I'm offering AN APPOINTMENT WITH HER MASTER, a brand new to digital short story, FREE for two days via Amazon.

So follow the links below between 12:00 am Pacific Standard Time, 1st January and 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time, 2nd January to snag this edgy story of a young woman's initiation into the darkly delicious world of erotic domination and punishment.

Here's the blurb:

Shy, but secretly sexy and imaginative, Mary-Anne Green fantasizes about having her bottom spanked by a stern and powerful master, the beautiful, cultured hero of her wildest dreams. She longs to feel the hand of a dominant man upon her, punishing her flesh, then caressing it to the heights of exquisite pleasure.

It seems that these wild scenarios are destined to remain solely in her imagination, until one day Mary-Anne meets her dream master online. Their chemistry is electric from the very first moment, and their fantasies and desires a perfect, sizzling match. In email after email they share everything. Dark urges, wicked wishes... painted pictures of fiery, passionate punishment.

But what happens when Mary-Anne and her Master decide to meet each other? Will the delicious, painful magic survive the transition to reality? Will their intimate bond be all they hope for, and perhaps more?

Approximately 5,000 words/11 pages.

A much shorter version of this story has originally appeared in print under the title "It Had to Happen".

Download from Amazon.com

Download from Amazon.co.uk

An Appointment with her Master is also free to borrow from Amazon.com for the next 90 days, if you're a US Amazon Prime member. 

As part of the scheme for authors that allows us to make our titles free for a number of days, and allows free borrowing by Prime members, Amazon does ask that we sell those titles only via their web sites for 90 days. If you don't have a Kindle reader, you can still read them via the Kindle Desktop application here, and please be assured that after 90 days, An Appointment with her Master will be available at other ebook outlets and in formats suitable for all other readers.

All the very best for 2012! 

GLINT is out today!

I'm thrilled to announce that my first ever Walk on the Wild Side Books title is officially published today!

GLINT is an erotic short story about Suzy and Gavin, a sexy loving couple who are on holiday the seaside. Something about the sun on their skin and the bracing sea breezes seems to bring out the daring and adventurous qualities in this pair, and before long, they're involved in wickedly naughty exhibitionist frolics on the sand, putting on an erotic performance for a mysterious voyeur watching them from the headland.

But that's not all. Having put on a show themselves, it's not long before Suzy and Gavin are turning the tables, and observing another pair of sexy holiday makers who like to make love for an audience.  Naturally one thing leads to another and these voyeuristic thrills spur their desire yet again...

GLINT is a 5700 word slice of life story, a pocket size snapshot of Suzy and Gavin's relationship. It was originally published in a couple of print anthologies, but this release is an enhanced and rewritten version of the original story... and over twice as long as the printed version with masses more sexy action for these two happy, frisky lovers.

You can find GLINT for sale at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, All Romance Ebooks and Smashwords, with additional outlets to follow.

Here's an excerpt

Happy reading, and here's hoping you enjoy this hot interlude of fun in the sun!

Ebook fun!

I think this is so cool from my friends at Diesel Ebooks!

Earl of Diesel's Risque Parlor Bundle

Contains:

Devil's Pearl
A Gentlewoman's Predicament
A Gentlewoman's Ravishment
Her Dark Master

Sewing Circles, Sex Slaves, and Ravishment, all in a typical Regency/Victorian afternoon...

A jolly collection of saucy historical rompage, containing 2 of mine and 2 more hot stories by other authors.

Buy here from Diesel eBooks!

And here's news of another vintage Portia title now in Kindle format...

THE TUTOR

Rosalind Howard takes a job as personal librarian to the enigmatic and handsome Julian Hadey. Employed to catalogue his vast archive of erotica, she soon finds herself presented with a still more intriguing challenge.

The Tutor is one of my older titles, first published around 1995, and I'm thrilled that it's finally available again in a new format. 

Buy from Kindle Store UK

Listed at  Kindle Store US- check back for availability

Read a naughty excerpt - Julian has sexy thoughts and takes action ;)

I'm so excited!

Look at this beaut! It's a Kindle! A Kindle for the UK! Finally!

I'm so delighted to hear about this development, and needless to say, as an unashamed gadget freak, I've ordered myself one. :)

Lots of my books are available for this new platform, so check out what's on offer if you're planning to treat yourself to a Kindle:

Portia's UK Kindle Store

I've been Kindled again!

When Sylvia sees her new upstairs neighbour doing Tai Chi in the communal garden of their apartment building, she immediately knows she wants to do far more than borrow a cup of sugar from him. Nathaniel Gowen is everything she wants in a man and more—handsome, sexy, mature and mysterious—and she’s trying desperately to think of a casual way to introduce herself to the man who haunts her erotic dreams and fantasies.


But then one day, he comes knocking at her door…

Object of Desire - available now for Amazon Kindle!

Fun with ebooks!

