Title: Game On
Author: Collette West
Genre: Romance
Publication: October 17th, 2014
Guest PostPitching phenom Bruce "Jilly" Gillette has a hard time talking to women. His hulking presence of tattoos and muscles is what makes him an intimidating closer on the mound, yet off the field, he's painfully shy, uncomfortable in his own skin.Desperate to revamp his loner image, the New York Kings hold a dream date contest, granting the lucky winner a night on the town with their surly reliever, doing whatever it takes to force Jilly out of his comfort zone.Hailey Halpert enters the contest on a whim, looking for answers as to why her high school relationship with Jilly hit the skids. Now she’s a popular romance author writing under a pen name, and her reappearance in Jilly's life is no accident. It turns out that her novels are all about the sexy players on the Kings, and Jilly has no clue that he's about to become her new leading man.
Why
do guys gossip in the locker room?
As
a girl, wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall inside a men's locker room?
Sure, who wouldn't want to catch a glimpse of some hot, chiseled bodies? But
I'm sure the banter alone would be worth the price of admission. Girls usually
get a bad rap when it comes to commiserating over, "Why didn't he call
me?" or "Was it wrong to sleep with him on the first date?" But
guys are just as guilty. They just do it in a different way.
I
always like to include locker room scenes in my sports romance novels because
it's a setting where guys tend to let down their guard, and open up a little.
They're jockeying for position when it comes to bragging rights. It's where
they find out who's getting laid and who's not. It's the place where sexual
escapades get exaggerated and distorted. Guys say stuff to each other that
they'd never say in front of their wives or girlfriends. They're not being PC
in this type of environment, because it kind of goes with the territory.
When
you get that much testosterone in a room and naked physiques are exposed and
compared, things are bound to get a little heated. Some guys intentionally stir
things up, while others remain tight-lipped, but no one gets away unscathed.
Had a hot date on Saturday night? Get ready to face the firing squad. Some guys
have the knack of just saying enough, without saying too much. Others tend to
stick their foot in their mouths, looking to impress, embellishing details that
should've remained private.
All
guys want to be seen as the stud who scores. So does that involve some kissing
and telling? What do you think? :)
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Collette West grew up as somewhat of a jock-nerd hybrid. Entering the world three weeks premature, her dad nearly missed her birth because he had seats behind the dugout for a sold-out, highly-anticipated match-up between two of baseball's biggest rivals. Not to be outdone, her book-loving mom taught her how to read by the time she was three. A love of the game coupled with an appreciation for the written word were instilled in Collette's impressionable brain from a young age. No wonder her characters believe in the philosophy: sports + romance = a little slice of heaven.
Splitting her time between the Pocono Mountains and Manhattan, Collette indulges her inner fangirl by going to as many games as she can from hockey to baseball and downloading every sports romance novel in existence onto her iPad. When she's not clicking away on her laptop, she enjoys walking her dog in Central Park, satisfying her caffeine craving at the Starbucks on Broadway and keeping an eye out for Mr. Right. But above all, she loves dishing with her readers. Email her at collette_west@yahoo.com.
She is the author of NIGHT GAMES, GAME CHANGER and GAME ON.
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