Release Day for GO WILD

I have to admit this release date snuck up on me. For one thing, I've been busy getting married. And then honeymooning. And then recovering from the whole shebang. But publication dates wait for no one, even newlyweds.

So here it is, release day for GO WILD, which actually is oddly appropriate considering my newly married state. You see, GO WILD is about a woman who's terrified of marriage, and the man who's determined to get her to say 'yes.'

And no, it's not based on my relationship at all -- except that I very much understand the fear of commitment. Usually the men are pegged as the foot-draggers who'll do anything to avoid that trip down the aisle. But I've never really believed that. I've known many men who were eager to get married, and many, including myself, who weren't sure they were cut out for "forever after."

It turns out, I was only waiting for the right man.

Katia, my heroine in GO WILD, has a different story. Lars is the only man she's ever truly loved, but she's a free-spirited wild child who has a dread of being tied down. She wants Lars, she wants what he's offering, but she's afraid that her sexuality won't fit with the concept of one man for the rest of her life.

Lars has to find a way to convince her they can make it work, and that he's not scared off by her past or her adventurous nature. And boy, does he! Here's the blurb for GO WILD, out today from Ellora's Cave.

Go Wild

Juniper Bell

Lars loves Katia. Katia loves Lars. Lars wants to marry Katia. Can he convince his free-spirited lover that marriage will be as fun as her sexually adventurous single days?

Never before has Katia been tempted to give up her carefree ways. She’s deeply in love with Lars, but she doesn’t know if he can handle her wild side—or needs.

But Lars is a hard man to resist. The former Olympic champion won’t give up—not when he knows just how to please her.

The people of Wild, Alaska know the best way to survive winter is to let off a little steam. When Lars’ buddies hit town for Wild Nights, a notorious winter festival with one rule—“anything goes, nothing counts”—he jumps at the chance to prove he’s the perfect man for Katia.

He vows to win her over, even if it takes four rugged Alaska men and one wildly erotic night in a sauna.

Note: Features an extended ménage (M/F/M/M/M), anal play and references to bondage experimentation and sexual escapades of all types.

Click here to read an excerpt, and to buy GO WILD.

This is the first book I've set in Alaska, and I'm hoping to make it the first of a series of stories that take place during the Wild Nights festival. I mean, just think about the possibilities...

Okay, I admit, I already am. GO DEEP comes next, then GO FOREVER. Any other suggestions? Hey, sounds like a good idea for a contest! How about this--comment with a suggestion for another title in the series for a chance to win your choice of any book from my backlist.

Thanks for celebrating release day with me!

Juniper

JuniperBell.com

The Gemini Syndrome

Maybe it’s because I’m a Gemini (sign of the Twins). Or maybe every writer feels this way – or every person! – but I often feel that I’m living two lives. One is the life everyone sees, the other is the life that goes on in my head, and that comes out in my writing. (I certainly wouldn’t want it lurking inside my brain making me crazy.) The two lives are not entirely separate. Things that happen in my real life tend to make their way into my writing. And when my writing thoughts take over, I can become alarmingly spacey in my real life. I’m the same person, of course. It’s just that I’m living two parallel lives. Call it the Gemini Syndrome.

I also live two lives geographically. Mostly I live in Alaska. But we also own land in Hawaii, so we spend some time there every year working on our place. I’m in Hawaii now, as a matter of fact, for just a few more days. Talk about completely different lives! In Hawaii I go around in flip-flops and sarongs, eat papayas and avocadoes. In Alaska it’s snowboots and long underwear, potatoes and salmon. (I indulge in avocadoes from Costco because I can’t live without them.)

When all my worlds collide, it can be very disorienting. While I’ve been in Hawaii, I’ve been working on edits for my next book, which is set in Alaska during the winter. It’s very odd to be sitting in the jungle rewriting lines about the glaciers.
Sometimes I think it can actually cool me down on a hot day, but maybe that’s just my imagination. One of the book’s sexiest scenes takes place in a sauna. Now there’s something we don’t really need here in the tropics. Who knows if that sweat running down my face is from the steamy Hawaiian heat, or the fictional steam in the sauna…or the steam from the sex scene, for that matter?

We’re scheduled to fly back to Alaska a few days before GO WILD releases, so I’ll be able to look out my window at the snow while posting excerpts about it. That should make things easier. Maybe once I’m back, I’ll write a book set in Hawaii, just to really confuse myself. Then again, I’m a Gemini, the split personality of astrological signs, so I ought to be able to handle it. Or at least one of me can.

Do you like reading books that take you to a different place, time of year, world, whatever? Or do you like it when the world outside echoes the world you’re reading about (or writing about)?