Historical Romance Author Erica Ridley

Book-A-Day Giveaway: 7 Wicked Kisses, Day 7

ERiCA — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:00:36 +0000

It’s release day!!! Want to win an autographed copy of
TOO WICKED TO KISS?

I’m giving away a book a day until launch day–7 days of fun!! All you have to do to be eligible is answer the Daily Kiss question.

3 ways to win:

1) Tweet/RT on Twitter (to @ericaridley with hashtag #2w2k)

2) Post to the Facebook wall: facebook.com/EricaRidleyFans

3) Comment on this post with the answer to today’s question!

And today’s Daily Kiss question is:

Describe the best stolen/secret kiss (real or fiction)!

Good luck!!!

Yesterday’s Winner: lyoness2009

Yesterday’s Daily Kiss Challenge:

Describe the worst kiss in 7 words or less!

Yesterday’s Entries:

Teeth scraping my face; ‘chin hickey’ aftermath
11th grade, truth-or-dare, spelunking tongue.
Those I wanted and never had.
Too much garlic!!
15th Birthday, roses, male friend,slimey, GROSS!
No skill, no spark, boring.
Did you just fart? <– Friend’s experience after a kiss….still makes me laugh by the way she will tell it!
wet and sloppy
my first kiss!
Big slurp in mouth from my dog!!
Him- diving in, mouth open, tongue extended.
it was ewwwwwwww!!!
Tangled and wet…..not from an animal…

Comment to win today’s challenge:

Describe the best stolen/secret kiss (real or fiction)!

Book-A-Day Giveaway: 7 Wicked Kisses, Day 6

ERiCA — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:39:43 +0000

Want to win an autographed copy of
TOO WICKED TO KISS?

I’m giving away a book a day until launch day–7 days of fun!! All you have to do to be eligible is answer the Daily Kiss question.

3 ways to win:

1) Tweet/RT on Twitter (to @ericaridley with hashtag #2w2k)

2) Post to the Facebook wall: facebook.com/EricaRidleyFans

3) Comment on this post with the answer to today’s question!

And today’s Daily Kiss question is:

Describe the worst kiss in 7 words or less!

Good luck!!!

Yesterday’s Winner: JoAnne Kenrick

Yesterday’s Daily Kiss Challenge:

What is the most memorable Book Kiss?

Yesterday’s Entries:

My favorite book kiss was the first kiss of Cece and Holland in Julie Anne Peter’s Keeping You a Secret.
My favorite kiss in a book is from “It Happened One Autumn” The scene in the library with the peach schnapps…The kiss is amazing! The kiss is amazing, super sexy, and makes me smile every time I read it. Utterly sweet and wonderful.
of course gone with the wind, scarlett and rhett
Megan Penworthy and Ambrose St. James MAN OF MY DREAMS by Johanna Lindsey
scarlett and rhett
Hettie&Nevada in Zane Grey’s novel Nevada.
One of my favourite book kiss is Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey!
of course, Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
On the beach in Rites of Spring (Break)!
Elliott/Julie in E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet
Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’hara — hard to forget. ” Scarlett! Look at me! I’ve loved you more than I’ve ever loved any woman and I’ve waited for you longer than I’ve ever waited for any woman.”
“The Raven Prince” by Elizabeth Hoyt. The hero is a scarred kind of recluse, the heroine is his widowed secretary. The story is emotional and heart wrenching, but the love scenes are incredibly hot. The first kiss is beyond incredible. They both know its wrong but its oh so right.

Comment to win today’s challenge:

Describe the worst kiss in 7 words or less!

Book-A-Day Giveaway: 7 Wicked Kisses, Day 5

ERiCA — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:05:05 +0000

Want to win an autographed copy of
TOO WICKED TO KISS?

I’m giving away a book a day until launch day–7 days of fun!! All you have to do to be eligible is answer the Daily Kiss question.

3 ways to win:

1) Tweet/RT on Twitter (to @ericaridley with hashtag #2w2k)

2) Post to the Facebook wall: facebook.com/EricaRidleyFans

3) Comment on this post with the answer to today’s question!

And today’s Daily Kiss question is:

What is the most memorable Book Kiss?

Good luck!!!

Yesterday’s Winner: Lois Merritt

Yesterday’s Daily Kiss Challenge:

What is the most memorable Movie Kiss?

Yesterday’s Entries:

I really liked Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks kiss at the end of “You’ve Got Mail”
The end of “Desk Set”, where fireworks are going off in the background as a very expensive computer is malfunctioning, and the engineer manages to keep kissing the librarian long enough to borrow a hairpin and go fix the damn thing.
When Pam and Jim finally kissed on the “Office” I was incredibly incredibly happy
Scarlett and Rhett in Gone with the wind
I always liked the upside down kiss in Spiderman.
Wicker Park – when Josh Hartnett (hello!) finally gets the girl, and kisses her in the airport. OMG I was crying watching that.
1995P&P, by the end, you’re just dying for Darcy and Lizzie to kiss already!

Comment to win today’s challenge:

What is the most memorable Book Kiss?

