Monday, 25 February 2013
Brook Cottage Books is thrilled to welcome Stephanie Cage! Stephanie's new book Perfect Partners is released today. Before finding out about the lovely Ms Cage lets reveal the cover and find out a little about the new book which is launced TODAY!
I think you will agree that the book cover is fab! Love it!
About Perfect Partners
“What’s he doing back in London
after all this time?”
Eight years ago, Lisa Darby’s dancing partner and first love, Redmond
Carrington, left London for a fun summer on the cruise ships – and never came
back. Lisa’s grown up a bit since then, and she’d like to think she’s prepared
for anything, but when Red comes back from America with a proposal for her,
she’s not sure she’s ready for what he’s suggesting.
A TV studio is filming a knockout competition of six of the world’s
best couples – each of them partners both on and off the dance floor. Redmond
wants Lisa to pose as his girlfriend so that they can compete. It’s an
unbelievable opportunity for an aspiring professional dancer, and the
spectacular prize money would help save Lisa’s beloved dance studio, which is
in need of major renovation. Scooping the prize is going to take the
performance of a lifetime from Lisa and Redmond, but with the sizzling tension
between them, they might just pull it off.
It turns out that putting on an act for the cameras is the least of
Lisa’s worries. As time goes on and she rediscovers her feelings for Redmond,
she’s left questioning what’s really behind his offer, and where their
partnership is heading this time.
This is a book for people who love the glitz and glamour of Strictly
Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars, and want to be swept off
their feet by a powerful hero who has all the right moves. I loved writing about Redmond and Lisa
because they’re both strong people, great at what they do, and used to fending
for themselves, and they find it quite challenging being in a situation where
they can only succeed together. True
love is so much more rewarding when it has obstacles to overcome, don’t you
think?
Fiction was my first love, and as a child I spent most of my spare time
reading and writing, so nobody was much surprised when I was accepted to Oxford
University to study English Literature.
While at university, I discovered ballroom dancing and my experiences on
the dance team sowed the seeds of my first full-length novel, Perfect
Partners. Since then I have worked
in marketing and administration, studied for a Master of Arts in Creative
Writing at Bath Spa University, won two major short story competitions (the
Woman’s Own short story competition and the Yorkshire Ridings Romance
Competition) and watched almost every episode of Strictly Come Dancing
ever made.
Most of my favourite films involve dancing, and when I’m not reading,
writing or working, I can often found at the theatre, watching musicals. My author photograph was taken when I went
to London to see the filming of Strictly Come Dancing live at
Wembley. It was so much fun to see how
the show is put together, and to get close to all the celebrities and professionals
and see how hard they all work and what a great atmosphere there is on
set.
Perfect
Partners is my first full-length
book, but I also have a novella, Desperate Bid, published by The
Wild Rose Press. Both my books are very
much stories about love in the modern world.
Lisa in Perfect Partners is taking part in a reality TV
show. In Desperate Bid my hero
Alex, an aspiring musician, is tired of going nowhere, and in a moment of
drunken madness puts his life up for sale on an online auction site. Sarah, the heroine of Desperate Bid,
is looking for a way to impress her boss and stave off the sale of the events
company where she works, and decides Alex might provide the answer. When she meets Alex, the attraction between
them threatens to derail all her plans, and she has to decide what’s most
important: the safe future she thought she was looking for, or the dreams
Alex’s music reawakens in her.
I had so much fun writing the songs in Desperate
Bid that I went on to attend an Arvon foundation course on writing
musicals, taught by playwright and musician Willy Russell, and I hope one day
to finish writing a musical and maybe even see it performed. In the meantime, I’m keeping busy with,
amongst other things, a sequel to Perfect Partners, which has the
working title A Step in the Right Direction.
Links:
Website: http://www.stephaniecage.co.uk
Twitter: @Stephaniewriter
Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Stephanie-Cage/e/B00AP616GG
Desperate Bid on Amazon:
Perfect Partners on Crimson Romance:
Thanks for hosting me today! I'm very excited to be here at Brook Cottage Books on launch day!