What’s your one line pitch or teaser for the book?
Awaken to a world she can’t remember. Taken by the sexy savages she almost killed.
Tell readers a little about your main character or characters?
I always think of Smoke as a gender-reversed Jason Bourn. She's tough when she needs to be, but she's also vulnerable around those she loves. She'll bend over backwards for her friends, but she fights back if someone pisses her off. She thinks she's an agent who works for a secret organization that takes down corrupt officials, getting justice in a world where justice doesn't exist. She remembers growing up in an MC, but her memory is full of holes, and half of what she thinks she knows is wrong. If there's one thing Smoke wants more than anything, it's to be more than the slaves, Ol' Ladies, or club whores the MC world expects women to be. When she kills a biker using skills she shouldn't have, she realizes there's a lot more to her than she thought.
Where do you like to write? Do you have an office or writing nook?
I have a writing nook that takes up half the house. The house is tiny and the hubs is very good at letting me take over.
What is one of your best marketing tips for other authors?
Do everything you can to get your name out there. They used to say that if you write a good story, the readers will come, but that hasn't been true for a long time. It's not that simple anymore. If people don't know who you are, no one will see the books you write. Let them get to know you. If they like you, and then you give them a good story, they will read it.
What websites or tools have you found that offer the best results?
If you mean as a writer, I read a lot of books on how to write. Writing The Breakout Novel by Donald Mass, Save the Cat by Blake Snider, and On Writing by Steven King all come to mind. If you mean as a marketer, my PAs are a godsend. if you can afford one, get one. Yes, I'm a lazy ass. LOL
Any advice for aspiring writers?
Writing is like anything else. You have to know the craft. Read everything you can on how to write. Watch the hundreds of videos online on writing good books. Pick a genre, get to know it inside and out, and then write the heck out of it. Make your characters feel like real, living, breathing people. If you write sex, make it hot AF. If you write fight scenes, do your research. Watch karate to tournaments and then write what you see. If I had known all the stuff I learned from books, blogs and videos when I first started out, I would have saved myself a lot of time and heartache.
The Monarch Series
Book One
Raven Dark and Jenna Stirling
Genre: Dark Dystopian, Why Choose MC Romance
Publisher: Raven Dark
Date of Publication: April 23, 2023
ASIN: B0C3CYFH5B
Number of pages: 348
Word Count: 106,428 words
Cover Artist: Raven Dark
Tagline: This world is full of deadly beasts. And I might be worse than any of them…
Book Description:
This world is full of deadly beasts. And I might be worse than any of them…
I remember life before the solar flare destroyed society. And I remember pieces of the dystopian hellscape that followed.
But my memories are fractured. Full of holes and inconsistencies.
How I managed to slit the throat of a biker twice my size is a complete mystery.
But I did. Easily and without thought.
Now, the dead man’s four ruthless MC brothers want me as their captive plaything in the bedroom, and their assassin in the outside world.
I should hate them. Fear them. But I don’t.
My attraction to these sexy savages is as inexplicable as my nagging feeling that something—or someone—is coming for me.
All I can do now is hope the sleeping beast inside me is ready to kill when I need it…and that the brutal men I’m falling for don’t get caught in the crossfire.
“Forged in Lies, book 1 in the Monarch series, is a dark, post-apocalypse why choose romance featuring a strong heroine, and the merciless alpha males who love her. (Think The Handmaid’s Tale meets Sons of Anarchy, mixed with a dash of Firefly, but with more happy endings and spicy times.) Download today and hope your e-reader doesn’t go up in smoke.
***WARNING***This book contains sexual situations and dark scenes that may upset some readers. If you have triggers, please do not buy this book. Cliff-hanger ahead. HEA at end of series.
Excerpt 2:
Havoc
My cock’s
still hard as a rock when I thump down the steps toward Brute’s infirmary. As I
reach the door to the basement, it flies open, almost hitting me in the face.
“Watch
where you’re going, fucker,” Sage snaps. He shoots me an irritated look before
stomping up the steps.
I glance
back at him. Professor’s in a fuckin’ mood. I growl under my breath. For a
genius, he can be really stupid sometimes. He’s supposed to be watching her.
Shaking my
head, I walk into the infirmary and halt. Venom’s standing at the foot of the
bed, staring down at our captive. She’s cuffed hand and foot to the bedrails.
Venom’s pulled her ass forward so her knees are bent. My fists clench. He’s
idly running his hand over her bare stomach.
“Thought
you said no one was supposed to touch her, Keep.” The disrespect slips out.
He jerks
as if I caught him off guard. I like that I startled him.
“My house,
my rules.” He doesn’t take his eyes off her. My jaw tightens as he slides his
hand down to her pussy. “She’s fuckin’ beautiful,” he muses, not seeming to
realize he’s spoken. “Like an angel.”
Her eyes
are still closed, and she doesn’t move. I drink in her naked body, long limbs
immobilized. My cock’s hard to the point of distraction.
Venom
strokes her pussy as if it’s his. Fuck that, she’s mine. Mine.
Shit,
women are a dime a dozen to me, but I hate the thought of anyone’s hands on
her. His being my fuckin’ Keeper’s all that’s preventing me from throwing him
through a wall into next week.
“You want
her, Havoc?” Eyes on her, he slips one finger into her cunt. She still doesn’t
move.
“Actually,
I wanna snap your neck,” I say.
He grins.
“I know you want her, and I guess I do too. Tired as fuck of fighting it.” He
withdraws his fingers and licks her juices off. “We need her out of our heads.
It’s our job to look after things. We both gotta have clear heads to lead the
club outta this mess.”
I grunt in
acknowledgment. He’s right. This possessive shit’s making me want to shove my
cock down her throat until she chokes.
“She needs
to be fucked,” Venom rasps. “I wanna see you give her what she deserves.”
Shit,
yeah.
Before,
the idea of letting anyone touch her rankled, but now everything in me’s
telling me to share her. She isn’t only mine. She’s ours. It just feels… right.
Like something in me is choosing him.
Choosing
him for her.
I cross
the room to them. Venom makes room for me, moving to her head. I step into the
spot between her legs, looking her over. She’s toned without being bulky. Even
in repose, there’s a certain grace to her body. Hard and soft all at the same
time, built for battle. And fucking.
I tweak
her nipple and smirk at him. “Think it’s time to wake her up, Keep.”
His smile
widens. Then he bends down and lays one right on her lips.
She
thrashes awake, arms and legs tugging hard on the cuffs as if she’s being
waterboarded.
This is gonna be fun.
As a young girl Raven Dark dreamed of being abducted by a savage alien warrior, whisked away by a brutal pirate, or rescued by a cape-bearing hero. When none of these men came to claim her, she brought them to life in her stories. Then twelve years ago she met the man of her dreams. He doesn't wear a cape, fly a spaceship, or wield a sword, but sometimes she swears they've mind melded.
Raven lives with her dream man and their one cat that thinks she's a dog in the Mundane world's version of Ontario, Canada. When she isn't working on her latest erotic romance novels and crafting interesting worlds in which to set them, she's spending too much time with friends, feeding her Youtube addiction, or curled up on a couch watching favorite shows with her future husband.
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