Good morning! Please welcome guest blogger Kristen Beairsto. Though I will be away for most of the day, please feel free to leave comments for Kristen and I will post them as soon as I return. Thank you!
~Kate
Where would you go on your dream vacation?
Oh, wow, this is a tough one, but today, I think my dream vacation would be a fully stocked beach house with the closest neighbor miles away and miles of empty beach all for me with a ginormous library. . . and I guess I’ll let my husband and kids come along.
Name three fictional characters (not your own) that you find hot. They can be from books, movies, or TV.
Number one would have to be Mr. Darcy, both the one I created in my mind when I first read it in high school and the Colin Firth version. Next would be Chris Hemsworth as Thor. And last, but not least, Channing Tatum’s character in Magic Mike. 😉
If you could be any kind of shapeshifter, what kind would you be?
Probably a hawk of some kind, it’d be awesome to be able to fly.
What is your favorite season?
Fall — the color changes in the landscape, and the promise of the holidays — makes me smile J
What book are you currently reading?
Rumpel’s Prize by Marie Hall
What is the last movie you watched?
The Dallas Buyers Club — it was pretty good. I have to say, very weird though to see Matthew McConaughey so thin.
Bio:
In between her to-be-read pile and trying to bring the characters in her head alive, Kristen spends as much time as she can with family and friends. Much to her husband’s dismay, she enjoys collecting purses, shoes, and jewelry. During those rare times she’s not working at her day job, rushing her daughters somewhere, watching movies with her husband, and trying to meet a deadline, she can usually be found energetically cheering for one of her favorite New York sports teams.
As with just about every other writer on the planet, Kristen grew up an avid reader. She started with young adult before she technically hit the age range and moved on to sci-fi classics by Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury. At fifteen, her best friend gave her a book she just had to read! The book was Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts. Always a sucker for a happy ending, she was a goner and fell in love with the romance genre. Having started writing novel length stories at the age of eleven, Kristen’s stories all took a romantic turn from that point on.
You can connect with Kristen through her website www.KristenBeairsto.com, Facebook www.facebook.com/AuthorKristenBeairsto, or Twitter www.twitter.com/AuthorKBeairsto.
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Blurb for Behaving Badly:
Delaney Pierce is desperate, no, determined, to rebuild the family business, Manners Matter, after the disaster her own mother brought down on it, and her, a year ago. With two crazy aunts living life moving from one misadventure to the next and her younger sister waitressing to help make ends meet because Manners isn’t bringing in enough money to sustain them, she pins her hopes on her commission to curb the undesirable habits of Cyrus Chapman, one of New York’s premier businessmen and one of the city’s most eligible bachelors.
Cyrus Chapman is less than thrilled to find out his father hired a life coach (whatever the hell a life coach does) of all things to help him cease the behaviors his father finds unfavorable rather than just discussing the manner with him. He’s not really surprised by his father’s heavy handedness, however he isn’t about to comply that easily. But when his father threatens him with his future position as CEO of Chapman Industries, Cyrus has little choice but to agree to the farce. At least, until he can come up with an alternative.
Delaney’s resolve to succeed with Cyrus is immediately put to the test during her very first meeting with him and she realizes that no matter how much she prepared for all that was Cyrus, it all paled in comparison to the real man. She believes they come to an understanding, even going so far as to agree to act like his girlfriend to hide their arrangement from the press. But when her reputation, along her mother’s antics, get rehashed and dragged through the mud by the press less than twenty-four hours after being hired because of Cyrus’s actions, she’s rethinking her ability to handle the situation.
When his new life coach aptly puts him in his place, Cyrus finds himself in the unfamiliar position of feeling guilty. And intrigued. Before long, he also finds himself in the unaccustomed position of fighting for more than just a professional relationship with Delaney while she tries to keep him at arm’s length.
But Delaney can’t entertain the idea of having more than a professional relationship with Cyrus. After all, that’s something her mother would do and she’s not about to start emulating that woman now. However, fighting her attraction to Cyrus becomes harder and harder the more she’s around him and she finds herself wondering if she’s become so wrapped up in trying not to be her mother that she’s forgotten to just to be herself.
Buy Links:
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/behaving-badly-kristen-beairsto/1117655931?ean=2940148939207&itm=1&usri=2940148939207
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/behaving-badly-5
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/386104
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Thanks so much for having me!!!
Thank you for being a guest, Kristen!