Food To Fall In Love With
Eating is one of the most sensuous activities we can engage in (besides sex – grins). It engages all of the senses. We smell, taste, feel, see, hear (chewing, slurping, crunching) food.
Eating is also an activity we often associate with love and company. We cook for the people we care about. First dates often involve a meal, perhaps at a fancy restaurant. Chocolate is one of the most common gifts men give the women they care about.
Food plays an important role in almost all of my stories.
In The Seen Trilogy (He Watches Me, He Touches Me, He Claims Me), Blaine, our billionaire hero, serves Anna, our heroine. He’s a wealthy successful man yet he’s telling her that she’s more important than he is. He’s communicating without words that he puts her first and he’ll take care of her.
This is even more symbolic for Anna as she hasn’t always had enough to eat. She envisions a future in which she won’t ever have that worry.
In Flashes Of Me, Kat convinces Henley to eat broccoli and other green vegetables, foods believed to reduce the possibility of cancer. This is how she tells him she worries about him and she wants him to remain healthy.
In one scene, Kat sends Henley beef and broccoli. He then sends her chocolate covered strawberries. She is telling him “I’ll take care of you” and his non-verbal reply is “I’ll take care of you also.”
In Breaking All The Rules, one of the ways Camille expresses her individualistic, rebel self, is by eating fragrant curry at work. A friend of her mom’s taught her how to make these curries so there’s also an emotional connection. The curries are a little taste of her quirky home.
Camille expects every man she meets to reject her curries and to reject her. Nate, the conservative, extremely non-ethic hero, is perhaps the last person on Earth anyone would expect to order curry yet he does… for Camille. He’s telling her that he embraces her rebellious nature, that he will change to make their unusual relationship work.
Do you use food to convey your feelings?
Nathan Lawford, Blaine Technologies’ chief financial officer, is known as the Iceman. He conducts his personal and business affairs without emotion, never allowing himself to become involved with anyone. When Nate sees something or someone he wants, he negotiates, paying a simple, set monetary price.
Now he wants Camille, the company’s green-haired intern.
Camille Joplin Trent never expected to be paid to pleasure the man of her dreams. She can’t quite figure out why this is a bad thing. Nate is intelligent, handsome, sophisticated, everything she’s ever wanted in a lover and never thought she could have. Their contract is for a month, thirty lust-filled days of making every sexual fantasy they’ve ever had come true. At the end of this month, the rules state their relationship will end.
Of course, Camille has never been good at following rules.
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Interview With Wylie Snow
I sat down (virtually) with Wylie Snow (no relation to Jon Snow from Game Of Thrones) for a short interview. Wylie Snow has self-published her first wonderful romance, Game On, and I love her to bits! (big hugs)
Cynthia Sax: What makes Luc sexy?
Wylie Snow: Countless hours of training give athletes a heightened sense of body awareness and it affects the way they move. Luc, despite a crippling injury, carries himself with grace and a self-assuranced confidence that Clara is immediately drawn to. But that’s not his only sexy feature. I fell in book-lust with him as soon as he began bantering with his best friend, Riley. Luc is the kind of guy every man wants for a drinking buddy and every girl wants in her bed.
Cynthia Sax: Where did you get the idea for Game On?
Wylie Snow: A cousin of mine lost her sense of smell after a head injury. I’d never heard of ‘anosmia’ before, but became fascinated after doing some research. Olfactory nerves, once severed as a result of a head trauma, rarely heal. How much would it suck to never again smell freshly cut grass or sheets off the clothesline. Or worse… cinnamon buns, melting chocolate, baking bread!
Don’t ask actor Bill Pullman if he likes your perfume because he couldn’t tell you. And Ben Cohen, of ice cream duo Ben & Jerry’s, is a congenital anosmiac, meaning he was born without a sense of smell. He’s the one who insisted on large chunks in their products to improve his perception of flavor.
Cynthia Sax: Where is Game On set?
Wylie Snow: The story begins in sultry Miami (Is there a more sexy city in the US? I don’t think so!) but the blog tour takes Luc and Clara to Boston, Pittsburg, New York, Chicago, and Washington. Clara, who’s from England, finds the American experience wonderfully exciting,…especially the hotel suites 😉
Cynthia Sax: Does super sexy Luc have a secret?
Wylie Snow: The hero, Luc Bisquet, is a former pro-hockey player. It’s no secret that a gunshot to the knee ended his career, but what the sports world doesn’t know is that since his injury, he suffers debilitating anxiety attacks. He avoids crowds and the thought of setting foot in a hockey arena paralyses him with fear. He watches every game on his home media center and conducts all interviews by phone. It’s one thing to dupe his employers, but Clara finding out would kill him.
Cynthia Sax: What one piece of advice would you give new writers?
Wylie Snow: I would tell new writers that writing the book may seem like the hardest part, but it’s not. Rewriting the book is when the real work starts. And the magic
Thank you, Wylie Snow, for joining us today!
Wylie Snow’s Website: http://www.wyliesnow.com/
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Secrets, lies, lust … whatever it takes to win.
Clara Bean, Europe’s most respected restaurant critic, lands on American soil to do a promotional tour with a sports icon. But how will she keep her career-ending secret from her deliciously handsome new partner? She quickly learns that all games have rules, even falling in love.
Luc Bisquet can’t seem to score any points with sassy, sexy Clara despite the palatable chemistry between them. But he’s willing to endure as many penalties as it takes to crack her icy reserve, because winning is everything. Game on.
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