Guest Author (+ a Giveaway!) : Barbara Elsborg

I spent years writing my first novel – set in New York and about the mafia – and collected a series of rejections. I wrote a couple more thrillers, realized I was adding more and more romance and finally wrote my first proper romance. Couldn’t get that published either. I joined Critique Circle where writers share their experiences and critique each others work and the site helped me but I still couldn’t convince an agent to take me on, nor a publishing company. This was in the very early days of digital books. I didn’t want to be e-published. I really wanted a traditional publisher. I wanted a paperback with my name on it! I wanted to go into a bookstore and find it on a shelf. Big dreams!

One of my critique partners, Amanda Young, wrote an erotic romance that I read and loved, my first experience of erotic romance, and she had it accepted by an e-publisher. I decided I had a better chance of success if I went with digital books and I followed Amanda’s example. I wrote an erotic romance, sent Perfect Timing to two smaller e-publishers who said no. I tweaked it, sent it to Ellora’s Cave and it was accepted. The acceptance went into my spam – good thing I check it. The big plus for me was that some of my publishers also bring books out in paperback. I can’t quite let that concept go.

That was 2007 and since then, I’ve been accepted by several other publishers including Loose-Id and more recently by Samhain. I wish I’d not waited so long to go the e-route! I wish even more that e-books had been around when I first started to write. I still haven’t achieved my dream of finding any of my books in a bookstore. One day maybe…

Love has never been so close—or seemed so far away.

I love you. Niall is in hiding, but not from the police. He’s trapped between the world he longs for and a place he can’t leave behind. Cursed to hold his tongue, unable to claim what he wants until it’s given, he’s allowed one year to capture his heart’s desire. But speaking those three simple words, the most important words in his life, might very well kill him.

I can’t love you. As a private investigator, Taylor walks daily through the ashes of love burned out. He’s witnessed the aftermath of love—destroyed marriages and wrecked lives that leave behind nothing but bitter memories of betrayal. He’s convinced that love will never plant a seed in his heart—until Niall sparks a completely unexpected reaction in both mind and body.

I want to love you. Roo has spent her entire life bouncing from relationship to relationship, offering her heart only to get it trampled on. When she finds herself out in the cold again, she discovers love can come from the most surprising of places. Her choices are simple. Do the right thing. Do the wrong thing. Do nothing. The wrong choice could be simply devastating…

Product Warnings

Beware faeries with killer tattoos and girls dressed as chickens—broken hearts can follow… Or lots of love. And lots of sex—three-way, two-way, every which way. But no chicken sex. Thank god.

For details of my books please visit –
www.barbaraelsborg.com
www.barbaraelsborg.blogspot.com

Giveaway Alert: Barbara is giving away one copy of World’s Apart to one lucky winner!  Leave a comment on this post, along with your email address, no later than 11:59pm (pacific) on August 17th to enter to win.

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