Thursday, May 16, 2019

*Book Tour & Giveaway* The K Club Dark Side by Rachell Nichole-GUEST POST


Awakening Submission
The K Club Dark Side Book 1
by Rachell Nichole
Genre: Dark Erotic Romance 

I am not a submissive. Nuh uh, no way. As a relationship therapist, I understand the appeal of kink, I really do, but it was never for me. Until him.


Sir Clayton Schultz, PhD strode into my life unannounced and with the air of arrogance that only a Dom like him could have.

A chance meeting at a kinky conference where I’m teaching a workshop on the psychology of relationships, leads to one hell of a night. But Sir has rules to follow.

We’re intent on having a little fun at the conference and going our separate ways, but when we get home, and realize we don’t live far from one another, we make it all of a week before we’re together in his bed.

But I’m not sure if I can do this whole submissive thing full-time, or how to reconcile being a strong, independent feminist, and Sir Clayton’s submissive.





Bound by Submission
The K Club Dark Side Book 2

In our world, No and Red are two very different words.

It doesn’t matter that I’ve decided I’m done being his submissive. I know something is broken between us and I can’t seem to fix it. So, I am intent on no longer being his. But my insistence that I don’t want him is futile, and we both know it. Until and unless a safeword comes out of my mouth, Sir will show me no mercy.
When he asks me to move in with him, I have never felt more secure. But co-habitation brings its own set of issues, and as we navigate the new stage of our relationship, things get complicated.
And when Sir’s first submissive suddenly comes back into his life, and she reveals parts of his past he hasn’t shared with me, I’m not sure what else he’s been hiding. When I discover his secrets, and the accusations against him start flying, I fear I’ve made a terrible mistake.


Craving Submission
The K Club Dark Side Book 3

My Sir has been charged with murder.





I can do nothing except fight this battle by his side, even though I now know he’s been hiding secrets from me. When I’m confronted with his past first-hand, I have to find a way to fight not just for his freedom, but for our lives.


**Coming Soon!! **
Rachell Nichole is a contemporary steamy romance author, who loves writing sassy sizzling romances about memorable characters who have to fight to hold on to love.
Rachell is the author of more than a dozen romances. In addition to writing, Rachell loves travel, teaching, and foreign languages. She holds BAs in Professional Writing and French, along with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.
Rachell lives in Pennsylvania with a mountain of books and the love of her life.





GUEST POST
 Hello, thank you for having me here for a little author interview. Readers, I hope you enjoy learning more about me and my books! Stick around, and let’s have a chat!
  1. Since romance stories depend on the appeal of their main characters, what will readers find most interesting about Jacey and Clayton?


When you write romance, you are of course, writing and selling fantasy, so there’s a certain element of fantasy, or of unattainable perfection in a lot of romance. In my books, I always strive to really make my characters real people, so in this series, my heroine Jacey Reynolds, is a psychologist focusing on sex therapy, and she has this backstory of kind of never feeling like she’s good enough, and also of being rebellious. She clashes with some people, particularly her mom/parents, and really pushes back against this idea of being a submissive. She’s so fiercely independent, but realizes that submitting to Clayton is about embracing her freedom and her choices. She’s not submitting to him because he says she has to. She’s submitting to him because she wants to. And that kind of dichotomy about being so independent and on top of her game and loving her life, but also finding that she can and will submit to this man, because she trusts him, makes her super interesting.


  1. Every book requires research, even the sexy ones. What’s the coolest thing you learned, whether or not the detail made it into the final version of the novel?
Well, I love setting books in places that I’ve been, so I really love traveling, and while I don’t do it as much as I used to, in my early twenties I lived in France, and traveled around Europe. I’ve also traveled to a bunch of different states. So I’m always using some small details of those travels in my books. The K Club Dark Side series, and The K Club series are set in Nevada/Arizona. So, one of the coolest things I did for this book was actually go to Las Vegas. Now, it’s been a few years, and I didn’t initially go out there to research a book, but I’m so glad to have been in the city and the surrounding areas so that I could bring that to life in this book. I created the town of Spartan NV for my K Club Series initially, and while the spinoff Dark Side series takes place mostly in Laughlin NV and Bullhead City AZ, there are scenes up in the fictional town of Spartan, and also scenes in Las Vegas.


  1. Would you prefer a romantic and/or sexy getaway in Paris or Las Vegas? Why?
Paris. No question. I love France, and Paris will always have a huge place in my heart. I love Vegas, don’t get me wrong, but Paris was the place I’d wanted to visit since I was like 10 years old, and when I was 20 and finally got there, it was like the most amazing thing in the world. I’d love to have a second honeymoon in Paris.


  1. Do you have any suggestions for writers looking to balance the romance and eroticism in their novels?
Hah! Balance? The hotter the better in my book (and in my books, in fact). I end up writing a lot of sex scenes in my books. In fact, the first drafts are usually dialogue, fight scenes and sex, with little descriptions of setting or secondary characters or anything like that. Because I write romance, though, I always know that there will be an emotional component to every sex scene. Sometimes the romance/emotional aspects get layered in afterward, but I always use the eroticism to drive the romance forward. They’re intricately entwined in everything I write. So, I guess that’s my advice to writers writing erotic or steamy romance: to not have sex just for the sake of sex, but to use it as a plot device to drive the plot forward. It can help the characters get closer together, but it should also highlight the extreme conflicts in the book. I think that there is actually more sex in these books than in some of my others, because portraying a real D/s relationship revolved so much around sex, and the trust built during a scene, that it was a vital component to these books.


