 A Fighting Chance by C.D. Taylor is another installment in her “Chances Are” series and is no disappointment in the book boyfriend department. Tyler is a strong, chiseled, beautiful man just back from military service and home with his family in Texas. Tiffani finds herself in his truck after a near collision on her way back home to dispose of all remaining traces of the family she ran from years before. The two are instantly attracted to each other but life, circumstances and an engagement keep them apart. When Tiffani's fiance is exposed as a dirty, rotten cheater, all bets are off and Tyler and Tiffani get busy all over town, and I mean all over… and in all kinds of hot, sexy ways! Though I'm not a proponent of impulsive hook-ups in my books or real-life, Taylor made the trysts more than a little enjoyable to read through and kept it clean, no domination or submission… it was the kind of sex where lovers love instead of hurt each other, it was much appreciated. And for some reason Tyler look, and sounds, a lot like Matthew Mcconaughey to me, so it was easy to see why Tiffani so easily fell for his down-home, Southern charm. The sex is hot and the action and danger was equally paced to match. With a history like Tiffani's the trouble and reminders of a past she wished to forget found her soon after her arrival. But when the threats got personal, Tyler, like any good hero, was there to save her from danger greater than she could escape on her own. As an advocate for love-making that transcends physical connections and unites lovers minds, souls and spirits I was a little taken aback at the immediacy of their first hook-ups but appreciated Taylor's care in writing the sex as clearly protected. I was disappointed when the condoms kept getting forgotten and the two decided to go bareback so quickly after meeting. Again, I believe in hot steamy sex where souls connect as much as bodies, but if you're hooking up in real-life keep it safe! Your life is no fiction story with a clean book boyfriend to jump, there are no guarantees in the real world so if you're hooking-up keep yourself protected!  C.D. Taylor/Taylor Dawn began writing as an item to check off her bucket list. She resides in the southernmost part of Illinois, right on the mighty Mississippi river. She enjoys the quiet country life with her husband, son and the many farm animals that make up the rest of the family. She. decided that farm life was just a little too mundane, so she started writing erotica and fantasy to liventhings up, so far so good. C.D./Taylor entered cosmetology school right out of High School and practiced the art of hair styling for 12 years. When she isn't writing, she can usually be found sitting around a table making people laugh. She has always wanted to be a standup comic. She loves pulling practical jokes, dresses up in a costume every Halloween and believes that dancing is the key to a happy life (even if you aren't a good dancer). She believes that life shouldn't be taken too seriously, we will never get out alive anyway. More than anything, she is a kid at heart, she doesn't believe in bedtimes, eating everything on her plate, or having ice cream only for dessert. Her favorite quote is by Dr. Seuss..."Why fit in, when you were born to stand out."
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 Life is over, at least for all but one in every ten thousand people. Sugar, a young adult fresh out of the foster system, is left alone to fend for herself. The end has come, and it's not zombies she needs to fear, it's her own body. Sugar suffers from diabetes and without insulin, though she survived the plague that killed most of the world's population, she will still die. Sugar Scars chronicles Sugar's quest to first find insulin to survive and then, when the realization hits that it will inevitably expire, to find a way to replicate pre-plague production. Along her journey Sugar finds support and disappointment from other survivors. Some willing to sacrifice much to help her and others, dealing with their own issues, resist assisting her quest. Though the story is largely plot driven and full of action and adventure to go along with the post-apocalyptic feel, there was a good balance. The characters were believable and the romantic story lines, were good. I'm a romance girl and they hooked me. I will not spoil either the plot or Sugar's love life but I will say, I found myself flipping pages to find out what would happen next. Not only is the story entertaining, the author touches on some real-life issues that are near and dear to my heart. I absolutely love how he handled taking care of several unsavory characters. I found myself cheering for Sugar and her resolve to do what had to be done, despite her reservations about the dirty deeds she had to do. It was one of those books where good triumphs but sometimes good isn't pretty, but oh, so necessary. Overall I highly recommend the read, especially to anyone who likes post-apocalyptic stories, deals with diabetes on a day-to-day basis or is looking for a good, fast paced, entertaining read.  I’m an author, but this site isn’t just about promoting by books. I write about the things I care about including books, movies, math, science and foster care and adoption.
