Sidney Ayers Guest Blog, Author of Demons Prefer Blonde

Sidney Ayers Guest Blog, Author of Demons Prefer Blondes

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sidney Ayers writes light paranormal and erotic romance. Her manuscripts have won or placed in the MORWA Gateway to the Best, the Valley of the Sun Hot Prospects, the Passionate Ink Stroke of Midnight, the Heart of Denver Molly, and the Finally a Bride contests. She lives in Michigan where she is working on the next book in the Demons Unleashed series, Demons Like it Hot—in stores December 2011. For more information, please visit http://www.sidneyayers.com/.

...I asked Sidney how she would feel if her book was ever optioned for film, below is her response...

If My Book Is Ever a Film – A girl can dream, right?

When I saw this question pop up, I just had to answer it. Who would I like to see play my characters? Funny thing is, when I look for images of my characters, I deliberately avoid those of celebrities and opt for unknown models from stock photos instead. After the characters get more developed, though it gets a little easier to pick out who’d play my characters best. It’s every author’s dream to see their characters live on the big screen, right? Gosh, I hope so, or I am indeed weird.

So let’s get this show on the road.

Lucy Gregory is the heroine from Demons Prefer Blondes. She’s a no-nonsense, quite sarcastic, hairstylist who just happens to be a half-succubus. She doesn’t discover this, however, until she accidentally unleashes a legion of demons in her suburban hair salon. She’s got shoulder length, stylish hair and greenish-gold hazel eyes.  She’s beautiful, but not full of herself. Matter of fact, she doesn’t really see herself as beautiful at all—until her transformation, that is. Then there is no denying her steamy sensuality. Jessica Biel would make a great Lucy. She’s played some straight-forward, sarcastic roles and has the look I saw Lucy having. And we can’t deny that Jessica is gorgeous.

Now, for Rafe. This is going to be a little trickier. He’s pretty stony and reserved. He’s got a muscular body with shoulder-length, uber-gorgeous dark hair. To make things even more complicated, he’s got silver eyes. Thank god for contacts—and hair dye, of course. I could totally see Australian actor Dustin Clare playing Rafe Deleon. For those who are unfamiliar with Dustin, he plays Gannicus on Starz’s Spartacus Gods of the Arena. The penetrating gaze in this picture says it all.

Yummy, right?

I even found someone who could play my bad guy, Belial, the leader of the Infernati. Belial has blonde hair and can be swank and debonair. He’s attractive, if you can get past the stench of brimstone that clings to him. As much as I love Paul Bettany, he can definitely play a bad guy. Who can forget that creepy performance in The Davinci Code?

So if you’ve written a book, who would you cast as your hero and heroine? Or if you’re a reader, who would you cast in your favorite book?

DEMONS PREFER BLONDES BY SIDNEY AYERS – IN STORES JUNE 2011

A Bad Day For A Demon

Rafe Deleon is a senior demon and he resents like hell his assignment to Earth to retrieve the Chest of the Damned before it falls into the wrong hands. But then he meets beautiful, intriguing succubus Lucy Gregory, and she’s just unleashed a whole load of trouble…

Really Sucks For A Succubus

Lucy’s chic suburban beauty salon has suddenly become the Underworld’s center of mass chaos and destruction. The only good thing in a day going rapidly down the tubes is the arrival of a gorgeous demon who’s adamant that he can help her…

But Lucy has quite a few deeply unpleasant—not to mention deadly and hateful—surprises ahead of her, and surely there’s never been a worse time to try out a new boyfriend…

Giveaway Time 2 lucky people will get a copy of this book........... all you have to do is comment on this post with your email address before midnight June 14( US and Canada only sorry)

Book review, Guest post and giveaway from Danielle Weiler: author of Friendship on Fire

                                                        Friendship on Fire 

Author: Danielle Weiler

Avaliable: 2011

Synopsis:The first few days of year 12 are disastrous for school captain Daisy Brooks.

