Tracy Wolff lives with four men, teaches writing to local college students and spends as much time as she can manage immersed in worlds of her own creation. Married to the alpha hero of her dreams for twelve years, she is the mother of three young sons who spend most of their time trying to make her as crazy as possible.
Now as if this is not enough... Let me tease you with her upcoming release!
Tease Me
NAL Trade (April 6, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0451229258
ISBN-13: 978-0451229250
The “edgy and erotic” (Shannon McKenna, New York Times bestselling author of Tasting Fear) author of Tie Me Down and Full Exposure offers another steamy novel of sex, lies, and sultry games.
You can look, but you can’t touch…
Burned once too often, true crime writer Lacey Richards has sworn off love. Instead, she explores her deepest desires through her anonymous—and very provocative—blog. Anonymous, that is, until her dark and ultrasexy neighbor discovers her dirty secret.
Stockbrocker-turned-carpenter Byron Hawthorne gave up life in the fast lane, hoping to start over in a new city. When he learns his alluring neighbor is the one writing the sizzling blog that keeps him up all night, he can’t resist offering to fulfill her fantasies in the flesh. But Byron isn’t the only man provoked by Lacey’s writing. Now Lacey doesn’t know who she can trust—and who she can dare to tease.
Okay... now enough with pleasantries... Let's get to down the nitty gritty!!!Holy smoke... did you see that cover up there... Drool worthy ladies!
Tell us about your contest?!?!
I want to thank you for coming over to my place Ms. Tracy! I am tickled to have you here. I love the way you introduce yourself at your place, hope you don't mind that I used it here, =)!
You want to tell us a little about you that we did not learn from the above introduction?
I love action movies, hard rock, sparkly earrings and happy endings. I’m a Libra who takes forever to make up her mind about anything (too busy weighing both sides of the issue). I’ve got red hair and the temper to match, but I’d much rather laugh than get angry. And I’m happiest when I’m reading, writing or hanging out my three boys.
Is writing your full time job (besides your family) or do you work outside of the home?
I’m a writing and American Literature professor—though I now only teach part time so that I can write full-time.
If you work outside of the house, how do you find time to balance it all?
It’s not easy. My husband travels A LOT for work, so many months I feel like a single mother of three boys. Add in two jobs and everything that comes with motherhood and taking care of a house and I’m usually more than a little frazzled. It helps that I don’t sleep much—I’m an insomniac, so I usually only get about four hours of sleep a night.
I have seen this around and it makes me curious... I will not ask you to tell me one of your favorite characters - because we all know that is like picking a favorite child. So, I want to know, what was/is your favorite book to write?? Ha Ha, yes, I am evil! You can not get out of it either!
Oh, you are evil. That’s a hard one, because I like them all while I’m writing them. If you’d asked me a year ago, I would have said Tease Me, definitely. That book was emotionally draining but so fun to write. But then I wrote Dark Embers, my first dragon shifter book as Tessa Adams (it comes out in July 2010) and it was amazing fun. I wrote it super-fast and everything came together beautifully—plus, if you want to talk favorite characters, I looooooove my hero in that book, Dylan.
**Haaa haa... I got you tell me your favorite character!!! LOL!!!**
My other favorite book to write is the one I’m currently working on—my 1st young adult novel. It’s called Rip Tide and is a dark mermaid/surfing tale about a girl trapped between her desires and her destiny (and a pretty terrible evil). It’s been a blast to write as well.
Why was it your favorite?
Honestly, I love all three of those books—Tease Me, Dark Embers and Rip Tide—because of the characters, and because of how much fun they were to write.
Since Valentine's day has passed and being we all read our books to get that HEA, tell me the best Valentine's present you ever received and from who?
My husband always buys me great Valentine’s Day presents, so I’m really lucky. I think my favorite was the beautiful set of really expensive knives he got me a few years ago (I looooove to cook). Anyway, he almost always gets me jewelry, but that year I really wanted this knife set, so he got it for me. As he was walking through the store, though, all the men he met kept telling him he was crazy. That he was going to end up getting stabbed by one of those knives if that’s what he brought me home for V-Day. By the time he handed them to me he was a little pale and really nervous, but I was thrilled because it meant that he’d really listened to what I wanted and got them for me even though his every instinct was to go for the jewelry. I still use them every day.
