If you’ve been meaning to read the book that won the RT Award last year for erotic romance, as well as the Maggie Award for Excellence, SLOW SURRENDER, the ebook is on sale for 99 cents RIGHT NOW. My publisher Hachette/Forever set the sale up, so I’m not sure how long the price promo will last! So grab it while you can!

It’s at all these places:
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/slow-surrender-cecelia-tan/1111940153
iTunes/iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/slow-surrender/id541686304?mt=11
Google Play: http://books.google.com/books/about/Slow_Surrender.html?id=PgxvsG2iFPAC
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/books/Slow-Surrender/xEETPX_sP0OH1HLYPPlavw
Amazon Kindle: http://amzn.com/B00B73T1YU

Warning: it does have highly graphic erotic BDSM and a cliffhanger. It’s also got a lot of intense negotiation of boundaries (without pages and pages of a contract…) and a heroine who knows what an orgasm is.

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Ok, remember how I squeed when I found out SLOW SURRENDER was nominated for Best Erotic Romance of the year by RT Magazine? Well, UP THE FONT SIZE FOLKS…

BECAUSE I WON!!!

I’ll be going to New Orleans for the award ceremony and everything! Now what the heck am I going to wear…?

See all the RT Award winners here:
http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-daily-blog/announcing-2013-rt-reviewers-choice-and-career-achievement-awards-winners

(How cool to see Mary Robinette Kowal, Nicole Peeler, and lots of other writers I love on the list, too!!)

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I just got the news that Slow Surrender and Slow Seduction (book 2 in the series), have been picked up by Dutch-language publisher Bruna! I don’t have any news about when they will be out, though.

In other news, I finally finished writing Slow Satisfaction, the third and final book in the series. There were so many loose ends I wanted to tie up that it took me longer to write the last four chapters of the book than it did to write the entirety of book 2! It’s with my editor now and I’ll soon find out if she likes the way I brought it all in for a landing.

Last bit of news, Apple now has some kind of an ibookstore widget thing, I’m testing it out on my home site:

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All righty! The online chat to celebrate the release of Slow Surrender is tonight!

(To submit a question for me to answer in the chat, either email it to ctan.writer at gmail dot com, or leave it in comments!)

My plan is still to run simultaneous feeds to Google Hangout (YouTube) and uStream, though today I had trouble getting a test of Google hangout to run… We’ll do whatever we can. Ustream is a definite–I can run it off my phone if necessary!

I’ll read some hot snippets from Slow Surrender, talk about what life is like for a BDSM romance writer in a post-50-Shades world, and maybe even read some exclusive content never before published…? Tune in and join the party!

My uStream channel is: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cecilia-tan

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This is it! SLOW SURRENDER launches today in paperback! Yeahhhh!!!

So, I started doing this when the ebook came out, and I’m going to keep it up until September 1st! Basically, help me spread the word about the book Slow Surrender, and I’ll reward you with a special erotic bonus scene from James’s point of view.

In fact, James wouldn’t settle for merely describing a sex scene. He wrote a whole treatise on the nature of sex and desire. It’s a nine-page ebook, “James on THE ART OF LOVE,” which I have as PDF, epub, or mobi.

How do you get the bonus ebook? Trade me a screencap or photo of any of the following by emailing it to ctan.writer @ gmail.com, and let me know which format you want (PDF/mobi/epub) and I’ll email you back the file!

All the following are valid in trade:
* screencap of your review of the book on Goodreads or Amazon
* screencap of your review or recommendation of the book to your friends on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, or any other social network, really!
* photo of the paperback on sale in your local bookstore (or Target!)
* photo of your copy of the paperback with your cat or other pet
* photo of yourself with the book wearing pearls! (either you or the book can be wearing the pearls…)

(Sample “book and pearls selfie”…)

But wait, there’s more! A SECOND special incentive…

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Whew. It’s been a busy year so far, but the good news is that health-wise I am really starting to bounce back. tl:dr, last year I was severely anemic, was finally diagnosed in November, by December my iron levels were back up but I still have occasional crashes. This month is the first time I’ve really felt mostly like myself in close to two years!

Having more energy means I’m keeping up with my writing commitments better. I’m in the middle of writing the third book in a BDSM billionaire romance trilogy for Hachette/Grand Central Publishing/Forever, the Struck by Lightning trilogy. The first book, Slow Surrender, is out in ebook now and the paperback comes August 5th!

Speaking of which, there’s a Goodreads giveaway for the book going on right now. If you’re on Goodreads, check it out here: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/55415-slow-surrender

They’re giving away 10 copies of the book.

Meanwhile, I’m writing book 3, Slow Satisfaction

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So if you’ve been following any of my social media, you probably know that about a month ago, my BDSM erotic romance novel, SLOW SURRENDER, was published by Hachette/Grand Central Publishing in ebook form (with paperback to follow in August).

Today I checked the book’s Amazon page for new reviews and noticed not only had the book’s overall Amazon ranking gone up, the book has climbed its way onto the Kindle Erotica bestsellers list! It was at #79 of the top 100 when I looked. If you’re curious, this is what that looks like: (you can’t hear me squeeeing very loudly, you can just look…)

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