Raleigh Damson, writer.

  The calendar flips again. It’s back to the hustle. I’m not one for resolutions in the trendy-meme sense but I do find myself looking around my book-making-room and wondering if I should move my desk in front of the window (but it’s a gazillion gallons of snow out there and the view is kind of depressing. Also the plant table sits right in front of the window… where would I put the plants?) and…

I’m catching up on year-end admin stuff today but I wanted to share with you an excerpt from Five Nights of Yes, Ma’am between Callie and Theo and how they are spending New Year’s Eve together. Writing as Mercy Denton, Five Nights of Yes, Ma’am is one of two books I published this year but this book means a lot to me and I love how much readers have connected to this story. I hope 2026 brings you…

Flame For Always is out now and available on all retailers! I hope you love Ella and Zee’s story. It’s the last book in the Bandit Brothers Series and I am so thrilled to share it with you! If you’ve been with me from the very beginnng or if you are new to my world, thank you for hanging with me. A sizzling BDSM romance where desire and trust are tested like never before For decades, serving as…

At least that’s how it looks around here. For the last few weeks, I’ve been overhauling my website and I figured it’s past time for an update on the blog. I don’t mind this bare minimum look, that’s my goal for the next few months heading into the new year – Okay, aesthetics aren’t my thing, clearly but I like to think that I have become better at graphics since 2021. And yes, as a reader, I…

It’s no secret that the digital industry is booming. From exciting startups to global brands, companies are reaching out to digital agencies, responding to the new possibilities available. However, the industry is fast becoming overcrowded, heaving with agencies offering similar services — on the surface, at least. Producing creative, fresh projects is the key to standing out. Unique side…

Nearly all great ideas follow a similar creative process and this article explains how this process works. Understanding this is important because creative thinking is one of the most useful skills you can possess. Nearly every problem you face in work and in life can benefit from innovative solutions, lateral thinking, and creative ideas. Anyone can learn to be creative by using these five…

Nearly all great ideas follow a similar creative process and this article explains how this process works. Understanding this is important because creative thinking is one of the most useful skills you can possess. Nearly every problem you face in work and in life can benefit from innovative solutions, lateral thinking, and creative ideas. Anyone can learn to be creative by using these five…

In this article, I’d like to share 30 “one-sentence stories” about building better habits. (They are not all exactly one sentence, but they are very short.) None of these stories are mine. They were sent to me by readers of Atomic Habits. My hope is that these examples will illustrate how real people are putting the book into practice. They will show you what people are actually doing to build…

Garry Kasparov and his long-time rival Anatoly Karpov—two of the greatest chess players of all-time—took their respective seats around the chess board. The 1990 World Chess Championship was about to begin. The two men would play 24 games to decide the champion with the highest scoring player being declared the World Chess Champion. In total, the match would stretch for three months with the first…

Audrey Hepburn was an icon. Rising to fame in the 1950s, she was one of the greatest actresses of her era. In 1953, Hepburn became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance: her leading role in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday. Even today, over half a century later, she remains one of just 15 people to earn an “EGOT” by winning…

Happy release day, Theo and Callie!  I am so thrilled to share Five Nights of Yes, Ma’am with my readers! I hope you enjoy it! THEO I’ve spent many nights craving the sweet bliss of surrender, but after my last relationship, I swore I’d never let myself be that vulnerable again. The wounds are still fresh. I’d be a fool to hand over my heart—or anything else—again. Callie. One look at her, and my…

Well, it’s not the white stuff falling but rain and I’ll take it. Like I said over on Mercy’s instagram, I have a to-do list as long as a monster’s c*ck and by now I’ve drank that first cup of coffee and the next one sat cold. On today’s agenda is reading through the final edit of Five Nights of Yes, Ma’am, the next Mercy Denton book, book three in the Sinful Delights Series. You can pre-order it…

Today is release day for Flame For Keeps! I wanted to share the first chapter with you. You can read Flame For Keeps on Kobo Plus or buy from the retailer of your choice here: https://books2read.com/flameforkeeps   1 JOSIE  Chefs don’t get hired in the dining room. Josie Agosti pushed the words from her bestie out of her mind, even if she knew deep in her bones her friend was right. She shifted…

“It’s simply an accident of birth that I’m not even more important.”- Hyacinth Bucket [Keeping Up Appearances]    This snowy Monday morning, I’m thinking about the accident of birth. About taking chances, even so. Keep going when the chips are down, that kind of thing. For no reason at all. This week, with the release of Flame For Keeps, I’m doing something I never thought I’d do. At one point, I…

I was trying to be clever and write, “It’s Beginning to Look Like Book Release Time!” but the titling looked strange on the post and I couldn’t quite pull it off. My coffee is cold and I need another sweater on or a blanket, I’m not picky. It started snowing properly and hasn’t stopped and I guess that is right on time and also too late so I can’t really complain…but about the cold? I always…

Is it still fun? Someone asked me if writing books was still fun now that I have ….10 out. Yes!  I mean, not very day is perfect and I wish that my backlist was even bigger because apparently I have decided it’s okay to be literary greedy and I struggle with all the things that I have always struggled with and sometimes when that’s in a pool of my peers it makes me feel like I can’t or shouldn’t…