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Dani: Stressing the Heroine from Taunt @Eve_Dangerfield #RLFblog #thriller
Every heroine has a story. She has a background, a history, and a past. This interview allows us to meet a heroine and get to know her better, by focusing on how she handles being relaxed, as well as how she handles stress.About Eve Dangerfield
Eve has loved romance novels since she first started swiping
her grandmother’s paperbacks at the age of fourteen. Now she writes her own
unapologetically sexy tales about complex women and
gorgeous-but-slightly-tortured men. Eve currently lives in Melbourne with her
lovely sister and a rabbit named Billy.About Taunt
Genre Contemporary Romance, Erotic, ThrillerBook heat level (based on movie ratings): RDaniel Schwartz never meant to uncover the apocalypse,
unfortunately for the Kiwi hacktivist, that’s exactly what happened. Yet while
it’s clear to her what she should do; cover it back up and get completely
smashed, the rest of the world doesn’t agree. A shady corporation places her in
a beachside prison where they promise to hold her until she agrees to talk.
Dani would be pretty annoyed if she weren’t:
a) Biologically incapable of being annoyed
b) Very intrigued by the men hired to guard her
c) Extremely hungover
John, Colt, and Seb have poured a lot of time and money into their private
security business the last thing they need is to waste six weeks babysitting a
hyperactive hippie. Sadly they’ve signed a shady but watertight contract. Each
of the three men finds himself drawn to the weird, pop-obsessed Daniel and she
to them. As they become entangled in each other’s lives Daniel is forced to answer
some big questions such as; how can you escape when there’s nowhere safe to go?
How can a commitmentphobe fall for not one, but three different men? And, most
importantly, should New Zealanders kick people who call them Hobbits? (Yes.)
Taunt is a heart-stopping erotic thriller; chock full of science, nail-biting
suspense, period jokes and good old fashioned lust.The Heroine’s Relaxed Side
This heroine is at a
party. Considering her story, describe the party.The party would be an outdoors event hosted by Daniel’s
eco-terrorist organization Grassroots. It’s a chance to connect and unwind with
other members and there would be live music, plenty of food and drink and a
casual dress code.How does the heroine
feel about being this particular party, and what body language is she
displaying that gives it away?Daniel would be thrilled to attend, bouncing around trying
to talk with as many people as possible while trying to peer-pressure others
into getting loose and making mistakes. She never stops smiling or talking,
unless she’s kissing that is.Is she more likely to
mingle or remain aloof?Mingle. Daniel loves being around others and more often than
not, the center of attention.If she drinks, what is
her drink of choice at this party?Daniel doesn’t drink as her biochemistry doesn’t allow for
it. She is however, very partial to substances of dubious legality. Also weed.How much drink is her
usual?Weed. Or fruit juice in glasses that make it look like
alcohol.The heroine figures out
where the hiding places are and then goes there. Is it to hide, to avoid
someone, or to go drag a friend back to the party?It would completely be to drag a shy friend, perhaps a
scientist or socially awkward programmer back into the fray. Once they’d been
brought back to the party she’d make it her personal mission to get them drunk
and laid.Is she likely to latch
onto a friend and stay with him/her and ignore others, or is she the friend
that others latch onto?She is the friend that others latch onto; the bigger problem
can be maintaining her attention once you have it. Daniel is very distractible.If someone picked a fight
at this party, how is the heroine going to handle it?Daniel is, by her own admission, a lover not a fighter. As
Grassroots is a pacifist organization it would be kind of weird for a fight to
get out of hand at one of their parties, but if it did Daniel would probably
dump punch/cake on the offender’s heads and tell them to stop or she’d leak
their information to the Feds.Is the heroine the one
most likely to get tossed out of the party, or the one who does the tossing?Tossed out. For sure. No questions asked.Will she know when to
leave, or stay late and make a nuisance of herself?She will stay late as she possibly can (unless she picks
up). Being a nuisance is kind of Daniel’s wheelhouse.The Heroine’s Stressed Out Side
How does the heroine handle
it if the cops or some other authority figure pulls her aside when she was
blameless in a situation?Lies her ass off, says whatever she thinks they want to hear
then escapes at the earliest possible opportunity.How does the heroine react
to hearing a scream?Runs towards the sound without thinking.If she sees someone being
assaulted, what is the FIRST thing that crosses her mind?What the actual fuck? Stop it you butthole!If she sees someone
