Spotlight & Giveaway: Fool for You by Kelly Elliott

Posted June 1st, 2021 by in Blog, Spotlight / 41 comments

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Kelly Elliott to HJ!

Spotlight&Giveaway

Hi Kelly and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Fool for You!

 
Hi y’all!
 

Tell us about the book with this fun little challenge using the title of the book:

Making me think on this one!

F is for friends to lovers
O is for obstacles
O is for oh crap moments
L is laugh out loud moments

F is for forever love
O is for occasional tears
R is for that RING!

Y is for yearning
O is for omg can there BE anymore O’s in this title?
U – Undeniable chemistry

 

Please share the opening lines of this book:

A single hand waved in front of my face, drawing me out of my thoughts.
“Where did you go?” my father asked with a slight chuckle.
I shook my head and smiled.

 

Please tell us a little about the characters in your book.

Emmerson and Landon are two of my favorite characters! They are the kids from my Speed series and I always knew I would write their story.
They are best friends who have both been secretly in love with one another but both have been too afraid to admit. Throw in a misunderstanding, a fake engagement and bit of humor and you have the makings of a fun romance book!

 

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

  • I laughed a lot while writing it!
  • It’s a book a lot of my readers have been asking for!
  • There is one scene in the book that actually happened to me in real life.

 

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

Like I mentioned above, they have been best friends their entire lives. Their attraction to one another has been years in the making!

 

The First Kiss…

The first kiss is one under destress, but it’s a powerful one!

Suddenly and without warning, Landon leaned down and kissed me. Not a friendly peck on the cheek or lips, or the cute little forehead kisses he often gave me. He full-on kissed me.
And oh my word, what a kiss it was.

 

If your book was optioned for a movie, what scene would you use for the audition of the main characters and why?

There is a scene where Emmerson and Landon are on a roof top looking up at stars. I think the scene is a good mix of just how close they are, and the struggle of Landon to keep his feelings for Emmerson to himself.

“That is so not a cactus!” Emmerson said on a laugh as we lay side by side and stared up at the stars in the night sky from
her rooftop.
“Are you blind? Look, follow my finger, and I’ll trace it.”
She moved in closer, and when her body leaned into mine, I had
to suppress a groan.
With a giggle, Emmerson said, “Okay, maybe I see a cactus. I
still think it looks like a cat.”
I rolled my eyes and pushed her away, needing the space
between us before I rolled on top of her and kissed her. We lay there in silence for a few moments before she spoke.

 

If your hero had a sexy-times play list, what song(s) would have to be on it?

When You Kiss Me by Shania Twain.
All for You by Keith Urban
Body Heat by Selena Gomez

 

If you could have given your characters one piece of advice before the opening pages of the book, what – would it be and why?

To follow their hearts.

 

What are you currently working on? What are your up-coming releases?*

I’m currently finishing up writing She’s the One, the third book in my Boggy Creek Valley series.
After Fool for You, Playing with Words comes out on August 3, then Fated Hearts (The last book in the Southern Bride series), then She’s the One which releases on November 30.
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

 

Giveaway: Signed copy of Fool for You and open to all!

 

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Excerpt from Fool for You:

She flopped down on the sofa and sighed.
“How do you deal with those brides? I’d want to throat punch them.”
With a giggle, she snuggled into my side, and I had to focus on keeping my breathing even and my body at bay as she settled right next to me. We’d be doing this again for Monday movie as well. Christ.
“It’s all worth it on their wedding days. To see them so utterly happy and in love. All the pre-wedding hassle pays off.”
“Are you going to Instagram this?”
“Hell yes, I am. I’ve already asked the restaurant to send me pictures of the flooded dining room, and tomorrow I’ll take pictures of the tent when it’s set up. It will be good to show how well I can work under pressure.”
“Show off your super powers as a wedding planner, huh?”
She pinched my thigh. “It’s called smart marketing.”
Laughing, I hit start on the movie and everything fell into place.
This felt so damn normal. So right. I wouldn’t fucking snuggle up with any of my guy friends and watch a Disney movie. Hell, most of the women I’d dated wouldn’t have been interested in spending a night at home being lazy, looking at the sky, and then watching a kids’ movie. But with Emmerson, this all felt so right. We’d done this for as long as I could remember, and there was no better way to spend an evening in my book.
I looked at her light brown hair and fought the urge to kiss the top of her head. As if she had read my thoughts, she let out a soft sigh and relaxed deeper against me.
“Why does this feel so right?” she asked softly.
“What?” I asked, wondering if I had spoken my thoughts out loud.
“Just the two of us sitting here watching a movie. I feel so… content.”
I swallowed hard and stared down at her. What would happen if I told her how I felt? Would she laugh and tell me I was crazy? Would she pull back and tell me it would never work out? Or would she feel the same?
Could she really feel the same way? Emmerson hadn’t shown me any feelings other than friendship since we were in middle school. She had clearly put us in the friends-only box, and I was fucking sick of being trapped inside alone.
With the only answer I knew to give her, I replied, “I don’t know why it feels so right, but it always has.”
She moved to lay her head on my lap, and I quickly grabbed the blanket to put down and separate her head from my dick, which was already hard from her simply being snuggled up next to me.
Yawning, she said, “You put on my favorite movie. How did you remember I liked this movie?”
I used my fingers to brush her hair back behind her ear and stared at her beautiful side profile. “I remember everything, Emme.” She smiled, and I watched as she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. I vowed to not move a muscle if it meant having her near me
like this. And I didn’t. Not for the entire night.

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Book Info:

It was only supposed to be for a few months, so where was the harm in going along with it? That is, until the fake engagement Landon and I came up with after a misunderstanding threw us both into the spotlight, and threatened to destroy the lives we had both worked so hard for.

Somewhere along the way, though, we realized everything had changed. So, we made a vow to one another when we crossed the line from being best friends to lovers, that neither one of us would get hurt.

But that’s the thing about promises made, they are often broken, and the fallout can be catastrophic.

So, when the real world comes crashing down into the fake world we’d created, neither of us knew who would break our vow first, and more importantly, which one of us would survive the betrayal.

Fool for You is a complete stand along novel.
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Meet the Author:

Kelly Elliott is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author. Her bestselling works include, Wanted, Broken, Lost Love, and Never Enough, to name a few.

Kelly lives in central Texas with her husband, Gus, her chocolate lab, four cats, and endless wildlife creatures. When she’s not writing, Kelly enjoys reading and spending time with her family.

To find out more about Kelly and her books, you can find her through her website.

www.kellyelliottauthor.com
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41 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Fool for You by Kelly Elliott”

    • Ellen C.

      We were friend/acquaintances, then dated, became real friends, fell in love.

  23. Kay Garrett

    Yes! Hubby and I were complete opposites and didn’t even like one another. Few years pasted and we became great friends. Then slowly friendship turned to love. It’s been an awesome ride – not always smooth but well worth it.
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

  25. Patricia B.

    I never had a guy as a best friend. I had several that were good friends definitely in the friend only category. It didn’t take long after we met up again after 7 years to realize that we were a perfect match. Luckily he felt the same way. We celebrate our 49th anniversary this week.