Sara Edmonds | My Favorite Hero--The Bad Boy

I have been spending a lot of time re-reading some of my favorite authors. And while I was re-reading and book swapping with friends, I came across an old Tami Hoag I had not read. After I got over the shock, and started reading, the heroine Genna made a great point. Why do women always go for the bad boy?

In The Trouble With J.J., Genna doesn’t want to be attracted to Jared because she thinks he is. . . well. . . crazy. He is brash, wears weird clothes, has an earring, plays football for a living, and somehow has a love of plastic flamingos. What Genna wants is a stable, normal- corn flakes for breakfast, come home every day at five o’clock- kind of guy. Well this was a Bantam romance by Tami, so we know she goes for a walk on the wild side and takes a chance after all. But it got me thinking- what is up with my love affair of the bad boy.

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Monica McCarty | With a little help from THE DA VINCI CODE

A big thank you to everyone at Fresh Fiction for inviting me here today to celebrate the release of HIGHLAND WARRIOR, the first book in my new back-to-to back trilogy, featuring the “bad boys” of the Highlands, Clan Campbell. Back-to-back means you won’t have to wait long to find out “what’s next?” HIGHLAND OUTLAW comes out at the end of this month and HIGHLAND SCOUNDREL at the end of March.

Like my first trilogy, featuring Clan MacLeod, you’ll find plenty of sexy Alpha heroes and “ripped from the headlines” history, bringing to life actual people and events with a sensual fictional twist.

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Cathie Linz | The Appeal of the wild bad boy hero

What is it about wild bad boys that is so appealing? One multi-published author friend of mine told me early on in my career that if a hero is perfect then the heroine is pretty dense not to fall for him right away. But bad boys are always tempting good girl heroines to cross over to their wicked side of the street. They create the conflict and sparks of opposites attracting.

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Hope Tarr | The One Who Got Away...

We all have one, which is to say a “The One.” You know what or rather who I mean. The O-N-E. Maybe he was your first love or your first big love. Maybe he was both. Maybe you broke up with him--but I’m betting my next book advance he broke up with you. Maybe you never really had him in the first place...but again, I’m betting you did. At least long enough for a part of him to sink into your psyche and your soul. Like that tattoo you rethink years later, you can obliterate the image but not the experience. That shiny white scar is yours--for keeps.

Only by definition The One Who Got Away isn't a keeper, or at least he hasn’t been so far. And yet who among us hasn't been moved by those real-life stories of high school sweethearts who find each other on ClassMates.com or reunion night after years, decades apart and fall in love all over again, even marry, in mid- and sometimes late life?

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In EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE…, my latest Harlequin Blaze release, former FBI Special Agent Cole Whittaker and microbiologist Alexandra--Alex--Kendall meet again after five painful years apart. Like so many real life reunions, theirs is completely unexpected, the circumstances far from ideal. Alex is about to marry another man, the man who's hired Cole as a bodyguard to escort her on her upcoming overseas business trip to Belize. Crazy in love with her, Cole still can't envision his life having room in it for more than The Job. And yet they have a chance, a slim one, to get it right this time: four days of 24/7, up close-and-personal togetherness in steamy Belize.

What about you? Do you have a One Who Got Away? I'll be checking in throughout the day, and I'd love to hear your story...especially if He didn't stay away forever.

Hope
Hope Tarr is the award-winning author of a dozen (or so) contemporary and historical romance fiction novels, including Every Breath You Take… To enter her monthly and special contests or to check out her blog, visit her online at www.hopetarr.com.

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Michelle Maddox | Bad Boys

I'm not sure what it is about bad boys that make them such great characters. In real life, the bad boys - at least to the extent they're shown in fiction - wouldn't make such wonderful boyfriends or husbands. But in the imaginary worlds of novels, they're just what the reader (or writer) ordered!

I remember reading on somebody's blog a very important sentence that changed everything for me, and it was something along the lines of "books are fantasies." I'm not sure why that clicked for me, or why I hadn't made the complete connection before, but it made everything very clear. We might not want the hardened criminal with a heart of gold, the devastatingly handsome demon, or the world-weary master vampire in real life. But we might want him in our fantasies. He represents adventure, excitement, and intrigue - and let's face it, most people don't have much of that in real life. Nor, if we were suddenly given the chance, would we want it!

But in the safety of our imaginations, a rip-roaring adventure with the baddest of bad boys, is exactly what works.

In my Michelle Maddox release, COUNTDOWN, my characters are forced to play a reality gameshow where their lives are at stake. My heroine finds herself paired with a major bad boy - a convicted mass murderer. You can't get much worse than that. However, she starts to think there might be more to the story. Is he really as bad as she's told? Did he even commit the crimes he's served four years for before being released to compete in the game? After all, if he's so bad, why is he trying to protect her?

Food for thought for my heroine as she embarks on the adventure of her life - for her life.

And, after all, this is a romance novel.

COUNTDOWN was loads of fun to write from my very safe desk in my very safe home. ;-) Check out the first chapter on my website.

Happy reading!

Michelle Maddox

aka: Michelle Rowen

www.michellemaddox.com/

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