NOW AVAILABLE: Inspired By You

It’s RELEASE DAY! Whitley and Maxton have been released out into the wild for your pleasure! I know it took me longer than normal to come out with this latest Love in the City novel, and I just want to thank you so much for being patient with me! I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you’ll leave me some feedback in the form of a review no matter how you feel about the story! Inspired By You’s soundtrack and awareness page are now up on my website! I’ve also unlocked the Pinterest board for Inspired By You! Please be sure to check out my Nuss’ Navy group for exclusive giveaways, as well as my Facebook page for another release day giveaway! Thank you again for your love and support of the Love in the City series! It means so much to me! Happy reading!

Fame made him selfish.

Hollywood heartthrob, Maxton Waters, has just been named the World’s Sexiest Man Alive. Women fantasize about him. Men want to be him. The paparazzi continuously follow him. His ego is definitely larger than his heart.

Poverty made her grateful.

Whitley Gonzalez has made a life for herself after growing up in and out of homeless shelters. Now a hardworking nurse, she spends her spare time raising her son alone and giving back to the community that helped raise her.

But when Max is sentenced to hours of community services and placed under the single mom’s thumb, working together proves harder than they ever expected, inspiring an unlikely love in the city.

*Can be read as a standalone*

Candy at Prisoners of Print – “Love. Adore. Smitten for. Crazy about. Infatuated with.”

Author Kelly Siskind – “The chemistry between Whitley and Max was stellar. Fun banter.”

Britt Red Hatter Book Blog – “If you’re looking for something that gives you pure heartfelt sweetness with the perfect amount of heat, look no further!”


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Hello, sweets!

February is the perfect month to give away goodies, and since I don’t have a valentine this year, I’m making all of YOU my valentines! As promised, here are the links to the Goodreads giveaways for each of my Love in the City books, open to readers in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Just click the book cover of each book below to be taken to the giveaway page to enter!

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I’m also participating in the #authorlifemonth event that’s happening all over social media networks during the month of February. Just search for the hashtag to find posts from writers like myself! We’re only on day six and it’s already been so much fun sharing! Tomorrow, I’ll be posting some of the playlist from Paige’s book, Challenged By You.

Last, but certainly not least, if you’re on Instagram, be sure to follow me @stephnuss13! I’m teaming up with several authors to give you something special for Valentine’s Day, and you won’t want to miss out on it! I repeat, it will only be on Instagram!

Happy reading,

Steph

#GIVEAWAY Merry Bookmas: Steph’s Six Days of Christmas

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Happy Holidays, everyone!

This December, I’ve teamed up with six bloggers who have been with me from the very beginning to do a Christmas giveaway for all of you. Even before my first book came out, these girls were cheering me on and helping spread the word about me and my Love in the City series. They’ve put me in touch with so many other bloggers and readers I’ve become friends with now, too. They’ve made teaser pics and hosted giveaways for me. They’ve been involved with blog tours and my series tour. They’ve helped give me insight to New York City (the setting of the Love in the City series) since I live in Kansas and have yet to visit! They’ve beta read for me. They’ve left honest, beautiful reviews for both books that put a smile on my face. Simply put, they’ve taken time out of their busy lives to take a chance on me and my books, to promote them without asking for anything in return. They’ve seriously made 2014 a great year for me.

So, as a way to say thank you for all their support and to give back, I’ve given each blog a signed paperback set of the first two books in the Love in the City series to give away to their followers (Wanted By You & Fantasized By You). Six lucky readers will win both books! All you have to do is enter the giveaway below by clicking on the photo and following their blogs, following them on Twitter, and/or tweeting about the giveaway!

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I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday and an even better New Year! Thank you so much for making 2014 a great debut year for my writing! Your support truly means the world to me! This is only the beginning, folks! I have so many ideas floating around this crazy mind of mine; I can’t wait to share all my stories with you. 

If you’re new to the Love in the City series, I truly hope you check it out and enjoy it; I’d love to hear what you think of the gang! If you’re already a fan and can’t wait for more, I promise I’m working hard to give you everything you want! 😉 Stay tuned: I may just share the covers for the rest of the series and their blurbs soon! They’re too pretty to keep a secret much longer. Comment below with whose cover and blurb you’re most excited for: Tessa and Justin’s book, Paige’s book, Max’s book, or Cash’s book! 

And as always, please share the giveaway with your book-lovin’ friends and spread the holiday cheer!

Xo,

Steph

Black Friday Book Sale!

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Black Friday: a time when everyone goes insane for crazy good deals. But I think we can all agree that the best deals don’t mean having to stand in line or wake up at a ridiculously early hour just to get them. No, the best deals are book deals, and you can get them without even leaving your warm, cozy home. 

So, I’ve put both of my Love in the City books on sale for a limited time! This is the first time Fantasized By You has EVER been this low! So, if you haven’t read Harper and Maverick’s story yet, now is the time to pick it up and read it! If you haven’t had a chance to get either books and fall in love with the gang from Love in the City series, now is the perfect time to get the first two books because the prices will only be this low for a short amount of time. (These books can be read as stand-alones!)

