EDITOR BIO
Skye Warren
is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of dark romantic
fiction. Her books are raw, sexual and perversely romantic.
The ultimate bad boys,
criminals capture our attention and awaken our darkest desires. Celebrate the
illicit in this romantic suspense anthology, where handcuffs are used for more
than play. These stories are shocking, sexy, and thought-provoking.
In New York Times
Bestselling Author Skye Warren’s Magnolia Hotel, meet the heroine who pays her
brother’s debt to a loan shark—who happens to be her childhood crush. Find out
if the jury made the right decision in Acquitted by award-winning author
Giselle Renarde. Explore a dark and sensual psychology with New York Times
Bestselling Author Pam Godwin in Unlawful Seduction.
Hi,
Skye Warren here! I’m the New York Times Bestselling author of dark romantic
fiction, and I’m also the editor of Take the Heat, an anthology of criminal
romance. I’m so excited to share this release with you.
One
of the best parts of putting together this anthology was seeing what each
author did. Sheri Savill’s story is hot as hell and surprisingly tender. Plus,
she’s a seriously funny lady, so I’m excited to interview her today and get her
to spill her best, and hottest, writing advice.
Sheri, let’s start with the age-old
question: are you a plotter or a pantser?
Sheri
Savill: I’m neither. I pretty much just take down the internal dictation from
“the voices.” Because all my books are entirely factual and everything in them
is real and true even though they’re sold in the “fiction” section. Heh.
Skye Warren: What are the best and
worst pieces of writing advice you ever received?
Sheri
Savill: The best piece of writing advice I’ve had is “Sheri, for god’s sake,
just write whatever the hell you want, you crazy bitch. No one is reading it
anyway. Just have fun.” The worst was being told to send things I wrote to
online publishers. They were very interested, by very flaky and unprofessional.
There, I said it.
Skye Warren: Do you listen to music
while writing? If so what?
Sheri
Savill: Swedish death metal. And spa music.
Skye Warren: What are you passionate
about these days?
Sheri
Savill: Tattoos and living life to the fullest, every minute. Spoiler alert:
were all going to die.
Skye Warren: If you could apologize
to someone in your past, who would it be?
Sheri
Savill: “Dear George Eliot, I’m sorry, but I never finished any of your books.
They were uber-boring and way too long. I faked like I read them by skimming
the back cover and I wrote papers on them and got As anyway. Sorry.”
Skye Warren: Tell us about the
absolute BEST fan letter you have received.
Sheri
Savill: “Dear Sheri Savill, please stop writing. I have made a voodoo doll of
you. I am out of pins.” Seriously, I don’t know if you will print this but the
best fan comment I ever got, hands down, was: “Savill writes the best face-fuck
in the business.”
Skye Warren: Do you write in multiple
genres or just one? Do you ever consider straying outside your genre?
Sheri
Savill: I write erotic romance AND humor and anything else I feel like writing.
I “stray” a lot. I’d think I’d like to write humor exclusively, at this point.
It’s easier for me. It makes me feel good to make a couple people snicker. I
never wrote fiction—much less erotic fiction— in my life, until a couple years
ago. It’s okay, don’t get me wrong. But it’s not nearly as interesting as my
real life. Heh.
Skye Warren: Would you ever co
author a book with someone?
Sheri
Savill: If so, who would you choose, and what would you write? I’d co-author
almost anything with someone I respected as a writer and who could hit the ball
back. I thrive on the back and forth, the interaction. I don’t do well in a
vacuum of self. Which is problematic for a writer, I realize. My dream job
would be sitting in a room with other creative funny people, writing crazy shit
all day.
Skye Warren: Having recently written
a co-authored book, I think the mutual respect thing is so important. It’s SO
FUN and SO HARD, which pretty much encapsulates writing in general. So, what is
something you'd like to accomplish in your writing career next year?
I’d love
to get some erotica readers to give me a chance in other genres, get the word
out on me. I’d especially like to have some quality publisher realize that I’m
a really good humor writer and beg me to do a humor essay book and then promote
the hell out of it for me. Since that is unlikely, I will be doing that on my
own.
Skye Warren: Thanks so much, Sheri!
And thank you all for coming to check out Take the Heat. If you’re down for a
dark ride, I hope you’ll read it!
TAKE THE HEAT
The
ultimate bad boys, criminals capture our attention and awaken our darkest
desires. Celebrate the illicit in this romantic suspense anthology, where
handcuffs are used for more than play. These stories are shocking, sexy, and
thought-provoking.
In
New York Times Bestseller Skye Warren’s Magnolia Hotel, meet the heroine who
pays her brother’s debt to a loan shark—who happens to be her childhood crush.
Find out if the jury made the right decision in Acquitted by award-winning
author Giselle Renarde. Explore a dark and sensual psychology with New York
Times Bestseller Pam Godwin in Unlawful Seduction.