being assaulted, what is the FIRST thing she does?Runs towards them and tries to break them apart, unless she
knows she’ll likely be hurt and overpowered in which case she would call the
cops/throw something/ find an alternative plan of action.This heroine attempts
to rescue someone and realizes that she is in over her head. The odds are against
her and there is no way out. She is going to get her butt handed to her. What does
she do?Fights as hard as she can for as long as she can, giving
everything she has.The heroine runs into
the one person from her past she wanted to avoid. She can’t get out of the
situation and must interact with him/her in some way. What does she do?Barrels into the awkwardness and tries to overwhelm the
person with the sheer force of her personality.Someone younger than
the heroine is in charge of the situation, and they are handling it badly,
perhaps bungling things. How does the heroine deal with it?Tact isn’t Daniel’s strong point. She would tell the person
straight up that they’re screwing the pooch and either suggest improvements or
conduct a mutiny to get the situation resolved another way.The heroine is in
physical pain but must bear up under it and keep going. What does she tell herself
in order to get through the situation?Daniel has a rare chemical disorder that affects her ability
to feel physical pain, however she is capable of feeling distressed. In those
moments she closes her eyes and tries to focus on happy memories from the past.What mentor’s words
come to mind in a bad situation?She recalls John Blackwood, her lover, telling her to relax
and count her breaths, then she does it.Buy Taunt
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Meet Julia Bennett from Locked Box #Contemporaryromance @Eve_Dangerfield #RLFblog
Meet Julia Bennett from Locked Box, a contemporary romance by Eve Dangerfield.
Author Bio
Eve Dangerfield has loved romance novels since she first started swiping her grandmother’s paperbacks at the age of fourteen. Now she writes her own unapologetically sexy tales about complex women and gorgeous-but-slightly-tortured men. Eve currently lives in Melbourne with her lovely sister and a rabbit named Billy. Locked Box is her second novel.
About the Book
Title Locked BoxGenre Contemporary RomanceBook heat level (based on movie ratings G, PG, PG13, R): RJulia Bennett isn’t having a great day. Funding for her video game is running low, her IT job is sucking her dry and to cap it all off she’s locked in a police station with the very handsome, extremely married guy she’s been avoiding at all costs. Max Connor isn’t having a great year. He’s getting divorced, his best friend is squatting in his spare room and his inappropriate crush on the IT girl is getting dangerously out of hand. And that was before he locked the two of them in an evidence room for the weekend. Surrounded by three decade’s worth of drugs, guns and floppy disks, Max and Julia are forced to confront the heat that lies between them with dangerous, funny and occasionally toe-curlingly sexy results.Introducing Julia Bennett
Welcome to Romance Lives Forever! We’re happy to have you here today.Name: Julia BennettAge: 24Gender: FemaleBirthplace: Brenthill, Victoria, AustraliaProfession: IT woman and game designerDescribe your body and build, skin tone, height and weight. Include any unique features such as dimples, freckles, or scars.
I’m super tall with light brown hair, hazel eyes and freckles. I burn very easily in the sun and can get away with not wearing a bra, which I do almost all the time because… Why wouldn’t I.Who is the significant other in your life?Max Connor, I’ve been crushed out on the guy for years which was particularly painful when he was married.Please tell us a little about yourself.I’m a white trash girl who grew up in rural Australia. When I was a kid all I ever did was eat cheese toasties and play video games so it made sense that I tried to go into professional gaming. I didn’t have a lot of success; gaming is expensive and I’m a woman but my best friend and I are working on our own first person shooter game Scarlet Woman. I’m not great with people, especially guys, especially guys called Max Connor
What kinds of things do you always carry (in pockets or purse)?Mints (for unexpected kissing) Condoms (for when things progress further), two USB storage devices, an external hard drive, lip balm and a bunch of unwrapped cough lollies that have merged into a superball of grossness.Are you involved in your community?I’m involved in my community in the sense that my sister and I adopt dozens of stray dogs and let them clog up our house and garden. This annoys a lot of our neighbors but if they complain we go around to their house with a couple of the saddest looking dogs and tell them to take them to the pound if they hate dogs so much.How do others perceive you based upon looks, and is this assumption accurate? In the IT industry and the gaming world being a woman is a huge setback. You might think being young and I guess conventionally