Please welcome erotic romance author Liz Crowe to the blog. I’ve been hearing good things about Liz’s series set in a real estate office. In fact that series was mentioned in the comments on our post for the Alpha Male Blog Hop.
Today Liz is here to chat about her novel Paradise Hops, though I am sure she’d welcome questions and comments about her other books as well.
Liz is giving away a “swag pack” from her brewery, the Wolverine State Brewing Co including 2 tee shirts, a pint glass, a hat and a certificate for a free growler fill plus $15 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. Be sure to leave your questions and comments here, then go here where you can find the rest of the blog stops where you can leave questions and comments to enter Liz’s giveaway.
The Cover Blurb For Paradise Hops
By Liz Crowe
A brutal attack left Lori Brockton convinced she was damaged goods. By the time she emerges from hiding two years later, ready to run her family’s famous brewery, she’s determined to be independent–never rely on anyone ever again. Nearly a year of working in every corner of Brockton Brewing Company, from warehouse to pub, front office to kitchen, teaches her all she needs to know about the business.
Then, she comes face-to-face with masculine perfection in a suit and her world is rocked in more ways than one. Garret Hunter is the new Brockton business manager who takes one look at the beautiful, sad young woman and his entire existence coalesces around winning her heart.
But standing between Garrett and what he believes is his true love, is a six-feet six-inch blond-haired bad boy brewer.
Eli Buchannan is a craft beer rock star, recently hired by Brockton to drag the company into the 21st century. He brings innovation and attitude plus a prima donna ladies man reputation. But he’s sworn off anything resembling commitment, personal or professional, after getting burned at his last job on both fronts.
Garret Hunter is “The Perfect Man” – handsome, successful, stable, eager to settle down. Eli Buchannan… is not. Compelling, smoking hot, creative and elusive, he represents everything Lori Brockton should avoid. But just as she makes a difficult choice, a drastic life-changing shift occurs, and nothing is ever the same again.
BOOK VIDEO LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOcC8FMXOpE
An Excerpt From Paradise Hops
Lori smiled as the classical music rolled around in the brewery space, watched the brewery staff scurry around, efficient, happy, in spite of the scowling presence of the brew master. They’d all learned so much from him. He’d instilled a sense of pride, a ton of new processes and systems and generally made the whole place run better. She looked over at him and blushed when she realized he’d been starting straight at her, his eyes dark and brooding.
She ignored him for another hour, busying herself with cleaning, then running the filter for a new batch of dark lager. When a hand touched her arm she jumped, and the safety glasses slid down her nose. “What?” Eli gestured for her to follow him out of the cooler. She did so, all the way into the office at the back, her scalp tingling at the memory of their one encounter there. His broad shoulders were tense and his face radiated anger when he turned to her.
About Liz Crowe
Microbrewery owner, best-selling author, beer blogger and journalist, mom of three teenagers, and soccer fan, Liz lives in the great Midwest, in a major college town. Years of experience in sales and fund raising, plus an eight-year stint as an ex-pat trailing spouse, plus making her way in a world of men (i.e. the beer industry), has prepped her for life as erotic romance author.
When she isn’t sweating inventory and sales figures for the brewery, she can be found writing, editing or sweating promotional efforts for her latest publications.
Her groundbreaking romance subgenre, “Romance for Real Life,” has gained thousands of fans and followers who are interested less in the “HEA” and more in the “WHA” (“What Happens After?”)
Her beer blog a2beerwench.com is nationally recognized for its insider yet outsider views on the craft beer industry. Her books are set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries, on the soccer pitch and in high-powered real estate offices. Don’t ask her for anything “like” a Budweiser or risk painful injury.
Links
www.facebook.com/lizcroweauthor
www.facebook.com/romanceforreallife
www.facebook.com/jackgordonrealtor
This sounds like such a good book, I can’t wait to read it!
Now that excerpt has me hooked! I want to know more.
Thank you for hosting.
Ohhh a different excerpt! I totally need to read this book! So glad I found this book, this blog and the Hop!
Nice cover and excerpt.
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I love that your settings are unique! I’d love to try brewing, but the GOOD EATS episode made it look so complicated that I got scared off…
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Welcome to the blog Liz. I hope you have a good time during your visit today. We have a normally chatty group here, and of course I will be in and out during the day to ask questions and stir things up.
I’ve been reading a lot on Facebook about your realty series. Why do you think it is getting so much attention? What is it about that story that you think draws people to it?
What about Paradise Hops? What do you think draws people to the story and makes them recommend it to their friends?
Denise, above, said it is a powerful story. What do you think contributes most to the power of the story?
I remember my grandfather making his own beer. The book sounds interesting.
No one in my family has ever made their own beer. We did try making our own root beer once when I was a kid. It didn’t work out so well…the corked bottles of root beer were too close to a heat source and popped their corks and spewed root beer all over the room.
I’ve always found beer making and wine making fascinating.
How did you get into it Liz? Is it a family business?
Sounds like a great read.
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Such a powerful story!
that’s ok Mary, I read about stuff I don’t necessarily “like” all the time. And it’s probably because you haven’t been in MY brewery. Hope you get a chance to read the book. It’s a Kindle best seller already!
I’m going to upset you Liz, but I really don’t like beer. Maybe I have just not found the right brew yet.
Interesting to read about though.
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I’m not a beer drinker either but I do find how it is made and the world of making it interesting.
There was a documentary sometime back (like years back) where they talked about smaller label beers and what they had to do to compete with the larger beer companies. I found it quite interesting.
But…beer making is just the world the story is set in. It’s not THE STORY. I’m guessing the characters create the story.
What can you tell us about the characters that is not in the blurb…or what can you elaborate on that is in the blurb but which you couldn’t give as much space to in the blurb as you would have liked?