Monday, June 24, 2013

Meet Me Mondays with Julie Shelton

Please welcome my next guest for Meet Me Monday's, Julie Shelton.

How has your journey in publishing been? Anything you would or wouldn’t do again?

It has been a really eye-opening experience and an invaluable crash course in the ins-and-outs of marketing my book.  Since I am nearly finished writing the sequel to Loving Sarah, I will be doing it all again, only this time I’ll be starting out with a much broader base of knowledge, so hopefully the experience won’t be as frustrating and terrifying.  I also will not be taking four years to edit my manuscript, making sure every little word is golden and perfect.  Silver and nearly perfect is fine. (Ha.)

What are you working on right now? Can you tell us about it?

I’m nearly finished with the sequel to Loving Sarah, titled Owning Sarah.  The villain that threatened Sarah in the first novel is even more dangerous in the new one, not just to her, but to her Doms as well.  The three also continue their journey into the D/s life.

What/Who inspired you to start writing?

Fairies and Nancy Drew.  The first thing I ever wrote was about fairies, a play titled “Fairies in the Garden?  It featured ballet, music, dialogue, magic wands and fairies.  My first novel was a direct rip-off of Nancy Drew.  I was in eighth grade.

How long have you been writing?

Since I was old enough to hold a pencil.

What advice would you give a new writer just starting out?

Write what you know.  If you don’t know it, do gobs of research.  And just keep at it.

Are you a pantser or a plotter?

I plot minimally, just enough to know what things are going to happen.  But if something comes up I didn’t plan for, I’m willing to explore it to see where it goes and add it if it turns out to be great.

Who is your favorite author?

She has a very long name.  Mayabankscherisesinclairloraleighlisamariericelaurendanesophieoakleahbrookesierracartwrightkristinashleyedenbradleyshaylablacklexiblaketymberdaltondelilahdevlinclairthompsonbeccavan.  And that’s just her FIRST name!

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

I’ve always considered myself a writer.

What is the hardest part about writing for you?

Just getting my butt in the seat and doing it.

Do you have a favorite character from your books? If so, why and who?

My hero, Jesse Colter.  He is the man I see when I dream or fantasize.

How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?

I’ve written seven romance and historical romance novels, but only one has been published.  I wrote all the original stories, songs, fingerplays, poems and puppet plays for KIDSTUFF, a monthly language arts newsletter for early childhood educators that won the 1982 EDPRESS Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism.  I also wrote PUPPETS, POEMS AND SONGS a 288-page resource for making and using puppets in the classroom or library.

Do you do research for your books or does it all come from your head?

I do tons of research.  Two of my unpublished novels are medieval romances, so I literally spent years researching every aspect of the daily lives of nobles, servants, soldiers (along with their weapon, tactics and armor0, townsfolk, knights, clergy, and peasants, the clothing they wore, the food they ate, their entertainments, how they traveled, the things they saw, heard and smelled, and hundreds of other tiny details that help make the past as vivid and real as the present.

What is your favorite colour?

Purple.
What is your favorite food?

Steak and baked potato.  No, lasagna.  Actually, baby back ribs from Tony Roma’s.  No…what was the question?

What is your favorite smell?
Lilacs.

What is one thing your readers would be most surprised to learn about you?

That I’m 70 years old.  I don’t think or act like a 70-year-old and I hope I don’t write like a 70-year-old.




AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY




Julie has always loved stories, both reading and writing them, ever since she was old enough to hold a book in her hands.  One of her favorite childhood activities was smuggling books under the covers to read by flashlight after she was supposed to be asleep.

A career as a children’s librarian eventually led to her dream career as a freelance storyteller and puppeteer, a business she operated successfully for twenty-five years.  During that time she created and wrote all the original material for a monthly language arts newsletter full of poems, songs, puppet and flannel-board stories, fingerplays, and other resource material for early childhood educators.  For that endeavor she won the prestigious EDPRESS Award for the best educational newsletter of 1982.  She has also written other resource materials for preschool and early elementary teachers.

After moving more than two dozen times in her life, Julie lives in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.  Now widowed and retired, she once again has time to devote to her two favorite things—reading and writing—especially her new love, erotic romances.






COVER BLURB

Eight years ago Jesse Colter fled his small town, leaving behind eighteen-year-old Sarah Marshall, broken-hearted and devastated.  Now a retired Navy SEAL, he’s back and he wants only one thing—Sarah Marshall—preferably bound, naked, and on her knees before him.
She has never forgotten Jesse.  He’s been the object of all her sexual fantasies since she was fifteen, as well as the star of nightly dreams that have become increasingly erotic over the years.  So when he suddenly reappears in her life, she is torn.  Can she trust him not to hurt her, or will he once again break her heart?  Warily, she agrees to let him introduce her to his world—the world of bondage, Domination, and erotic slavery.  When he also introduces her to his best friend, Adam Sinclair, Sarah faces a daunting future of sexual submission to two powerful alpha males.
But Sarah faces an even bigger challenge.  Someone is stalking her.  Is it the old enemy who’s just been released from prison?  Or is it someone else from her past who is determined to destroy any chance she has at happiness?  Can Adam’s and Jesse’s love protect her?  Or will her world explode in a cataclysm of betrayal and violence that will destroy them all?
 
