Adult Contemporary
Rockstar Romance
Release: January 28,
2015
“You have the ability to make controversial characters
sympathetic. Maybe I just want to be understood.”
Acclaimed
literary biographer Elizabeth Winston writes about long-dead heroes. So bad boy
rock icon Zander Freedman couldn’t possibly tempt her to write his memoir.
Except the man is a mass of fascinating contradictions - manipulative, honest,
gifted, charismatic, morally ambiguous.
In
short, everything she sought in a biography subject. When in her life will she
get another chance to work with a living legend? But saying yes to one
temptation soon leads to another.
Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living...
Zander
Freedman has been an outlier - many would say an outcast – for most of his
life. But there’s no disaster he can’t overcome, from the break-up of his band
to the fall-out on his reputation. His Resurrection Tour is shaping up to be his
greatest triumph - if his golden voice holds out. Contracting a respected
biographer is simply about creating more buzz; Elizabeth's integrity the key to
consolidating his legacy as one of rock’s greats.
All
the damn woman has to do is write down what he tells her. Not make him think.
Or
encourage the good guy struggling to get out. And certainly not to fall in love
for the first time in his life.
Turns
out he is scared of something - being known.
Rise - a redemption story of a rock star going
straight(er) through the love of a good(ish) woman.
Why are
rock stars so popular with readers?
By
Karina Bliss
Oh sure, they’re sexy, rich and famous but so are a lot of other
fictional romance heroes. Here are four traits that distinguish rock stars from
other bad-boy heroes:
1. They’re musically gifted, which means they’re creative, playful,
pre-disposed to sensitivity and have a sense of rhythm. Useful to our heroine
in all sorts of ways...
2. They don’t have to be alphas. The band dynamics throw up
opportunities to write the artistically-sensitive beta. Not every hero has to
be a showman, (though the hero of Rise, Zander Freedman, definitely
is!). But because of their musical temperament, even the alpha rockers are more
emotionally expressive than other hero types like your warrior or chief.
3. They’re unobtainable. Every woman wants them but only one – the
heroine – can win their heart.
4. They’re born rebels. Musicians are genetically pre-disposed to being
self-determining, stubborn and interesting individuals because they choose the
road less traveled.
Do you agree or do you believe rock stars are the self-indulgent,
depraved egotists my heroine expects Zander to be? Enter the Release
Giveaway and go into the draw for an e-book of Rise.
New
Zealander Karina Bliss’s debut, Mr Imperfect, won a Romantic
Book of the Year award in Australia, the first of eleven books
published through Harlequin SuperRomance. Her most recent release, A
Prior Engagement, was a Desert Island Keeper at likesbooks.com. Her next
release, Rise, is a single title, self-published contemporary which
continues the story of Zander Freedman, who first appeared as a villain
inKarina’s bestselling title, What the Librarian Did – a book
that made DearAuthor’s Best of the Year list in 2010.Two
of Karina’s books have also featured in Sizzling Book Chats at SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.
Find
out more at www.karinabliss.com
Hot, famous and rich, perhaps? Also usually VERY unattainable. Thanks!
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