**I think that is so sweet. I also think he was very brave!!! LOL**
Last safe question, hee hee... This question comes from Sweet Vernal Zephyr & Elaing8: With all your life experience... you have to share something slightly funny and/or embarrassing that has happened in your life? ~Makes us feel human~
You don’t know me or you wouldn’t ask that question—I don’t have slight embarrassments. I have huge humiliations on a regular basis.
All through school, I was totally into acting as well as writing. The one play I could never be in—high school or college- was the musical, because I sound like a dying duck when I sing, so I always worked backstage. Anyway, I was working backstage on one musical, and one of my jobs was to help the male lead change costumes in the middle of the play, as he had a really quick scene change. Anyway, I was helping him with his pants and he lost his balance. We went crashing through the scenery at the edge of the stage, landed front and center of a sold out crowd, with his pants around his ankles, my skirt around my waist and my head in his lap.
So was that embarrassing enough for you?
**Are you kidding me... I so want to go school with you!!! Can you say Ms. Hussy in training, lol!!**
Erotic Romance Reader (Janna) wants to know: How do you determine if or which love/sex scenes go into your book?
I try to really personalize the scenes for each book—to make sure that they fit the characters so well that I couldn’t pick them up and put them in anyone else’s book. For example, there’s a fabulous scene (if I do say so myself) in Full Exposure, where they’re at an erotic photography museum that came together so beautifully—and fit Kevin and Serena so well—that it’s still one of my favorite scenes. There’s another scene, in the very beginning of Tease Me, that is incredibly voyeuristic (which is, in part, what the book is about). It took me forever to write the scene and I was a little nervous about letting my editor see it because it is really emotionally raw. Thank goodness, she loved it and wanted me to open the book with it. The excerpt is a teaser (hah) at the end of Tie Me Down and I’ve gotten a ton of letters about it already. I think that’s what I really try to do—write a love scene that epitomizes the heart and soul of my characters—and my book.
Have you written a sex scene that has made you blush?
Not unless I’m in the room when someone is reading it. But I have written a few that made my editor blush—does that count?
**As long as someone blushed, lol**
Now for some quick fun:
Sweet or Sour: Sweet
Coke or Pepsi: Coke
Milk or Dark Chocolate: Milk
Run or Walk: I run only when chased, and even that depends on who’s doing the chasing …
Read or Write (HA): Read. Definitely
Chinese or Italian food: Italian
Hot Cocoa or Hot Tea: Depends on my mood.
Sunset or Sunrise: Definitely sunset. Love the colors.
Kiss or Hug: Yes, please
Cuddling or Hot Sex (Had to ask!): I write erotic romance—what do you think???????????
Ms. Tracy, I want to thank you for coming over and playing with us today!!!!!
“Hey, what can I get you?” She glanced over her shoulder with a grin, and everything inside him seemed to freeze. God, she was beautiful. Not just in the conventional sense, but in so many small ways he couldn’t fail to notice. Ways he’d never thought to look for before her.
It wasn’t just her face, though, God, she looked good. It was the smattering of freckles across her nose and the patterns they formed. Her high cheekbones and the incredibly kissable hollows beneath them. The peekaboo dimple in her left cheek that flashed only when she smiled just right. And her smile, the one that lit up her whole face and made him feel—for a few seconds—like he was the only man in her world.
“Byron?” Lacey called his name for the second time, and he suddenly realized that he’d been standing there, gaping at her like a total idiot.
“I’m sorry. What did you ask?”
“Do you want a drink?”
“Oh, sure, sorry.” He shook his head, made an effort to concentrate. “Do you have a beer?”
“Of course.” She bent to open the small bar fridge, and her yoga pants stretched taut over her sweetly rounded ass. It took all his restraint not to drop to his knees behind her and take her right there. God knew, all the work he’d done in the kitchen to calm himself down had been totally undone in the two minutes since he’d been in the room with her
“I’ve got Purple Haze, Strawberry Harvest and Red Ale.”
