Guest Post & Giveaway: Inch by Inch by Heidi Belleau & Amelia Gormely

~Howdy folks! I have two of my fave ladies on the blog today and they brought an awesome giveaway be sure to comment to win.~

3 FACTS ABOUT SATISH MALHOTRA 

Hi, and welcome to the Inch by Inch blog tour! Inch by Inch is the third in Riptide’s BDSM erotica series The Professor’s Rule, written by Heidi Belleau and Amelia C. Gormley. Today, Darien has asked us to share a little trivia about Satish, our down-to-earth menswear salesman from The Professor's Rule. All week we’ll be touring the web giving you a behind-the-scenes look at The Professor’s Rule, including new character profiles and some very steamy excerpts. We’re also giving away not one but TWO ebooks, so stay tuned! 

Thanks so much to our host, Darien, and to you readers, of course, for coming along! 

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1. During the planning stages, Satish was originally supposed to be a one-off character who appeared in James and Carson’s relationship and then disappeared again just as quickly . . . but we (and James!) ended up liking him so much that he stuck around! 

2. Satish’s name was originally Akanksha, which according to baby name websites means “dream” or “wish”. But Heidi, rightfully worried about the accuracy of baby name websites, decided to check with fellow author Suleikha Snyder (of Indian origin herself). . . who informed her, yeah, that was a girl’s name. And so, after a lengthy Twitter conversation on Indian naming conventions, he became Satish! (Which sounds so much better, don’t you think?) 

3. Although working as a salesman is “just a job” for Satish, he’s genuinely interested in fashion. He attributes his care for his personal appearance to the fact that with six siblings, he was denied grooming time in the bathroom growing up, and now he’s making up for that fact. 

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Contest Info: 

If you haven’t fallen in lust with the Professor, yet, now’s your chance! We’ve got two ebooks to give away to two lucky commenters: one copy of Giving an Inch, and one of An Inch at a Time. That’s two chances to win! Let us know your thoughts and questions about Satish! Be sure to include your contact info (email, Twitter, or Facebook!) on this or any of the other of the posts on this tour for a chance to win. More comments=more entries, so to increase your odds of winning, be sure to follow the entire tour! We’ll pick a winner New Year’s Eve, so you can start 2014 right! 

Inch by Inch (The Professor's Rule #3) 

After two long, kink-free years apart, James Sheridan has reunited with his Professor: the sexy, dominant Evander Carson. But this time, things will be different. James is older, more sure of himself, and confident that he can draw the line between Carson’s demands and his own principles. 

One of those lines is gorgeous menswear salesman Satish Malhotra. After their steamy dressing room encounter, James feels an unexpected connection to Satish, and he wants to explore it further. But Carson’s involvement—in James’s life, and in James and Satish’s budding relationship—complicates things. 

Carson’s penchant for using other men in their sex games has always troubled James, and he’s adamant that Satish not be just another notch in their whipping post. But when Satish learns what prompted James to pursue him in the first place, will James’s new ability to draw the line even matter? 

Click here to read an excerpt or purchase Inch by Inch (The Professor’s Rule #3.) 

About Amelia:  Amelia C. Gormley may seem like anyone else. But the truth is she sings in the shower, dances doing laundry, and writes blisteringly hot m/m erotic romance while her son is at school. When she’s not writing in her Pacific Northwest home, Amelia single-handedly juggles her husband, her son, their home, and the obstacles of life by turning into an everyday superhero. And that, she supposes, is just like anyone else 

Her self-published novel-in-three-parts, Impulse (Inertia, Book One; Acceleration, Book Two; and Velocity, Book Three) can be found at most major online book retailers, and be sure to check Riptide for her latest releases, including her Highland historical, The Laird’s Forbidden Lover, the The Professor’s Rule series of erotic novelettes (co-written with Heidi Belleau), and her upcoming post-apocalyptic romance, Strain 

You can contact Amelia on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, BookLikes, Tumblr, or contact her by email using the form at http://ameliacgormley.com/ 

About Heidi:  Heidi Belleau was born and raised in small town New Brunswick, Canada. She now lives in the rugged oil-patch frontier of Northern BC with her husband, an Irish ex-pat whose long work hours in the trades leave her plenty of quiet time to write. She has a degree in history from Simon Fraser University with a concentration in British and Irish studies; much of her work centered on popular culture, oral folklore, and sexuality, but she was known to perplex her professors with papers on the historical roots of modern romance novel tropes. (Ask her about Highlanders!) Her writing reflects everything she loves: diverse casts of characters, a sense of history and place, equal parts witty and filthy dialogue, the occasional mythological twist, and most of all, love—in all its weird and wonderful forms. She also writes queer-flavoured M/F as Heloise Belleau. 

Chat with her on twitter using the handle @HeidiBelleau. Browse her website at HeidiBelleau.com or HeloiseBelleau.com. Check out her books on Goodreads. Follow her Facebook and Tumblr accounts. Or contact her using good ole-fashioned email: heidi.heloise.belleau @ gmail.com