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Elisabeth Joye!!!
Invisible
Ink by Elisabeth Joye
Title: Invisible
Ink
Release Date: Dec.
31, 2015
Genres: Erotic
Romance
Heat Level: Erotic
Word count: 36,410
Author: Elisabeth
Joye
Cover Design:
Amber Lea Easton
Invisible Ink on
Amazon: http://myBook.to/invisibleink
Blurb:
Lex has never felt
more exposed.
She has just
allowed Jake Reed, the lead singer of rock band Inkjet, to undress
her and tie her to a chair backstage after a show, only to have him
leave to go sign autographs.
It is the start of
a dark, obsessive relationship that will lead Lex, a 20-something
public relations professional from L.A., to lose herself almost
entirely as she struggles to break through her s*xual boundaries
without falling in love with Jake, an intimidatingly gorgeous
Hollywood actor/rock star who closely guards his emotions.
What starts as a
series of casual hookups ends up a powerful addiction that will push
Lex past all her s*xual boundaries as Jake moves repeatedly in and
out of her life, making few promises along the way. Lex fights to
keep a sense of herself while she succumbs to Jake’s glamorous
world and his irresistible allure.
Excerpt
“So you’re in
love with him, right?” Sammi asked as soon as I finished telling
her the story of my recent activities with Jake. We were at the pool,
soaking in the sun and sipping those cocktails that you don’t
realize are getting you drunk until it’s too late.
Drunk Sammi was an
expert at putting her old reporter skills to good use.
“In love with
him?” I avoided eye contact, put my blonde locks up in a bun and
played with the straps on my bikini. “No. It’s not like that.
He’s not even in L.A. right now.”
“Well, you
should see your face when you talk about him these days,” she said,
taking a sip from her pink straw. “You’re in so much trouble,
Lexi. I hope you don’t get pregnant.”
I laughed. “We
always use a condom, Sammi, You know about his manwhore ways.”
“Exactly. My
point exactly,” she said.
Since our night
together that turned into a morning together, Jake had been traveling
non-stop preparing for another new project. Other than his random
text messages, which kept me entertained on fall afternoons when
stuck at my desk, I tried not to think about him. He wasn’t around.
I didn’t want to waste time missing him.
I struggled,
however, because as the months passed since our first hookup, he was
more and more popular in the press, his face in magazines, in the
tabloids and his name on the lips of people that hadn’t even heard
of him a year ago.
But we weren’t
anything serious. We were just a s*x thing.
I stirred my drink
with the straw and thought about Sammi’s “love” comment for a
long time, staring up at a the palm tree over my head. “When I’m
with him,” I said. “It’s like…the real world doesn’t exist.
Thoughts don’t exist.”
Sammi sighed and
flipped from her back to her stomach.
“Trouble,” she
said.
* * *
It was 11 p.m. and
my phone buzzed next to me in bed. I was half asleep and rolled over
to glance at the screen.
"I must have
done something wrong in a past life."
Another weird text
from Jake. I could never be never sure he meant them for me.
He was thousands
of miles away telling me he had a bad day. Or maybe he had one in a
past life?
"I must have
been a crooked lawyer or a dentist or something," he said.
I pictured him
lying in bed alone with his phone and found myself missing him. I
shook the thought away.
"What’s
wrong?" I asked back.
"It was a
long day."
"Why?"
He didn’t write
back for a few minutes.
"I just
shouldn’t try to debate things with people when I’m exhausted,"
he wrote. He wasn’t joking or charming me. Maybe he had actual
human emotions?
“What happened?”
I wrote back, trying a third time to get him to tell me.
"Send me a
pic of u," he said.
Of course. Of
course he asked for a fucking picture.
"Only if you
tell me you know for sure who this is," I typed back.
"U doubt I
know who this is?" he said. "Your name rhymes with S-E-X."
I laughed out
loud.
"And you
taste great."
"Ok, keep
going," I typed. I could be bolder on the phone than I ever
could be in person with him. I didn’t have to look into his eyes on
the phone. Or risk him touching me and making me forget what air was.
"Don’t get
greedy," he wrote back.
Silence for a long
time, then the phone buzzed again.
"Where’s my
pic?"
I didn’t
respond.
"Ok. I’ll
play. You’re a good way to calm myself down,” he wrote.
An unlikely
compliment from him. I felt uneasy. Before he could type back
anything else, I stripped off my shirt and snapped a topless selfie
on the bed. After I cropped it and colored it the way I wanted, I
pressed send.
"Now I don’t
feel so calm," he said back. "Goodnight."
I stared at the
phone for a minute and then at the ceiling for another half hour.
Exhausted from
tossing and turning, I clicked the screen back to life.
"Now I can’t
sleep so you owe me,” I wrote.
* * *
A few days later,
a book arrived at my apartment. It was a collection of outdoor
photography, no words, only gorgeous pictures. Tucked inside, a typed
note.
"Next time
you can’t sleep, look at this and remember beauty is everywhere. –
J"
I wondered how
many other girls his assistant had sent this book to over the years.
Still, I smiled to myself there in my kitchen.
