Enticing the Boss by Lily Bly
Please welcome Lily Bly author of Enticing the Boss
Lily Bly will be awarding a $30 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Enticing the Boss
by Lily Bly
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GENRE: Contemporary Erotic Romance
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INTERVIEW:
- What would you want your readers to know about you that might not be in your bio?
I record audiobooks and have two projects coming out in spring 2019. Although I’m a cat person, I have a soft spot for Border Collies. Music is a huge part of my life. I play piano and violin (badly) and have dabbled with the guitar. I love live theater. My favorite play is The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee Williams.
- As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans?
I’m going to continue with Passion’s Price and Gown and Dagger Seductions, the two series I have developed for The Wild Rose Press. I also hope to submit some novel-length romances to my publisher by summer, and I would like to contribute a historical romance volume for the collaborative Deerbourne Inn series.
- If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your leading roles?
I’d love to see Amy Adams as Jean. She plays flustered-cute just as well as she plays deeply hurt, and she looks great with red hair. She was perfect in Julie & Julia, Leap Year, and American Hustle. I just discovered that she stars in the HBO miniseries adaptation of Sharp Objects. (Yes, I’m a little behind on my watch queue 😉 Of all Gillian Flynn’s novels, that is my favorite. I can’t wait to watch.
I’d pick Michael Fassbender to play David because YUM, and he’s a very versatile actor. I love his young Erik/Magneto in the X-Men series, his role as Silas Selleck in Slow West, and he was unforgettable in The Counsellorwritten by Cormac McCarthy. Mr. Rochester is my least favorite classic lit hero, but Fassbender’s portrayal in Focus Feature’s 2011 Jane Eyre changed that.
I would like to see Jennifer Lawrence as Beth. She cops attitude and plays mean very well. I’m not a huge Hunger Games fan, but I loved her in X-Men, Serena, andJoy.
- Do you belong to a critique group? If so how does this help or hinder your writing?
I’ve belonged to various groups through the years, both online and in person. Currently, I’m not a part of one. They have helped and hindered in different ways. Every now and then I’ve found a contact or two with whom I could develop a great critique exchange. Usually their work was in a similar development stage, so we were all willing to give the same style of critique, hoping to get the same back. A fresh pair of eyes is often indispensable for finding plot gaps, inconsistencies, or just grounding creative ideas.
Remember what Hemingway said when Gil asked him to read his book in Midnight in Paris—“You don’t want the opinion of another writer.” It’s difficult for writers to tap into the pure reader inside, myself included. I’ve always received the most valuable feedback from beta readers and editors.
- Do you have an all time favorite book?
This is a tough question. I’ve always been a bibliophile. I still have books that I bought as a teen. (People hate helping me move. “What the heck is in all these boxes?”😉 I can narrow it down to two favorite series: the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters and The Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun.
- Have you started your next project? If so, can you share a little bit about your book?
I’ve actually finished the second book in Passion’s Price. It’s on submission with my publisher. This one stars Jean’s brother George Price and takes place the same week as Enticing the Boss. George is a retired MLB catcher who falls for a doctor on his ski vacation in Skypoint, Colorado. They are both single parents with teenage kids. Thanks to the kids’ shenanigans, the characters find themselves in some pretty difficult spots, including lost in a hot springs cave system.
- Who is your favorite actor and actress?
Hands down, Meryl Streep and Seth MacFarlane. My favorite Meryl Streep movies are The River Wild, The Devil Wears Prada, Out of Africa, and Julie & Julia.I’m excited to see her portrayal of Aunt March in the Little Womenversion coming out at the end of the year. Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guyand The Orvilleare hilarious, and I loved A Million Ways to Die in the West.He has some wonderful swing albums out, too.
- What is your favorite reality show?
I’m not a big reality show fan. (I’ve never watched a single episode of Survivoror The Bachelor**gasp**) I do love late night talk shows and comedy shows, especially Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, and The Graham Norton Show. I also like watching cooking competitions. Guy’s Grocery Gamesis one of my favorites.
- Can you tell us a little bit about what it was like to write a series.
Two books in, with many more plotted, I can say the key is organization. Create your world and pay attention to the little details—and write them down as you go. Keyword searches and combing through manuscript pages to find a street name or who owns the sandwich shop on the corner take time. Overall though, it’s great fun. I love writing the cameos in from characters in previous books. New characters have all sorts of potential to be featured in their own stories.
- Anything else you might want to add?
I hope you enjoy Jean and David’s story and look forward to more Passion’s Price romances. In future volumes, you’ll meet a female cop turned MMA fighter, a Montana rancher, a classically trained ballet dancer, and many others. Then we’ll go back in time to meet some Price ancestors as well.
BLURB:
Jean Price has loved her boss for the last six years. Unfortunately, he’s been engaged to her treacherous stepsister. When the wedding is called off and a project puts Jean in close proximity with the sexy CEO, she jumps at the opportunity to show him how she truly feels. It’s time to start enticing the boss.
David Shep is finally seeing his father’s protégé for the stunning woman she truly is—in the office and in his bed. But when her support is conspicuously absent when he needs her most, he can’t help but wonder if he can trust her with his heart.
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EXCERPT:
“David?” His gaze bolted up toward me, startled. Thank goodness he’d missed my personal tirade in the hall. He was slow to reply, as if recognizing me through a fog. “Jean.”
He breathed the word, and I tried hard not to get excited over the relief he seemed to pack into the single syllable. I took a few more steps into his office. It was in as much disarray as David. File drawers yawned open here and there with folders skewed at angles. White boards were covered with almost unintelligible notes.
“I didn’t expect to see you here this late.” I adjusted the strap of my purse across my shoulder and smoothed the lapel of my coat. He attempted to smile, but his expression fell far short of his usual jaunty grin. Instead, he let a frown fall and shrugged his shoulders, smoothing wrinkles on his normally pristine white shirt across the breadth of his chest.
He sighed, scrubbing a hand over his face. “Beth dumped me.”
“What?” I couldn’t believe it. David and Beth had one of those annoying fairytale love stories behind them that I couldn’t stand, but it wasn’t just because I was in love with the prince and, at times, had considered driving a stake through Beth’s heart. David and Beth seemed well-staged for happy ever after. No one except me—prince included—seemed to notice that the woman everyone thought was Cinderella had, in fact, always been an ugly stepsister.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Lily Bly lives in North Dakota and looks forward to winter. She prefers Marvel over DC, acoustic over electric, and tea over coffee. She thinks that love—whether sweet, sappy, or tough—is the stuff of life and likes her reading and writing to be chock-full of it. Before finally taking the plunge to write full time, she worked in various industries including funeral service, law enforcement, veterinary service, and retail health food. She writes heroines who can hold their own and heroes dying to hold them.
Web: www.LilyBly.com
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Buy links for ebooks at all major retailers as they become available can be found at: www.PassionsPrice.com
Amazon (preorder available prior to 1/14): http://a.co/d/33kz64N
Barnes and Noble (preorder available prior to 1/14): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/enticing-the-boss-lily-bly/1129957161?ean=2940161697016
The Wild Rose Press: https://wildcatalog.thewildrosepress.com/all-erotic/6425-enticing-the-boss.html
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