I have had a ton of fun writing the Mobile Mistletoe series
over the past year and it’s a good story of how I came up with the idea. I was
at a Christmas shop with my best friend. Her daughter found this dorkey
headband with a spring of plastic mistletoe dangling off it. She put it on and
came up with the title, Mobile Mistletoe.
Why start it on Valentine’s Day? That upped the stakes when four girlfriends
make a pact to wear it until they are kissed. That was Christmas… now it’s Valentine’s
Day, Saint Patrick’s Day, The Fourth of July and now the last of the four, Jane
for Halloween.
I left Jane as the last of the four because she’s the tattooed
bad girl.
So what better to find than a bad boy J
I
think all of us have visuals in our mind. Readers imagine the heroes the
writers create. My hero, Braylon in Love Comes for Halloween, starts out kind
of a mountain man. That idea is from a personal favorite man candy of mine and
a true miracle makeover. A few years back I watched the DVD, The Gods of
Football (girlfriends if you have not seen this it’s on Netflix and WELL worth
the hour!). THIS football is Australian Rules Football and Rugby. The players posed for a calendar to raise
money for breast cancer. I have to tell you, I didn’t know they MADE guys like
this. But there is a special section on the DVD about the player, David
Williams. They call his ‘The Wolfman’ for a reason. Full shaggy beard, long
scraggly hair. He started into the photo shoot and the photographer told him…
no… it was not working and to cut his hair and shave the beard. OMG. He is one
of the most beautiful men I have ever seen! He can rival ANY male GQ model.
Google Him, you will not be sorry! Gorgeous!
I have always loved soccer, but I think Rugby & Aussie
Football may be my new favorite sport!
I hope you enjoy Loves Comes for Halloween as much as I
enjoyed writing it!
Love Comes
for Halloween
Now it’s
her turn. Until she’s kissed, Jane, is
the last one of her girlfriends to wear the Mobile Mistletoe. Feeling pressured
by her friends, she jumps on her dad’s motorcycle and heads out on the open
road. But she doesn’t get far before it breaks down. What else can go wrong?
Will she be eaten by a bear?
Gage has
a past he wants to forget. Retreating to the mountains, where he can build
custom bikes and cars in seclusion, he wants to give back for the mistakes he’s
made.
Neither
Jane or Gage are looking for a relationship, but isn’t Halloween the perfect
time of year to scare up some love?
Excerpt from Love Comes for
Halloween:
“Well
it’s working. You’re beautiful in the morning.” His gaze locked with hers and
she knew he meant what he said. “I don’t
know how you manage to look so good. I look so bad I must look good.” He
chuckled
She
shifted feet and tucked her hair behind her ear. Gage must have just taken a
shower, he smelled like manly spicy soap and shampoo and his hair was still
damp at the tips. He was cute. He was very
cute. What would he look like without all that beard scuff? She tipped her head
and tried to imagine.
He
took off the hood of the car and lay in on the workbench for her to begin
airbrushing the eagle design. It was hard to concentrate on what she was doing
when her eyes kept wandering to the fine set of Levi’s bent over the car which
were attached to Gage’s rear end.
As
hours passed, the afternoon sun heated the shop and soon Gage shucked off his
flannel shirt and threw it over a chair. Jane’s pulse jumped when Gage reached
over his head to stretch. He exposed a sliver of ab muscles and a trail of
black belly hair. Oh my. Like a fine
lady of the South, Jane wished she had a piece of paper to fan herself.
Christmas Chaos was in the Kindle
sales top 50 ebooks and #2 in the Romance category.
Her novel Shot in the Dark was a
finalist in the Emerald City Opener, Cleveland, and Toronto RWA contests.
Jennifer is an Associate
Publisher for the indie e-book company Books to Go Now that resides in the
Seattle area. BTGN pride themselves in helping new authors get their foot in
the door with well-edited manuscripts, professional covers, and platforms
uploads.
She live in a hundred year old
house that she grew up in. Her semi-small town holds an interesting mix of
resident hillbillies, yuppies and Navy Seals. And of course Seattle, only a few
miles away, is the birthplace of Starbucks so coffee is always on the check
list. She blows glass beads with a blow torch, (which relieves a lot of stress
and people don't bother you) and is a huge fan of my local soccer teams, the Seattle
Sounders, and Kitsap Pumas. Boys in shorts! :)
Jennifer will be awarding a
Halloween Bracelet to a randomly drawn commenter (US/Canada Only) during the
tour.
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How neat to live in the same house. I grew up in the Army.
ReplyDeletedebby236 at gmail dot com
Thanks for the comment Debby. Sometimes living in a 100 year old house is a challenge at times. But I love it. Thanks.
DeleteI love your Gods of Football story. I am definitely going to Google David Williams...although that seems, somehow, like cheating, googling another man!
ReplyDeletecatherinelee100 at gmail dot com
Thanks Catherine! Look on Youtube for the Gods of Football clips. Here's a link :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN2gprChxLA ... when you grow tired of Magic Mike!
DeleteThank you for hosting today.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for hosting me today. I look forward talking with everyone.
ReplyDeleteIt was my pleasure to host Jennifer today. Much succes with your release. :)
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