Hello there, hope this blog post find you well. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by for another take Over. Today we are joined by the lovely Julie Shelton, author of loving Sarah. Take a look at this cover:
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
WITH JULIE SHELTON
Can you tell us a
little about your new book that’s coming out on August 7th?
Keeping Sarah is
my third contemporary BDSM ménage romance for Siren Publishers. It is the third and final installment in the
series which began with Loving Sarah, published
in 2012, and its sequel, Owning Sarah, published last
September. By the time I finished writing
Loving Sarah, it was clear to me that
I had enough material for more than one book, hence the sequel, Owning Sarah. Both are MFM ménages. But even though Owning Sarah ended with Sarah, Jesse and Adam’s wedding and their
happy ending, I couldn’t stop thinking about the three characters. I couldn’t help but feel that Jesse and Adam
needed to explore the feelings they were developing for each other as well as
for their beloved wife, Sarah. So, Keeping Sarah was born. But this is Jesse Colter and Adam Sinclair
and nothing comes easy for them. So, in
addition to telling Jesse and Adam’s evolving love story, Keeping Sarah is also a harrowing thrill ride of deadly car chases,
Albanian blood feuds, a sex slave auction, murder, betrayal, and gut-wrenching
intrigue.
Please tell us how
the idea came to you for Jesse Colter, your main hero. Be sure to include all the fun details.
It started with his name.
Jesse Colter. It was the perfect
name for a Dominant, alpha hero. I spent
months thinking about him and coming up with a compelling back-story for him.
Abandoned by his Native American mother, neglected and
abused by his alcoholic bully of a father, Jesse is embittered, angry and going
nowhere fast. At age nineteen, he takes
a summer job as part-time gardener at the Marshall estate and meets
thirteen-year-old Sarah Marshall. To a
hardened biker and sexual Dominant, Sarah Marshall is like some fey, magical
creature from another world, and he is enchanted by her. For the first time in his life, Jesse has someone
who thinks he’s wonderful. Someone who
listens to him and values his opinion.
Someone who makes him laugh and who cares for him. Sarah Marshall quickly becomes someone
precious to him. Someone to treasure and
protect. Someone to love. At first he loves her as an adult loves a
child.
But as Sarah grows into a beautiful, voluptuous young woman
who makes no effort to hide her growing love for him, Jesse is terrified that
his carnal feelings for her and his Dominant nature will end up destroying the
one thing he treasures most—Sarah Marshall.
So he leaves their small town of Marshall’s Creek and joins the Navy,
becoming a SEAL. Eight years of grueling
training and dangerous missions give him a sense of identity and self-worth. He realizes that he is a man of honor and
integrity and is finally able to admit to himself that he needs Sarah in order
to make him complete. Determined to do
whatever it takes to win her trust and her love, he returns to Marshall’s
Creek. That’s where their love story
begins in Loving Sarah. It continues in Owning Sarah, and finishes with a bang in Keeping Sarah.
What influenced you
to send your first book to a publisher? How long did it take?
I spent four years writing, editing, polishing, re-writing Loving Sarah. It was a never-ending cycle. Then I lost it. Completely wiped it out of my computer. I was devastated. The thought of having to recreate an entire
400-page novel from scratch was so daunting, I fell into a deep
depression. Then around four months
after I lost it, I had to print something and that’s when I discovered that the
entire novel, minus the last 15 pages, was still in the print queue. I was elated!
And I knew that I had to send it off to a publisher immediately, before
my ignorance of computers caused something else to happen to it. Siren was the first publisher I submitted it
to, mainly because they published a lot of my favorite authors. Around three weeks after I sent it to them,
they emailed me and asked me to make a few changes. I figured this was a pretty good sign,
thinking if they weren’t interested in it at all, they wouldn’t have bothered
to ask for the changes. They offered to
publish it less than two weeks after I submitted the revised manuscript.
Could you tell us a
couple of favorite authors who inspired you to write?
Sure.
