A warm welcome to author Jan Irving visiting Love Bytes on his “Star” blog tour!

You have to ask yourself as a writer why you bother. I mean, what is it that makes you put the concentrated effort into telling a story. If we make it look easy, it is not. Basically you have to hold your story ‘mood’ for however long it takes to spill out the goods. It can take a week or years. I’ve had experience with both.

So what moves you to tell a holiday story? I guess there is a special feeling that comes this time of year, reminding you not to take things for granted, to be grateful for what you have, to pay attention to the people and places, to live in the now, even when it feels like a former friend you’d really rather avoid.

Star is really nothing new for me. I’ve had readers who know my work, talk about the theme of broken people finding themselves, finding hope and love. Of opposites somehow finding healing in each other. That essentially will never change for me. I think it’s a reflection of my own journey here and so it comes out in my characters. It’s how we bond, and why I care to see them all the way through their path.

And that is really also reflective of the holiday message. To be mindful, to have a feeling of being blessed, even if you have a crummy tree, or no tree at all. That there are wonders in this world that we can’t see, we can only experience in our hearts. That bit of magic is the firelight I tried to catch in Star. Sometimes, like Matthew, we really need an angel in our lives, just for us. And sometimes that love will pull us out of ourselves and our usual getting by crap and into spilling it all out, giving it all away—for love. And what could be a better experience to write about? Only thing to beat that would be taking flight with an angel and oh, yeah, I got to do that too with Matthew and his Star when I wrote the story.

Blurb for Star:

When an angel takes over his boss’s body after a freak accident, Matthew’s cracked heart opens, but will he lose his once in a lifetime chance at love before the holidays are over?

Matthew Cromby figures it will be just another lousy holiday to get through, especially when mouthing off costs him his job. The bitter ex-con never counts on lightning striking his former boss Star Hollister during a freak LA storm that forces an angel to take over Star’s body.

Lost and vulnerable, Star relies on Matthew’s street smarts to keep him safe. Moreover, since he’s been watching over Matthew all his life, he yearns to heal him. But Star can’t stay in a human body without diminishing himself so unless they find a miracle they will be parted forever.

Publisher’s Note: This book was previously released by another publisher. It has been revised and re-edited for release with Totally Bound Publishing.

Excerpt from Star:

Matthew Cromby mopped the entryway of the office building that had taken him on six months ago. It wasn’t his dream job—night janitorial services—since once upon a time he’d dreamed of going to college, but he didn’t let himself think about the things he’d once wanted, the wrong turn his life had taken. He had a job, and it wasn’t easy for an ex-con to get work.

At eleven sharp, the golden boy himself walked by, no briefcase, probably headed to his private suite upstairs. His silken brown hair was windblown and right then Matthew flashed to a fantasy that it was tangled from the touch of his hands. Yeah, right. One thing he’d learned—Star Hollister was as coldly unattainable as he was beautiful. And he didn’t see someone like Matthew.

“It’s wet, see?” Matthew warned him while the deep, burning ember in his gut made him want to see the big man fall on his ass. For some reason Star brought it home to Matthew that he’d once dreamed of being an explorer—an archeologist or an astronomer, walking in different worlds. Maybe if he’d done something with his life, someone like Star would see him. Instead, he was lucky to have a job cleaning the floors, the johns, the hallways that led him nowhere.

“What?” Star Hollister had a faraway look in his eyes, his gaze passing over Matthew.

The fuck.

Matthew tried to swallow his resentment. “The floor. Wet. Slip on your ass. Get it?”

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Follow the blog tour tomorrow to its next stop at GGR review to read on!

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About Jan Irving:

Jan Irving has worked in all kinds of creative fields, from painting silk to making porcelain ceramics, to interior design, but writing was always her passion.

She feels you can’t fully understand characters until you follow their journey through a story world. Many kinds of worlds interest her, fantasy, historical, science fiction and suspense—but all have one thing in common, people finding a way to live together—in the most emotional and erotic fashion possible, of course!