All last week, I worked on updating the look and layout of my first two books, Mercy and Cait and the Devil. I didn’t touch a word of the text, just updated the author blurb, excerpts, front matter, and other stuff I didn’t have a clue about when I first published these books at Lulu.com many moons ago.
For Cait and the Devil, this also included a new cover, which was long overdue.
I found this photo while trolling for stock art for another book, and it just screamed Duncan to me. The movement, the blond hair. The man chest. Ahh. Anyway, in honor of this book’s new cover, it’s the Seventeen Sentence Selection for this week. Here goes:
“When Desmond arrives to report my wife missing, relieve him of his duty for the day without prejudice.”
“Yes, sir,” Ian said, barely disguising his puzzlement.
Duncan mounted his horse and wheeled towards the orchard, knowing exactly which tree she’d crawled into. He’d promised her punishment the next time she evaded her guard. So be it. When he reached the tree he dismounted. He approached the leafy apple tree and looked up through the branches to find Caitlyn balancing on a bough near the top.
“Come down,” he said sharply. “If that branch breaks and you fall—”
“It won’t matter, will it? You don’t want me anyway. If you’re lucky I’ll break my neck.”
“Caitlyn, come down right now.”
“No,” she yelled.
He stared up at her in surprise. Her chin jutted out and she pouted down at him. His little mouse was not so mousy after all.
Aww. Yep. She gets a spanking by the end of the scene. I doubt that’s much of a spoiler, lol. Cait and Duncan have a really neat dynamic, and it’s always sweet to watch people fall in love when they really, really don’t want to fall in love.
One of the things I like about featuring a book each Sunday is the opportunity to reminisce about it. Cait and the Devil is admittedly a hard-to-catagorize book. A “mistorical”? Realistic fantasy? Humor? BDSM? Domestic Discipline? While I was writing it I was thinking, What is this? Even *I* don’t know.
The only thing I really know is that it came to me like a dream, and it’s probably the only book of mine that I read without regrets. I’m an eternal fangirl for the glowering earl, the innocent maiden in peril, the high drama, the castle and the waves crashing against the shore. *swoon*
I think this was the second paper book I bought from you, Mercy being the first ( I really don’t do historicals anymore) but I loved it anyway. I loved that she was so naive to begin with and that she fell for his bluffs about sex.
The hero was hot and for some reason he reminded me of the hero in Brenda Joyce’s The Conqueror, not looks but his actions but way way hotter. As I say to you some times keep writing! !!!!
I await your coming soon books with impatient eyes……… oh as for your Tweet about Mason/ sexy anal times bring it on, but with lots of lubricants of because from what we all have read, she will be needing it.
Plus wanted to know is his bitch of stbx wife some where in Command Performance? I hope she gets her karma.
oh yeah, Jess is definitely in Command Performance too and she and Mason definitely go at it and hash things out. In a way it’s been a hard book to write because I’m tying up all the loose ends of the Comfort series, but in a way it’s very cathartic.
It’s funny, in the original draft she didn’t play a very big part but I did realize something was missing and I added a bit more of her as I’ve been going through working on the second draft. She and Mason still have some unfinished business, that’s for damn sure. Him and Miri don’t have the easiest time either…but oh well. That tension and ups and downs are what make a good book. 🙂
And yes, Cait with her sexual misconceptions. HAHAHAH. That was one case where a character literally planted the idea in my head. Since you’ve read it you will get that bad pun. Heh heh. Love that book. 😉
I have to ask what your writing process is then I mean with Comfort Object did you know while writing it that it would spring little brothers & sisters or do we fans bug you to write about so and so from that book.
And I think you already stated that you will only write female subset right or am I thinking of someone else. Yep that nosey.
I do hope you write little siblings for Cirque du Minuit Kelsey ‘s former mentor and trainer. He was hot!!!!!!!
No, I had no idea Comfort Object would become a series. A reader kept hounding me to make Kyle a story, and that turned into Caressa’s Knees, and then I got interested in the Odalisque thing and that just seemed like something that would happen among the Hollywood set, so that story got added on and I brought Mason and Jeremy back. Then poor Mason’s marriage broke down, and Satya’s dangling out there too. So of course I needed one more book, lol. Now…no more are planned in the series after Mason’s book, but I know now not to say “NEVER” because I might have to eat my words. 🙂
Now, with Cirque du Minuit, I started out meaning to write a series. First Theo’s book, then Jason’s book (her hot mentor/trainer 🙂 ) and then finally wild and crazy Le Maitre being tamed by love. But so far, I haven’t got a story in my head for either Jason or Le Maitre, at least not one that works. So for a while Cirque du Minuit will be a standalone book. But I think eventually one will come. I wrote Caressa’s Knees two years after I wrote Comfort Object. So, we’ll see. 🙂
OH, and yes, so far I’ve only written female submissives. I think I always will write female submissives but again, I’ve learned to NEVER SAY NEVER! Because who knows?
I asked about the female subs only because I read Joey W. Hill’s Natural Law where the male who’s a homicide detective who also a submissive. I debated for a while in buying this book, because he was a sub but boy did it work and he was a hotty too.
And for some reason i remembered a movie from the seventies called “The Choirboys ” where Perry King played a cop who was a sub . I was only around 11 or so when I watched this (single mom 5 girls) spent a lot of time at the movies, but I guess that’s one of the things that later influenced my like of reading materials.
Glad I wasn’t scarred for life with some of the movies I watched as a child.
Yeah, I’m not one of those who gets skeeved by male submissives. I mean, I think any full-hearted, genuine submission is hot. I think the harder thing for me would be writing a dominant woman! I did write a male submissive who hooked up with Mephisto, but even that was kind of a bratty male submissive. Hmm, I don’t know. I can’t ever see myself doing justice to a domme in my book because I just don’t understand anything about that. But I can see myself writing a male dom with a male sub. Male subs can be really sexy beasts. Something about having the power and virility of a man but still choosing to submit.
LOL about being scarred by movies. For me it was reading my parents’ Michener and Ayn Rand books. LOLLL.