Category:Feisty's Posts’

Dare to Surrender is now available! Here are Five Fascinating Facts about the book!

1) In Dare to Surrender, my heroine drives a 1979 Diesel Mercedes exactly like the one I drive. I’ve had two diesel Mercedes, one of which I accidentally filled up with regular gasoline. Turns out diesel cars don’t run on gasoline. Who knew? I also drove away from a gas station with the fuel nozzle still inserted in the tank. I didn’t notice I had the nozzle sticking out of my car until I glanced in my side mirror to make a left hand turn. I have a long, exciting history with this specific type of vehicle so I had to write one into this story.

2) Joy has a secret habit of belly dancing in the privacy of her own home. When I was writing Dare to Surrender, I played instructional belly dancing videos in the background during most of the time I spent writing. I admit once in awhile I’d get up and dance. When no one was watching, of course.

3) My inspiration for my hero, Ash Hunter, was based on Joe Anderson, who played Henry Austen in the movie Becoming Jane.

4) I’ve never written a story without at least one sexy scene involving food. Dare to Surrender was no exception. I never knew French fries could be so hot. Pun intended.

5) Dare to Surrender takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nearly every location is based on an actual place I know intimately. Any reader who wants to know more about my barely disguised locals, feel free to email me at lilli@lillianfeisty.com.

I’ve done like ten interviews over the past week. That may be an exaggeration, but you get the picture. Anyway, I’m still in interview mode. So right now I’m going to ask the person making me coffee to ask me some random questions. He doesn’t know this yet.

L: Ask me a random question.
H?: Huh?
L: Ask me a random question.
H: What’s brown and sounds like a bell.
L: No, ask me random questions about myself.
H: Didn’t you already do that already?
Silence.
L: Aren’t you gonna ask me something?
H: What? I’m supposed to ask you something? I’m confused now.
L: I’m writing this down.
H: I thought you were blogging. I thought you were going to ask me something.
L. OMG. Ask me a random question and I’ll put it on my NAS blog.
H: Okay, if you could live and write in anywhere in the world where would it be?
L: I don’t know. Is my coffee done yet?
H: If you were a car what kind of car would you be?
L: You always said I was a ferrari.
H: I’m not so sure about that.
L: Why not?
H: At the point he just goes on about some guy on the show top gear and I really have no fucking idea what he’s talking about or if it’s even relevant. This has been a theme to our relationship for quite some time now, so I just nod and pretend like I’m listening.

Okay, so maybe this interview thing wasn’t such a good idea. And obviously neither I or the company I keep can think in the morning.

Oh! My coffee’s ready!

So tell me. If you could live and work anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

This week I’m running a contest over on my Blog! Just pop on over, tell me your favorite Fascinating Feisty Fact, and you’ll automatically be entered! Good luck!

Negative self-talk is something we all do. So in honor of Thursday Thirteen, I’m saying fuck that and listing thirteen things about myself that are amazing.

1) I know how to set a table. Seriously, this is an important and forgotten skill. Also, I have impeccable table manners when I choose to use them.

2) I’m smart. No, really. I am. I just hide it really good. (I’m also ironic. This goes on the list of awesome, but only in parentheses.)

3) I can cook. I can cook really well, and I can cook a wide variety of food.

4) I like sex. And lots of it. What? That has to be awesome on some level.

5) I can write sentences like “hornier than a bread-box” and get away with it.

6) I try hard to be a good, loyal and forgiving friend.

7) I am open-minded and people tend to tell me their secrets. Because…

8 ) I’m a good listener. Unless…

9) You’re a moron in a bar trying to pick up on me. Then I’m a raging bitch and I don’t care what the hell you’re talking about. Okay, that’s not really a good quality that should be on the list. But hey, I often make up my own rules so now it’s a valid number for the awesome list.

10) I have an uncanny sense of direction. It scares men.

11) I have somehow managed to help produce an amazing child.

12) I will get in a fight in a bar if someone messes with any of my girlfriends. I consider this a good quality.

13) I have amazing friends, and I believe people tend to reflect those around them.

So there you have it. Thirteen reasons I’m awesome. What are some of your amazing qualities?