The Next Big Thing Blog Hop!

Week 24: THE NEXT BIG THING BLOG HOP

There are the books everyone has heard about: Twilight, Hunger Games, Fifty Shades of Gray. But
what about all those books written by people you’ve never heard of? Some of them are treasures,
just waiting to be found, and that’s what this blog hop is all about: the books you might not have
heard about, but that you might end up loving.

This blog hop is like a game of tag. One author posts and tags five other authors who link back
to their website the next week and tag five new authors. If you follow the blog hop long enough,
you’re bound to find some books you’ll love! Maybe you’ll even discover a book that ends up
being the next big thing.

I was tagged by Niecey Roy. You can learn more about her book, Fender Bender Blues, on her
website www.nieceyroy.com.

This blog hop includes ten questions to help you learn more about an author’s current work in
progress, so here’s a little info about my current project:

1: What is the working title of your book?
Icing on Top, it's the first book in my MF two part series, Two Drunk Girls.

2: Where did the idea come from for the book?
We have a cupcake shop here in Colorado that uses alcohol in their creations and I saw an ad for them. It got me thinking about two best friends who went into business together and what their lives would be like. While I was playing with the idea I told my cover artist, Tabatha Heart, that I needed a beautiful full figured woman to be on my cover and she found me the perfect woman. Then she found me this adorably hot man to go with her and the idea just started falling into place.

3: What genre does your book fall under?
MF het romance, contemporary, military men, small business owners, best friends and a few others. I haven't decided yet if its going to be erotica or not.

4: Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
I'm not sure exactly. The woman would have to be happy with her curves, in love with life and really bubbly. The guy is cute and hot and he's not the alpha male type. Think curvy cute girl meets sweet guy and they realize that they're perfect for each other.

5: What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
A woman who is completely comfortable with who she is and the life she's built finds out that true love isn't as hard to get as she once thought.

6: Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
I originally thought of going through a publisher with this one. After all, self publishing was a scary concept just last week. But now that my first self published book, The Little Crow, is out and being read, it's not that bad. I'm sure I'll be nervous again with this one too but I like how much control I had with Crow and so I'll probably keep going on that path.

7: How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
I'm still working on it so I'll let you know.

8: What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
I haven't read a MF book in a while and certainly not one that didn't involve vampires and a certain brotherhood, so I couldn't tell you. But I do want it to be along the same fun quirky lines as Kristan Higgins' books.

9: Who or What inspired you to write this book?
The cupcake shop and the picture Tabatha Heart found for me really helped push this story into go mode for me.

10: What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
This is going to be a different sort of book for me. Right now readers only know me for my MM erotica. Next year will come with a lot of surprises. There will still be MM but look for MF, FF and YA books as well. I hope you'll check out Icing on Top. At the very least I promise to make you smile and give you an HEA.


Happy Reading! 
Here is a list of authors who will be joining the hop for week 25 on December 12th. I hope you’ll
visit their blogs next week and learn more about their books. Maybe one of them will become your
new favorite author!

1 Lindsay Klug ichbineinteufel.blogspot.com

2 Anna Marie May http://amariemay.blogspot.ie/

3 Tabatha Heart http://tabathaheart.wordpress.com/

4 Aisling Mancy  www.AislingMancy.blogspot.com