 **A note from Jo-Anna** HOLY CRAP BALLS BATMAN! This excerpt is HOT! This is an ADULT excerpt. Do not read if you're under 18 or offend easily. :)

ADULT EXCERPT

“Greedy little sub,” Adam chuckled.  He manipulated her slick, swollen pussy lips, sliding them back and forth until one of the frozen red grapes popped from its dewy prison.  It sat, glistening lewdly, nestled between her sopping wet lips like some obscene sex organ.  “Do not come,” he instructed quietly, working his tongue beneath the grape and sliding it all the way up her slit.  He flicked it rapidly across her frazzled clit before pulling the small fruit into his mouth and chewing noisily.
She was gasping like a beached fish, desperately trying to hold off her climax.
“Do not come,” he repeated, squeezing another grape free and looking at it for a long moment before taking it into his mouth.  “God, you taste delicious,” he murmured, sliding his tongue back and forth along the length of her slit, just barely touching that nerve-ridden nubbin of flesh that was the center of both her pleasure and her torment.  “Like sunshine and flowers and sweet, sweet cream.”
She lay there, shuddering and twitching as he tunneled his tongue into the depths of her
cunt, releasing two more grapes and sending her body spiraling up, up, up toward the orgasm that hovered so tantalizingly out of reach.  The orgasm she so desperately craved, yet knew she must not have.  The one she fought with every trembling muscle in her body.
Adam pushed her right up to the edge.  Then stopped.
He straightened, watching her entire body shudder helplessly as yet another orgasm retreated.  He reveled in the power her submission gave him.  Power to control, to direct, to manipulate.  Power to render her helpless against her body’s own dark needs even as he drove her to the ultimate in sexual pleasure.  “You do not have permission to come,” he reminded her as, one by one, he pulled more round red globes into his mouth.  He released her pussy lips and stood up to allow Jesse to take his place.
A sob heaved from her lungs as she frantically fought her body’s brutal need to climax.
Jesse spread her labia apart with his thumbs, revealing her entire slit from her clenching ass hole at the bottom to the portal of her vagina and her clit at the very top.  Her flesh was pink and swollen and dripping with the cream of her arousal.  By now the remaining grapes were held firmly in place within her vaginal walls.  Jesse rubbed his nose along her cleft, lapping his tongue at her dripping entrance, making her shudder and squirm.  Placing his palm over her mound, he pressed down.  “Push,” he said and a grape popped out onto his tongue.
He bit into the crisp flesh and was rewarded with a burst of tart sweetness that blended with Sarah’s own unique flavor, making it the most delicious treat he’d ever eaten.  He ate all the remaining grapes, taking his time to dig each one out, finger-fucking her, building her arousal to a fever pitch.  By the time he finished the last one, she was moaning and writhing and burning with the need to come.  “Please, Jesse,” she begged, her voice hoarse with passion.  “Please….”
“Please what?” he asked perversely, grinning as he slowly circled his finger around  her clit, manipulating the surrounding flesh without actually touching the pearl itself, keeping her teetering on the edge, frantic and desperate.
It was pure torture and she gritted her teeth and stiffened her muscles in a losing effort to
keep her climax at bay.  She knew she wouldn’t be able to hold out much longer.  “Please let me come,” she begged.
“I don’t know.”  Jesse tilted his head, appearing to consider.  As he did so, he began tapping his thumb repeatedly against her clit, increasing her suffering a hundred-fold.
Oh.  My.  God!  The breath shuddered from her lungs.  Her muscles clenched so tight she feared she‘d never get them to relax again.  She squirmed as her need to climax threatened to swallow her alive. 
“Whaddya think, Adam?  Has she earned the right to come?”
Sarah’s beseeching gaze flew to her other tormenter, who gave her a sly smile as he reached for her clamped breasts.  “Yeah.  She’s been a pretty good girl.”
“Then come for us, Sarah,”  Jesse toggled her clit, Adam released the clips on her nipples, and she let out a shriek as her orgasm hit her with the force of an avalanche, blasting through her, leveling everything in its path.  Her back arched into a rigid bow as pleasure clenched her muscles so tight, she thought she heard bones snapping.  And while she was still screaming and jerking about wildly, Jesse stood and unzipped his jeans, freeing his iron-hard cock.  Grabbing her hips, he thrust into her, stroking savagely in and out until she came again, her muscles clamping around him so tightly his eyes crossed.
And again she came, with tremors so violent they rivaled a magnitude 10 earthquake,
even as Jesse spilled his seed deep inside her.  He pulled out and Adam took his place until he, too, climaxed, emptying himself inside her still-convulsing cunt.  He remained deeply buried, rocking his hips hard against her, letting the long, liquid pulls of her inner muscles milk every last drop of come from his pumping cock.  There was so much it splatted onto the floor in thick, milky blobs.  Finally, with a hoarse cry, he pulled out, staggering backwards to collapse into the chair behind him, his hand still stroking his dwindling cock, wet and slick with the combination of all their juices.
Sarah flopped back on the table, jerking like a spastic marionette, totally spent, wondering desperately where all the oxygen had gone.
She was dimly aware of Jesse scooping her up off the table and flopping into the nearest chair with her straddling his lap, holding her close, crooning softly in her ear.  His voice came at her from a great distance, gradually fading until there was nothing but silence.  She had passed out.

 

Loving Sarah is available for purchase at:

AMAZON

BARNES & NOBLE
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