I've been living in the past...

 

For the last eight months, I have been living in the past...

And I have been sitting back collecting dust along with my older books. I think I have read every single book on my shelves, avoiding writing. But my last royalty check galvanized me into action. I can no longer sit back and not do what it takes to continue to write.

I have picked up and dusted off one of my wips and have begun in earnest to finish it. Wish me luck. I think I can do this, and will be as diligent as possible.

Hugs!

Fran

 

I love going back over older reviews...

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Jillian's Job by Fran Lee

Written by Julianne

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Title: Jillian's Job Author: Fran Lee Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc. Genre: Contemporary Publication date: November 1, 2009 ISBN: 1-419924-85-9 Pages: 67 Series: none Reviewer: Julianne Heat Level:  HOT! M/F oral sex Rating:  4.5 Lips It's Jillian's birthday and she's looking forward to spending the weekend with her family, something which is long overdue. But at the last second she receives a call from her boss, Mike Furie, demanding she come to Aspen to rescue him once again from a gold digging woman. Jill has made up her mind that this time she's going to go through with telling her selfish, overbearing and sexy boss that she's quitting. She has sacrificed her time and love life for this man and he doesn't even seem to notice. She's fed up with Mike's antics and plans on telling him exactly what she thinks. Once in Aspen, nothing goes as planned for Jillian. She wakes up naked and in bed with her so sexy to die for boss and doesn't remember signing a marriage license. Rich playboy, Mike Furie has had plenty of personal assistants that have done nothing but fawn all over him. For once, he wants to find a PA that will just do her job and when Jillian fills that position, he's quite happy. Seven years and not once has she made a move toward him, now he wants nothing more than to have Jillian in his bed.   Jillian's Job by Fran Lee is the first book by her that I've had the pleasure of reading. It is a delightful story of a frustrated woman who's been secretly in love with her boss for a long time. Jill is unable to let Mike know her feelings for fear of being fired, so she is a very efficient assistant. Can you say perks? I had to laugh at some of the things that Jillian did with her expense account. She was really quite gutsy. I never would have been able to do that. I liked that she was finally going to stand up for herself and not let her boss push her around.   Mike is the typical good looking, rich playboy. He goes after what he wants most of the time, and it was nice to see him not know how to get a woman he wanted.  Ms. Lee writes with a lot of flair, imagination, emotion, and sex scenes that are super smoking hot.  Even though the story is short, Ms. Lee  is able to create characters that are complex and a world with a lot of detail that makes the reader feel like they knew Mike and Jillian.  If you want a shorter story that is packed with lots of emotion and fun, pick up Jillian's Job, you won't be disappointed. I really enjoyed reading Jillian's Job and I look forward to reading more of Fran Lee’s books.

One more back list book...

Double Your Pleasure

Helen is working a latté shop just outside an upscale high-rise apartment in Manhattan. Switching shifts with her boss, she finds herself face-to-face with the most delicious, maddeningly arrogant man she’s ever met. He’s hot and sexy as hell, but the fact that he can’t lift his eyes from her chest is a strike against him. Too bad he’s such a jerk…she would have loved to get to know him better. But as soon as he’s out of sight, she turns around to find another man who looks just like him—one who looks her in the eye and has a smile that takes her breath away.

Dear Lord, there are two of them?

Jason and Jonathon Blackstone have the same taste in everything. Identical twins, they often trade clothes…and sometimes they even share their women. Jon may have seen Helen first, but Jace intends to be the man who gets her. Unfortunately, he may just end up having to share again, since the sexy coffee girl seems to want them both.

Yet another back list book...

My Sexy Sensei

Previously published as

A Brief Moment of Pleasure

A full length novel...

Lisa Hampton is committed to her career, but a woman in the traditional Japanese martial arts is seldom taken seriously. At least not until one hot and hunky man takes her very seriously. James Rhee runs his own brand of martial arts studio, teaching movie stars who want to shine in their onscreen stunts.

It’s a job Lisa genuinely wants no part of. But she soon finds it’s hard to refuse the maddening man anything…including her body. Before she knows it, she’s let her guard down and sinfully sizzling sex has turned into something she simply can’t fight.

  

Another back list book...

Come, My Love

I loved writing this one.  It was one part of a seven-part series about seven college buddies who came back for their 10-year college reunion...and each one found the man she left behind.  This was my offering (it was formerly titled First and Ten).

Description

What Fran Jamison and Jack Gerrard have in common could be balanced on the head of a pin. Jack screwed up his chances with the BBW years ago when he allowed his friends to influence his choices. And Fran totally lost her chance with the hot campus jock by openly spurning his attempt to apologize.

Fran has never been to any of the reunions, but now a friend needs her, so this time she hasn’t been able to shimmy out of it. What she doesn’t expect in a million years is to find herself making hot love with Jack Gerrard on the hood of a parked car…in the airport parking ramp!

Jack lost her once. But if she thinks she’s getting away this time, she’s dead wrong.

Talking about my back list books...

Woman on Fire

Azrael Thunder Horse never thought another Anglo woman could possibly knock him for a loop after leaving Hollywood. Despite the instant shot of lust he feels when he first lays eyes on his new Native American Studies teacher, he’s determined to get rid of her. After all…she misled him with that damn Indian name of hers! But the stubborn redhead has a thing or two to say when he tries to fire her.

Cheyenne Red Wolf has never met a more maddening, arrogant, downright irritating man. He hates her on sight. Too bad he’s the hottest thing she’s ever seen…and her new boss. The man tried to fire her because she wasn’t a “real” Indian. Good thing he can’t stand her, because she sure as hell wouldn’t be able to say no to all that sexy, hardheaded, Lakota masculinity.

Talking about my back list books...

Nothing but Sex

Was my Cougar Challenge offering.  Seventeen authors tossed in a hot novella about a group of older women who went after younger men...and believe me, this was one of Ellora's Cave's  most popular series!

Blurb:

A standalone story in the Cougar Challenge Series.

 

Lee Blackhorse is hardly Cougar material, no matter what her friends over at Tempt the Cougar say. A forty-two-year-old woman who lusts after her thirty-year-old weekend helper is just plain nuts. Or is it? She’s been secretly hot for the man for years.

Mike Running Elk is the hottest thing ever to don tight jeans and a second-skin t-shirt…and he has no problem seeing himself in the role of lover. In fact, if he can just get the hot-as-hell woman to realize he’s plenty old enough to ring her bells, he plans to do more than just clean her barn and mow her grass. He’s waited for her long enough.

When her Saturday helper appears at her door with an injured hand, Lee can’t pull her eyes off his naked, ripped chest. And from her heated gaze, Mike can’t believe she’s as oblivious as she acts. The ice has been broken and he intends to heat things up even more…

Reader Advisory: Contains a scene of violence.