Dani Jace

Here’s eight sentences from Cupid in Camo, a Valentine’s short story, for Weekend Writing Warriors 8 sentence Sunday in the romance category. Lindy’s lawyer fiancé is working late on Valentines and she greets him with a surprise. Not finding him in his office, she checks the conference room.

Occasionally, he laid out his briefs on the conference room table. Setting her camera phone to record, she rounded the corner for the meeting room and burst through the door. “Happy Valentines Day, baby!” The colorful array of Mylar whirled in ahead of her dancing, festively.

A feminine screech set Lindy back on her heels. As her field of vision cleared, she spied Brad’s briefs spread on the table alright, right next to his tighty whities, a pink, lacy bra and and matching panties… Like a Master Card commercial, his expression was priceless.

“Well, isn’t this a YouTube moment,” Lindy snarled, squinting with her phone still in video mode while the woman scampered behind the enormous table like a frightened deer.

Now it time to check out the other amazing authors at Weekend Writing Warriors.

Hawk shifter, and bad-boy biker, Shane Cheveyo has spent years trying to out ride his secret life and erotic memories of his first love who left without a word. White Doe, is available on All Romance, Amazon, New Dawning Bookfair and Smashwords.

This week’s Romance Weekly questions are from Brenda Margriet – How do you choose the setting for your book? Does where you live inspire you? This can apply even to books set in paranormal worlds – what do you use from “real life”? If you arrived her via Gemma Brocato, hope you’ll continue the Romance Weekly hop.

Living along the coast of Virginia, and always around the water, plus a lifetime of vacationing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, has inspired me in many ways. The local beaches have become part to of my brand. That doesn’t mean my characters don’t travel to other parts of the area, country and world.

I’ve also applied local settings to paranormal works. In my novella, White Doe, I used an Outer Banks legend and tweaked it into a modern day shifter theme.

Closer to home, Norfolk Naval Operations Base and Oceana Naval Air Station provide a basis for military stories. Fentress airfield, where Navy pilots practice touch and goes, is practically in my back yard. Yes, I love jet noise. Living in a military-minded community feeds my patriotism. Last year I wrote a SEAL romance, Trident Valor, which won the erotic category in Chesapeake Romance Writers, Finish the Damn Book Contest 🙂 This year I’ve decided to include my love of dogs by writing a military K9 novel.

Football is another passion I put the page after our area had a short-lived semi-pro team. I’m hoping to self-pub Game On! later this year. For the last several months I’ve posted snippets of it on my website for Weekend Writing Warriors 8 Sentence Sunday blog hop.

Next week I’ll be posting 8 sentences from a Valentine story entitled, Cupid in Camo. On Monday, I’ll post the compete short story in my newsletter so be sure to sign up!

Now on to the lovely Xio Axelrod, author of The Calum. Let’s how she picks settings for her books.