Interview with Frank Braden from Wolf Around The Corner #blogtour #giveaway

Wolf Around The Corner
By Aidee Ladnier
 

Aidee is giving away a $5 Amazon GC, $10 Amazon GC, Ebooks from her backlist, print books from her backlist. The winners will be chosen by Rafflecopter. Please use the RaffleCopter below to enter. Don’t forget you have a chance to enter every day so be sure to visit all the stops on this tour. You may find those locations here.

About Wolf Around the Corner:

Frank’s family taught him that his wolf was dangerous, unwanted. Now his best friend’s brother wants him in bed and on stage. But giving into his wolf’s need for love could risk the quiet life Frank has created for himself—and his heart.

Settled in the small town of Waycroft Falls, Frank is content to be a lone wolf among the white picket fences and dollar book bins until he finds himself sniffing his best friend’s brother. Tom smells like hot apple pie and his Broadway smile has Frank lolling his tongue. But when the visiting actor learns Frank’s secret and plies him with hot kisses to get him to star in his play, Frank can’t help but wonder if Tom is only acting.

Tom ran away from family obligations to be a Broadway star. If he could make it there, he could make it anywhere…but he didn’t. Trudging home to Waycroft Falls to open his sister’s new performance space brings him face to face with a werewolf—a werewolf that would be perfect for Tom’s shoestring production of Beauty and the Beast. Staying in Tiny Town USA would be worth it if he can somehow convince the sexy wolf to expose his furry condition on stage and howl privately in Tom’s bed.

Wolf Around The Corner, a paranormal semi-finalist in Passionate Ink’s 2017 Sexy Scribbles Contest, is a full-length fairytale romance with a side of wolf shifter. If you like your romance with gorgeous men, humor, and small town magic, you’ll love Wolf Around the Corner! Buy your copy now and settle in to watch the drama unfold!

Genre: M/M Paranormal Shifter Contemporary

Buy Links:
Amazon  | B&N | iBooks | Kobo | Smashwords | 24Symbols | Indigo | Angus & Robertson | Mondadori

~*~*~*~*~*~

Interview with wolf shifter Frank Braden:

LM: Thanks for sitting down with me today. Tell us a little about yourself.

Um, well. There’s not that much to tell. I grew up in the small town of Hendersonville and then after high school I moved to Waycroft Falls. I’m the assistant manager at a local bookstore, The Little Dorrit Bookshop. Our store came in third last year at the Founders Day Bed Races. My life is pretty quiet. Or at least it was until my friend Annie—she owns the bookshop—invited her brother home for the summer to open the new performance space in the upstairs floor of the bookshop.

LM: I understand you have some kind of special power. Can you tell us about it?

Not really a power. I can turn into a wolf. Which isn’t necessarily special, just rare. It’s not something I talk about. People don’t always treat me the same once they know that about me. Like, um, my family. That’s why I don’t live in the town where I grew up. Nobody really knows about my, um, special power, here in Waycroft Falls.

LM: When did you discover you were able to shift?

I first manifested my Galen’s Syndrome at sixteen. It was after school, on the track. My team was doing drills in preparation for our next meet. One minute I was racing down the track with a teammate on my heels and the next I hit the ground because my legs didn’t work right. Or rather, they worked fine, but wolves don’t normally wear clothes and my legs were all tangled in my shorts. Luckily my coach knew what was happening because I sure didn’t!

LM:  Did you have special education or training to hone your power?

Well, my mom died when I was little. I’m not in contact with anyone from her family. I think they live in Canada? My dad’s family doesn’t have any manifestors, just carriers. I’m the lone wolf. My dad took me to a Galen’s meet up when I was in first grade, but it was across the country and other than that I’ve never met anyone else like me. So, no, I guess you could call me self-educated?

LM:  Do you consider your ability a gift or a curse? Why?

Technically, Galen’s Syndrome is a genetic curse. That means one of my ancestors was cursed with lycanthropy and turned into a wolf temporarily. The curse wrapped around his DNA and because lycanthropy is a curse that’s never been broken, it’s traveled down the genetic line. In other words, the curse gene passed to his children and to their children’s children like a mutation. Luckily it’s recessive, so unless your mother and your father both have the cursed gene (like I do), you don’t manifest the curse. It’s recognized by the medical community as similar to a rare genetic disorder.

LM: How does having this disorder complicate your life?

Well, when I was in high school my classmates toilet papered my house and hung a papier-mâché wolf from one of our trees. It wasn’t easy for my family after everyone found out in my hometown. That’s why I’m hesitant to tell that many people here in Waycroft Falls. What if they’re afraid of me or think I pose a danger or something? I’d have to move again and…well, I like it here.

LM: I heard you wrote the play that’s being performed at the bookshop. Will you tell us about it.

Yeah. It’s a version of Beauty and the Beast merged with the story of The Loathly Lady. Beauty and the Beast is basically a woman that’s held captive by a beast who asks her to marry him every night at dinner. The Loathly Lady, on the other hand, is from the Arthurian Legends and pivots around a choice. In it a knight marries a hideous woman who offers him a choice of either a beautiful woman during the day with a hideous bedmate at night or a beautiful woman in bed with a hideous wife during the day. Similarly, in this play Beauty has to make a choice between a Beast who woos her in her day-to-day life or a prince who is only present in her dreams.

LM: That sounds really good. And you’re playing the lead part, too?