New York Times Bestseller Skye
Warren – Magnolia Hotel
Cynthia Rayne – Captivated
New York Times Bestseller Pam
Godwin – Unlawful Seduction
Sheri Savill – Slipknot
New York Times Bestseller
Shoshanna Evers – This Might Hurt A Bit
Candy Quinn – The Bombshell
Tamsin Flowers – Playing with
Fire
Elizabeth Coldwell – Disposing of
Donnie
Audrey Lusk – Surprise Witness
Trent Evans – Last Day
Giselle Renarde – Acquitted
Ride
the edge of desire and see if you can TAKE THE HEAT…
About Sheri Savill
Sheri
Savill is the author of dark BDSM erotic romance, and humor, and is a real-life
submissive who was into BDSM before it was cool. A career in media and
journalism (reporter, editor, DJ, copywriter) drove her to the brink of
insanity, so she became an attorney and web developer.
Known
for her irreverent blog, Savill is tattooed, pierced, geeky, easily annoyed yet
fun-loving, and well caffeinated. She speaks often of a treasured “letter from
Dave Barry” that no one has actually seen. Award-winning sex author and
columnist Violet Blue called Savill’s BDSM parody “painfully, hilariously
timeless.”
When
she’s not charging her portable electronic devices, Savill spends her time
writing, thinking about writing, or wishing she had written. She scored a780
out of 800 on a standardized writing test of some sort and, just as she
predicted, has never had to use calculus in her entire adult life.
Ride the edge of
desire and see if you can TAKE THE HEAT…
Skye Warren – Magnolia
Hotel
Cynthia Richards –
Captivated
Pam Godwin – Unlawful
Seduction
Sheri Savill –
Slipknot
Shoshanna Evers – This
Might Hurt A Bit
Candy Quinn – The
Bombshell
Tamsin Flowers –
Playing with Fire
Elizabeth Coldwell –
Disposing of Donnie
Audrey Lusk – Surprise
Witness
Trent Evans – Last Day
Giselle Renarde –
Acquitted
FROM “MAGNOLIA HOTEL” BY SKYE WARREN
Maybe Liam still had that spark of humanity, of compassion,
I’d once loved as a child. And even if I knew my brother was partly to blame
for his situation, I couldn’t leave him to the wolves. Namely, one wolf. Liam.
I turned to my childhood friend who looked so different now
with the glint of scruff on his face, with a bend in his nose where it had been
broken. He looked some much more distinguished. In fact, he looked
intimidating.
“Please let him go. Even if he… I know what he did. But he’s
my brother. I can’t leave here without him. Take the two thousand. I’ll get you
more, soon. I promise you. Just don’t hurt him.”
“Do you know how much he owes me, Grace?”
I swallowed. “Five thousand dollars?”
His face pulled into a slight grimace. He sighed. “Fifteen.”
I stood there, stunned. Unable to gasp or even breathe.
Fifteen thousand dollars. I would never have that much money, not ever. But he
was my brother.
“Please,” I whispered, reduced to begging.
Liam looked away, and for a horrible second I thought it was
a refusal. My stomach pitched wildly, in fear and doubt and desperation. How
could I fix this? I couldn’t, I couldn’t. My brother was going to be beaten or
killed.
Then he turned back to me, a hard glint in his gunmetal
eyes. “There is a way you can help. You can be mine, Grace. Mine to do whatever
I want with.”
Seconds passed with excruciating slowness as my mind
protected me. Then reality slammed into me—all at once. He meant sex. I was
almost sure he meant sex. Then I laughed at myself, hollow and jaded. What else
would it mean?
I hadn’t thought it possible to hate Liam more, but I did,
because he’d setup an impossible choice. For fifteen thousand dollars—and for
my brother’s safety—I had to agree.
What did that make me? A prostitute? A sex slave?
I looked at my brother as the offer stood in the air. He
wouldn’t meet my eyes. Couldn’t he at least put up a token protest? At least
try to protect my honor? But I was getting a clearer picture of Benny than I
had our whole lives. Letting himself fall to this level was one thing, but
dragging me into it was the last straw. I would do this for him—and that was
it.
“Never again,” I whispered.
I would never drain my bank account and come running to help
ever again. Never sell my body for him. Never trust my brother again. It was
like losing a family member. The only one I had.
Benny nodded, or maybe he was just drifting out of
consciousness, his head bobbing slightly. Who knew? I was done. I would do what
Liam required of me, and then I would be finished. Finished with family.
Finished with criminals.
I’d be alone then.
I nodded grimly. “I’ll do it.”
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inexplicably blocked by a socially powerful nobleman. Scorned by her ducal
father and determined to attain everything that life has denied her due to an
accident of birth, she’s not about to let this arrogant earl stop her. 
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anything from a man, except his financial support. Luxurious living
makes a soothing balm against the sting of the ultimate rejection.
expected
anything from a man, except his financial support. Luxurious living
makes a soothing balm against the sting of the ultimate rejection.
