Hi everyone —

I hope my US visitors are having a great Labor Day Weekend! I know you enjoyed having Cardeno C here for Big Backlist Weekend, and the winners will be announced later today. Now, please  welcome bestselling author, Susan MacNicol who is new to the blog. Her new book, Love and Punishment, sounds exciting! Be sure to enter on the Rafflecopter! Susan is also sharing some thoughts with us on the mysterious subject of where ideas come from —

How do I get my ideas and what’s the theme running through all my books

Ask any writer where they get their ideas from and they’ll probably stare at you blankly as their mind races to make something up. Because, really, I doubt any of us exactly where we get our inspiration from. Sure, there are incidents and places that inspire us. I went to Stamford for a weekend and stayed at a really beautiful hotel and decided I wanted to set a story there. I saw Benedict Cumberbatch on television and decided I wanted to write a story based on him as a character because it would be the only way I’d ever get anywhere close to the man by creating my own character like him. It’s probably the start of a story but to be frank, it just grows in your head like a mushroom, slowly, pushing its head through soil and grass to peek above the parapet and then WHAM! It’s just there and you have to act on it. Yes, this was a deliberate metaphor for those of you with dirty minds…

I’d never been in a lighthouse before I wrote Worth Keeping. I have no idea where the idea of a Withinner came from for the Double Alchemy series. I’ve never met a sexy escort/hacker like Shane Templar from Stripped Bare, much less been tied up naked on a bed and wanked off over. (For those who don’t know, wanked is another word for masturbation)

As with any creative mind, the imagination flow is triggered by something, who knows what, and then grows and festers until it’s born. It’s just the nature of the beast. I for one am glad that they keep coming, because if they ever disappeared, these random thoughts of plots, characters and the trouble they get into, I would be heart broken. Devastated. So as long as the muse on my shoulder keeps whispering in my ear, I’m a happy camper.

Blurb: On the search for a serial killer, Detective Anthony Parglietto and Flynn Parker learn that every man must make a choice: to kill, to live, to love.

FROM DARKNESS AND LIGHT

Someone is leaving a trail of bodies throughout London, and Detective Anthony Parglietto is determined to end the violence. Then he’ll return to the man he loves.

Tough, street-savvy, and used to dealing with lowlifes, Flynn Parker is the last person Anthony thinks he has to protect. Then the Bow-Tie Killer strikes close to home and the world turns upside down. Right is wrong, black is white, and a policeman might become a monster. But in the name of love, justice must be served. In the name of love, pain can be endured. In the name of love, a man can taste the very essence that defines him.

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Excerpt:

Anthony walked down the hall. He reached the bedroom and gently pushed the door open. He saw Flynn framed in the light of the lamp shining from the lounge. He lay, apparently asleep, on the leather and wood divan Anthony had brought over from Italy. Its dark burgundy colour contrasted with what Flynn wore, which was nothing but a black thong lying stark against his pale skin. The divan was under the window. The bed covers were rumpled, as if Flynn had been sleeping. His robe was draped across the foot of the bed. Anthony moved towards the gleaming body of his supine lover.

Flynn’s face was turned away towards the back of the sofa. His dark hair was tousled and his arms stretched above his head to the right. He wore a blindfold. Anthony felt a stir in his groin seeing those lean, hairy legs stretched out wantonly, inviting him to run his hands up and over his groin. Even appearing asleep, Flynn had the power to excite him, to make Anthony hard and ready. He stepped towards him, watching the rise and fall of Flynn’s chest with their already hardened nubs. Anthony wanted to run his tongue over that chest, with its smattering of fine hair, to take Flynn’s nipples in his mouth and suck them until Flynn groaned in pleasure. As he got closer in the dim light he saw the hands with their bonds of silk. Green bonds lay dark against Flynn’s wrists, fastened to the wooden struts of the upright chair arm. His hands were tight fists. Anthony chuckled softly, a noise that sounded loud in the stillness of the room.

“Been waiting long?’ he whispered as he took off his jacket. ‘I tried to get home as soon as I could.”

Anthony knew the bonds would be loose so Flynn could break free if needed but he also knew he wouldn’t. It was the way the game was played.

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Author Bio:

Susan Mac Nicol was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom. At the age of eight, her family moved to Johannesburg, South Africa where she stayed for nearly thirty years before arriving back in the UK in December 2000. Currently, She lives in the rural village of Bocking, in Essex, with her family.

Sue is a PAN (Published Author’s Network) member of Romance Writers of America and a member of the Romantic Novelists Association in the UK. Also, she is a member of a rather unique writing group, called the Talliston Writer’s Circle, which in itself has a story all of its own to tell. She has written nine novels, two novellas and a screenplay since February 2012 and clearly believes in keeping herself busy. She has found herself wanting to stay in the sub-genre that is M/M Romance so more can definitely be expected.

Her plan is to keep writing as long as her muse sits upon her shoulder. Her dream is to make enough money to give up the day job and get that big old house in the English countryside overlooking a river, where she can write all day and continue to indulge her passion for telling stories.

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