Book-A-Day Giveaway: 7 Wicked Kisses, Day 4

ERiCA — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:29:08 +0000

Want to win an autographed copy of
TOO WICKED TO KISS?

I’m giving away a book a day until launch day–7 days of fun!! All you have to do to be eligible is answer the Daily Kiss question.

3 ways to win:

1) Tweet/RT on Twitter (to @ericaridley with hashtag #2w2k)

2) Post to the Facebook wall: facebook.com/EricaRidleyFans

3) Comment on this post with the answer to today’s question!

And today’s Daily Kiss question is:

What is the most memorable Movie Kiss?

Good luck!!!

Yesterday’s Winner: Diana Owen-Emerson

Yesterday’s Daily Kiss Challenge:

What is the best song to kiss to?

Yesterday’s Entries:

Kiss You All Over by Exile
I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner
Avalon by Roxy Music
The Flame by Cheap Trick
Here, There, and Everywhere… The Beatles
Anything by Mana
Kiss – Prince
Maybe I’m Amazed – Paul McCartney
Depeche Mode’s Stripped
Extreme- When I first kissed you
Nights in White Satin
Kinda I Want To
Mercy by Duffy
Maybe I’m Amazed – Paul McCartney
A house is not a home – Luther Vandross

Comment to win today’s challenge:

What is the most memorable Movie Kiss?

Book-A-Day Giveaway: 7 Wicked Kiss, Day 3

ERiCA — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:41:56 +0000

Want to win an autographed copy of
TOO WICKED TO KISS?

I’m giving away a book a day until launch day–7 days of fun!! All you have to do to be eligible is answer the Daily Kiss question.

3 ways to win:

1) Tweet/RT on Twitter (to @ericaridley with hashtag #2w2k)

2) Post to the Facebook wall: facebook.com/EricaRidleyFans

3) Comment on this post with the answer to today’s question!

And today’s Daily Kiss question is:

What is the best song to kiss to?

Good luck!!!

Yesterday’s Winner: Lexie Cenni

Yesterday’s Daily Kiss Challenge:

Describe your strangest kiss location in 7 words or less!

Yesterday’s Entries:

While touring a cave
Between the Buns!
on my schools playground.
Outside apartment building. Bowling ball in hand.
While juggling 2 kids on a slide.
In front of the Hanford Nuclear plant!
In the ladies bathroom at work.
I guess it was behind a church…..
Upside down on the monkey bars
WalMart parking lot in the pouring rain
The Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World
The Yellow Cab dispatch center for Gainesville
On a moving motorbike
Steamy kisses over the garbage cans!

Comment to win today’s challenge:

What is the best song to kiss to?

Book-A-Day Giveaway: 7 Wicked Kisses, Day 2

ERiCA — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:14:13 +0000

Want to win an autographed copy of
TOO WICKED TO KISS?

I’m giving away a book a day until launch day–7 days of fun!! All you have to do to be eligible is answer the Daily Kiss question.

3 ways to win:

1) Tweet/RT on Twitter (to @ericaridley with hashtag #2w2k)

2) Post to the Facebook wall: facebook.com/EricaRidleyFans

3) Comment on this post with the answer to today’s question!

And today’s Daily Kiss question is:

Describe your STRANGEST KISS LOCATION in seven words or less!

Good luck!!!

Yesterday’s Winner: DANIELLE YOCKMAN

Yesterday’s Daily Kiss Challenge:

Describe your first kiss in 7 words or less!

Yesterday’s Entries:

He should have brushed his teeth first.
Perfect. Sweet but sexy.
So forgetable that I don’t even remember!
Chaste, soft, tender, tingling, heartquaking and earthshaking.
Her snaggle tooth tore up my lips.
That’s not what happens in romance novels!
Too long ago to remember.
Wow!!! I want to do that again!!!!
Nervous, it was his first kiss too.
Funny. (mostly on my part
Embarrassing and awkward!
Sweet and innocent
Nice! Holy crap, like…Whoah!
Awesome really
scary but OMG!!
sadly cant remember the first one…… unremarkable.
Long awaited, left me wanting for more!
Wait…wait… HOLY CRAP!!!! Do it again!
Color of the wall matched his eyes…
I’ve got a surprise. Kiss! Run away.
Long overdue, awkward, fruitless; SO worth it.

Comment to win today’s challenge:

Describe your STRANGEST KISS LOCATION in 7 words or less!

Book-A-Day Giveaway: 7 Wicked Kisses, Day 1

ERiCA — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:58 +0000

Want to win an autographed copy of
TOO WICKED TO KISS?

I’m giving away a book a day until launch day–7 days of fun!! All you have to do to be eligible is answer the Daily Kiss question.

3 ways to win:

1) Tweet/RT on Twitter (to @ericaridley with hashtag #2w2k)

2) Post to the Facebook wall: facebook.com/EricaRidleyFans

3) Comment on this post with the answer to today’s question!

And today’s Daily Kiss question is:

Describe your FIRST KISS in 7 words or less!

Good luck!!!

Excerpt Monday: Illicit Kisses

ERiCA — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:01:29 +0000

Once a month, a bunch of authors get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t have to be published to participate–just an writer with an excerpt you’d like to share. For more info on how to participate, head over to the Excerpt Monday site! or click on the banner above.

