Lost on the Road to Love with Kay Harris!
Give a warm welcome to the talented and prolific Kay Harris, author of Lost on the Road to Love, released yesterday, March 14, 2018!
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 how you were Lost on the Road to Love. Thanks for being here Kay, I see you brought guests.
Yes, Henry Rushton and Chelsea Morrison from Lost on the Road to Love.
Wonderful, the more the merrier, I always say. Why don’t you tell us about writing Lost on the Road to Love? Was it fun or difficult? Do your characters always act as you expect? Are you a plotter, or fly (write) by the seat of your pants?
Writing Chelsea and Henry’s story was like getting to give all your favorite clothes and toys to your little sister and brother. Chelsea became important to me when I was writing “Don’t Let Him Go.” Like Jack, I came to see her as this adorable little sister with a fierce will. I wanted all the best for her.
Henry first came into my life in the Love on Tour series when he was just a baby. Henry is the son of the couple in the very first book I ever wrote. He and his parents hold a very special place in my heart. So getting to write about them again was a special treat for me.
I am a pantser, not a plotter. When I wrote this story Chelsea and Henry grabbed me by the nose and dragged me along for the ride. This may be the most character-driven story I’ve ever written. I wasn’t sure where it was headed until we got there. It was a very enjoyable journey!
Oh, I know exactly what you mean, I too am a pantser and my characters control the story. Okay, who wants to go first?
The gorgeous hunk setting next to me cleared his throat.
I guess I will, since I need to leave in a few minutes for an appointment.
Gee don’t sound so enthused. I don’t bite you know, well maybe just a little in fun. LOL
Tells us about the real you— What event in your past has left the most indelible impression on you?
My father is a rock star – like an actual rock star. I grew up loved and privileged. I’m not complaining about any of that. My dad was stable, didn’t have a drug problem, didn’t sleep around. He’s as normal as they get – except for the whole rock star thing. Anyway, when I was growing up girls flocked to me, not because they like me for me, but because I was the son of a rock star. It made me a little…leery of women.
What do you most value?
I value honesty above all things. I try to live a life true to myself and I try to always tell the truth to others. I want the same thing in return.
What is the type of woman you want to spend the rest of your life with?
This is going to sound so awful…so awful…but…someone like my mom. I don’t mean that in the ‘I want her to take care of me’ way. I mean that my mother is honest, genuine and never fails to be truly always herself. I want a woman like that.
What do you consider most important in life?
Family comes first for me. Then my career – not this stupid show I am doing just for some cash, my career as a writer. I want to make it. And I want to make it on my own, which is why I use a pen name. We’ll see how that goes…
What is your biggest secret?
Right now my biggest secret is that I have it bad for my best friend.
Thank you Henry. I see you looking at your watch, gotta go, huh? Thanks so much for being here. Chelsea you’re up next. Who are you really?
Geez…don’t start off easy or anything! I am a filmmaker, a sister, daughter, friend. I am a geek, and proud of it. I am a person who stands up what I believe in. And I am a hopeless romantic, though I hide that down deep.
Who were the biggest role models in your life?
My brother, Jack, who will go to great lengths to do what is right and my sister-in-law, Candace, who is one fierce woman.
What kind of man do you want to spend the rest of your life with?
I don’t know. I feel like that’s not really in the cards for me. I like men. I like to be with them. I am especially good at being friends with them. But I have a hard time picturing a forever situation. If I did find that guy he would be a lot like my best friend Henry. Oops. I probably shouldn’t have admitted to that.
What kind of man would you never choose?
An arrogant chauvinist, like my boss. Yuck.
What is most important to you in life?
My family for sure. I have great parents, two awesome brothers and one incredible sister-in-law. I am super lucky. After that, it’s my career. I live to make movies!
What is your biggest fear?
That my best friend is going to figure out I’m madly in love with him and take off.
I glanced toward the door Henry left through, and back to Chelsea and wink. Your secrets safe with me.
Kay, tell us a little about Lost on the Road to Love.
Take two best friends, add some benefits, and it may take a map to find their way to love.
On the road for eight months as part of the crew for a travel show, Chelsea Morrison expects to work hard, endure long nights, and enjoy some wicked adventures. But she doesn’t expect to fall head over heels for the show’s star.
Henry Rush, son of a legendary rock star, is leery of women. He learned early they only want him for the fame that rightly belongs to his father. But when an intense friendship with Chelsea leads to so much more, he has to confront the one thing he’s avoided all his life.
Can these two friends navigate their way to a happy ending?
How about a peek between the pages of Lost on the Road to Love?
“Let’s get out of here,” I suggested, scooting out of my side of the booth.
