Gina Rae Mitchell

The Chase (Golden Shana Book 1) by A P von K’Ory | $50 Giveaway, Guest Post, Excerpt, and Review

A book blog tour from Goddess Fish Promotions.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and Marianne & Judy at Goddess Fish for providing me with the information for this tour.

Book Details

The Chase by A P von K'Ory
Series: Golden Shana #1
Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform on 04/08/2015
Genres: BDSM Erotica, Billionaire Romance, Fiction, Romantic Erotica
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 247

Roman, a native of Hamburg, is cultured, go-to-hell handsome, wealthier than is good for anybody, and nasty with it. But he has strong principles.

In the bedroom, he's an absolute Taipan, and only his rules count - but top among the rules is the complete satisfaction of the woman.

He prefers relationships that leave him the option to leg it when he wants to. And he thinks vanilla is something for the chef on the Queen Mary.

Until one evening at the opera house La Scala in Milan, when Roman glimpses at the woman who brings his dominant self-controlled detachment teetering on the brinks of insanity. He’s suddenly wedged between three women:

Marie feels struck by thunder when Roman suddenly ends their relationship at the blink of the eye via telephone… But she’s not the type to give up without a fight.

Alyssa, heiress to a bakery imperium, falls hard for Roman at first sight. She believes she has found the love of her life and the dominant of her dreams. Until she is confronted with the reality that Roman is simply using her to get to her best girlfriend, Shana.

Shana has absolute abhorrence and distaste for men when it comes to sex because one of them hurt her irreparably years and years ago. She swore to herself never to have anything to do with men again in this regard.

Then she finally meets Roman through Alyssa in Montreux and her body starts to speak a different language to that of her mind. But her will is stronger. Besides, her best girlfriend, Alyssa, is head over heels in love with Roman, and Shana has a stronger love for and bond with Alyssa.

The relentless chase begins, and what Roman wants, Roman gets.

And there’s a mysterious man who has woken up from the dead and is after Shana…

Source: Goddess Fish Promotions, Kindle Unlimited, Received from the author or publisher for review.

 

CW: Erotica, BDSM, Rape

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Excerpt from The Chase

Was it love I felt for Svadishana? A woman I’d spoken three whiny words – Please call me! – to? Was it more than simple lust and desire? Did I want to possess more than just her body? Pondering these questions alone was so unlike me. That woman had turned me into an alien even unto my own self. What I felt, my inner voice said, was more than the thrill of the hunt. More than lust, desire, need, passion, the excitement of possession, and subjugation. Of course, all that was part of it. But the basis or the source, the seedbed on which all that sprouted and was growing to full blossom in me, could well be something else.

When I thought of her, saw her image from Milan in my mind, watched how she moved in long smooth strides on YouTube, my brow beaded with sweat. I couldn’t pull my gaze away from the few photos I’d fished out of the Internet. Group photos at a family birthday or the authorized biography of her father. Her movements in a YouTube conference clip were springy and powerful even in their smoothness. She exuded strength all over the place, laughing, talking, gesticulating.

A breath-taking beauty. Such beauty that I dared not believe it at times.

And brains to go with it.

In love or not, I knew what I wanted and Svadishana was the answer. I wanted her and would do anything short of suicide to get her. Who knows – perhaps when it came to that as the only means available, I’d really murder too. I didn’t in the least care about the consequences, as long as they got me to where I wanted to get to.

Svadishana’s arms and knickers and… heart?

What obsession, Roman. Get back to real.

No chance. Real was Svadishana.

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Purchase Links for The Chase

Amazon     Bookshop/IndieBound

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My thoughts on The Chase

The Chase will appeal to readers that enjoy a heavy dose of steamy eroticism with not only an alpha male but also an alpha female lead.

While it is not for every reader, there is definitely an audience for a billionaire erotic tale, maybe even amongst my readers.

The book is full of intrigue, suspense, and mystery, as well as the erotic aspects.

Please note the trigger warnings listed above.

I received a copy of the book for the tour.

I read as many books as possible through the Amazon Kindle Unlimited program. This review is my honest, unbiased opinion.

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A Guest Post from A P von K’Ory

(author of The Chase, Book 1 of the Golden Shana Trilogy)

About Choosing Your Novel’s Title by A P von K’Ory

I read an article in Writer’s Digest about how to choose a title for your book, and it reminded me of my own inadequacies in this task.

I remembered when my publishing editor Bruce Cook edited my first novel back in 2015. A literary work I had titled Jungle Habits. Bruce said (to put it loosely): Nope, this title doesn’t do the book justice. This book is more than jungle and habits; it’s all about tradition and the desire to adhere to them in a changing world, for a young African girl torn between modernity and her traditional African/Kenyan/Luo upbringing.

