My Sexy Woman ~ @oddlynn3 #LynnCrain #MySexySaturday #Saturday7 #MSSAuthors #MSS101

Welcome to week 101^st week of My Sexy Saturday. This week’s theme is My Sexy Woman. I have lots of stories with very sexy women but this week will be short and sweet as I want to introduce you to someone new.  

A couple reminders first: Don’t forget, my blog is always hopping with Monday’s Austria Scoop where I talk about Austria and Tuesday’s My So-Called Writing Live where I talk writing and life. Both can be incredibly boring or incredibly exciting. Some weeks it’s a little bit of both. They’re both right on schedule this week as I talk about my latest adventures.

Today’s story is one that is part of my MacKenzie Clan series. I shared the first book with you last week and should be working on book 2. However, something miraculous happened and while I was in Munich, I saw perfectly the first scene of book 3. Never one to miss an opportunity, I quickly wrote it down and am going to share with you an unedited seven sentences that I feel shares a little about the sexy woman in this story.

The story is tentatively titled Protecting a Scottish Lass, and is the third book in my MacKenzie Clan series. Here’s the setup:

Whisky connoisseur, Isabel MacKenzie, is living her dream of being in charge of the family distillery. Even though there has been an incidence of some whisky being tainted, she feels there is no need for her brother’s intervention. However, the government wants answers and requests they investigate to make sure there is nothing wrong with their whisky making process.

Daniel Carbeareaux is happy to do anything for his boss and gladly takes on the investigative task to discern if the MacKenzie’s have any culpability in the whisky tainting problem.

Sparks fly but both are determined to get to the bottom of the incident. Soon, they find themselves falling in love yet don’t know if that love can last when the investigation is over.

Here’s my seven sexy sentences from Protecting a Scottish Lass:

Still his eyes perused the small pub, eventually noticing me. His smile was instantaneous and I understood he was by far the most handsome and beautiful man I’d ever laid eyes on.

Grabbing my beer, I jumped down and stalked toward him. At least, I hoped that’s what I appeared to be doing. It took me no more than a minute to be standing next to him. His cologne reached my nose – tangy with a hint of sizzle.

“Hi.”

I love writing about Scotland and have many more stories to develop using it as a backdrop. I hope you all will love these stories as they continue to grow. I know that I love writing them.

                                                                                                                                                     

Again, my traditional ePublisher, eXtasy Books, is still having a sale on some of my books at their website. Right now, you can pick up any of the books listed below for just $0.99. If you’ve never read any of my stories, now’s the time to get them at a great discount and see if I write stories you might like. Pick up your copies today!

The Thing About Elves ~ Book 2 in the Santa’s Elves series

The Haunting of Maggie Grey ~ Award-winning Scottish Historical about a woman doctor

Iain and Kelsey ~ Story about a woman’s darkest fantasy

Fluke ~ Book 1 of the Orchid series, sci-fi romance

An Elf’s Desire ~ Book 3 in the Santa’s Elves series

A Love for Eggther ~ Book 3.5 in the Santa’s Elves series

Shopping Spree ~ Story about a very special dress shop

Please visit all the great authors at the My Sexy Saturday weekly blog hop listed below. Their sexy snippets will keep you coming back week after week. If you do, please share via Facebook or Twitter. It helps out a lot and every author appreciates it each and every time. If you’d like to do them all at once, search for the #hashtag #MySexySaturday or #MSSAuthors to get all tweets of the day then retweet them to your heart’s content. You can even search by the #hashtags on Facebook and share the posts there as well. Remember, we love each and every one of you!

See you all next week!

Lynn 

My So-Called Writing Life ~ @oddlynn3 #LynnCrain #amwriting #amreading

I’m in synopsis hell and have decided without a doubt that I hate writing them. Those little outline type pages that is supposed to divulge everything about your story within a couple thousand words. I suck at them. Sure, I can write something down about each chapter but I have never, ever done them successfully in my mind. They always seem lacking something.

Take today for example. I send my final synopsis to my critique group as I’m about to send the whole packet to my agent. This is the book of my heart and is something I’ve slaved over for years it seems like. In reality, I wrote it very fast and it just took years to edit to my satisfaction. It is the one story I have always felt is my breakout story if I ever had one. And when I did finally decide to start shopping it around, I have a couple of years of personal things that make me keep moving it to the back burner because I didn’t want to ruin it.

Frankly, I’m beginning to think that all those years of classes didn’t account for much because at this moment, I feel very, very stupid. And I shouldn’t. Synopses are hard for everyone. One of my problems is that this is part of a series. Book 1 and its synopsis is complete or so I thought. I just got back the crits and boy, I feel down yet somehow relieved. I knew it needed work and now I see just how much. Ugh. Yet all are simple fixes with a line here, a delete there.

Do all writers feel this way sometimes? Do they wonder why they write when they can’t get the story idea down in a synopsis correctly? I swear I have been studying this for years but looking at this…I am sure I missed the boat. More than one boat matter of fact.

So let’s look at the anatomy of a synopsis. Again, there are definitely some things that a synopsis needs and doesn’t need to do.

·        It needs to cover the big parts of a story and not the little details. Matter of fact, little details can bog it down to the point of it not being a great selling tool for your novel.

·        It needs to be written in third person, present tense.

·        It is the one time where telling the story is important but does not need to be a blow by blow detail oriented summary of every aspect of your book.

·        It needs to introduce all your characters, their main conflict as well as their emotional story arc.

·        There are no cliffhangers allowed as it tells of your plot twists and the ending. It’s point is to show that you have strategicly layered your story and that it sticks together the way it should.

           

            Sounds simple right? Ha! Do not fool yourself as this can be just as hard as it was to complete the book. When writing these things I had to have some zen moments and remind myself that I could do this. It isn’t rocket science though there was a moment I certainly thought it was.

            Now, I’m off to finish everything but I’d like to remind you that I am promoting my latest book Night of the Blue Moon…and it’s the last book in the Blue Moon Magic series. It has a few fans already and is slowly getting some sales. You can find a lot of information right here on the blog as well as the series blog at Our Blue Moon World.

And no, I haven’t forgotten that I was going to write an article about ebook pricing, synopses just took center stage. That topic will be covered next week!

Until then…

Lynn