Welcome to the WordCrafter “The Rock Star & The Outlaw” Book Blog Tour
Posted: September 18, 2023 Filed under: Action/Adventure, Adventure, Blog Tour, Book Promotion, Book Release, Books, Fiction, Giveaways, Time travel, WordCrafter Book Blog Tours, WordCrafter Press | Tags: Kaye Lynne Booth, The Rock Star & the Outlaw, Time-travel adventure, WordCrafter Book Blog Tours, WordCrafter Press 18 Comments
About the Tour
Welcome to the WordCrafter The Rock Star & The Outlaw Book Blog Tour! We have a great tour planned this week and I hope you’ll visit each stop to learn more about what went into this exciting time-travel adventure. We have a great give-away, too, offering 5 digital copies of The Rock Star & The Outlaw. And you get an entry just for leaving a comment at each stop to let me know you were there. You’ll find the Tour Schedule below, so let’s get started!
Tour Schedule
The Rock Star & The Outlaw, by Kaye Lynne Booth – September 18 – 22
Monday – Sept. 18 – Opening Day – “Amaryllis & The Pretty Reckless” – Writing to be Read
Tuesday – Sept. 19 –“Writing with music and LeRoy McAllister & Review” – Carla Loves to Read
Wednesday – Sept. 20 – “The characters of Nick and Monique” – Writing to be Read
Thursday – Sept.21 – “Prostitution in the American West and the character of Maggie” – Roberta Writes
Friday – Sept. 22 – Closing Post – “Writing the Villian & Juan Montoya” – Writing to be Read
Amaryllis & The Pretty Reckless
Amaryllis Maria Sanchez is a composite character. She’s a cross between Sharon Stone’s character in Basic Instinct and Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless. She’s an adrenaline junkie, who likes to tempt death and lives life to the extremes. She’s a rock star who is at the top of her game when she’s on stage. After she kills her drug dealing, domineering boyfriend to save herself from his wrath, she figures she’s already damned herself, she figures she might as well ride out the storm that’s headed her way. But, when she crosses paths with a time-traveling cowboy who offers a way to stay ahead of the game and a place to run to where she won’t ever be found, she sees the potential for a whole new life of adventures.
Amaryllis began as a character like Sharon Stones character in Basic Instincts – a daring woman who plays a deadly game. I like Sharon Stone in just about anything, but I admired the way she played this character in particular. I challenged myself to create a character with that same adventuresome nature, and that self-confident, ‘on top of the world’ attitude.
The idea for her method for killing Claude came from an actual murder case I heard about on the news. I thought it was unique, and I knew I wanted to use it in a story.
My son introduced me to the music of The Pretty Reckless, and I fell in love with the voice of Taylor Momsen. Ibought their CDs and played them on my commute to work, and a story about a female rock singer began to form in my head, and the Sharon Stone-like character somehow merged in my mind with the woman who emerged in my mind from their music. That woman was a lot like my image of Taylor Momsen. And so, Amaryllis Maria Sanchez emerged on the page. Their music inspired me and I’d like to share some of it with you. The video is an official music video for “You”, by The Pretty Reckless.
About the Book
A time-traveler oversteps his boundaries in 1887. Things get out of hand quickly, and he is hanged, setting in motion a series of events from which there’s no turning back.
LeRoy McAllister is a reluctant outlaw running from a posse with nowhere to go except to the future.
In 2025, Amaryllis Sanchez is a thrill-seeking rock star on the fast track, who killed her dealing boyfriend to save herself. Now, she’s running from the law and his drug stealing flunkies, and nowhere is safe.
LeRoy falls hard for the rock star, thinking he can save her by taking her back with him. But when they arrive in 1887, things turn crazy fast, and soon they’re running from both the outlaws and the posse, in peril once more.
They can’t go back to the future, so it looks like they’re stuck in the past. But either when, they must face forces that would either lock them up or see them dead.
Book Trailer
About the Author
For Kaye Lynne Booth, writing is a passion. Kaye Lynne is an author with published short fiction and poetry, both online and in print, including her short story collection, Last Call and Other Short Fiction; and her paranormal mystery novella, Hidden Secrets; and book 1 of her Women in the West adventure series, Delilah. Kaye holds a dual M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing with emphasis in genre fiction and screenwriting, and an M.A. in publishing. Kaye Lynne is the founder of WordCrafter Quality Writing & Author Services and WordCrafter Press. She also maintains an authors’ blog and website, Writing to be Read, where she publishes content of interest in the literary world.
The Giveaway
Leave a comment below to enter the giveaway
for a chance at one of five digital copies of
The Rock Star & The Outlaw.
That wraps up the tour for today. Join us tomorrow on Carla Loves to Read for a guest post about the character of LeRoy McAllister and a review of the book.
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Kaye this is a great video for the book, I love your explanation of where you main protagonist comes from! Excellent 💜
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Willow. I was pleased with the results. I’m very excited about launching this one. 😊
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Best of luck with your book launch. It sounds clever!
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Thank you, Jacqui. I’ve had a lot of fun writing it. 😊
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Best Wishes for a successful book launch. It sounds intriguing. Look forward to reading it. 📚🎶 Christine
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Thanks Christine. 😊
As it happens, I was just reading “Three Years of Her Life” and it’s still sitting in my lap. Enjoying it, I must say. Lovely to have the print edition in my hands. 📖
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Thanks, Kaye Lynne. Glad you’re enjoying the book. I like print editions too. Nothing like the smell and feel of them. I’ve hit the 60,000 word count on the sequel. 20,000 to for November’s NaNoWriMo. I’m signed up for an accountability group. 📚🎶 Christine
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Yes, I plan to work on Sarah for my NaNoWriMo challenge this year. I have her outlined and ready to start Nov. 1. I think reading print is more relaxing. 🙂
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Great! Good luck with Sarah and NaNoWriMo. It is a challenge. Can you let your followers know how it’s going? A short blog? It might help a few of us taking it on. 📚 Christine
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Absolutely. That will make a great October blog post. Part of my prep is getting my blog posts through November scheduled ahead, so I can concentrate on the book. Thanks for expressing interest. 🙂
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Great. I really must post more blogs. I was thinking of doing excerpts of characters and events in the sequel. Marketing has to be better than the first book. I did a month long launch tour, but it wasn’t enough. You seem to be very organized. 📚🎶 Christine
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I’m glad that it comes off that way. I certainly don’t feel that way on this one. I had tech issues and was without my computer for a while, which threww me behind on everything. I posted this at 11:30 p.m. on opening day because I was still playing catch up. My tours are good for about a week or seven days tops. Anything longer and I think people grow board and lose interest. Plus, I don’t have enough hosts for a month long tour.
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Good to know, Kaye Lynne. That’s what I thought, too long on marketing and people get turned off. I only have a few hosts. Mostly market through my blogsite. Christine 📚
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Great post Kaye. I love the trailer.
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Thanks Carla. Me too.☺️
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