Updated: Some were unable to click on the image to view the Delilah’s trailer, so I’m providing the exact link to view the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BweL6FyPjm4
About Delilah:
Behind every successful man is a good woman. The downfall of a good man is a woman up to no good.
Delilah Baker is hired to find out Samson’s Achilles heel. Money isn’t Delilah’s only motivation for taking the assignment. Delilah has fallen in love with the local minister. In her mind, there is only one person standing in her way of getting Samson—his fiancée, Julia.
When Samson realizes the length Delilah will go through to get her man, Samson vows to protect his ministry by any means necessary.
Here’s the first book trailer for my upcoming novel Delilah:
About Delilah:
Behind every successful man is a good woman. The downfall of a good man is a woman up to no good.
Delilah Baker is hired to find out Samson’s Achilles heel. Money isn’t Delilah’s only motivation for taking the assignment. Delilah has fallen in love with the local minister. In her mind, there is only one person standing in her way of getting Samson—his fiancée, Julia.
When Samson realizes the length Delilah will go through to get her man, Samson vows to protect his ministry by any means necessary.
Bettye Griffin is the author of A New Kind of Bliss, Once Upon A Project, If These Walls Could Talk, Nothing But Trouble, and The People Next Door. A native of Yonkers, New York, she now lives in Southeast Wisconsin with her husband. She’s stops by today to discuss what many avid readers like–sequels.
One of the most challenging aspects of writing for today’s audience is that readers don’t want “The End” to really mean, well the end. Even with a story that ties up all loose ends (and in my opinion a good story should, unless another installment is going to follow in a month or two), the question is almost inevitable: When will the sequel be out?
I received many such requests following the publication of my debut work of women’s fiction, The People Next Door, in 2005. I resisted the idea at first—I wanted to move on to other storylines and characters—but then an idea began to form, and before I knew it I had an entire storyline to update readers on what those initial characters are doing now. That story is being published under the title Trouble Down The Road and will be available to consumers on April 27th.
Readers have been emailing me as they’ve learned that my new book features characters from The People Next Door as well as my sophomore women’s fiction effort, Nothing But Trouble It’s really a compliment to a writer when readers ask for a sequel, for it shows that they’ve made a connection with the characters the writer created and want to know, and then what happened? But, just as Trouble Down The Road was written five years after the publication of The People Next Door, the action also takes place five years later. That’s the type of sequel that works best for me…one that allows both myself and the characters to grow. The long time lapse also means it’s not a requirement for readers to pick up copies of The People Next Door (although I wouldn’t mind it, of course.) The actions of the past are touched on sufficiently to bring new readers up to speed about what they need to know about the characters’ pasts.
How do you like your sequels?
About Trouble Down the Road:
From the author of The People Next Door comes a smart, sexy new novel that peeks behind the curtains of one very complicated Florida cul-de-sac, where the neighbors are a little too close for comfort…
Suzanne and Brad Betancourt have a lot to be grateful for—their home, their children, and each other. They’ve even survived the fact that Brad’s ex-wife lives next door and Suzanne’s intrusive mother and siblings are just down the road. But Suzanne’s confidence unravels at Brad’s fiftieth birthday blowout, when young, voluptuous, neighbor Micheline brings a specially wrapped gift: herself. Suddenly, Suzanne feels like she’s the one having the midlife crisis…
Hoping to impress Brad, and ease family troubles that are already straining their relationship, Suzanne goes into business with a friend. But the endeavor stretches her too thin, leaving Brad hurt and alienated. Soon he begins to distance himself from her—moving right into the waiting arms of Micheline, who is all too ready to ditch her own husband.
Now, with marriages on the line across the neighborhood, Suzanne and Brad will have to question their notion of loyalty to one another—and to themselves.
Four years ago I embarked on a journey that I called Writing, in that time I had no idea how many stories I had in me or how many I really wanted to tell…so I decided to tap into my faith and simply write…to date I have published eleven books, nine of which were my solo efforts, one an anthology entitled, Women Writes with Jennifer Coissiere, Darnetta Frazier and Shanieka Ferguson. I also published Football Travels by Tembe Jones. However, with all the writing and publishing I have done in my life is my mentoring by writing which I entitled RAMBLINGS that has blessed me most…February 2009, I published RAMBLINGS: A Booked Blog and was blown away by the response.
Almost immediately I was asked to do volume II so RE-Rambled: Food and Thought was born. Just today it was confirmed for me I had something to offer in this writing ministry when a 70 year old woman who has had two radical mastectomies, full hysterectomy due to uterine cancer and is the main support of a nineteen year-old autistic grandson told me that RAMBLINGS: A Booked Blog felt like she was lying on my couch and I was providing her with counseling for $10. So I encourage you to come on this Re-Rambled Journey with me and take from it what you can, the rest pass on to someone else….BE THE PEACE YOU SEEK
Love, BLESSINGS and Peace
Angelia Vernon Menchan
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I want to thank everyone for following me on the Hollywood Deception Red Carpet tour. I have a few more stops to make this week, so hang on in there with me. In addition, there will be two guest bloggers stopping by SheliaGoss.com this week so you don’t want to miss it.
