Faking It - With Flowers: A Giveaway

Book CoverHere’s a little something new and different. To celebrate the release of “Faking It,” by Elisa Lorello, I’ve got my totally-craving-spring hands on a giveaway for you: flower delivery service California Blooms is donating 1 dozen roses to a Smart Bitches, Trashy Books reader located in the continental U.S. The winner will also get a free copy of FAKING IT! If you win, you can have the flowers and book sent to yourself (who doesn’t want a dozen roses and hot read delivered to her door?) or someone you love.

Faking It by Elisa Lorella is about Andi, a composition and rhetoric professor, who breaks off her engagement and moves home to Long Island to start her life and career over. Then she meets Devin, a male escort whose client list seems to include at least half of the accomplished women she knows. Devin is totally handsome and charming (and quite out of her league) but Andi senses something underneath his sexy exterior that fascinates her. So she proposes a “teaching” arrangement: each of them will educate the other in what they know best. Devin will teach Andi to be a better lover, and she’ll teach him to be a writer.

That’s right, it’s all about conjugation up in here. Awwww yeah.

Yes, this giveaway is US only (sorry about that – if I could send flowers to you wherever you are, I totally would, unless you live in one of those luscious tropical countries with flowers all over the place and would look at one more bloom as a reason to screech). All you have to do is leave a comment with what you think is the sexiest verb (in any language), and you’re entered to win. Comments will be open for 48 hours, and standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. I really like flowers. No animals were disturbed in the writing of this entry. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear (and may also be bigger, too – woo!) Yes, verbs totally are sexy. They are the sexytimes of the parts of speech.

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  1. cc says:

    Need.

  2. dawn says:

    Allure gets my vote: To attract, tempt, fascinate, charm, etc., all of which means your imagination gets carried away with what *might* happen.
    Yum.

  3. Ginny says:

    sexiest verb: “stroke”

  4. Jennifer says:

    My husband’s suggestion – slather. “It just popped in my head,” he said defensively.  I think caress. There’s touching involved, along with something more loving. Mr. Slather responds “That’s not sexy. That’s girly.”

    Press32 – press ain’t so bad either.

  5. E! says:

    satisfy, seduce, simmer, savor… lets go with simmer.

    My spam word: filled65. Kinda a sexy verb but two numbers off there. Rrrowr. Okay that sounds ridiculously cheesy when I read it back. I’m going to go watch some Doctor Who.

  6. E! says:

    Jennifer, thats hilarious. Tell your husband slather is what you do with butter and piece of toast. Slather is what you do to a dry thing to lube it. only a guy could think thats sexy. ew.

  7. Barbara says:

    You have to actually be thinking of sex to begin with, but my word is: tremble.

    Anything that can get you trembling is hot.

  8. Sarah L. says:

    To pulsate or to tremble.

  9. Shannon H says:

    To caress

  10. Kristen says:

    I downloaded this book over about a year ago for .99 -reader beware, it is NOT a romance, if that is what you’re expecting, at least not the version I read. How is it a new release? I’m not trying to be snarky. I just find it odd, more so because Amazon does not give me the usual head’s up that I already bought this book. New publisher?

  11. Lori says:

    Think.

    After all, it all starts with a thought.

  12. Lulu says:

    Sexiest verb:  tease

    2nd sexiest verb: seduce

  13. Tina C. says:

    “writhe”, as long as it’s in pleasure and not in pain…

  14. Charlotte says:

    Oohh, these words are good!

    I like “linger” for the way it sounds and how it can be used to describe so many levels of sexiness. A lingering glance, his kiss lingered on her lips, her presence lingered in his memory…

  15. Suzy K says:

    Caress

    I like the sound of that word as well as the meaning… so soft, so gentle, so sexy!

  16. Rebecca says:

    Gozar (de) – to enjoy in a specifically sensual sense, to be delighted (by) or receive pleasure (from)

  17. Elisa says:

    So many good ones taken already….

    I’ll go with murmur…understated, but very sexy.

  18. Rebecca says:

    Sexiest verb?  ‘caress’—it can be an end in itself or the beginning of something deliciously naughty 🙂

  19. Shelley says:

    to stroke.

  20. Sarah W says:

    When used in the right context, this is the sexiest verb I know: 

    Ache.

    Hearts, souls, and various body parts do this, and do it well.

  21. LEW says:

    To support – physically and/or emotionally.

  22. Hennie says:

    Fellate. With the right fella.

  23. Diva says:

    “to yearn”

    I’m one of THOSE girls—the jane eyre ones who swoon over all that repressed longing!

  24. Dayna says:

    Flirt 🙂

  25. Michaelene J says:

    Curl.

    The curling of toes, the curling of bodies around one another, the curling of that one strand of hair that the hero cannot help but twirl through his finger and tug gently.

    Yes, curl. Most definitely, “curl”. See how sexy that word just rolls off the lips? “Curl.”

    Yowzaz, I’m done now.

  26. Ocotilla says:

    amo=love in Latin

  27. Diatryma says:

    I like ‘coalesce’ because it is a gorgeous word.  But gorgeous isn’t sexy.
    So I’m going with ‘embrace’.

  28. bookstorecat says:

    I was gonna go with “fuck,” but now I’m thinking maybe I use that too much in non-sexy contexts to consider it the sexiest word out there. I’m gonna have to go with “foot rub.”

  29. Melissandre says:

    To linger.  It has so many possibilities.  You can linger over coffee, eyes can linger longingly, or hands and mouths can linger in essential places.

  30. AllyJS says:

    Drawl. Like a rake hero as he teases and seduces the heroine. Oh swoon. Oh swoonie swoon.

  31. sarah b says:

    quiver. like shiver but it doesn’t make me think of cold.

  32. Patriciam6 says:

    Shudder.

      Mmm…

  33. Kimberly M says:

    I would have to say surrender or submission, because it reminds me of all the naughty fun to be had when someone else is in control.

  34. Kate says:

    Whisper. In a sexual context the idea of privacy and communication takes on a whole new meaning, from sharing naughty thoughts with a lover to finally being able to say “I love you” so only they can hear.

  35. LisaM says:

    Sate: to satisfy any appetite or desire fully

  36. Katlyn Costello says:

    I think innocence is probably the sexiest word that hasn’t been taken yet. Innocence says so much, its like foreplay for other sexy words. Because who doesn’t love the thought of being corrupted? Though its overused, in concept and literary use, its just leads the mind to naughty places 🙂

    However, as I just looked up and discovered that we are looking for verbs, I gonna have to go with ‘pump’ and I think I won’t explain why (blushing) But suffice it to say that that’s what does it for me….

  37. Kitala says:

    Connect

    That moment when two people feel the pull between them

  38. Lily says:

    to seduce- which for some reason always make me think of the aroma of hot chocolate.
    and to kiss- I’ll leave the imagination to pick out where…

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