Kiki Howell's Blog

My biggest Trick or Treat Giveaway EVER has begun! Tons of prizes! Many ways to enter! And, lots of winners will be chosen!

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Check out my new book tour through Bewitching Book Tours. It features my two short Valentine's Day releases: Love, Creativity & Magick, A Steampunk Valentine's Day Tale from Naughty Nights Press and Sacred Sex from Rebel Ink Press.

Check out all the stops here as well as enter to possibly win one of 5 prizes from jewelry to ebooks to print books :)

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First, for the release of A Strange Freedom: Blood & Fireworks I have a Memorial Day Contest going on all this week through June 4th with 3 bundles from different authors, publishers and crafters.

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Second, I am participating in the 18 & Over Couples Blog Hop June 2-5th with another bundle of prizes from me.

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Stop by to check out all the prizes and enter!

Have A Great Day!
Kiki

These three stories are all now only $0.99!

Rituals, novellaRituals

Blurb: After a Wiccan ritual opens her eyes to her old friend, Maddie’s first week together with Ryan, goes by in a blur of knots and ropes.

Together, they find the freedom they seek in bondage. But, when Maddie’s controlling ex-husband returns hell-bent on taking her back, will Ryan and Maddie be bound by the past or become tied to each other?

Reviews:
I could tell the author has done her research concerning Wiccan rites. As a result of the author’s attention to detail and excellent writing, I would definitely love to read more of this author’s work as well as read other books along the line of this genre.

Now…I love a steamy love story…and, boy did “Rituals” deliver!!! It wasn’t steamy, it was scorching!!! Did I say scorching? I meant blistering!!!

“Rituals” has all the components I need in a love story to keep me glued to the pages: love, lust, and suspense. With the added benefit of a new genre that I see myself indulging in more in the future, you are looking at one happy reader!!! “Rituals” is a must read! ~Reviewer: Nefertari - RBR Reviewer, Rating: 5 Blood Drops

Genres: Contemporary, Wiccan, Erotic Romance
Adult Content Warnings: Explicit Graphic Language, mild BDSM, and Violence

The Healing Spell, short storyThe Healing Spell

Blurb: Samantha, a confident witch, is eager to help David, a creatively frustrated ad executive she happens upon. She proposes a daring venture in which she will lead him through the steps of a sexual magic spell with the intent to heal him. Instantly mesmerized by her beauty and knowledge, he soon learns that pleasure is magick as they create an energy circle by bathing, massaging and arousing one another in various positions.

Yet, once the spell has been completed, he finds he cannot just take his talisman and walk away from her, and the witch finds her carefully protected heart on the line. When the tables turn will David be able to teach the teacher a thing or two about romance?

Reviews:
"Kiki’s use of words and descriptions is indescribable and weaves a kind of magic around the reader.Kiki Howell wove a story of magic that drew me in on the first page. I was impressed with Samantha and how well she knows herself and her craft. This is my first experience with Kiki Howell, but after reading The Healing Spell, she is now at the top of my to be read list!" --Melissa Conatser, Paranormal Romance Reviews

Genres: Contemporary, Wiccan, Erotic Romance
Content Warnings: Explicit Graphic Language

A Modern Day Witch Hunt, short novelA Modern Day Witch Hunt

Blurb: Kamillia is an author of paranormal romances living in an upscale suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Accused of being an actual witch herself by an ambitious group of businessmen with a dark agenda, she is surprised to find a man who resembles one of her fictional, alpha male heroes at her door offering her protection.

Luca is an immortal Watcher from the River of Light. Sent to Earth to help Kamillia, whose true heritage has yet to be revealed to her, Luca is caught off guard by the fighting spirit of the woman and the way his human body betrays him in her presence.

When research for her next novel requires Kamillia to travel to Italy, she and Luca are forced to join together despite numerous obstacles to overcome the evil of many centuries blocking a portal there. Only then, can she return to the problems awaiting her in her own city, with or without this stranger who has captured her heart but cannot share her future.

Reviews:
"Kamillia, the heroine of Kiki Howell’s A Modern Day Witch Hunt (eXcessica Publishing, 2009), is like a female version of Harry Potter, mixed with Sookie Stackhouse and Sarah Connor.

