Guest Post~ Make Mine a Cowboy by Sandy Sullivan

Guest Post~ Make Mine a Cowboy by Sandy Sullivan

   Uncategorized    May 19, 2014  |  2

MAKE MINE A COWBOY

by Sandy Sullivan

Portrait of confident young man shirtless against grey backgrounMesa Arraguso writes about hot cowboys for a living. Being a romance writer has it perks and its drawbacks. She spends a lot of time alone in front of her computer, but she gets to fantasize about incredibly hot men wearing cowboy boots and Stetsons. While visiting San Antonio, Texas for a writer’s conference, she finds herself stranded on the back roads of Bandera only to be rescued by one of the most gorgeous men she’s ever encountered, be it fantasy or for real.

Joel Young is a cowboy. From the top of his Stetson to the tip of his dirty cowboy boots, he’s cowboy through and through. Along with rescuing women when they do silly things like running out of gas miles from town on a dirt road, he spends his days herding cattle, fixing fences and breaking horses.

Can one handsome cowboy and a city-girl from LA find common ground in the Hill Country long enough to see beyond a quick fling?

 

Hi everyone,

Thank you to Harper for having me on your blog.

For those who don’t know me, I’m Sandy Sullivan and I write contemporary western romance. Yes, those hunky cowboys you love to love on, I write them from cover to cover.

Harper just read Make Mine a Cowboy which is the first in my Cowboy Dreamin’ series and it’s about Joel Young who is an identical triplet and his love Mesa Arraguso who is a romance writer. She is in San Antonio at a writer’s conference but decides to take her rental car and go for a ride for inspiration. See, she writes cowboys too! But she really doesn’t know that much about them. She’s from Los Angeles.

Anyway, she goes out to some back roads of Bandera and runs out of gas. Well who happens along on his horse, but Joel. He takes her back to the family guest ranch and helps her out. She decides to stay on the ranch for a few days and suck up the atmosphere.

When these two are in the same room, they light up the dark so to say. They can’t keep their hands off each other even though Joel’s mother has a strict policy about the cowboys messing with the guests. She runs the place with a firm hand which she requires because, get this, there are 9 boys. Yep. She had 9 boys and Joel is just one.

As you can imagine, things get hairy with 9 of them around, but the series continues with 8 more books all in total. Right now there are 4 that are available with #5 coming June 28th.

The titles are:

Make Mine a Cowboy

Healing a Cowboy’s Heart

For the Love of a Cowboy

Tempted by the Cowboy

and the new one will be Forever Kind of Cowboy.

So check out the cowboys and their ladies on my website at www.romancestorytime.com. I have plenty including other series pieces and even a free book.

Sandy

 

EXCERPT: (Warning 18+ Content)

He laughed. “Yeah, I do. There’ve been a few women I wouldn’t make love to twice.”
“Really? I thought all guys were just in it for the end result. You know, gettin’ their rocks off.”
“Not if they are any good, they aren’t. It’s more fun for me to make sure the woman has several orgasms when I’m with her.”
The lump in her throat almost choked her. “Several?”
He leaned in and ran his tongue along her jawline until he reached her ear. “Yeah, several.”
Holy shit, he’s got one sexy voice. The lower rumble of his voice threw her heart into overdrive. The slow seep of moisture between her thighs surprised her. She never got this wet with her ex. Not from only a whisper in her ear. Those were things she wrote about in her novels, not something she experienced for herself. She swallowed hard.
“Um, Joel?”
“Yeah?” he asked, sliding his tongue around her earlobe.
“Damn, you’re good.”
He chuckled softly as he nipped the fleshy part of her ear between his teeth. She closed her eyes, letting the feelings overwhelm her. Hooking up with him probably wasn’t a good idea, but every time he got close to her, she couldn’t think of anything except getting him between the sheets to see how good he really was.
One hand slipped up her stomach to cup her breast. Two of his fingers plucked at her nipple through her bra and her whole world tilted on its axis. She’d always known her nipples were sensitive, but the slight pain of his pinch sent her body into a spiral of need.
His hand disappeared, reappearing under her shirt, pushing her bra out of the way. The warmth of his hand on her breast brought a moan to her lips. Seconds later, her shirt found its way over her head to leave her sitting on his lap in just her bra and jeans.
“God, you’re gorgeous. All curves.”
“You mean fat.”
“No, curves. I love curves on a woman. I’m not into skinny like a rail. I want something to hold onto when I’m pounding my cock into your sweet heat.”
“I want you to.”
“Shall we head into the other room where it’s more comfortable? Not that I wouldn’t love to make you come a dozen times right here on the couch first.”
“A dozen?” She gulped a lungful of air as shivers raked her body.
“Oh yeah.”
He stood with her in his arms and headed down the small hall toward the bedroom. She hadn’t got a good look at the bedroom when they came down here before, but she did now. He didn’t have a lot of furniture. Just a bed, a small nightstand, and a dresser. The deep blue comforter on the bed seemed typical guy décor. A shade on the window gave him privacy, but did nothing to soften the room. No curtains hung there. Nothing to indicate a woman had ever called this space home. Someday, one would, though. When, she didn’t know and didn’t want to think about right now, but yeah, someday he would bring a wife here until they could build a bigger home for children.
“You’re thinking too much,” he whispered, from behind her as he wrapped his arms around her.
“Yeah, probably.”
He cupped her breasts in both hands and tugged her back against his chest. “Your skin is so soft. I could eat you up.”
“I hope you do.”
“Oh, I plan on it, baby. I’m gonna eat you until you scream my name.”
“I don’t think it’ll take much.”
“Good.” He licked the side of her neck before he nipped at her collarbone. “I can’t wait to feel you ripple around me.”
He skimmed one hand down her abdomen, flicking open the button at her waist on his way to pulling her zipper down. The moment he had her pants parted, he slipped one hand under the waistband of her underwear to push a finger deep inside her pussy. “You’re wet, darlin’.”
“You’ve made me wet, Joel, with your sexy voice, wicked tongue, and demanding nips.”
“You’ll be wetter before I’m done with you.”

