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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Welcome Adrienne deWolfe

I really have a treat in store for you today!!  Please welcome to my blog, Adrienne deWolfe. Let's just say...I want her luck!  Adrienne...can I rub your head for good luck? :)



Adrienne deWolfe is a #1 Bestselling Author and a recipient of 48 writing awards, including the Best Historical Romance of the Year.  She consistently delights readers with sexy, action-packed, western-style romances, including her Wild Texas Nights series and her Velvet Lies series.  In addition, she is the author of the bestselling non-fiction ebook series, The Secrets to Getting Your Romance Novel Published.
Fascinated by all things mystical, Adrienne writes a weekly blog about dragons, magic, and the paranormal at http://MagicMayhemBlog.com to help her research her upcoming YA Epic Fantasy series. She also writes a weekly blog with fiction writing tips and advice about the business of writing at http://WritingNovelsThatSell.com.  She enjoys mentoring aspiring authors and offers professional story critiques and book coaching services.
 



Behind the Scenes with the Author:
SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL by Adrienne deWolfe

SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL is the long-awaited story of Seraphina Jones, sister of Rafe (hero of SCOUNDREL FOR HIRE) and Michael (hero of HIS WICKED DREAM).
When SCOUNDREL and WICKED were released in paperback, I intended to write Sera's story - I even set up her story plot in HIS WICKED DREAM - but you know what they say: stuff happens!

In May 2012, my ePublisher asked me to write Sera's story: a fresh, new, never-before-published Romance novel, in anticipation of releasing SCOUNDREL FOR HIRE and HIS WICKED DREAM for the first time as eBooks.

SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL is Book #3 in my Velvet Lies of Western Historical Romances – but Sera’s story has a paranormal twist.  I got the idea for her character when I went to a rural antique store, where I ran into a psychic.  This psychic was wandering from desk, to armoire, to fire screen, “touching” the furniture and reporting the various scenes that she psychically observed through the furniture (weddings, school classes, Christmas parties, etc.)

The psychic explained that she was learning to fine tune her gift of “psychometry.”  When she touched manmade objects, she could see their owners “through time” and peek into their lives.  I thought, “Oh my gosh, I HAVE to write a story about that!”

So in SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL, Outlaw Jesse Quaid (who is part Cherokee,) has a dream from Great Spirit that Sera can help clear his name of murder.

Jesse can't possibly imagine how a 19-year-old preacher's daughter can help him, until he learns that Sera has visions about the future and the past.

Sera is terrified of her visions, which typically occur when she touches metal. The only way that she can keep her visions at bay is to cover her hands with gloves.

Fortunately, Jesse's grandmother was a Cherokee Medicine Woman, who had visions, too. Jesse has to help Sera learn how to accept her visions, before he can persuade her to help him clear his name.

The other part of Sera’s story that makes SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL so unusual is her Love Triangle. In my experience, paperback Romance publishers are squeamish about letting authors write Love Triangles in which the heroine is torn between two strong, charismatic male characters. 

If a paperback Romance author gets approved to write a love triangle, then her editor requires one of those men to be exposed as a villain/major jerk. The other solution is to kill one of the men before the book ends.

I rebelled against writing either of these scenarios for SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL. That's why I chose to publish the novel through my e-book publisher.

The challenge in writing a dual-hero love story is to make one of the male characters clearly right for the heroine.  At the same time, I wanted to make the reader root for the other man (whom I'm secretly in love with!  So of course, he’ll have his own book, DEVIL IN TEXAS, which I’m currently writing.)
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that ya’ll will like SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL. I took a bit of a risk writing a heroine with such a different kind of story!

By the way, if you like a more traditional Western Historical Romance, check out my bestselling Wild Texas Nights series.


 



Book Title:
SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL, Book 3, Velvet Lies Series

Author Name: Adrienne deWolfe

Author Location: Austin, TX, USA

Genre:  Western Historical Romance (with paranormal elements: ghosts and a clairvoyant heroine)

Blurb/Book Description:

Kentucky belle Seraphina Jones craves a dashing stranger worth kissing. When she spies her handsome, half-naked hired hand at the riverbank, she thinks her dreams of romance have come true. But this Texican is wanted for murder. 

Jesse Quaid can't let Sera's sweet kisses distract him from rendezvousing with Cass, a childhood friend, to clear his name of a crime he didn't commit.  But then a case of mistaken identity turns Cass into Jesse's deadliest rival for Sera's heart.

Now, Sera must find a way to end the feud before the man she loves is lost forever.
Other Books in the Velvet Lies series:

·         Book 1: SCOUNDREL FOR HIRE
·         Book 2: HIS WICKED DREAM
·         Book 3: SEDUCED BY AN ANGEL
·         Book 4: DEVIL IN TEXAS (Available 2014)

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Author Bio:

Adrienne deWolfe is a #1 Bestselling Author and a recipient of 48 writing awards, including the Best Historical Romance of the Year.  She consistently delights readers with sexy, action-packed, western-style romances, including her Wild Texas Nights series and her Velvet Lies series.  In addition, she is the author of the bestselling non-fiction ebook series, The Secrets to Getting Your Romance Novel Published.
Fascinated by all things mystical, Adrienne writes a weekly blog about dragons, magic, and the paranormal at http://MagicMayhemBlog.com to help her research her upcoming YA Epic Fantasy series. She also writes a weekly blog with fiction writing tips and advice about the business of writing at http://WritingNovelsThatSell.com.  She enjoys mentoring aspiring authors and offers professional story critiques and book coaching services.

Author web links: (web, blog, twitter, facebook, goodreads, etc)
http://www.amazon.com/Adrienne-deWolfe/e/B000API9SA
http://facebook.com/Writing.Novels
http://www.goodreads.com/Adrienne_deWolfe
https://plus.google.com/109088666107201832076/
http://writingnovelsthatsell.com/story-critiques-private-coaching-for-how-to-write-a-novel/
http://eepurl.com/eGgbs
http://eepurl.com/wGwan
pinterest.com/AdriennedeWolfe/boards/
http://Twitter.com/SolMage
http://www.youtube.com/WritingNovelsThatSel
http://ebookdiscovery.com.p8.hostingprod.com/AdrienneDeWolfe.html
http://ebookdiscovery.com.p8.hostingprod.com/AdrienneDeWolfe.html
http://writingnovelsthatsell.com/the-secrets-to-getting-your-romance-published/
 








3 comments:

Adrienne deWolfe said...

You crack me up, Marie. If I could dole out good luck (like a Leprechaun) I'd give you unlimited wishes! Thank you for hosting me on your blog. I look forward to chatting with your readers.

Hugs,
Adrienne deWolfe
http://WritingNovelsThatSell.com

Marie Higgins said...

I'm totally serious, Adrienne! You are awesome! I really enjoyed reading about your success!

Nancy S. Goodman said...

Looks fascinating!