Giveaway and Guest Author: Their Lady Gloriana by Starla Kaye

Today I would like to welcome author Starla Kaye to Book Junkie. She is celebrating her release this month of THEIR LADY GLARIANA, a historical menage story from Black Velvet Seductions

What do you do when your Muse won’t speak to you?

A Muse is often an impish spirit, a guiding spirit and source of inspiration…and yet at times wanting to tease and play instead of being helpful. When my personal Muse is in the mood, the two of us can kick ass at a keyboard. We can whip out a chapter or two in a day. We can create characters, loosely plot a story line, and determine complications to delay the characters from reaching their Happily Ever After. Sometimes my Muse and I even work on one story and think about another one in the back of our minds.

Other times my Muse decides enough is enough, that all work without some play isn’t for her right now. That is when no matter what words I put on paper (in my computer) they aren’t going to tell the story I need to tell. I’m going to end up deleting all of them. Or I’m going to sit there staring at the monitor with no real clue about what will work in the story line at this point.

Eventually I give in to my playful, bored Muse friend/enemy. I take a break from actual writing and drift off into the world beyond my computer. There are always household chores to be done, but those I fit in when I need short breaks while I’m writing. Those don’t interest me now. I seek other sources to revive my creative streak. Maybe I will go to a movie (or two or three) or attack that almost daunting stack of “To Be Read” books. Maybe I will dive into a craft project, like a quilt art project, that has been curing slowly in the back of my mind while I write, like a fine wine aging. Or I might attempt to make friends with the plants in the garden I’ve been letting live the best they could with lack of attention.

If my Muse refuses to get back to work for longer than a day…or maybe is demanding a complete change of environment, I will travel somewhere. I will go anywhere by car, by train, by ship, or by plane. I love having the chance to see new things, have new experiences, view different cultures, and observe people. All of this gets stored in my head for possible use in some story I will one day write.

Once my Muse is satisfied and ready to get back to work I’m ready as well. Bring it on difficult characters, challenging plot.

Think medieval times when honorable men must do what is required of them. Thomas Lancaster, a widower with bad memories of marriage and a young son he barely knows, is a hardened knight loyal to his king. In reward for his efforts fighting in the Crusades, King Edward gives him Middlemound Castle to hold for the crown. But he must marry the beautiful young widow of the castle’s previous lord.

Lady Gloriana Stewart suffered brutally in her first marriage and has no desire to marry again. She has no choice and must protect her people and obey her king. All she wants is for her new husband to give her a baby. Thomas refuses to even consider it.

Complicating the situation is Sir Rowan Montgomery, Thomas’s first knight, friend, and lover. Complicating the problem even more, Gloriana has feelings for both her new husband and for Rowan.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Starla Kaye has worn many hats professionally and as a writer. She works part-time with her husband (who believes he is the model example for each of her heroes, “yes, honey, of course you are”) in an accounting firm. A gerontologist by degree, she volunteers in the community with a very active group of senior adults, who provide her with story ideas for senior adult romances she occasionally likes to write for fun. She is a multi-published author on-line in e-book and Print-On-Demand book form, writing as both Starla Kaye and S. K. Fero for Black Velvet Seductions, Blushing Books, Decadent Publishing, and Red Rose Publishing.

Starla Kaye’s website: http://starlakaye.com/ 

Black Velvet Seductions: http://www.blackvelvetseductions.com/

***GIVEAWAY***

Starla Kaye will be giving away a piece of medieval-style jewelry to one randomly drawn commenter !!

Giveaway ends 5/31