Interview with NJ Cole, Author of LANDSLIDE

As part of her blog tour, NJ Cole, author of Landslide, stopped by for an interview and shared a little bit about her new release. Q: Tell us a little bit about how the idea for this story got started. A: This story started out as a short story for a contest. One my friends read it and loved it. Months later, she found out she had cancer. To support her, many people donated stories to raise money for cancer. She asked me to participate, and when I asked her what she wanted me to write, she said that she wanted me to add more to this short story. I did and she loved it. She told me that she wanted me to finish the story. Sadly, I didn’t finish before she passed away, but I did finish. If you read it, you’ll notice I dedicated the book to her, Katalina. I also named the pizza restaurant after her, and Kat’s special was her favorite kind of pizza. I miss her, but I know she would have been proud of me for finishing. Q: What do you feel is the biggest lesson your main characters learn from their experiences in this story? A: Well, Kenzie learned that it was possible to get what she wanted, but no one was going to hand it to her. She’d have to work for it. Max learned that you need to follow your heart, and that you can change what’s most important to you. Q: How important was setting to the plot of the story? A: It really wasn’t. The three primary settings are San Francisco, London and Paris. Those could have been interchanged with say, Philadelphia, Dublin and Rome. It was much more about their interactions. Q: What is the significance of the title? What prompted you to choose it? A: In this case, Landslide is used in the geographical and political meanings. Of course Max won his election by a landslide, but there is more to the meaning. At one point in the story, he describes his relationship with Kenzie as being in a landslide…first for the better and then—when their happiness was threatened—for the worse.

I sat there stunned for a full minute after she left. For the past seven months, and even more so in the past week, I’d felt like I’d been in a landslide. The ground had been moving, but for the better. It was taking me to a brighter place, making me happier. Now I felt the opposite happening. It still felt like a landslide, but the ground was falling out from under me. I felt like I was being drug down, too, rocks crushing me as the dirt piled on thicker and thicker. I seriously wondered if I’d ever see the sun again.

Q: What do you think the elements of dominance and submission bring to the main characters’ relationship that might otherwise be absent? A: There are two types of dominance and submission relationships. I’m sure there are more, but in the simplest terms, there are the ones where the Dominant and submissive only have a relationship revolving around play. They would either meet at a club or another location for scenes. They are Dominant/submissive all the time. The far more common form of D/s relationships are just a part of a couple’s entire relationship. For example, while I am submissive to my husband in our bedroom, I am also his wife. I am not a submissive all of the time. In the case of Kenzie and Max, they started out as only D/s, but it evolved. Had that element not been present in the beginning of the story, they likely wouldn’t have gotten together. Q: What’s your secret geeky obsession? A: I don’t know. I like math! Q: Which secondary character was the most fun to write? A: I love Carter. I want to write an entire book about him and his love life. Q; What was your biggest challenge in writing and publishing this story? A: It was self publish…it turned out just getting it on Amazon for my release was the hardest part.

Q: What is your next planned project? What can you tell us about it? A: I am doing an anthology of short, erotic, forbidden stories! It will be out hopefully later in 2013. After that, the sequel to Midnight Caller. Q: And the most important question: chipmunks or squirrels? I don’t like either, but I’d have to say chipmunks. I was attacked by a squirrel as a kid. I’d tell you about it, but my therapist said I’m not ready for that yet.


