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OKay, I have to start today off by saying YAY OILERS!! Edmonton’s hockey team is doing it’s thing and WINNING!!! :jump:

Okay also: Yesterdays winner of the Glass Bead Book Thong from me is KRIS.
Email me Kris (via the contact page onteh website) and send me your snail mail address to collect your prize!

Today’s Prize will be Winners Choice of eBook downlaod form my backlist!! All you have to do is comment and party with us to be entered!!

And Now, another author joining the party!!

Introducing Kathleen Dante

Oh, wow! All these great prizes being given out! I feel like a piker since I don’t have anything out yet to give away. But I do have an excerpt! So while others are living it up at RT, let’s party!

A lot has been made of love—and lust—at first sight. And then there’s Bonnie’s love at first touch. Love at first touch hasn’t happened to me, though I’d like to believe it happens. But what about hearing? Ever heard a voice that just rang your chimes? You know, the kind that just makes you melt when you hear it? Not necessarily in love, but definitely in lust.

That’s how it starts with my heroine in ENTANGLED. An executive with a corporate espionage problem, Kiera Stevens finds that the security adept recommended to resolve that problem has a voice that sparks uncharacteristic fantasies.

EXCERPT from ENTANGLED:

Kiera smoothed the jacket of her cream power suit over her breasts. In the rearview mirror, the unruly waves of her dark red hair remained confined in her usual chignon. Her makeup was minimal—and flawless. Every inch a strong, capable executive. Taking a deep, calming breath, she reached for her briefcase and stepped out of her car.
She didn’t know why she was so nervous. Dillon had said Mr. Atlantis was the perfect man to handle her situation. So what if his baritone seemed to strike an inner chord that continued to vibrate deep inside her? Considering that he was retired from Dillon’s line of work, he had to be middle-aged and she wasn’t in the market for a father figure.
That line of thinking carried her past building security all the way through the lobby. Riding the elevator to the sixth floor, she sternly resolved to keep her quivering inner chords to herself and focus on unmasking her industrial spy.
Still, she couldn’t prevent her free hand from gliding along one hip to smooth nonexistent creases when she stopped before a large, steel door that bore the dark blue logo of Depth Security. And when that same sexy baritone sounded from an inconspicuous grille beside it, she couldn’t suppress a traitorous inner clenching. “Kiera Stevens. I have an appointment,” she answered, wresting her mind back to business.
“One moment.” Soft, deep, commanding.
She found she’d closed her eyes, savoring that voice. Oh, God! Pull yourself together, Kiera.
With a muffled sigh, the steel door slid to one side, leaving her to stare at a broad chest clad in a pale blue, long-sleeved shirt. Startled, she tilted her head back to look up into piercing blue eyes, partly obscured by a thin fringe of overly long, black hair and framed by a handsome, solemn face.
“Ms. Stevens?”
Kiera caught her breath. His deep voice shook her to her very core, resonated through her bones. She pressed her thighs together as she creamed helplessly. Her breasts ached suddenly, her nipples tight and throbbing.
Oh. My. God. No middle-aged man addressed her; he looked barely a few years older than Dillon. “Yes,” she managed to answer.
He ushered her inside and sealed the door.

End of EXCERPT

If you liked that, there’ll be more on my website at www.kathleendante.com soon. And if you’re wondering what John Atlantis looks like, this pic I found comes close.
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But getting back to my original point, what kind of voice gets you sexually? Just makes you want to swoon? Sure, there are voices that you just hate to hear: flat, nasal, thin . . . the list could go on. But what kind of voice do you consider sexy or who would you say has “bedroom voice”?

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37 Comments

  4. Kathleen Dante

    Thanks, Lisa and Deborah! This is my first blog party and I’m having a blast. :jump::jump:

    Shuck Ying — I hope it’s not just the picture you like. 😉

    But, hey, what about my question! What kind of voice(s) turn you on? Or aren’t voices one of your turn-ons?

  5. JJ Massa

    GREAT excerpt, Kathleen! This looks like an amazing book.

    And I’ve got to say, as a blind person, it’s all about voice to start with. Oh man, I wrote a whole book around Pierce Brosnan’s voice. I love a sexy deep whisky purr…

    Um…what was I saying? Oh yeah, voice is important…

    JJ

  6. Bonnie Edwards

    Hey Kathleen, you’ve hit on one of my fave things. A guy’s voice is really important…I’ve always noticed them and responded well to dark and thready…hot voices.

    Ever notice how Michael Douglas’s voice *ruins* his acting? It’s kind of squeaky or something…wrecks the whole movie for me.

    When I write I ahve to absolutely nail the hero’s voice in my own head, even more than I have to see his face. How funny that you’d talk about it, too.

