Blog Hop | Dani Jace. Romance Author

This week: Pitching for a movie and actors playing my hero and heroine…

Scenario: A Hollywood producer is interested in your book. Can you come up with an enticing logline (plot summary of 25 words or less) I’m pitching for my pre-published novel, Hot as Blazes. A disgraced surfer turned firefighter falls in love with one of her brethren but her past transgressions levy a hefty toll.

Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition? Jessica Biel as she looked in action rolls like Stealth and Blade II is the closest resemblance to my heroine’s body type. She has a similar facial structure, but my heroine, Jo, has amber eyes and lighter hair color.

My hero is a tall and built like an NFL tight end. Former Raider, Howie Long would have fit the bill when he was in his early thirties. Currently, fitness model, Jase Dean closely resembles Ray and has enamoring blue eyes. Check out my Pinterest board Hot as Blazes for visuals on my hero and heroine.

Does the storyline of your novel compare with any films out there? There are many movies about a protagonist with a lurking past, but I’ve never seen a film about a female surfer turned firefighter who falls for her brother’s best friend and tends bar for a mysterious SEAL who is somehow linked to her past.

Thanks to Joanne Guidoccio for this week’s Romance Weekly questions. Next on the hop is Susan Peterson Wisnewski. Please clieck to see who she chooses to play her characters in Secrets in San Remo and then take the full hop to meet all the authors of Romance Weekly. Comments and questions for future Romance Weekly posts are welcome. We love hearing from you!

This is the last eight for White Doe, my erotic paranormal novella set in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Shane is shape-shifting hawk descended from the Croatan Tribe and has just lost his great-grand father who was their tribe’s chieftain and the only shifter like him. While paying respects at his great aunt Nona’s, he runs into Dory, a former f*¢k buddy turned stalker. Shane returns home and finds Dory waiting for him. The encounter is a revelation. The snippet is a couple of sentence over but completes the first chapter.

“I’ve hurt before,” he said, tossing his jacket over the back of the kitchen chair. “So you wanna pay your old man back for his extra-curricular activities?” She was a spectacular lay, but her psycho manipulations were more than he could bear.

Dory leaned into him, pressing her large, custom-built breasts against his chest and murmured, “Let’s feel better together, baby.”

He reached for the whiskey, poured a double and tossed it back enjoying the surge through his blood along with hot need for a f*ck. Her curvy body had a spike poking the front of his jeans. He hated his reaction. Couldn’t he pretend she was the one he truly wanted, hadn’t he always? The sudden realization shocked and sickened him.

He pushed her away, sidestepping her grope as her eyes glowed in anger. “We’re done, Dory.”

After she left, he slipped his wallet from his back pocket and found the worn picture of Cheyenne. “Please come home, baby.”

Hope you’ve enjoyed the last few weeks of 8 encompassing the first chapter of White Doe. Will Cheyenne return and if so, will Shane learn the real reason she left? Find out for 99c at Amazon. Hope you will check out other Weekend Writing Warriors‘ blogs for their eight sentences.