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June 22, 2012
Show Your Pride!
June 21, 2012
June 20, 2012
Special Guest Cynthia Boris & GIVEAWAY!!!
I am super excited to have author CYNTHIA BORIS here with me today! Be sure to leave a comment and be entered to win a copy of her gripping romantic suspense novel, SAVING HILL! Winner will be announced Mon day, June 25, 2012.
LisaFox: So, tell us about you. Who is Cynthia Boris?
CynthiaBoris: I am a writer, a TV fanatic and an internet fiend. Formerly a Jersey girl, I moved to Southern California to be closer to the TV industry and got to fulfill my dream of working on a TV show and seeing my name in the credits of a movie!
My other dream was to publish a novel and have it reviewed in Romantic Times and I got that too when I published my first novel Waiting for Ethan. It’s been a long time coming but now I’m back with a new book.
LF: You are a romance author, but do you consider yourself a romantic?
CB: I am at heart but I try not to let it show! I’m not much of a candlelight dinner girl, but when a hero swoops in to save a damsel in distress, I’m there.
LF: I love a good murder mystery and Saving Hill sounds like a thrilling read. Can you tell us a little about the story?
CB: I’m kind of a conspiracy nut and years back I read about these secret government mind control experiments called MKULTRA. It really started me thinking about the people they experimented on and if it was really possible to control the actions of another. Combine that with my fascination with UFOs and abduction stories and you get Saving Hill. Of course, since Hill isn’t exactly sane, the real question is. . . is his reality really real or not?
LF: I have a major thing for FBI agents and Special Agent Mitch Jackson sounds like my kind of man. Who plays him in the movie?
CB: If it’s a TV movie, it’s Rob Morrow. I was highly influenced by his portrayal of FBI agent Don Epps in Numb3rs. If we make it to the big screen, then let’s see if Hugh Jackman is available.
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LF: As we all know, the end of the world is coming this year and the zombie apocalypse is upon us. What five must-haves do you have in your zombie-proof bunker?
CB:
My iPad with as many books, TV shows and movies as I can cram in there.
A generator that will keep my iPad charged.
Chocolate. . because. . .chocolate makes everything bearable.
A huge supply of Diet Coke because that’s my life’s blood.
My best friend, because what’s a zombie-apocalypse without someone to share it with.
LF: What is your favorite way to relax after a hard day of working and writing?
CB: TV, TV and more TV. I am devoted to television. I have been since I was a child and I swear I learned more from TV than I learned in school. When I’m not watching current TV, I’m working my way through the backlog of DVD box sets.
LF: Any new projects in the works?
CB: Since I write non-fiction for a living, switching my brain to the fiction side is often tricky. I do have one project I’m really passionate about that I keep going back to. The hero is an aging teen idol who makes a startling discovery about his best friend’s suicide which happened more than 20 years ago.
Since I am such a TV fan, it’s only a matter of time before that world ends up in one of my novels. I’m kind of surprised that it hasn’t happened yet.
LF: How can people find you online?
CB: I’m everywhere! The easiest way is to follow me on Twitter @cynthialil. That way you’ll hear all the news from the variety of blogs I run and write for.
I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on Saving Hill, writing or their favorite TV show. For that, they can leave me a message at www.cynthiaboris.com
Charlie Hill is the biggest puzzle at Lakeland Mental Hospital. He claims to have been abducted by aliens, but creative therapist Abby Westin thinks the story is Hill’s way of coping with something horrible that happened to him in his past.
When Abby tries to solve the puzzle, using Hill’s diary, she finds herself caught up in a conspiracy that includes murder. She runs to the one person she can trust, Hill’s best friend Mitch Jackson, but she soon discovers that Jacks knows more than he’s admitting about the incident that turned Charlie Hill into a broken man.
Filed under: Interview Tagged: Cynthia Boris, Giveaway, Hugh Jackman, Interview, Romantic Suspense, Saving Hill
June 19, 2012
Insanity Day One – I Must Be Crazy
For some reason I cannot fathom, I have decided to do the Insanity Workout. I blame Graylin Fox. And Emily Cale is an enabler.
Today was day one and that means Fit Test Day. Let me tell you, I am not fit. In fact, I am the antithesis of fit. To say I was unfit would be a gross understatement, but I can’t think of a stronger word. Hell, I’m lucky I have to energy to type.
Anyway, Shaun T has his little helpers and after each drill, he asks them how many random bouncing jumping up and down things they managed to do and they were always all smiley and said things like: “I did 547!”
I did 2. Maybe sometimes 3. But mostly 2.
Let this just be a warning for y’all out there, you may want to avoid Tuesdays on my blog for a while because they have now become Insanity Progress Day and I promise there is going to be an awful lot of bitching and whiny going on. I have to do it though, if I don’t make myself accountable in some public way, then I won’t do it at all. So we’ll see how it goes and if I survive…
I don’t think he is going to be looking this sexy to me come day three.
