Two more days before the awarding of the books! Make a comment on any of the Leap of Faith posts and you’ll be entered into the drawing. I’d sure love to see more mad lib suggestions. 🙂
Leap of Faith Celebration – Day 5
Being an erotic romance author, I know a lot sex occurs in my books. Hello. I put it there. LOL
When a new book comes out, I always like to take a good hard look at exactly how much sex got in. Here are how the numbers fall for Leap of Faith, which you can buy here. 🙂
Sex scenes: 4
Shortest sex scene: 269 words
Longest sex scene: 1283 words
Sex percentage: 15%
Hmm. Only 15%.
Well, it’s quality, not quantity, right?
Today’s question: Have you ever skimmed over the sex scene in a book? Why? Answer in the comment section and you may win a free e-book from my backlist.
Leap of Faith Celebration – Day 4
The Incan civilization was grand. Although, I learned a lot researching for this story, I took some creative liberties, especially concerning the punishment for defiling a Sun Virgin. But hopefully the result justifies the tweaking of historical fact.
I was going to make up a trivia quiz for today’s blog entry, but saw that there are many perfectly good quizzes already out there. Why reinvent the wheel (which the Incans didn’t have, by the way)?
Take this quiz if you want. If you’d like the chance to win a free e-book from my backlist, to to the comment section and let me know something you learned about the Incas that you didn’t know before.
My score: 40% (How embarrassing!) The quiz was hard!
If you’d like to purchase the book in which those creative liberties were taken, go here. 🙂
Leap of Faith Celebration – Day 3
Turns out that no one would be brave enough to try cuy. Maybe I shouldn’t have answered myself. Maybe I turned people off to the idea of roasted guinea pig…
Since no one wanted to do my Mad Lib, I decided to have a go at it. You were supposed to think up
- a period of time
- a name
- a verb
- four nouns
- an adjective
And here is the Leap of Faith blurb with the Mad Lib words inserted:
A split second ago, Vladimir blew up the Incan flip flops and has since been condemned to a life of pancakes and dirt. Only through tongue will he find forgiveness. But is it his tongue that is required, or that of the young woman who stumbles into his busty world?
Well, that was pretty funny, if I do say so myself! Feel free to provide a list of zany words, and I’ll insert them tomorrow.
Today I’m posting a short excerpt from Leap of Faith. I hope you enjoy it. I even hope you buy it!
Sometimes what seemed enchanting at night lost its glamour by light of day, especially when it came to men, but even in the bright sun Amaru was one spectacular example of masculinity. The man was all muscle, not a scrap of fat on him, and although his face wasn’t handsome in the classic sense, the rugged, primitive strength Kira saw there was just as appealing as any of the pretty boy looks she might find on the pages of a men’s magazine.
He thrust his head under the stream, washed his unshaven face, then combed his hands through his hair. The water ran in rivulets down his neck to be soaked up by his tunic. Until today, she’d never considered necks to be particularly sexy, but if her lips had had free will they would have been on his neck like magnets on a fridge.
Reluctantly, she pulled her eyes back up to his face, but judging from his smile, he knew she’d been ogling him and he didn’t mind one bit. In fact, still grinning, he said, “It is already hot today and I am somewhat sweaty from working the garden.”
And sweat never looked better.
Then, to her shock and delight, he stripped off his tunic to reveal his magnificent body clothed in nothing but an honest-to-goodness loincloth. Having never seen a loincloth in person before, she realized now how little they actually covered.
Her lips suddenly had a different destination in mind.
Question for today: Would you prefer your hero garbed in a loincloth, chaps, a tux, or a kilt? Answer in the comment section and you may win a free book at the end of the week.