“Good idea.” Henry threw a few bills on the table, got up quickly and, to my great surprise, grabbed my hand and pulled me to the door.
We were moving fast as we approached the reporter and photographer. It wasn’t until we were squeezing past them in the doorway that the reporter spoke. “Hey, aren’t you—”
Henry ignored him and moved his large body so the photographer didn’t stand a chance of getting a good shot. Then, still holding onto my hand, he ushered me through the door and out onto the sidewalk. We moved swiftly away from the café, not looking back until we were almost a block away.
“Well done,” I said, slowly easing my hand out of Henry’s grasp.
Henry held on, giving my fingers a gentle squeeze. “I learned young how to evade the press.”
“I bet.”
“Where do you want to go?”
I looked at the buildings of Manhattan in the gray hours of early evening. The temperature was starting to drop, but it was still over seventy degrees, and for once, I was quite comfortable in my tank top and light cardigan. I had no qualms about making a long journey. “There,” I said, pointing at the Empire State Building.
Buy Links:
AMAZON, B&N, AMAZON CA, AMAZON UK, AMAZON AU, and THE WILD ROSE PRESS.
About the Author:
Kay Harris has had a diverse career with jobs ranging from college professor to park ranger. Now she adds author to her repertoire. Kay writes romance novels that contain a little bit of sweet, a dash of sexy, a touch of heartbreak, and a whole lot of fun!
Kay grew up in the Midwest and has since lived all over the western United States including Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California. She loves to hike, is obsessed with museums, and enjoys taking her extremely tall and very handsome husband on adventures.
You can find her at:
WEBSITE: http://www.kayharrisauthor.com
BLOG: https://www.kayharrisauthor.com/blog/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/KayHarrisAuthor
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKayHarris/
GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15060640.Kay_Harris
BOOKBUB: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/kay-harris
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Lost on the Road to Love!
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Where Are the Heart-Felt Words?
I’m a writer. That’s what I do, I write. I’ve spun tales since I was old enough to read and put Crayola to paper. With my vivid over active imagination, I’m never at
a loss for a magical story. The tricky part is keeping it interesting and flowing from beginning to end. Over the past couple of months, there’s been family crisis in my world requiring trips to California. See https://www.tenastetler.com/death-clean-warning/
While I’d never had real life disrupt my writing, it did this time – big time. The words didn’t come as easily. Now this wasn’t “writer’s block”, the ideas were still there, but the continuity was not — making my current work in progress difficult to finish.
I barely made my weekly word count, but my heart just wasn’t in the words. Self-doubt danced around the edges of my mind. Was it the recent chaos in my life or was the well running dry?
The family drama has settled down, the loose ends are still running amuck, but we’ll get them tamed. The coughing crud I brought back with me from California is getting better. I’m getting rested up and feeling more me. Scary thought, huh? Wow what a difference that makes.
Literature Symbol. Old inkstand near scroll on canvas background
Yesterday the words were back in abundance. Yippee! My story is back on track and racing toward the finish line. I’ll make that dead line. I hope.
I put these words to paper—Or I guess actually it’s to screen so others will know there is always a light at the end of that dark tunnel. Sometimes you just have to wait for the ray of light, but it’s there lurking. That’s tough for me
as I’m the impatient sort. Well, it’s time to delve back into my next book in the awarding winning Demon’s Witch Series before the characters take off in the wrong direction…again. Have a delightful and productive week.
Next week we’ll discuss — not sure yet but it will be fascinating, I guarantee it! Until then, don’t do anything I wouldn’t do… that leaves a plethora of things open for discovery. <outrageous grin>
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Join In St. Patrick’s Romance Giveaway!
St. Patrick’s Romance GIVEAWAY – MARCH 12-29
March 12-29, 2018
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Interview Kay Harris Author of Don’t Let Him Go
Give a warm welcome to Kay Harris, author of Don’t Let Him Go released on Valentine’s Day!
Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a frosted heart sugar cookie or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Kay and Don’t Let Him Go.
What inspired this particular story? I spent one glorious year living and working in San Francisco. The city herself inspired me to make her the setting of a love story. As I traveled home from work each day on the ferry I crossed under the Bay Bridge and the idea of that bridge, connecting two places – one a little fancier and flightier than the other, one a little more raw and down to earth – it stuck in my mind. When I got home each night I sat at my computer and Candace and Jack’s story just flowed out of me. Three years later I am seeing it published and it’s a bit like a dream coming true.
Who is your favorite character of all of the books you’ve written and Why? My favorite character is Sean Rush. He’s the hero in my first book “Love on the Rocks.” It’s no secret that he’s not-so-loosely based on my husband. Big, quiet, and sexy-as-all-get-out, Sean still makes swoon.
