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Conference Thursday is back, kicking off the third round in the Five Words Fiction game, and featuring another fabulous Rust City Book Con author. Today, please welcome
Conference Thursday is back, kicking off the third round in the Five Words Fiction game, and featuring another fabulous Rust City Book Con author. Today, please welcome
MK Schiller!
Hi all, I'm MK Schiller. I write contemporary romance - a hopeless romantic in a hopelessly pragmatic world. I have a full time life and two busy teenagers, but in the dark of night, I sit by the warm glow of my computer monitor, and attempt to conjure up passionate heartwarming stories with plenty of humor.
I started imagining stories in my head at a very young age. In fact, I got so good at it that friends asked me to create plots featuring them as the heroine and the object of their affection as the hero. We'd spend hours on the phone while I came up with a series of unrealistic, yet tender events, which led to a satisfying conclusion. You've heard of fan fiction... this was friend fiction.
Even with that, it took many years to realize I could produce an actual full-length book that readers would enjoy. I try to make my stories humorous, realistic, with flawed but redeeming characters. I hope you enjoy my stories and always find The Happily Ever After in every endeavor.
My most recent book, Unwanted Girl, is a multicultural romance between an East Indian girl and New York City author.
Friend fiction -- what a cool hobby! Your friends must adore you. Would you believe I did a similar thing in high school? Except they weren't nice at all. Mostly I wrote little things mocking the teachers I didn't like. And I never showed them to anyone! Ok, MK -- may I call you MK?-- let's talk about RustCity!
You can totally call me MK! Let's go!
1. Fill in the blank: "I used to be really good at Scrabble , but these days I'm pretty rusty." Ooo, I love Scrabble, but I don't like to play where everybody makes those parallel words with 4 or 5 two letter words? I am outclassed there.
2. Eminem or Aretha? Explain.
Hmm...interesting. Truth is, I love all types of music, but I'm partial to Eminem. Or actually, Kid Rock. I've actually been kicked out a Kid Rock concert before (shhh!). OK, wait. I'm trying to imagine what might get a person KICKED OUT from there... (you can tell me at the con, I'll take it to the grave, pinky swear).
3. Choose One:
Vernors
Faygo
I'm confused. And not from around here.
4. What are you looking forward to most at the RustCity conference? Getting to know other local authors and readers. I love talking about books and getting new recommendations too. Most of all, I'm so happy some of my pals are attending too.
5. Which is NOT an actual community in Michigan? (no googling!)
Bad Axe
Mullet Lake
Alpha
Hero
Colon
Kalamazoo
(The correct answer is "Hero." I got very tickled at some of the names, especially when I saw that "Alpha" was one!)
6. Your latest work of fiction features a wealthy industrialist and an R&B singer. What's the first sentence? "I was a confident, wealthy woman who could buy and sell him a million times over, but for whatever reason, Anthony's smooth buttery voice churned me into a giddy school girl. "
Optional: What's it about? Constance Malory, a rags to riches girl who found her fortune in publishing finally meets the one man who challenges her. Problem is, R & B singer, Sloan Monroe is not the kind of man to play second trumpet to the woman he loves.
(oooh...maybe I'll actually write this!) That would be so cool! One of my Five Words authors (Roselynn Cannes) for RUDCon last fall wrote a novella based on my prompt!
7. And finally, would you like to participate in the Alpha Heroes Five Words Fiction Game?
Absolutely! I love the story. Thanks for creating this fun game!
Fantastic! this is round three in our contemporary story, which appears to be a reunion trope at the moment -- but anything could happen! Your challenge words are:
Part One, by Shelly Bell
Part Two, by Josie Kerr
Part Three:
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Book Buy Links for Unwanted Girl:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon Canada
Amazon Australia
Publisher’s site
Goodreads
Barnes and Noble
Kobo
Google
*working title -- get it? she's Curve, with the size and the perfume, and he's Hook, on account of the fighter thing? Maybe? No? Got a better idea for a title? put it in the comments!
Friend fiction -- what a cool hobby! Your friends must adore you. Would you believe I did a similar thing in high school? Except they weren't nice at all. Mostly I wrote little things mocking the teachers I didn't like. And I never showed them to anyone! Ok, MK -- may I call you MK?-- let's talk about RustCity!
You can totally call me MK! Let's go!
1. Fill in the blank: "I used to be really good at Scrabble , but these days I'm pretty rusty." Ooo, I love Scrabble, but I don't like to play where everybody makes those parallel words with 4 or 5 two letter words? I am outclassed there.
2. Eminem or Aretha? Explain.
Hmm...interesting. Truth is, I love all types of music, but I'm partial to Eminem. Or actually, Kid Rock. I've actually been kicked out a Kid Rock concert before (shhh!). OK, wait. I'm trying to imagine what might get a person KICKED OUT from there... (you can tell me at the con, I'll take it to the grave, pinky swear).
