Six Sentence Sunday

Welcome to another Six Sentence Sunday! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to comment last week. 

I've spent the week getting ready for my upcoming release, The Playboy's Baby. It's due out August 3rd, which is Friday. I can't believe that's only five days! I've finally got my cover art. I think it's gorgeous and it totally fits the book. No buy links yet, but coming soon.

I've set up a small blog tour next week, to start it off. It's my first tour. I'm so nervous! lol I've got four stops scheduled, and I'll be giving away a copy of the book at each stop. My senior editor has also set up a promo/giveaway with Coffee Beans and Love Scenes, but I don't have the info on that yet. Hopefully soon!

So, this week I've decided to post a snippet from this book. This is the opening.

The blurb:

When an accident leaves her guardian to her six month old niece, Emma Stanton must return to her small hometown of Hastings, Montana to find the one man she’s spent the last eight years trying to forget. Not only must she share the news of her sister’s tragic death, but she must also risk the only family she has left as she tells him he’s the baby’s father. Can she stick to her resolve and resist the playboy’s charms—again?          

         

All wealthy nightclub owner Dillon James wants is to be the father his daughter needs. He’s been used for his name and money one too many times in his life and has no desire to risk his heart to love again. Yet falling for Emma as they struggle to share the duties of raising a baby has Dillon thinking that perhaps it’s time he took a chance on love. 

But will Emma agree? 

There he was.

Frozen at the edge of the crowd, Emma Stanton bit down on her bottom lip. Her heart skipped out an erratic beat. All around her barely controlled chaos reigned. Four thousand people lived in the small town of Hastings, Montana, and she’d bet almost every one of them was in this club. People packed in around her, bodies bumping off each other in an effort to move.

Thanks for stopping by! I'll continue with the beginning next week. Or perhaps I'll put up the first time the Emma gets a good look at the hero. ;)

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Six Sentence Sunday

Welcome to another Six Sentence Sunday! I had a hard time knowing what to post this week. I'm kind of biding my time. I have a book coming out soon, and I don't want to people to tire of it before it's even come out! And the WIP I've been posting hasn't quite taken off yet. I'm not happy with the scene I took last week's snippet from. 

So this week, I thought I'd post something a bit different for me. It's a paranormal. I have six pages of this written. It was a scene that kept calling to me, and I finally gave in and wrote it down. Unfortunately, I haven't moved forward with the story, because I have no plot yet. I don't write paranormal. I just don't have the mindset for it. So I haven't the foggiest idea what to do with this book. It intrigues me, though. One day, I'm determined to finish it! But at the moment, these six pages have just been sitting on my hard drive. I thought I'd post from that. This is the first six sentences.

Him?” Holly Carter stared across the street. The man in question stood at the rear end of a full sized red pickup truck, pulling his tools out of the bed. “Are you sure?”

“We are certain.” Her guardian’s voice came from directly behind her, flat and devoid of emotion, his tone matter of fact.

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Six Sentence Sunday

Welcome to another Six Sentence Sunday! I'm picking up where I left off last week. 


Oops, editing this post because I forgot to leave the link for last week's. For anybody who wants to read, you can see it here.

Beth froze at the low, masculine rumble behind her. Her heart beat an erratic pulse, throbbing in her ears.

“She also told me there was a possibility you’d flip when you found out.” His voice held a hint of amusement that clearly said he found the whole thing entertaining. “I told you she should know the truth coming into this, Sam.”

A voice in the back of her mind screamed, say something!

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The Next Best Thing Challenge

I was tagged by my friend Mae Clair to do The Next Best Thing Challenge. Here’s the idea: 

Answer the 10 questions below
Spread the fun and tag 5 awesome people to participate!

I thought it sounded like fun and the more I got into it, the more fun I had. I decided to do my latest upcoming novel, which is due out 8/3. Sorry, no cover or links yet! Hopefully soon!

PS: Forgive any wonky formatting in the pictures, below. I could not get these things to cooperate with me.

What is the title of your book/WIP?

The Playboy’s Baby

Where did the idea of this book come from?

Sadly, I haven’t the foggiest idea. This book came to me about seven years ago. I wrote the partial (the first three chapters) and hit a speed bump. I put my writing aside for about six years. Once I started writing again, this wasn’t the first book I picked back up, but it was the first book I completed.

What genre would your book fall under?

contemporary romance

Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?

Oh, now this was a hard one, but I found them all. 

