From RomanceJunkies.com
Cassie Ryan aka Tina Gerow
By Cassie Ryan
Sep 24, 2007, 16:40
Cassie Ryan started her published writing career writing steamy paranormal romance under another pen name. However, when one of her critique partners—Brit Blaise—suggested she try her hand at erotic romance, she gave it a shot! After all, she’s not a girl to turn down a challenge of any type. So, she pulled out all the stops and wrote the first several chapters of what would become CEREMONY OF SEDUCTION.
After hearing Audrey LaFehr from Kensington speak on a new erotic romance line she’d started called Aphrodisia, at RWA Nationals, Cassie sent in her partial and went back to writing. So, when Audrey fished her partial out of the slush pile and offered her a three book deal, Cassie Ryan was officially born.
Cassie lives in Phoenix, Arizona and besides being a write-a-holic, is a frequent speaker on several writing and motivational topics.
Cassie Ryan
www.cassieryan.com
******
Tina Gerow has always had a passion for romance and anything paranormal. And even in school, was encouraged to put her writing skills to good use, but always with the admonishment to ‘stop writing the weird stuff and tone down the sarcasm.’ But what fun is that?!
Tina Gerow has always had a passion for romance and anything paranormal. And even in school, was encouraged to put her writing skills to good use, but always with the admonishment to ‘stop writing the weird stuff and tone down the sarcasm.’ But what fun is that?! So, in 2003, she finally decided to try her hand at writing a novel, but still firmly embracing the ‘weird stuff and the sarcasm.’ Her first book, Into a Dangerous Mind, recently won the award for Romantic Times Best Small Press Contemporary Paranormal for 2006.
Since then, Tina has published four more books, including the popular Maiden series. She is also writing for Kensington’s Aphrodisia line as Cassie Ryan—the first of her three book erotic paranormal romance series released in August 2007.
Tina, an Arizona State University alumnus, belongs to the Romance Writers of America, and is a past president of the local Valley of the Sun Romance Writers Chapter and an active member of the local Desert Rose chapter. She’s an active speaker on several subjects including promotions, character creation, goals & motivation and more. She has spoken at several RWA chapters as well as the Romantic Times Booklovers convention paranormal panel in 2006 & 2007, and has been asked back for 2008.
Tina lives in Arizona with her husband Jon, her son Darian and two orange tabby cats. When Tina isn’t spending time with her family, she’s usually writing, or at some various and sundry writer’s conference, workshop or meeting.
Tina Gerow
www.tinagerow.com
Ceremony of Seduction
When Dreams Of Desire…
Twenty-three-year-old Alyssa Moss has lived her whole life in the shadow of her beautiful family. Voluptuous where they are lean, brunette where they are blonde, Alyssa is convinced she is an ugly duckling who will never become a swan. The only thing that sustains her is a recurring dream in which a seductive stranger named Stone worships and pleasures every inch of her. But maddeningly, Stone always disappears just as Alyssa is on the edge of dizzying ecstasy—with a puzzling promise that one day he will find her. That day has come….
Become Reality…
For years, Stone has searched for the kidnapped first princess of his people—an other-worldly clan whose life-force is sexual energy. Alyssa is that princess, stolen by a rival faction and banished to live on Earth. But now Stone has found her and will return her to her rightful home, one in which she will own the curvaceous body she was born with—and the passionate desire that throbs within it as she learns an endless variety of delicious pleasures and discovers the infinite power she feels when all her cravings are satisfied…
Released August 2007 - http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&btob=Y&EAN=9780758220653&itm=1