Do you see yourself in your characters? I think there’s a little of me in some of my characters. My passion comes out in Jack from “Don’t Let Him Go” and my emotion comes out in Candace. But in other ways, we don’t have much in common. I think mostly I want to be friends with my characters. And it’s nice to have friends that are not like me, but have differences that fit with my personality, like pieces of a puzzle. I suppose that’s what they are together as well, especially in Jack and Candace’s case. They seem like opposites, but in many ways they complement one another. For Candace, who has always felt out of place in her own family, it is difficult for her to see how that puzzle might fit together, until it does.
You’ve got a time machine, a cloak of invisibility, and one hour. Where would you go, and what eavesdropping would you do? November 22, 1963, the grassy knoll.
What’s your approach to writing? Are you a plotter or follow your characters flow (Pantser)? I am mostly a pantser. I am prone to daydreaming. So I start typing out what I’ve come up as soon as I hit a computer. The characters are definitely leading me. But I can’t type as fast as I can dream so I will often put a few sentences down to remind me of my ideas moving ahead in the story. That allows me sleep at night, otherwise I’d be up typing all night long!
SPEED ROUND FOR A LITTLE ADDED FUN:
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer!<evil laugh>
Favorite movie: The Abyss (I love you Ed Harris!)
Favorite book: To Kill a Mockingbird
Last book read: Unwrapping Hank by Eli Easton
Favorite color: Green
Stilettos or flipflops: Birkenstocks
Coffee or tea: coffee
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: Ebook
Pencil or pen: pen
Favorite song: Forever in Blue Jeans by Neil Diamond
Streak or not: Why not?
Favorite dessert: Crème Brulee
Favorite junk food: Chips and salsa
Favorite thing to do to relax: read!
Champagne or gin: neither
Paranormal or Historical: Historical
Wonder Woman or Top Model: Wonder Woman!
Favorite TV show: The Office
Hot or cold: hot
POV: first sometimes, third sometimes
I’d die if I don’t have: my Kindle
Review or Not: Review
Tell us a little about Don’t Let Him Go.
The only thing worse than getting stuck with a bad client is falling in love with him.
Candace Gleason passed the bar, landed a great job, and is making a killer salary–basically, all of her dreams are coming true. Until she’s assigned to keep the boss’s petulant son out of trouble.
Jack Morrison is the rebellious black sheep of a mighty real estate family. He runs a nonprofit whose mission is to save poor people from evil corporations, like the one his own family owns. He is obnoxious, ridiculously charming, and insanely hot. He is the bane of Candace’s very existence.
Sparks fly from the moment they meet. Candace suddenly has more to worry about than keeping Jack out of jail. She has to keep him out of her heart.
A peek between the paged of Don’t Let Him Go:
I folded my arms across my chest and glared at Jack as he moseyed into the room. “You ambushed me.”
Jack came to a stop a few feet away and nodded. “I did.”
“That’s it?” I spread my arms out and leaned forward. My voice rose despite my effort to control it. “That’s all you have to say?”
“What do you want me to say? You’re smart. You can see what I did back there. I used you for my own gain.”
“You’re a prick!”
“I’m not surprised you feel that way. But I am sorry you had to get caught in the crossfire.” He moved to the couch and took a seat in the middle of it, purposefully giving me the high ground.
He slung his arms over the back of the couch casually, making him look like an arrogant ass. And that is exactly what I thought of him at that moment. So I called him on his supposed apology. “Are you?”
“Yes, I am. But you’re not innocent, Candie. You put yourself in this position by going to work for Morrison.”
“It’s Candace!” I shouted, on the edge of insanity.
He didn’t respond. He just looked at me with that infuriatingly handsome face and waited, an amused grin dancing on his face.
Buy Links:
AMAZON, B&N,: AMAZON CA, AMAZON UK, AMAZON AU, and THE WILD ROSE PRESS.
About the author:
Kay Harris has had a diverse career with jobs ranging from college professor to park ranger. Now she adds author to her repertoire. Kay writes romance novels that contain a little bit of sweet, a dash of sexy, a touch of heartbreak, and a whole lot of fun!
Kay grew up in the Midwest and has since lived all over the western United States including Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California. She loves to hike, is obsessed with museums, and enjoys taking her extremely tall and very handsome husband on adventures.
WEBSITE: http://www.kayharrisauthor.com
BLOG: https://www.kayharrisauthor.com/blog/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/KayHarrisAuthor
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKayHarris/
GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15060640.Kay_Harris
BOOKBUB: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/kay-harris
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Don’t Let Him Go.
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Posted in Authors' Secrets Blog and tagged Contemporary, Don't Let Him Go, Kay Harris, Multicultural Romance, Romance by Tena Stetler with 12 comments.