I think ebooks are brilliant, and I'm starting to build up quite a collection of them on my Sony Reader, but the problem for a writer is that with an ebook, you don't get the thrill of holding the individual volume in your hands when the crisp, immaculate author copies arrive... or do you? ;)

LOL! Yes, I've been playing with Photoshop again instead of getting on with my writing! Nifty, though, eh?

A GENTLEWOMAN'S PREDICAMENT has been out four days now, and it's received its first four star review on Goodreads from Tracyene, who loved it and can't wait for the next in the series. Wonderfully heartening to hear her good opinion! :)

"Predicament" is also starting to appear at a variety of different digital outlets and can now be purchased from eHarlequin, Kindle, Sony eBook Store, Mills and Boon, Books on Board, Fictionwise and Diesel eBook Store. So if you haven't yet indulged, why not give "Madame" Chamfleur and "her" naughty stable of hot Victorian studs a whirl, eh?

CONTINUUM on Kindle

Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather... it's a Portia book release day today and I didn't even know!

My naughty BDSM themed women's erotica romp CONTINUUM is now available as an ebook for the Amazon Kindle. It'd be a bit of a stretch to say this one is a romance, but it does have a romantic element in that the heroine Joanna finds her hero during the story and at the end they live happily ever after in a kinky but loving relationship.

Here's the blurb...

When Joanna Darrell agrees to take a break from an office job that has begun to bore her, she takes her first step into a new continuum of strange experiences. She is introduced to people whose way of life revolves around the giving and receiving of enjoyable punishment, and she becomes intrigued enough to experiment. Drawn in by a chain of coincidences, like Alice in a decadent Wonderland, she enters a parallel world of perversity and unusual pleasure.

Get Continuum for your Kindle!

Pervy excerpts here and here

Is it or isn't it?

Bit of a mystery... Is SHADOWPLAY available in the US as an ebook or isn't it?

It's definitely available in the UK, although as far as I can tell, only from the Random House site, in epub format.

SHADOWPLAY - UK EBOOK

Now, that link says it's only for download in the UK. However, the lovely folk are All Romance Ebooks have Shadowplay listed for sale in epub format, with a price in dollars, so I assume that US readers are able to purchase and download it there.

SHADOWPLAY - US EBOOK

I may be missing something here, but it almost seems as if somebody doesn't really want people to buy this book in a digital form, because it's not listed at the UK Waterstones or W H Smiths ebook stores, and nor is it listed at the major US ebook outlets either.

Me, I'd love my books to be available in ebook form, because more and more readers are preferring ebooks over print books. Although I'll probably read some print books myself for years to come yet, I'm also going digital, because I read some titles on my Palm T3 and have now got a second hand Sony PRS-505 e-reader that I hope to start building up a library on soon too.

THE RETREAT available at Fictionwise

Wahey, my short BDSM erotic romance novella THE RETREAT is now available at Fictionwise!

Here's the blurb:

Ben Chambers is the perfect boyfriend, the perfect lover, the perfect man. Sarah adores him, but she knows that despite the deliciousness of their lovemaking, their shared interests, and the fun they have together, there's a certain special something missing in their relationship. And then, arriving for a hedonistic weekend of luxury at an English country house hotel, something happens that changes everything between them. A momentary, inconsequential pat on the bottom opens the door to a breathtaking world of daring and transgressive sexual pleasure...and forges a bond that's both profoundly physical and a melding of their souls.

Available at Fictionwise in a variety of file formats.

ps. if you fancy Edward Norton in The Illusionist, you'll like Ben... ;)

Yes, I'm still alive...

Sorry I've not been posting here much lately. I seem to be exceptionally busy at the moment, doing nothing much. Weird that, isn't it? The days seem to fly by and I don't have much to show for them, most of the time... Think it's the cooler weather, and a cold I had that seems to have induced a lingering lurgi... sigh...

Anyway, thought you would like to see the magnificent photo of Kuffer, that I took a couple of days ago. He's the King of Demented Poses, and even at his advanced age, he still manages to score high marks for artistic interpretation. :)

So, what have I been doing, apart from drifting about in a stupor and spending too much time on Twitter?

Before I throw myself commitedly into writing IN THE FLESH, my Victorian opus for Spice, I've been attempting to dream up a few ideas for shorter works, probably ebooks. At the moment, I'm grappling with a story that's about a fallen angel type character... Am not sure about the precise details of who or what he is, I'm just playing it by ear and trundling along with the writing. Which may or may not be a mistake, because I've a feeling I should have planned it out better first, and worked out some kind of mythos for my gorgeous angelic character. All I know for certain is that he bears a startling resemblance to a certain 'consultant' who helps the police with their enquiries in my current favourite cop show... ;)

Mmm.... sigh... yum yum...

Latest releases from PDC

My three Risqué Reunions Spice Briefs - TWICE THE PLEASURE, SECOND TIME AROUND and NO LONGER FORBIDDEN are now available rolled together as one spiffing audiobook from Audible.com


NO LONGER FORBIDDEN is now available in the UK from the lovely Mills & Boon Ebook Store. Which means all my Spice Brief titles are now available over here, yippee!