LoraLeighMayaBanksCheriseSinclairSophieOakLisaMarieRiceLaurenDaneJoeyWHillLeahBrookeEdenBradleyKristenAshleyLexiBlakeShaylaBlackFionaArcherLyndaAicher—and
that’s just her first name! My earliest
influences, years and years ago, back in the dark ages, were Mary Stewart’s
romantic suspense novels and Phyllis Whitney’s gothic novels.
Is music a factor for
you while you are writing? Do certain songs put you in the right frame of mind
to write certain stories?
When I put music on, it’s to listen to it, so I usually find it distracting when I’m writing
because I want to sing or hum along with it.
It’s hard to write when you’re bopping around in your chair, singing at
the top of your lungs, lol
If you could
collaborate with one author who would it be?
Good grief, there’s no way I
could pick just one! Go to the list
above, close your eyes and point. I’ll
go with her.
What is the strangest source of writing inspiration
you’ve ever had?
Years ago I was watching the
movie, Becket (with Richard Burton
and Peter o’Toole). In one scene there
was a minor female character dressed in a blue gown. I was finishing my BA in French at the time
and doing extensive research on life in a thirteenth-century French castle.
Well, the minute I saw that
gown, an entire romance novel sprang into my mind. I couldn’t write it down fast enough. And since I was taking all my research notes
on 3 x 5 index cards, that’s what I wrote the novel on. I wound up with two shoeboxes full of index
cards, one with all my research notes, the second with my novel. Last year I transcribed the entire book onto
my computer and that became Dark Warrior,
my third book for Siren, published in January of this year.
What are you working
on now?
Oh, I am so glad you asked that! I am nearly half-way through with Passion’s Dream, the first book in my
new Passion Lake series. It’s a series
of books about a bunch of Jesse and Adam’s former SEAL buddies, all characters
in the three Sarah books, who buy a bankrupt town around thirty miles down the
road from Marshall’s Creek and turn it into a profitable tourist
attraction. Passion’s Dream is about Clay “Raven” Nighthorse, who is hired to
protect Leah Stanhope, a woman with whom he had a brief encounter three years
ago on a California beach. When their
location is compromised, he brings her to his ranch in Passion Lake, where he
has plenty of friends who are willing to help keep her safe while he devotes
himself to proving that he wants and needs her in his life. Permanently.
Below is a brief
excerpt from Passion’s Dream.
Unperturbed by her anger, he reached out and placed
his fingertips against her cheek.
She jerked her head away, but otherwise couldn’t
move. It was as if she’d been turned to
stone. “Don’t touch me!” She’d meant it to be an icy command, but
instead it came out a choked, frightened whisper.
Ignoring her, he sent his fingers on a journey along
the line of her jaw, down the slender column of her neck. He paused at the base of her neck, holding
the tip of his index finger over the pulse hammering there, betraying her agitation. The journey continued down over her collar
bones, across the creamy, sloping mound of her breast to the edge of her bikini
top. When she made no move to stop him,
he hooked his forefinger into the stretchy material. When she still didn’t move, he allowed his
fingernail to scrape against her tender flesh as he traced the outline of the
fabric down to its lowest point—the point where it stretched across the
shadowed valley between her breasts.
“Don’t—”It was a choked whisper. She closed her eyes, but she made no attempt
to remove his hand. She was trembling,
every clamoring nerve aware of his nearness, the potent sexuality of his hard,
male body so close to hers. ‘I-I’m
engaged to be married.”
“Ah, yes.”
His lips twisted. “The
ever-devoted fiance. Tell me, Leah,” he
tugged her toward him, the weight of his hand pulling the stretchy, jersey top
downward and outward, threatening to release the rounded fullness of her
breasts. “Tell me about him. What’s it like making love to an old man?”
She should have pushed him away. She should have stepped back—anything to put
distance between them. Instead, she
stared up at him helplessly, trapped as much by the confusion leaping within
her as she was by the sensual spell he seemed to be weaving around her like a
web.
