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Karina Bliss, Author of RISE, Talks About Making Opposites Attract (with a giveaway!)

I can’t wait to read this one! The rock star & the academic: Making opposites attract By Karina Bliss   I love the opposites-attract trope, ‘You say toe-ma-toe, I say toe-mate-o’. (FYI, as a Kiwi, I say it the first way). I couldn’t have written two people more different than my egotistical, rock-star bad boy Zander Freedman and my warm-hearted, church-brat academic Elizabeth Winston. With opposites, it’s easy to see what’s keeping your characters apart. But when you’re writing romance, what’s more important is what brings and binds these two together. What do they have in common? Both Zander and…

Cover Reveal! RISE by Karina Bliss

 I LOVE Karina Bliss–can’t wait for this one! (Plus–niiiiice cover 😉 ) Adult Contemporary Rockstar Romance Release: January 28, 2015 “You have the ability to make controversial characters sympathetic. Maybe I just want to be understood.” Acclaimed literary biographer Elizabeth Winston writes about long-dead heroes. So bad boy rock icon Zander Freedman couldn’t possibly tempt her to write his memoir. Except the man is a mass of fascinating contradictions – manipulative, honest, gifted, charismatic, morally ambiguous. In short, everything she sought in a biography subject. When in her life will she get another chance to work with a living legend?…