    Bonnie

  7. Little Lamb Lost

    I think that everyone has come across a sexy voice that does something for them. Although, I have come across this situation in life, I can’t immediately think of a famous person as an example.

    When I was in college, I worked summers at an insurance office manning phone board for reception. There were a couple of regular callers who had the sexiest voices. But not both having the same type of voice. The first was deep but smooth, the other was not so deep but just a touch gravelly. Each time they spoke, my insides would do a little flutter, and it would get just a touch warmer.

  8. Little Lamb Lost

    Oh, and by the way, if the voice is sexy and your hero looks something like the picture you posted, I would imagine that the heroine pretty much melts into a puddle somewhere in your story. Nice excerpt.

    And congarts to Kris on the book thong!

  9. Kathleen Dante

    JJ — You’re soooooooooo right! Pierce Brosnan’s voice is one of the things that caught my attention back in his Remington Steele days.

    Bonnie — for me, I have to hear my hero’s voice; otherwise, I can’t write the sex scenes. That would be like watching a silent movie! Sound is Important! You can get hot just hearing the groans and sighs, but if it’s just video, it’s like there’s a glass wall distancing you from the action.

    LLL — Thanks! Back when I was more impressionable (grade school) there was a Japanese singer with this really deep voice that just captured my imagination. Fast forward almost 30 years later and hearing a similar voice crooning can make me all fluttery. :blush: That’s kind of what inspired me.

  12. Kris

    Yeah, I am excited!!!!!!!! Thank you.

    I love the excerpt, the book sounds great.
    I love guys with accents. especially english, irish, scottish or cajun. They make me melt. :inlove:

  13. Kathleen Dante

    Catt — Thanks! I plan to put up the first chapter on my website in a few days. I hope you’ll like it. 🙂

    Accents! That’s right. Here I was going on about voices and I forgot about accents. :blush: Kris, I agree there’s something about accents. I’m not a fan of Sean Connery’s James Bond, but his accent is yummy. Maybe that’s why you like Ewan McGregor’s voice, Jessy?

  14. Jessy H

    yep, Kathleen. that would be it… and I know this is kinda going OT, but it’s just the whole package when it comes to Ewan…. I know if I ever had the opportunity I’d all over him…. hope not TMI.

  21. Kathleen Dante

    Cece — I wouldn’t know. I think the last Tom Cruise movie I watched was Top Gun. :angel:

    May — different strokes and all that. :great: If everyone liked the same things, we’d be so predictable … and boring. After all, conflict is necessary to keep things interesting. :duell:

  22. JJ Massa

    Kathleen,

    Its hard to describe the difference, mostly, it’s a more laid back French, mixed in with a bit of the Islands, Africa, its a… roux.

    Its just one of those things you want to hear, to just experience. Even when a Cajun man or woman is talking fast, it’s got a lazy drawl to it — sexy and intimate, sort of.

    I write a lot of Cajun, and I’m very familiar with French… they’re just two different languages, really.

    jj

  23. Darque Dreamer

    Great excerpt Kathleen, I will be watching for the book!

    A yummy voice to me is Gerard Butler…mmm…mmmm
    Guess that’s mostly that wonderful accent of his…lol

  24. Kathleen Dante

    JJ — For some reason, what comes to mind is French as spoken by a Southerner. 😆 But I have to admit that some of my favorite heroes are Cajun: Gennita Low’s Jazz Zeringue being the most recent.

    DD — Thanks! I’m in the midst of putting up the first chapter. It should go up in a day or so.

    😆 All this talk about accents suddenly brought to mind Robin Hood: Men in Tights. “Unlike some Robin Hoods, *I* speak with an English accent.” Whoops! Let’s not go there. :angel:

  26. Erin the Innocent

    I don’t like a squeaky, Mickey Mouse type voice (Mike Tyson??? LOL) What I am attracted by is confidence. Often that shows in the voice (along with the way a man carries himself).

    I prefer a deep voice. I love listening to someone with an accent different from my own (even though I swear to god I don’t have an accent, eh *g*). Gerard Butler and Clive Owen ….. oooh la la.

    I could also listen to James Earl Jones talk for hours. He could read the telephone book and I’d be enthralled…his voice just resonates *shivers*

    ~Erin the Innocent

  35. Kathleen Dante

    Thanks, Pam! Now, I have to find out what Sam Elliott sounds like, since you and Tami like his voice. 😉

    Woo-wee! Liam Neeson! Does it date me if I say the movie I remember him in is Schindler’s List? :blush:

  36. Lisa T

    Awesome excerpt!!! I love a great voice, sends shivers. I could listen to Sean Connery’s voice for hours. Rough, gravel deep with just a hint of sexual know how.

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