But Daisy’s life takes a sudden turn when she is dared by Skye, the leader of the Blonde Brigade, to meet the mysterious, drop-dead gorgeous stranger, Nate, from rival school Addison Grammar. Daisy’s instant attraction to him disrupts her world. But what about her best friend Roman? How will he respond to this intruder?
Daisy is a vulnerable, yet fiery girl going through the chaotic phase between teenage and adulthood. She is about to discover the complexities of relationships, the etiquette of friendship and, most of all, her development as a woman.
Is it too late for Daisy to realise that the choices she makes shapes who she is and who she will become?


A young girl with a temper, who could  resist. Daisy's story takes us the reader on a world wind adventure through life as a senior in high school in Austrailiia.
You get it all from this book, Humor, love friendship and more. The author makes you want to read this book. A non stop never a dull moment  read. I recomend this book to all my followers.

Author; Danielle Weiler shares a little about the main character of the book in this guest post, but first a bit about the author.


Danielle, a 26-year-old author and teacher who is living in Perth, WA(Australia). Her first novel, "Friendship on Fire" was published in March 2011 by Sid Harta Publishers. YAY. She has a ranga cat and a husband who loves her. Isn't the world grand.


Who is Daisy? An in-depth look at the main character from Friendship on Fire.

Daisy Brooks lives inside my head. Not as an imaginary friend would, nor an alter ego. She is someone I created but still very much has a mind of her own. She starts off as a fiery yet impressionable seventeen-year old with accidentally dyed red hair at a conservative school where she is school captain with her best friend, Roman. Through her experiences during her final year of school she changes into an eighteen-year old who has her own honey blonde hair colour back, her identity challenged, is wiser, more mature and knows what she wants out of life, love and herself. But how did she get there?

Daisy came to me on the tail end of a dream while I was living in Melbourne in 2009. At the exact moment the words started flowing in my mind, I was filled with a duplicit feeling of dread and excitement; dread because I knew I didn’t have time to write the epic tale that was forming at 7am on a Sunday morning, and excitement because I knew the story was inspired and I absolutely couldn’t not write it down. I remember making a bargain with the man upstairs: if I give the energy to write this book, you better allow people to be able to read it. So I sat on the couch next to my husband and he let me live in another world for a few hours every day.

For the next 3 months, everything I had to do outside of writing was a chore. Daisy’s voice was so strong and her story so clear that I swore I could have finished the story in a week - but of course that would have been near impossible and would have rendered my wrists utterly useless with RSI (which it did anyway). I wanted to take the laptop with me everywhere but my husband wouldn’t have been too impressed if I was typing while he was playing an important game of basketball.

I didn’t have trouble with ideas for Daisy’s world: I just had to call on my life as a seventeen-year-old and all those angsty feelings. I tried to establish a contemporary Australian environment: Daisy’s home town ‘Twin Rocks’ is a mixture of my favourite places in Australian cities, be it parks, shops, supermarkets, beaches, houses…Daisy’s job at McDonalds came from 3 years of working with my brothers during school to make that extra pocket money. Daisy’s supportive parents and hilarious older brothers are from my memory but only as a sentiment, of being loved as well as teased incessantly. The hot new guy who can do anything – play soccer, choose perfect dates, steal and drive his dad’s fancy car to best friend’s party, was so much fun to write because I got to use my imagination. The best friend of the opposite sex in supporting character Roman came from more recent experiences rather than a specific high school person, but I can’t say any more than that!

Where else did Daisy come from? My friends have said Daisy is an extension of myself; my mannerisms and expressions…and I suppose this is true in the purest sense of the idea. My sense of humour, my strong sense of justice; but my experiences aren’t Daisy’s and nothing happened to her that directly happened to me. It was a pretty good assumption of ‘what would I do if this was said to me?’ or ‘what would hot arrogant guy from when I was 17 have said to a girl if she challenged him on this?’ type of thing.

What I’m trying to say is, I didn’t have to go too far outside my own realm of experience or comfort in order to write the story, and I think in a lot of ways this is what makes Friendship on Fire and the characters in it so relatable to people. They have enough time to immerse themselves in the 471 pages and live out Daisy’s last year of high school with her, rather than being rushed through a story and left wondering the answers to more questions than having a feeling of satisfaction at the end. I wanted readers to feel satisfied by Daisy’s life, and that is very much a ‘me’ sort of thing. 

