Interview Daphne Dubois Author of Only The Beginning

Give a warm welcome to Daphne Dubois, author of Only the Beginning!

Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Daphne and her new release Only the Beginning! Pssst…Don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

What inspired this particular story?

               Only the Beginning started as a short story I posted on Wattpad as a thank you to readers who helped my first romance novel, The Right Fit get published. It ended up growing into a novel and looks lovely on the shelf next to its sibling.

What secret do you use to blast through writer’s block?

I write the end of the chapter first because I always like to end with a cliff hanger of some kind. For me, coming up with a ‘What’s the worst thing that could happen right now’ idea is easier than starting the scene.

What do you want your readers to take away from your books?

I want them to be entertained and feel like they’ve had an unexpected escape or impromptu vacation.

Why do you write what you write?  Contemporary, paranormal,  suspense, etc.

I have published young adult novels, a mystery series, a paranormal series, and of course contemporary romance. It’s not so much the genre as the story idea that comes to me. I never want to turn away an idea!

You’ve got a time machine, a cloak of invisibility, and one hour. Where would you go, and what eavesdropping would you do?
If movies have taught us anything, it’s that you DO NOT mess with the time space continuum. And no one is ever happy after they’ve eavesdropped on someone. If I had a time machine and one hour, I’d keep going back one hour into the past and take a nap under the invisibility cloak. I bet I’d catch up on years of lost sleep, or maybe I’d use it to write…

 

 Tell us a little about Only the Beginning.
Taking your best friend’s place on a blind date to let the guy down easy was the plan, taking him to bed wasn’t!
After a heartbreaking betrayal, Melissa Legacy shuns romance. So when her best friend joins the Lovers Oasis website and fears her fiancé will find out, Melissa agrees to meet the anonymous Romeo, prepared to explain her friend’s change of heart—then she sees him.
Failing restaurant entrepreneur, Craig Wheaton hasn’t been home since his mother’s tragic death. Now he’s back to confront his demons and stand beside his brother as best man. Dreading the reunion, he agrees to meet his avatar lover, but at the last moment he reconsiders the arrangement—until he lays eyes on her.
When Craig assumes Melissa is his online consort, she impulsively plays along, resulting in an afternoon of unexpected intimacy. But with Melissa using her friend’s identity and Craig dealing with a family fallout, is a future together impossible, or will they discover that love at first sight is Only the Beginning?
 

A sneak peek between the pages of Only the Beginning.

Melissa blinked a few times, trying to remember the dream. A sense of bliss made her smile into the pillow. She was warm and the bed covers were tucked around her like a cocoon. It must be Saturday, she thought.

There was a shift in the bed behind her, followed by a low sigh.

She froze. In a series of flashing images, it all came back.

The pub. Craig. The intense stare of his eyes. The way he’d kissed her as he unzipped the back of her skirt. He made her feel like she was the most desirable woman on the planet, that there was nothing he wouldn’t do to keep touching her.

And she’d reciprocated, opening up to him, losing all her inhibitions. She imagined this was what Lovers’ Oasis was like. The anonymity combined with the fantasy created a freedom Melissa had never experienced before, not ever.

But now reality set in. She’d woken naked, next to a man she barely knew and the earlier courage she’d felt—the reckless delirious abandonment that augmented her physical enjoyment of the afternoon encounter—had morphed into terrified embarrassment.

There was only one choice—she had to leave before he woke. Slowly, she slipped one leg out, her foot searching for the floor. Then she inched her way to the edge of the bed, carefully making sure not to jostle the mattress.

She stood, completely naked, looking down at Craig. He was on his back, one hand was on his chest gently rising and falling as he slept. The sheets pooled at his waist. His face was completely relaxed, his mouth opened slightly, lips parted.

A warmth began to stir inside her, remembering how those lips felt. He’d memorized each of her breasts with his tongue as his fingers slipped down her belly then nestled between her thighs. She’d come for him, then. So quickly…so easily.

Her purse buzzed from the floor making Melissa jump. It sounded like a marching band had exploded through the door. She crouched down and lunged for the purse, grabbing the phone and silencing it. Melissa waited, but there was no movement from the bed. A quiet breath eased through her pursed lips. She read her phone; there were multiple messages from Brooke. The last one was marked “urgent.”

—Where are you?—

About the Author:
Daphne Dubois writes contemporary romance and believes the right book at the right time can make all the difference. When she’s not putting her characters in compromising positions (ahem), she works as a registered nurse. A member of the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, she lives in Eastern Canada, the most romantic place in the world.
Twitter: @br_myers

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It was wonderful having you with us today.  Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Only The Beginning!

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