Anyone watch Battlestar Gallactica? LOL Sorry

Anyway…I’ve been out here blogging for four years. That’s a long time in Internet Years, and I’ve decided it’s time for me to take some serious time off–namely the summer–and recharge some batters. Don’t worry–I’ll be back in time to pimp Make U Sweat!

But before I go, we’re having a contest. My current WIP, lovingly entitled SCREWED, needs a new title.

SCREWED is two novellas–Screwed (which I get to keep as a novella title) and Hooked and both are follow-ups to NAILED.  While these stories technically have NOTHING to do with construction or blue-collar work, I’d like to try and keep the theme the same or similiar.

Here’s a little behind-the-scenes. SCREWED: Will Collier rescues a damsel in distress (she’s a traveling sorta gypsy girls who tells fortunes at ren fairs), gets her in hot water, ends up in a secluded cabin with her, they have hot spanky sex, she runs away, gets grabbed by a very bad man and shoots him, just as Will and his brothers show up to rescue her. Oh, and there’s a dog named Scamp.

HOOKED: John Collier is hunting the man who tried to kill his brother (in Screwed). The guy is connected to a big crime family but John’s hell-bent on killing him anyway. Bad John. To that end John tracks him to the Caribbean and breaks into his room (in drag) only to find a woman in the shower. The little hot tamale turns out to be the only daughter of a man you don’t want to piss off. Things happen, and John gets roped into posing as her boyfriend/bodyguard for four days. She makes him miserable, tries to seduce him, succeeds and then they get busted at the wedding by her father who makes John an offer he can’t refuse.  :evillaugh:

It has to be a sexy title. I like one-word titles but short titles work too. Both heroes are hitmen.  Screwed is a little on the dark/thoughtful side while Hooked is just damned funny stuff.

The winning title (as chosen by my editor) will get an acknowledgment in the book and an autographed copy of the book when it comes out next Spring (March 09).  I’ll also throw in copies of NAILED and MAKE U SWEAT (When I get my author copies of MUS in August).

My critique partners, the blog crew from SFC and the blog crew from NAS are all eligible because I need all the help I can get.

GO FOR TITLE!