You would think this was an easy question, right? But
really, I equate it to walking into a candy store and having to choose one
thing. Who wants that? Well, okay, I’d so
go for the chocolate covered cherries. But I’d be tempted, really tempted, by a
lot of other candy.
Writing is like candy. I crave it. But mostly, I crave the
damaged, desperate parts. If the love scenes are the chocolate covered
cherries, I want to write the broken bits and pieces that fall apart. I love
the drama. But more? I love a broken character. I love the desperation of
wanting something so badly but knowing that getting it will break you. And the
bad boy character that takes all that angst and turns it into the prefect alpha
storm? Oh man. Swoon.
For me, Graham Allen in NO APOLOGIES is that character. He’s
gritty and raw and desperate. He wants his heroine, Carly, so badly but he
knows she will break him. With each sentence I wrote, the layers of Graham’s
story built up and took me by surprise. I am totally a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants
kind of writer. It’s all character driven for me. I love to watch the hero’s
story unfold, occasionally helping out with an adjective here or there (wink).
But ultimately, it’s the hero’s story, and all the grit in between the priceless
moments. That is what keeps me going.
Is it hard to write the heartbreaking parts? Does it make me
want to crawl into bed and cry? Do I wish my characters wouldn’t make such horrible
decisions? I so do. But. Without those broken bits and pieces that make up the
in between, we wouldn’t have the really spectacular chocolate covered cherry
scenes. And I live for those scenes.
So, if you ask me, it’s the grit I love to write. It makes
the whole candy store come together. Maybe tomorrow I will change my mind.
Maybe I will be writing one of those really spectacular scenes for Graham’s
best friend, Myles. And maybe I will say—Hey! Those! Those hot and heavy, clothes
flying, hands skimming, breaths faltering, scenes—those are my favorite. But deep down, I’ll know. There’s no reward
without the work. There’s no dessert without dinner and there’s no story
without the angst. I love the angst—desperately, obsessively, adoringly—love the angst.
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Author Details:
No Apologies by Sybil Bartel
Published by: Carina Press (HQN)
Publication date: June 23rd 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
Published by: Carina Press (HQN)
Publication date: June 23rd 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
Never apologize
Hard-edged
rocker Graham Allen has it all. He’s flush with cash from playing bass in a
band by night and restoring classic cars by day. And there are plenty of women
willing to share his bed for a night, complication-free. Perfect, because if
there’s anything he learned from his past, it was to never get attached—to
anything. So when bartender Carly Sullivan flashes her innocent smile, Graham
isn’t prepared for what happens next.
Never fall in love
Two rules,
that’s all Graham has—never apologize and never fall in love. He knows Carly is
everything he should avoid. Cheerful and sweet, she has “relationship” written
all over her. But Graham can’t stay away from her probing questions and
concerned blue eyes.
When Graham
discovers Carly is hiding a crushing secret, he’s prepared to risk it all.
Until in one single moment, everything changes and Graham’s past threatens to
collide with his future. His life is crumbling down around him, and soon no
apology in the world can save him.
He should’ve
known to walk away.
91,000 words
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AUTHOR BIO:
Sybil grew up in Northern California with her head in a book
and her feet in the sand. She used to dream of becoming a painter but the
heady scent of libraries with their shelves full of books about
wistful summer days and first loves drew her into the world of
storytelling. Her true literary love is the New Adult genre but
really, any story about a love so desperately wrong and impossibly beautiful,
makes her swoon.
Sybil now resides in Southern Florida and while she doesn't get to read as much as she likes, she still buries her toes in the sand. If she's not writing or fighting to contain the banana plantation in her backyard, you can find her spending time with her handsomely tattooed husband, her brilliantly practical son and a mischievous miniature boxer who stole her heart.
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Sybil now resides in Southern Florida and while she doesn't get to read as much as she likes, she still buries her toes in the sand. If she's not writing or fighting to contain the banana plantation in her backyard, you can find her spending time with her handsomely tattooed husband, her brilliantly practical son and a mischievous miniature boxer who stole her heart.
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