{"id":687,"date":"2009-11-05T03:33:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T08:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2009-11-05T03:33:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T08:33:37","slug":"hook-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/05\/hook-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Hook Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hook me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s like a dare isn’t it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve read your back cover blurb and it’s…oh, I don’t know, so-so. I’m not convinced I should spend my hard earned $4.99 – $13.95 on your book. Let me check\u00a0\u00a0 the inside excerpt. Darn, it doesn’t have one. I could read the first couple pages, but that usually doesn’t do me much good. I’ll always remember a certain perfume shop scene that began one of my all-time favourite reads. <\/em> Oh look, the latest Anna Campbell…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

This is exactly what authors don’t want to happen to their book. I mean with the bookshelves packed tight with a gazillion<\/em><\/strong> books competing for readers’ attention and<\/em> dollars, it would be such a shame if the poor author had a cover attractive enough to catch readers’ eyes but their back cover blurb wasn’t quite enough to hook ’em. They need just one other thing to compel perspective readers to buy–a truly “hookable”<\/em><\/span> excerpt.<\/p>\n

What’s a hookable excerpt?<\/strong> It’s different for everyone, I imagine. I know what hooks me (serious sexual tension, great conflict) won’t be the be-all<\/em> hook for everyone–though, I daresay, it will appeal to quite a few (Threw in a little Victorian speak<\/em>). LOL.<\/p>\n

Following are three excerpts meant to get readers to invest their time (reading) and part with a token amount of cash. In return, hopefully, they’ll have discovered another author to add to their “instant buy list”<\/em>. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

~*~*~<\/p>\n

Devil in a Kilt<\/strong><\/span><\/em> in Red Sage Secrets Volume 27 Untamed Pleasures<\/strong> – Nicole North<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Length: Novella<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Secrets200w\"<\/a>
\nSetup<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Shauna MacRae has been having uncontrollable erotic daydreams about a certain Highlander for months. Determined to rid herself of these intrusive, overwhelming fantasies, she heads to the Highland Games to find a real kilted hottie. A mysterious older man compels her to hold a four-hundred-year-old, two-handed claymore. In the next instant, she finds herself in a Scottish castle bedchamber, though she doesn\u2019t know at first that it\u2019s 1621.<\/span><\/p>\n

She gaped at the dangerous, heavily-muscled giant with long, dark hair standing before her. He was more than a foot taller than she.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOmigod.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A straight white scar ran from his forehead to his jaw on the right side of his face, but the injury hadn\u2019t affected his eye. His gaze pinned her to the spot. She knew those eyes, pale aquamarine-blue with a darker rim around the outside of the irises, surrounded by thick, dark lashes. He studied her and frowned with a wicked, black slash of his brows.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Her fantasy lover was back.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNot now! Very bad timing.\u201d She shook her head, trying to escape her daydreams.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

He glanced at the sword on the floor, then back to her. \u201cYe think to kill me with my own claidheamh d\u00e0 l\u00e0imh, do ye, lass?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At first, she could hardly understand the words he\u2019d rolled up in the thick Scottish burr, then finally decided most of them were English.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Huh? He never said things like that in her fantasies. In fact, he never spoke English, only purred those Gaelic phrases that sounded so exotic and arousing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExplain yourself!\u201d he demanded, sending her a glare such as she\u2019d never imagined.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2014\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The candle\u2019s light glinted off the blade of a dagger in his other hand, and warmed his sun-bronzed skin\u2014dear God, he was completely naked just like in her dreams. So why was he being such a bastard?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the worst fantasy I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~*~*~<\/p>\n

THE CONQUEROR <\/span>– Kensington\/Zebra ~ Kris Kennedy<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"the-conqueror-cover-trans205\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The bench thumped forward. \u201cYou\u2019re hurt.\u201d He ran a finger over the bruise on her shoulder, a soldier\u2019s swift appraisal. A ripple of goosebumps sped under his hand. He froze.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She was blushing a pale shade of pink. Dark, wet hair hung in tangled locks across the red linen and her white shoulder, creating a startling contrast in colors. The combination of such an ethereal face and the sudden, innocent desire dawning there made him snatch his hand back as if burned.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tend it when you\u2019re done,\u201d he said roughly.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She ducked her head and muttered some inaudible reply. She could have said Stephen\u2019s army was marching for the inn and he wouldn\u2019t have heard. Such a hard, hot pounding hadn\u2019t surged through him in many a year.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did you say?\u201d he asked, dimly aware she\u2019d been speaking.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI said, I did not expect such a thing as all this from my night.\u201d She waved her hand. \u201cDid you?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

He groaned audibly. This would never do. She could be swathed in sacks and buried under a haystack and it would not help. Already the image of her stretched out beneath him, black hair streaming over the pillows, was more vivid than the whole past year of his life.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNay, I never expected such a thing as you.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She smiled faintly. \u201cFools, I think we agreed.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWithout sense.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEntirely.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

He drew back, leveled his tone. \u201cI would have you regain yours, ere something happens you\u2019ll be sorry for.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She paused, and he had a momentary thought he might escape unscathed. That she would do the prudent thing, save him from this rampaging desire. But her next words smashed the faint hope. \u201cSense is only one way to know a thing, Pagan,” she whispered. \u201cI\u2019m sure we could find another.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In a single move he was up, around the table, pulling her to her feet.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~*~*~<\/p>\n

MASTERING THE MARQUESS <\/span>– Kensington\/Zebra ~ Vanessa Kelly<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"masteringthemarquess205\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Meredith jerked back, more stung by his words than she could have imagined. She drew herself up to her full height.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLord Silverton, I\u2019m sure I do not deserve your insults. If you\u2019re not willing to discuss this matter in a rational fashion, then I must ask you to leave my room. We can continue this conversation when we have both returned to London.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The anger in his eyes slowly transmuted into something else. Meredith felt a warning chill shoot up her spine as his lips parted in a slow smile\u2014the one that always made her knees grow so weak. She forced herself to move away from him, but he matched her step for step.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a matter of fact, Meredith, I\u2019m not feeling rational at all. And I would like to point out this is my house, not yours. I have no intention of going anywhere.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy lord,\u201d Meredith quavered. She swallowed, taking one more stab at fending him off. \u201cWhen your mother and I spoke this morning \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Silverton laughed. The unexpected, husky sound caused her heart to beat erratically against her breastbone.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy sweet, there are two words no man wants to hear when he is about to make love to his woman, and they are, your mother!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m not your woman,\u201d she protested.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter last night you are most certainly my woman.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

He advanced toward her with a dangerous gleam in his eye. Meredith retreated again, but he continued to stalk her across the room until she found herself backed against the wall. He quickly pinned her by placing his hands on either side of her shoulders as he pressed his lower body against her. With a sense of shock, she registered the heavy length of his arousal through her nightclothes.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not letting you go, so you might as well get used to it,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~*~*~<\/p>\n

**For longer excerpts, click on the covers.<\/em><\/p>\n

So are you hooked? Let me know. <\/strong><\/p>\n

[poll id=”4″]<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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