Showing posts with label cowboy romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cowboy romance. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Desiree Holt gets Bare Naked!



 

What’s better than a cowboy? Why, a naked cowboy of course. And I’ve got them by the handful (and I do mean handful.) Number Four in the Naked Cowboys series is out now ready to tempt you with a hot bad boy story.
(Picture of model Taylor Cole)









To celebrate, one lucky commenter will win a copy of Naked Cowboys #1, Stark Naked.



Blurb:

Tired of the devious twists and turns of the corporate world, Georgie Zielinski takes her savings and her 401K to little Saddle Wells, Texas where she has bought a closed, rundown Bed & Breakfast. Using her knowledge of years in the hospitality business she plans to rehab the place and open her own B&B. Cade Hannigan was once on top of the world and disgustingly arrogant about it. Now he has fallen to the bottom of the barrel, working as the janitor at the Lone Star Bar and drinking himself to sleep every night. Cade loses his job at the exact moment that Georgie needs a handyman to help her with the B&B. They are a most unlikely pair, the world weary blond and the down and out cowboy, but electric sparks fly between them. As they work to bring to life the old building to life, something sexually explosive grows between them. Then Cade’s past comes back to slap him in the face and it all falls apart. It will take more than hot sex to put this couple back together. Come take a wild ride with a hot blonde and the latest naked cowboy.





Excerpt:

Cade didn’t think he’d ever been this nervous in his life, and looking at this woman didn’t help. Today she had her blonde hair up in a ponytail and worn jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt caressed a figure that made his cock want to stand up and salute. Unlike most of the women he knew, her face had a fresh quality to it and the thick blonde ponytail looked like a cascade of silk. He couldn’t say for sure, but he’d bet it was the real deal, nothing from a bottle.

But it was the crackle of electricity that snapped between them that was the real shocker. He could see she felt it too, her eyes flaring with the realization. Go figure. No makeup, a smudge of something on one cheek, and she quite literally took his breath away.

No, no, no, no. You are not putting the make on this woman. She’s your last chance. Your only chance.

She stared at him for a long moment before he saw recognition flare in her eyes and she took a step back. She was holding the handle of something that was part of some kind of machinery and she unconsciously held it up as if to ward him off.

Oh, Jesus. Those women last night had probably given her an earful about him. He was dead before he got started.

“Can I help you?”

He gave himself a mental shake, doing his best to stop gawking at her.

Be polite. Really polite.

He took off his hat and put on what he hoped was his most earnest face.

“My, um, name is Cade Hannigan.”

“I know who you are.” She was still holding that whatever-it-was in front of her.

Swell. So they had told her all about him. He’d better be plenty humble and make his case to her since his only other choice was the gutter.

“I wondered if I might speak to you for a moment.”

She narrowed her eyes. “I can’t imagine what we’d have to talk about. Now if you’ll excuse me.”

She was going to slam the door in his face. Oh, shit, shit, shit.

“I’ve never been in a position where I had to beg for anything,” he told her quickly, “but I’m begging now. For five minutes of your time. Just listen to me. If the answer’s no, I’ll turn around and drive out of here and you’ll be rid of me.”

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Elle James Speaks!

Elle James is an amazing writer who specializes in romances featuring alpha hero cowboys.  And who doesn't like a cowboy?  Here's what she had to say during a recent interview.

What am I working on now?

I just finished writing a Harlequin Intrigue due out in June of 2015 and sent it off to my editor. I hope she likes it! It's the next in my COVERT COWBOYS INC series and crosses into my next series that will be about SEALs. I just started a Myla Jackson (my other pen name) book to continue my UGLY STICK SALOON series. I hope to finish it quickly so that I can get to work on my next Harlequin Romantic Suspense book. 


What makes my books different than others in this genre?

My books are filled with edge-of-the-seat suspense and mystery. My hero and heroine don't always know who their enemy is and have to follow the clues while dodging bullets and danger. I'm a little heavier on the suspense than the romance, but I do get some sexy scenes in there, so hold on to your fans!

Why do I write what I write?

I love writing action and adventure. I love putting my hero and heroine in a position that tests their strengths and weaknesses. They usually have some growth involved and learn something about themselves along the way while they are saving the world. I like to read exciting stories and I want the emotions to grip me and my readers. Whether humor, fear, sadness or love, my reader should feel something.


What is my writing process?

1. I like to start my story with a high concept idea. It usually begins with the hero, heroine and the big bad they will overcome - the external conflict

2. Once I have that high concept, I dig a little deeper and learn who my hero and heroine are and what makes them who they are. That requires knowing their background, how they grew up, family environment, adult relationships, marriages, divorces, etc. This helps me to know what my hero and heroine have to prove to themselves or others and why they will have difficulty committing to a love relationship. The internal conflict.

3. I list out all the conflicts that could happen to keep the hero and heroine from achieving their goals. This gives me the guts of what they will go through in the story.

4. Once I have the guts, I draw out a synopsis from my list of conflicts and come up with a satisfactory conclusion. This is how we get to the Happily-ever-after.

5. Then the real work begins. I sit down and write. And write. And write.

6. When I get stuck, or feel like I don't know where I'm going in the story, I joke about the fact that I need to blow something up. Only it's not really a joke. Remember, I write suspense. I either blow something up in the story, or have something blow up in my hero or heroine's face. And I make certain I have the hero and heroine's goals and motivations in mind when I do. It has to impact them in a big way.

7. When I get through to the very end, I go back through in a round of edits and flash out the emotions, fix the typos that I can "see" and enhance the descriptions to ground my reader in the setting.

8. Then it goes to my mother for beta reading and the bullshit factoring.

9. When I've added her suggestions, I send it to my editor.

10. My editors work magic with my stories and make them cleaner and find the logic errors and timing issues. You can' find a body before you kill it. Hmmm. Timing is everything!

11. After 2-3 rounds of edits by my editor, the story goes to production.

12. I fill out my art fact sheet identifying scenes in the story that make a big impact. The publisher chooses to use my input or ignore it come up with cover art to please the readers.

13. Once the book is complete, I get to promote and let folks when it will be available. Either I or my publisher will farm it out to reviewers so that when it goes "live" it will have reviews already.

14. Then I wait and pray it sells well so that I can afford to keep writing as my day job and I don't have to go back to the corporate world.

I love my job and I hope to continue writing into my very old age. I plan to live to at least 100, so that's a long time from now!

Check out my Cover Cowboy Series by clicking HERE.

You can find out more about my Ugly Stick Saloon Series by clicking HERE.

Next week, you get to visit three more authors to compare their writing process to mine. They are:

Delilah Devlin—http://www.delilahdevlin.com/ NYT and USA/Today Author Delilah Devlin whose personal journey has taken her through one war, many countries, cultures, jobs and relationships to bring her to the place she travels now--writing sexy novels that hold more than a kernel of autobiography and often share a common thread of self-discovery and transformation.

Cynthia D'Alba - http://cynthiadalba.com/ Cynthia D'Alba started writing on a challenge from her husband in 2006 and discovered having imaginary sex with lots of hunky men was fun.

Brenna Zinn—http://www.brennazinn.com In between grade school and now, Brenna's journey through life has taken her all over the United States, as well as many places throughout the world. Using her travel experience as a guide and peppering in interesting characters she's met along the way, she loves nothing better than weaving tales of romance and leaving readers yearning for adventures of their own