Book summary:
"Jodie is scraping the barrel trying to stay afloat. An idea arrives that could rescue her finances and bring her together in a kinky way with a man she never gave up on. She's terrified and fascinated, and tempted as hell.
Capture fantasies rule her eBook. Re-enacting one in a documentary would surely be irresistible viewing to millions of women?
But Jodie and Klaus discover that underneath an ordinary man dark desires may lurk. What will win in the end? The man and lover, or the monster?"
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Guest post by awesome Cari Silverwood
How
do you find ideas for your books?
That would have to be both one of the
hardest and one of the easiest questions. Easy, because in a way, it just
happens. But if I just leave it at that there won't be much said here! Hard,
because if I get down to details, ideas come from everywhere. Which ones you
follow up and even which ones seem even interesting to start with, all stem
from who I am, and where I aim to go with my writing.
You can get ideas from friends, from TV,
from radio, from other books, from life in general. But a single idea does not
make a full story, no matter how good it is. To create a book, you need to
weave together several ideas, and do it in a way no one else has. I'd be bored
if I felt I was merely rehashing someone else's story.
It’s said that there are no new ideas, and
also no new plots. They've all been done before, and that's true. It's your own
'spin' that makes a story yours. It's all the extra details you pile in on top
of one another that make the story zing.
Of course, as I said, which ideas you run
with depends on you. For Rough Surrender, my one historical erotic romance(though
I'm planning a sequel), I was given that idea by my friend and editor, Nerine
Dorman, when she suggested I read up on the Belle Époque time in history. That
led me to Cairo and the first gathering of aviators in Africa in 1910, and to
researching the first woman to get a pilot's license.
I like going a bit off the well-travelled
pathways, which is partly why contemporary BDSM club stories haven't really
been my thing. But I acknowledge they are popular, and now that I've written
Take Me, Break Me, I'm a bit more confident that if I try hard, I may be able
to do more contemporary stories. they might not be in clubs but I will be
writing them. Take Me, Break Me is Book One in the Pierced Hearts series.
If you want to know where I got that idea,
it built up over a while. I have read many authors of capture fantasies, from
John Norman's Gor series to those by Kitty Thomas, and obviously I like them. I
realized that they span from ones that have no romance and non-consent to those
that are more dubious consent. The ones
I've read, the man is often not really someone you'd want to have as your
partner in real life. Certainly he's often broken the law, and is not terribly
moral, and he’s very self-serving. I decided to go with writing a capture
fantasy in modern times, with two main ideas in mind. One was to make the man
both understandable and likeable. I wanted the reader to sympathize with his
choices. The other idea was to make readers think about capture fantasies in a
new way.
Hard to do though – to get
people to understand and like a sadist who comes really close to doing things
to Jodie that she hasn't consented to. Have I achieved that? I'll have to wait
to see, but so far I do know that readers are sympathizing with Klaus.
Giveaway
Cari is giving away a $20 Amazon Gift Card as a grand tour wide prize. Winner will be selected by Rafflecopter.
Blog Tour Schedule
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Until next time,
xoxo
The book description sounds very intriguing. I will definitely have to read this one! Thanks for the chance at this giveaway and being a part of the blog tour!
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