I don't really use lj anymore to write (although I do still read all my friends) - but I have recently found myself boasting about my social media savvy to the extent that I 'had a live journal in 2002' (obviously 2002 is nothing *nothing* to many of you guys).

Also, I have the twitter and I'd love to follow any lj pals who are there. I don't link my tweets to lj because I find that practice to be slightly dubious, but, well, you can get them here if you so delight.

http://twitter.com/mathildia

If we've not spoken for ages and you remember who I am, say hi, I miss everyone.

(X post from my main blog at http://mathildemadden.wordpress.com

If you want to leave a comment to be entered in the competition to win a copy - go on!- please do it over there and make my life easy. Ta.)

The Silver Collar is out on Tuesday in the US, so this seems like a good time to boast about the exciting reviews I've been having.

Smutty UK mag Forum took a break from titty girls to say this:

Iris is a kick-ass werewolf hunter and member of the 'Vix', a team of specially trained supernatural lycanthrope killers. After witnessing her twin brother's death at the hands of an enormous alpha werewolf 11 years previously, her sole pursuit in life is tracking down and extinguishing every last wolf until she finds 'the beast' and avenges his death (...)

But her quest is not an easy one because the night her brother was killed her boyfriend Alfie was alos attacked but managed to escape, thus turning him into one of the beasts she seeks to kill. Iris banished Alfie from Oxford (...), but one dark night she finds herself faced with a very familiar wolf (...)

Alfie has started to struggle with his shape-shifting form and makes unexpected changes when the moon isn't full, which is compounded by the fact that orgasms trigger off transformations and he's horny was hell (...)He's back in town in search of the silver collar, which will prevent him from turning, but it's currently in the possession of Blake, Iris's slightly eccentric estranged husband and fellow werewolf hunter (...)

Iris is torn between her job, her mission to destroy the beast and her magnetic attraction to the man she's always loved. With just the right measure of action, thrills and steamy sex The Silver Collar is grippingly clever original and funny too, making it an un-put-down-able read.

Meanwhile Ashely Lister over at the Erotica Readers Association, had this to say:

The Silver Collar is an erotic romance. Granted, the presence of werewolves within the narrative means it's a supernatural erotic romance but this story puts the super in supernatural and the focus is very keenly set on the erotic romance of the story.

The prologue opens eleven years ago, with a young Iris attendant on a risqué outdoor photo shoot with her brother and boyfriend. Disquietingly, there's a full moon. But Iris, her brother Matt and boyfriend Alfie, are all untroubled by this element. Matt's main worries revolve around the "classy" photographs he wants of a near-naked Alfie. Alfie is struggling to win Iris's affections. And Iris is lustily looking forward to seeing Alfie in some of the raunchier poses her brother has planned for the evening.

The evening ends badly. Matt loses his life. Alfie loses his humanity. And Iris loses a brother and a boyfriend. There are only two good things to come out of the evening: Iris gains a vocation as a werewolf hunter, and we get the opening prologue for a sensational trilogy of supernatural erotic romances.

I'm not going to say anything more about the story. Mathilde Madden is a respected author of erotic fiction – and deservedly so. The horror element, necessary for any supernatural tale, is eloquent and doesn't intrude on the erotic or romantic developments. The romance is impossible, and therefore compelling as the couple get closer and are then pulled apart by cruel circumstances. The erotic twists and turns are powerful, passionate and truly exciting.

The Silver Collar is the first of a trilogy – to be followed by The Silver Crown and The Silver Cage. Iris and Alfie's turbulent relationship has opened to a resounding start that ticks every box a reader could want from a supernatural erotic romance.

Stories of this calibre don't come around with every full moon.

Well, that's all quite good. To celebrate the teetering pile of author copies of The Silver Collar over in the corner of my living room I shall be giving away a couple of copies to a couple of commenters. Just say hi.

Also, take a peek at the first chapter of The Silver Collar right here

More at Lust Bites as ever

Please update your bookmarks. The further adventures of Mathilde Madden, author, werewolf wrangler, smutmonger and porn broker can be found at:

http://mathildemadden.wordpress.com

It's UK release day for The Silver Collar today. w00t.

I'm at Lust Bites for 3 days (today, tomorrow and sat) throwing out previews and bits and pieces. There is a competition (growl to be entered) in which you can win a copy of all four of my Black Lace novels to date, with runner up prizes of more copies of The Silver Collar.

Especially worth entering if you are not in the UK and looking at another couple of months for werewolf release in the US and where ever else they sell Black Lace books these days - no one tells me anything. I think you can get them in Canada.

Also check my silver werewolves blog for extra stuff and the first chapter exclusively on Sunday.

MxM

The Silver Collar is out on Thursday in the UK!

To celebrate I'll be doing some stuff on Lust Bites later in the week. And you can catch some snippets on my author blog right now!

I'm having the summer off from blogging!

In Sep I'll drop a post here to tell you all about my spanking new blog which will be counting down to the werewolf books. (One of the reasons for the blogging break is to make sure I write the damn werewolf books).

I'm keeping this account for reading and commenting, but it is not really public or the blog of Mathilde Madden anymore.

Thank you.

I'm winding this blog down. Live journal isn't really working for me anymore. Still keeping this journal for reading.

I'll let you know when I have a new blog up and running.

Doing rewites on WB1 and finsihed WB2 and getting reading for Phoenix Rising so won't be instant.

T x

The biggest one yet.

Hope over to Lust Bites and leave a comment about my pretty blue handcuffs in the picture and win a huge fuck off stack of pr0n.

Disability fetish smut, cowboys stories, fantasy jungles, Eygpt, body swaps, vampires, plain old good clean porn. Go get!

There probably aren't many other people right now who, because they have just gone from writing some werewolf novel into writing some BDSM-lite are having to remind themselve to type 'sir' and not 'sire' every damn time.

But this is my writing problem of the day. Well, so far, it is only 10.30.

Well apparently this has been news since Spetember, but even so, seriously.

This Life Xmas Special!

News like this really deserves its own icon.