A warm welcome to authors R.J Scott and Meredith Russell visiting Love Bytes today .
R.J and Meredith are answering some readers questions for us , share and excerpt and there is also a giveaway to participate in!
Welcome R.J & Meredith 🙂
Forever in the Sun (Sapphire Cay #6) by RJ Scott and Meredith Russell
Thank you for letting us invade your blog! As we were out of ideas we asked for questions and boy, did we get them… now we’re hungry…
Ann-Marie O’Callaghan What is your favourite chocolate bar?
RJ: That is a wicked question to ask someone who is on a healthy eating kick… normal Cadburys chocolate is how I roll… or a nice Mars Bar… Meredith has an interesting story about a chocolate bar
M: Oh chocolate. Do I have to pick just one?
RJ: Yes… well, I picked two… pick your favourite one and a standby in case of emergency. Oh and I need to add one… Curly Wurly… you can NOT go wrong with a Curly Wurly.
M: Okay, well full on chocolate I think I actually sway towards Aero. I like the bubbly bits and I think that’s the best tasting one out of that, Cadburys Dairy Milk and Galaxy, though I would never say no to any of them.
RJ: Have you ever noticed how different chocolate tastes in different countries… Have you ever tried US chocolate, it’s not the same as ours… Clutches Cadburys close to my chest.
M: I’ve not really had chocolate from anywhere else. The most American I’ve got is Reeses’s Peanut Butter Cups and is it Hersheys like little drop looking things in silver foil. My friend was mad on them but to me they tasted like what I call the ‘cheap’ chocolate here, or I guess non-branded.
RJ: ROFL M.
M: *offends America*
RJ: Cuts all ties with Meredith
M: Anyway, I’m allowed a spare in case so I’ll say ooooh my three favourites are Boosts, Toffee Crisps, and Double Deckers… If I had to have one… Oh it hurts… Erm… Toffee Crisp, and then I need to sneak a Chocolate Orange in my bag too.
RJ: Meredith took half an hour to think of her favourite chocolate… just saying…
M: I think RJ needs to realise just how serious a business chocolate is.
RJ: believe me, I know how serious it is. I’ve worked hard on my slightly rotund shape with years of intensive chocolate therapy. It’s just… I know what I like… sweet and sticky and all melty… nods…
Jen Walter What is the hardest part of working with each other? The easiest?
RJ: I can’t wait to see what Meredith says about me here… The easiest part is that we’re friends. We have been since I fangirled her in fan fiction days. The hardest thing is … we’re friends… very early on in our first collaboration we had to come to the conclusion that we had to be hard on each other. We have to be able to get to the point where we can laugh at each other. Meredith says I switch names around… yeah right, she moves them when I’m not looking.
M: I love your name switching – “Dylan, pass me that hammer,” said Dylan – lol.
RJ: Bitch
M: I agree that the easiest part is the fact we have known each other for several years now. Obviously we each have our own style and ‘isms’ but I think the kind of story we want to tell, the plots we like, our train of thought, and the way we write are pretty similar.
RJ: I knew you liked me
M: It’s easy to talk plots points and character development because most of the time we have similar ideas or ideas that can be combined or even ideas that then lead us both to something else and better than we probably thought about separately. The hardest? For me I guess the fear of failure and letting RJ down. Like I said we’ve known each other quite a while now but RJ has been in the business of selling books longer than me, she has her fans and her established series and a certain expectation to what the readers are getting when they buy one of her books.
RJ: Awwww, hun… no, my readers love you as well… Sapphire Cay is awesome 🙂
M: I always remember a couple of reviews on The Art Of Words saying about how the book felt different to a usual RJ book. One was actually really positive about what I might have been my influence on the feel of the story, the other I think probably preferred the toughness of RJ’s Sanctuary series versus a sweet story about a dyslexic artist.
RJ: Well, yeah, it had a different feel I guess, but people forgot Throwaway, or Back Home, which was in the similar vein to Art of Words. I love that book with it’s soft love amidst hard hitting themes like dyslexia and alzheimers…
M: So yeah, and no matter how many times she virtually slaps me on Gmail chat, reminds me she would tell me to shove off if she felt in anyway unhappy (which she totally would do lol), I still worry about how ‘bad’ an influence I might be on her what with dragging her to the sweet and fluffy side in what we created in the Sapphire Cay series of books 🙂 Watch her call me a muppet now… *waits*
RJ: Tries to restrain myself… holds my breath… tries to think about something else… no… I can’t… here it comes… MUPPET!
