Today we are very happy to welcome author R.J Scott to our blog . She is talking about writing , there is an excerpt on Heroes 1 here and she is graciously offering a giveaway at the end of this post 🙂

What causes a writer to lose heart?

This interesting question was posed in a post on *Writer Unboxed* (http://writerunboxed.com/2014/03/26/when-the-thrill-is-gone/) and as I read what the blogger posted I was nodding at nearly every point.

Writing too much with not enough time to refuel – done

Publisher issues – done

Setting myself up for failure (I will write 5,000 words today or I have failed, that kind of thing) – so done

Seeing a book of mine that doesn’t make top 20, or 50 – sobs, done

Readership wanting more of a particular genre – done

Professional jealousy of those doing better than me – oh my god, SO done… I bet not a single author can say they aren’t envious of those authors doing better than them at any given time. I dare any author to say, hand on heart, that they are just *happy for the authors doing well*. Of course we’re happy for them, but let’s face it, we all want to do well, we all want our books to be loved, after all, they are our babies.

I am sure that for every author there are different things that may cause them to find it difficult to write. A careless comment, negative reviews, cover art that seems not to match what you had in your head, rumours around your publisher, the list goes on. And this doesn’t only apply to writers, but to any person in any walk of life.

What are the things that cause you have that sudden mental block when you are writing? What drives you off the path of getting your novel done?

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A Reason To Stay, book 1 in my Heroes series.

Heroes – Sometimes the wars you need to fight are the ones you left at home…

When SEAL, Viktor Zavodny, left small town America for the Navy he made sure he never had a reason to return. He wanted to see the world and fight for his country and nothing, or no one, was getting in his way. He fights hard, and plays harder, and a succession of men and women share his bed.

But a phone call from his sister has him using his thirty day down time to go home instead of enjoying his usual nights of random sex and sleep.

What he finds is a mystery on the Green Mountains and the only man attempting to make sense of seemingly unrelated deaths. His childhood friend and first love… Lieutenant Aiden Coleman, Deputy Sheriff.

There were reasons Viktor left his home. Not least Aiden Coleman with his small town innocence and his dreams of forever. Now Adam and Viktor need to work together to save lives and prove there is a hero in all of us.

When it’s done, if they make it out alive, can Aiden persuade Viktor that he has a reason to stay? Maybe forever?

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Excerpt :

“I remember you said way back that you always planned to come back to Steepleshend one day.”

Silence again. Then in a dramatic motion, Aiden slapped his glass to the table, ignoring the Coke that sloshed over the sides. “Fuck me,” he cursed. “This is stupid. Come with me.”

Viktor didn’t argue. Awkwardly he stood up, leaning heavily on his crutches as his body adjusted from sitting to standing. He followed Aiden out of the bar and down the alley to the side. The night was warm and stars littered the black sky like scattered diamonds. The path took them onto the green, getting closer to Aiden’s house. It seemed like that was where they were going. Viktor wasn’t sure what he was walking into. Aiden evidently wanted somewhere private to call Viktor on the fact he’d left so suddenly without much of a goodbye and with so much unspoken between them.

Aiden opened the front door and gestured Viktor in. As soon as the door was shut, Viktor stumbled as Aiden shoved him back against the door. He exhaled noisily in pain, but Aiden’s expression didn’t change. He was focused, intense, and there was a spark of something in his eyes. Temper? Frustration? Viktor couldn’t tell. When Aiden crowded close and cupped Viktor’s face with his hands, Viktor realized what he saw in Aiden’s eyes was something more than these two emotions. It was lust. He kissed Viktor, but it was less a kiss than a branding, hot and deep and dark, and with Aiden’s big body covering him, Viktor did everything that he could to relax into the kiss.

Aiden backed away a little. “I needed that,” he said. “I’ve wanted to kiss you goodbye for fourteen years.”