Watch for Passion’s
Dream, Passion’s Fury, and Passion’s
Hope, the first three exciting books in the Passion Lake series, at the
beginning of 2015!
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Julie has always loved stories,
both reading and writing them, ever since she was old enough to hold a book in
her hands. One of her favorite childhood
activities was smuggling books under the covers to read by flashlight after she
was supposed to be asleep.
A career as a children’s
librarian eventually led to her dream career as a freelance storyteller and
puppeteer, a business she operated successfully for twenty-five years. During that time she created and wrote all
the original material for Kidstuff, a
monthly language arts newsletter full of poems, songs, puppet and flannel-board
stories, finger plays, and other resource material for early childhood
educators. For that endeavor she won the
prestigious EDPRESS Award for the best educational newsletter of 1982. Her 288-page book, Puppets, Poems and Songs was a major resource. She has also written other resource materials
for librarians and preschool and early elementary teachers.
Julie lives in a suburb of
Atlanta, Georgia. Now widowed and
retired, she once again has time to devote to her two favorite things—reading
and writing—especially her new love, erotic romances with strong heroines,
hunky alpha-male heroes, and lots of smokin’ hot sex.
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KEEPING SARAH BACK
COVER BLURB
Honeymooning in England, Jesse Colter, Adam Sinclair and
their beloved wife, Sarah, are heading for their friend Thorne Cahill’s BDSM
club for dinner when another car deliberately tries to run them off the
road. Thanks to their own driver’s
skills, the other car is destroyed, the two unknown occupants killed.
Through Thorne, they discover that they’re the targets of a
“blood feud”, instigated by Konstandin Sokolov, son of Viktor Sokolov, the
Albanian mobster who had unwisely kidnapped Sarah a few months back, and paid
for it with his life. They also discover
that Thorne’s guests, ruthless human traffickers, have gathered at the club for
a slave auction being held the following night.
Konstandin Sokolov happens to be one of the buyers.
Fraught with treachery, betrayal, and deadly danger, Keeping
Sarah keeps the reader on a knife’s edge of tension, while simultaneously
exploring the deepening emotional and physical commitment between Jesse and
Adam. They already trust each other with
their lives. Now they must learn how to
trust each other with their love.
KEEPING SARAH
ADULT EXCERPT
Then Jesse
turned to Sarah. Bending down, he put
his hands beneath her arms and lifted her up off the floor. Turning her in his arms, he unhooked the
garters, then unlaced the corset, letting it fall to the silk carpet. As soon as the beautiful, but restrictive
garment fell away from her, Sarah took the first deep breath she’d had in
hours. “Step out of your shoes, baby,”
he crooned, rolling down her stockings and removing them one foot at a
time. “Now bend over and grab your
ankles. I owe you a spanking.”
With a whimper, she assumed the
undignified position, her second of the night, wrapping her fingers around her
ankles while he got on his knees behind her to remove the vibrators from her
pussy and ass. Dropping the toys on top
of the crumpled corset, he palmed her ass cheeks, his flexing fingers making
deep indentations in her sweet flesh. “Spread
your legs, baby, or you’re gonna fall over.”
A smile curved his lips upward as she slid her feet outward. God, I
love this ass! He slapped her
sharply, the sound and her subsequent cry loud in the quiet room. “Count,” was all he said, transfixed by the
erotic sight of his handprint blooming on her skin, first white, then red.
“Y-yes, Master. O-one.”
“How many have you earned
tonight, slave?”
“Ten, Master.” Her voice was barely audible, muffled by her
position.
“There will be no warm-up, so
I’ll make them quick. Count them
all.” In rapid succession, he delivered
ten blistering swats to her backside and by the time she counted the last one,
her ass was fiery red and she was sobbing in pain.
Crap, that hurt! And yet, it
felt so good. So damn good. The heat from
her ass seemed to be having an effect on her clit, as if the two were connected
by wires pulsing and crackling with electricity. Her sobs turned into moans as he stroked and
kneaded the heat more deeply into her flesh, sending it straight to her pussy
until her clit felt like it was on fire.
