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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Current mood:  breezy
Category: Writing and Poetry
It's publication day today for my first ever Harlequin title! It's a Spice Briefs novella called CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. With a BDSM romance theme, it's the story of Rose, who takes temporary work at the dilapidated manor house belonging to a very kinky and hunky modern day Marquis. Much naughty fun ensues...  You can find a link to an excerpt from CHANCE OF A LIFETIME here:  Sadly I can't make a clickable link, due to the frankly ludicrous limitations of MySpace, but if you pop open another window, type that into the address bar, you should be taken to the saucy spicy sample of CHANCE! love Portia ps. HOT ON HER TAIL, a Spice Brief by my buddy Saskia Walker, also comes out today. Type either of our names in your search engine of choice and you'll find links to our blogs... where there's a hot fun competition running to celebrate our joint publication day!
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
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Current mood:  cheerful
Category: Writing and Poetry
Interview with Portia Da CostaHope the link works... if not, copy and paste... http://sensual.ecataromance.com/index.php?p=794 Love Portia
 | Currently reading: Reckless By Saskia Walker Release date: 2008-07-01 |
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Friday, May 23, 2008
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Current mood:  cheerful
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Monday, May 19, 2008
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Check out Sensual! I'm helping to spread the word about the newly redesigned website Sensual. If you like your romance novels on the steamy side, you'll love this site. It's full of reviews, interviews, excerpts, information on the newest print and ebooks and lots more. You can even win books and other goodies. So check it out. http://sensual.ecataromance.com Authors, you can spread the word too! If you'd like a chance to win one of 20 Cover Ads and get a shot at a fabulous grand prize (a 3 Pack of their huge billboard ads - a $100 value!) just repost this blurb on your blog or website. Then stop by Sensual and leave a link to your post. All authors are eligible to enter and win so why in the world wouldn't you? See their site for more information and official rules: sensual.ecataromance.com/?p=688 I'll see you at Sensual!
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Current mood:  cheerful
 ... and it's not what you'd expect! ;) And now for something completely different!If the link doesn't work just copy and past this: http://lustbites.blogspot.com/2008/05/and-now-for-something-completely.html
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
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Current mood:  nervous
 Agh! Agh! Agh! The page proofs of IN TOO DEEP have arrived! Now, I should have expected these imminently, as the editor asked if I could turn the book in three weeks early, but it was still a shock when postie handed them to me this morning. I usually get a 'heads up' that they're on their way, but obviously things were too hectic and no warning was sent. Page proofs terrify the bejesus out of me because at this stage, it's too late to make anything but the most essential changes to correct any spelling and punctuation bits that have slipped through the editing process. Obviously the book must be generally okay, as I wasn't asked to do any corrections, but it's a bit [lot] disquieting when you turn in a book and the next thing you know, the proofs arrive! It's the next to final stage... Anyway, as gentle readers of this blog will know, IN TOO DEEP was one of those books that was both fun, and a total beyotch to write. As most of mine are, nowadays... But it's also one I ended up loving, and smiling at the end of, happy for my characters, Gwendolynne and Professor Hottie aka Daniel. Despite it's naughtiness and rampant sexual shenanigans, I think romance readers will like the way it goes. :) It's available on the 4th September [my wedding anniversary!] in the UK and 11th November in the US, and you can pre-order now [if you want...] from Amazon.com.. and Amazon.co.uk..
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Current mood:  cheerful
Category: Writing and Poetry
 Guess what? My 2007 title SUITE SEVENTEEN has been shortlisted in the Passionate Plume Awards, in the contemporary category! The Passionate Plumes are awarded by the Passionate Ink chapter of the Romance Writers of America, for excellence in erotic romance fiction. SUITE SEVENTEEN is already a winner, having won the Year's Best Contemporary Erotic Romance Award at ROMANCE B[U]Y THE BOOK!  Not sure if I can make it a double, because there are some wonderful and very popular books up against me, but just to be nominated is a thrill and an honour! :) NB. As usual, there's no point in me making links to any of my books or excerpts, as MySpace unfairly and wrongfully classifies my web sites as being sources of spam, scams, malware or whatever... They're totally fine, of course, and if you want to read an excerpt of SUITE SEVENTEEN cut and paste this addie and close up the gaps. http:// www . portiadacosta . com / suite17.html
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Sunday, April 06, 2008
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Current mood:  cheerful
Category: Writing and Poetry
 I got home from my jaunt out on Friday to some really exciting news! WILD IN THE COUNTRY my recent release from hot British epublisher Total-E-Bound is soon to go into print!!! Wild in the Country was originally published in print in a slightly different version several years ago, but the publisher at the time never did any marketing or promotion for the line, so it pretty much disappeared without a trace on that first publication. Which was a shame, because even though it’s not a giant classic of erotic literature, it’s a really fun book with lots of rampant bonking and all round kinkery. A light hearted read to cheer you up and make you laugh at its absurdity as much as it turns you on. Consequently, I’m really glad it’s coming back into print again, especially as I know that there are lots of PDC readers out there who tend to prefer an actual book in their hands rather than reading an ebook. I don’t have any details about release date, or price, or where you can buy it yet, but rest assured, as soon as I know, so will you! So watch this space! :) And a ps. to my fellow Vincent D’Onofrio fans.... Although Wild in the Country was written long before I turned on to our darling Vincenzo, I discovered when I was editing it again that I kept seeing the hero, Drew, as our guy. He’s a tall, dark, strapping, gorgeously handsome artist with a wickedly naughty sexual imagination... nuff said! ;)
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Current mood:  angsty
Category: Writing and Poetry
It's been a weird and busyish day today. Some work, but quite a bit of communication.
First I was chatting to a friend, hoping to support her in the face of something very disquieting that's happened and convince her that she will prevail in the end and reap the just rewards of her exceptional writing talent. Then my agent called, and we had a nice chat about this and that, and various projects I have at different stages of development. Sounds like more of my books that were originally print works might pop up as ebooks soon too. Some stuff has already appeared in Kindle format, if you check the various book listings on the left.
Found it tough to settle after all the above, but finally got stuck into a short story/novella thing I'm working on at the moment. This is one of my very rare forays into the historical erotic sub genre, and is a spicy tale about a slightly naive Victorian widow who falls into the very frisky hands of not one, but two, or possibly even three very naughty gentlemen! Should be a laugh... but for the right reasons, I hope... not for my questionable cod Victorian dialogue and narration. Will have to get some pretty stringent critique on that!
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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Current mood:  happy
Category: Writing and Poetry
Am feeling very pleased with myself as I've just finished the first draft of my work in progress, IN TOO DEEP. I typed 'The End' about an hour ago, with a happy smile on my face at the sappy, traditionally romantic ending. It's a hot sexy book, with plenty of naughtiness and kink, but it's also a proper romance, I hope, with emotional depth and believable characters facing life issues... and surmounting them.
Suffice it to say that Gwendolynne the curvy librarian and Professor Hottie McHotstuff, the kinky academic, got a full on, traditional HEA!
love
Portia
 | Currently listening: In Too Deep By Sum 41 Release date: 03 December, 2001 |
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