Here it is — BREAKING POINT cover! Plus EXCERPT
Here it is! I'm so excited to share it with you — the cover for my next I-Team novel, Breaking Point.And who's on the cover, but the achingly delicious Jed Hill. I recognize those obliques and those lips. Tasty.
This demands an excerpt, don't you think?
From Breaking Point:
Zach hung limply from the manacles, unable even to hold up his head. His shoulders ached from supporting his dead weight, manacles biting into his bloody wrists. But none of that could compare to the residual pain of that l...
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Sep 14, 2010 08:35PM
SEXY cover, I love it!
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Thanks, Keri. I love it too!Isn't he, Maldivianbookreviewer? I admit I could stare at him all day. Or at least for a very long while. :-)
Oh my, YES! Took me a while to notice he has a badge on his belt... my eyes were elsewhere...
LOL!I got an email this morning from the U.S. Marshal I used as a source for this story — a woman. And she said that she's ready to rejoin the USMS now if this is the kind of man they're hiring. She's retired.
That made me laugh.
Hope all is well with you, Karen.
Good Lord! I'm glad I was sitting at home when I read/saw/drooled over this rather than on the train to the office.. That would have been really messy, not to say embarrassing. trembling sigh
I'm glad, too, Ruth. I know from personal experience how embarrassing that can be. :-)Actually, I have to be careful when I write in public because if it's a really touching scene (or I'm trying to MAKE it be a really touching scene), my emotions get very involved, and I cry.
There's a scene in HARD EVIDENCE between the heroine and her mom that took me completely by surprise and had be bawling in a coffee shop. Time to go home. LOL!
Love to have that pic in poster size :)Make that life size!
Pam, you just keep taking care of yourself and concentrate on your recovery from surgery and keep those writing arm muscles warmed up. :-) Connor's story is speaking to you, I know it is. As a matter of fact, can Jed just go ahead and do a body shot for Connor's cover as well. Put him in period clothing (or not) :-^ with a arm band tat or something...*sigh*...why do I tease myself at work like this. Head on desk. lol
As a matter of fact, can Jed just go ahead and do a body shot for Connor's cover as well. Put him in period clothing (or not) :-^ with a arm band tat or something...*sigh*...Ooooh, yes pl-ease...
Me, too, Pamela. Glad you like it!Keri, I read "body shot," and immediately what came to my depraved mind was doing body shots off the guy in the image. You know, drinking tequila off his tummy. I thought, "What did Keri write?!?" And then I saw that's not what you wrote. My mind just went there. LOL!
I am doing my best to recover. I go back to work in two weeks, so I'd like to get some writing done between now and then. (So glad you enjoyed NAKED EDGE, by the way.)
Yes, Connor is always speaking to me. This is going to be the first fall I can't go to Rogers Island (Ranger Island). I'm hoping to go there this spring so I can write some of the book right where the rangers really lived and fought. I like the idea of using the same model, but what about that long dark hair of Connor's and those warrior braids?
Too funny, Ruth. :-)
Thank you all for your support! This has been a tough year, but your comments really bolster me and lift my spirits.
You know, drinking tequila off his tummy..whimper, whimper
OH HOLY @#$%^*%@$!!!! YESSSS! Congrats on such yummy cover hunkiness, Pamela!
LOL Oh I went there in my head..heck who am I kidding I would drink shots of rootbeer off of him...who needs alcohol..course as hot as he is...probably turn into steam and then I would get a thrill and a facial at the same time. :-) Now you got me drooling over Connor...a firm yes on the dark hair and warrior braids, like I wouldn't like that...i like it so much, thinking of asking my husband if he will let me give him the warrior makeover when I get home...lol.
I have loved all of your books, but of the contemporaries Naked Edge was special to me.
Thank you, Shawna! I'm so glad you like it.Keri, it's good to know I'm not the only one who thought that. LMAO at "shots of rootbeer." Water, even. :-)
A warrior makeover. That sounds kind of fun. If I were a guy, I'd let my wife try a few things. I'd practice my Scottish brogue for those nights when a Scots accent in bed would be just the thing.
I'm so glad to hear it (about NAKED EDGE). I think Kat was a hard heroine for some readers to relate to. The book was special to me, too, for every personal reasons, which you probably read in the author's note.
OMG can't wait!!!!!!!!!!! Fan girl squeel!!! lol
KarLynP wrote: "Oh my, YES! Took me a while to notice he has a badge on his belt... my eyes were elsewhere..."Oh....there's a badge on his belt??? I didn't notice either, weeellll I'm just gonna have to take another look!!! *big smile*
LoL, Rhonda! We could create a game — pin the badge on Zach's belt. Could be fun, especially when you put it in the wrong place. :-)
Pamela wrote: "LoL, Rhonda! We could create a game — pin the badge on Zach's belt. Could be fun, especially when you put it in the wrong place. :-)"
I want to play!!!!!!!!!!! Pick me, pick me!!!!
Let's see if Jed Hill is available and up for that. And then we can all have a turn. Plus, he's very sandy. Someone needs to brush him off.
Pamela,LOVE the cover! I like how it's a little different than the others - and that guy is smoking hot!
Hope you keep feeling better!
Funny story, one of the times I was reading Surrender my husband asked me why I was speaking in a Scottish accent. Apparently I was so into the writing style, I started speaking it :)
Hi, Melissa — Thanks for your kind words about the cover and your good wishes.Thank is HILARIOUS! Haha.
You know, when I'm writing a MacKinnon's Rangers book, I start talking that way too — at the newspaper. "’Tis time for a wee meetin', aye? Bring your notebooks wi' you. And dinnae be late."
My son picks it up from me, and then he does it, too. We walk around the house talking like that. LOL!
Just FYI — Sometimes I see in reviews where people say the way I've written the Scottish is "fake" or whatever. What they don't know is that I've taken the spelling and even lots of vocabulary words from auld Scottish ballads. So I spell it the way the Scots spell it.
So what you're speakin', lassie, is near enough to what they'd be sayin' back in day. :-)
I also look for fun new words in old letters or old songs — like collieshangie and conflummixt.
Anyway, that's probably more than you ever wanted to hear. :-)
Have a good night!
P.
Nope, I think it's really cool! Hey it seemed authentic to me but I am not a old Scottish language expert. I like the way you write it and the interesting words.
Pamela wrote: "Thanks, Keri. I love it too!Isn't he, Maldivianbookreviewer? I admit I could stare at him all day. Or at least for a very long while. :-)"
Definitely! I have him as my profile picture on Facebook as well. And I blame you for it! ;)
