Steamy short story collection coming in September

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be releasing my first steamy short collection this September. Give It to Me: Sexy Tales About Women Getting the Good Loving They Deserve brings together 13 already-published stories in one hot book and will also include two brand-new stories. Think about it this way: With this short story collection, you'll get to my "good parts" that much quicker!

Here's the description:

Critically acclaimed romance novelist Angelina M. Lopez brings you fifteen steamily explicit and highly romantic stories of hardworking women getting it good from men who worship them. Author of After Hours on Milagro Street (Possibly my favorite book of the year, NYT-bestselling author Sarah MacLean) and Full Moon Over Freedom (A scorchingly sensual love story, Booklist), Angelina is known for writing “unlikeable” heroines who have great sex. 

 Discover what happens:

• When a widow askes her deceased husband’s best friend for the one thing their new friendship isn’t providing

• When a jewel thief is drawn to an ancient drum and becomes part of an orgy of sex and magic with ghostly entities and the museum security guard she’s admired from afar

• When an exhausted academic tries to get a little private time in the library stacks and is offered a hand by the hot guy in a hard hat who discovers her

• When a divorced soccer mom pounds on the door of two men having waaaay too much fun in the motel room next door—and then is invited to join them

• When a sexy Hollywood action hero shows up in a stressed-out CEO’s office offering to help her relax

• When a burly bodyguard with a heart as big as Texas wants to turn a once-in-a-lifetime one-night stand into forever

Give It to Me gathers Angelina’s steamy short stories from anthologies, audio podcasts, and her popular Patreon into one collection, as well as offers two brand-new stories that include a vineyard visit with the lady billionaire and her prince husband from Angelina’s much-loved debut, Lush Money. Celebrate getting it good from an author whose books are “flaming hot.” (NYT-bestselling author Sarah MacLean)

I can’t wait to share the cover from dear friend and wildly talented illustrator/designer John Sprengelmeyer. John and I have known each other for over two decades, and I have always wanted a chance to work with him.

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Read a new short story from me and support those in Maui!

For my story in Aloha: An Anthology for Maui, I Googled "Can you do it on a paddle board?"

Yes. You can.

If the opportunity to read a rare paddle board sex scene in my story, A Mermaid and A Star (see excerpt below), isn't enough reason to order this beautiful anthology, then hopefully the fact that it includes works from more than fifty of your favorite authors all coming together to raise money for Maui will be!

All royalties from the collection will be donated to Maui Food Banks and the Maui Fire Relief Fund to help support the victims of the devastating fires. ALOHA will only be available for a limited time, so one-click your copy before it's gone.

AUTHORS INCLUDE: K.A. Linde, Adriana Locke, Alessandra Torre, Penny Reid, Rachel Van Dyken, Willow Winters, Brittainy Cherry, Aleatha Romig, Heidi McLaughlin, Crystal Perkins, Helena Hunting, Jessica Ashley, LB Dunbar, Ren Alexander, Skye Warren, Tara Brown, Tia Louise, Diana Peterfreund, Jamie K. Schmidt, Alexandria Bishop, Maria Luis, Kasey Metzger, Julia Kent, Karina Halle, Trilina Pucci, Carly Phillips, Aarti V. Raman, Jill Ramsower, Amber Kelly, Eric Asher, Julie Leto, Kimberly Reese, Kayti McGee, Lauren Rowe, Pepper Winters, M. Robinson, J.L. Baldwin, Brittany Holland, Angelina M. Lopez, Jiffy Kate, Lex Martin, MJ Fields, Emma Louise, Catalina Snow, Dee Lagasse, Cary Hart, Aly Martinez, Fiona Cole, Jay McLean, Jana Aston

Order Links:

✦ Amazon → https://geni.us/AmazonAloha
✦ Paperback → https://geni.us/PbkAloha
✦ B&N → https://geni.us/NookAloha
✦ Apple → https://geni.us/AppleAloha
✦ Kobo → https://geni.us/KoboAloha
✦ Google Play → https://geni.us/GoogleAloha

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Exclusive Excerpt of A Mermaid and Her Star
By Angelina M. Lopez

…Today was her first day off after three days chronicling Aish in the studio and while she wanted to explore Oahu, she figured she would spend the day drowsing on the paddle board that she’d gotten pretty good at as a first-timer and adjusting to the fact that she was hanging out with a rock star and a princess. When was someone going to pinch her and wake her up?