He stared at her incredulously, wondering if he’d heard right. “Are those beers or song titles?”
She laughed. “Beers. Whenever I move to a new place, I like to try out the local breweries. These are all from Abita, and they’re really good.”
Figuring it wouldn’t hurt to play along, he tried his damnedest not to look doubtful. One or two sips wasn’t going to kill him, after all. “Okay. Which one is your favorite?”
“I like them all, but I guess it depends what you want. Are you in the mood for raspberries or strawberries?”
He didn’t have to think twice, as a picture of her raspberry-colored nipples flashed before his eyes. “Raspberries.”
“Somehow I knew you were going to say that.” She tossed him a beer with a purple label, and he shook his head while twisting off the top.
“I don’t know about this, Lacey. No self-respecting beer has a purple label.”
“This one does. It used to be available only at Mardi Gras—hence the name and the color—but it got to be so popular that they brew it all year round now.”
He stared at the bottle doubtfully for another minute before taking a swig, and was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it went down. “It’s actually pretty good.”
“You don’t have to sound so surprised.” She led him over to the couch, then gestured for him to sit. “Are you sure you’d rather stay in tonight?”
He raised an eyebrow. “Is that a trick question?”
She laughed. “Good answer.”
“So, you move around a lot?”
She cocked her head to the side, somehow managing to look like an inquisitive little cat—one he wanted to do nothing more with than to pull her into his lap and pet. But she obviously wanted to call the shots tonight, and he was intrigued enough to follow where she led. For a while anyway.
“Is that what you want to do with the evening?” she asked. “Play 20 Questions?” Her voice was low and inviting and took the sting out of the question.
“Actually, I’ve got a better idea.” God knew, he had a few of them. But tearing her clothes off before the first glass of wine—for the second time in as many days—seemed more than a little rude.
“And that is?” She took a sip of her wine and then shot him a smile that had his cock straining against the zipper of his jeans.
He studied her for a few seconds, running his eyes over her clothes and jewelry. “I call it nine questions.”
“Nine?” She raised an eyebrow. “That’s a fairly random number.”
“Not really. It’s the number of items you’re wearing—if you don’t go commando, I mean. It also”—he glanced down at himself—“happens to be the exact number of items I’m wearing as well.”
“Well, isn’t that convenient?” She pursed her lips into an inviting O.
Had he thought his dick was hard before? As he watched her lick her lips, the blood rushed from his head so fast that for a minute, he was afraid he might pass out.
And wouldn’t that just be a kick in the ass, particularly on what promised to be one of the most erotic nights of his life?
“Am I correct in assuming that there’s a fee for every question asked?”
“You are, indeed. One item per question.”
“Are any subjects off -limits?”
He smiled then. “Let’s cross that bridge when we come to it.
Thank you so much Ms. Tracy for coming to play at the Hussy Lair today!!! I have enjoyed our company!!!
Thanks so much, Cecile, for having me today. I love your blog and have really enjoyed getting to know you these last few months. To celebrate your 1 year anniversary, I’m giving away a copy of Full Exposure, my first erotic suspense. Just leave a comment telling me about your favorite new author to be entered to win a copy!
And please leave us your email address - so we can get in touch with you!!!
The contest is open to: US & Canada only - however if you know someone with a US or Canada address that would not mind shipping it for you... You are more than welcome to enter!
To see what else she has coming up, please go --->> here.
To visit her blog, please go --->>> here.
To visit her website, please go --->> here.
And of course, we can not leave without some delicious eye candy.... I mean, after that damn near nuclear melting excerpt she gave us up there.... You ready...
Hi Tracy and Cecile!
ReplyDeleteAwesome post, great questions and answers!!!
My favorite new author is....Tracy Wolff!! I'm so excited about all your books, your next to be released and your first Tessa Adams book...Dark Embers! :)
No need to enter me in the contest - I'm just going to sit here and drool over the Tease Me cover!
