{"id":42,"date":"2015-06-14T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2015-06-17T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:15:28","slug":"guest-blogger-jean-joachim-good-guy-or-bad-guy-meet-gunther-quill-hollywood-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2015\/06\/14\/guest-blogger-jean-joachim-good-guy-or-bad-guy-meet-gunther-quill-hollywood-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger: Jean Joachim &#8211; GOOD GUY OR BAD GUY? MEET GUNTHER QUILL, HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JeanJLoversLiars.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2015\/06\/14\/guest-blogger-jean-joachim-good-guy-or-bad-guy-meet-gunther-quill-hollywood-producer\/man-putting-on-tuxedo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JeanJLoversLiars.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Man Putting on Tuxedo&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2007, Mike Watson Images Limited.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Man Putting on Tuxedo&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Man Putting on Tuxedo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Man Putting on Tuxedo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JeanJLoversLiars.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JeanJLoversLiars-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Lovers &amp; Liars by Jean C. Joachim\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GOOD GUY OR BAD GUY?<\/p>\n<p>MEET GUNTHER QUILL, HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER<\/p>\n<p>Gunther Quill was a bad guy in book 4 of the Hollywood Hearts series \u2013 <em>Movie Lovers. <\/em>He seduced the heroine with the promise that he would read her movie script. Then he didn\u2019t, even though her sister was a big movie star. Still, he\u2019s Gunther Quill, successful, rich, powerful producer. He doesn\u2019t need anyone.<\/p>\n<p>In book 5 of the series \u2013 <em>Love\u2019s Last Chance, <\/em>he tried to reconnect with his former fianc\u00e9e, Dorrie. \u00a0She was a dancer in the movies who broke her ankle on the stairs of his beach house. She had to give up dancing, so Gunther gave her up. He needed a famous, sought-after fianc\u00e9e and Dorrie no longer fit the bill.<\/p>\n<p>When he saw former boyfriends try to win Dorrie back, Gunther got competitive. He tried to win her back. He made a big effort in book 5 and wouldn\u2019t get out of the way of the hero. I kept telling him to step aside and he just crossed his arms over his impressive chest and shook his head. I warned Dorrie, but when Gunther turns on the charm\u2026well, he\u2019s hard to resist. I took him aside and pleaded with him. Still, no. I asked him what he wanted. He said he wanted his own book. He wanted to be the hero and tell his story. I had to agree or have my book wrecked. Gunther takes no prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>And thus Gunther Quill\u2019s story, <em>LOVERS &amp; LIARS<\/em>, was born<em>. <\/em>\u00a0The secretary he fired for incompetence, Amy, decided to get revenge. She knew how Gunther suspected that everyone he met wanted something. They wanted to further their careers by using him as a stepping stone. He hated that. He hated liars and phonies.<\/p>\n<p>So Amy sent her gorgeous roommate, Erica, a talented actress, to interview for Amy\u2019s old job. Erica was hired. She went in prepared to use Gunther to the hilt to get contacts and launch her movie career.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Gunther didn\u2019t suspect anything. He was the sitting duck, the deer in the headlights. Did Erica get her wish? She did. She hid her ambition and won a coveted audition. Did she get the part? She did.<\/p>\n<p>But Erica didn\u2019t figure on falling in love with Gunther. What would happen if he found out? She shuddered to think.<\/p>\n<p>In LOVERS &amp; LIARS we get a peek into Gunther\u2019s background, the difficulty with his dad, and the tragedy that happened to the woman he loved \u2013both contributed to making Gunther the way he was, a ruthless man intent on winning at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>But Gunther is brought down by one little actress who lives to regret her duplicity as she ends up with the part that will launch her into stardom, but she loses the one man she wanted to share her victory with.<\/p>\n<p>This is a contemporary romance. Of course, there is a happily ever after. But you\u2019ll have to read the book to find out what it is. Is Gunther reformed? Maybe \u2013at least for a little while.<\/p>\n<p><u>A bit about the book <\/u><\/p>\n<p>Erica Wheeler needed a job or face eviction. The aspiring actress harbored a lifelong dream of stardom. Her friend, Amy, plotted revenge on sexy, bad-boy producer, Gunther Quill, put Erica in a plum job. The women bent the truth like a pretzel to get her hired. Would Erica regret her lies when Gunther turned on the heat?<\/p>\n<p>Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lovers-Liars-Hollywood-Hearts-Book-ebook\/dp\/B00GG5AR6A\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lovers-Liars-Hollywood-Hearts-Book-ebook\/dp\/B00GG5AR6A\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BN\u00a0 <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/lovers-liars-jean-c-joachim\/1117322610?ean=2940148876687\">http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/lovers-liars-jean-c-joachim\/1117322610?ean=2940148876687<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>iTunes\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/lovers-liars\/id771364495?mt=11\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/lovers-liars\/id771364495?mt=11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"compbeastsblog\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOOD GUY OR BAD GUY? 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Still, he\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[12,11,13],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-guestposts","tag-contemporary-romance","tag-hollywood-hearts","tag-jean-joachim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kq3e-G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}