Bash,
Volume I
Rolling
Thunder Motorcycle Club
Book
Three
Candace
Blevins
Genre: Motorcycle Club,
Paranormal Romance, BDSM
Publisher: Excessica
Date of Publication: October 16, 2015
Number of pages: 425
Word Count: 63,000
Cover Artist: Syneca Featherstone
Book Description:
What
do you get when you mix a bad-ass werewolf biker with a beautiful she-wolf who
grew up as the MC President’s daughter?
Sparks.
Book
one of the Bash trilogy…
Angelica was raised not only as a
biker’s daughter, but as Bud’s daughter — the president of the Atlanta RTMC,
which meant she also had dozens of ‘uncles’ who made sure she was safe, happy,
loved, secure.
Needless to say, her virginity
was still solidly intact when she left for college.
Warning: Lots of hot sex, a touch
of BDSM, and an abundance of bad-ass werewolf bikers who are used to getting
their way.
This is book one of a three book
story. There’s a tiny cliffhanger at the end, but only three weeks until book
two releases.
Excerpt:
Chapter Two
Eight years ago
Angelica
Kayla met me in
the bathroom after last period, and watched as I changed out of my super tiny
mini-skirt into jeans. God, if my dad saw me in this skirt he’d have an
aneurism.
“I can’t believe
you lost Brain. God, Ang, he’s the best biker-bi**h you’ve had yet.”
Speaking of
aneurisms, my dad nearly had one when he found out Kayla called me Ang. He
calls me Angel, but says no one else is allowed to shorten my name. One of the
reasons I love Kayla is she isn’t afraid of my dad, or any of the other bikers,
and she just kept calling me what she wanted.
About
the Author:
Candace Blevins is a southern
girl who loves to travel the world. She lives with her husband of 17 years and
their two daughters. When not working or driving kids all over the place she
can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming.
Candace writes BDSM Romance,
Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, and is currently writing a kick-ass
Motorcycle Club series.
Her Safeword Series gives us
characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. Relationships can be
difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books
show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the
relationship work. Each book in the Safeword series highlights a couple with a
different BDSM issue to resolve.
Her urban fantasy series, Only
Human, gives us a world where weredragons, werewolves, werelions, three
different species of vampires, as well as a variety of other mythological
beings exist.
Candace's two paranormal romance
series, The Chattanooga Supernaturals and The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club,
are both sister series to the Only Human series, and give some secondary
characters their happily ever after.
Interview
Where are you from?
I’m from Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is where most
of my books are set. I’ve explored the world and lived in lots of places, but
the south is my home.
Tell us your latest news?
So much news! For those who follow my bikers, Bash’s
story got kind of out of hand (this is Bash, after all) and turned into
a trilogy. His books will release two to three weeks apart. A secondary
character is introduced in the Bash books, and she’ll play a prominent part in
a short story to release shortly after the final Bash book. You’ll have to wait
to find out which of the Chattanooga Supernaturals will co-star with her,
though.
When and why did you begin writing?
I’ve written stories all my life, but always got
hung up on editing them before I finished, and thus never finished. NaNoWriMo urged
me to just write the story without looking back at what I’d written, and it
worked. My first finished novel is horrible and will never be published, but
within a few years I felt I had something good enough to submit to a publishing
house, and the rest is history.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
When I received my first substantial royalty check.
I know some people feel like – if they write, they’re a writer, and that’s fine
for others, but personally, I needed more. I felt the same way when I used to
dance and juggle — unless I was making enough to substantially help support me,
I didn’t consider myself a dancer or a professional juggler.
What inspired you to write your first book?
My favorite genre is urban fantasy and some
paranormal romance, and I’ve had a paranormal universe in my head as long as I
can remember. However, I started with contemporary BDSM romance, because at the
time there were only two or three authors writing intense and loving BDSM from
the standpoint of someone who lived the lifestyle. I felt I could do the genre
justice, so I gave it a shot.
Do you have a specific writing style?
I don’t think so. I write in both first and third
person, depending on the book, and how I think the characters can best be shown
within the story I want to tell. I don’t follow the romance formula of “put
them together, tear them apart, put them back together” because I so often get
annoyed by it in books. It happens in a few of my romances, but it’s a natural
progression of events, and not forced, when it happens.
How did you come up with the title?
I’m terrible at titles. The Safeword series came
ready made with titles — just come up with a cool safeword and you have your
title. I’ve done something similar with my biker books, because each book is
titled after the biker who gets his HEA. Bash turned into a trilogy, so I just
made his books volumes one through three.
Is there a message in your novel that you want
readers to grasp?
Some of my novels do, but my biker stories are fun
romances. I’m exploring the whole anti-hero thing, so it might be argued I’m
taking a closer look at good versus evil, and showing how society’s rules don’t
always give a clear (or accurate) answer. Mostly, I wrote them as romances — two
people coming together to join their life, and the emotions that make them want
to fight to stay together.
How much of the book is realistic?
The details are realistic. I’ve shot guns since I
was a small child, and Angelica carries the gun I carry. I used to race
motorcycles, and I know what the inside of an engine looks like, and what all
the parts do. But the werewolf stuff is totally make believe!
Are experiences based on someone you know, or events
in your own life?
I put little pieces of real people into my
characters. My husband organizes the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, one of my
kid’s teachers has this fluid walk I just had to give someone, and my
daughter’s friend’s dad is a super-hot personal trainer with cut abs and a nipple
piercing you can see through his oh-so-snug t-shirts.
What books have most influenced your life most?
Johnny Gruelle’s Raggedy
Ann and Andy series, which I read as a small child — the ultimate urban
fantasy for kids. Then, The Hobbit in
elementary school, closely followed by The
Lord of the Rings.
I read an excerpt from The Story of O in a college psych textbook, and then it took me
months to find the book (I’m old, this was pre-internet). I found the Beauty
series shortly thereafter, and it would be years before authors like Joey W.
Hill and Annabel Joseph started publishing BDSM Romance showing the love and
caring in this kind of relationship, and not just the kink.
What are your current projects?
I’m plotting out the next Only Human book at the moment, as well as two novellas I’ve
promised for anthologies. I have two Chattanooga Supernaturals books trying to
write themselves in my head, but I need to write these other books before I can
get to them.
What would you like my readers to know?
My Safeword series is intense BDSM, so if that isn’t
your thing, please don’t try them. However, my paranormal full-length books and
novellas are either vanilla, a little kinky, or some light BDSM, and I’ve tried
to stay within what I believe the average erotic romance reader is used to
seeing. My two paranormal short stories — Pride
and Indentured Freedom — are dub-con
and rather dark. Everything is written under the same pen name, so just pay
attention to the warnings if you aren’t into the rough stuff.
You can visit Candace on the web
at candaceblevins.com and feel
free to friend her on Facebook at facebook.com/candacesblevins
and Goodreads at goodreads.com/CandaceBlevins.
You can also join facebook.com/groups/CandacesKinksters
to get sneak peeks into what she's writing now, images that inspire her, and
the occasional juicy blurb.
Stay up to date on Candace’s
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