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“Lost again, my little lamb?” came Mr. Lioncroft’s low, droll voice.

Evangeline shivered. From somewhere in the black, a chair scraped across the floor, followed by slow, relentless footfalls. Evangeline edged backward into the relative comfort of the vacant hallway.

He caught her before she had a chance to run.

Once again, she was up against a wall, her spine to the wainscoting. This time, however, she was not pinned by the wrists but rather by the heat in his gaze. Glowing and darkening with each flicker of candlelight, his eyes focused on hers, without moving, without blinking.

By the time Evangeline realized Mr. Lioncroft was very, very angry, it was too late. His palms were flattened to the wall above each of her shoulders, his feet planted on either side of hers, trapping her in place.

“I didn’t mean to startle you,” she stammered, helplessly staring back at him as she gulped for scraps of air.

He smiled. Darkly. Wolfishly. Alarmingly. But he said nothing.

“I—I’ll just head back to my chambers now, then.” She meant the words to be decisive and firm, but they sounded fearful and tentative even to her own ears.

“Will you?” he asked, his face dipping closer to hers, his intent clear. “When the night is just getting interesting?”

Evangeline pressed her lips together and the back of her head against the unyielding wall.

“Don’t kiss me in anger,” she whispered.

“In anger?” Mr. Lioncroft repeated softly, lowering his head until his breath coasted across her cheek. Her nerves prickled, as if she could feel that moist heat tickling against every inch of her flesh. He smiled again. “But I’m quite pleased by your presence. I’m hoping your kisses will make me forget my anger.”

Evangeline’s mouth gaped. She clapped her jaw closed before he had a chance to sweep his tongue inside her mouth. His smile widened, as if he’d correctly interpreted her action and found it amusing. . . but not the least bit daunting.

Even worse, a restless, burning ache spreading from her belly to her heated limbs made a small part of her wish he would quit teasing and start kissing.

As if reading her mind, he leaned even closer, until his hips tilted at hers and the tips of her breasts rubbed against the bleached linen of his shirt. The borrowed book fell from her fingers to the floor. If Mr. Lioncroft noticed, he gave no sign.

Instead, he coasted his open mouth just above her flushed cheek, his breath steaming against the curve of her cheekbone, the dip below her earlobe, the length of her exposed neck.

Her traitorous body writhed between the hard wall and the even harder man before her. A sudden urge to force his lips upon her thrummed in her veins, but her dimming sense of self-preservation cautioned her to flee while she was still able.

As the warm air from his lips traced the same heated path across the other side of her upturned face, she let out a slow, shuddering breath. She would not flee. She could not. She wanted his skin touching hers perhaps even more than he did.

Finally, his mouth returned to its original position, a mere finger’s breadth from hers.

Evangeline’s lips parted involuntarily, but she kept them parted on purpose.

Victory flashed in his eyes. A rakish grin transformed him from darkly mysterious recluse to triumphant seducer. She blushed at the sudden, frustrated moan she hadn’t meant to make. He had won. He knew he had won. But still he didn’t kiss her.

Her pulse pounded in her ears. “Please.”

“Please what?” he asked, his breath spiced with wicked promise. “Please go away?”

“Please kiss me,” she whispered, hating herself for pleading. But he made no further comment.

He lowered his head until his lips grazed across her skin, slowly, teasingly, devastatingly, from the hollow beneath her ear along the line of her jaw until he reached the trembling pulse on the other side.

She wiggled against him until his hips swung forward to trap her more firmly against his frame. Her aching, swelling breasts flattened against his chest. She gasped to realize she could feel the pounding of his heart, leaping and skittering with the same fevered excitement as hers.

His lips brushed across hers, once, twice, thrice. He was toying with her. Tempting her. Teasing her with desire for his withheld kisses until she could stand it no more. The next time he slid his open mouth over hers, she allowed her tongue to edge just far enough between her parted lips to taste him.

Everything changed.

With a growl, his mouth was upon hers. Hot. Wet. Insistent. His fingers still splayed against the wall on either side of her head, but the muscles of his shoulders trembled as though it required all his willpower to keep his hands on the walls and off her body.

His mouth moved against hers, recklessly, desperately. He devoured her in hungry kisses, suckling her tongue, her lower lip, seizing her every breath and replacing it with his.

She found his sides with her fingers, intending to thrust him from her trembling body, but instead found herself gripping his hips to pull him even closer.

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Spoiler Thread: Too Wicked To Kiss

ERiCA — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:13:33 +0000

This is the official spoiler thread for the early readers who joined the 30 Wicked Kisses countdown! Feel free to post questions, reactions, guesses as to the murderer’s identity (or the circumstances of the hero and heroine’s first kiss!) or anything else that strikes your fancy. Erica will drop in to comment and answer questions!

Not already on the early reader VIP list? Sign up for your 30 Wicked Kisses here!

All members automatically entered to win a signed advance copy of the book!

Guest Blogs and Wicked Kisses

ERiCA — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:32:48 +0000

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!