Golden
Shana: The Chase
by A
P von K'Ory,
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GENRE:
Erotic Romantic Suspense
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BLURB:
An
evening at the La Scala in Milan twirls the lives of five people into a web of
rivalry, intrigues, heartaches, obsession, murder, loss, and revenge.
“…
for those who love selective eroticism with substance. An exciting and
sophisticated erotic thriller for the astute romance reader, woman or man.”
Love,
a word Roman can hardly spell, hits him when he sees Shana one evening. She’s
the first woman not dropping to her knees at his mere presence. Used to getting
whatever he wants, he chases her. Only to discovers that she prefers the girls.
Roman can’t let that deter him. But is he for once up against his own
comeuppance? At any rate, he needs assistance, which comes in the form of
Alyssa, Shana’s BFF. Trouble crops up when Alyssa is all too ready and willing
to drop on her knees for him.
Roman
can't get anywhere near Shana on his own. Would he start anything with Alyssa
as long as this finally leads him to meet Shana in person?
Then
there’s Marie, his current companion, who has a life-changing surprise for him.
Roman:
I never chased after a woman. Then I caught a glimpse of the woman I would
kneel for, but didn’t even know her name. Heck, I determined to find her if it
took me the rest of my life.
Shana:
He stood in the room with her. The frisson in the currents freaking between
them knocked her senseless. The mutual force of predator and prey, blasting
into her core ... her soul ... Danger. Keep far away from him
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EXCERPT
ONE:
Was
it love I felt for Svadishana? A woman I’d spoken three whiny words – Please
call me! – to? Was it more than simple lust and desire? Did I want to possess
more than just her body? Pondering these questions alone was so unlike me. That
woman had turned me into an alien even unto my own self. What I felt, my inner voice
said, was more than the thrill of the hunt. More than lust, desire, need,
passion, the excitement of possession, and subjugation. Of course all that was
part of it. But the basis or the source, the seedbed on which all that sprouted
and was growing to full blossom in me, could well be something else.
When
I thought of her, saw her image from Milan in my mind, watched how she moved in
long smooth strides in YouTube, my brow beaded with sweat. I couldn’t pull my
gaze away from the few photos I’d fished out of the Internet. Group photos at a
family birthday or the authorized biography of her father. Her movements in a
YouTube conference clip were springy and powerful even in their smoothness. She
exuded strength all over the place, laughing, talking, gesticulating.
A
breath-taking beauty. Such beauty that I dared not believe it at times.
And
brains to go with it.
In
love or not, I knew what I wanted and Svadishana was the answer. I wanted her
and would do anything short of suicide to get her. Who knows – perhaps when it
came to that as the only means available, I’d really murder too. I didn’t in
the least care about the consequences, as long as they got me to where I wanted
to get to.
Svadishana’s
arms and knickers and… heart?
What
obsession, Roman. Get back to real.
No
chance. Real was Svadishana.
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GUEST
POST:
What
does GMC Stand for?
Goal,
Motivation and Conflict
Whether
you have a character- or plot-driven story, you need to take a moment and
define your main characters’ goals, motivations and conflicts – GMC. Your
characters’ GMCs are the foundation on which to build a solid story and create
a satisfying non-pedestrian tale. You character’s GNC propels the story
forward, whether fiction or nonfiction.
I
read about GMC in Debra Dixon’s GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict, a fabulous
work in segmenting the definition of these elements for a variety of
characters.
Putting
the Goals into Perspective
The
important focus is the fact that each Protagonist comes with two types of
goals: Internal and external. Being the storyteller, however, demands that you
seriously muddy the waters with your own Creator’s Goal, as I call it. That is,
what are you aiming for in your story? What should happen? This is where you
need to put the character’s goals into perspective.
• Begin from the Inside Out -
Characterization should always begin from the inside out. Pin down the whirling
cyclone inside of your character’s psyche that finally will become tangible in
a physical way. Remember that cyclone winds do rotate counterclockwise in the
northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Internal goals sprout
from emotions. In every scene, the protagonist has a goal. But without losing
sight of a main goal that shadows their arc in the story.
• The Protagonist’s External Goals - These
are the tangible goals occurring outside the Protagonist as a result of their
internal goals. This intent (goa)l differs from an internal intent because it
demands outward action from the protagonist.
The
protagonist’s intent must guide each choice they make even if one contradicts
the other. For example, the protagonist has the offer of their dream job, but
in a different state where they can’t take their school-age children and their
sick parent (conflict) that they don’t want to leave on their own. Forcing two
strong but opposing internal goals on your protagonist makes your story
compelling.
In
all this excitement, don’t forget your own constant intent as the storyteller.
That’s easy – if not for the tough task of streamlining your intent with your
topic and with the protagonist’s goal. Here’s where most of us creatives throw
in the towel or succumb to Prof Writer’s Block. Well, just cock a snook at the
professor and abandon your goal so that you craft a more genuine, compelling
and character-led tale. On the other hand, your protagonist’s internal goal and
your own intent in opposition just might give you that riveting story. Not to
forget the MC and the antagonist, too, must collide in their own tracks
somewhere in the story.
Putting
Motivation into Perspective
Something
crucial that each writer has to understand about their protagonists involves
the motivating Why. Why does the protagonist persist in their pursuit
regardless of setbacks?
The
story must never move the protagonist uphill and downhill; the protagonist
should be the one shouldering the story uphill and hauling it downhill fast and
furiously. Because they’re in a hurry to finally reach their goal. That’s
what’s motivating them. Murdering the person who hurt their loved one is the
goal, the intent. When you put motivation and goal into perspective and play
them like Beethoven his piano, you create a driven story. Internal and external
conflict between opposing goals produce tension and you want that tension in
just about every scene but THE END.
Putting
Conflict into Perspective
Shannon
Curtis writes: Internal conflict stems from your character’s goal. External
conflict stems from your story goal.
No
story is worth being termed a story without conflict. At best lots of
conflicts. In Golden Shana, Roman’s goal
travels the entire landscape from desiring her to the even hardest one of
winning Shana’s love, not just sex and submission. Flashing billions and
private jets and yachts large enough for helicopters to land on won’t do it –
she’s been there and is way up in the atmospheric realms. He has to find better
routes than flashing wealth and flexing handsome muscles. He has to come to
terms with an Alpha female stronger than his will, for whom the gods kneel. And
he hasn’t a blessed clue how to go about that. So he has to bumble and stumble
all over the map. When the arrogant billionaire arse Roman struggles against
every shade of conflict he never contemplated, he becomes vulnerable and in
that he’s humanized and made relatable to the reader. That’s the dynamic of any
story – goal and conflict locking horns.
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AUTHOR
BIO:
A P
von K’Ory writes the kind of books she herself would like to read and is
passionate about, whether romance, psychological thriller or nonfiction. She is
the winner of six awards from four continents, the last one being the Achievers
Award for Writer of the Year 2013 in the Netherlands. The Selmere Integration
Prize was awarded her in 2014 for her engagement in helping African Women in
the Diaspora cope with a variety of domestic and social problems. The Proposal,
a short story, won the Cook Communications first prize in 2010 and is published
in an American anthology Africa 2012. In 2012, she won the Karl Ziegler Prize
for her commitment to bring African culture to Western society in various
papers, theses, and lectures. Again in 2012, her book Bound to Tradition: The
Dream was nominated for the 2012 Caine Prize by the Author-me Group, Sanford,
and in 2013 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Von
K'Ory is married to an aristocrat and politician of Franco-German descent, has
a large extended family. She lectures
Economics and Sociology in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. She’s migratory
and – weather willing – lives in Germany, France, Cyprus, and Greece.
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