Showing posts with label Zenobia Renquist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zenobia Renquist. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

~~Author Wednesdays-Zenobia Renquist!~~


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Welcome everyone to For Whom The Books Toll!!  Today is Wednesday and you know what that means. It's Author Wednesday time and my guest today is the very talented Zenobia Renquist!!!! 


Zenobia: Today we’re with Lexie, Mr. Malena and Mr. Dani of Wine Service by Zenobia Renquist—a Contemporary Erotica title that introduces the Professional Courtesy Series and is coming soon to Musa Publishing’s new Eros imprint. Welcome and thanks for joining us.

Lexie: Happy for the break, believe me.

Zenobia: /chuckles/ After reading about your day job, I’m sure. The men didn’t let you get a moment’s rest, did they?

Dani: No apologies. She loved every second of it.

Malena: And it wasn’t us that kept her from resting. If you ever heard dear Lexie beg, you would be reluctant to stop as well.

Zenobia: Tempting but I can’t afford Lexie’s starting price. What was it again? Five hundred forty dollars?

Lexie: To start. That’s for the initial wine service—hence the title of the story. Anything beyond costs more.

Dani: You definitely want to fork over the money for the more. 

Zenobia: So I read. But enough about that. I want to hear from Lexie about all this. Lexie, did you think your life would be changed so much by working overtime to cover a friend’s shift?

Lexie: Not even. Sometimes I still wonder if I dreamt the whole thing. Who expects a routine call to housekeeping to turn into sex?

Malena: Anyone coming to room eighteen-fifteen.

Lexie: Well yeah, I know that now. I didn’t back then. Just so we’re clear, I’m not complaining about how things turned out. That was the best and most nerve-wracking day of my life.

Dani: Here I thought the most nerve-wracking day was our little rendezvous in the elevator. Or maybe I’m mistaking all that shaking you were doing for anxiety when it was really excitement.

Lexie: Shush. 

Zenobia: I have to agree with Lexie, Mr. Dani. Don’t spoil things for the readers.

Dani: I like to think of it as teasing the readers.

Zenobia: You did that in spades. I needed a cold shower after reading your story. 

Dani: You’re welcome.

Zenobia: Tell us about this series for which your story is the start. Professional Courtesy usually means showing consideration to someone in the same job—like that old joke about sharks not eating lawyers out of professional courtesy.

Lexie: It does mean that yes. In this instance the author took the words for their individual meanings rather than what the phrase usually means together. Professional—meaning a person doing a particular job. Courtesy—meaning indulgence. The series is all about women and men working their normal nine-to-five jobs when a request for special services lands them in a sexual situation.

Zenobia: I am so looking forward to the next professional being courteous, if that’s the case. Any hints about who that would be?

Malena: I have it on good authority that Franceska’s nephew is supposed to make an appearance in one of the stories to come.

Lexie: Franceska is my boss and I didn’t know about that. I wonder if we’ll see her again in that story.

Malena: Only Ms. Renquist knows for sure. Suffice to say, he has an interesting arrangement with his assistant that I’m sure the readers will enjoy as much as they’ll enjoy Wine Service.

Zenobia: You are all teases. I love it. Well I, for one, can’t wait for the next book. If it’s anything like Wine Service, I’ll need to get my ice bath ready. Thank you so much for taking time out to visit.

Lexie: Thanks for having us.

Dani: What she said.

Malena: My pleasure.

Readers can get their e-copy of Wine Service starting 29 August. Learn more about Eros—the new Erotica imprint of Musa Publishing—during the Facebook launch party scheduled for 15 August (this Friday) from 9AM to 10PM eastern. The event grand prize is a Kindle HD 7”. See you there: https://www.facebook.com/events/844349402244510/


Blurb:
She offers satisfaction above and beyond what is requested.

Lexie's job as a housekeeper at a five-star hotel doesn't normally include the unique and risqué form of room service that important hotel guest Mr. Malena has requested, nor the generous tip he's offered. Lexie can't resist, and what should have been a one-time thing turns into an introduction into the sensual world of customer satisfaction. She finds much enjoyment in her "work," but is it worth risking her job?

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Thanks again Zenobia for bringing Lexie, Mr. Malena and Mr. Dani by today for an interview. It was most interesting.

I hope everyone enjoyed the interview and learning more about Wine Service today. Please stop back next Wednesday when Tina Donahue will be here!!



Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Author Wednesdays-Zenobia Renquist Character Interview & Giveaway!!!

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It's Author Wednesday time again, and today my guest is Zenobia Renquist. Welcome to For Whom The Books Toll, Zenobia. With Zenobia today are Jeliyah and Teaghan from CREAM.


Character Interview: CREAM (On the Hunt) by Zenobia Renquist



Interviewer: Joining us today are Jeliyah and Teaghan from CREAM by Zenobia Renquist—an Erotic Vampire Romance from Ellora’s Cave that is part of the On the Hunt multi-author series. It’s great of you to come out.

Jeliyah: Thanks for having us.

Teaghan: ‘Sup.

Interviewer: Jeliyah, the story starts with you. You’re a necromancer. That means you can control the dead, right?