3. Choose One:
Vernors
Faygo
I'm confused. And not from around here.
4. What are you looking forward to most at the RustCity conference? Getting to know other local authors and readers. I love talking about books and getting new recommendations too. Most of all, I'm so happy some of my pals are attending too.
5. Which is NOT an actual community in Michigan? (no googling!)
Bad Axe
Mullet Lake
Alpha
Hero
Colon
Kalamazoo
(The correct answer is "Hero." I got very tickled at some of the names, especially when I saw that "Alpha" was one!)
6. Your latest work of fiction features a wealthy industrialist and an R&B singer. What's the first sentence? "I was a confident, wealthy woman who could buy and sell him a million times over, but for whatever reason, Anthony's smooth buttery voice churned me into a giddy school girl. "
Optional: What's it about? Constance Malory, a rags to riches girl who found her fortune in publishing finally meets the one man who challenges her. Problem is, R & B singer, Sloan Monroe is not the kind of man to play second trumpet to the woman he loves.
(oooh...maybe I'll actually write this!) That would be so cool! One of my Five Words authors (Roselynn Cannes) for RUDCon last fall wrote a novella based on my prompt!
7. And finally, would you like to participate in the Alpha Heroes Five Words Fiction Game?
Absolutely! I love the story. Thanks for creating this fun game!
Fantastic! this is round three in our contemporary story, which appears to be a reunion trope at the moment -- but anything could happen! Your challenge words are:
romance, inky, letters, hodgepodge, breakfast
Part One, by Shelly Bell
Part Two, by Josie Kerr
Part Three:
CURVE AND HOOK*
“Hello Hunt.”Smoooooooth, Hunt. Smooooooooth. If you'd like more where this comes from, MK has provided a detailed list of resources, for whatever flavor of fiction addiction works best for you:
That clenched it. Only one girl had ever spoken that nickname.
“Maddie,” he replied in a raspy whisper. “It’s been a long time.”
She gave him a slow assessing look. “Time has been good to you.”
It had been good to her too, although Hunter always saw the beauty behind the mask of unruly curls and insecurities. Clearly, judging from the hungry looks men were throwing in her direction, everyone else could see it now too.
“Yes, time has been good to both of us,” he said, holding up his drink for a toast.
She clinked her glass against his. The sleeve of his shirt rode up. He noticed the three inky letters carved across her wrist – Lov. He wanted to ask the story of them, but he kept his curiosity in check. Maddie smiled brightly, but beneath that there lurked a veil of suspicion toward him.
“What are you doing here?” she asked.
He shrugged as if he’d forgotten himself. “Signing up a fighter. I’m a manager.”
She took in the information. Perhaps remembering the scuffles he used to get into at North High. What she didn’t know was that most of them involved her in one way or another.
“Interesting.”
“And you, Maddie? Last I heard you left for Julliard.”
Her smile wavered. “Right, it didn’t work out the way I planned. I’m an author now.”
“Is there someone in your life?” His own question surprised him, especially since it was tinged with irrational jealousy.
Her eyes widened before she answered. “No. What about you?”
“You know me, Maddie.”
She took a sip from her glass. “Yes, I do.”
The regret in those words hung between them. But then she bit her bottom lip – a telltale sign of her lust. For the first time since the conversation started, Hunter relaxed. Maddie and he had always spoken the language of lust with great fluency. Time and regrets hadn’t changed that.
Hunter noticed for the first time her hands shook slightly. Despite the hodgepodge of memories flooding through him at this moment, there was one thing he knew for sure – Maddie had always had steady hands.
“So what do you write?” he asked, trying and failing, to go for casual.
“Romance novels.”
“That’s great.”
“Are we done with the awkward questions now?” There was the Maddie of his childhood, the no-nonsense girl some would call blunt and others insecure. For Hunter, she always fell between those two extremes. The girl he’d failed. The one he’d loved.
A strange uninvited desire to have her in his bed again throttled him like a stinging punch to the gut. It wasn’t possible. He was leaving tomorrow. But maybe, he could have her for just one night. The past may have destroyed their future, but could it give them a reprieve for one damn night? It wasn’t too much to ask...
Was it?
“Just one more question, Maddie. What do you like for breakfast?”
Website | FB author page | FB personal Page | Amazon Author page | Twitter | Goodreads author page |
Book Buy Links for Unwanted Girl:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon Canada
Amazon Australia
Publisher’s site
Goodreads
Barnes and Noble
Kobo
*working title -- get it? she's Curve, with the size and the perfume, and he's Hook, on account of the fighter thing? Maybe? No? Got a better idea for a title? put it in the comments!
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