Her board bumped into the black, jagged lava rocks that made up the jetty between the beach houses that were in sight of each other but far enough away to provide space and privacy. A shadow fell over her.

“You’re trespassing on my beach,” a gruff voice said.

She yelped with surprise, dropped the paddle she’d been hanging on to, and scrambled up on her hands. Above her, a man stood on the levee outlined by the sun like Poseidon risen up from the water. He was a solid shadow, but the perimeter of him showed turquoise board shorts, well-defined biceps, broad brown shoulders, a trim black scruff over a square jaw, and a thick swoop of black hair as he looked down at her.

She should be inoculated to shocks by now, but she still felt little spots around the edge of her vision. There was no way it was him. But it was him. She knew that outline like the back of her hand.

To read all of Mermaid and Her Star, order Aloha: An Anthology for Maui now!

Read a steamy short story from me every month

You might have read The Phone Call, the free sexy short story about a young widow and her husband’s best friend that I offer to all my newsletter subscribers. If not, you can read it here. You might have been one of the readers who emailed me and said, “I loved this story…but what happens after they hang up?

Where’s the sexy scene?????”

I’m happy to announce that that sexy scene is now available in Star *69, my first steamy short story that I am offering on Patreon. For $3 a month, you can read a steamy short story from me every month!

What’s Patreon?

Patreon is a subscription service that gives you an opportunity to support the creators you really love, and it allows creators like me to deliver bonus content to you.

Why Patreon?

Early in my publishing days, I remember discussions about private jets and pool boys. But alas, the reality of being a published author is that it’s difficult to make a part-time living doing it, even though it's full-time work. Patreon is a way for me to keep doing this job I fundamentally believe I was put on the planet to do.

Weaving together all the stuff I put in my books takes time. Patreon will allow me to deliver quicker short bites of the escapist, sexy, over-the-top love stories that you’ve told me you love.

How does it work?

When you subscribe, you can choose three different tiers.

1. For $1 a month, you can show me your love and get occasional exclusive content.

2. For $3 a month, you get access to a steamy short story written by me every month. Love my love scenes? Subscribe and you’ll get a lot of them!

3. For $5 a month, you’ll get the short story and a blog or video about writing and my writing process. It’s a chance to see behind the scenes of being a working writer.

Here's a preview of my first short story offering, Star *69:

Three years after one of them (Sam) called the other one (Rosemarie) and began their at-least once-a-day phone calls and six weeks after their first astonishing kiss on Valentine’s Day and two weeks after Sam moved into his new (and hopefully temporary) apartment in Boston and four hours after dropping off the girls at her girlfriend’s house for the weekend, Rosemarie fidgeted in silence across from her best friend and new love on their first date.

Not even the low candlelight and heavy rain hitting the windows of this high-end restaurant on the harbor could hide the nerves in Sam’s eyes as he poked at the ice in his Old Fashioned.

If she wasn’t so nervous herself, she could tease this confident, worldly man focused on his cocktail like it was a specimen in a lab. But in a new flowy sapphire silk dress with her hair blown-out and her makeup professionally applied, she felt like a sugar skull that would crumble apart if she behaved like she usually did. He was so gorgeous in the candlelight, a charcoal suit over his fit body, his thick dark-blond hair brushed back when she’d only seen it flicky and wavy, perfectly shaved when she liked his scruff. Rosemarie had watched the cute coat check girl eye him up and down as he’d removed his trench coat and she knew (thanks to her curiosity-killed-the-cat questions about his love life) that it’d taken less provocation for him to approach and take home a woman.

As she carefully pushed a highly sprayed curl behind her shoulder, the reminder that she was finally going to make love to this man who’d experienced the act with so many didn’t ease her nerves.

The movement caught his eye. He flashed a grin that didn’t relax either of them... (Click to keep reading.)

I can’t thank you enough as I take this next step!

My sexy Latinx short story featured in Whoa!mance podcast

(Author’s note: The Twelve Naughty Days anthology is no longer available, so I’ve made this short story available on Patreon. For just $3/month, you can read a steamy short story from me every month! You can learn more here.)

It may be long past Christmas, but I just discovered this phenomenal 45-minute podcast about my "Twelve Drummers" short story in the Twelve Naughty Days holiday anthology.

“Twelve Drummers” is about what happens when a Latinx jewel thief, a Latinx museum guard, and an ancient Mexica drum magically collide on the longest night of the year.

