NEW RELEASE
Adult Contemporary
Rockstar Romance
Release: January 28,
2015
“You have the ability to make controversial characters
sympathetic. Maybe I just want to be understood.”
Acclaimed
literary biographer Elizabeth Winston writes about long-dead heroes. So bad boy
rock icon Zander Freedman couldn’t possibly tempt her to write his memoir.
Except the man is a mass of fascinating contradictions - manipulative, honest,
gifted, charismatic, morally ambiguous.
In
short, everything she sought in a biography subject. When in her life will she
get another chance to work with a living legend? But saying yes to one
temptation soon leads to another.
Suddenly
she’s having heated fantasies about her subject, fantasies this blue-eyed-devil
is only too willing to stoke. She’d thought self-control was in her DNA, after
all she grew up a minister’s daughter. She thought wrong.
Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living...
Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living...
Zander
Freedman has been an outlier - many would say an outcast – for most of his
life. But there’s no disaster he can’t overcome, from the break-up of his band
to the fall-out on his reputation. His Resurrection Tour is shaping up to be his
greatest triumph - if his golden voice holds out. Contracting a respected
biographer is simply about creating more buzz; Elizabeth's integrity the key to
consolidating his legacy as one of rock’s greats.
All
the damn woman has to do is write down what he tells her. Not make him think.
Or
encourage the good guy struggling to get out. And certainly not to fall in love
for the first time in his life.
Turns
out he is scared of something - being known.
Rise - a redemption story of a rock star going
straight(er) through the love of a good(ish) woman.
The rock star & the academic:
Making opposites attract
By Karina Bliss
I love the opposites-attract trope,
‘You say toe-ma-toe, I say toe-mate-o’. (FYI, as a Kiwi, I say it the first
way). I couldn’t have written two people more different than my egotistical,
rock-star bad boy Zander Freedman and my warm-hearted, church-brat academic Elizabeth
Winston.
With opposites, it’s easy to see
what’s keeping your characters apart. But when you’re writing romance, what’s
more important is what brings and binds these two together. What do they have
in common? Both Zander and Elizabeth are smart, independent, take-charge people
who share a similar sense of the ridiculous, and I made sure my plot gave them
opportunities to join forces.
I found this wonderful Oscar Wilde
quote, which I adopted as my theme for Rise. “Every saint has a past, and every
sinner a future.” As I wrote the book, it reminded me to add dimensions to my
story characters. Just because my heroine is a good person doesn’t mean she
lacks a wild side, and vice versa for the hero.
Opposites or not, the hero and
heroine need to appreciate each other in a way no one else does. In Zander,
Elizabeth sees a caretaker hero, capable of kindness and vulnerability. In
Elizabeth, Zander sees a wolf in sheep’s clothing, someone as adventurous as he
is.
In
a romance, the challenge for opposites is to incorporate the qualities of the
other - the qualities they lack - so two halves become a perfect whole.
Can you recommend favorite romances
that use this dynamic? Enter
the Release Giveaway and go into the draw for an e-book of Rise.
About the Author
New
Zealander Karina Bliss’s debut, Mr Imperfect, won a Romantic
Book of the Year award in Australia, the first of eleven books
published through Harlequin SuperRomance. Her most recent release, A
Prior Engagement, was a Desert Island Keeper at likesbooks.com. Her next
release, Rise, is a single title, self-published contemporary which
continues the story of Zander Freedman, who first appeared as a villain
inKarina’s bestselling title, What the Librarian Did – a book
that made DearAuthor’s Best of the Year list in 2010.Two
of Karina’s books have also featured in Sizzling Book Chats at SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.
Find
out more at www.karinabliss.com
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