What frustrates your current hero most about your heroine in your WIP or upcoming release? (Or visa versa: heroine/hero)?
CP: Amy Stone in HOT PROPERTY can not believe a strong athlete like John Roper would let his family run roughshod all over him. Of course she gets that he loves them and that he feels like he’s always been the man of the house but shouldn’t he say no to their constant demands for money? Shouldn’t his aging actress mom take the roles offered instead of claiming she can still play the ingenue if it means earning her own way? Shouldn’t his Jack of All Trades Master of None Brother stop blaming Roper for his less than stellar major league baseball career and quit asking him to fund his ridiculous business propositions? (i.e. Future Condom King of America … puhleeze!). And his sister’s getting married and Roper is footing the bill. Nothing wrong with that except for the crazy out of control requests coming his way (… when doves fly!) He needs someone from THE HOT ZONE to take control of the excess in his life so Roper can refocus on his problematic career. And Amy is just the woman to do it. If only she could put that sizzling New Year’s Eve kiss out of her mind …
JEL: I’m sort of in between books right now, finishing up edits on my Blaze, STRIPPED, and starting the new paranormal on Monday. In the Blaze, the main frustration for my hero is my heroine’s inability to trust him. She has good reason. My hero and heroine have a past. When my hero realized that my heroine truly was psychic and that she’d been using her powers to make him fall in love with her (reading his fantasies and then making them all come true) he goes off on her. He’s furious. Their breakup is really, really ugly. The book starts three months later when they are thrust together to solve a crime. He apologizes, but my heroine wasn’t the most trusting person in the first place, so opening up to him again is hard because he hurt her. And yes, she hurt him, too. So trust for them is a hard road and that leads to frustration. About the new book, I have to wait and see!
LK: I am still working on my Bad Girls Club Blaze, in which the heroine is a stripper (funny since Julie’s Bad Girls Club book the previous month is called Stripped! Mine’s called OVEREXPOSED.) Anyway, this heroine, a former Rockette, has had to come back to Chicago to help out her family in their little neighborhood Italian bakery and she’s going nuts being back in that world, so she takes a job as a stripper at a high end men’s club. The hero is one of those hot Santori brothers and he’s trying very hard to “fit in” to the world he left before going off to the Marines, including finding a “nice girl from the neighborhood” — and he thinks that girls is the heroine, Izzie, who works at the bakery. But he can’t get his mind off this sexy stripper who works at the bar where he’s just gotten a job as a bouncer. So, she’s driving him crazy–because he’s trying to stay good and resist the stripper and work on winning the nice girl…who won’t have anything to do him! Not knowing she is also the bad girl stripper who wants to have sex with him and no “nice” relationship…so she is desperately trying to seduce him. Sounds more complicated than it is…lolol…but I’m having fun having this hot guy dangled on the string by one woman who he thinks is two!
Carly Phillips would like to take 100% credit for all her stories but the truth is, Carly’s strength is writing family, emotion, funky elderly people and animals. She couldn’t plot her way out of a paper bag, which is why she smartly found her plotmonkey pals early on in her writing career. Thanks to their support, Carly is now a NYT Bestselling author of 23 plus novels. Because writing doesn’t keep her busy enough, Carly is also a wife, a mother of one preteen and one teenage daughter, the primary care giver of her soft coated Wheaten terrier and an expert carpool mom.
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Both books sound great! I can’t wait to get my hands on them to read.
BTW Carly, yesterday over at B(u)y The Book you mentioned being worried about Roper being a Metrosexual and people not picking up the book because of it. Trust me….yours (or any of the Plotmonkeys) could have a nose picking hero and we would still pick up the book. LOL!! That is what loyal readers do when you love the authors work.
Okay seriously, we love your writing! Making a hero different from what we have read before is great. I think things will be just fine.
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LOLOL, Kelly. Thank you!
The readers were just commenting on Metros in general and as a woman I agreed with them completely. As an author I had a momentary panic, but Roper will be fine thanks to people like you! I had a blast at B(u)y the Book. They’re great!
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Carly, I had fun at ROMANCE BUY THE BOOK also this week. I love metrosexuals, sort of. I am sort of a metrosexual/nerdy/executive/guy’s guy type of gal. I know most people said you couldn’t be that, I think you can:happy2::happy2::happy2:. Happy Saturday, Everyone!
By the way, who won your book over there?
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Thanks! I don’t know. Michelle posts it ….
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Hey guys- thanks for joining the bellas at RBTB all week. It was fun bouncing between the blogs, but boy am i :zzz:!! All that stalking is just very wearing on a person.:devil:
I hope the regular monkeys who haven’t been to RBTB still remember to come on and visit. :wave: We loved having you!! And I hope many of the Bellas keep popping in here!!:thumbsup:
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I can’t wait until the new book is out Carly!! There will, as usual, be a fight here as to who gets it first. Sometimes I let daughter win, so I can drag the anticipation on longer.:cooldance:
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The new books sound delicious. I agree with Kelly I buy every Plot monkey book but “Nose Picking” Geech Kelly that is over the edge. :happy2: EV I read all the posts on the other Blog but for some reason I couldn’t post. I feel so at home with you all here. I am glad
HAve a wonderful day I am working.
we have this place to chat. Metro is fine with me too. I just want them to look FINE “au de naked”
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lol on the nose picking hero!
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Please tell me my title doesn’t have an exclamation point…do you know something I don’t? Brenda (our editor) knows how much I HATE punctuation in titles, LOL!
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Chill babe…the exclamation point was all mine.
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Oh goody, new books to look forward to! Since I have all the “Hot” books but haven’t read them yet I don’t have an opinion about Hot Property, but it sounds good & I will catch up!
Leslie, a new Bad Girls Club & a Santori, I know it will be a good read. When I was commenting at eHarlequin recently I recommended your books for humor if people weren’t familar with your writing. In fact, I’m pretty sure I nominated you for a Reader’s Choice Award. There are so many categories I forget what all I voted!! :)
Have a great weekend everyone. :)
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I just saw the news reports and this one has the makings of a story somewhere in it. LOL
“NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 27) – It has all the makings of a country song: an escaped prisoner, his terminally ill mother, a Wal-Mart truck, NASCAR and a Nashville singer’s tour bus. “:wave:
Prison break escapee, Guy (
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OOps Guy is his name escaped wanted to see his dying mother, steals a walmart truck 300,000 in merchandise in it. drives to Tenn. steals Crysal Gayles tour bus then gets 50 yards near mom and flees from fear of being caught. Then needing to charge bus in FLA. he says he’s with nascar’s Tony Stewart to get a generator at the raceway.
Seems they waited until you plotmonkeys went home for Nashville to turn things up a notch. :happy2:
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LOL! Jeannie, I guess I got a little “over the edge” trying to prove my point.
Ev, I had a great time at the other board too. I am sure I will be back.