Teaser Tuesday!

Hi everyone! I figured that it would be best to build the anticipation for my upcoming erotic novel, The Daring Assignment! It is due to come out in September, so I'll post a teaser from the book each week! Here's the first one. Enjoy!

Second day at camp...and I'm already choking!

Ugh.

It's the second day of Camp NanoWriMo and I'm already choking. Not in a literal sense, but in a writing sense. It's as if all of my excitement and inspiration has just dwindled now that the time has finally arrived to write. I remember sitting around, super eager to write this new story. Now that it's time to write it, I feel like Eminem did in the movie 8 Mile when it was his turn to freestyle.

When I participated in camp this past session in April, things went great! I completed a 70,000 word novel in about 27 days. I wonder what's going on with me this time? Maybe I'm a little bit more anxious about this book because it's way out of my comfort zone. I know, I know. You're probably thinking that I should write something a little bit less risky, and you're probably right. Maybe I should. But I really want to take this opportunity and platform to really challenge myself. Maybe I'm just overthinking this whole process as well as the book, which is making things more complicated than they should be.

At the end of the day, I just want to write something that will make the readers happy. I want to succeed in this project. To be honest, failure is my greatest fear. It's inevitable at times, I know, but it doesn't stop me from not fearing it. I tend to be such a perfectionist at times that it drives me mad. That's probably why I'm already having this writer's block so early in camp. I'm afraid that my project with flop. 

It's not that I don't have confidence in my writing. I think I've improved over the year and I think I will continue doing so. I'm just nervous because I've never written erotica. One of my best friends has labeled me as a prude, so to be writing an erotica is completely insane in my case. I think I honestly just need to chill out and just write the damn book. When everything is said and done, I can at least say I tried. 

I definitely won't give up. Not on this book, and definitely not on myself.

xoxo,

V

My Camp Nano project: The Daring Assignment!

Hi everyone! As some of you may or may not know, Camp NaNoWriMo starts in TWO days! TWO! I'm so pumped and ready to go! I've been tweaking the synopsis, outlining the story and just trying to get everything right. So, I'm giving you the synopsis of the story and introducing you to the characters of my new book!



Title: The Daring Assignment
Genre: Erotic Romance
Expected Release Date: September 30, 2014

Synopsis

She didn’t mean to hurt anyone, especially him…

Arianna Davenport is living the dream. She has a great career as a romance author, a successful boyfriend, and is the daughter to a New York power couple. With her standing, her family grooms her to be perfect. Despite having it all, something is missing in her life.

In an attempt to break away from her privileged, suffocating life, she’s in pursuit of finding her own path to happiness. After her literary agent gives her a risky mission, she sets out to write a best-seller that takes her out of her comfort zone. 

When she is thrown into the mix with only Zane to assist her, she quickly finds out she has to choose between her plush lifestyle or follow the new path she stumbled upon. In a short time, everything changes, all because of one Daring Assigment.

Characters

Arianna Donatelli is the main character of The Daring Assignment. When given a risky assignment from her literary agent, she goes on a journey to break free from her posh lifestyle that she feels suffocated by. Things take a turn for the worse when she gets deep into her project and it could cause her to lose everything and everyone she has known.

Julius Parker is the boyfriend of Arianna. The two were brought together at a charity function held by Parker's family, who are also financially successful. Being a third year associate as an investment banker, Julius is making money, but he wants more. In order to claim his part of his parents' estate, he must marry a woman of status. He seems to have his own motives when it comes to dating Arianna. She's everything that he could ask for in a woman: status, beauty, and money.

Zane Foreman is another important character. He's sexy, smooth, and did I mention that he's a chef? He owns a catering company that caters to many of the upper class citizens of New York. After running into Arianna at a night club, he volunteers to help her with her research assignment for her project, sending her world into a chaotic frenzy. Sparks are ignited and sometimes you get into a situation so deep that there's no way you can get out of it unscratched!

This spicy Colombian beauty is Gia Valenica, Arianna's best friend. Sex therapist by day and a dominatrix by night, Gia is Arianna's mentor for her project. She leads Arianna on a crazy adventure that's full of drinks, fun, and sex!

Julissa and DeAngelo Donatelli are Arianna's parents. They play a large role in the reason why she's so miserable with her life. They seem to control her with money, threats of being excommunicated and cut from their estate, and pushing her to "marry rich" since she decided to become an author, which they do not approve of. Once Arianna makes a huge decision, the couple must decide whether they want to lose their only child due to their own selfishness or if they'll just let her live her life.

This young lady here is the culprit of the entire situation. Meet Allison Britton, Arianna's literary agent. Allison proposes that Arianna writes something completely out of her comfort zone, something almost taboo to her. Knowing that Arianna is simply a romance author, Allison challenges her with a new genre in hopes of it becoming a best seller. Arianna accepts the assignment, but both women will soon find out whether or not the daring assignment will make or break Arianna at the end.

The Daring Assignment is coming soon!

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend! I...mostly played The Sims instead of outline like I was supposed to, but that's neither here nor there. 

As I stated on my author page, I am working on an erotic romance. I'm pretty nervous about it because this is way out of my comfort zone AND isn't something that I've written before. I think I'm more nervous because most of my friends think I'm a prude (which I may or may not be), so it's a bit unnerving to think about what I'm getting myself into.

I'm still working on a synopsis for it. Because I'm working on this book for Camp Nano (that starts in a few days), this book will be done by the end of July. The cover reveal for The Daring Assignment will be on September 2, 2014 and the book will be released on September 30th!

I'm pretty excited about starting this story and I most definitely can't wait to get started on it. I'm pretty sure you all will love it just as much as I love writing it!

xoxo,

Victoria