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January 28, 2010

Guest Blogs and Wicked Kisses

Filed under: Books & Authors, Writer Life — Tags: , — ERiCA @ 8:32 am

Where am I today? Please come visit:

Novel Sisterhood
wherein I discuss love, wickedness, and a pot of dirt.

RomCon, Inc
in which I confess to being confused as to the difference between Real Life and the events of my books.

KatieBabs
an interview with lots of fun facts, like how long it took to write TOO WICKED TO KISS, and why on earth I was riding a camel. (Er, not at the same time! *g)

Don’t forget to sign up for your 30 Wicked Kisses at 2wicked2kiss.com – the countdown begins Feb 1, and I have plenty of autographed advance copies of Too Wicked To Kiss to give away!

Also, coming soon:
WHERE ARE THEY NOW, featuring many of your favorite authors who were one-time Kensington Debut Authors!

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January 14, 2010

Publishers Weekly Review!

Filed under: Books & Authors — Tags: , , — ERiCA @ 4:12 pm

Ridley’s debut is an enticing marriage of Regency romance and murder mystery. Desperate to escape her abusive stepfather, Evangeline Pemberton runs to family friend Lady Stanton, whose daughter, Susan, was recently disgraced. Unable to marry a reputable man, Susan wants to snare Gavin Lioncroft, owner of gloomy Blackberry Manor and reputed murderer, and she demands Evangeline’s help. When Evangeline meets Gavin, she is surprised by their mutual attraction and shocked to find that her psychic visions vanish when she touches him. After a mysterious death occurs in Blackberry Manor, Evangeline uses her gift to unearth the true culprit. Evangeline, a young yet determined heroine, is the true star of the novel as she allows herself to love while making serious plans for her future. Plenty of violence, romantic tension, and sensual love scenes will leave readers eager for the sequel. (Mar.)

Too Wicked to Kiss Erica Ridley. Zebra, $4.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0993-1

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6713287.html

Squee!!! I’m so excited!

A big thank you to Courtney Milan for sending me the link!!

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October 29, 2009

Hallopalooza Scavenger Hunt – WIN FREE STUFF!

Filed under: Books & Authors, Website Updates — Tags: , , — ERiCA @ 11:34 am

Yay, follow the scavenger hunt to win free books and win a gift certificate for $50! Tricks AND treats! Life is good this Halloween!!!

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Prizes given by me: Erica Ridley will give away a winners’ choice mass market paperback (shipped directly to you via Amazon). 2 winners! Eligibility: Guess whodunnit at 2wicked2kiss.com for a chance to win. For a vision of the future, generate a do-it-yourself horoscope also at 2wicked2kiss.com/visions and post the result directly to THIS POST here @ Erica’s blog for another chance to win. Unlimited entries!

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Prizes given by The Stiletto Gang: The grand prize is a $50 gift certificate that the winner can use for books from any online or bricks and mortar bookstore (winner’s choice of bookstore). If multiple readers solve the mystery, we will have a drawing to select the grand prize winner. Runners Up will receive a book from one of the authors of The Stiletto Gang. If there are more than 10 Runners Up, then there will be a drawing among the Runners Up for the books – maximum number of books to be awarded by The Stiletto Gang is ten (10).

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Being shot with a stun gun wasn’t much fun. During her time at the police force Milla had volunteered to be shot with one, so she’d know what it felt like. It hurt. A lot. She’d never carried one, but a lot of her fellow officers had. Now even members of the public had them.

She knew it was a stun gun that her attacker had used on her before tying her up and leaving her wedged under a potting bench. The plastic bag the attacker had put over her head and upper body had torn on the wooden structure. She could see the legs of the bench and the bags of potting soil stacked next to her.

Her hands were tied behind her. She started moving her hands, pulling against the light rope that was holding them together. It was only a matter of time until she’d be able to free her hands. She only hoped it happened before anyone found her. Being trussed up like this was not good for business.

