BLURB:
She’s the other sister…
Overshadowed by the beauty of her older sister, Lillian is better
known as the other Tisdale; unremarkable and unsure how she will ever deliver
on the promise of her family's name.
He’s a rake in need of reforming…
Will Colton leads a frivolous existence, embracing notoriety
instead of managing his family’s fortune. Determined to forget his financial
burden and his father’s growing resentment, he maintains a lifestyle dedicated
to pleasure and self-indulgence. When Will is invited to the Tisdale estate for
an extended holiday, he never expects to become friends with the forgettable
Lillian. But when a family secret comes to light, he must choose between leaving
London and protecting the honor of one woman or staying and risking the
reputation of another.
Upon his return, Will finds the girl he left behind has come out
of the shadows and into her own. Lillian’s finally the center of attention, and
not all of it good. With his own reputation in tatters, can a reformed rake
lure her out of the hands of London's bachelors and back into his own arms? Can
he escape his past and reclaim her heart, or has he lost her forever?
The Less than
Glamourous Life of Romance Writer Jessica Jefferson:
I remember taking my mom’s Danielle Steel novels off the
bookshelf and deliberately looking at the back cover. The woman in the picture was
gorgeous. In fact, as the years went by it seemed she had actually perfected
the concept of reverse aging, looking better than ever with every new release.
And it wasn’t that she was a lovely woman—she was just so glamourous! Ms.
Steele (because that’s how you refer to a legend) would be sitting on some
fabulous piece of furniture wearing the kind of jewelry that should come with
its own security guard.
That was how I thought writing would be. I imagined that
after I was picked up by a publisher that it would be only a matter of time
before I was flown out to New York and whisked away to some Manhattan apartment
decked out with my very own fabulous white upholstered furniture.
And now a little over a year after the release of my first
novel, I find myself still in my house. No white furniture, no expensive
jewelry.
The life of a romance writer, especially one so new to the
writing world, is not nearly as glamourous as I thought it would be. I wake up
to get the kids ready and they don’t really care if I’m a writer or not. Those
kids just want pancakes, end of story. I throw around words like “deadline” and
“promotion” and they just stare back at me with big blue eyes that scream “we
don’t get it”. They just want breakfast, no matter how stressed out I may be.
I put on what I consider to be my uniform—sweat pants and a
college tee, and drop off the kids. When
I get home, I take care of my needy English bull dog (allergy medication, ear
drops) and guinea pigs (the kids promised to take care of them). After the
house is made quiet, then I can get to work. I sit down at my desk with a fresh
cup of coffee (and by cup I mean at least a 20 ouncer) and whatever I can
scrounge up for breakfast. Then I wait for inspiration to hit. Sometimes it takes longer than others, and in
those cases I find it helpful to obsessively check Facebook and shop on
Amazon. I’m sure inspiration is only a
click away.
My furniture is not white. It’s made of an indestructible
fabric of unknown origins. Usually, I turn to housework to help get in the
spirit of writing. I’ll find something
for dinner and start on that, procrastinating under the guise of “waiting for
the muse.” The muse hits about an hour
before the kids need picked up and I type furiously trying to make my day’s
goal.
The fanciest jewelry I put on is one of those loom bracelets
my three year old gives me before we leave in the morning.
EXCERPT:
He didn’t try and crawl out of the hole he’d so
easily dug for himself. Rather, instead of making an already awkward situation
worse, he smiled. It was a cavalier sort of smile—one that she just knew he’d
used hundreds of times before to get him out of this sort of trouble. Women
were undoubtedly willing to forgive him most transgressions just by a flash of
this winning grin.
Lord knew she was.
She’d never before met anyone so handsome, so
charming, so…
A bolt of pain shot up her arm, as if God himself
was punishing her for having such immoral thoughts.
“Enough,” he said. “We need to get you in front of
a doctor. The sooner, the better.”
“Good idea,” she agreed. “How do you suggest we go
about doing that?”
“First, we’ll need to secure your arm.”
She nodded. “You mean fashion a sling? I’m sure
there’s something around here that we could use as rope. Perhaps ivy? There’s a
great deal of it about the estate.”
His hand flew up to his chest. “What do you take me
for, some sort of bushman? For heaven’s sake, I’m from Grosvenor Square, not
some jungle. I wouldn’t have the slightest idea of how to go about
accomplishing something like that.”
Lilly bit her lip. She’d never make it being
jostled about without something to steady her arm. “Did you have something else
in mind, then?”
Mr. Colton started removing his jacket. “I thought
I’d use my shirt. I’ll rip some strips off of it and make the sling out of
that.”
“Your shirt,” she repeated, suddenly questioning if
she’d indeed suffered a head injury along with her broken arm.
He tossed the jacket to the ground behind him.
“Yes.”
She was confused. “But then what will you wear?”
He was unfastening his waistcoat. “Nothing, I
suppose .”
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Jessica
Jefferson makes her home in northern Indiana, or as she likes to think of
it—almost Chicago. She is heavily
inspired by classic sweeping, historical romance novels, but aims to take those
key emotional elements and inject a fresh blend of quick dialogue and
comedy. She invites you to visit her at www.jessicajefferson.com and read
more of her random romance musings.
Links
and social media:
Follow
me at https://twitter.com/authorJessicaJ/
Amazon
Author Page- http://www.amazon.com/Jessica-Jefferson/e/B00GI20W2K
Chasing
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ReplyDeleteHer Less than Glamorous commentary was interesting. To me, it reads just like if she was starting a small business with the same home life. I never really thought about about writing as a small business, so it's interesting to get that peek into her life and finally have it click.
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