Filed under: Insanity Tagged: Crazy, Insanity, Lisa Fox, Shaun T, Workout
June 18, 2012
Free Summer Reading
I’m over at Flirty Author Bitches today reminding everyone about the 2012 Summer Reading Trail!
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Filed under: Flirty Author Bitches Tagged: 2012 Summer Reading Trail, Flirty Author Bitches, Free Read, Reading, Sexy Men, Wish Upon A Star
June 17, 2012
June 16, 2012
Saturday Video – Twin Peaks Coffee
I LOVED this show. Have you given yourself a present today?
Filed under: Saturday Video Tagged: Awesomeness, Coffee, Saturday Video, Twin Peaks
June 15, 2012
Some Day My Prince Will Come
Tonight would totally work for me.
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Filed under: Hot Men Tagged: Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Prince, Sexy Men
June 14, 2012
June 13, 2012
The Perfect Score by Kellie Kamryn
Kellie Kamryn is here today sharing an excerpt from her latest release, THE PERFECT SCORE.
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THE PERFECT SCORE
The new head coach has barely gotten her beams in alignment when she’s threatened with a lawsuit by a father for refusing to train his brat of a daughter.
Shelley Longstaff finally has her chance to be in charge only to rue the day when she is asked to train the dreaded Anna Fortier, a gymnast who has no sense of sportsmanship and makes everyone in her vicinity miserable. When Shelley refuses, she’s threatened with a lawsuit by her father. To make things worse, Shelley has an inexplicable attraction to the arrogant rich lawyer!
Since his wife’s death five years ago, Jacques (Jack) Fortier does whatever it takes to protect what is his. Shelley’s club is his last resort to keep his daughter in the sport, but threatening to sue her isn’t exactly his smartest move. When she grudgingly agrees to give Anna a chance, he finds himself attracted to the spritely gymnastics coach – the first woman he’s had any feelings for since his wife passed away.
As Shelley and Jack leap over the line in their parent-coach relationship, Shelley worries over falling in love with a man who admittedly still loves his late wife. But when a crisis of teenage proportions threatens their relationship, will they risk everything for the chance to achieve The Perfect Score?
EXCERPT:
Jack escorted Shelley to the car, attempting to ignore the message his loins were sending him—to skip the stupid party, strip her out of the dress, and fuck her.
He opened the car door for her, thankful she couldn’t read his mind. I’m not an eager teenage boy. He was a grown man who could and would control himself. But when he caught a whiff of her perfume, his self-control disappeared and damn if she didn’t make him want to throw caution to the wind.
One taste. As she extended one leg inside the vehicle, he hauled her against him. She looked up at him wide-eyed, but not afraid. The heels she wore gave her an extra three inches. All he had to do was bend his head to ravage her mouth.
And he did.
Shelley clutched at his forearms and tangled her tongue with his, acquiescing to his siege on her senses. Why did kissing her feel right? It really shouldn’t, but it did. Oh, did it ever. But where could this go? Where should it go? At the moment he knew where he wanted it to go—to a goddamn bed.
On the brink of turning into a cave-man with nothing more on his mind than dragging her back to the house by her amazingly soft hair to have his way with her, he held her at arm’s length and stared into her face. Her chest heaved as much as his. Heat radiated between them, and he thought his suit would melt straight onto his skin to become a permanent part of his anatomy.
“I’m sorry,” he said, his voice a quiet rumble as he cupped her face in his hands. “I don’t know what came over me. All week I’ve tried to think of you as Anna’s coach, but you’d sneak into my thoughts in another way. I worried you’d call and cancel our date for tonight.”
“I thought about it, but I just couldn’t do it. And after the way you looked at me tonight…”
Her voice trailed away.
His eyebrows crinkled, and he tugged at his collar, a tad ashamed his lust-filled thoughts had given him away. “Glad I didn’t scare you off. I’m not usually so…I mean, I don’t always look at women like…”
“Like they’re an exquisite banquet and you want to devour every bite?”
“Uh, well, yes, I mean no, I…” Did the temperature rise a few degrees out here?
“Relax, Jack. I didn’t say I minded. I’m pretty sure it’s the same look I gave you when you first arrived.”
“Would you mind if we skipped the party?” He waggled his eyebrows at her.
Her fingers shook when she slid them from his head to cup his neck, and the action belied her casual tone. “If we do, I’ll have gotten dressed up for nothing. No one will even see me in this dress.”
“And they shouldn’t.” He looked down between them, his gaze scorching her again. “I’ll hurt anyone who eyes you up the way I am.”
Smiling, she drew a line down his cheek. “All I care about is that you only have eyes for me.”
Kellie Kamryn
www.kelliekamryn.com
http://www.kelliekamryn.com/Books.html
Filed under: Guest Blogger Tagged: Erotic Romance, Guest Post, Kellie Kamryn, The Perfect Score
