“Hot and hilarious!”
“A fantastical tour de force”
“The Princess Bride with Sex”
My guest today is fellow Posse member, Melodie Campbell. Let me tell you about The Posse. We belong to Sunny Frazier, acquisitions editor for Oak Tree Press. Sunny told us she was putting us together to be of support to one another.
Like all great manipulators, Sunny told us she had positive intentions for us-- we'd have each others' backs, we'd learn online blog etiquette, yadda, yadda, yadda. Only NOW does she tell us, she organized us as part of her vast fan base. I feel so used.
But enough about Sunny and me-- here's a hot little number, Melodie Campbell, and her hot new little number, Rowena and the Sexual Revolution. No wait... that's not right... Rowena and the Dark Lord.
Why do I want to read Rowena and the Dark Lord?
Can I whet your appetite with this? Welcome to Land’s End, where the men are real men, the women are scarce, and the sex is…well…pistol hot. But that’s only part of the book. Honest.
Lordy, lordy, did someone turn up the heat in this room? What made you go there?
I’m a former comedy writer, so I set out to write a rollicking adventure series with lots of funny moments based on the premise of “Girl out of Time.” Take a modern woman, put her back with medieval warriors, and see how she manages to survive in a primitive world using modern wiles.
Even though I write comic fantasy, I try to make it as realistic as possible. So what happens when a medieval earl sells his soul to become the most powerful mage in the land? The woman he wants is powerless to resist him, of course, and dammit, he isn’t going to settle for dot dot dot…
And you know what? A girl from modern day Scottsdale, Arizona may just not mind that kind of attention. You gotta admit, it beats endless E-Harmony first dates.
Don't even mention E-Harmony to me. A friend of mine went on, and they could not match her with one single person! This is an attractive blonde, with a reed slender frame-- a writer and a commercial artist. Perhaps the creative types are intimidating. I'm liking Rowena and her world better than dating in 2013.
Rowena Through the Wall, first in the series, was the # 1 time travel on Amazon.ca in Feb. 2013. Reviewers have called this series “Game of Thrones Lite.” It's pretty darn hot, too, if I say so myself...
Why don't you lay an excerpt from book 2, just released, ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD on us? Isn't that what you came for?
Well, yes! Filled with brutal, sword-swinging danger, yet sexy and funny, I hope you’ll like the Land’s End series.
Excerpt from ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD
Cedric moved to the window with startling speed, eyes sweeping the land for riders. “I don’t blame you for this. I hardly blame him. You are too much a temptation. I need to get you back to Huel.”
He spun back, eyes on me again. I cried out from the pain of it and I felt his answering howl, as the draw shook him where he stood.
“Damn the gods! How can I hold my powers at bay with you so close—“
He was across the room in a second, down on the floor over me, gathering me to him. The pain gave way to unbelievable release—not joy, oh no, never joy—but like a cage of pain being ripped away. I didn’t try to resist it. No, I didn’t resist his hand in my hair, his lips on my throat moving down and down. Already, my legs were moving apart, betraying the thoughtless, helpless creature I was becoming.
His mouth moved down further and I let him, dear God, I welcomed it, his mouth on my skin, knowing me, claiming me, and then…
I jerked and cried out when he entered me. He roared like a lion, pulled back, then burst forward again, and I grabbed his tunic hard and pulled. The cloth ripped in my hands, and I heard him laugh like a demon. His face came down on mine, and we were drowning, fighting for air, and I let go—gave in to the madness, and the waves roared, the room pitched, and I was one with something greater than human—
The room was still now. I opened my eyes. Cedric was sitting cross-legged beside me on the floor with concern on his face. Concern?
“I lost you for a time there,” he said. “How are you feeling?”
This was an old Cedric—a Cedric from before the magic had ruled him. I saw an anxious boy there for a moment, and it confused me. I swallowed hard. The last thing I remembered was being lifted into the night sky. What happened just before that?
Whoa, Nelly! Somebody hand me my smelling salts... that was too good, Melodie, too deliciously good! But I liked it. ;)
I'm so glad.
Lay some bragging on us, Melodie. When it comes the things you write, you wear more hats than my Aunt Hildie.
I achieved a personal best this year when Library Journal compared me to Janet Evanovich. I have over 200 publications, including 100 comedy credits, 40 short stories, and 4 novels. I have won 6 awards for fiction.
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ROWENA AND THE DARK LORD, book 2 in the Land’s End series, is NOW AVAILABLE! Buy Link:
And the one that started it all: ROWENA THROUGH THE WALL, book 1 in the Land’s End series
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| Melodie Campbell "Impossible not to laugh" Library Journal review of THE GODDAUGHTER |
Thanks for dropping in, Melodie. You have a lot to brag about-- but I have to think about that later. Right now I need a cold shower.
Thanks for having Rowena and me, in a manner of speaking. Bye!
Marta, you are making even me blush! What a lead-in. Thanks for hosting me, on the last day of my blog tour! Yes, we've ended with a...bang.
ReplyDeleteShoop shoop shoppbe-shebang!
DeleteIf there's any banging to be done, I'm going to race Rowena to the finish line...
Great stuff, Melodie, and I loved Rowena Through the Wall. When people ask, Are we having fun yet? I can guess your answer. : )
ReplyDeleteMarja McGraw
Marja, you are a hoot! Just for that, I think I am going to have to go out and do more "research"...
DeleteDid someone say research? I usually HATE research, but this sounds like something I could really sink into, if you'll pardon the dangling (.) participle.
DeleteMelodie, we got a great comment from Eileen Obser, but now I can't find it. :(
ReplyDeleteI'll keep digging...