Switching Genres
I’ve always loved historical
romance and fantasy. My read and to-read list is loaded with both. It’s all
I’ve written. It’s what I know best.
So, when this 21st
century Boston girl named Lia Risso started whispering in my brain, I went all
googly-eyed. o_O
Seriously? You want ME to tell
your tale?
Italian and headstrong (like me),
she insisted. I bowed down and obeyed. The story that emerged was so different
from what I’d written before, so much…spicier…that I realized a pen name would
be necessary.
Why? Hehehe The extended family
would make more than a few googly-eyes themselves. Can’t be disappointing them
now, can we? Besides, I personally have a hard time when a favorite author of
mine crosses into an opposite genre. It just doesn’t seem…right.
Anyhoo.
Lynn Burke was born, and Evernight Publishing accepted
the first of her, er…my, Risso Family novellas, Susceptible to Him.
Have I enjoyed genre hopping?
Hell yes. I am in LOVE with the Risso family. I think of the four siblings
throughout the day, and even dream about them. You other authors will know
exactly what I mean. *wink*
Do I love one writing one genre
over the other? Nope, but my muse dictates what I’m able to focus on, and I go
with it.
For now, that’s Lia brother,
Cole. Hoping to submit his story within the next week or so.
How ‘bout you? Write more than
one genre? Hate when your favorite author tries to switch?
*****
Susceptible to Him
A Risso Family Novella
Contemporary Romance
by: Lynn Burke
Released: February 10, 2015
Blurb:
Lia Risso
walked in on her fiancé and three other women on Valentine’s Day. Two celibate
years later, her roommate creates a profile for Lia on a dating website—without
her knowledge—and sets up a date. On Valentine’s Day.
Ryan
Walsh, a self-made millionaire and libertine, refuses to commit to any one
woman. Tossed from foster home to foster home as a child, Ryan is on guard
against becoming vulnerable ever again.
One
dinner…one night of dancing and flirting with the attraction between them, puts
both Lia and Ryan in danger of heart break.
They
have a choice—open themselves to the possibility of hurt or walk away, never
knowing what might have been.
Excerpt:
My nerve endings
stirred as the subtle scent of sandalwood wafted across the table time and
again. What man used sandalwood-scented soap anymore? By the cut of his suit
and the Rolex on his wrist, Ryan Walsh had money. And plenty of it. Why no
expensive cologne? The chick-lure nectar of the gods his type bathed in?
He grinned again,
and heat filled the empty place only Mr. Pink had seen or stroked in two years.
Ryan’s attention drifted to my lips and lingered as our waiter took his time
pouring our wine.
I forced myself to
breathe as my treasonous nipples pebbled, begging for attention.
Damnation. I do not want this.
He was too friggin’
sexy for his own good. And by his suggestive grin and the twinkle in his eyes,
he knew it too.
“Are you ready to order, Lia?” Ryan asked, his focus staying on my
face instead of dipping downward like most men’s did.
Praying my voice
didn’t betray my arousal, I turned my attention the waiter. “I’ll have the
shrimp Fra Diavlo.”
“And for you, sir?”
Ryan spouted off a
few words in Italian, never once breaking eye contact with me.
My lips twitched.
Papa would be impressed.
When the waiter
ambled away, a smile—a real smile, not the cocky, you-know-you-want-me ones he
had offered until then—revealed straight, white teeth. “So.”
His low voice
caressed my ears, and I pressed my thighs together. Thank God I hadn’t shaved. No doubt he had little trouble getting women
into his bed. Or their bed. Or against a wall.
Holy shit.
About
Lynn Burke:
Lynn
Burke is a full time mother, voracious gardener, and scribbler of spicy romance
stories. A country bumpkin turned Bay Stater, she enjoys her chowdah and Dunkin
Donuts when not trying to escape the reality of city life.
Her
current work, the Risso Family Novellas, revolves around four siblings from
Boston’s North End.
Website: http://www.authorlynnburke.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorLynnBurke
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