Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Sensual Food - Spice up your sex life


Did you know that some of the most familiar culinary spices are highly valued for their medicinal and aphrodisiac properties? For instance, Ginger, stimulates the circulation, and is a reputed aphrodisiac. Cinnamon excites sexual response in women. Other libido enhancers include aniseed, cloves, cardamom, cumin, coriander, fennel seeds, nutmeg, pepper, and vanilla. Some spices combine nicely with milk and ice cream for ideal cooling to the body and inflaming the passions. Try to use pure, whole or organic spices and grind them yourself.

Try these two refreshing and stimulating shakes.

Cinnamon Girl
Blend chocolate ice cream with milk, real chocolate sauce and cinnamon essence for a sensational milkshake.

Venus and Mars
This delicious potion combines coriander and strawberries (representing Venus) with ginger and black pepper (representing Mars) to forge the union of heaven's most passionate couple. Stand the ground 1 tsp coriander and 1 tsp ginger in a cup of warm milk for five minutes. Refrigerate for an hour. Blend a handfull of strawberries with the spicy milk, strawberry ice cream and a dash of black pepper.

How you share these recipes with your love is totally up to you and your imagination.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Thursday's Thirteen - Where's my mind?


It's official! I've lost my mind. Here are the places I think it might be.

1. jumping on the jello in the fridg
2. fishing at the pond
3. reading a good smut book in the hammock and not being disturbed by small children
4. alone in the bathroom
5. having a nice cocktail on a beach in Barbados
6. running naked through the woods hopefull not being chased by a bear... something bare might be okay tho as long as he's yummy
7. hiding under the mess on my desk
8. eating pizza in Chicago
9. in the National Art Gallery in London
10. in a cozy cabin in norther Michigan with this guy

11. somewhere in Hershey, PA surrounded by chocolate
12. under the coffee dispenser at one of my favorite coffee shops
13. under a super soft pillow, sound asleep

I'm participating in the annual neighborhood garage sales...my boys are being very helpful...can ya tell?

Monday, June 8, 2009

Free Samples - Better Than Chocolate


Everybody enjoys a free sample! How many times can you resist the lady at the market holding out a yummy fresh baked pastry for you to sample? What about those little sampler boxes of chocolate? Yeah... admit it... we all like that little tease!

Well I'm offering a little tease, a sampler of my own and it's lower in calories than a pastry and better than chocolate.

It's a free sample of the Soul Series. You send me an email maryquast@yahoo.com with "Tasty Sample" in the subject and I'll send you a PDF of the book covers and first chapter from the first three books of the Soul Series.

The Soul Series
Contemporary romance with a twist... lots of twist.


Painted Soul is Book One of the Soul Series. ISBN-13: 978-0-9814739-3-2

A contemporary romance that takes the reader on a wonderful ride in an artist’s life, through the streets of London, and into the shadows of the underground.

Elizabeth McAlister was only eighteen when she met the art student, Puzzola in a London nightclub and gave him her heart. Ten years later, they meet again when a summer of intense passion and dark secrets begins.

As Elizabeth falls deeper in love with Puzzola, she tries to rescue him from tortured memories he refuses to discuss. Eventually, his double life and erotic past are exposed in a local newspaper just as he is involved in a life-threatening accident. Will their love survive?


Tormented Soul - Book Two of the Soul Series. ISBN 978-1-935407-22-5

Erick McAlister is known as London’s Most Dangerous Bachelor; he enjoys scotch, women, and spending time in the London underground club, The Skunk’s Den.

He’s never had a real relationship; women only want him for one thing- he desires more. When the one he vowed he would never toy with, Lynn Westmore, gives him an unexpected proposition, his life takes an enjoyable turn. Just as he is beginning to find happiness, tabloids headline him, a woman from his past announces she’s expecting his child, someone is
trying to kill him, and he finds himself questioning his relationship with the young courier he’s hired to teach him to ride his new motorcycle. Even though his life is in torment, he begins to believe in love, something he never thought he’d feel.

Unfortunately, Lynn doesn’t think Erick could ever be faithful to one woman, let alone be in love with her, so when she finds herself in love with him she runs. Erick falls into a spiral of depression, and it takes his brother and closest friends to bring him to his senses. When he finds out a magazine has rated him as the World’s Most Dangerous Bachelor, he agrees to do the interview only if Lynn is the photographer and he uses the opportunity to let Lynn know how he feels; he offers his heart to her one more time...


Lonely Soul - Book Three of the Soul Series. ISBN 978-1-935407-94-2

The eldest of the McAlister siblings is responsible and always putting his brother and sister before himself. Now that Erick and Elizabeth were enjoying their married lives, the time had come for Michael Casey McAlister to find his soulmate. A man with a deep sense of family and honor, yet at times could be manipulative and very controlling, always doing what he thought was best for others.

Featured on The Most Dangerous Bachelors list with his brother, but for his love for daring
outdoor activities; he searched for a woman who wasn’t a high society princess. With his good looks, wealth and sexual prowess, he has attracted many ladies but when the one he thinks is Miss Right doesn’t like his dog he shows her the door.

Lonely and discouraged, he dedicates himself into a New York City community garden project
with his friends and busies himself with his comic strip he has created under the name of Mike Casey. Mike meets Lauren “Wren” Avery with the help of their dogs in the park while he’s working on a cartoon. He sees her as a chance to improve himself and not follow his father’s path of unhappiness. He certainly didn’t expect to fall in love with the graphic artist. Wren falls in love with him as the cartoonist not knowing he is the co-owner of McAlister Enterprises, the same company she works for.

He knows he’s wrong not telling her the truth, but his world falls apart when she's transferred to the London office and she finds out who he really is. He realizes that in while building the company and interfering in other interfering in other people’s lives he may have lost control of his own life and what truly matters.

The Soul Series by Mary Quast

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Sizzlin' Summer Sellabration!



June 1 through Labor Day, 2009

All summer long, things are sizzling at Vanilla Heart Publishing, with specials and surprises, new releases, twofers, and more!

June Special
Buy your favorite VHP fiction titles in print version from Amazon, and for every copy purchased, select a FREE ebook (with full cover covers, front and back) from our entire Ebook Catalog!

Simply send verification of print copy purchase (your Amazon order number – last three digits only, date of purchase, your name and email) to Sizzlers@vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com and include the name of the free ebook you have selected. Within just a few short hours, you can be reading your free ebook, while waiting for your print copy to arrive!

Check out the contemporary romance Soul Series books for some hot summer reading!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Thursday's Thirteen - Truths About Love


Thirteen Truths about Love
In a Kids Point of View


“I think you fall in love why you get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn’t supposed to be so painfull.”

“One person who has freckles finds somebody else who has freckles and they fall in love.”

“Falling in love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.”

“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don’t want to do it. It takes too long.”

“No one is sure why people fall in love. But I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular.”

“Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time.”

“Lovers hold hands. They want to make sure their rings don’t fall of because they paid good money for them.”

“When people hold hands they are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the matchimony thing.”

“I’m in favor of love as long as it doesn’t happen when SpongeBob Squarepants is on TV.”

“Love is foolish…but I still might try it sometime.”

“To make a person fall in love with you, tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores.”

“Love with find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I’ve been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me.”

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”