As she worked, she heard the sounds of people talking. She couldn’t tell if they were in the conservatory or just outside, but she could make out most of the words. There were two voices.

“You owe me money. I’m not running a charity, you know.”

“He closed my account. I have to sell some jewelry to pay you.”

“Then do it. Meanwhile, I’m cutting you off.”

“You can’t do that. I need it or I can’t function. And you need me to keep quiet.”

“Be careful. Carla played that game, look what happened to her.”

The voices drifted away.

Milla worked the knots in the ropes around her wrists loose.

Next Clue Location - http://fangplace.blogspot.com

hallopalooza

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September 28, 2009

Cookie Book!

Filed under: Books & Authors — Tags: , — ERiCA @ 4:41 am

Katie Babs called TOO WICKED TO KISS a “cookie book” because “they have covers that make you crave them.” Rowr! I like!!! Thanks, Katie!
TOO WICKED TO KISS by Romance Author Erica Ridley

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September 25, 2009

Baby’s First Pre-Order Link

Filed under: Publishing Industry — Tags: , — ERiCA @ 8:43 am

Squee! No cover art or back-blurb yet, but a search for “Erica Ridley” at Amazon.com produces a sparkly and delicious Pre-Order Link for TOO WICKED TO KISS!

/swoon

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September 23, 2009

2 Wicked 2 Kiss – Book Videos in the wild

Filed under: Books & Authors — Tags: , , — ERiCA @ 2:59 am

Squee!!! I’m starting to catch glimpses of the official book video (trailer) for TOO WICKED TO KISS on other websites, thanks to super awesome people like Bonnie Ferguson and Sheila English @ Circle of Seven Productions.

Writers: Even if you create your own video, like I did, talk to Circle of Seven Productions about getting your trailer all over the internet. Or have COS handle the whole thing! For more information, visit their website and check out an interview I did with Sheila here.

Some sites and people who have posted the video:

Did you post it on your blog/website? Let me know so I can link to you!

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September 21, 2009

TOO WICKED TO KISS Book Video (trailer)

Filed under: Books & Authors, Website Updates — Tags: , , — ERiCA @ 9:43 am

It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here!!!

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September 8, 2009

Erica Ridley, Kensington Zebra Debut Author

Filed under: Books & Authors, Publishing Industry — Tags: , — ERiCA @ 2:13 am

Although I am on an email loop for Kensington Zebra debut authors, it is not a very active loop (maybe because we’re all debut authors, so we’re too busy freaking out and being neurotic to waste time cluttering up a Yahoo group? :-) ) I did not have a good handle on who else is/was a debut author for Kensington Zebra.

Sure, I knew a couple folks personally: Kalen Hughes, Delilah Marvelle and Beverley Kendall, for example. But outside of my own personal sphere of acquaintance, who else was out there?

So, I went to The One God Who Rules Them All (aka Google) and typed Kensington Zebra Debut Author into the search box. The first link to come up was the website for Kensington Books. The second link was… MY website!!! Hahahaha! It appears I’m a Kensington Zebra debut author! Good to know!

Eventually, I also found this link to exactly what I needed: a complete list of all Kensington Zebra Debut Authors since the debut program’s inception. My book cover is conspicuously absent… so I’m off to email her a copy now!

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September 3, 2009

Browser Wars

Filed under: Personal Life — Tags: — ERiCA @ 5:17 am

I am in love with Firefox, but have both FF and Internet Explorer open all day, every day, because I have a personal gmail account as well as a business gmail account, and I can’t have them both open simultaneously. However, IE makes me want to screeeeaaaam with its incredible sluggishness (even though the only thing I do with it is check gmail) so finally I am test-driving Google Chrome!

What do you use? Do you have a preference?

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September 1, 2009

Book Help Desk

Filed under: Books & Authors — Tags: — ERiCA @ 9:13 am

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