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About Portia Da Costa
Portia Da Costa is a multi-published British author of romance, erotic romance and erotic fiction. Her novels have been published by a variety of different houses, both in the US and the UK, and translated into many languages including German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, Croatian, Portuguese and Japanese. Best known for her many novels for the pioneering British erotica publisher Black Lace, her work has been praised for its intense character-driven sensuality and the vivid emotional depth. She enjoys writing books with contemporary, paranormal and occasionally futuristic settings, and her Ladies' Sewing Circle stories for Harlequin span the late 1880s and early 1890s Victorian age.
Portia has been writing for publication since 1990, and has had over thirty novels and novellas published, as well as 100+ short stories. In addition to her writing for Black Lace, she's also worked with a variety of other publishers including, Entangled Publishing, Samhain Publishing and Carina Press.
In 2012, her saucy, library-set erotic romance, IN TOO DEEP, reached #5 on the Sunday Times Bestsellers list, with only books by E L James and Sylvia Day outselling her. More recently her contribution to the MASTERED boxed set of sizzling BDSM erotic romance allowed her to reach both the New York Times and the USA Today bestseller lists too.
Portia is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association [UK] and the Society of Authors [UK].
Portia lives in the heart of West Yorkshire, UK, with her husband and their four cats: adorable brother and sister Mork and Mindy, cranky but lovable Felix, and Prince, a rescue cat from France who has a Gallic je ne sais quoi all of his own. When she's not writing she can be found reading, watching TV and movies, hanging out on Twitter and Facebook, and enjoying online life in general. She was formerly a librarian and has also worked in local government.
Portia has been writing for publication since 1990, and has had over thirty novels and novellas published, as well as 100+ short stories. In addition to her writing for Black Lace, she's also worked with a variety of other publishers including, Entangled Publishing, Samhain Publishing and Carina Press.
In 2012, her saucy, library-set erotic romance, IN TOO DEEP, reached #5 on the Sunday Times Bestsellers list, with only books by E L James and Sylvia Day outselling her. More recently her contribution to the MASTERED boxed set of sizzling BDSM erotic romance allowed her to reach both the New York Times and the USA Today bestseller lists too.
Portia is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association [UK] and the Society of Authors [UK].
Portia lives in the heart of West Yorkshire, UK, with her husband and their four cats: adorable brother and sister Mork and Mindy, cranky but lovable Felix, and Prince, a rescue cat from France who has a Gallic je ne sais quoi all of his own. When she's not writing she can be found reading, watching TV and movies, hanging out on Twitter and Facebook, and enjoying online life in general. She was formerly a librarian and has also worked in local government.
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But as it was fine and dry and not too cold, I pushed myself and decided to go into town to pay in a cheque and collect a prescription myself. Bit scary, as it’s been weeks/months since I’ve done this.
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Blog postBELOVED NEMESIS is my latest self published release, out this week.
It’s new, but it’s not absolutely, completely and entirely new because a version of it was published almost twenty years ago, in print, by a British publishing house. I was going to release it as-is, as a sort of period piece, but when I came to read through it I saw ways I’d like to change it, and update it… so I did!
Don’t get me wrong, I was proud of the original version, and I loved it. But it was7 months ago Read more -
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Blog postAt long last, here it is, the fourth instalment of my SECRET PLEASURES series. I meant to publish this ages ago, but circumstances seemed to conspire against it. Health, crises of confidence, changes of direction with the story, they've all delayed a release that should have happened not just months but years ago.
Anyway, here's the blurb... and my massive, abject apologies to those who've been waiting HER LOVER'S SECRET. I hope you enjoy the love story of Rachel and Lawrence, their10 months ago Read more -
Blog postLast Thursday, 15th March, our dear little cat Mindy died suddenly. It happened super quickly and she probably didn't know what was happening and had no time to be frightened. When I found her, on the bedroom floor, she looked peaceful and her pose was relaxed.
We miss her terribly. She was sweet, affectionate and good-natured. Perhaps the gentlest and cuddliest cat we've ever had. We adore her surviving brothers, Mork, Felix and Prince, but they are very different personalities, so11 months ago Read more -
Blog postGet your print edition from:
Amazon :: UK :: US :: CA :: AU
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It's also a bargain to buy these two vacation set tales together! ;)
POWER OF THREE
Sun-drenched days and lush steamy nights stir strange desires in singleton Laurie J1 year ago Read more -
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Blog postHere are DELICIOUS PLEASURE and DELICIOUS PAIN posing naughtily on the pink pouffe in the Dumpster Office of Doom!
