About The Book:
Title: PUSHING HIS LUCK
Author: Kira Archer
Pub.
Date: September 23, 2019
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
(Indulgence)
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 150
Today is the biggest day
of my professional career. I’ve got one shot to prove I can play with the big
boys and the Lachlan account is my ticket. I’ve never been more prepared for
anything in my life. So of course that went up in flames.
In hindsight, stopping to
get my chocolate milk fix right before the big meeting might not have been the
best decision. Neither was fighting for the last jug with a flirty
Thor-lookalike. In my defense, not even a Disney-prince-smolder delivered by a
sweaty sex god is a match for an anxiety-fueled chocolate craving.
And had I known before
walking into that meeting that my sweaty, sex-god, milk-thief was none other
than Christopher Lachlan, the new client on whom my career hung, I’d have
definitely skipped my morning stop.
Curse my dumb friggin’
luck. I would be attracted to the one person I can’t have.
Now on to the interview!
Hey Kira! First I want to say
welcome to Two Chicks on Books I’m glad you could stop by for a chat! PUSHING
HIS LUCK sounds AWESOME and I can’t wait for everyone to read it!
Thanks for having
me!
For the readers:
can you tell us a little bit about the PUSHING HIS LUCK and the characters?
Pushing His Luck is the last book in the
Winning the Billionaire series and is about Chris Lachlan, the “golden boy” of
the poker group in the series and the last of the confirmed bachelors. He and
his adrenaline loving ways meet their match in Charley Claybourne, a risk
assessor who has been hired to approve him for insurance. Something she really
can’t see herself doing since he spends his free time swimming with sharks and
bungee jumping off buildings. In a last-ditch effort to prove his life isn’t as
bad as it looks, she accompanies him on a trip to several exotic locations. It
becomes increasingly obvious that it’s more than just their jobs on the line…it’s their hearts.
These two are a ton of fun together and the
whole gang from the rest of the series makes several appearances so you get a
taste of what’s going on in their lives as well.
What are you
working on now?
Right now I’m working on the first book of a
new series for Entangled’s Lovestruck imprint and am really excited about it. A
bit of a departure from my favorite enemies to lovers stories but still lots of
fun. Plus, there’s a derpy dog who is based on my real life pup so it’s extra
fun!
Were any of the
characters in the book inspired by people from your real life?
Hmmm, in this book, not really though several
of the ridiculous things that happen to Charley are actually based on my real
life experiences. I have the dumbest luck.
Who was your favorite
character to write? What about your least favorite?
In this series, Brooks is my favorite. If I
could bring a character to life and just hang out with him all day, it’d be
him. He’s a blast! My least favorite…I don’t think I have a least favorite. Harrison maybe, not because I don’t love
him but because he was a little more difficult to draw out.
What is your
favorite passages/scenes in PUSHING HIS LUCK?
Hmm there were
several in here I really loved. This is an excerpt from one of my favorites
though.
They were
nearing the end of the song when Charley caught movement out of the corner of
her eye. Her voice broke off in a strangled gasp.
“What?”
Chris asked, throwing a concerned glance her way.
She
leaned in her seat as far away from her window as she could get, vaguely aware
that she was totally encroaching on Chris’s personal space and not giving a
flying fart in the wind. Anything to get her farther away from the monster
stalking across the glass.
“Oh my
God, oh my God, oh my God,” she said, her voice growing higher pitched and more
frantic with each word.
“What?
What is it?” he asked, his head whipping back and forth, trying to see what was
going while still keeping them on the dirt road they were bumping down.
The only
response she could summon was a terrified screech. She whipped off her seat
belt before he could say another word and flung herself out of her seat and
half into his.
“What the—”
She
yanked off her shoe and began beating at the spider on the window with the
ferocity of a…well, of a woman trying to kill the
shit out of a huge-ass spider, screaming her head off the whole time. As she
was still sitting half in his lap, his control of the car was probably
precarious at best. Some part of her terrified brain registered that not only
was she exhibiting extremely unsafe vehicular behavior, but she was forcing
Chris to do so as well. Not much she could do about any of that, however,
because there was a veritable nightmare inching closer to her, even with her
shoe flying at it. Maybe because her shoe was flying at it. She was probably
just pissing it off, which only freaked her out more.
