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The Fourth of July isn't going at
all as Kim Claypoole expected. It starts with a bang, including a run-in with a
dead body, and ends with her juvenile delinquent nephew, Little Bucky,
disappearing from her double-wide trailer on a souped up Suzuki.
When Little Bucky fails to return
and no one seems concerned but Claypoole, she sets out to find her wayward
nephew. Nothing ever goes easy for Claypoole, and her investigation soon
involves several trips to Krispy Kreme, a visit to Jesus Our Savior Bible Camp
and some nasty encounters with a series of backwoods characters, including
hillbilly counterfeiters and a major league Smoky Mountain dope dealer. In the
midst of this chaos and while Claypoole is desperately trying to keep a rocky
romance on track, her kooky mother and redneck cousin Alonzo show up for a
surprise visit. Relatives, murder and love—all ingredients in a recipe for Deep
Trouble.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I was raised in the small rural town of Amelia, Ohio, about twenty five miles out of Cincinnati. My younger brother and sister and I had a pony, a horse, many great dogs and a couple of motorcycles. We raised a lot of hell. My father served in The Big One at 17 and, after riding a motorcycle around Europe, became a lawyer and later a judge. My mother worked as a homemaker and nurse, a skill she had to use a lot with all of the injuries my siblings and I subjected ourselves and one another to.
I wrote my first mystery story when I was in fourth grade. It was about a kid a lot like me who heard strange noises coming from the attic and became convinced that the attic was haunted. Eventually, the mystery was solved when she investigated and found a squirrel eating nuts in a dark corner. It wasn’t a terribly exciting conclusion, but my teacher gave me an A anyway.
Guest Post
A Dollop of Sweet With a Dash of Spice: Insight of an Erotic Romance Author
Put it here.
Tuck it there.
Assorted parts are thrust, screwed and banged into place.
Screaming, hair pulling, tweaking and if everything works out, you’ve got a big old smile on your face.
No, I’m not talking car mechanics, I’m talking about sex. More specifically, the way it’s written.
Have you ever come across an intimate scene that left you scratching your head, wondering how the main characters seem to have all of a sudden become athletes in the Sex Olympics?
I bet even the best of contortionists or world class gymnasts wouldn’t be able to replicate some of those moves!
In my case, becoming an erotic romance writer happened purely by accident.
Here I was, writing some new romantic thriller when the idea struck me. Why not break a few personal writing boundaries? I knew I had a knack for writing romance, so I thought, “How hard can it be?” Right!
Today, come to mind, when I look back at the journey that’s brought me to publishing Once Written, Twice Shy and Almost Forgotten, the first two books in my Broken Men Chronicles series.
The way I blushed fifty shades of red as I wrote those first few scenes is one of them. Hell, I still blush, particularly when I come up with something outrageous!
The second: how many times I would rewrite said scenes to get them just right. I guessed that the most basic sex could turn out so hot! That’s also when I realized where a lot of authors, who toy with erotic writing, go wrong.
Sex doesn’t need to be all acrobatics and mechanics to be good. It’s nice to write a shower scene that’s a little over the top, sure—I myself am guilty of doing it a time or ten—but if the words flow, the emotions show, you don’t need all those fancy death-defying positions and a minute account to make your reader feel like the proverbial fly on the wall.
The third is that there is such a thing as too much sex. Build the story and add some “spice”. A novel can contain a lot more than the average two to three scenes in it without coming off as crass. It really can be a beautiful piece of art.
All in all, my foray into erotic-styled writing has definitely led me down a path I never expected. Suffice to say, it’s not for everyone. Am I happy with my achievements, of course! Do I plan to write more erotic romances? You bet! Will I still be blushing by the time I reach a dozen erotic-themed novels? You’re darn right I will be but I’ll still be putting them out!
In closing, I’d like to thank my host for having me. And for those of you reading this post, I hope that you’ve laughed, been educated and gotten curious as to the inner workings of this particular erotic romance author.
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