That’s what Tom, Annie’s brother who’s directing the play, wants. I can shift halfway and he’s sure that having a shifter in a play would be something new and different. But I’m not an actor. We’ve gotten pretty close and he’s assured me that he can teach me to act. I want to help Tom and Annie, and Tom…well, Tom’s gorgeous and just my type. But it would mean revealing that I’m a shifter to the entire town. I’m just not sure I’m ready to do that.

~*~*~*~*~*~
About the Author: 

Aidee Ladnier, an award-winning author of speculative fiction, believes that adventure is around every corner. In pursuit of new experiences she’s worked as a magician’s assistant, been a beauty pageant contestant, ridden in hot air balloons, produced independent movies, hiked up a volcano, and is a proud citizen scientist.

A lover of genre fiction, Aidee’s perfect romance has a little science fiction, fantasy, mystery, or the paranormal thrown in to add a zing.

Social Links: 
Website: http://www.aideeladnier.com/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6570769.Aidee_Ladnier
Amazon: amazon.com/author/aideeladnier
Tumblr: http://aideemoi.tumblr.com/
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/aideelad/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aideelad/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/aideelad/

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Meet Mr. Peterson of Lessons in Love by @KRBwrites #EggcerptExchange

eggs

Today’s EggcerptExchange is from Kathryn Blake’s Lesson’s spanking romance, Lessons In Love, featuring an interview with Mr. Peterson.

Lessons in Love cov erBlurb:

Pam Weston didn’t have many choices as far as employment went. Her prison sentence saw to that. With limited secretarial skills, and an even more limited budget, she never considered herself executive material. So, when she was ordered to report to the CEO of her company as his new personal assistant, she fully expected to be checking out the “Help Wanted” section of the paper before the day was over.

Robert Peterson knew his management style was not HR approved, but he believed in using the stick as well as the carrot. Employing the tenets of domestic discipline, he helped mold his personal assistants into confident women who recognized their own self-worth. Even so, his unorthodox methods were only one of the reasons many considered the position of his assistant to be a revolving door. To Rob’s mind, Pamela Weston was perfect for his purposes, though given her past, he expected convincing her to agree to his program would be a challenge.

KB-LiL Banner-Rules

Excerpt:

After the dinner Mr. Peterson ordered from a five-star restaurant was delivered and set up in Pam’s tiny kitchen, she returned to pick up her phone.

“Hello?”

“I’m here. So tell me what they sent.”

“Since you ordered this massive banquet, I believe you already know the answer to your own question, sir.”

He waited, saying nothing.

“Sorry,” she mumbled, walking back to the kitchen. “I don’t know why I’m getting so snippy with you. I’m not usually this rude with people.”

“I’d say it’s because you’re feeling more secure with me, so I’m going to let it go for tonight. Just don’t get into the habit. I will call you on it in the future.”

“And what will you do?” she huffed. “Spank me?”

“Yes. Among other things.”

“What?” Her feet stopped as if her shoes had been nailed to the floor.

“Calm down. Now,” he insisted in a quiet, but firm tone. “I said we will discuss this tomorrow. If you’re still suffering qualms over my intentions after we talk, I will find another place for you to work.”

Tears instantly sprang to her eyes, and she swiped them back angrily. This wasn’t at all what she’d expected. None of it. He was being far kinder than she deserved, but the thought of being physically disciplined, especially by him, made her stomach clench.

“You worry too much,” he scolded. “Tell me what the restaurant sent.”

Buy at: Blushing Books,Amazon-USA and Barnes & Noble.

Interview with Robert Peterson

Do you have a nickname?
Friends and close associates call me Rob. To others, I am Mr. Peterson.

What is your current job?
Currently I am CEO of Peterson Enterprises as well as a managing partner of Robite Capital.

What is your most important goal?
Being the best I can be and helping others achieve the same.

What is your worst fear or nightmare?
Failure in anything, but especially failing to see what in hindsight is blatantly obvious.

Are you wealthy, poor, or somewhere in between?
Comfortably wealthy, I’d say. Wealthy enough to share with others.

Author Bio:

Lessons in Love is Kathryn R. Blake’s sixth novel with Blushing Books, and fifth spanking romance where Domestic Discipline is primary to the plot. Although Kathryn is relatively new to the spanking romance market, she is not new to stories where the hero spanks the heroine. In fact, most of her novels have some sort of spanking in them. However, even in Kathryn’s novels where the hero firmly believes in using spanking as a deterrent, he has no desire to cause the heroine injury and takes no delight in hurting the woman of his heart. In fact, sometimes he finds it extremely difficult to follow through on his threats or promises.

To date, all of her heroes are dominant, alpha males who are extremely protective of the women they love. However, part of that protectiveness includes the need for a certain amount of control. They do not suffer defiance or disobedience lightly. Even so, these men aren’t infallible, and they do make mistakes, but love and respect will always triumph in the end.

Kathryn has been a member of RWA since the early 1980s and has joined several local and special interest chapters. Besides writing, Kathryn enjoys traveling, reading, attending the theatre, and is a passionate lover of animals, so much so that in 2015 a stray cat adopted her. The stray now sleeps in Kathryn’s bed. She has also recently taken up the expensive hobby of making and selling jewelry.

Her personal website, www.kathrynrblake.com, is filled with photos and links to information about her many interests as well as peppered with quizzes, contests, games and lots of other fun things to do and she loves to hear from her readers, so she has an e-mail link at the bottom of every page.

Social Links:

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/KRBlake.page
Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/KRBlake.profile
Twitter: http://twitter.com/KRBwrites
Blog: http://krbnaughtythoughts.blogspot.com
Website: http://www.kathrynrblake.com