DELICIOUS PLEASURE is a collection of short fiction devoted to general sensuality and naughtiness, while DELICIOUS PAIN features stories and short novellas devoted to BDSM and erotic power play.
I hope you like the covers that I designed myself. They're simple enough, but I think they turned out well.
Here are the buy links for Delicious Pain <1 year ago Read more -
Blog postThe print edition of my super steamy, super length novel WILD IN THE COUNTRY is here!
Very pleased with the result as I designed the cover myself. The gorgeous stock image makes it, of course. Perfectly captures Flora in dreamy soft focus.
Read an excerpt and check out the buy links here1 year ago Read more -
Blog postThese arrived this morning!
They're my author copies of a Spice Briefs anthology that's been published in Japan. I don't know what the antho is actually called though. Maybe a Japanese speaker could help? But it includes my story Second Time Around, from my Risque Reunions trilogy. Other authors in the antho include Megan Hart and Jackie Barbosa...
I always get a kick from translations! Love to think of people reading my stories in lands so far away... :)1 year ago Read more -
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Blog postWell, after a long, long wait and years of being unavailable, WILD IN THE COUNTRY is finally published again!
This is my saucy country romp novel, and it’s a bumper one, over 300 pages. It’s been slightly edited, to highlight a growing romantic relationship, in and amongst the general sex high jinks, and deliver a more clearly defined ‘happily ever after’.
Here’s the blurb:
Welcome to the naughtiest little village in England!
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Blog postI'm currently working towards self publishing this older title of mine, WILD IN THE COUNTRY. And this cover perfectly expresses my vision of Flora, the heroine. When we were discussing ideas for covers for Wild, my buddy Saskia Walker mentioned the dreamy sensuality of the old Cadbury's Flake television adverts, and that really inspired me! With that in mind, I was lucky enough to find this image fairly quickly on a stock site.
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Here's the blurb...
Nikki thinks she’s found the perfect man in the form of her handsome, sophisticated work colleague David. He’s intelligent, funny, and a devastatingly desirable Alpha male in a traditional and slightly old-fashioned English way.
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TOUCH was originally published by Samhain Publishing a few years ago, but now I've self published it and it's available again a1 year ago Read more -
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HIS PRIVATE DANCER - a decadent tale of saucy burlesque
With a front row seat at a private burlesque show, Mr Curtis finds himself bewitched and seduced by the gorgeous Madame X.
As the silken gloves and feather boa go flying, the mysterious beauty works him up into a fever of desire with her steamy, exotic moves.
Will there be an encore? An even hotter show?
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To celebrate, it's available at a special low price of 99c/99p until 27th August 17. Anna and Nick's story is pretty hot stuff, though I say it myself, but if you buy it this week you get it both hot *and* cheap!2 years ago Read more -
Blog postLESSONS AND LOVERS
Lover after dark…
By day, he's the perfect personal assistant, bodyguard, chauffeur… by when the lights go down, he's a devastating sex machine, using his hands, his lips and his breath-taking body to drive his employer to the very limits of pleasure.
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Blog post"The passionate love story of independent off-beat Lizzie and her gorgeous multi-millionaire, John Smith, every woman's idea of the sexy older man."
The Accidental Call Girl, The Accidental Mistress and The Accidental Bride have just been released together as a digital 'boxed set'!
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From being mistaken for an escort...
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Blog postBlargh! I'm poorly, and I have been for a week and a bit now. I feel better than I did, but this bout of what I suspect is Swine Flu, has really knocked me out of the great groove of productivity and positivity that I've been in recently.
There's not a lot I can do about it. I'm not one of these super focused, super determined writers who can push on through in situations like this. I just have to give in and wait out the virus, hoping that it doesn't dig in too hard and linger with3 years ago Read more
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Books By Portia Da Costa
Delicious Pleasure Boxed Set
Apr 28, 2014
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The Stranger: Black Lace Classics
Sep 6, 2012
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Wild in the Country
Jan 3, 2018
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The Tutor (Black Lace Classics Book 1)
Sep 30, 2010
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The Accidental Call Girl (Accidental series Book 1)
Feb 14, 2013
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The Accidental Bride (Accidental series Book 3)
Nov 21, 2013
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The Gift (Black Lace)
Dec 5, 2013
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Entertaining Mr Stone (Black Lace)
Jul 31, 2011
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