My New Website Design!

I've got a brand-spanking-new website at www.ShoshannaEvers.com. Come, make yourself at home. :)

There's new navigation, the books are easier to find by category, there are new pages about the upcoming Simon and Schuster Enslaved Trilogy and Pulse Trilogy (with the never-before-seen cover for Enraptured, and the blurbs for all three Enslaved books!)

And, of course, the design is new, edgier, and totally hot. Big thanks to web designer Amber Shah.

Cover Reveal from Pocket Star!

The Enslaved Trilogy will be published by Simon & Schuster's Pocket Star imprint and is available for pre-order now! (Just click the covers). I've got the covers for the first two books in the trilogy, although the cover blurbs haven't been added yet.

These are very kinky, sexy BDSM erotic romances about a tight-knit group of billionaire Doms in New York -- and the women they fall in love with. I'm thrilled with the covers S&S's cover department came up with! :) Still waiting on the cover for the third book, Enraptured... then again, I'm still writing it! ;)

 

Tips for NaNoWriMo!

I originally posted this as a comment on my agent's blog, since she is going to do NaNoWriMo herself for fun this year, and she asked for suggestions. Here's what I said, with some extra tidbits:

Rule number 1 for NaNoWriMo: Give yourself permission to suck! 

Leave the typos and plot holes in place, and just keep going. Don't go back and reread - like another commenter said, write a quick note to yourself at the end of the session so you know where to go, like (Hero and heroine have first kiss and she gets upset when villain interrupts.) I actually do that all the time, not just for Nano.

If you find yourself realizing you need to make a change (like you gave away too much info in first chapter) just keep writing as if you've already made the change, and when it's time to edit you can go back and make the change. You can even write a note to yourself like (pretend they never kissed) and keep going. 

Many writers can write 1000 words in an hour, so if you give yourself two hours a day you can meet your goal. During Nano I try to write 2K a day to account for days when something happens (like Thanksgiving). 

Side note: every day is NaNoWriMo for me; I write at least 2K words a day, every day, in order to keep up with contractual commitments and you know, write a lot of books :)

The Pulse (the book I snagged my agent with, and which will release as a trilogy from Simon and Schuster after The Enslaved Trilogy releases with them) was written during NaNoWriMo (75k words), so was Snowed in With the Tycoon (a book I self-published and which makes me some nice income every month), and The Tycoon's Convenient Bride...and Baby (a book my agent just got an offer for, but negotiations are still in place so shhhh!) was also written in a Nano-esque month. So good books can come out of it, it's all about December and revisions :)

(2014 Update: The Tycoon's Convenient Bride... and Baby got published by Entangled Indulgence, and hit the B&N Nook Bestseller list! All of the 6 books I contracted after The Pulse (The Enslaved Trilogy and The Pulse Trilogy)  have been written and are out now from Simon & Schuster Pocket Star, as well as in audiobook. I am also thrilled to announce I am now represented by Stacey Glick of Dystel & Goderich).

Most importantly, have fun with writing during NaNoWriMo. When you don't know what to write next, add in a new secret, a new character, or a new obstacle. Instant plot twist! 

Happy writing!

Six Book Deal With Simon & Schuster!

So, I’ve been holding onto this huge secret for the longest time ever, it seems. And I’ve been *dying* to tell you all about it.

Drumroll, please?………………….

I accepted a six book deal with Simon & Schuster’s Pocket/Gallery Books imprint. Two trilogies!

The Enslaved Trilogy is about three very sexy billionaire Doms. The first is Enslaved, which releases in April 2013. Then Enamored, which comes out in May, and finally Entwined, in June 2013.

The Pulse Trilogy is a dystopian post-apocalyptic erotic romance and I’m not quite sure when that releases, but I know they will be published one after another quickly for readers who don’t like to wait around!  If you’ve read the query letter that got me my agent (it’s in the last chapter of How to Write Hot Sex) then you know the pitch for The Pulse.

My editor is the lovely Kate Dresser, who is a joy to work with!

So that’s the big news! Sign up for my mailing list to be kept in the loop!