The sex? Scorching, yet still achingly romantic and mystical. The sadness? Just as overwhelming. Are they destined to be star-crossed lovers for eternity, or will the universe finally let them be together? It will take a powerful kind of magic to right the wrongs that have been done to them, but Luca just might know a way." ~Review By Erin O’Riordan 4/5 Stars!

"This was definitely a different rendering of a witch hunt and I have to say that what was certainly hot sex in the story was perpetrated for the most unique reason ever given. But I must say that the ending is perhaps the most intriguing one there has been given to a tale that doesn't seem open to a sequel. Although just the tiniest bit convoluted in it's premise and perhaps a wee bit confusing if you don't read it slowly, it is nonetheless one of the most unusual reads I've had in a while." ~Review by WitchGiggles at Alternative-Reads

Genres: Urban Fantasy (Witches & Watchers, Past Lives), Horror (Ghosts), Erotic Romance
Adult Content Warnings: Explicit Graphic Language and Violence

Kiki Howell’s books are on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance Ebooks & Smashwords and other online bookstores.
Website: http://www.kikihowell.com

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Happy Valentine's Day!
To celebrate, I wanted to have a short, but sweet contest.

What you win: Print copy of Bloodlust & Redemption, my historical, vampire, erotic romance novella, and a hand-knit-by-author red heart book thong.

How you enter: Send an email to howell.kiki@gmail.com with "My Bloody Valentine" in the Subject line. That's all! Contest ends Valentine's Day at midnight. On Tues I will reply to the winning email for a snail mail address.

Bloodlust & Redemption Blurb: Conflicted by his ideas of fate and morality, David Ardington IV, who had been a rake in life, sees his eternal life as a vampire as a penance for shirking his noblesse oblige to his family when he was alive.

When he meets Margaret, a sturdy maiden who after losing her parents in a tragic accident stifled her own needs to care for her sick brother, their attraction is immediate and undeniable. And yet, David fights his feelings for Margaret seeing her as the worst reminder of what he is and what he can never be again. In the midst of the cruel realities of his vampire existence, David fears for her safety unsure if he can keep separate his physical longings from his bloodlust.

Furthermore, when Margaret asks him to turn her brother to give him a second chance at life, he does not feel he can condemn anyone to the horrors of his dark existence either. For David, could redemption lie in doing the unthinkable Margaret asks of him, or will it forever be elusive?

Genres: Historical (Regency), Paranormal (Vampires), Gothic, Erotic Romance
Content Warnings: Explicit Graphic

Have my books on your TBR list? Then check out my huge sale! All ebooks listed in the sale are 50% off and paperbacks listed are priced at a great discount :)

February Month of Romance Sale!

It is funny, but even with Halloween being one of my favorite holidays and the fact that I write paranormal stories year round, those created Haunted Houses set up all over the place this time of year are just not my thing at all! However, real haunted houses or places, I am not so sure about. I recently went on a two and a half hour Haunted Footprints tour of Salem, MA one night this summer. While I didn't encounter any ghosts, my camera says other wise as you can see above. And, when I was young, there was this abandoned house in the woods behind my own home that I often explored during the day. By the looks of the place, it could have easily been haunted. I have often wondered if the house is still standing. It would be cool to go back there now, and at night. So, of course it is no surprise that I used it as a setting in one of my stories.

To read an excerpt from The Stone Hex describing the house mentioned above and to find out how to enter to win your choice of one of my releases please go to Kiki’s October Haunted Places Contest

Check out my 1K story written in response to this writing challenge:

"Write a story in which two characters both want the same thing, and if one gets what she wants the other can’t have what he wants."
* Exercise taken from: The 3 A.M. Epiphany by Brian Kiteley

You can take the writing challenge yourself and share your results in the comment section!

Incurable Disease of Writing Blog

Check out my 1K story written in response to this writing challenge:

"Write a story in which two characters both want the same thing, and if one gets what she wants the other can’t have what he wants."
* Exercise taken from: The 3 A.M. Epiphany by Brian Kiteley

You can take the writing challenge yourself and share your results in the comment section!

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