M: 😛
Release date: 14th August 2015
Buylinks:
Book 1 – Follow The Sun Book 2 – Under The Sun Book 3 – Chase The Sun Book 4 – Christmas In The Sun Book 5 – Capture The Sun Book 6 – Forever In The Sun
Blurb:
Feuding families, unearthed secrets, and a violent storm threatens the Cay. Will the idyllic island with her cast of characters make it through unscathed? It’s time for the circle to close on the story of Sapphire Cay, and on the men who have lived and found love on her beaches. Join characters old and new as we celebrate Dylan and Lucas’s wedding and delve into the history of Sapphire Cay. Connor and Shaun are directly related to Peter and Alfie, a couple whose clandestine lover affair was overshadowed by old prejudices and a world war. Shaun Jamieson is a writer, a romantic and needs to pen the story of the affair’s final secrets; Connor French’s family wants to stop Shaun. When the two men step onto the sands of Sapphire Cay, they find more than just the secrets of an old love. They find hope and comfort in each other. But with the past hanging over them, can they ever have what Peter and Alfie could not? Or are they just as ill-fated as their ancestors?
The offices of the French Foundation, New York, June
“Your two o’clock is here, Mr. French.” Miriam’s voice floated in over the intercom. The abruptness of it startled Connor from his cost-benefits analysis and he knocked his coffee down, sloshing it onto the paperwork.
“God dammit,” he muttered under his breath. He couldn’t get the figures to balance and trying to find a missing ten-dollar transaction in among a million dollar bank account was screwing with his head. Where had three hours gone? He glanced sideways at his lunch. Or what was left of it. He was surprised he’d managed to actually eat at all because he certainly didn’t remember the food arriving or him even picking up the ham on rye. He had to get these reports done before the accounts department could sign off on them.
He pressed the button. “Give me two,” he said. Quickly he scooped the plate, with the remaining food, into his top drawer and straightened enough paperwork to look efficient. He didn’t recall the details of this two o’clock, just that it was someone with issues about the Foundation. Connor was used to answering all kind of questions, from students, politicians, kids to teachers and there was no one at this Foundation who knew what type of work they undertook as well as him. Apart from Miriam, who had been a PA at the Foundation longer than Connor had been alive. She knew where all the bodies were buried and Connor would be lost without her.
A knock on the door heralded the visitor’s arrival and Connor stood, brushing his shirt of crumbs as he called, “Come in.”
The door opened and Connor had to stop his mouth falling open. Gorgeous. Very nice. Tall, slim, dark hair, with added sexy smile and confidence in the way he walked in. Connor checked him out, couldn’t help it, he hadn’t seen anything this fine in a very long time. I need to get out more. From head to toe, his gaze finally focused back on the man’s face and embarrassment washed over him when the guy was looking at him with one eyebrow raised in question. So much for subtle. Well, at least he isn’t punching me to the floor.
About RJ
RJ Scott has been writing since age six, when she was made to stay in at lunchtime for an infraction involving cookies. She was told to write a story and two sides of paper about a trapped princess later, a lover of writing was born.
As an avid reader herself, she can be found reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror. However, her first real true love will always be the world of romance where she takes cowboys, bodyguards, firemen and billionaires (to name a few) and writes dramatic and romantic stories of love and passion between these men.
With over seventy titles to her name and counting, she is the author of the award winning book, The Christmas Throwaway. She is also known for the Texas series charting the lives of Riley and Jack, and the Sanctuary series following the work of the Sanctuary Foundation and the people it protects.
Her goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.
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www.tumblr.com/blog/rjscott (some NSFW (not safe for work) photos)
www.pinterest.com/rjscottauthor/
About Meredith
Meredith Russell lives in the heart of England. An avid fan of many story genres, she enjoys nothing less than a happy ending. She believes in heroes and romance and strives to reflect this in her writing. Sharing her imagination and passion for stories and characters is a dream Meredith is excited to turn into reality.
Website/blog: http://www.meredithrussell.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/meredithrussellauthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeredithRAuthor
Instagram: http://instagram.com/miss_meredith_r
Email: meredithrussell666@gmail.com
Competition to win $15 Amazon/Are giftcard, and 2 further prizes of RJ Scott e-books – closes 28th August at 00:01 GMT (London)
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