I live in Montgomery, Alabama with my wife and 5 kids (but in in my heart it will always be 6). Find Travis online at: http://travisnorwood.com/books/  Q: Tell us about your book: This is a story of two people that have locked away their feelings and never thought about love again. It's about two souls reaching past the lies, and heartache to find the passion again. Q: What inspired you to write the story? Tabitha was the assistant in The One Night Series and decided to tell me her story as I wrote the others. Once I was done with the last book I knew she wouldn't let me do anything else until she got some glory. Q: Is this your first work of fiction? If not, please tell us a little about your first book/series. No, my first work was The One Night Series which is now in a box-set of three books. Unexpected Chances is the first novel in The Chances Series, which will include a total of 4 books. Q: Who is your primary audience for series? ChickLit , and Contemporary Romance lovers who are over 18 Q: Please tell us about yourself. Recently I just celebrated my 18th wedding anniversary with my best friend and the one that supports me no matter what. We have a son who suffers from Autism and Aspergers, but he doesn't let that keep him down or stop him in anyway. Also I just decided to go full-time as an author, which is scary but you have to take risk. Q: Have you been writing for a long time? I started writing when I was a child, but it wasn't until my mid 30's that I really started focusing on it. Last April I released my first book and haven't looked back since. Q: How much time per week do you spend writing/editing your work? Oh my a ton of hours, if I am not writing I am connecting with my readers and working on edits as I move along. Q: What are you working on at the moment? Currently I just finished up the first round of edits for Fading Memories which is a stand alone that will be out in late August/ September. Oh and I am working on book 3 in The Chances Series Unexpected Choices.  A.M. Willard is a true believer of soul mates, and happy ever after’s. She enjoys reading, sailing, and of course writing contemporary romance with some saucy scenes. Releasing her first novella of the One Night Series on April 12, 2014 has sent her on a new journey in life. A.M.’s passion for writing started at a young age, but with the love and support from her husband of eighteen years pushed her to follow her dreams. Once she hit that first publish button, she hasn’t looked back.
Publications available from A.M. Willard include the Chances Series, Love on the Screen, and everyone’s favorite the One Night Series. She’s also had an article published in the Writer’s Monthly Review Magazine. A.M. Willard was born and raised in the Panhandle of Florida, but resides in Savannah Ga with her husband, son, two cats, one rotten dog, and her six chickens. Yes, we said chickens… You can connect with A.M. Willard on her website www.amwillard.com or subscribe to her newsletter for the latest releases, teasers and sale alerts; http://eepurl.com/bb-Cd1 “The pen writes what the heart desires.”  OK here it is... taaaaa daaa! Scandalous Affair is set to come out 7/7! I am beyond excited for this book BUT I want to be clear up front this is NOT part of the series I've been writing. Please do not buy this book if smut isn't your thing. There are several gratuitous sensual/sexual scenes in the story. This book is not for my sweet, conservative Christian friends. I love an appreciate your support more than words can say but I must be honest and say that this book will be far beyond your comfort zones.
What can I say? I have a reason for writing it and... let's face it, SEX sells, and I need sales! Though I didn't think I'd be here at this time in my life, I'm in a place where I need the sales to support myself and my family. For all intents and purposes, I'm a single mama and I need the money and I hope this book helps. This story is gritty and sexy and I am unapologetic. If any of my conservative Christian friends want to message me or talk to me about it, please do! I'll be happy to share my reasoning behind the book. It's a story worth telling and if there's a little sex, OK a lot of sex in it, so be it. Truth be told, it's not that sex riddled. Compared to the erotica market, it's barely a blip. Scandalous Affair definitely has more sex scenes in it than you will find in my other novels but it is far from erotica. I wrote the scenes where the story called for them. I'm not the kind of person that thinks S&M and all that blah is necessary. I don't like it, I don't write it and I don't think anything will ever change my mind on that BUT I do like sex! I believe it's one of the greatest gifts the Good LORD gave us and I enjoy it immensely (errr I did until my current situation popped up). I am personally frustrated with the sexual repression within the church and, though this book isn't the platform to address that, it does showcase my appreciation of the sexual side of humans and again I'm unapologetic. I was inspired to write this story by the movie "Shall We Dance" with Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon in 2011 for NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month). Though it has the billionaire themes of a certain story (that shall remain nameless) published that year, I PROMISE it had nothing to do with inspiring my story. I wanted a story where the guy went with the other woman, but the other woman was by far the right choice. I also wanted to play in a world I knew nothing about. I'm a rough-around-the-edges, outdoorsy, redneck and I like it that way but I sometimes wonder (especially in 2011 when I was making minimum wage) how the other half live. I guess this was my foray into a world of wealth and riches. It's a fantasy world of unbelievable fortune, sensuality and temptation and choices, consequences and dancing. For those it offends... when you read it, don't say I didn't warn you. For everyone else, I hope you feel the feelings I was trying to express. May my words give you a momentary reprieve from the world around you, and may you dance!  