• Debra Messing as heroine Emma Stanton  
•  Dillon was a bit more difficult. There was only one actor I could think of who has similar looks and is tall enough. Dillon’s not a small boy. ;) -- Joe Manganiello as Dillon James. 
•  Eddie Cibrian as Logan James (Dillon’s big brother)
•  Kathy Bates as Camille James (Dillon's mother)
•  Walter Matthau as Ethan James (Dillon's father)

What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?

They share a past—one neither of them can forget.

Is your book published or represented?

Published. Due out 8/3. No cover as of yet, but hopefully soon!

How long did it take you to write it?

about three months. But it went through several revisions as well along the road to publication.

What other books in your genre would you compare it too?

This one’s a tough question, as I don’t think there are any quite like it. My editor called it a traditional romance. I tend to write on the sweet side, but with a spicy kick. I write fully described love scenes and I prefer them on the warm side, but well within the lines of a monogamous relationship. But Harlequin Special Edition or their Superromances is somewhere around what I write.

Which authors inspired you to write this book?

You know, I’ve seen this question before in other author’s Q&A’s and I honestly can’t say if any one particular author inspired any of my books. If you ask me, every single book I’ve ever read and loved inspired this one.

Tell us anything else that might pique our interest in your book.

Small towns. Adorable babies. New fathers who have no idea what they’re doing (and watching them fumble). There’s a death that draws my characters together and my “spoiled rich boy” (what Emma used to call Dillon when they were growing up) is fond of grand romantic gestures. ;)

And now the five talented authors I want to tag to share the fun.

Calisa Rhose

Aimee Duffy

Vonnie Davis

Empi Baryeh

Lorraine Paton

 

Six Sentence Sunday

Hello and welcome to another Six Sentence Sunday! I couldn't decide what to post again, so I decided to keep with the WIP I posted last weekend. Thanks to those of you who suggested I flesh out that scene (K.E. Saxon and Silver James, I believe). I did, and I love the result, so thanks, ladies. :) I was tempted to post some of it, but didn't want to bore anybody. 

I've decided this week to post a snippet from further along in the first chapter. The hero and heroine have been set up on a blind date. The heroine has just arrived (it's a double date, at her best friend's place) and gotten her first look at her "date", only to realize she's older than he is. She's panicked, and dragged her best friend, who set them up, down the hallway for a little "chat." Her friend has just told her she's ten years older. Oh, and I had trouble finding a natural stopping place, so the last line is the hero speaking.

Beth settled her hands on her hips. “Floozy’s date younger men, Sam. What do they call women like me, cougar’s? I am so not a cougar. Does he even know how old I am?”

Sam opened her mouth, but no words came out as her gaze shifted to something behind Beth.

“He knows.”

Thanks for stopping by to read! Don't forget to see all the other fabulous snippets at the SSS website!

Six Sentence Sunday

Welcome to another Six Sentence Sunday! I almost forgot to sign up this week! I couldn't decide what to post, so I had to take time to think about it and plum forgot. 

I ended up deciding on something from the new WIP I started. The working title for this one is Blind Date. I know, original, right? Guess what the premise is! ;) It's the sequel to my soon-to-be-released book, The Playboy's Baby. I was going to post the opening, then I remembered my furry secondary character. This guy introduced himself almost immediately. He was one of the first characters that came to me. His name is Bruce. Well, okay, he originally came with a different name. But I had to change it, because I realized I'd used the name in a previous book. 

Anyhoo, he introduced himself to me by showing me this. I had to clamor to get it all down. I'm still not sure if it properly conveys the tension of the moment.

Heart pounding, Elizabeth Anderson took off at a dead run. Some fifty feet in front of her, her golden retriever, Bruce, flew toward the river’s edge. Body hunkered to the ground, his ears flopped in the breeze. He raced up the boat dock and leapt off, paddling after a little girl who’d just fallen off the edge. She’d disappeared from view beyond the edge of the dock, but her terrified cries rent the air. All around her, people stopped what they were doing and turned to stare.

The little girl, is of course, the hero's daughter. I haven't decided if the hero and heroine should meet this way...or if I should start the book with the blind date they've been fixed up on. Either way, I'm determined this scene has to end up in the book somewhere.

Thanks for stopping by to read! Don't forget to see all the other fabulous snippets at the SSS website! You know, when this is gone, I'm really going to miss reading everybody sixes!