The Questions
- 1) You’re marooned on a small
island with one person and one item of your choice—who is that person and
what item do you have?
- Oh
man.. it’s a tie between Bear Grylls to you know… keep me alive… and
Daniel Craig because, beach - and man/woman cannot live by bread alone.
(sorry Bear). So maybe Daniel is my item? Yeah. That works.
- 2) Which musical would you say
best exemplifies your life – and which character in that musical are you?
- Hair.
Because I have a lot of it. And Berger. I grew up in my uncle’s old army
jacket and irreverent humor and fuck off and then stepping up because you can
when someone else shouldn’t.
- 3) Take these three words and give
me a 100 word or less scene using them:
galaxy, jet, cream
- I
smoothed a glob of Galaxy Jet Cream across my face, feeling the tingle
dissolve the micro beard I’d grown
since this morning. You like your man smooth, the skin silky, the muscles
hard. Who am I to deny you? You’re already in my bed and I don’t even have
to look to know you’re stroking your fingers across my thousand thread count sheets,
your hazel eyes closed as you
fantasize about what I will do when I slide next to you, will I run my
fingers over your chest, tease your lobe with my teeth, or just run my
tongue only your hard throbbing…
- 4) You’ve just been let loose in
the world of fiction, with permission to do anything you want. What’s the
first thing you do and why?
- I’ve
sort of tempered my enthusiasm for this concept after reading the Inkheart
series, however I would love to live in a world where there were
shifters…I think I’d go and find myself some elegant big cat shifter and
make myself at home.
- 5) What is your idea of how to
spend romantic time with your significant other?
- Honestly,
a nice long road trip - it’s just the two of us without the busyness of
real life. We spend all our time bonding and reconnecting - it’s a great
way to remember why we got together in the first place.
- 6) When you start a new story, do
you begin with a character, or a plot?
- I
actually start with the first two or three lines of a scene - it could be
dialog or character - whatever pops into my head… capturing those words
and phrases on paper before they dissipate is a game changer when it comes
to my writing.
- 7) If they were to make the story
of your life into a movie, who should play you?
- Bugs
Bunny. Seriously he can do it all. And his snark is brilliant. I want him.
- 8) Who’s your favorite horror
villain and why?
- Cruela
de Vil. She was always such a stylish dresser.
- 9) Do you have an historical crush
and if so, who is it?
- Mr.
Darcy, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Darcy.
- 10) Is there a story that you’d like
to tell but you think the world isn’t ready to receive it?
- Yes, but if I told you I’d have to kill
you. (I’m assuming this is the answer you usually get, though it’s a hint
nonetheless.)
Book Name: 6 Days to Get Lucky
Series: A Nick Valentine Story
Book: Two
Series should be read in order for
maximum enjoyment
Release
Date: March 2, 2016
Blurb:
Mixologist
Nick Valentine never thought love was in the cards, but after a scorching
Valentine’s Day kiss from bouncer Davis “FatBoy” Newman, he’s beginning to
think it’s possible. After four weeks of dry spell, Nick’s losing patience—it’s
time FatBoy stop acting the gentleman and just throw him over the bar or Nick
may just change his mind.
All
FatBoy wants is a shot at winning Nick’s heart. As long as meddling bosses, an
Irish hurling team and a bar riot don’t ruin his chances forever, he might just
get lucky and take the man of his dreams, home.
Pages or Words: 72,000 words
Categories: Contemporary, Gay Fiction,
Humor, M/M Romance, Romance
Excerpt:
Reaching across the empty bed next to me, I
rode out the last waves of my dream alone. I could still feel his phantom kiss
on my lips and the sensation of a hand stroking along
my thigh.
The rest of it was just a blur of emotions and
sticky residue on my sheets—though I could guess at it without much effort.
FatBoy Newman had been a specter haunting me at work so it was no great leap to
assume he’d shouldered his way into my dreams as well.
In fact, he was at the root of my problem: I’d
been having a hell of a dry spell.
Four weeks of near misses had done nothing but
stoke my bad mood and turn my balls a lovely shade of indigo that matched my
jeans…
Four weeks of dashed hopes…
Four weeks since the most romantic kiss of my
life…
Four weeks of nothing.
Fuck the South and its mythology of the
Southern Gentleman—if FatBoy Newman didn’t stop treating me like a delicate
flower and throw me up against a wall soon, I was going to explode.
It was six days until St. Patrick’s Day, and
FatBoy had until then to make his move, or I was moving on.
Buy the book:
Meet the author:
LE Franks lives in the SF
Bay area and writes M/M Romance in a unique mix of humor and drama with enough
suspense to produce fast paced stories filled with emotion and passion and
featuring characters that are quirky and complicated and sometimes a little bit
dark. LE Franks is a best selling author and finalist for 2013 & 2014
Rainbow Awards. Her books are available through her publishers at MLR Press,
Dreamspinner Press and Wilde City Press and Pride Publishing and online
bookstores.
Where to find the author:
Twitter: @boxtersushi
Publisher: Wilde City Press
Cover
Artist: Wilde City Press
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Hi Julie! Thanks for hosting my cover reveal today & sharing with your readers :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the interview. It's interesting that you start with the first few lines of a scene.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your upcoming release =)