“Pull
over!” she squealed.
“There’s
no shoulders or anything on this road,” he said, though he was laughing so hard
he could barely speak. “Hang on. There’s a spot ahead that might work.”
He gunned
it until they reached a section of the road that was wider than the rest, and
then stomped on the brakes.
He jumped
out, dumping her fully into the driver’s seat, though she kept trying to beat
the hell out of the mutant spider on the passenger window. Seriously, she’d
known they grew bigger down in the jungle, but that thing was unacceptably
large. By the time Chris made it to her side and opened the door, all that was
left of it was a couple twitching legs sticking out of a pile of goo.
He
glanced at her, then back at it, then burst out laughing again. “Think you got
it?”
“Can you
still tell it’s a spider?”
“Yeah.”
“Then
it’s not dead enough.”
What kind of
research did you have to do for the story?
Oh, I had so much fun with this one. First of
all, Chris owns an Airbnb type company, so I spent a lot of time on those kinds
of websites – sooo many fun places to rent! Then, Chris and Charley travel to Costa
Rica, Fiji, and Spain. So I spent way more time than I probably needed to
researching everything from activities you can do there to locations to hotel
interiors to cars and planes. I always love the research part but this book was
especially fun!
Who is your
ultimate book boyfriend?
That I’ve written, probably Brooks lol That
someone else has written….Jamie Fraser from Outlander or Rane Falconer from The Wild Swan series.
What inspired you
to write romance?
I’ve always really loved romance. For as long
as I can remember. I started reading Victoria Holt’s gothic romances when I was
around 12 I think. But even before that, when reading books like Little House
on the Prairie and the Narnia series and Wrinkle in Time, my favorite bits were
anything that hinted of romance. So when I started writing it was just natural
to write romance. In fact, I’ve tried writing stories without romance. Doesn’t
work. My characters always start falling in love. I just can’t help it LOL
Lightning Round
Questions
What are you
reading right now? Or what do you have on your TBR that you’re dying to read?
Right now, I’m reading one of JR Ward’s Black
Dagger Brotherhood books. I’m quite a few behind so I’m trying to catch up
What Hogwarts
House would the Sorting Hat place you in?
Hufflepuff! (according to my account on
Pottermore lol)
Twitter or
Facebook?
Hmmm depends on my mood but probably FB just
because that’s how I keep in touch with all my out of state fam.
Favorite
Superhero?
Wonder Woman
Favorite TV show?
Ohhh this is one of those where you really
gotta narrow it down, genre-wise LOL Castle is one of my all time faves.
Sweet or Salty?
Sweet
Any Phobias?
Spiders!! OMG sooo freaked out by those
creepy things (which reminds me – the spider scene that I included here is one of the ones inspired by my
real life!) Also, heights. And I’m claustrophobic. Add to that a serious hatred
of math, and you’ll get the reason why I decided not to try and be an astronaut
like I wanted when I was a kid lol
Song you can’t get
enough of right now?
Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s Senorita.
And I’m on a big Beatles kick after watching Yesterday.
Fall/winter 2019 Movie
you’re most looking forward to?
Zombieland 2, Star Wars: The Rise of
Skywalker, and Jumanji: The Next Level are all top of the list. Also, Last
Christmas and the new Charlie’s Angels look good. And Frozen II. I’m really
horrible at picking just one thing LOL
Thanks so much Kira for answering my questions! I can’t wait for
everyone to read PUSHING HIS LUCK!
Thank you!!
About Kira:
USA Today bestselling author Kira Archer lives in Pennsylvania with her
hubs and two kids. And 3 ridiculous cats. She's one of those people who laughs
at inappropriate moments (especially overly emotional occasions like weddings
or funerals), and she has an insanely overactive imagination which is great
when she's writing but not so great when she's shutting all the lights off at
night and then has to go up the stairs. She has a PhD in Procrastination (or
would if there was such a thing and there soooo should be because she's
seriously at expert level here). And if she's not writing, she's reading, or
thinking about reading or writing. And running her kids around because they are
busy and she's the taxi driver. She also writes historical romances as Michelle
McLean.
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