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BUY LINKS:

Wanted By You (Love in the City, #1)

Amazon * iBooks * Barnes & Noble * Kobo

Fantasized By You (Love in the City, #2)

Amazon * iBooks * Barnes & Noble * Kobo

If you’ve already read them, please consider gifting them to your book-loving friends, family members, complete strangers, etc! Please help me spread the word on this amazing deal by sharing the above photo on your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest! After all, tis the season for giving, and may you all have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving! I want to thank each and every one of you for helping make this writing dream of mine come true! You’ve seriously made this one of the best years of my life, and I will forever be grateful for you, the readers. 

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Book Bloggers Are The Shit

There, I said it. Book bloggers are the shit. But most of us already knew that. They take the time to read and post about our books, and they do it all for the love of reading, for no compensation whatsoever. They have lives of their own. They have families and friends and a lot of other shit they could be doing besides reading our books and spreading the word about them, but that’s exactly what they do because they love books.

I cannot tell you how overwhelmed I was by the participation from the book bloggers who posted during my Love in the City Series Tour last week. I will forever be thankful for each and every one of you who took the time to help me out. Like I said, you have tons of other things you could’ve been doing that are way more important than me, so the fact that you took a chance on my books and you helped spread the word about them by posting reviews and promotional posts on your blogs, your Facebook pages, and/or your Twitter timelines, truly means the world to me. Your honesty in your reviews and feedback continuously molds the writer in me.

With that said, I hope you know that I’m always here for you, too. I really do believe that we should support one another, and that goes beyond just donating to your giveaways whenever you hit a milestone (though I don’t mind donating so please feel free to ask). What I mean is, I know some of you were ill or had family emergencies or other things going on in your lives, and I appreciate you taking the time to message me and let me know why you couldn’t post on the day you signed up and that your post was going to be delayed. Life happens, and I completely understand and want you to know that you can always message me for support. I just hope you know that you could never disappoint me or let me down. You’ve willingly gave me your support, and I’m here to give you mine right back. Some of you messaged me in regards to the subject matter of my books, relating to the same issues my characters go through, and I thank you for sharing your story with me. The whole idea behind my books and my characters’ stories is to raise awareness, and by sharing your own stories and spreading the word about my books, you’re doing just that. So, thank you for being awesome, for raising awareness, for encouraging others to read and sharing your love for books, and for simply being yourself. I look forward to getting to know each of you better in the future! 

Love in the City Series Tour’s Book Bloggers: 

2 Girls A Book & A Glass of Wine
A Closet Full of Books
A girl who loves books
A One-Click Addict’s Book Blog
A Thousand Lives Reviews
About That Story
All my Book finds
Amazeballs Book Addicts
Archaeolibrarian – I dig good books! 
Author Sandra Love
Babycakes Book Blog
Be My Book Boyfriend
Beautifully Broken Book Blog
Becca the Bibliophile
Between the Bindings
BFDBookBlog
Bitchy Richey’s Booktastic Reviews
BJ’s Reviews
Book Boyfriend Blog
Book Boyfriend Junkies
Book Excursions Book Reviews
Book Happiness
Book Loving Pixies
Book Nook Nuts
Book Talk.
Book-Bosomed book blog
Book-Lover bookblog
Books and Beyond Fifty Shades
Books and Bindings
Books and Friendz
Books Books Books
Books For Fun
Bookshelf Dreaming
Bookworm Betties
Bound in Ink Book Blog
Breezy Book Blog
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Calling All Bookaholics
CherryRed’s Reads
Coast to Coast Book Divas
Cover to Cover Book Blog
Crafty Momma’s Obsession
Crazy Daisy Book Whore
Discrete Divas 
Diva Discussions Book Blog
Drama Queen Book Blog
Elaine and Tami’s JB3 Blackbirds
Endless Reading
Fairytales Do Come True Just Ask Any Romance Author
Fictional Boyfriends
Fictional Rendezvous Book Blog
Fierce and Fabulous Book Diva
For the love of a good book 
Friends till the end book blog
GirlyGirlBooksReviews
Her Juicy Reads
Hooked On Books
Hopelessly Hooked on Books
I Love Story Time
Imaginative Dreams
Indie Authors & Book Blogs
Into the Night Reviews
Jassy Books
Jennifer’s Book Obsession
Just One More Page
K & T Book Reviews
K&S Book Blog
Koala Reading Den
Kristina’s Books & More
KT Book Reviews
Ladies Living in Bookland
LBM Book Blog
Liezel’s Book Blog
Literary Lovers Book Blog
Little Shop of Readers
Mad about books
Making It Happen
Mean Girls Luv Books
MegPie93’s Book Blog
Mia’s Point of View
Miss little bookaddict
Momma’s Secret Book Obsession
Mommy’s Naughty Playground
Naughty Book Eden
Naughty Girls of Romance
Not Another Damn Blog-Blog
Novels in Heels
Obsessed By Books
Once Upon A Book Blog
Once Upon An Alpha
Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock
Prisoners of Print
Ramblings from Beneath the Sheets
Ramblings From This Chick
Raunchy, Rude Reader’s Blog
Read It Woman
Read-Love-Blog
Reading Drinking and Relaxing
Reads All The Books
Real Talk Book Talk
Reel Ladys Love Smut
Renee Entress’s Blog
Romance Obsessed Book Blog
Romance Rewind Blog
Ruby’s Book Reviews
Sammy’s Book Obsession
Sarah & Kirsty’s Book Reviews 
Sassy Mum Book Blog
Sassy Southern Book Blog
Secret Realm Book Reviews