  1. Do you have any future plans for The K Club & The K Club Dark Side series?
Oh, yes, tons in fact. The K Club series started with To Sir, which was originally released in 2015, and was re-released as an independent book when the publisher for it closed in 2018. I also wrote an intro short story to the series called Blooming for Sir which was part of the Love in Bloom anthology that I did with a group of authors to help raise money for breast cancer research. The ABCs of Submission books (Awakening Submission, Bound by Submission, Craving Submission) are set in the same world as The K Club books, but they’re different. They’re darker and more erotica than strictly erotic romance, so I have kind of made them a spinoff, with the series title of The K Club Dark Side, to show that they’re in the same world, but to help separate them a little bit. I currently have plans for at least 2 more K Club novels, From Sir, With Love, and Between Sirs, and I think I’ll do another couple of books in the Dark Side, maybe with subtitles The ABCs of Domination. I’m thinking I’ll write Dani’s story for those.


  1. And finally, leave us with an excerpt from Awakening Submission to show readers why they should check it out!


Right, I’m supposed to be the one in command here. “So, I’ll introduce myself to you a bit, and then I’ll take you through some of the basics of psychology behind sex and relationships, and we’ll have a Q&A session after. My name is Dr. Jacey Reynolds. I am a psychologist first, and a sex therapist second. I got my PhD from Berkley with a focus on child psychology actually. During my first few rotations and jobs at hospitals and private practices, I realized that helping kids and adolescents was great, but I just couldn’t stand it when I lost a patient. It happened too often, so I changed direction and started focusing on relationship therapy.
“Couples counseling, mostly. And from there, I realized just how large of a component sex was to that, and it wasn’t long after that when I decided to strictly pursue sex therapy. I studied with some of the greatest therapists and opened my own practice. I now work with couples, and individual patients to find their most successful and fulfilling sexual relationships, and how to use sex as a means to build from. Some patients come to me already in a rocky relationship. The sex is suffering considerably, because their communication both in the bedroom, and outside of it, is a challenge.” As I’m speaking, I can see a few folks jotting notes. Then the door at the back of the room opens and a man strides in. He realizes the room is silent, and I’m staring at him. Damn it, what the fuck was I saying?
He’s tall, with dark hair and broad shoulders. A couple of heads turn, but he ignores the stares. He strides through the room like he owns it and takes a seat toward the front of the room, off to the side. It’s one of the only empty chairs left.
“By all means, please continue.” His voice is indulgent. As if I had to wait for him to join us before I can speak again. The nerve.
I roll my eyes, and he grins at me. A frisson of awareness runs through me. His gaze is predatory. Fuck. I recognize this instant attraction inside myself.
“So, sex.” I clear my throat and force myself to tear my gaze from his. I am not going to let the warmth spreading through me stop me from presenting to the group. I force myself out from behind the podium, taking the microphone with me from the stand. I start walking across the small open space in the front of the room. “I know that many of you are writers. Some of you are also readers. Since of course this is a Kinky Con, that means that what a lot of you are writing and reading is about sex, particularly of the kinky variety. Today, I want to go through some of the ins and outs of what happens when we have sex, physiologically and psychologically. And to talk about how communication between partners can affect the sex. Now, there’s nothing wrong with two consenting adults who aren’t in a relationship having sex. But even in that iteration, there has to be some kind of communication.”
I wouldn’t mind testing that theory with Mr. Dark and Broody in the second row. He’s staring at me; not taking notes, not paying anything around us any mind. Even when I’m not looking at him, I can feel his stare along my skin. It’s like someone has taken the edge of a feather and continuously run it all over my body from head to toe. I shiver. I’m covered in goosebumps.
My gaze is drawn back to his.
What would it be like to be alone in the room with him? He’s already making me so hot and bothered I can barely focus on speaking, and we’re in a room full of people.
I swallow hard. “So, when you’re writing a couple who are getting all hot and heavy, you want to work on building them as real people. Real people, even when they’re just hooking up, have feelings. They may not want to acknowledge those feelings, and sex and love can be two very separate and different things, but the feelings of a human when they have a sexual relationship with someone are real. They’re varied, too. Having sex fills a physiological need. But it also fills a very psychological need. People need people. We need connections with others. That’s part of being human. The thing you want to work out when you’re writing these characters is what needs are being filled by sex. What needs are not being fulfilled by sex.” I am talking directly to Mr. Tall Dark and Sexy. I know I am. I’m sure the rest of the room can tell too. But I can’t help it. I want him. I can feel it deep inside myself. The room is quiet, listening intently to my spiel. I pop up the slideshow presentation with the different aspects of sex that I want to explore with him today. Them, damn it. Tall Dark and Broody is taking over my thoughts. I need a fan. My body is overheating.




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