About Shoshanna Evers:

Critically-acclaimed author Shoshanna Evers has written dozens of sexy stories including erotica bestseller Overheated. Her work  has been featured in Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and Best Bondage Erotica 2013, the anthology Agony/Ecstasy, and numerous erotic BDSM novellas including Chastity Belt and Punishing the Art Thief. The non-fiction anthology Shoshanna Evers edited and contributed to, How To Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors, is a #1 Bestseller in the Authorship, Erotica Writing Reference, and Romance Writing categories.

Her favorite thing to do is cuddle up with a good book…and her husband. Shoshanna is a New York native who now lives with her family and two big dogs in Los Angeles, California. She welcomes emails from readers and writers, and loves to interact on Twitter and Facebook.

Writing is Rewriting

I tend to write books, and writing the book for me, at least, is the easy part. The hard part? Rewriting!

Writing is rewriting as the saying goes. So I wrote a novel for a #soopersekritproject that I’m not allowed to tell anyone about yet (but when I can, I’ll shout it from the rooftops!).

 My WIP is entitled Enslaved, which is Book One in The Enslaved Trilogy, which already has an offer on it from a publisher. (Can’t tell you which of the Big 6 it is yet, oh hey I dropped a hint, oops).

Anyhoo… I wrote the book, sent it to an author and a reader to beta-read, got a thumbs up from them both, and sent it to my agent and got back 3 pages of revisions before I can hand it in to my editor.

Shoshanna Evers

Oh, and the book is due in 10 days.

HELP.

My first instinct when I got the revision notes was to freak out, possibly because my agent wrote in all caps DON’T FREAK OUT at the top of the email. Then I read through them and got a bit depressed, because I realized that all of her notes are spot on and are going to make my book better.

So now I have ten days to make some major revisions, which mainly involve adding things that I often leave out since I’m used to writing bare-bones and short. I need to get in the characters’ heads more and give them backgrounds that seep into their present story. Doable. I can do it. Yes I can!

 But rewriting the opening? Changing a major plot point? Oh my goodness. Plus the fact that I need to explain some of the BDSM terms and situations in a way that doesn’t make it feel like I’m explaining them, like what does wearing a lover’s collar mean to a submissive….eh, I can do that.

But changing the opening? HELP! I have ten days. I want to start now. But my agent (the lovely Courtney Miller-Callihan of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates – yes! Dan Brown’s agency!) told me to sleep on it and call her in the morning.

Like I’ll be able to sleep tonight. LOL Wish me luck folks, I’m gonna need it.

xoxo Shoshanna
(This post was originally written for www.FlirtyAuthorBitches.com)

SOLD! to Cleis Press... Falling Ashes

I'm thrilled to announce my short erotic romance Falling Ashes will be included in the Cleis Press anthology SMOKIN' HOT FIREMEN, edited by Delilah Devlin! :) When we have a cover I'll post that too :)

Here's the tentative Table of Contents, from Delilah's blog post: http://www.delilahdevlin.com/blog/2012/08/16/congrats-to-the-smokin-hot-firemen-authors/

Smoking Stilettos – Rachel Firasek
Saving Charlotte – Sabrina York
Hook Me Up – Adele Dubois
Big Trucks – Lynn Townsend
Lost and Found – Nanette Guadiano
Temperature Rising – Cathryn Fox
Unexpected Detour – Ily Goyanes
Rescue Me – Maggie Wells
Chasing Fire – Elle James
Stoke – Tahira Iqbal
Something’s Burning – Cynthia D’Alba
Fire Hazard – M. Marie
The Fireman’s Rescue – Kalissa Wayne
Falling Ashes – Shoshanna Evers
Fire Extinguisher – Rowan Elizabeth
Her Hero – Catherine Paulssen
Johnny Blaze – Delilah Devlin

Book cover for Held Captive by the Cavemen!

I have a new novella coming out soon! Very, very soon. Want to read the excerpt?

You'll have to go here to read it, since it's too hot for a blog about writing and publishing. So. Go here.
http://shoshannaevers.com/2012/07/sneak-peek-of-held-captive-by-the-cavemen/