Here's what Morgan and Isabeau of the romance podcast Whoa!mance had to say about it:

Morgan: Very very steamy. I realize it’s been a long time since I read a Sierra Simone-level steam.

Morgan: I’ve become desensitized to pretty run-of-the-mill sex scenes.
Isabeau: I don’t know that I feel that I’m desensitized, but this is certainly something that blows me out of the water. Like I haven’t read this level in a really long time. And I think that’s probably not necessarily unique to this author.

Morgan: I actually read a lot of supremely boring sex scenes. You know, where it’s pulling all the levers and pushing all the buttons. It’s putting the cream in the Twinkie, but this is someone making an eclair and slowly warming the shoe pastry and baking it. This is a whole other level.
Isabeau: It’s a feast.

Morgan: The majority of this story is a sex scene so it is taking up more real estate, but I also feel like it doesn't detract from the character building in this short story. It's rich for twenty pages let alone twenty pages of an erotic romance. The world building was perfect, you had just enough things. Our characters dream or goals, their reason for being in this space, their reasons for doing what they do, are completely fleshed out.

Isabeau: This books gives you something evocative.

Morgan: And I think it’s so fucking keen that you take this pretty Christian-centric content of the twelve days of Christmas and being part of an anthology with that theme and being able to cleverly but not shoehorn in a different cultural tradition that’s kind of a subtle critique. Once again this story occupies just 20 pages of this anthology.

Isabeau: I was mostly surprised by every sex scene. I just walked in to each one like, “What’re we gonna do next?”

You can listen to the whole podcast here.

And you can still get your hands on Twelve Naughty Days, which will only be available for a limited time. Each story is a never-before-seen short from NYT and USA Today bestselling authors: K.A. Linde, Skye Warren, Fiona Cole, Nana Malone, Claire Contreras, Nikki Sloane, Giana Darling, Sierra Simone, CD Reiss, Laurelin Paige, M. Malone, and me!

All of the proceeds go to the Trevor Project, which is a national, 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide prevention service for LGBTQ youth. Twelve Naughty Days is available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook. Just like the ebook, all the narrators on the audiobook are donating their work and time to the project!

Two sexy stories in upcoming anthologies just in time for Christmas!

(Author’s note: Twelve Naughty Days is now available and was named a #1 Amazon bestseller! Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Vol. 7 has been delayed until Dec. 21 because of supply chain issues.)

Right before Christmas, I will have sexy short stories coming out in two well-known anthologies. The Best Women’s Erotica of the Year collection puts together stories from some of the best steamy romance writers in the business — I was thrilled to be asked to submit for Volume 7, along with romance greats Adriana Herrera, Holley Trent, Lucy Eden and others! It will be available in ebook and paperback.

The other anthology pulls together incredible New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors to celebrate Twelve Naughty Days. It’s a sexy anthology based on the Twelve Days of Christmas song; I got Twelve Drummers Drumming 😅! I can’t wait to see what the other incredible authors — Sierra Simone, Skye Warren, M. Malone, Nana Malone, and others — come up with!!

One thing that makes Twelve Naughty Days collection very exciting is that all of the proceeds will go to the Trevor Project, which is a national, 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide prevention service for LGBTQ youth. Twelve Naughty Days will be available in ebook and audiobook for a limited time. Just like the ebook, all the narrators on the audiobook are donating their work and time to the project!

What are the stories about?

For the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Vol. 7 anthology, I wrote HOT POCKETS, a story about a busy married couple with kids who have to squeeze in time for intimacy whenever they can find it. Editor Rachel Kramer Brussel asked us to write about surprise for already established couples. In romance, we usually write about people’s journey to their happily ever after; I loved this opportunity to write about people after they’ve reached it.

The story explores how two people who love and are devoted to each other keep the “happy” in the HEA when real life and all its demands — jobs, kids, packed weekends, errands, chores, tight budgets, aging parents — get in the mix.

A #1 Amazon besteller

For Twelve Naughty Days, I wrote TWELVE DRUMMERS. Discover what happens when a Latinx jewel thief, a Latinx museum guard, and an ancient Mexica drum magically collide on the longest night of the year. It’s verynaughty. I’ve already made my mom swear not to read it (or if she does, she has to swear to never EVER tell me!!!!).

Can I read an excerpt?

I've loaded up excerpts of the short stories on the super secret, newspaper-subscribers-only spot on my website where subscribers get all their goodies! Want a sneak peek? You can sign up to my newsletter here.

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