Q: Tell us about your book Sugar Scars is set in a post-apocalyptic world, which is a pretty common story premise these days, but I've taken a different approach than other books in this genre. Most of these kinds of stories focus on the desolation that the survivors face. Worlds like Mad Max or The Walking Dead. In Sugar Scars, a virus kills all but 1 in 10,000 people on the Earth. The survivors are left in a world of virtually unlimited resources where survival is easy. Plenty of food on the grocery store shelves. Thousands of cars and houses to pick from. The struggle in Sugar Scars comes entirely from within the main character. She is a Type 1 diabetic. She lives through the virus but realizes that she will die soon if she can't figure out how to make the insulin that keeps her alive. Extracting and refining insulin is a highly complex process that takes an entire industry and was discovered by brilliant Nobel-prize winning scientists. Now a nineteen-year-old high school dropout has to rediscover the process or die trying. In Sugar Scars there are no villains. No one directly opposes her attempts and, in fact, many people try to help. But the task is almost impossible and she has to make some very difficult choices along the way to keep body alive. Q: What inspired you to write the story? I read an article about having characters with disabilities, which is rare in fiction. I was fascinated by the idea of having a character whose main struggle was against their own body. I decided to write a short story and started researching different disabilities and diseases. Diabetes is so manageable with modern technology these days that most people don't realize how deadly it is. Before the early twentieth century Type 1 diabetes was a certain death sentence. The story of the discovery and use of animal insulin to keep human diabetics alive was quite dramatic. They used to have wards of diabetic children that were slowly dying. When their pancreases finally stopped working, they would slip into a coma and soon pass away. The first insulin, extracted from dogs, was given in one of these wards and within minutes the children started waking up. It's incredibly rare that a cure is so powerful and effective. I decided to recreate this situation in our modern world and began writing a short story. But the story was too exciting and I couldn't make it anything less than a full novel. Q: Is this your first work of fiction? If not, please tell us a little about your first book/series. This is the third novel I have written, but the first one to be published. The other two will be published after Sugar Scars. We decided that Sugar Scars was the best introduction to my writing. I write Science Fiction and it is the least fantastic of the three and will be accessible to people who don't normally read Science Fiction. It's highly realistic. The only speculative element is the virus that kills most of the population. My first novel's working title is Suspended. It's about a starship that is travelling to colonize a new world. All the passengers are kept in suspended animation for the two-hundred-year journey. An accident occurs and one man and one woman are awakened during the journey with more than a hundred years to go. These strangers have to live out their lives on the starship, trying to build a life from nothing. Q: When I read the books I see subjects, themes and story lines that could appeal to many different kinds of readers. Who is your primary audience for series? I think in general my writing will appeal to people who like stories that get tension from moral choices that the characters have to make. There's some physical action, but the most intriguing parts come from the difficult decisions the characters are faced with. They have to do things that make them question their basic beliefs about morality and faith. Sugar Scars, like all my novels so far, has a strong romantic element. I think readers that enjoy romances will find plenty to keep them interested. While the main character is concerned about keeping herself alive, she is literally one of the last young women left on Earth and she can't help but attract the attention of men. She meets a few men and each has a different reaction to her imminent mortality. Q: Please tell us about yourself. I live in Montgomery, Alabama, with my wife and five children. My wife and I have a heart for orphans and we've adopted one of our children and been foster parents to another. The foster system brought us the greatest joy and greatest sorrow of our lives. We had a foster daughter for nearly four years and tried to adopt her, but that didn't work out. I wrote Sugar Scars during this and I think a lot of the pain we were experiencing made it into the novel. In my day job I develop software for hospitals. My thinking is very logical and mathematical, and you'll see this in my writing. But for writing to be interesting it has to deal with human emotion and the hard choices people have to make. I like to show characters that think logically, but are faced with situations where this fails them. Faith is a big part of my life. I'm involved in my local church. Faith is a frequent theme in my writing, especially in Sugar Scars, but I don't like to write characters that believe just like I do. That's boring. The main character is Sugar Scars has no real belief in God, but she gets to see -how faith works for other people. Like in real-life, some people are transformed by their faith. Others become obnoxious and self-righteous. Q: Have you been writing for a long time? I graduated college about twenty years ago with a minor in Creative Writing. That sat in the back of my mind for years while I started my career and raised my family. About three years ago I realized that if I didn't pursue my dream of writing, it would never happen. So I began with my first novel, Suspended. I loved doing it and I got very positive feedback. I signed a publishing contract with Booktrope in January and I hope to have a new novel out every six to twelve months. Q: How much time per week do you spend writing/editing your work? Many writers have a rule of writing something every day, but I find that doesn't work for me. It comes in seasons. I love writing so much that once I start on a project I tend to obsess on it and my wife and children are fond of eating on a regular basis, so I can't do that for too long. So I'll go through periods where I don't write much, but spend all my time thinking of story ideas. Then when I can't stand it anymore, I'll spend every spare moment writing. The first draft of a novel usually takes six to eight weeks. Q: What are you working on at the moment? I just finished the editing phase of Sugar Scars and now I'm trying to decide on which of two stories to pursue for my next novel. One story would be about a woman who adopts an alien child. I think it would focus on the difficult process of getting the alien culture to accept her as a valid mother since she is not of their race. The other story is about a woman who goes into the military and has her body enhanced for service, but in a way that she didn't expect. Info: Web site: travisnorwood.com Facebook: Travis Norwood, Author Twitter: @TravisLNorwood Readers interested in receiving an email when Sugar Scars is published can sign up at travisnorwood.com |