  
Show your love and support like the face book fan page and check her out on Twitter

NOW for the GIVEAWAY!!!! One person will win a copy of the book all you have to do is be a follower of this blog and Danielle's blog and comment below about this post make sure to leave your email address. The winner will be selected via Random.org on MAY 5

Guest post and giveaway from Danielle Weiler: author of Friendship on Fire

Author; Danielle Weiler shares a little about the main character of the book in this guest post, but first a bit about the author.


Danielle, a 26-year-old author and teacher who is living in Perth, WA(Australia). Her first novel, "Friendship on Fire" was published in March 2011 by Sid Harta Publishers. YAY. She has a ranga cat and a husband who loves her. Isn't the world grand.


Who is Daisy? An in-depth look at the main character from Friendship on Fire.

Daisy Brooks lives inside my head. Not as an imaginary friend would, nor an alter ego. She is someone I created but still very much has a mind of her own. She starts off as a fiery yet impressionable seventeen-year old with accidentally dyed red hair at a conservative school where she is school captain with her best friend, Roman. Through her experiences during her final year of school she changes into an eighteen-year old who has her own honey blonde hair colour back, her identity challenged, is wiser, more mature and knows what she wants out of life, love and herself. But how did she get there?

Daisy came to me on the tail end of a dream while I was living in Melbourne in 2009. At the exact moment the words started flowing in my mind, I was filled with a duplicit feeling of dread and excitement; dread because I knew I didn’t have time to write the epic tale that was forming at 7am on a Sunday morning, and excitement because I knew the story was inspired and I absolutely couldn’t not write it down. I remember making a bargain with the man upstairs: if I give the energy to write this book, you better allow people to be able to read it. So I sat on the couch next to my husband and he let me live in another world for a few hours every day.

For the next 3 months, everything I had to do outside of writing was a chore. Daisy’s voice was so strong and her story so clear that I swore I could have finished the story in a week - but of course that would have been near impossible and would have rendered my wrists utterly useless with RSI (which it did anyway). I wanted to take the laptop with me everywhere but my husband wouldn’t have been too impressed if I was typing while he was playing an important game of basketball.

I didn’t have trouble with ideas for Daisy’s world: I just had to call on my life as a seventeen-year-old and all those angsty feelings. I tried to establish a contemporary Australian environment: Daisy’s home town ‘Twin Rocks’ is a mixture of my favourite places in Australian cities, be it parks, shops, supermarkets, beaches, houses…Daisy’s job at McDonalds came from 3 years of working with my brothers during school to make that extra pocket money. Daisy’s supportive parents and hilarious older brothers are from my memory but only as a sentiment, of being loved as well as teased incessantly. The hot new guy who can do anything – play soccer, choose perfect dates, steal and drive his dad’s fancy car to best friend’s party, was so much fun to write because I got to use my imagination. The best friend of the opposite sex in supporting character Roman came from more recent experiences rather than a specific high school person, but I can’t say any more than that!

Where else did Daisy come from? My friends have said Daisy is an extension of myself; my mannerisms and expressions…and I suppose this is true in the purest sense of the idea. My sense of humour, my strong sense of justice; but my experiences aren’t Daisy’s and nothing happened to her that directly happened to me. It was a pretty good assumption of ‘what would I do if this was said to me?’ or ‘what would hot arrogant guy from when I was 17 have said to a girl if she challenged him on this?’ type of thing.

What I’m trying to say is, I didn’t have to go too far outside my own realm of experience or comfort in order to write the story, and I think in a lot of ways this is what makes Friendship on Fire and the characters in it so relatable to people. They have enough time to immerse themselves in the 471 pages and live out Daisy’s last year of high school with her, rather than being rushed through a story and left wondering the answers to more questions than having a feeling of satisfaction at the end. I wanted readers to feel satisfied by Daisy’s life, and that is very much a ‘me’ sort of thing. 

  
Show your love and support like the face book fan page and check her out on Twitter

NOW for the GIVEAWAY!!!! One person will win a copy of the book all you have to do is be a follower of this blog and Danielle's blog and comment below about this post make sure to leave your email address. The winner will be selected via Random.org on MAY 2