ReplyDeleteHi Cecile & Tracy,
ReplyDeleteI loved reading the interview! As for a new author that I've recently started to read, I would have to say Shawn Lane.
Happy Reading
Anna Shah Hoque
s7anna@yahoo.ca
Happy blogiversary!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Cecile and Tracy,
great interview.I haven't read any of Tracy's books yet but that excerpt makes me want to run out and get a few :)
A favorite new author, I would say Lauren Dane.
Thanks for the eyecandy Cecile.
**looks around** Where's Caleb,I need a drink :D (what's a blog party without a drink?)
Fabulous review ladies and the embarrasing moment was hilarious to read. Not so fun at the moment for you perhaps Tracy (((hugs))) nut still fun to read :)
ReplyDeleteI call those moments my Bridget Jones moments! Now it is back to read the excerpt *yummy*
~Blanche! Thanks for coming over! I can not wait for Dark Embers either! Dragons... OH yum!
ReplyDelete~Chris! Isn't that cover just drool worthy!
ReplyDeleteHey Anna!! Thank for stopping by!! I will have to check out this new author!
ReplyDelete~Elaing8!! Thanks for coming!!! You are evil... Caleb will be coming out, I had him working on me, I mean the pre party things we had to do and I have seem to wear him out, lol! But drinks and Caleb will be coming... Just give him time!!! LMBO!
ReplyDelete~Leontine!! Hey honey, thank you for stopping by! Hugs to you hon! Glad you are enjoying yourself! Please... feel free to "roam" around! =)
ReplyDeleteGreat interview and awesome answer to my submitted question!!!!! Did you at least get to grope him a little during the commotion? *evil smile*
ReplyDeleteMy favorite new author is Erica Hayes!
Did I hear someone mention that Caleb was coming over to tend to the ladies... oh yum!
Hello Ladies ~ Missed me!
ReplyDeleteI am givin Cecile hell for not having me up today... **She is currently tied up right now**
So, what can I get for you ladies today....??
Enjoyed the post today! My favorite new author is Rachel Caine, I'm enjoying The Morganville vampire series! tWarner419@aol.com
ReplyDeleteCaleb~ Tisk tisk on Cecile, trying to keep you all to herself *pout*
ReplyDeleteI will take any sweet thing your hands prepare for me, but a Long Island would be nice *eyelash flutter*
I reading Tease Me right now and I love it!
ReplyDeleteHey Cecile and Tracy!!
ReplyDeleteLoved the excerpt and interview. As far as new authors, I hope I can go back as far as a year... I found Beth Kery and haven't been able to get enough of her work!!
Nice eye candy!
Great interview ladies! I love the cover of Tease Me, so I hope it's going to be released in ebook as well :) After reading that excerpt I want to read the book!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the wonderful answer to my question too :D
Sweet my dear... Yes, Cecile is a greedy little hussy! So, she is punished right now. Although - she is smiling, so I am not sure my method is effective right now.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway... on to more pressing matters... Sweet my hands are at your service right now **evil wink** Long Island coming right up! Pull up a stool and get comfy! It might be a long month!
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ReplyDeleteOh Caleb darlin'... you KNOW that I am a regular at your bar. Such lovely service from such strong manly hands.
ReplyDelete*smiles as she sips her drink*
And I do so love to watch you interact with the other patrons. Your charm is outstanding.
*mwah*
Well Caleb its baout time you showed up..I'm parched over here.
ReplyDeleteI will have a back rub...Oh**blushes,did I say that out loud** I mean I'll have margarita :D
Since Cecile is tied up,I guess we have the run of the party :D woo-hoo!!!!
**Caleb hands me my drink** Thanks hun!!**wink**
Hey, just cuz my hands are tied does not mean I am not here!!!!!
ReplyDelete**bats eyelashes at Caleb, honey, baby... please come untie me so I play with my friends... pretty please with me on top, I mean cherry**
Thanks for untieing my hands honey!
ReplyDelete~Sweet! Thanks for coming over and playing with us!