attractive would be helpful but it really isn’t. People think you’re stupid, that you slept you way to a job or that you don’t know what you’re doing. They also expect you to be nice which is bull. I’m an amazing coder but I’m shy and not really that nice, unless you’re already my mate or you bring me coffee.Can you keep a secret? Why or why not?I’m an IT person, I know so much dirt about so many people it is unhinged. Basically nothing surprises me anymore. On that note I’m good at keeping secrets, mostly by stuffing them down and pretending they don’t exist because I don’t want to be thinking about your google history when I pass you in the hallway.How do you handle challenges?By curling up under my duvet and eating toasted cheese sandwiches until someone else makes me take responsibility for my life. I know that sounds bad but I have confrontation issues. Unless by challenges you mean ‘gaming related challenges’ in that case I drink a shit-tonne of Red Bull and I go to war.How emotionally expressive are you to others?I express my emotions mostly through grunting and fixing/breaking your electronic devices. Emotions are not my strong suit. I probably shouldn’t be telling you this but I’m extremely susceptible to guilt trips. I’ll give you my kidneys if you make me feel guilty enough.What would you like to tell your writer?Cheers for making me look semi-cool but you really went into a lot of detail with the sex stuff didn’t you? I mean I don’t care but Max is going to be super embarrassed when he finds out. He hasn’t gotten over his whole ‘fine upstanding gentlemen don’t spank people’ thing. Also please write a sequel about my sister. Ash’s story needs to be told. To take the spotlight off me.Buy This Book
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Eve Dangerfield of Degrees of Control @Eve_Dangerfield #RLFblog #contemporary
Eve Dangerfield of Degrees of Control answers five easy questions
to help readers get to know her better.What’s your favorite down-home
family style meal? My mother’s Italian and
on special occasions she makes hand rolled gnocchi which we serve with homemade
sauce, fresh bread, red wine and braised pork ribs. It’s basically the best
meal ever. Just typing that has made me unbearably hungry.Who is your “book
boyfriend” (that hottie you read about and drool over)?Any of Cara McKenna’s blue
collar heroes majorly get my blood pumping but I have a huge soft spot for
Flynn. He’s a boxer from one of her early novels Willing Victim. Even though I
think I would annoy him in real life (he’s very stoic, I’m very ‘court
jester-y’) I would do bad things to spend a long weekend in his bed.Describe the perfect vacation.A complete replication of the
trip to Europe I took with my boyfriend when I was 22. We spent our days in
museums and art galleries and cafes, eating cheese plates and drinking wine and
we spent our night dancing and drinking cocktails and making love. It was the
kind of vacation where there’s so much beauty and pleasure in hindsight the
whole thing feels like a dream.Tell us about your
favorite toy as a child.A rocking horse called Dandy.
He was furry and had huge red button eyes than in hindsight were super creepy.
When I was too big to ride him my mum and dad gave him to my little brother.
Unfortunately his unblinking gaze gave Tom nightmares so off to the tip Dandy
went. I like to think he’s still out there, riding a big wave of garbage,
waiting for me to reclaim him.When you read for pleasure,
what kind of books do you choose?Romance and erotica. I
started reading them when I finished an English literature course and needed a
break from Medea and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (urgh) and I never looked
back. A cup of tea and good romance is my favorite way to spend a weeknight and
I find all the subgenres fascinating. If I want to read something chill and I’m
not in the mood for romance I just go through Harry Potter again. I’ve read
twelve times and it’s always, always amazing. I feel for people who lived and
died without reading Harry Potter.About the Book
Title Degrees of ControlGenre Contemporary RomanceAuthor Eve DangerfieldBook heat level (based on movie ratings): RCharlotte Bell is a typical yoga teacher. She’s friendly, earnest and has some slightly masochistic tendencies. After a painful break-up she’s determined to address her long-denied kinks with the kind of man she’s always been too terrified to approach. Charlie’s friends select James Hunter, a male model turned suit who has some dark inclinations of his own. After a ‘chance’ encounter at a party James agrees to school Charlie in the harsher side of sex. He knows she’s too genuine, too kind, too everything for a guy like him but he won’t turn down the chance to break in a starry-eyed submissive like her. As Charlie and James attempt a strings-free sexual relationship they’re alarmed to discover a connection that runs deeper than either of them could have predicted.Buy This Book
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