Next Big Thing Blog Tour.....

Welcome to the "Next Big Thing" Blog Tour! Thanks to fellow writer, Tea Cooper who tagged me - make sure you read to the end of my post to check out the three great authors I've tagged to continue the chain!

Okay, so here goes…I’ve got the option of talking about my current or next release. As I’m doing a blog tour soon for ‘Riding High’ I thought I’d use this chance to talk about my next release…

• What is the title of my current work in progress?

   Too Good to Share

• Where did the idea come from for the book?

I wanted to write a friend’s to lover’s story – but make it a bit more complicated, because after all, when were relationships ever straight forward?

Whether they are family, friends, or lovers there is so much potential for exploring what we really want, how much of ourselves we show to different people, how we interact, how important the relationships are… and how we all react differently when those relationships start to fall apart.

 • What genre does your book fall under?

    Erotic romance (ménage)

 • What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

There are four characters who are key to the story, Viggo Mortenson would float my boat as Dane (can he pretend to be Aragorn please?), James Marsden would make a great Charlie. Jessica Alba would be good as Holly, and Audrey Tautou would bring out the naughty side of Sophie.

• What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?

   Sophie is on a mission to help her friends and mend their broken hearts, but what none of them realise is she’s hiding the fact that she’s the one that needs mending most of all.

 • Is your book self-published or represented by an agency?

    After signing contracts with Xcite and Breathless Press for my other stories, I decided to take a risk – this story is a bit different to the others, and (at the present time!) I’m planning to self publish.

• How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?

    This is one that has demanded to be written, I’ve spent about five weeks on it so far and expect to have it ready for edits any day now (watch this space!).

• What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

  Pass!

• Who or what inspired you to write this book?

    I love people watching and so often I’m sure that the people who seem to hold it all together best, who seem so in control, are often the ones who need help the most.

People’s lives can be so tangled, relationships and people so multi faceted – and when you add in love and lust it becomes even more complicated…. Which all got me thinking, how many of us are completely honest, even with ourselves, about what we really want to do with our lives?

• What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?

Menage, sexy men, friends to lovers and secret babies … isn’t that enough?! Okay, well this is a love triangle where facing up to the truth could destroy more than just close friendships.

To see what some of my writer friends are doing, I’m going to tag…

Allie A Burrow

Aimee Duffy

Charlotte McFall

Good luck! x

A little taster!

Life has been a bit hectic over the last couple of weeks, but I'm not complaining! One of the good things that has happened is the release of my erotic novel 'Riding High' - here's a taster, and there will be lots more snippets and insights when I do my blog tour, from November 26th -30th, I'll post the where and when here, hope you can join me then!

In the meantime.... I'm over Deadra Krieger's blog this Thursday 8th, I've been lucky enough to nab a 'Thankful Animals and Author's' slot to chat about a couple of the rescue animals that I've shared my life with. Her book 'Ruff Love: True Tails of Rescue' has just been released - have you checked it out yet? Click here if you haven't!

 Excerpt

‘Ahh, looks like I’ll have to watch my manners, then.’ He grinned, a big, dirty grin that said he wasn’t planning on watching his manners at all. ‘Unless I want some rough handling.’ He was close. Too close, far too close. Sending a strong whiff of maleness in her direction. It could have been aftershave; it could have been hormones, but who cared? It was making her feel seriously randy.
‘Yes.’ Which came out all squeaky. Calm. She just had to be calm and relaxed. ‘What do you fancy?’
He leant forward a bit, resting his tanned, muscled forearms on the bar, and caught her arm with his thumb, which didn’t help at all. ‘Well –’ his laugh rumbled round her ‘ –seeing as you’re asking …’
Christ, she must be able to stop blushing, and she really must be able to say something that didn’t sound like she was asking permission to jump him. Except she was asking, wasn’t she?
Talking to men had never been her strong point, and it would seem that even at 30 it still wasn’t. Maybe five long years of a soulless marriage and the type of sex that made your eyes water for all the wrong reasons had made her even worse at it.
She shifted her arm nervously away. This wasn’t how she normally behaved at all, but he was just so sexy, or she was sex-starved and desperate. Or both.
‘I think I better …’ She edged back, trying to ignore the way his gaze raked over her body, but her nipples were peaking in response, and her stomach was coiled with a fierce kind of hunger. She straightened a glass that didn’t need it; what was she even doing here? Just for once she’d thought a change of scene would do her good, help her forget the disaster she once called a life. And it might have done if Mr Sex-on-Legs hadn’t walked in.
‘I’ll go for the bitter if you promise to pull it nice and slow.’ He grinned. ‘No rough handling.’ He shifted back a bit on the bar stool, and she remembered she knew how to breathe.
‘Fine, I promise to pull it exactly how it’s supposed to be pulled.’ There must have been the teacher’s edge to her voice from the slightly amused look he shot her, but it was something she couldn’t help; that instinctive warning when somebody was telling her how to suck eggs. Even if he was making her all gooey inside, which proved she wasn’t a completely lost cause when it came to men, and almost made her smile.
He reached out just as she put the beer down, so that for a brief moment his hand covered hers, sending another shiver of something that really wasn’t good straight through her body. ‘I can’t persuade you to stop for a sec and have a drink with me?’ He glanced pointedly round the deserted pub. ‘Join me on the wrong side of the bar, seeing as you’re not exactly run off your feet?’
‘Well …’
‘Just for one before you shut up shop for the night? I promise I won’t bite.’
Biting might be good.


Hope you enjoyed it! Yippee, I've just spotted the first review - a 5* on amazon uk!!
Buy links: Amazon (UK) or Amazon (com)