#ManCrushMonday – Jensen Ackles

I have to confess that I only watched the first few seasons of SUPERNATURAL, but I feel your pain at losing your show after so many years. It’s how I felt when Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended. It was so hard to know that there would be no new season to watch. One of the reasons I watched SUPERNATURAL was for hottie Jensen Ackles. He’s just so handsome! I tried to imagine if Jensen could be the hero in any of my books and decided he could definitely play Jase Hart, the military hero in JUST ONE NIGHT, or Jonathan Pierce, the tech guru from WHAT HAPPENS IN SUMMER. If you’re a fan of Jensen, don’t fear! You’ll see him in 2021 playing Soldier Boy on THE BOYS.
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Photo Courtesy of Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

#ManCandyMonday – Jonathan Pierce from What Happens in Summer

It’s snowing in Minnesota and a very wet and cold day in New Jersey. Somehow it doesn’t feel like spring and I keep hoping that summer is on the way! To keep those summer hopes alive, I picture some of the sexy surfer dudes I occasionally see on the beach. They are what inspired Jonathan Pierce from WHAT HAPPENS IN SUMMER. So for today, a little sexy summer dude for Man Candy Monday!
Jonathan Pierce What Happens in Summer

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#WriteWed I am a Total Nerd & What Happens in Summer

I think I’ve mentioned that I’m a lot like the heroine of my upcoming release WHAT HAPPENS IN SUMMER. Like me, Connie is Latina and a lawyer and very career driven. But today I’m going to surprise you and tell you why I’m also a lot like Jonathan Pierce, the sexy surfer dude and nerd who turned into a tech billionaire.

In the first scenes of WHAT HAPPENS IN SUMMER you meet Jonathan and realize that he’s “coasting” through life and bored with school. He’s decided not to return to Villanova (my alma mater and go Cats!). That choice is something that very responsible Connie can’t imagine, especially since going to school for her was a financial hardship and a lifelong dream.

You eventually find out that Jonathan is bored because. . . I don’t want to spoil it for you right now. But suffice it to say that like Jonathan, I was sometimes bored in school, but instead of dropping out, I found more things to do to keep me engaged. I went home and read anything I could get my hands on, oftentimes things well beyond my grade level. I read the encyclopedia. I did the vocabulary tests in the back of the World Book. I was a nerd and very shy. Yes, people laugh when I say that because I’m anything but shy now.

When I wasn’t learning, I was also a jock and a musician which oftentimes confused people and also made it a little hard for me because I fit in a lot of places, but not really since each of those groups couldn’t quite get me.

Which is how Jonathan felt at times, even with Connie. It takes him some time to find his stride and his friends and also, what makes Connie tick and how to handle that because well, he loves handling her if you get what I mean. LOL!

So, that’s the story of my writing inspiration for Jonathan Pierce from What Happens in Summer. You can purchase WHAT HAPPENS IN SUMMER at these retailers:

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Kobo: Coming Soon!

Also, don’t miss out on the special 99 cents pricing on ONE SUMMER NIGHT! You can purchase ONE SUMMER NIGHT at the following retailers:

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Liam Hemsworth #ManCandyMonday #AttheShore Surfer Billionaire

If I had to cast someone to play Owen Pierce, the surfer dude turned tech billionaire from WHAT HAPPENS IN SUMMER, one name comes to mind: Liam Hemsworth. For starters, he’s a surfer and he’s got the look and those eyes. Love the eyes. Of course the rest of him isn’t bad at all either.

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By Kurt Kulac [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

What Happens in Summer Contemporary Romance#2 in the At the Shore Series, WHAT HAPPENS IN SUMMER can be Pre-Ordered here:

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If you haven’t had a chance to read #1 yet, great news! We’ve got special pricing on ONE SUMMER NIGHT and if you’d like, read the first three chapters for free at Radish!

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