She Hearts Books
Shirley’s Bookshelf
Sneaky Reading
Southern Belle Book Blog
Stephanie’s Book Reports
Sweets Books
Taylrbookgirl
The Book Bellas
The Book Quarry
The Chiq Blog
The Jazzy World of E’s Bookshelf
The Lusty Literate
The Never Ending Bookshelf
The Pleasure of Reading Today
This girl loves book
This Redhead Loves Books
those naughty girls book club
Til the last page book blog
Trina’s Tantilising Tidbits
Twin Sisters Rockin’ Book Reviews
Two Sassy Chicks
Undercover Book Reviews
United Indie Book Blog
Verna Loves Books
We Love Kink
We Stole Your Book Boyfriend
Who Picked This?
Wild Wordy Women
Word Forward
Words Turn Me On
Worth the Read Blog
Your Favorite Book Corner

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Love in the City Series Tour

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Today kicks off my Love in the City Series Tour! First, I’d like to thank Melanie at Book Empire Promotions for hosting and organizing the event! Secondly, I want to thank all the book bloggers participating in the tour. Book bloggers help get the word out about authors like myself and our books. So, I’m very grateful to all of you who are taking the time to post about my Love in the City series and/or review the books. It truly means the world to me!

The Love in the City series is about a group of friends looking for love in New York City. Each book is about a different couple and their story is told from both the female and male POVs. The books can be read as standalones, but you’ll find out that each book picks up where the previous one left off. I decided to do it that way so that my readers didn’t miss anything in the lives of the Love in the City gang (meet the gang by clicking here). I know as a reader myself, I always wonder, why didn’t the author give us an epilogue? What about this or that? So, that’s why there are no epilogues in my series, because I promise you, what you want in an epilogue will eventually happen in the series. Each book ends in a happily ever after though, so no worries, they are no cliffhangers! I’ve also done something special with the series: all of the book covers are a different color that represents an awareness that’s featured in each book. I think it’s important as a writer to not only tell a great story, but also have an important message behind it. So, I hope that you fall in love with the story and its characters and take away the message behind it all, too.

Wanted By You (Love in the City, #1)

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Carter was captivated by Ellyson Evans the moment he laid eyes on her, but she was the one girl who didn’t beg for his attention.

He wanted her.

Ellyson vowed to never fall in love, because love can destroy you, but then she met Carter Jennings.

She wanted him.

Unwilling to risk their comfortable friendship, neither confessed their desires.

Losing touch after college, a chance meeting reconnects them.

They want each other.

But love in the city is never quite that easy.

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Fantasized By You (Love in the City, #2)

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Celebrity fashion designer, Harper Jennings is only months away from turning thirty, and her dream of living a happily ever after has yet to come true.

She’s given up on her fantasy.

Personal trainer and gym owner, Maverick Jones isn’t thrilled about having a designer mentoring in his new clinic, but after meeting the brunette beauty face-to-face, he dreams of having his way with her.

He’s ready to turn his fantasy into reality.

But when their fantasies collide, love in the city becomes more complicated than they ever imagined.

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If you haven’t checked out the series yet, now is the perfect time as Wanted By You (Love in the City, #1) is FREE for a limited time on Amazon, iBooks, and Kobo! October is breast cancer awareness month, and the pink cover of Wanted By You represents all of those women who have battled, who are currently battling, and who will battle breast cancer and other women’s cancers. If you’re already a fan of the series, please let your fellow book lovers and friends know about it! Word of mouth is one of the greatest ways to help out your favorite books and authors. 

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Pleasured By You (Love in the City, #3)

I’m currently in the middle of writing the third book in the Love in the City series, Pleasured By You, but it is now up for pre-order on iBooks! Here’s an unedited and subject-to-change teaser from Pleasured By You told from Fletcher’s point of view:

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You can find more exclusives for the series and lots of book talk in my Nuss’ Navy group on Facebook!

Thank you again to all the book bloggers taking the time to promote my Love in the City series! I really appreciate it! I’ll be sharing their posts on my Facebook and Twitter pages, and I hope you stop at all their blogs/pages to read their reviews and check out their promotional posts! They work so hard to keep their awesome blogs up and running, to share their love of reading with everyone, so please be sure to pay them all a visit and show your appreciate for all their book recommendations!    

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