First of all, I have to say how much I love Fresh Fiction and how thrilled I am to be here today talking about my June release, LOVEGAME 🙂 LOVEGAME is a little different from my normal books—it’s darker, twistier, more psychological and suspenseful—but from the moment I first had the idea, I knew I had to write it. What I didn’t realize at the time was that it was going to take me three years—and fifteen other novels—before I would actually get it done. And if you want to talk about coming full circle, I actually first had the idea for Veronica and Ian when I was in Dallas at a 2013 Fresh Fiction event—which is why it seems fitting that the first place I talk about the book is here on this blog 🙂
Every writer, at some point in their career, has an idea that scares them. That keeps them up at night. That matters to them so much that they are terrified they’ll never be able to do the idea justice. That—in the writing of it—makes them grow as both a writer and a person. I am lucky (and unlucky, lol) enough to have had two of those projects in my life. The first, DOOMED, was a young adult modern day retelling of the Pandora’s box myth, where Pandora opens an attachment instead of a box and hearkens technological Armageddon. It’s a book that—after it was done and after writing it nearly killed me–became my favorite that I’d ever written, a book that has been named to numerous state and national library lists and a book that my children love, even now, to brag to their friends about me writing 🙂
The second project that scared me to death and nearly convinced me that I should give up writing forever, was LOVEGAME. It was a story that was so complicated and had characters so dark and damaged, that I didn’t think there was any way I could do justice to it. I was certain that I would mess everything up, even more certain that I would end up disappointed when I failed to write the book that was in my head—and in my heart.
I was so worried about failing with this book that I held onto it long after I could have turned it in. Held onto it—and withheld parts of it—so long that my publisher had to change my pub date—twice and my agent threatened to come to Austin and pry it out of my cold, dead hands if she had to. Eventually I surrendered it, and now I’m exactly one month away from its publication date of June 7th and I am absolutely thrilled. I am also absolutely terrified, but that kind of comes with the territory, doesn’t it? When you put the rawest, most vulnerable part of yourself on display for the world to see (even when it’s couched in the story of two people who lead very different lives than you do) it’s supposed to be terrifying, because it matters so much. But it’s also exciting and exhilarating and really, really fun—and it’s an experience I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.
So how about you? Have you ever done anything that frightened you only to find out that it was totally worth it in the end? Leave a comment for a chance to be entered to win a copy of any backlist book of mine that you choose.
Oh, and just in case you’re curious, here’s the blurb for LOVEGAME 🙂 Enjoy!!!!
Hailed by J. Kenner as an author who “knows how to steam up the pages,” Tracy Wolff delivers a darkly addictive novel of seduction and psychological obsession. The stakes are high in Lovegame, when a movie star with a shattered past meets a man who can either break her or make her whole.
True Crime novelist Ian Sharpe has spent his career writing about serial killers for very personal reasons. For his latest exposé, he is taking on the sadistic madman known as the Red Ribbon Strangler, and when his research leads him to Hollywood’s most private and provocative actress, he will break every rule to uncover her truth.
The daughter of one of Hollywood’s golden couples, chased by paparazzi and treated as a commodity her entire life, Veronica Romero wields her sex appeal like a weapon. She expects Ian to be as easy to control as every other man she’s ever known. But from the beginning, he refuses to fall into line. Mysterious and cool, challenging and just a little bit dangerous, Ian somehow makes her feel safe—even as he digs into the deepest secrets of her life and pushes her to the breaking point.
As raw ecstasy gives way to agonized truths, their dark obsession exposes secrets that have been buried for far too long. Ian wants to tear down her walls and heal the sensual woman underneath. But if Veronica’s learned anything, it’s that the line between pleasure and pain is a narrow one—and when caught between them the only thing that matters is how you play the game.
About Tracy Wolff
Sexy Men. Bold Women. Wicked Romance.
Tracy Wolff collects books, English degrees and lipsticks and has been known to forget where-and sometimes who-she is when immersed in a great novel. At six she wrote her first short story-something with a rainbow and a prince- and at seven she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit with her first Judy Blume novel. By ten she’d read everything in the young adult and classics sections of her local bookstore, so in desperation her mom started her on romance novels. And from the first page of the first book, Tracy knew she’d found her life-long love. Now an English professor at her local community college, she writes romances that run the gamut from contemporary to paranormal to erotic suspense.
And for all of those who want the unedited version:
Tracy Wolff lives with four men, teaches writing to local college students and spends as much time as she can manage immersed in worlds of her own creation. Married to the alpha hero of her dreams for twelve years, she is the mother of three young sons who spend most of their time trying to make her as crazy as possible.
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About LOVEGAME
Hailed by J. Kenner as an author who “knows how to steam up the pages,” Tracy Wolff delivers a darkly addictive novel of seduction and psychological obsession. The stakes are high in Lovegame, when a movie star with a shattered past meets a man who can either break her or make her whole.
True Crime novelist Ian Sharpe has spent his career writing about serial killers for very personal reasons. For his latest exposé, he is taking on the sadistic madman known as the Red Ribbon Strangler, and when his research leads him to Hollywood’s most private and provocative actress, he will break every rule to uncover her truth.
The daughter of one of Hollywood’s golden couples, chased by paparazzi and treated as a commodity her entire life, Veronica Romero wields her sex appeal like a weapon. She expects Ian to be as easy to control as every other man she’s ever known. But from the beginning, he refuses to fall into line. Mysterious and cool, challenging and just a little bit dangerous, Ian somehow makes her feel safe—even as he digs into the deepest secrets of her life and pushes her to the breaking point.
As raw ecstasy gives way to agonized truths, their dark obsession exposes secrets that have been buried for far too long. Ian wants to tear down her walls and heal the sensual woman underneath. But if Veronica’s learned anything, it’s that the line between pleasure and pain is a narrow one—and when caught between them the only thing that matters is how you play the game.
Lovegame is intended for mature audiences.
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