Hi, Kristen and welcome back to my blog! It's great to have you here and to be a part of your new blog tour. Let's get started with the questions...
1.
What do you wish men understood about women?
Not everything breaks down to us "just being
emotional". Emotions might be
involved, but that doesn't mean we're being emotional just to be emotional. J
2.
Do you only work on one book at a time?
No, I'm
always writing at least one book and editing one other. I'm kind of crazy that way.
3.
Who is your favorite fictional couple?
Elizabeth
Bennet and Mr. Darcy, hands down.
I love their whole story and how they go through the gamut of
emotions. They go through a lot to
come together.
4.
Do you have a favorite quote that sums up how you feel about
life?
My
favorite quote is: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making
other plans" -- John Lennon.
Love this quote!!
5.
Do you set daily writing goals? Word count? Number of
chapters? Do you get a chance to write every day?
My
writing goal is pretty simple: attempt to fit in a little writing time every
day, even if it's only a half an hour.
I work a full time job, I'm married, and have two adventurous daughters. I'm lucky if I get five minutes to
myself a day, so I consider myself really lucky every day I get to write. J
6. What do
you like better, Twitter or Facebook? Why?
I personally prefer
Facebook because you're able to write more in your status and I feel like it's
easier to interact with followers.
It also feels to me like you have a bigger variety of ways that you can
create posts.
7.
What are you working on now?
I'm working on a contemporary romance with suspense theme. It's still in a really rough state, so
I unfortunately can't go into more than that. But I'm excited about it because I'm writing in the first
person point of view for the first time and am really enjoying it.
8. Tell us
about your latest release and where we can find it
Behaving Badly tells the story of Delaney Pierce, a life coach,
who is hired to curb the nefarious ways of Cyrus Chapman, the paparazzi hounded
executive vice president of Chapman Industries. Delaney is trying to save her own family business from
collapsing and pinning her hopes on her commission from working with
Cyrus. But Cyrus isn't interested in
changing his lifestyle despite his father's threats and both he and Delaney
fight to control the situation. It
can be found at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.
Behaving Badly
by Kristen Beairsto
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BLURB:
Delaney Pierce is desperate, no, determined, to rebuild the
family business, Manners Matter, after the disaster her own mother brought down
on it, and her, a year ago. With
two crazy aunts living life moving from one misadventure to the next and her
younger sister waitressing to help make ends meet, she pins her hopes on her
commission to curb the undesirable habits of Cyrus Chapman, one of New York's
premier businessmen and one of the city's most eligible bachelors.
Her resolve to succeed with Cyrus is immediately put to the
test during her very first meeting with him and she realizes that no matter how
much she prepared for all that was Cyrus, it all paled in comparison to the
real man. Things only get worse
when he starts hinting at wanting more than a professional relationship.
But Delaney can’t entertain the idea of having more than a
professional relationship with Cyrus.
After all, that’s something her mother would do and she’s not about to
start emulating that woman now.
However, fighting her attraction to Cyrus becomes harder and harder the
more she’s around him and she finds herself wondering if she’s become so
wrapped up in trying not to be her mother that she’s forgotten to just to be
herself.
EXCERPT
Pausing, he tried to feel a
little guilty about the bomb he planned to drop on her and the fact that he
couldn’t wait for her response.
But he failed miserably.
“We’ll have to pretend to be lovers.”
Her jaw dropped.
“After the sessions are over,”
which will be quickly if he had anything to say about it, “I’ll let it be known
we broke up and we can go from there.”
It would probably be the longest relationship he ever had, but he tried
to not think about that.
A horrified expression slid over
her face.
“Absolutely not!” She shook her head emphatically.
Not exactly the reaction he hoped
for, but then again she didn’t exactly act like he expected, so he guessed that
made it par for the course.
Despite that, he couldn’t help feeling a little irritated. He could easily think of a dozen women
that would kill to be in her position.
Arching a brow, “Why not?” he
asked, trying to hold back his reaction.
A mutinous expression slid over
her face, her pale aqua gaze flashing.
“I’m not that good of an actress.”
Despite the clear physical signs of her agitation, her tone came out
flat and devoid of any hints of her emotions.
“Okay.” He let the word slowly roll over his tongue as he tried to
think of where she might be going with this. “So you really don’t know how to smile? Or is it that you don’t know how to
hold hands? Please don’t tell me
you’re a virgin,” adding the last in a teasing tone in an attempt to goad her
into revealing something about herself.
Brows narrowing into a scowl, she
shook her head. “That’s none of
your business.”
Tempted to check his hair for
icicles that had to have formed from her frosty tone, not a virgin, but not
getting a lot of action either.
“Are you seeing someone?” For some reason, the idea of another
man being in the picture left a bad taste in his mouth.
“Not that my personal life is any
of your business, but no, I’m not seeing anyone right now.” Returning to her pad, she started
making quick notes.
Relief blossomed at her answer.
“So what’s the problem then?”
“The problem is I don’t like you
very much. I’m not capable of
pretending to be someone’s lover that I don’t even like,” she replied tightly
without looking up at him.
Mentally, he heard the gauntlet
hit the floor. The smug smile that
slowly slid across his lips couldn’t be stopped even if he really wanted to.
“I can make you like me,” he
promised in his best bedroom voice.
The woman just added to the list
of things he found intriguing about her.
Even at moments of being an extreme jerk, he never had a woman admit
they didn’t find him attractive.
Not that he could really blame Delaney after the way he acted earlier.
Snorting, Delaney shook her head
and rolled her eyes before returning her gaze to her pad of paper. “I doubt that.”
Challenge accepted!
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
In between her to-be-read pile and trying to bring the characters in her
head alive, Kristen spends as much time as she can with family and
friends. Much to her husband’s
dismay, she enjoys collecting purses, shoes, and jewelry. During those rare times she’s not
working at her day job, rushing her daughters somewhere, watching movies with
her husband, and trying to meet a deadline, she can usually be found
energetically cheering for one of her favorite New York sports teams.
As with just about every other writer on the planet, Kristen grew up an
avid reader. She started with
young adult before she technically hit the age range and moved on to sci-fi
classics by Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury. At fifteen, her best friend gave her a book she just had to
read! The book was Honest
Illusions by Nora Roberts. Always
a sucker for a happy ending, she was a goner and fell in love with the romance
genre. Having started writing
novel length stories at the age of eleven, Kristen’s stories all took a
romantic turn from that point on.
You can connect with Kristen through her website www.KristenBeairsto.com , Facebook www.facebook.com/AuthorKristenBeairsto
, or Twitter www.twitter.com/AuthorKBeairsto.
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/behaving-badly-kristen-beairsto/1117655931?ean=2940148939207&itm=1&usri=2940148939207
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/386104
Kristen will be awarding an eCopy
of Behaving Badly to five randomly drawn commenters during the tour, and a
Grand Prize of the complete set of all 5 of Kristen's ebooks to one randomly
drawn commenter during the tour. A $10 Amazon GC will be awarded to one
randomly drawn host.
Follow the tour and comment; the more you comment, the better your chances of winning. The tour dates can be found here:
Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for having me!
ReplyDeleteKristen...You're a new-to-me author. I always admire authors who work FT, have families, and also manage to write good books!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Catherine! That means a lot! :)
DeleteThanks for the excerpt and the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteSounds really good!!
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You're welcome. Thanks for taking the time to stop by! :)
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