His Untameable Wickedness by A P von K'Ory - Book Tour - Guest Post - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

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His Untameable Wickedness

by A P von K'Ory

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GENRE:   Dark Erotic Romance Suspense

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BOOK BLURB:

LEO

A three-letter word made me a murderess at the age of eight years. But having experienced the curses of that word, I was done with men as I grew up. All men. Except to outplay them in the New York financial arena. Then Crowned Sex enthroned in gorgeous velvet charm and lustful gallantry storms into my life. Spewing volcanic lava on my monumental arctic ice block. With the unapologetic fierceness of a savage god. Wearing crackling thunderbolts straight from the god Zeus. Explosive has nothing on it.

Adrian isn't hot, he's fucking hellish. He embarks on melting my ice block at the speed of lightning. But I was done with men. I was done with sex. For ever. I. Was.

ADRIAN

I scented her darkness from the moment I was told about her. The sight of her sealed my decision. She was the woman created for my own darkness. I set off to protect her even from herself. Protect her to claim.

Fuse her darkness with my own. For. Myself. I'd fended women off me with bazookas when I was done but they weren't. I wasn't prepared for the battle I soon fought. Not only with her but also with her family. And New York's billionaire gangsters who own entourages of corrupt cops and politicians. With every battle I won, she started new darker wars around me. You ate or you were eaten. Not even starving was an option.

NOTE: Although the blurb is in the first person, the story of Leo and Adrian is written in the third person. This story contains adult material including explicit sex and violence. You've been warned.

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EXCERPT ONE:

He caught both her flying arms, used her momentum to spin her around onto her back on the couch and landed over her.

Smack bang between her legs.

Pinned her hands above her head and every f****** struggle she tried only forced her to rub against his hard body.

Furious, her thighs tensed but with nowhere to go except around his hips. He planned this. She f****** bet he planned this to the last minute detail.

“You double-faced bastard, get off me!”

“No. You put yourself here. Right here under me, Leo.”

“Get the f*** off m—”

He slammed his crotch right against hers and ground in.

 She screamed as some unknown force kindled her center and the sensation rushed simultaneously south to her soles and north to her scalp.

She stiffened, trembling. Then whimpered. Then—

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GUEST POST:

Hello!

Thanks so much for working with me, Fabulous and Brunette. The tone you set here feels so friendly and enthusiastic it has already made me happy for us to know each other. Your joy is very infectious!

So now let’s talk about that Fierce Female Character.

I love them and create them in all my heroines. Of course they’re not all fire-breathing females.  But they aren’t “struggling” (a word I hate to use to describe a heroine because for me it conjures up a misplaced weed trying to exist from a crack in a derelict mediaeval fortress, you know what I mean?) Whenever the word struggling crops up as a description of whatever the heroine is going through, I sure as heck find another word instead. Like striving or fighting or determined.  Words that are positive and depict a fighter who knows what she wants and goes for it. Not someone bogged down with half the world’s problems and downtrodden by the other half. 

My female protagonists are like my all-time favourite heroine, Scarlett O’Hara of Gone With the Wind.  If they don’t have the gown for the ball, they don’t wait around for the fairy godmother. They rip that lovely velvet drape off the window and make a gown for themselves. I’d always abhorred the conditioning of girls to be the ones to kiss the frog to make him a prince, or put up with the Beast.  I rebelled against it and stomped off to play with the boys.  This earned me being shipped off to a boarding school in England at age nine. That only turned the tomboy in me into a perfect ladette. I learnt to be quite the lady when the company required it and run riot when I was the ruler of the world around me.

As an economist, I’d been writing nonfiction books for over a decade under my continents-long real name.  Then erotic romance hit mainstream. I read the books. A lot of them. Until I didn’t.

Because girls and women are still made to grow up believing they are less worthy than boys. In books or films, girls and women are trimmed to identify with “someone just like you” while the boys and men are encouraged to identify with James Bond and Superman – never someone just like them but someone higher, way higher than them.

I soon became the old rebel again and shortened my impossibly long name to a pen name: A P von K’Ory. My heroines aren’t some delicate mimosa waiting to be rescued or preyed upon. If they wait at tables to pay rent, they’ll soon take over the restaurant or open their own that their former boss can’t beat. Bad boy? Try worse girl for size.

The UNTAMEABLE series is my second erotic thriller story. When I started writing the story of Leo and Adrian in the series, I went for a story that was darker and sexually a little edgier than the GOLDEN SHANA series. But I still aimed for the discerning and gender-positive story. As always I paired off diverse people: the uber-rich ultra-strong American Leo and the professional British Royal Marines Commando assassin Adrian. The hardest part is crafting that complex character of Leo convincingly. She’s a dragoness in the boardroom and on Wall Street but ultra-feminine in the bedroom. Like all strong and successful women, the world judges Leo differently from men. An Alpha man ruling the financial world on Wall Street wouldn’t be referred to as Gorgeous Ice Block in that negative sense. He would be the revered Lord of the Realm. Likewise Leo has to constantly watch her behavior. If she slept around, took a younger person to dinner, or avoided men altogether, she would be labelled something even worse than an ice block. To put it in Adrian’s words:

It’s a bloody man’s world, twenty-first century and all. A powerful male billionaire could jolly well behave like a triple Nero coked to the hilt. Monogamy is anti-male. Blame nature. Men fuck when they’re frisky, eat when they’re hungry, bellow when they’re angry, sleep when they’re tired, marry women thirty or forty years younger. No such liberties for a powerful female billionaire. She’d be reduced to her cunt in a tic. Leontine Nigella Boswell knew that and threw the tables on the male world’s bloody balls. You crept to her on all fours, and worshipped her if she let you kiss the soles of her pumps.

I love stories involving the Alpha woman, financially and socially independent. The brand of woman who gets invited to the Met Gala on her own rights, not on a man’s arm. I feel that young female readers should get to know and love the headstrong woman who kneels before her man only when she herself wants to kneel, not because the man orders her to do so as part of a contract she signed when he bought her at that men’s club auction. My heroines still go for the Alpha male. That’s a given. It’s wired in every woman since time immemorial. That’s nature, not nurture. Women, Alpha or Beta, sprint away from wimps.  But writing the Alpha woman is, twenty-first century notwithstanding, still a challenge. One I revel in.

PS: Because you asked for pix and my office, here’s Speedy, my assistant, hard at work. When he’s not claiming my office washbasin for his afternoon nap, that is.

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AUTHOR BIO & LINKS:

AP 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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Golden Shana: The Chase by A P Von K'ory - Book Tour - Guest Post - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

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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