Bang!

I changed the title to Bound to Tradition, now a trilogy, and the book that won me three prizes including the Netherlands PADDI prize:  Achievers’Award for Writer of the Year.

Another title I had to change was Helena’s Secret, which does involve the heroine’s deep-seated secret about her biological heritage that she hides from the world. It is a secret that has become a huge roadblock in the fulfillment of young Helena’s romantic yearnings and makes her give romance a wide berth.

Until true love steps between her and her roadblock and demands full attention. My Australian editor extraordinaire, Kenneth Mulholland, called the title “pedestrian, like The Day Kate Went to the Market”. And I changed the title, first to Secret Shades of Fading Blood, then to simply Secret Shades (now a two-book novel – Secret Shades Aroused, and Secret Shades Revealed).

Secret Shades as a title is short and memorable, and a lot more intriguing because it leaves that potent word “Secret” in place while adding in “Shades” which conjures up anything from sunglasses to ghosts. In truth, the “secret” is about Helena’s mixed heritage.

Apparently, even F. Scott Fitzgerald was asked by his publisher to change the title of his novel, which we all know as The Great Gatsby. The famous writer’s original title for the book was Trimalchio in West Egg. Would you have been drawn into picking up, let alone buying, a book with that title?

Readers, as a rule of thumb, are drawn to a book not only by its cover but also by what the title conjures up in their minds. Not an easy task especially for a new writer who needs to attract a readership. After all, we are writers, creators of the secret world’s mushrooming in the space between our ears, not experts in luring other people’s tastes and preferences to our lair so that they come and consort with us.

At least I’m not the market-first-thinker; I can’t create when I bow to the publisher’s wish for me to come up with something that loosens the reader’s purse strings. That kills my creativity altogether. I’m more the campfire evening, come-one-come-all storyteller. I have my world in my heart and soul and it screams at me to create and narrate it. I want to share it with everybody willing to stay up late and listen to my tale while we gaze at the starry night. But the right title is crucial to me too. It’s my conch to alert listeners to come and gather around the campfire.

The title should be short, unique, memorable, and have some wordplay that compels and evokes the right imagery. It’s the first thing the potential reader sees of your writing. If you can, use a punch-packing one-word title, make sure it reflects your genre. Below is a little list of successful and famous titles that got revamped, on the left is the original title, and on the right is the final title:

 

First Impressions → Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Something That Happened → Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

Atticus → To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Fiesta → The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

Tomorrow is Another Day → Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

Stranger From Within → Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

Twilight → The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)

All’s Well that Ends Well → War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

They Don’t Build Statues to Businessmen → Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann)

The Mute → The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)

 

Eeek, correct? I would never have picked up the book with some of the titles at all.

You can also choose a title by asking and answering questions such as

WHO is the book about? Examples: Oliver Twist by Dickens, Forest Gump by Winston Groom, Lord of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

WHAT is the book about? The Hunt for Red October (Clancy), The Hunger Games (Collins)

WHERE does the story take place? A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)

WHEN does the story take place? Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)

WHY should someone get curious to read the book? As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)

Or you can conjure up phrases like Gone Girl, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Girl on the Train, About a Boy, and so on.

Finally, titles can be drafted first too, and have to be treated as a priority as well. You can also ask your readers or writing group members to suggest a title for your story.

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Giveaway!

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Visit more stops on the tour for extra chances to win!

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October 5: Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
October 7: Romance Novel Giveaways
October 12: The Avid Reader
October 14: Gina Rae Mitchell – review
October 19: One World Singles Blog
October 21: Booklover-Sue
October 26: Author C.A.Milson
October 28: Fabulous and Brunette

November 2: Christine Young
November 4: Underneath the Covers
November 9: Coffee and Wander Book Reviews
November 11: Cover To Cover Cafe
November 16: The Key Of Love
November 18: Author Deborah A. Bailey Blog
November 23: Don’t Judge, Read
November 30: Ellwyn Autumn’s Blog

December 2: It’s Raining Books
December 7: Harlie Williams, Writer
December 9: Archaeolibrarian – I Dig Good Books!
December 14: The Faerie Review
December 16: Dawn’s Reading Nook
December 28: Iron Canuck Reviews & More – review
December 30: The Obsessed Reader

January 4: books are love
January 6: Sadie’s Spotlight
January 11: Wendi Zwaduk – Romance to Make Your Heart Race
January 13: Long and Short Reviews
January 18: The Eclectic Review

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