Thank you, Nikki, for having me here
today.
When I go to writing conventions or
signings it never fails, I always get asked the question how do you
write?
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I get it. I really do. When I first
started off as a writer the whole writing a book process seemed
magical, almost mystical in some aspects. I always wanted to know
what separated me from all those other published authors (besides a
finished manuscript that is).
I would take notes when authors said
they wrote in certain coffee shops or drank a specific brand of tea
while writing. I even bought an AlphaSmart because I heard that a few
authors swore by them.
None of those things worked for me. I
finally learned my process when (get ready for this) I wanted to hear
the truth. Sure, I heard that it’s all about HOKBIC, (hands on
keyboard butt in chair) but that seemed really dull, boring, and a
lot of hard work. The truth is writing can be all of those things,
and yet, if we want to be writers we have to power through the hard
stuff to get to the good stuff.
But I will give you a tip. A secret, if
you will, of how to get from someone wanting to write that book, to
the person with the finished product in her hot little hands.
You have to wish for it. Wish for it,
dream it, think about it, and most important visualize it. Our minds
are powerful things, but they are also very easy to trick. Basically,
our minds can’t distinguish the difference between visualizing
something and actually doing it.
Use your creative juices to picture
exactly what things will look like when you get to your goal. Where
will you be when you type the words “The End”? How will you feel?
What will you be wearing? What will you do to celebrate?
Doing this visualization everyday will
start to open your mind to wanting to finish that manuscript,
and when you actually want to do something it is amazing how
you find the way to get it accomplished.
You might even find your mind starts to
work on your goal on an unconscious level. That’s exactly what
happened to me. While I was sleeping I came up with one scene that
grew into my current series, Texas Fever.
Try it and see if it works for you, and
then let me know what you think. I always love to hear from readers.
I would love to giveaway one e-copy of
the latest book in my series, Hustlin’ Texas to a
random commenter.
Happy reading!
BIO: KC Klein has
lived most of her life with her head in the clouds and her nose
buried in a book. She did stop reading long enough to make a home
with a real life hero, her husband, for over sixteen years. A mother
of two children, she spends her time slaying dragons, saving
princesses, and championing the belief in the happily-ever-after. Her
debut novel, Dark Future, is a finalist in the 2012
Prism contest and has been honored with a reviewer’s choice award.
Her other titles include a sci- fi, 2012 RONE award winning romance
anthology, Hotter on the Edge, and the first two books in her
Texas Fever contemporary romance series, Texas Wide Open, and
Hustlin’ Texas. KC loves to hear from readers and can be found
desperately pounding away on her laptop in yoga pants and leopard
slippers or more conveniently at www.kckleinbooks.com.
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Blurb for Hustlin’
Texas:
“Sassy, sexy, fun,
but sweet at heart, KC Klein knows how to spin a tall Texas
yarn.”—Lori Wilde
“A sexy read. KC
Klein’s hero is as hot as a Texan summer’s day. KC is an author
to watch..” —Rachel Gibson
Only one person in Oak
Groves is happy to see bad girl Nikki Logan back in town…
Oak Groves’ most
beloved bachelor, Jett Avery, lives by a simple set of rules. Getting
involved with a complicated woman isn’t one of them. He learned
that the hard way two years ago when he spent one of the most
incredible nights of his life with Nikki Logan. But then she
hightailed it out of town, never to be seen again—until now. It
might be time to break one of those rules…
Picking up the pieces of
her life, Nikki is back in Oak Groves, face to face with the one man
she’s done her best to forget. But she has her reasons for being
here—and they don’t include winding up in bed with Jett.
Especially since he’ll never forgive her once he finds out the
truth about why she’s back…
Excerpt
Jett nodded, then glanced around the
crowded bar. When he turned his gaze back on her, a person would be
hard pressed to describe his eyes as anything sweet or candy like. “I
was hoping you’d be up for a little game of nine-ball.”
Nikki took a sip from her beer and
raised her brow in question. Nine-ball was the hustler’s game. It
was short and quick, without all the rules of straight pool.
He nodded his head toward the tables in
the back. “I heard you played.”
“Then you heard wrong.” She took
another sip, eying him the whole time. “I’ve given it up for
Lent.”
The corner of his mouth hinted at a
smile. “Found God, have you?”
“Among other things.”
Jett glanced to the tables, then back
to her. “One game. No money.”
Nikki shook her head. “I don’t play
for fun. No thrill in it.”
He swallowed, and she could see his jaw
work. “Then we’ll play for a favor. A debt. You up for a little
more red in your ledger?”
She didn’t want to ask, not really,
but gambling was too deep in her blood not to hear the stakes.
“What’s the favor?”
He smiled, not the golden boy smile
she’d come to know, but instead one that lacked any charm at all.
