Please welcome Starla Kaye back to the blog. She’s here to share a bit of the fun she’s having this Halloween with you. You’ll want to join in the fun of the blog hops, check out new releases, and leave a comment here for a chance to win a great prize.
Normally Christmas is my favorite and busiest time of year. But this year I’m seriously into Halloween blog hopping and having fun. I’d like to share some of my “fun” with you as well.
October 24-November 1: Wicked After Dark Blog Hop, hosted by Close Encounters with the Night Kind & Natasha Blackthorne. There will be a number of authors involved with all kinds of giveaways. I’ll be giving away to one lucky winner a copy of the Scary Spanks anthology from Blushing Books, with my story “The Warlock’s Rebellious Daughter” and a sexy little “Romance 2Nite” door hanger pillow from Eden Fantasys.
October 28-October 31: Spank or Treat 2012 Halloween Contest with 12 participating authors: Alice Dark, Anastasia Vitsky, Cara Bristol, Celeste 
Jones, Claire Collinsgrove, Constance Masters, Emma K. Gardner, Patty Devlin, Renee Rose, Rollin, Sue Lyndon, and me (Starla Kaye). Each of us is sharing a Halloween short story that you can read by going from blog to blog. If you answer a question at each blog, you might win a prize at some of the authors’ sites. And if you leave a comment at each of them and go to Ana’s blog to sign up for possibly winning one of the 3 grand prizes. Plus there are some chances to win FREE books. I will be giving away to 6 lucky winners ebook copies of Forever His and to one lucky winner a fun little “naughty” or “nice” mask from Eden Fantasys. For more details about this contest go to http://bit.ly/T5Ve34
SCARY SPANKS: The Warlock’s Rebellious Daughter
Zoey Zalton is ready to get married and vows to choose her future husband from the men she and her sisters invite to a Halloween party. A party their father has forbidden and that she intends to have anyway. She is not his youngest, most spoiled daughter for nothing. Besides she has a plan, a plan behind the husband-finding plan her father is against. She has long had her heart set on her father’s vampire friend, Marcus. And she will get her way.
Marcus is a powerful, usually intimidating vampire, a long-time friend to Zander and his family. More like an uncle, even another father to Zander’s spirited daughters. At least that is what he keeps trying to tell himself now that he has to fight a growing attraction to the youngest daughter, Zoey. He’s too old for her. He has a dark soul, many fear him. The brat doesn’t care about any of that. She laughs at his fierce scowls, teases him, flirts outrageously with him, and keeps insisting that he come to her ridiculous party. What she needs is her pretty little butt burned! And he is the vampire to do it. But touching her might be more than he can bear…
Genre: Mixture of contemporary paranormal, historical, erotic romances
Forever His by Skylar Faye (aka Starla Kaye)
Teri Pennington is a faery shape-shifter on the run from her family and duties she doesn’t want. She is weary of her current job as a photographer and ready for a change when she gets stranded in the middle of Kansas and meets her reluctant white knight. He wants to help her for the night and send her on her way the next day. But she isn’t that easy to get rid of…not when she’s attracted to the handsome, gruff, secretive cowboy. Yet she can’t stay with him for long and risk exposing her secret, something he could never understand.
Seth Stevenson is an alpha werewolf without a pack, struggling to live a somewhat normal life as a rancher and keep his secret. He’s been successful, until a delicate woman so wrong for him suddenly crashes into his life. His protective instincts and his strong desire for her bring danger to his life. He can’t afford to fall in love with her and risk her learning what he really is. But how can he let go of the one woman he’s met that accepts the dominant side of him?
Genre: Contemporary, paranormal, erotic romance
CONTEST: Leave a comment about a favorite Halloween memory for a chance to win a memo pad and a cup coaster. One lucky winner will be chosen October 27th.
One of my favorite Halloween memories is from my childhood when my mom dressed me up as a sunflower. She made a giant cut out of the petals out of cardboard and I ended up winning a costume contest. Still have my prize to this day.
Another of my favorite Halloween memories is going to a college party dressed up as a gypsy. That party was where I met the man I would marry just over a year later.
Something a little funny about this, too, was when he came to pick me at my folks’ house for a date, I introduced him by the wrong last name. He didn’t care a bit, just laughed it off.
A favorite memory is dressing up and trick-o-treating with a group of friends.
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A favorite memory of mine is when my daughter was six and all of us went to a Halloween party together. I made all of the costumes. My daughter and I were clowns, my husband was a snowman. He hasn’t lived down that costume or the photo since!!!
I hope some of you who stop by here today check out this great Halloween fun!!! Lots of prizes, great stories.