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Here at SU (Supernatural Underground!) HQ we love backlist time almost as much as we love seeing each new post go up!
And this post from Karina Cooper had us laughing -- and applauding! -- all over again. Enjoy today's refeature!
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Wish I Could Tell You I'm A Better Guy
~ by Karina Cooper
...love is all around and only real men cry. But all I wanna do is jump your bones; slam dance all night to the music of your moans.
All right. Take a minute, get some tea. Coffee. You know, something wet. Possibly alcoholic. A martini. Let's be classy. Let's be honest. Put on some lipstick and your best serious glasses (although dear gentlemen, you may choose one, if you prefer) and let's have a chat.
I have a confession. And I suspect I'm not the only one ...
..You think of life and love and morals separately. You don't expect a promise to last longer than the words themselves.
The aspect I love the most (about these lines from Fiction Plane's It's a Lie ) is the sheer, unadulterated passion that draws these two together. It's not mired in mystery, or in politics, or in ulterior motives.
I once started writing a book—which, to my everlasting shame, was lost in a hard drive crash—involving a human hero and a Fae-cursed heroine. She wanted nothing to do with him, mostly due to her own issues, but he took one look at her and thought to himself, Sean, buddy, you've got to nail that before you go home.
Was it classy? Nope.
Was it honest? Skippy. Honest to the to the bone.
And because he single-mindedly pursued her, he ended up sucked into a world far beyond his knowledge. But the wanting came first. The acting on that want came before anything else, and I'd be lying if I said that Mairi wasn't more than a little turned on by that attention. He didn't want her magic, or her secrets. Hell, he didn't even know she was anything more than the proprietor of a Bed & Breakfast. He simply... wanted her. And that got his foot in the door, unwitting though it was.
My point, ladies and gentlemen, is such: plot is juicy. Plot makes the world go 'round, it changes people, develops them. Plot is the bread and butter of books. However, I submit that not everything has to do with plot.
Sometimes, two people just desperately want to shag.
Furthermore, I submit that there is something raw, something unparalleled... dare I say it? Something unspoilt about two people who are attracted to one another without the meddling fingers of plot to force the attraction in some way or another.
Plot will have the rest of the book to yo-yo them around.
Give me a man who is honest about his wants. The woman who responds to that raw honesty is bound to find her life changed forever.
... Or waking up the next morning with tangled sheets and a hazy memory of a guy whose name might have been Fred. You know, it can go either way. In romance books, the morning after can be one hell of a start.
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We've only brought you an excerpt today, but there's plenty more goodness in the original post. Just click through to read here.
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