Naked in Hong Kong
By A.J. Llewellyn
No story is safe with me. Just ask any of my friends who've told me something naughty…or nice… and they know that somehow, some way, their story will wind up in one of my books. Only sometimes the story is so outlandish even I can't use it!
I recently had dinner with a wonderful friend I haven't seen for a while because she's madly in love with her new man.
She took a couple of hours away from him to spend a little time with me. Knowing my passion for travel, she told me how he took her to Hong Kong and she mentioned how an 'unfortunate incident' almost wrecked their hot romance.
Of course, I had to know more. She told me a complicated story that boiled down to this: one night, she waited naked for him in their hotel bed and had champagne chilling on ice along with a few essential sex toys on hand (God, I love this woman!!).
For some reason, she had the urge to check if the ping of the elevator across the hall was him.
Don't ask me how, but she wound up TRIPPING herself as she peered out of the door and fell SPLAT in the hallway.
Naked.
In Hong Kong.
With the hotel door locked closed behind her.
Did I see a book in this? Hell, yeah…except my story of course involves a man and has a different kind of ending.
My friend told me that a group of Chinese businessmen rallied around her (I bet the did!!!) and one of them lent her an itty-bitty towel. But hotel security wouldn't let her back into the room without ID (she's naked, people) and when they did let her back in, they got an eyeful of her sex toys laid out on the bed.
Then her boyfriend arrived to find her Naked in Hong Kong with five strange men and her in an itty bitty towel.
Aahhh…that was a good laugh. For me. Not for her.
It begs the question. Is truth stranger than fiction? Absolutely. Had I written her story as told it, it would not be believable. Her story went on. She will never live it down…not now that she's inspired a book. Naked in Hong Kong was released this weekend and I hope you'll check it out:
http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/NakedHongKong.html
How about you? Have you heard a story that's really cool but so UNREAL it needs to be toned down?
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Aloha oe,
A.J.
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Thank you for your comment, Portia! My next book Kaleidoscope came from a story a friend of mine who is an ER nurse told me! What a coincidence. You are wonderful to do the work you do.
Don't go getting all gushy about ER nurses. For the most part we are foul mouth, prima donna adrenaline junkies. ;-) But, seriously, I love your work. You create believable stories with characters I want to care about. I want to be just like you when I grown up.
wow...thank you Portia.My cousin Jim is a homicide detective in SF and his wife is an ER nurse. I respect and love them both. One never knows when it might happen that we wind up in the ER...so I am always kind to nurses!
I want to be like YOU when I grow up!
What a great story and what an awesome friend to tell it to you. I have a tiny, non-sexual story that always cracks me up when I think of it. I have a friend who always drives with one shoe on, one shoe off. So, she was driving home alone from Vegas to CA and she really had to pee. Well, I'm sure that you, living in CA, have driven to Vegas and you know that there is a lot of 'nothing' on the way to and from there. Anyway, she just couldn't wait, so she took a deserted off ramp, it might have even been Zzyzx, and she jumped out of the car, left it running, and squatted down and peed. Well, you guessed it. The door closed and locked her out! So there she was, one shoe on, one shoe off, the car running with her cell phone and everything locked inside, and a big wet puddle. She ended up standing there, I don't know how long, until a cop happened by and managed to get into her car. I don't know what he thought of the situation, but he had probably seen it all. :)
Portia when i grow up i want to be AJ too!!! Seriously I loved this book... It was a step in a new Direction for AJ and I love How our hero had to get his HEA.. I think that this novel is a statement to AJ's Talent and commitment as a writer. Keep up the good work darling i look forward to many more..
Silver,I hate to admit, that I avoided reading anything by AJ for a long time. I just couldn't believe that any one could write that much and still produce quality work. My first AJ read was Sundays in the Park... Now, I'm an AJ junkie and not even considering rehab.
Portia wrote: "Silver,I hate to admit, that I avoided reading anything by AJ for a long time. I just couldn't believe that any one could write that much and still produce quality work. My first AJ read was Sun..."
I know the feeling my very first stand along of AJ's Was Phantom Lover and is till this day my all time Favorite...
I just finished DJ Manley's Blood Pond. Since I'll be sleeping with the lights on for the next few nights, I'll see if I have enough in my book budget to pick up Phantom.
I am very behind on DJ books I want to Read Blood Pond He is another one who cant write a bad book... he is as wonderful as AJ.. Phantom is the 1st of 16books
Look forward to reading Naked in Hong Kong.