Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Sophia
Karlson and her new book, “Perfect Mistake”!
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Perfect Mistake
by Sophia Karlson
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GENRE: Contemporary Romantic Suspense
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BLURB:
Simone
Levin had a dream job as a safari pilot until an unexpected pregnancy clipped
her wings. Tired of juggling motherhood with her demanding flight schedule,
Simone applies for an office job, unaware that her new boss is Carlo Carlevaro,
the man who’d ditched her before finding out he’d knocked her up. Carlo returns
to East Africa only to kill another fire—Ivory trafficking from his lodges
threatens to destroy his company. Finding Simone back on the payroll comes as a
pleasant surprise. As his employee, Simone is off-limits, but she is the only
one he trusts to help with his undercover investigation. With time running out,
Simone and Carlo strive to expose the trafficking ring, but working together
rekindles their mutual desire. When Simone is implicated as a trafficker,
revealing her daughter’s existence to Carlo seems inevitable. Acting on her
instincts might come too late as the syndicate retaliate and hone in their
threat. Will they survive to give their love a chance?
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EXCERPT TWO:
Simone
went to stand next to him. “Why am I here?”
He
turned to her. The dark shadows under his eyes were somehow more accentuated in
the play of lamplight than in the bright sunshine. “Let’s talk somewhere else.”
“Where
do you suggest? The guests are bound to arrive soon and you know we can’t walk
around by ourselves after dark.”
“Come
to my room.”
She
inhaled sharply, her hands clenching into fists. “Is that why I’m here? Do you
really think–”
With
a soft groan, Carlo curled his fingers around her arm and pulled her onto the
deck, away from the other people sitting in the lounge. “To your room then,” he
whispered, “although I much prefer mine. And no scenes, if you please.” His
hand was a ring of fire around her arm, propelling her to the wooden walkway.
He
walked next to her but let go of her arm.
A
few steps from her tent she stopped. “I don’t care who hears this. If you think
we’re going to carry on where we left off four years ago you are very much
mistaken.”
He
didn’t blink an eye. “You seem to be singularly one-track-minded, Simone.”
Heat
rose to her cheeks; it spread down her chest to her treacherous heart, which
pounded at the thought of him. Why was he still able to do this to her? Being
alone with him was the worst possible idea.
“Well,
if not for that, why march me to my tent as if you would have your way–”
“You
may still be devilishly tempting, Simone, but now that I’m your boss you’re
completely off limits.”
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GUEST POST:
Five Musts for Every Romance Genre Book
Romance
is one of those genres that thrive on the known. Readers want the same thrill
but a different ride when reading romance. I’ve learnt a lot from an internship
I did with a romance publisher. There are these things called Beats, and if you
read any good romance, they will be glaringly obvious, even if they are as
subtle as a whisper whilst reading. You need a meet cute, or a meet ‘not so
cute’. Then, you need a pretty good reason why these characters are going to
spend a lot of quality time together, also called adhesion. Follows the fun and
games, possibly the easiest and the hardest part to write, because this is
where we see the characters and how and why the fall for each other. Then
follows the mid-point high: everything is going just dandy and yes, this might
just work out. And then all crumbles to a mess – something went horribly wrong,
bad guys are closing in and all is lost. During the so-called Dark Night of the
Soul, your characters go through a process of growth where they need to come to
grips with what they want and what they would give up to have it. There follows
a Grand Gesture, when one of both parties makes sacrifices/amends, which ever
it is. And then, the sweet closing image, in which we are finally convinced
that the couple is happy for now, if they are not happy ever after. Beats seem
to be a very harsh way to prescribe how your novel should progress, but it
works for romance. You don’t need to follow them to the T, and good romances
that go off this beaten track are really fantastic. For the beginner writer I
can only recommend to stick to the known, it helps to guide you through the
minefield that is writing!
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AUTHOR BIO:
Sophia Karlson has
lived in France, Germany, East Africa, Madagascar (not the movie, the country)
and now finds herself back on home ground in South Africa. As a teenager, she
devoured romances with far flung settings, loving to travel through books.
After school her itchy feet took her around the world, but now she doesn’t get
much further than the school run and the daily walk with her very demanding
beagle. She writes contemporary and erotic romance, wanting to take readers on
a journey of their own. She loves hearing from readers, follow her on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sophia.karlson.5, Twitter: @SophiaKarlson, on the web
at www.sophiakarlson.com.
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Sophia will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B/N GC
to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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Thanks for hosting!
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