Guest Post and Giveaway Complete Surrender (LaCasse) by Ju Ephraime

Published January 26th, 2014

Description:

Raymond LaCasse had just completed his studies in Paris and was on his way home, to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, little did he know sharing a taxi with a beautiful stranger would change his life in ways he could have never imagined. His couldn’t get the beautiful woman out of his mind, long after she had collected her belongs and left the taxi they’d shared on the way to the airport. Who was this gorgeous woman? He wish the drive had been longer, so he could have spent a longer time in her company. He’d get his wish, but not in the way he’d imagined.

Gabrielle Descotte, a model by profession, had agreed to assist her brother in carrying out an illegal feat. She loved her brother dearly and would do anything for him, but when she met his intended target, Raymond LaCasse, she swiftly had a change of heart. She now had to choose, her brother or the man who occupies her every waking moment, to the exclusion of all else.

Divided by loyalties and bound by a desire that drives them into each other’s arms, Raymond and Gabrielle find themselves in a convoluted web of deceit and danger that almost destroy their new-found love and tear them apart….

GUEST POST

I sure most of you reading this post or following on this blog are not aware that the book I am launching with this tour is my NaNo novel, which I wrote in less than 30 days. I enjoy taking part in NaNo. This would be my fourth one and every time it’s over, I say, “I’m not doing this next year,” but by the time next November rolls along, I seem to have forgotten the pressure of NaNo, and like an addict, I jump right back in. 

Last year and the year before, I was able to finish two stories in November, a full novel, Complete Surrender, and a novella, Footsteps in the Sand. After finishing the novel, I had a week left, so I said, “why not,” and, Footsteps in the Sand, was the result. As usual, I’ve made a promise to myself, this year I will not be taking part in NaNo, but then again, November is not yet here. 

Now you are probable wondering how I‘m able to complete not one but two manuscripts in a month. Here’s the process I follow: I pick my title, once I have the title, I begin to write. I set myself a schedule of 2000 words a day. Once I sit down at the computer, I don’t stop until I have typed 2000 words. If by some miracle, I find myself on a roll and I’m able to type more than 2000 words, then I take advantage of that. The next day I don’t cut myself any slack, I still keep to my goal of 2000 words, regardless of the fact that I may have typed a couple hundred more the day before. 

To maintain my schedule, I take my computer everywhere, to the hair salon, on long drives, especially if my husband is driving, to the doctor’s office. I take it anywhere I would be sitting for any length of time, doing nothing. During my marathon typing spree, I type and don’t stop to fix anything. When I’m done, I go clean it up a bit. Then I give it to my daughter to do some more cleaning up, then I give it my beta reader, I only have one, finally it goes to my editor. 

Phew, now I sit back and wait because that’s when the real work begins. Sometimes I have to go over three full edits before my editor gives me the green light. Once I get the green light, then I’m on a roll. That’s it in a nutshell.

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About the author:

Ju Ephraime began writing professionally at the age of 19, but her love of romantic literature developed when she was a teenager, where she often found herself dallying with her own tales of love and romance. 

Two decades later, Ju decided to write novels for women who enjoy a quick spicy-themed read that includes pure pleasure and escape from the real world. With nine romantic novels to her credit, Ju admits her books are part fact, part imagination – but only she knows what’s what. After writing Temptation to Sin, her fans didn’t want to let go of Jayden’s character, so she wrote a sequel to his story – and Against All Odds was effortlessly created in Ju’s mind. Without spoiling the tale for her fans, she firmly believes her readers will enjoy the twists and turns that Jayden and his new love Genna deal with to achieve insatiable undying love. Ju lives in Connecticut with her husband, who blushingly reads every loving tale that she publishes. 

She has now released her third in her LaCasse series, Complete Surrender. Set in the beautiful French Caribbean of Martinique, the story of Raymond Lacasse and Gabrielle Descotte sizzles with a level of heat that only the French is reportedly able to achieve. Check it out for yourself, and then you decide.

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