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Shannon Stacey | Story Idea Fairy
Author Guest / August 20, 2014

One of the most common questions asked of a writer, and one almost guaranteed to trigger that deer in the headlights look, is where she gets her ideas from. Some authors can give specific answers to that question. “I was watching a disaster movie and thought, what if those two were trapped, thinking they’d die and had sex without ever knowing each other’s names and she got pregnant.” Others use humor to deflect. “I find them on the clearance rack at the department store”. I fall into that group of authors who draw a blank and wish there was an easy answer. I don’t want to say I don’t know because I like to pretend I have a little control over what’s going on my head, at least. But I really don’t. Sometimes a snippet of dialogue will pop in my head. Or an opening scene. Maybe the character. There’s neither rhyme nor reason and all I can do is keep hoping if there’s a Story Idea Fairy, that she doesn’t stop coming around. But with NO PLACE TO HIDE, I had a head start. Jack Donovan and Isabelle Arceneau were introduced in the third book in the series, NO…

Terri L. Austin | Beauty and the Brit
Author Guest / August 20, 2014

Hello, Fresh Fiction Readers! It’s a pleasure to be here. I thought I’d tell you a little about my erotic romance, HIS EVERY NEED. It’s the first book in the Beauty and the Brit series. As a girl, I loved fairy tales, especially Beauty and the Beast. There was something so redeeming about that story and the transformative power of love. How the beast changed from a demanding brute into a caring hero. For me, HIS EVERY NEED is a sexy twist on that familiar tale. Trevor’s not a beast, not exactly, but he’s selfish and isolated. He’s emotionally cut off and when Allie Campbell blows into his life, he isn’t sure what to make of her. But he doesn’t want to let her go. Allie is no damsel in distress. She’s a strong, capable woman whose family is in chaos after the death of her mother. It’s Allie’s job to take care of them. She made a promise, after all. And if it means becoming a mistress to Trevor Blake, so be it. Trevor wasn’t seriously offering Allie the position. He was only joking. Americans don’t always understand his British sense of humor. But he won’t back down, and neither…

Lisa Renee Jones | The Inspiration Behind INSIDE OUT
Author Guest / August 20, 2014

The perfect love story in a Barnes and Noble? That’s what happened to me and it’s my love story. It’s also a story heavily on my mind as book 4 NO IN BETWEEN is released on 8-19, since the love of my life helped inspire me to write the Inside Out series, which is now in development for cable TV. So this is how it all began…. Long before my career took off, I was in a Barnes and Noble at the New Release rack, dreaming of the day my books might be there, when my now husband, also a book addict, approach me. From there, love bloomed, and the story gets even better. Diego was a physical therapist, laid off when the office had financial troubles and I was a starving artist. We began auction hunting AKA Storage Wars before Storage Wars existed. During that time, Diego found a journal and started reading. I often jokes he was such a chick reading it. Someone is dead next door! She’s pregnant again! WHAT is she thinking? He decided right then I needed to write a story where someone finds a journal in a storage unit and either someone dies or…