Still gripping her ass cheeks, he
lowered his head, slanting it sideways to flick the tip of his tongue across
her throbbing little nub. She jerked and
cried out as pleasure consumed her. Then
he straightened, pulling her up after him, and steered her toward the bed. If Adam
was in sub-space, then Sarah was right there with him, lost and drifting
and needing Jesse’s loving care. It was
now his duty and responsibility to love them and keep them safe and give them
the pleasure they had both earned and richly deserved.
“Climb up, baby,” he said,
assisting her up onto the bed. “On your
hands and knees above Adam, pussy over his face, head over his cock.” As he was talking, he, too, was getting on
the bed, crawling across its enormous expanse toward Adam’s feet. “Legs apart,” he ordered and Adam slid his
feet across the silky sheets. “Prepare
Sarah.”
At the quiet command, Sarah’s core convulsed again, sending
out another gush of fresh cream. God, she was so ready to come! She had been so highly aroused for so long,
now that it was finally going to happen, it was all she could focus on. Without warning, Adam reached up and stroked
his fingers through her slit, from front to back before thrusting two fingers
deep inside her sheath hovering so tantalizingly above his head. He pressed his thumb against her puckered
anal opening, pushing insistently, until the muscle relaxed and sucked it
in. Sarah stopped breathing. With wicked skill, he thrust in and out of
both her anus and vagina, pinching the membrane between his thumb and fingers
as he stroked, quickly re-stoking the fires of need in her sex, burning just
beneath the surface. A thin, high wail
escaped her lips as pleasure devoured her.
“Christ, Jess,” Adam muttered over the wet, sucking
noises his fingers were making as he pumped them in and out of Sarah’s sheath,
“you should see what I’m seeing. Our
little slave has the most succulent pussy in the world. And it’s dripping all over the place.”
“Sarah,” Jesse ordered, “Take Adam into your mouth.”
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KEEPING SARAH
COVER BLURB FOR LOVING SARAH
Eight years ago Jesse Colter fled his small town,
leaving behind eighteen-year-old Sarah Marshall, broken-hearted and
devastated. Now a retired Navy SEAL,
he’s back and he wants only one thing—Sarah Marshall—preferably bound, naked,
and on her knees before him.
She has never forgotten Jesse. He’s been the object of all her sexual
fantasies since she was fifteen, as well as the star of nightly dreams that
have become increasingly erotic over the years.
So when he suddenly reappears in her life, she is torn. Can she trust him not to hurt her, or will he
once again break her heart? Warily, she
agrees to let him introduce her to his world—the world of bondage, Domination,
and erotic slavery. When he also
introduces her to his best friend, Adam Sinclair, Sarah faces a daunting future
of sexual submission to two powerful alpha males.
But Sarah faces an even bigger challenge. Someone is stalking her. Is it the old enemy who’s just been released
from prison? Or is it someone else from
her past who is determined to destroy any chance she has at happiness? Can Adam’s and Jesse’s love protect her? Or will her world explode in a cataclysm of
betrayal and violence that will destroy them all?
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SARAH
Owning
Sarah, back cover blurb
It’s been a month since Sarah Marshall was kidnapped
and held at knife-point by her ex-fiance.
But Jesse Colter and Adam Sinclair, her two loving Doms, know that there
is an even deadlier threat still out there—Ryder Malone.
He blames both Sarah and Jesse for sending him to
prison eight years ago for attempted rape, and he’s determined to make them
pay. So, he begins a systematic campaign
of terror and intimidation against them.
But the danger he poses doesn’t end there.
Set against
the deepening love and commitment between Sarah, Jesse, and Adam, Owning Sarah
is more than just a sexy, sensual, BDSM love story. It is a harrowing race against time for
Jesse, Adam, and a team of former SEALs to stop one of the biggest
arms-for-drugs deals in U.S. history.
And to rescue Sarah before Malone sells her to a human trafficker and
she’s lost to her men forever.
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SARAH
