Please welcome Margie Church. She’s joining us again, this time with a sweet treat inspired by the song THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT and a super giveaway. Please leave your questions and comments for Margie. If you’ve read her books please share with us what your favorite was and why. If you’re an author, which songs inspire books or story ideas? If you’re not an author which songs do you think would make a great starting point (or middle or ending point) for a book or story?
The way you look tonight….
…played softly in the room while Jess and Kyle danced. His hand, so much larger than hers, cradled her against his chest. Moving slowly in candlelight to the music, she listened to the love song. So many years had passed, yet being in his arms this way erased them.
The first time Jess heard this song, she had been a junior in high school. Wearing her first floor-length dress, she was escorted by the hottest guy she’d ever met. She couldn’t believe her luck when Kyle invited her to the prom.
Years ago, he wore a black tuxedo with a dark blue cummerbund that matched her dress. Jess had looked at her in that awkward way guys do on a first date. He’d cleared his throat. “Would you like to dance?”
Tonight, he’d held his hand out to her and asked the same question. But he only wore a pair of black satin boxers.
His sparse chest hairs tickled her cheek as she rested her face against his bare skin. He smelled like soap and sex. He moved his hand up and down her back, seeming to memorize the contours of her body, which by now, had to be as familiar as his own name.
He leaned back a little and with the knuckle of his index finger, lifted her chin until their eyes met. His hair, still tousled after their vigorous lovemaking made him look so much like that handsome teenager she fell in love with.
“Lovely,
never, ever change,
keep that breathless charm
won’t you please arrange it, cuz I love you
just the way you look tonight.”
She’d waited forty years to hear him sing those words to her. His voice was shaky with age or emotion? She didn’t care. In her eyes, Kyle hadn’t changed a bit.
I’m a die-hard romantic, and I hope that short piece swept you off your feet. If you’re a fan of the song, here’s a link to a version I enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDh4GC7n0ig
And if you’re a fan of romances, please visit my page on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your favorite ebook retailer. I had two short stories Night Music (M/M/F) and Executive Decision (M/M) plus a novel, Razor (BDSM ménage), come out this summer. There are 15 titles on my back list. I hope you’ll find something that entices.
CONTEST: I’m running a contest until October 7 – Fall into Love with Author Margie Church. You can win a CD loaded with my entire back list, gift cards, and autographed books. Click here to get started. It’s fun and easy.
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Margie’s website: Romance with SASS
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Margie’s Sizzler Editions page
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This sounds like an exciting series Margie. I definitely need to go download it.
Thank you, Laurie.
I’m hopeless with trying to connect songs or lyrics to a story line. I’ll stick to reading, & visiting over at Margie’s website I won’t be short of books.
Hi Mary, thanks for being a fan! I don’t usually connect sons or lyrics to a story line, they usually inspire a story or a particular emotion. Enjoy your books. I’m writing more of them for you.
Love the post. Music and reading go great together especially when romance is added
hi Gabrielle, music really really inspires me, but I listen to it before I write, not during. I hope you’ll check out my work and enter the contest.
Best,
Margie
Some songs inspire me. I’ve always thought I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUSE would make a good story…somehow. I’ve not quite figured out HOW yet. I think on it every Christmas. One of these years I’ll iron out a plot.
But there are a lot of other songs that are so resonate with feeling that they inspire stories or at least scenes.
The child sees his widowed mother kissing Santa after a church gathering near the holidays. Go for it.
I’ve never written a Christmas-themed piece or any holiday-themed piece, but the holidays have been in a lot of my books.
Hey, Margie, I saw your song title and was intrigued because my favorite singer sings it. When I saw where your link went to–Michael Buble!!! My favorite. And best of all, we have the same birthday.
Lucky girl! Glad I could make you smile. Another Michael favorite of mine is Say Goodbye To Hollywood.
Great post, Margie!!! I can’t wait to dive into your books…you’re website is awesome!!!
Hey Molly! Glad you wandered over here and my website. I just updated it yesterday. Lots of new reviews, photos, and books to see. Thank you.
Great post, I’d like to read her books.
Wilma, thank you. You can download one of my books for free this weekend at Amazon – Avenging Allaire..maybe that’ll get you hooked and you’ll come back and buy the other 14!
Enjoy your weekend.
Hey Margie,
Would you like me to tweet your freebie over the weekend and add it to our Facebook page? I’d be happy to if you want me to. Just say the word.
Absolutely. Thank you. This is the link to download Avenging Allaire FREE thru 9/24 on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Avenging-Allaire-Awakening-ebook/dp/B003VPWZUE/ref=la_B008H7HO4I_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1348318601&sr=1-14
What is Avenging Allaire about? Do you have a mini (or maxi) blurb?
The exciting love story of Allaire West and Devon Mercer continues in the thriller, “Avenging Allaire.” The couple plans to marry and live happily ever after but everyone from Devon’s father to their pistol-packing nanny, Lucy, is conspiring against them.
Lucy plots, with the help of her lover, to take advantage of Allaire’s psychotic relapses. She’s eager to steal Devon for herself.
Devon’s father calls in his million dollar ransom loan and Devon is forced to return to his father’s firm to repay it. It doesn’t take long for Devon to become suspicious about the revolving door of investors, brokers, and missing information.
In a shocking turn of events, Allaire’s life is in jeopardy again and Devon learns the truth behind Allaire’s kidnapping, the suspicious murders, and the business secrets. Who will survive and who will pay as Devon desperately tries to avenge Allaire.
This is the second book in series but it is NOT necessary to read them in order. I wrote enough of the back story into Avenging to make it easy to follow. Both Awakening and Avenging comprise my debut series. I hope when readers go back for another book they will marvel at how far I’ve come in only three years.