~tetewa! I am glad that you came! Missed you! Thanks! Oh a new series! Thanks for that heads up!
~Smokinhotbooks! Hey honey! Thanks for coming over! You are reading Tease Me right now... Oh gosh.. I am desperately trying to get my hands on this book!
~Heather D! Hey there! Thanks for coming! Isn't that excerpt smoking hot!!! And yes, can not get enough of Beth Kery... Just hang on then, she will be coming over to play with us as well!!!
~Janna! Hey honey! I am glad you could make it! Thanks! That is why I teased you with this book!! Hee hee!!
~Sweet... Oh my hands can do some many wonderful things. Or at least that is what Cecile tells me **Evil smile**
ReplyDeleteInteracting with all of my patrons I enjoy very much!
Just let me know when you are ready for another drink hon...
**takes Sweet hand, kisses it**
~elaing8, my dear... How I have missed you! You have not been partying to much huh?? Oh a back rub huh... Well, let me finish with this drink and I will be right over to service you... I might need to bring in reinforcement, lol.
Great interview!
ReplyDeleteNew author, hrm. The last new author I loved was Tessa Dare.
Happy anniversary, Cecile!!
Caleb~YES!!!!
ReplyDelete**looks in glass** These disappear fast.
Caleb,please make me another drink..you can choose what to make me ;) then you can**cough** service me :)
So, when do I get to meet Caleb( pout, pout)?
ReplyDeleteAww, Blanche, you're the best! It's been great meeting you, too.
Chris, yes, he is very droolworthy, isn't he?
s7anna-- Ill have to check Shawn Lane out. Thanks for the rec.
elaing8: Good to see you here! I love Lauren Dane! Laid Bare and Coming Undone were awesome-- and she was wonderful enough to give me two very hot cover quotes for Tease Me :)
Leontine-- I laugh over it now, but, yes, not so much at the time.
Sweet VernalZephyr, do I look like the kind of girl to grope and tell ;) LOL
tetewa, I love vampires-- almost as much as dragons. Will definitely check her out
Smokinhotbooks! Yay! I'm so glad :)
Heather D: Beth is a friend of mine and she is a fabulous lady and writer! She definitely counts :)
Janna, It is definitely being released as an e-book at all the major on-line bookstores.
Ashlynn-- Tessa is very good.
Thanks, everyone! And stop by my blog today. Anya Bast is giving away a copy of Wicked Enchantment.
Hi! I really love the interview, thanks!
ReplyDeleteMichelle Moran is a new for me and I've only read one of her books but she's great. Can't wait to read the rest of her work.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Hi Cecile!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogaversary girl!
Finally came on over, I mean I can't miss this day, oh and the movie can't keep my concentration up ;) I'll rather see what you guys are up too.
Drooling over hunky guys I see.
Hi Tracy, I've seen this new book out there on Amazon and it looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite new author...I have a lot of new authors, but just these past couple of weeks I've discovered Courtney Milan and Jaci Burton. :)
rachie2004 @ yahoo (d0t) com
Fab interview Tracy! I'm so looking forward to this book, it's actually on my calendar.
ReplyDeleteMy new favorite author lately is Shelly Laurenston. Something about the way she writes, I really really like.
lyoness2009 AT hot mail **dot** com
My favorite new author is S.J. Day!
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary!
cindyc725 at gmail dot com
Hi Tracy,
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the upcoming release of "Tease Me." One of my favorite new authors is Lori Brighton.
janie1215 AT excite DOT com
My favourite new author is Andrew Davidson.
ReplyDeleteI would love to be entered in your draw. Thanks.
wandanamgreb(at)gmail(dot)com
Hey Tracy, great interview!!!! Can't wait to get my mits on this release--mine's on pre-order...still hasn't shipped yet from Chapters
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogversary!
ReplyDeleteHi Tracy and Cecile!
Great interview and I haven't had the chance to read any of Tracy's books but I would love too.
One of my favorite new authors is Susan Crandall.
Fun interview with great questions and answers! As for new authors, I'd say Molly Harper. I love her snarky librarian vamp series that I just started and finished over the last month.
