The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Promotion & Giveaway!

 ANNE RICE’S

BOOK ONE IN THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

EROTICA TRILOGY

THE CLAIMING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY eBook

10/12 ONE DAY ONLY $2.99

For ONE DAY ONLY on October 12^th, 2012 the New York Time’s bestselling first book in Anne Rice’s seminal erotica trilogy, THE CLAIMING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY, will be available through all of the major online retailers in ebook format for $2.99. This edition is complete with a new preface written by Rice about the current mainstream boom of erotica literature.

Many people know that Anne Rice paved the way for blockbuster books about witches and vampires. What they may not realize, is that she is also the godmother of pleasure and pain erotica. When Anne Rice published her seminal SLEEPING BEAUTY CHRONICLES in the mid-eighties under the pen name A.N. Roquelaure, she couldn’t have predicted that not only would her erotic take on

the famous fairy tale become a huge underground hit and a mainstay for erotica fans for three decades, but it would also be a choice as ahead of the curve as her supernatural novels.

The series is more popular than ever, and with sadomasochistic erotica dominating bestseller lists, more and more people are discovering this classic trilogy. Now her books will be available for a whole new generation of erotica fans making THE CLAIMING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY a New York Times Bestseller three decades after it was initially published! All three books will hit stores nationwide on July 11^th 2012, from Plume with a provocative new preface and gorgeous re-package

In the first book of the series; THE CLAIMING OF SLEEPING BEAUTY (July 11, 2012), Rice follows the traditional folktale of Sleeping Beauty, the spell cast upon the lovely young can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. In Rice’s steamy retelling, The Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual conquer. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him. Rice’s exploration of the master and sexual slave fantasy is both elegant and arousing under her skillful pen.

People are much more comfortable today admitting and talking about what they enjoy in fiction and film. Much more. People are “out of the closet” about sexuality, period. The whole world knows women are sensual human beings as well as men. It’s no secret anymore that women want to read sexy fiction just as men do, and there’s a new frankness about the varieties of fantasies one might enjoy. So many clichés have been broken and abandoned. And this is a wonderful thing.

– From Anne Rice’s new preface in the Sleeping Beauty Chronicles 

Don't forget to check out the other two books in the trilogy:

 

Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty #2)

Description:

This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. 

Beauty's Release (Sleeping Beauty #3)

Description:

In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. In Beauty's Release, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.  

 

The publisher is generously offering (5) copies each of Beauty's Punishment and Beauty's Release for this giveaway. For clarification - there will be (5) winners, each of whom will receive a set of both books. US only.

 

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