Viktor raised a hand and traced his bruised lips with his fingers. “Are you done, then?” he asked softly. He would walk, or limp, out of the house with his dignity intact, even if the kiss had him hard in his pants and needy for an awful lot more. Aiden exuded confidence and Viktor had the sudden irrational urge to kill every single man that had been anywhere near Aiden to make him so damn bold. Where was the sixteen-year-old boy who talked of a forever relationship? The kid who made Viktor happy and sad at the same time?

“Do you want this to be done?” Aiden asked, curious. “We had the start of something all those years ago. Don’t you want to see where it goes now?” He rubbed his thumbs along the top of Viktor’s cheekbones in a gentle, rhythmic fashion. His blue gaze was intense in the dimly lit hall, and he was so still Viktor looked down at the rise and fall of his chest to check that Aiden was even breathing. His kink for bigger men, the height of Aiden and the bulk of him, and the startling blue eyes, and Viktor could feel himself falling without a parachute. He was confused and turned-on and angry and lost and a million other different emotions. He was only here a few more weeks, but Aiden was like a match to kindling. Viktor wanted more.

Finally he found his voice. “I didn’t say I wanted it done.”

Aiden leaned closer to whisper against Viktor’s lips. “I always wondered what would have happened if you hadn’t left. When we kissed, we were good together, you can’t deny that.”

“I don’t.”

“I always wonder what I missed out on. I should just get you out of my system once and for all.”

Viktor could get on board with that, but he wasn’t sure if his body was going to let him. “If you’re talking about sex, I can’t do a fucking thing with this leg.”

“I’ll give you a few weeks to heal,” Aiden said.

“That’s generous of you.”

“Then…” Aiden crowded him again, all pushy and hard. “Then I’ll bend you over and show you what your blast from the past has learned since he was sixteen.”

Aiden sounded angry and confident at the same time. Viktor hated the tone of Aiden’s voice. He was throwing the very words Viktor had spoken back at him.

You’re a naive little kid, Aiden, no one thinks about forever when they’re only sixteen.

Viktor closed his eyes briefly. “You think this is a good idea?”

Aiden ground his hard cock into Viktor’s and smirked. “I’ll wait until you can walk without a stick, then have me a few days of getting you out of my system with no-holds-barred sex and no expectations. I think it’s a damn good idea. Don’t you? From what your sister says, you like to share it about, so I’d kinda like my share now.”

He stole another kiss, this time harder, more insistent, and Viktor melted bonelessly into the wall, the only thing holding him up Aiden’s body weight. He moved a little to release the pressure on his leg and went with the flow. He may not be able to fuck or be fucked tonight, but he could surely enjoy the ride while it lasted.

 

Keep an eye out for Heroes #2 expected July 26 th!

Look at this promising cover!!

Coming 26 July 2014

Samuel Larson III has a picture he drew. Four men grouped in a loose composition. One man with his hands on a weapon, another leaning back against the wall, two others stood to one side of the photo grinning. This was the memory that he carried with him everywhere. The moment he captured on crappy torn paper the group of men who saved his life and that of his sister ten years before. After meeting Viktor Zavodny he realises he has to come out of hiding to find the men who saved him, to see if they remember the scared kid they saved, and to say thank you. When he finds the obituary of one of the marines who saved them he couldn’t know how much his life would change. So begins a journey to make things right.

MacKenzie “Mac” Jackson is a former marine making a new life for himself in the Catskills. He has murderous nightmares and carries the guilt that he couldn’t save his best friend from a bullet meant for Mac. Someone out there is intent on killing him but he is prepared and no one will get past his perimeter without him knowing. He will have his revenge.

When Samuel arrives at Mac’s place he throws Mac’s plans for murderous revenge out of the window. Suddenly Mac has to protect a man that threatens his heart, and this time he can’t be sure he will succeed.

 

 

 

 

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read Vicki’s 4.5 star review here:

https://lovebytesreviews.com/2014/04/26/book-review-a-reason-to-stay-by-r-j-scott/