Author Elisabeth Joye:
Elisabeth Joye
used to write about Congress. Now, she writes about s*x. A former
political journalist, she’s wanted to write a romance novel since
she was 12 and finally found the inspiration to do it by
incorporating her love of concerts and musicians. Invisible
Ink is her first self-published
novella.
Elisabeth’s
philosophy when writing romance is simple – she writes what she
thinks is hot and hopes others will, too. She wants to create
characters who speak, act and fall in love like real people with
issues, flaws and fears. But, above all, the s*x is got to be hot.
When she’s not
writing, Elisabeth is a stay-at-home mom to her four-year-old son.
She loves fangirling her favorite celebrities and reading true crime
obsessively. She didn’t have a smartphone until 2013 and now
couldn’t live without social media and text messaging. She lives in
the Midwest with her husband and family.
Author Contact:
Buy link at
Amazon: http://myBook.to/invisibleink
Web site:
http://www.elisabethjoye.com
Amazon Author
Page: Author.to/ElisabethJoye
Twitter:
@elisabethjoye,
https://twitter.com/elisabethjoye
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/elisabethjoye
Goodreads Author
Page: http://bit.ly/GRElisabethJoye
Goodreads Book
Link: http://bit.ly/InvisibleInkGR
Interview With Elisabeth Joye:
1. Can you tell us a little about your book?
Invisible Ink is a erotic romance novella about the obsessive s*xual
relationship between a rockstar and a fan. Jake Reed is the lead
singer of rock band Inkjet, and Lex meets him backstage. The book gets
right down to the s*x, and it has a LOT of s*x in it. It traces Lex's
journey as she loses herself almost entirely in Jake's world and
struggles to break through her s*xual boundaries without falling in
love. Readers should expect a hot s*xual encounter in each chapter.
It's also a little different than other erotic romance out there,
uniquely structured and the dynamic between the characters is not
traditional. Expect a story that will keep you on your toes and turn
you on.
2. When did you know you wanted to write a book?I have always wanted to write a romance novel since I was in 6th grade
or so, reading them in secret at a friend's house. I ended up becoming
a newspaper reporter instead, but the idea of doing the romance novel
was always in the back of my head. I became a stay-at-home mom in 2009
and started writing the book in 2013, first as a Tumblr blog. I was
inspired by my love of concerts and rockstars, but that ended up not
being as important to the story as the relationship between Jake and
Lex.
3. How did you choose the genre you write in?I honestly didn't know a thing about the romance genre and all the
subgenres when I started writing this book. I didn't know anything
about the typical length of a novel, about the typical relationship
dynamics in erotic romance or even that I was writing "erotic
romance." I just wrote what I liked and then later figured out it was
an erotic romance novella.
4. When did you first start writing and when did you finish your first book?I started writing the story in December 2013. I finished writing and
having the book edited in August 2015.
5. Do you work with an outline, or just write?I worked chapter by chapter. I had an idea of a "scene" I wanted to
write, and then I fit that scene into the story as a chapter. I had no
idea where it was going or how it would end. The novella actually
originally had a different ending, but my Tumblr blog readers pushed
me to write an additional chapter to "wrap things up" better. The new
ending became probably my favorite part of the whole story.
write, and then I fit that scene into the story as a chapter. I had no
idea where it was going or how it would end. The novella actually
originally had a different ending, but my Tumblr blog readers pushed
me to write an additional chapter to "wrap things up" better. The new
ending became probably my favorite part of the whole story.
6. What inspires you to write?If I get an idea for something I think would be particularly hot, I'll
write it down. Maybe it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I always
start with the fantasy, the s*x, and go from there. If it ends up
something that turns me on, it will stay in the book. If not, I cut
it.
7. Do you have a favorite spot to write?I always write in Starbucks by my house. I can't work at home because
I have a three year old son and he has to have my attention if I'm
around.
8. Do you listen to music while you write?No, but I do get a lot of inspiration from my favorite music. I
actually just posted a list of songs on my blog that make me think
about Jake and Lex's relationship every time I hear them.
http://www.elisabethjoye.com/blog-1/2015/12/15/a-soundtrack
9. What do you do when you are not writing?I'm a stay-at-home mom to a wonderful three year old boy who is my
full-time job. :)
write it down. Maybe it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I always
start with the fantasy, the s*x, and go from there. If it ends up
something that turns me on, it will stay in the book. If not, I cut
it.
7. Do you have a favorite spot to write?I always write in Starbucks by my house. I can't work at home because
I have a three year old son and he has to have my attention if I'm
around.
8. Do you listen to music while you write?No, but I do get a lot of inspiration from my favorite music. I
actually just posted a list of songs on my blog that make me think
about Jake and Lex's relationship every time I hear them.
http://www.elisabethjoye.com/blog-1/2015/12/15/a-soundtrack
9. What do you do when you are not writing?I'm a stay-at-home mom to a wonderful three year old boy who is my
full-time job. :)
10. What are you working on next?
I've been writing a lot of short stories lately and posting them on my
blog. My plan is to wait and see how Invisible Ink does before I
decide whether I'm going to write another book.
I've been writing a lot of short stories lately and posting them on my
blog. My plan is to wait and see how Invisible Ink does before I
decide whether I'm going to write another book.
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