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New favorite author: Karen Ranney. I just read her Devil in a Tartan, soooooo good!!
ReplyDeletekaylajohnson3969@sbcglobal.net
Hi Tracy and Cecile! Fabulous interview!!!! Hmm favorite new author would be Amanda McIntyre she's amazing.
ReplyDeletegreat givewawys hope to win at them lol
ReplyDeletegreat interview
loving christina crooks and erotic book whoo
congrats ont eh new release and shayla
kim h
kimehak@yahoo.com
I just had to come by this morning and take another peek ;) at that cover.
ReplyDeleteAnd get Caleb to make me some breakfast :)
elaing8: NAL is so nice to me with my covers :)
ReplyDeleteSophie: waiting on my copy of Velvet Haven from B and N! How many more days, girl? Squeee!!!
Hi Kim! Good luck.
Wanda and Jane, thanks for the recs. I'll look them up.
I Heart Book Gossip-- guess whose at my blog right now, giving away signed copies of all three of the Marked books? Head on over ...
Lyonnss-- Thanks! I hope you enjoy Byron. He's one of my favorites ;)
RachieG and host, thanks! Happy Tuesday, everyone!
Love the Chat ladies...
ReplyDeleteAnd that teaser is fun - I am going books hunting...
Cecile I have to go start a book to keep up with your reoc's...
E.H>
Hey Tracy and Cecile! Love the interview very funny and that teaser sooo hawt!
ReplyDeleteAwesome post! My favorite new author is Larissa Ione and her Demonica series!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this interview and teaser I'd say Tracy Wolfe is my new favorite author.
ReplyDeletetcty123 AT yahoo DOT com
Happy 1 Year Anniversary!
ReplyDeleteMy new favorite author is Larissa Ione. Her Demonica series is amazing. :D
I just read J.R. Patrick's Only Yours and liked that.
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I love Juniper Bell's works!
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Tracey D
booklover0226 at gmail dot com
I want to thank you all for coming over to my place and hanging out with Ms. Tracy and I.
ReplyDeleteIt does mean the world to me that you guys have come!!!
A favorite new author for me is Jess Dee I read one of her books and loved it.
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Thanks for the rec Sherry!!!
ReplyDeleteMy fave new author is Ciana Stone and I'm sure this author is next. She is now on my list and perhaps I'll win and get it sooner. I loved the eye candy. Thanks. Your'e so sweet. lol
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Happy Blogiversary!!! Awesome interview and I can't wait to read this!!! I LOVE the cover =)
ReplyDeleteFav new author would be Charlene Teglia.
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dor!! Hi and welcome to my lair! I hope you have enjoyed yourself! Thanks for pitching in a new author to me! Glad you like the eye candy. It takes a lot of HARD work to find them, lol!!!
ReplyDeleteHell Kat!!!! Hey there! Welcome to my home, I hope you enjoy. You might see we have someone in common... You banner picture is my personal bartender here.. I named him Caleb, lol! Thanks for coming over!
Now I do love me some Charlene Teglia. Her books are freaking scorching hot!!!!
My favorite new-to-me author is Pamela Clare. I don't generally know when an author is new new, sorry :(
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Scorpio M.! Hey there, thanks for coming to the party! She is a new to me author. I have not had the chance yet to read any of her work, but have heard great things!
ReplyDeleteI have a new to me favorite author, Lacey Alexander. I'm brand new to reading romance but have found I love all her books.
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I have to say that was a very nice excerpt. :)
ReplyDeleteMy new favorite Author is definitely Tracy Wolfe. I also found Beth Kery at about the same time.
Carol L.
Lucky4750@aol.com
Christine! Hey there! Thanks for coming over honey! I have gotten a whole list of new authors to research now! Thanks for the heads up!
ReplyDeleteCarol L.! Hey there! Thanks for coming over today! Ohh Ms. Kery's books are awesome too!
Depending on what type of story, a few of my favorite new authors are.....
ReplyDeleteJudi Fennell, Savannah Chase and Dianna Love.
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