Title: LandslideAuthor: NJ ColeRelease Date: August 4, 2013Cover Designer: T.m. Franklin





Blurb:

Senator Maxwell Joseph has it all—money, power, and good looks—the trifecta when it comes to attracting the ladies. He even has women willing to be tied up, spanked, and completely at his mercy, all while calling him Daddy, fulfilling his secret fantasy. On the night of his thirty-fifth birthday, Max finds a goddess waiting for him in his hotel room. She is beautiful, sexy, and very willing, yet the fruit she offers is very forbidden. Not only is she barely legal at nineteen, but she also happens to be the daughter of his best friend and political advisor.
Mackenzie Wade has had a crush on the senator for years. When an overheard phone call affords her the opportunity she needs to make her fantasies a reality, Kenzie jumps at the chance, offering herself as a birthday gift.
Throwing caution to the wind, Max gives in to temptation and gives them both what they have been yearning for—a night filled with ropes, floggers, and toe-curling sex. Although satiated, one night of passion isn’t enough for either of them, and they begin a clandestine affair.  
For Maxwell, the solid ground on which he’s built his career starts to shift as his hopes and dreams for the future begin to change. In what can only be described as a landslide, Max holds on tight to the only thing that he can—Kenzie. He goes on the ride of his life, knowing all along that in the end, he may have to make a gut-wrenching decision between the woman of his dreams and a path to the White House.


About the Author:

NJ Cole is a witty, mid-western girl with a kinky side. She works by day and writes by night, all while being a mother to her wonderful boys and serving her Sir. Unlike many of today’s authors, she chooses to write in first person, allowing the readers to experience life through the eyes of the unique characters that live in her head. Her love of those characters and respect for their stories come through loud and clear in her writing. With over two million reads of her online work in the past six months, NJ Cole is clearly an up and coming author.


Links:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7077804.N_J_Cole

www.njcoledls.blogspot.com

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Excerpt:
Opening the door to the suite, I found a beautiful creature in my bed with the hottest body I’d ever seen. She was wearing white thigh highs, a short plaid skirt, and a white top. It was a classic school girl outfit and I loved it. Everything about her was perfect, but everything about her was wrong. “Mackenzie! What the hell are you doing?”

“I’m giving you your birthday present, Senator Joseph.”

The way she said my name made my dick rock hard again.

“Mackenzie, this is completely inappropriate.”

“Who gives a fuck if it’s appropriate or not,” she said, rubbing her thighs together. “And I know you want me. I saw how you were looking at me earlier. I even know what you’re into.”

My stomach dropped. Could she mean she knew about my sexual preferences? “What are you talking about?”

“Oh, I know. I overheard my father talking once.” She got off the bed and walked over to me, her eyes never leaving mine as she crossed the room. She grabbed hold of my tie and began running her fingers over it. “I know exactly what you are into, Senator Joseph.”

“Mackenzie, you’re what…sixteen years old?” I questioned, grabbing her wrist and removing her hand from my tie.

“Sixteen? You sent me a graduation present last year,” she laughed. “I’m nineteen. My birthday was just last week.”

She was legal. I’m sure she said more, but all I heard was that she was nineteen. I had also caught something else she said a moment ago. She’d mentioned that she knew what I was “into,” and I needed to know what she meant.

“What is it you think I’m into?” I asked with more authority than I felt at that moment.

“You like to tie up little girls and fuck them. Isn’t that right, Senator?”

Her words made my dick twitch. The summary wasn’t exactly accurate; I didn’t like actual little girls, just women in their early twenties who were willing to dress up for my fantasies. What I gathered from her statement, though, was that she wasn’t repulsed; she sounded excited at the thought.

There were a million reasons I shouldn’t do this. She was barely legal. She was the daughter of my top advisor…and best friend. I wasn’t prepared. We didn’t have any sort of contract. I had no clue what her limits were. It just seemed wrong, yet all of that flew out the window when she looked up at me and licked her lips.

“Don’t you wanna tie me up and fuck me, Senator Joseph?”

Consequences be damned. I wasn’t thinking with my head, I was thinking with my dick. And my dick wanted her. “On your knees, little girl,” I commanded harshly.

She dropped to the floor instantly; when she did, I walked around her and pulled her hands behind her back. “So you want to be tied up? To offer yourself to me? To please me?”

“Yes,” she panted.

“Yes, what?” I asked, removing my tie.

“Yes, Sir,” she moaned.

“Yes, Daddy,” I corrected.

“Yes, Daddy.”