Spotlight & Giveaway: Snowbound Seduction by Melissa Schroeder

Posted March 10th, 2016 by in Blog / 71 comments

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Melissa Schroeder to HJ!
Spotlight&Giveaway

Hi Melissa and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Snowbound Seduction!

 

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

Snowbound SeductionSweet
Nourishment
Oven
Whipped Cream
Bread
Oil
Unwrap
Nibble
Delight

Savory
Entree
Decadent
nUtmeg
Cook
Tart
Ice cream
Overwhelming
Naughty

Please share the opening lines of this book:

Elaine Masterson had had enough. She stood in the kitchen, the entire staff watching her and Trevor MacMillian. They were waiting to see what she would do.

 

Was there a scene in this book that was harder to write than others?

I have to be honest. With this book, it was a delight to write from beginning to end. It isn’t always like that for me. Many times the love scenes hang me up because I am worried about having enough emotion in them. But with Trevor and Elaine, it just clicked. Maybe it was my love of food and cooking, and that being in a cabin like this in the Canadian Rockies would be a dream come true for me, but everything just hummed from beginning to end. I enjoyed them so much that none of it seemed to bother me much. I think that for me, when you get past the love of cooking, there is a little bit of me in each of them, and so it was like living out a fantasy of being a professional chef.

 

What do you want people to take away from reading this book?

I want them to have a warm fuzzy feeling…for the characters and the treats they cook up in and out of the kitchen.

 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

 

Giveaway: $10 GC to online book retailer of the winner’s choice.

 

To enter Giveaway: Please complete the Rafflecopter form and Post a comment to this Q: What is your favorite treat? Is it sinfully decadent filled with sugar yumminess, or do you go for savory delights?

 
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Book Info:

Trevor MacMillian is the tart and incredibly sexy executive chef who’s made pastry chef Elaine Masterson’s life a living hell. But when she catches him in nothing but a tiny little towel, it’s almost enough to make her forget they’re stranded in a luxurious mountain cabin together…or that she hates him almost as much as she craves him like a sinfully forbidden dessert.

Being alone in a romantic secluded cabin might just kill Trevor outright. If Elaine hates him now, how much will she hate him if she finds out he’s been fantastizing about her full, kissable lips? So Trevor argues with her. Makes her angry—until an intense and unexpected kiss turns their hostility into insatiable hunger. And with this much heat, the snowstorm outside doesn’t stand a chance…

This blizzard is blazing hot…

Entangled Publishing: http://www.entangledpublishing.com/snowbound-seduction/
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Snowbound-Seduction-Melissa-Schroeder-ebook/dp/B01CCWVUKW
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/snowbound-seduction-melissa-schroeder/1123474464
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/snowbound-seduction/id1088807028
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/snowbound-seduction-5

 
 

Meet the Author:

Melissa SchroederBorn to an Air Force family at an Army hospital, USA TODAY Bestselling author Melissa Schroeder has always been a little bit screwy. She was further warped by her years of watching Monty Python and her strange family. Her love of romance novels developed after accidentally picking up a Linda Howard book. From then on, she was hooked. She read close to 300 novels in one year and decided romance was her true calling instead of the literary short stories and suspense stories she had been writing. After many attempts, she realized that romantic comedy, or at least romance with a comedic edge, was where she was destined to be.

Influences in her writing come from Nora Roberts, Jenny Crusie, Susan Andersen, Amanda Quick, Jayne Anne Krentz, Julia Quinn, Christina Dodd, and Lori Foster. Since her first release in 2004, Melissa has written close to thirty short stories, novellas and novels released with seven different publishers in a variety of genres and time periods. Those releases included a 2005 Eppie Finalist, Two Capa finalists, and an International ebook best seller in June of 2005. Surrender was named top Category Romance by Authors After Dark, and she was named Author of the Year and Most Accessible Author.

Since she was a military brat, she vowed never to marry military. Alas, fate always has her way with mortals. Her husband is an Air Force major, and together they have their own military brats, two girls, and an adopted dog-daughter. They live wherever the military sticks them, which, she is sure, will always involve heat and bugs only seen on the Animal Discovery Channel. In her spare time, she reads, complains about bugs, travels, cooks, reads some more, watches her DVD collections of Arrested Development and Seinfeld, and tries to convince her family that she truly is a delicate genius. She has yet to achieve her last goal.

She has always believed that romance and humor go hand in hand. Love can conquer all and as Mark Twain said, “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Combining the two, she hopes she gives her readers a thrilling love story, filled with chuckles along the way, and a happily ever after.

SOCIAL MEDIA

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71 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Snowbound Seduction by Melissa Schroeder”

  9. erinf1

    I love sweet 🙂 Cheesecake, truffles, donuts, chocolate… I won’t turn any of them down! Thanks for sharing!

  11. Glenda

    Most of the time chocolate – especially dark chocolate with nuts and/or caramel.

  13. Veronika

    It all depends on my mood for me. I have a love of chocolate cake, but more often than not I go for nachos.

  21. Linda Brennan

    It depends on my mood. I like both sweet and savory, but I tend to want chocolate sweets more often. Thanks for the chance to win!!!

  27. Mary Preston

    It does depend upon my mood or tastes at the time – sometimes sweet, salty or savoury.

  28. angela smith

    i love rocky road ice cream and i love cheesecake..and chocolates with nuts..too many to choose

  29. laurieg72

    My favorite treat is Breyer’s Health Bar ice cream, slightly melted! I agree with you. You can’t beat a cabin in the woods, with a fireplace and a guy who loves to cook. DELICIOUS!

    I’d like to read Trevor and Elaine’s story.

  33. kermitsgirl

    It depends on my mood. Sometimes I crave salty, and I go for Ruffles and Helluva Good French Onion Dip. Other times, it’s all about the sweet, and I generally go for something like Lindt truffles or Rolos or Reese’s cups (pretty much any sweet-filled chocolate).

  36. Debbi Wellenstein

    For savory, it’s all about the bacon. For sweet, I will take strawberry shortcake any day!

  55. sylve T.

    i love brownies, especially if its a brownie sundae : ) its warm and oh so yummmmyyyy!!!

  58. Winnie Lim

    It would depend on my mood. Nachos with lots of cheese or brownie topped with ice-cream.

  60. Irma

    Mine has become Mon Cheri. It’s the only chocolade that my family doesn’t eat because they don’t like it 🙂 And it’s all mine.

  65. Connie East

    My favorite treat is to always have chocolate on hand. Preferably kisses or individually wrapped pieces.