Hi, I’m Grace Kilian Delaney. Thanks for having me here at Love Bytes Reviews today to promote Living on a Dare: A Shore Thing Novel (Book One).
Writing is an act of faith. Seriously. Many authors use outlines, others are pantsers, and some use a combination of both to get to those final words that mean the real work has yet to begin: the end.
Living on a Dare is a light-hearted story with a fake engagement between friends. I had the setup—a bar scene where Tate dares Draven to propose to the next guy who walks into the bar, and naturally it’s Draven’s college roommate and longtime crush, Julien. From there the story initially got away from me, and instead of the fun tale of unrequited love and snowballing engagement woes that I’d intended to write, it spiraled into something too dark, too long, and definitely not a happy tale. I have a dark soul. I can’t help it. Give me a happily ever after and I’ll fling guano on it first, then wipe it up and say sorry later.
My faith in completing the story wavered, and several points along the journey, it sunk completely. I worried that I was writing utter crap. I worried it was taking forever to write as I watched my favorite authors churn out two, three, four books over the year I struggled with my manuscript. The only thing that pushed me through those dark times was a reviewer of my previous novel. I asked if she would be willing to alpha read the rewrite, and thank God she said yes. She continued to have faith in my writing when mine disappeared, and I felt accountable to get a chapter a week to her. If it weren’t for her encouragement, I doubt Living on a Dare would’ve been finished. As an aside, let this serve as a reminder of how important reviewers are to writers!
Draven and Jules survived my love-hate-love relationship with them. They are a fun couple who live in a tree house and joke about what does and doesn’t belong in someone’s ass, and may, on occasion, play Tarzan Hunting for Snake. I dare you to read about their romantic journey.
Stuntman Draven O’Connor never turns down a dare—even if it means getting down on one knee to propose to his former college roommate and friend. The same man he’s been crushing on since the first day they met. The same man that has grown distant over the past year. And the same man who just agreed to be his fiancé.
Julien Bouchard is tired of living a lie. He spent the past year exploring his sexuality in secret, enduring countless dates with women to appease his mother, and dodging his best friend, Draven, who knows everything there is to know about him, except the one thing that could change their friendship. Ready to face his friend, he meets him at a bar and is greeted by an unexpected marriage proposal. The dare isn’t surprising; it’s the scorching hot kiss that sends Julien’s head and heart in a tailspin—and gives him an idea for the perfect plan.
But perfect plans are never go according to plan, and news of their fake engagement spreads to their families as fast as a wildfire, forcing them to confront their true feelings about each other and hope they don’t get burned.
Grace Kilian Delaney is a LGBT writer, musician, animal lover, and author of the sweet and sexy bisexual romance Living on a Dare: A Shore Thing Novel. She spends her free time performing kitchen concerts to an audience of her two cats and a dog and loves long beach runs. Her previous books include Seven Minutes (Dreamspinner Press) and Waking Oisin (NineStar Press).
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