You may have noticed a change in the sidebar here on the blog. As you may recall, Jessica Ferguson interviewed me in 2014 for Southern Writers Magazine. Today I'm featured on their blog with my article, How to Write When You're Frozen Inside, and it's such an exciting thing for me!
It's also great to bring you today's guest! Tina is no stranger to our blog, she's shared treasures and thoughts with us before. I'm sure she's been in the spotlight, but can't find that post LOL! Anyway, today she shares some thoughts with us along with an EggCerpt Exchange from her novel, My Future Step Brother!
So let's see what thoughts Tina wants to share with us today. Take it away, Tina!
Women
Helping Women
The Story Behind the Executives Wives’ Club Series
When writing a new
romance series, I like to think about what will make the stories different.
What’s kernel of an ideal sets it apart from other stories? I realized I wanted
a series about how important women are to women. No matter, how much we might
enjoy the men in our lives. Women connect to other women in a unique way.
Maybe, because we think alike or can share emotions men can’t understand, but
women need women.
So then I asked, what
type of situation would force four women together on an emotional level?
Okay, four women all
lose their husband at one time in a car accident. These women are connected
only by their husband’s jobs. They know each other, but are not what you call
close until their husbands are killed. This forever alters their world. Each
has their unique problem.
Jen Larson is a
realtor, who has for years lived as a married single. Her husband, Craig was
her college sweetheart. She believes they have a good life but less than a year
after losing him, she’s ready to start dating again. This throws her
relationship with the other executives’ wives into a tailspin. They don’t
understand how she can do this, which makes for the first book in the series,
The Marketing Exec’s Widow.
The truly fun part about a series like this is
no one book is about only one woman. Each plays a part in the other book.
They’re stories continue and you learn more about what each woman is facing in
her life. The happy-ever-after continues, and the reader learns how these women
have grown to depend on each other.
Wow, Tina, I know my girlfriends are definitely emotional as well as spiritual connections and this sounds like a great series! Now tell us a little about My Future Step Brother.....
My
Future Step Brother is about the son of one of the Executive Wives.
Lyndsey Turner only wants to have
fun. She doesn’t care if her dad marries
Travis Clark’s mother. Travis is super-hot and sets her body on fire every time
he steps near her.
Travis has other ideas. He understands
Lyndsey’s wild streak and wants her attention on him. All seems to be working
according to his plan until his mother discovers she may have breast cancer.
Now, Travis wants to solidify his
relationship with Lyndsey and start planning for their future.
Will Lyndsey commit to be his alone or
does he have to play the dating game a while longer?
If you love romance, don’t miss this
short story from the popular Executive Wives Club series
Excerpt:
“So
what do you plan to say to my dad tomorrow night?” Lyndsey interrupted the
on-screen monolog, hoping to find out why he’d insisted on having dinner with
her father. Their families had been acquainted for years. Travis’ dad had been
an executive at her father’s company, Mama Turner’s Logistics until Jack Clark
and several other executives had died in a car wreck.
With
the death of Lyndsey’s mother, her father had turned to Marianne Clark for
support. The two of them had grieved together. Now, they were dating and the
entire executives wives’ club had a stake in their affair, seeing as all of
them had remarried except Marianne.
Travis
toyed with her hair, his fingers lightly tugging on the strands. “Not sure, I’m
hoping if he sees us together he’ll begin to accept us as a couple.”
Unhappy
with how the evening was progressing, Lyndsey drew her sweatshirt further down
over her jeans. Tonight, they had agreed to have an in-house date with items
picked up from the supermarket’s deli and a rented DVD. She’d hoped with no
interruptions that they might move their relationship into a more intimate
arena. “He’s seen us together at Brie’s and Jason’s, and Sylvia’s party to
celebrate her marriage to Vince. Why will this time be any different?”
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Other
books in the series
Marketing
Exec’s Widow
IT
Exec’s Baby
CFO’s
Affair
CEO’s
Widow
Read
1st Chapter at www.tinagayle.com
Tina
Gayle’s Bio
Her first romantic novel published in 2008, Tina
Gayle has written over thirty romantic books under two different pseudonyms.
Her novels span several different genres from contemporary to fantasy and sweet
to erotic. She enjoys the challenge of drawing a reader into a story and having
them travel down the same road as her hero and heroine. Married thirty years,
she enjoys spending time with her husband on the golf course. Find out more
about Tina on her website www.tinagayle.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/#!/AuthorTinaGayle
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Tina-Gayle/214633841921560?ref=hl
Well, friends, hope you enjoyed today's EggCerpt Exchange and that you'll join me each week for Tuesday Treasures, Thursday Thoughts and Saturday Spotlight!
Until next time, take care and God Bless.
PamT
Until next time, take care and God Bless.
PamT
2 comments:
Wow, I love this concept. Sounds like a fantastic series!!
Tina,
You certainly are prolific! I also like the idea behind your series. Sounds like a winner.
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