Another
Shot With Summer
Hot
Tide Book 1
by
Michele De Winton
Genre:
Contemporary Romantic Comedy
He
broke her heart like a cheap surfboard...can he win her back?
After
an accident stole his surfing career, Ashton Evans has a chance to
reinvent his life by photographing the leaders of the World Surfing
League. The problem? Summer Roberts is his first client. Now the
woman he can’t forget is spending long, hot Indonesian days in
front of his lens. In a bikini. And worse, she’s steaming up his
nights.
But
no matter how tempting Summer is, Ashton must keep his hands to
himself. For the sake of her career, Summer is pretending she’s
still in a relationship with someone else. Being seen with Ashton
could blow her chance at making it onto the World Surfing League
leader board for good. But with their attraction as unstoppable as
one of the giant ocean waves that rule their lives, will they be
tumbled under by it? Or will Ashton finally get his second shot with
Summer?
Get
ready for a wet, hot ride.
Making
Over Maya
Hot
Tide Book 2
This
Cinderella isn't supposed to end up with the Wolfe.
Maya
Taylor is all sass and style when it comes to closing a PR deal, but
when it comes to men, she has about as much witty banter as a
drowning grommet. So when fashion mogul, Dominic Wolfe, enters her
life, he seems to be bringing the perfect deal.
She’ll
teach him all there is to know about the highly competitive side of
surf sponsorship. And in return, Dominic will turn the beautiful
surf-klutz into a man-magnet. Dream deal, right?
Only
the lessons start getting hotter than the beach mid-summer and
Dominic realizes he wants more. Much more. But the deal was their
relationship wouldn’t cross the line between business and pleasure...
It's
no wonder that Michele's first romance has a little sparkle of the
stage tucked into its pages as she was a performer long before she
got adicted to the page. Being a writer was not what she was supposed
to be when she 'grew up' but then neither was a dancer. Her poor
parents. They thought that when she toddled off to law school they'd
bred a responsible, useful adult and instead they got a performer and
word junkie.
She now writes
full time in a studio surrounded by the whisper of wind in the trees
and only intermittent interruptions from her young son, husband and
hunger pangs. She's based in New Zealand (land of beaches and
hobbits) loves chocolate, yoga, sunshine, her boys and happy
endings.
You can get in touch
through facebook or twitter or through her website and blog
www.micheledewinton.com
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GUEST POST
GUEST POST
What
book do you think everyone should read?
Oryx
and Crake. I read The Handmaids Tale at school and fell in love
with Margaret Atwood’s writing on the spot. It is rich and
provocative.
How
long have you been writing?
Around
ten years. I began writing full time when I got a fellowship in New
Zealand that allowed me a year off to write. Not long after I had
completed that I had my two boys and I haven’t stopped writing.
Do
the characters all come to you at the same time or do some of them
come to you as you write?
The
central characters are always there before I start, but sometimes the
secondary characters come along without me realizing they are going
to. I do also remember being shocked when I read over my notes from
the day before and realized I’d killed a character off. I hadn’t
planned to and didn’t remember writing it the day before, but there
she was, dead on the page, and it really worked.
What
kind of research do you do before you begin writing a book?
Read.
Lots. I read around the subject of the book, so in this case, around
surfing and surfing contests. And I read about locations and
traditions in the area. I usually set all my books in places I have
been to though so I draw a lot on my experience. It’s pretty great
living down here in the Pacific!
Do
you see writing as a career?
Yes!
It has been my career for over ten years.
Pen
or type writer or computer?
Computer.
I type as fast as I think so it’s a much quicker process. I do like
to plan on paper though and I need to have things spread out in front
of me – ideally as big as possible. I have LOTS of notebooks
scattered around with ideas and notes and plans for books and other
projects. I don’t know if I want someone to discover them after I’m
gone or for them to all get burned to hide my secrets!
Advice
you would give new authors?
Read.
Write. Edit. Repeat.
Do
you believe in writer’s block?
I
do believe it exists. But I also think that when you write all the
time you get better at managing it. Someone told me it takes
23minutes to pull yourself back into a story if you stop writing, to,
say, look at social media (many a writers deadliest foe). I think I
have trained myself to drop back into the writing zone a bit quicker
than that, but that’s also because my time is limited so I know I
just HAVE to get back to the page.
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