My story FIREWORKS INSIDE is published in the Black Lace anthology SEXY LITTLE NUMBERS #1 - now available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk and here's how the wonderful Ashley Lister describes my story:

‘Fireworks Inside’ is an exquisitely erotic romp from the high-priestess of erotica: Portia Da Costa.

It's a bit sad to be the high priestess of a dead religion... but hey, what can you do when a publisher decides they want to suspend your imprint? :(

Numero Uno in the charts!

Wahey, CHANCE OF A LIFETIME is currently the best selling Harlequin ebook at Fictionwise!

I'm sure this won't last long, but Saskia suggested I preserve the moment with a screen grab. :)

Mini Review - Caught in the Act - Saskia Walker

Here's a delightful pocket sized reading treat for you! CAUGHT IN THE ACT, by my writing buddy Saskia Walker... a short novella about wild sexy shenanigans in the pursuit of office espionage. Hunky but deliciously devious Liam and fiesty Chrissie burn up the cyberpages in this fast paced story, but share moments of tenderness too. Saskia's writing is warm and vivid, as always, and even in this short format, her story people are strong characters who quickly make you like them. Bravo!

You can read a hot taster of this ebook at:

http://www.saskiawalker.co.uk/caughtintheact.html

And it's available from:

eHarlequin

Amazon Kindle

Fictionwise

Plus various other ebook outlets

Do you like bargains?

Well, nip over to eHarlequin's AFTEROON DELIGHTS between Noon and 3pm today, 3rd November, and you can get CHANCE OF A LIFETIME for the super duper bargain price of only 89 cents!

What's more you can also get Saskia Walker's delicious CAUGHT IN THE ACT at this unbeatable price, and a variety of other tempting short ebooks from Harlequin, including the exciting new HISTORICAL UNDONE line!

The Afternoon Delights promotion is running throughout all this working week, from 3rd November to 7th November, with a different selection of titles every day.

Dig in folks! At these prices, you can't lose!

HARLEQUIN AFTERNOON DELIGHTS

TWICE AS SPICEY! A CELEBRATORY CONTEST

UPDATED! SEE END OF POST!

Portia Da Costa and Saskia Walker are celebrating a joint release day over at Harlequin Spice Briefs!

On November 1st CHANCE OF A LIFETIME by Portia and HOT ON HER TAIL by Saskia
are available for download. Two hot, kinky, and sexy reads!





To celebrate, we are running a contest for our readers. Check out the excerpts and answer the following questions.

a) in CHANCE OF A LIFETIME what colour eyes does the Marquis have?
b) in HOT ON HER TAIL what object does Colin take off Lara?

You will find the excerpts here:

http://www.portiadacosta.com/chance.html
http://www.saskiawalker.co.uk/hotonhertail.html

Send your answers to: saskiawalker@gmail.com with TWICE AS SPICEY CONTEST in the subject line.

One lucky prizewinner will win a TWICE AS SPICEY prize – a print novel from us both! GEMINI HEAT (Black Lace 15th anniversary edition) from Portia and DOUBLE DARE from Saskia.



The contest will stay open until Saturday 8th November.

STOP PRESS!

If you buy CHANCE OF A LIFETIME from the AFTERNOON DELIGHTS web page, between noon and 3pm EST on Monday 3rd November 08, you'll get it for the stunning bargain price of only 99 cents! It's a snip!

MANY AFTERNOON DELIGHTS HERE!

Hee hee, it's popping up all over now!

Chance has popped up at Fictionwise now too! It'll not be long before it appears at Harlequin, and I'll have achieved the dream of a lifetime... ie. become a Harlequin author at last, after waiting around 20 long years!

There's also an insanely hot and kinky excerpt from Chance here... to whet your appetite. :)

Speechless with delight!

Available on 1st November... advance deets at BOOKS ON BOARD now.

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME

Also available on the same day, to my utter delight!

HOT ON HER TAIL by Saskia Walker

I'm totally thrilled that my buddy and I have a shared release date!

Hey, I have ebooks I never knew about...

The Devil Inside is available as an ebook here and here, in several formats.


Entertaining Mr Stone is available here in a couple of formats, sadly not Adobe so far.

Designed for Sin is available here and here, in a variety of formats.

I knew that theoretically these books could also appear in electronic formats, but nobody ever told me they were actually available... I found them via my mate, Madelynne Ellis who discovered ebooks of her own on sale.

Stop Press!

Gigi stopped by to let me know that my ebooks are also available at EbooksAboutEverything!

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A fun new Yahoogroup!!!

Literagasm - for fans of romance and erotica eBooks!

This group is for discussing erotic romance eBooks, the good, the bad and the ugly! We'll give you an honest opinion on the best and the worst, to help readers to decide which eBooks to spend their hard earned pennies on. We'll help readers to chat to their favourite authors and authors to tell them what's new 'n' up 'n' cummin'!

LITERAGASM
v.the climax of excitement esp whilst in the act of reading

Sign up now and join the fun... print book discussion welcome too!


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