 

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MEET THE AUTHOR:Me New Picture 2013 (1)

Sandy Sullivan is a romance author, who, when not writing, spends her time with her husband Shaun on  their farm in middle Tennessee. She loves to ride her horses, play with their dogs and relax on the porch, enjoying the rolling hills of her home south of Nashville. Country music is a passion of hers and she loves to listen to it while she writes.
She is an avid reader of romance novels and enjoys reading Nora Roberts, Jude Deveraux and Susan Wiggs. Finding new authors and delving into something different helps feed the need for literature. A registered nurse by education, she loves to help people and spread the enjoyment of romance to those around her with her novels. She loves cowboys so you’ll find many of her novels have sexy men in tight jeans and cowboy boots.

 

Thank you, Sandy, for stopping by today and sharing your book! 

Interested to know more about Make Mine a Cowboy? My honest Goodreads review:

stars

3.5-4 stars
Western romance author, Mesa, is thrown for a loop when she ends up in the back country of Bandera, Texas and meets a real hunk-of-a-cowboy named Joel Young. She is swept up in a real romance experience, much like the heroines in her novels, but she isn’t sure she could ever reach that happily-ever-after ending, too. Especially with Joel and his jerk-like tendencies. Can their heated fling turn into something more? Or will Mesa let her chance at having a real Stetson-cowboy-hat, tight-jean-wearing prince charming slip out of her grip forever?

Let me begin by saying that western romances are not my typical reading genre. Sandy Sullivan introduced a new world to me. Now, if it’s about cowboys, I’m in! I really enjoyed the opposing forces that are Joel and Mesa. City girl, county boy. All about romance, wants a fling. And it goes on and on. Little do these characters know that where differences will only draw them together. Joel is truly a sexy guy. When he knows what he wants, look out ladies because he’s going to do anything and everything to get it. I LOVE that in a romance hero. For Make Mine a Cowboy’s heroine, I truly believe that writing about a writer is a hard and ambitious endeavor to take on. Since I also write, I can connect with Mesa even more than other characters. I loved seeing how her mind worked—how she thought about things and figured how to incorporate them in her next story. All that is so true!

I did want a little more conflict to the story besides Mesa’s wild emotions and Joel’s need for a fling. Even though their concerns are realistic, for a novel, it got a little repetitive. I wanted something else pulling them a part—something for them to overcome together. There was mention of land getting bought up around the ranch, and I thought that was going to be the plot, but now I think it may be the series’ overarching conflict. The dialog between Mesa and Joel was sexy, but the other dialog felt dry and almost unnecessary. I agree with what a lot of other reviews said about Joel’s vulgar words to his mother about Mesa but then claiming she raised a gentleman, so I’m not going to repeat them. It just didn’t make sense to me or feel real. And this may be just a personal preference, but even though I really liked the idea of nine Young brothers and future books explaining the rest of the family, all the J names made it hard to keep track of the brothers. I read so fast that the J’s meshed together. But again, that may just be me.

I hope Mrs. Sullivan includes more about the ghosts haunting the ranch and the oldest Young brother in future books (he will make an excellent hero, I think). Make Mine a Cowboy is sexy, imaginative, and fun. The characters had a spark between them the moment they came together in the first chapter, and I was rooting for them since that moment. I’ll be continuing with the Cowboy Dreamin’ Series, for sure. I went from not reading western romances to saying “Hell yeah, make mine a cowboy!” with just one book!

~H.A.B.

 

2 Responses

  1. Tabitha Shay says:
    May 19, 2014 at 1:27 pm

    Well, Sandy, you do know how to heat up the conversation between these two characters, and the fact that it’s also a western romance just butters my bread. Well done and of course, you know this is one of my favorite genres. Best of luck with the series.

  2. Kathy Heare Watts says:
    May 19, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    Wow, ok, let me say it again WOW! Loved the excerpt and that was hot.

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