“Well, Texas, that’s the thrill part. You don’t know until the
end. Anything goes. No boundaries.”
Her heart did a funky jump-start in her
chest at the possibilities, but her game face was ice-cold. “No
limits?”
“None. Unless that’s too much heat
for you? We could place some ground rules if you want to play it
safe.”
Nikki knew what Jett was doing. It was
so obvious, and yet, there was that achingly familiar thrill that
zipped up her spine and buzzed in her blood. Some families were
predisposed toward red hair or near-sightedness. The Logans were
addicts. Throw a dart at the family tree and you’d hit a
vice—drinking, smoking, shopping. You name it, and the Logans could
turn anything into a compulsion. But really, under all the
addictions, there was only one. One vice that was as indicative of a
Logan as dark hair, brown skin, and blue eyes.
It was very basic, really. The Logans
were gamblers.
There were stories as far back as her
grandfather, if stories in the Logan family could be believed, who
won his first car—a 1950 Cadillac—on the toss of a coin. Then
there was her father, Dakota, who’d bet on every sports game
invented, and even ones that hadn’t, like golf without clubs. Her
father had once bet a hundred dollars on his ability to throw a golf
ball through the eighteen holes. Legend had it, he’d won that
hundred, but lost the money in the same night in an “I can piss
into a can from the second story” contest.
So Jett knew what he was doing. And
Nikki was smart enough to know this was more than a simple favor and
way more than a simple game of pool. She also knew something else.
Jett was no match for her in this game.
She hid her smile with a sip of her
drink. The thrill of a “sure thing” was headier than any shot of
tequila, more exciting than a leather-jacketed man on a motorcycle.
“Oh, I can take the heat,” she
said.
“But can you handle this much
heat?”
“Oh, I can handle it. Because we both
know I can beat you with one hand tied behind my back and
blindfolded.”
His eyebrows arched. “Then you’d
best start figuring out what your favor will be.”
Nikki put down her bottle, no longer
needing the buzz. “Already have.” Her car fixed…for starters.
“You really think you can beat me at pool?”
God, he was so cocky. It was almost
tragic.
His eyes narrowed and there was
absolutely no humor in his voice when he spoke. “Oh, I’m betting
on it.”
Buy links for
Hustlin’ Texas:
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http://kckleinbooks.com/BNHustlinTexas
Blurb for TEXAS WIDE
OPEN:
“A tortured hero, a
love that defies distance and time…this is a book you won’t soon
forget.” –Cat Johnson
Katie Harris loved growing up on a ranch. She had
her horse, the beautiful Texas prairie, and Cole Logan, the cowboy
next door. But there are a lot of secrets hidden under a Texas sky…
Katie always knew she’d marry Cole one day—until he broke her
dreams and her heart. But now that Katie’s father is sick, she’s
back home, older, wiser and nowhere near the love-sick fool she once
was.
Cole knows Katie doesn’t want anything to do with him. But after so
many years, he can’t pretend she’s no more than a neighbor.
Holding his ground was hard enough when she was seventeen. Now that
she’s her own woman, Cole’s heart doesn’t stand a chance…
“Passionate, gritty and fast paced…with a hot blooded,
honorable hero to make every woman's knees go weak.”—Diane
Whiteside
Buy Links for TEXAS
WIDE OPEN:
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Blurb for DARK FUTURE:
A woman caught
between two futures...
Awakened in the middle of the night by a future version of herself, Kris Davenport is given a mission: go travel in time to save the world--and his life. Of course, her future self doesn't tell her who he is just sends her into the darkness and straight into an alien invasion.
...must choose between the man who has her heart...
He turns out to be ConRad Smith, the callous, untrusting military commander of Earth's army and the world's last defense. There's only one way for Smith to know for sure if this strange woman is an alien spy--slice her throat. Except, he didn't anticipate the desire he would feel as he interrogates the hot-tempered, warm-blooded woman.
...or the fate that saves the world.
As Kris and ConRad struggle to trust each other in a world on the brink of destruction, they each will have to face the ultimate choice of whether to fight or die... survive or forgive.
Awakened in the middle of the night by a future version of herself, Kris Davenport is given a mission: go travel in time to save the world--and his life. Of course, her future self doesn't tell her who he is just sends her into the darkness and straight into an alien invasion.
...must choose between the man who has her heart...
He turns out to be ConRad Smith, the callous, untrusting military commander of Earth's army and the world's last defense. There's only one way for Smith to know for sure if this strange woman is an alien spy--slice her throat. Except, he didn't anticipate the desire he would feel as he interrogates the hot-tempered, warm-blooded woman.
...or the fate that saves the world.
As Kris and ConRad struggle to trust each other in a world on the brink of destruction, they each will have to face the ultimate choice of whether to fight or die... survive or forgive.
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FUTURE:
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Good post - thanks for the excerpts
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