Jeliyah: That’s the traditional meaning, yes. In the case of CREAM, it means I am an individual born with the ability to control magic that allows me to combat vampires.

Interviewer: And vampires are dead in this world?

Jeliyah: Not dead, per se.

Teaghan: Sitting right here. I walk and talk, so I’m guessing I’m not dead.

Interviewer: /chuckles/ No you most certainly aren’t, but you’re not my definition of alive either, are you, Teaghan?

Teaghan: Magic and blood keep me going. Necromancers can negate that magic. Pain in the ass but it pays the bills.

Interviewer: For those in the audience, Teaghan is an enforcer.

Teaghan: Glorified title for a merc.

Jeliyah: He means bounty hunter. We work together to bring in rogue vampires who break the law.

Teaghan: She means we kill mofos who’re too stupid to live. The only things we bring in are their heads.

Interviewer: Sounds messy.

Teaghan: /shrugs/ I’ve got plastic bags.

Interviewer: Does it bother you working with a necromancer? Aren’t necromancers and vampires mortal enemies because of the way they hunted you prior to vampires coming out?

Teaghan: The vampire and human governments want to show they can play nice so we work together to show solidarity or some crap like that. The days of hunting vampires are over, in the US anyway. You won’t catch my ass traveling abroad any time soon. As for working with Jeliyah, no issues there. All she has to do is wear a tight shirt, or no shirt at all, and I’m happy.

Jeliyah: /rolls eyes and sighs/

Interviewer: Which leads to my next question… You two got intimate, very intimate, in CREAM. Any regrets?

Teaghan: Yeah. It should have happened sooner, like five seconds after we met. It would have saved us a lot of crap later.

Jeliyah: As much as I hate to admit it, he’s right. If we had gone to bed instead of that hunt, we wouldn’t have landed on the hunted list ourselves. Though that led to our present situation so I’m not too upset about it.

Interviewer: If I was you, I wouldn’t be upset about it either. Do you think Ms. Renquist will revisit your world again? I would love to catch up with you two in the future to see how you’re doing.

Teaghan: You gotta ask her that.

Interviewer: It so happens that she’s here right now and I will. Please welcome, Zenobia Renquist.

Zenobia: Hi hi. This is just real quick. I’ve got books to write and characters to torture.

Interviewer: Real quick then. Will we be seeing more of Jeliyah and Teaghan’s world? Them too?

Zenobia: I have two other books planned for this world. It’s just a matter of getting them written and off to my editor, which is easier said than done. I have a lot of titles on my to-be-written list but those two stories are coming. How soon I can’t say for sure. Jeliyah and Teaghan will cameo in at least one. I love revisiting my characters.

Interviewer: Can you give us a hint what the books will be about?

Zenobia: One will deal with Teaghan’s progeny Mekhail and his love life. The other will deal with the mess Teaghan and Jeliyah left back in their hometown.

Teaghan: Not my mess. That’s got nothing to do with me.

Zenobia & Jeliyah: Now.

Interviewer: /chuckles/ Sounds interesting. I look forward to reading both.

Zenobia: Me too. I write by the seat of my pants so I have no clue what’s going to happen until after I write it. I just know the gist and the characters. That’s it. The rest comes to me as I type. Speaking of typing. I’ve got to get back to it. Thanks for having me.

Interviewer: Thank you for coming out.

Teaghan: We’re out too. I’ve gotta debrief Jeliyah before out next mission.

Interviewer: I’ll bet. Thank you both for being here today. It was great talking to you. For those in the audience, you can read all about Teaghan and Jeliyah’s adventure in CREAM by Zenobia Renquist. Leave a question for Jeliyah, Teaghan or Zenobia in the comments section for a chance to win a PDF copy of CREAM. Learn more about the title below.






Blurb:
She's entered a world where blood, sex, and cash rules everything around her.

What do a four hundred-year-old vampire and a mid-level necromancer have in common? Money. Jeliyah needs it to pay off the people who trained her and Teaghan enjoys killing to get it. Together they hunt rogue vampires—assuming Teaghan can focus on something other than getting her in bed and Jeliyah doesn’t put a bullet in him first.

The uneasy partnership promises to be lucrative until Teaghan and Jeliyah get on the wrong side of a feud. Jeliyah is forced to use forbidden magic and finds herself bound to a man she should hate—but whom she can’t stop fantasizing about.

Every second they stay alive fuels a growing desire Jeliyah is unwilling to deny. Is it the magic? The danger? The only way to get the answers she craves is to outrun the enemy or kill them. She knows Teaghan’s preference but it's Jeliyah who must put their mind-blowing sex aside and make the choice that will decide both their fates.

Inside Scoop: An interracial romance between a wannabe-gangtsa vampire and a career-focused magic user who go from being the hunters to the hunted in an exciting new urban fantasy world.

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Thanks Zenobia for stopping by today. Remember you can win an e-book copy of CREAM by leaving a question for Zenobia, Jeliyah or Teaghan in the comments section.

I hope you'll all stop back next Wednesday when Cynthia Sax will be here.