New
Release!
Getaway
Girl
By
LisabetSarai
MF
Contemporary erotic romance – mild bondage
Five
flames
13,500
words, 55 pages
Smashwords
and Amazon KDP
ISBN
(Smashwords): 9798224981939
ASIN:
B0D2WM4BXR
Hashtags/Keywords
#Instalove
#EroticRomance #Yorkshire #DubCon #Abduction #Bondage #Burglary
#EroticFantasy #Hostage #VikingHoard
Be
careful what you wish for
All
Peg wants is a break, a bit of adventure, a relief from her mundane
existence in the bucolic but boring Yorkshire hamlet of Kirkby
Malzeard. When dashing, sophisticated journalist Lionel Hayes
saunters into the pub where she's tending bar, Peg suspects that he
was just the sort of man to fulfill her fantasies of escape.
The
seductive Lionel, however, is not what he seems. Before she knows it,
Peg is a hostage, roped and gagged, speeding away from the scene of a
daring crime. Lionel is armed and dangerous, but somehow Peg still
wants him –
regardless of the consequences.
Note:
This book was originally published in 2015 by Totally Bound. This
second edition has been substantially revised and has a new ending.
Excerpt
Peg
sighed and wiped the rag across the bar for the hundredth time. It
was a quiet night at the King’s Arms. Most of the village was off
at the town pitch cheering the match against Hazelton Grange. They’d
come in later, quarrelsome and thirsty, and then she’d have plenty
to do, but right now, the pub was empty.
She
put her favourite Madonna CD on the player and turned to polish the
rows of glasses yet again. Henry was adamant; she had to look busy.
She couldn’t read, or watch the telly. Even when there were no
customers to serve, the barmaid had to be ready and available. He
checked up on her from time to time, so she didn’t dare disobey,
though tonight he was probably watching football like everyone else.
“Last
night I dreamed of San Pedro…” Peg loved this song, the Latin
rhythm and the descriptions of a tropical paradise. How she dreamed
of getting away herself, to some place beautiful and exotic, full of
white sands, turquoise waters and bronzed men with smouldering dark
eyes. With its stone church and medieval market square, Kirkby
Malzeard was a lovely village, a picturesque historic jewel set among
the rolling emerald fields of North Yorkshire. Ultimately however, it
was boring.
She
had grown up here. She knew every soul in town, every family drama,
every scandal –not that a village this size had many scandals, of
course. As the barmaid in the town’s only pub, she was up on the
latest news: who was pregnant, who was ill, who was planning to leave
for greener pastures in the city, or abroad.
If
only she could escape, just for a few weeks, even a few days… She
had managed to get away, once. She’d gone to university in London,
where she’d studied commercial art and dreamed of a career in
advertising. The accident ended all that. She’d rushed back to
Kirkby Malzeard for the funeral, and to take care of her sister Jen.
It
had been a rough three years, but surely things would get better
soon. Jen was fifteen now. It wouldn’t be long before she was ready
for college herself. Then perhaps Peg would be free to follow her
muse again.
Never
Stop Learning
My
bio says that I’ve been writing all my life, and that’s pretty
much true. I was penning stories and poems when I was in early
elementary school. By high school, I’d branched out to novels and
plays. Though I’ve also done drawing and painting, sculpture and
dance, words have always been my preferred instrument for creation.
And to be honest, I grew up believing that I had significant writing
talent.
The
more I write, though, the more I realize how much I still have to
learn.
Total-E-Bound,
an English indie publisher focused on erotic romance, brought out the
first edition of Getaway
Girl way
back in 2008. This was only my third or fourth tale written
specifically for a romance audience. At that time, I knew almost
nothing about the genre and its conventions. (Until I signed with
TEB, I’d considered myself an author of erotica.) I spent quite a
bit of time reading the work of my fellow TEB authors, trying to
grasp the essence of this new category of fiction and to translate
that into my own stories. My editors also did not hesitate to point
out areas where common aspects of erotica just wouldn’t work for
romance readers.
By
2008 I’d concluded that in every romance: 1) there had to be a
sense of inevitability to the connection between the hero and
heroine, an attraction that might seem to make no sense but which
could not be denied; 2) the couple had to at least discuss
commitment; 3) the sex (this was erotic romance after all) had to be
more than just casual – there should be a sense of fitting or
rightness, a connection that transcended the physical.
I
tried to implement these conclusions in writing of Getaway
Girl.
The story was accepted and published, but was never particularly
popular. I went on to write a lot more romance, getting better at it
over time.
Last
year I reclaimed the rights to the story so that I could self-publish
it, and a few months ago I set myself the task of re-editing the
piece in preparation. I really hadn’t looked at it for more than a
decade.
I
was appalled by how clumsy and stereotyped it seemed.
Inconsistencies
in character and in plot were only part of the problem. There were
also long passages of purple prose, most especially in the sex
scenes. I posted the tale in my critique group and discovered there
were also plentiful anachronisms and inaccuracies related to its
historical period (contemporary) and British setting. (The story was
originally targeted for an anthology entitled Bound
Brits,
so it had to take place in the U.K.)
I
subjected the story to possibly the most thorough revision I’ve
ever done on any of my work. I won’t say that it’s
unrecognizable, but I probably modified at least 25% of the text. In
the fourteen years since the first revision I’ve learned a lot,
both about romance and about writing in general. Practice does make
perfect; I’ve published nearly one hundred titles since that early
attempt, both romance and erotica. This second edition of Getaway
Girl
is orders of magnitude better than the original.
But
maybe I shouldn’t use the word “perfect”, because in truth, as
long as we authors are writing, we are learning all the time. I’m
about to revisit my first novel, preparing an expanded twenty-fifth
anniversary edition for release sometime this year. This will be the
fifth version of Raw
Silk.
I have no doubt it will be the best.
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About
Lisabet
Lisabet
Sarai
became
addicted
to
words
at
an
early
age.
She
began
reading
when
she
was
four.
She
wrote
her
first
story
at
five
years
old
and
her
first
poem
at
seven.
Since
then,
she
has
written
plays,
tutorials,
scholarly
articles,
marketing
brochures,
software
specifications,
self-help
books,
press
releases,
a
five-hundred
page
dissertation,
and
lots
of
erotica
and
erotic
romance
– over one
hundred
titles,
and
counting,
in
nearly
every
sub-genre—paranormal,
scifi,
ménage,
BDSM,
LGBTQ,
and
more.
Regardless
of
the
genre,
every
one
of
her
stories
illustrates
her
motto:
Imagination
is
the
ultimate
aphrodisiac.
You’ll
find
information
and
excerpts
from
all
Lisabet’s
books
on
her
website
(http://www.lisabetsarai.com/books.html),
along
with
more
than
fifty
free
stories
and
lots
more.
At
her
blog
Beyond
Romance
(http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com),
she
shares
her
philosophy
and
her
news
and
hosts
lots
of
other
great
authors.
She’s
also
on
Goodreads,
BookBub
and Twitter.
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