Adele Dubois Blog

As Labor Day approaches I resist letting summer go.

Summer is my favorite season. Which one is yours?

Time is running out to play our game and be entered to win big prizes! Contest ends August 29!

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Adele Dubois will be hosting a chat on the Long and Short Reviews Whipped Cream Yahoo Loop on Sunday, August 29, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. EDT. At 9:00 the WINNERS will be announced. Join us! Here’s the link. You must join the chat loop in order to participate.

I hope to see you there!

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My good friend, author Cara Marsi, has a short story published at Long and Short Reviews I’m sure you’ll enjoy. The story is titled, “A Wedding in the Family.”  Follow the link!

http://www.longandshortreviews.com/LASR/story.htm

I like to write about fast motorcycles and hot cars. Most of my books include a Harley-Davidson driven by a sexy, handsome hero. My REV ME UP hero personifies the ideal of the hunk on a motorcycle and readers tell me they love him.

My heroines tend to drive convertibles, like I do in real life. For me, there’s nothing more exhilarating than driving fast with the ragtop down. My DESERT FEVER and DESERT WILD heroines share my love of the open road. Though my car is a Sebring and theirs is a Retro Thunderbird, we all savor the feel of the wind in our hair, the sun shining on our faces and the thrilling sensation of speed.

My Sebring hasn’t been new for years, and when my convertible needs replacing, I’ll buy another. My convertible is a guilty pleasure I share with my fast-driving story characters. For as long as there’s a stretch of country road and I’m alive on this earth, I’ll be driving with the ragtop down.

 Best~Adele Dubois

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I thought I’d forgotten a special occasion when my husband brought me pink roses, but that wasn’t the case. After 25 years together, my guy still brings me flowers for no particular reason. I’m a lucky wife.

Enduring love is the most romantic love of all. Is it any wonder why I write romance novels?

Matthew McConaughey was born November 4, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas. He’s the third son of a gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. His father once played football for the Green Bay Packers. His mother was a substitue teacher. His parents married, divorced, and then continued to remarry and divorce each other throughout their adult lives.

Matthew was named Most Handsome in his Longview Lobo High School yearbook. He began his acting career in television commercials.

Though his career break came with the 1993 film, Dazed and Confused, Matthew finds his center with regular yoga exercise on the beach in Malibu. Toddler son, Levi, often joins him.

Surfer dude to suave date. Don’t you just love a man who can go anywhere?

Matthew was named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2005.

It’s hard to believe Matthew qualifies for the CLASSIC HUNK title, but I say, welcome! Don’t you agree he’s a great addition to this column?

~Best–Adele Dubois

Turned the REV ME UP sequel in to my editor and hope to be able to tell you more about the book soon. Here are the Harley-Davidson CVO motorcycles that appear in the story.

Don’t they make your heart beat faster and serve up some warm little tingles?

Best-selling author Delilah Devlin is hosting me on her blog, where I’m chatting about my newest paranormal release DO ME GOOD. Stop by!

http://www.delilahdevlin.com/blog/

Finished the sequel to REV ME UP and I’m celebrating! Look for news soon about REV ME TWICE, a contemporary erotic romance featuring a hot hero on a Harley. REV ME TWICE is Tomas and Crystal’s story, the feisty secondary characters of REV ME UP.

My dear husband brought me a gift of a miniature sunflower to commemorate my completed book. It’s called a Good-Luck Sunflower.

Isn’t it beautiful? Smooch to my hubby for being so thoughtful.

It’s been great fun playing One Little Lie with you. Thanks so much for joining me and my game. I’ve had a lot of laughs, particularly since I tend to be private about my personal life. I don’t often share particulars about myself, but this exercise crumbled my normal defenses.

Here’s the reason I’ve had so many interesting adventures. Most of my life I’ve worked two jobs, maintained a rigid gym schedule, and indulged in a hobby or two. (These days I write full-time and have to force myself to the gym, so I’m talking about my past. LOL.)

I worked my way through college juggling a full-time class load and a variety of odd jobs– waitressing, selling shoes, working as a hotel maid, hawking flea market antiques, newspaper and magazine freelancing, secretarial work–anything legal and ethical to pay my tuition.

I’m proud to say I made it. I paid for my education and housing through hard work and the sweat off my brow. I think everyone should have to do that. Paying one’s own way builds character. But I digress…

#1.  True. Soon after I gave birth to my first child, I went back to work part-time. I was assigned the men’s underwear and socks section of a major department store. Why the management chose a woman for this position is a mystery.

The highlight of my stint selling men’s unmentionables was the night a half dozen members of the Philadelphia Eagles football team arrived to buy designer bikini briefs. I think they got as much a kick out of me waiting on them as I got out of meeting them. One team member accidentally chose a package of size Small briefs instead of Extra Large. He sure got a ribbing from his teammates over that! We all had a good laugh over his mistake.

#2.  True. Around the time I met my husband I worked two jobs. I had a full-time day job and then worked three nights a week as a ghost tour guide. I had to learn a dozen stories of local legend and tell them to tourists while I carried a candlelit lantern. The job paid very well and was great fun. One of the best jobs I’ve ever had.

#3.  True.  I wrote for a newspaper in the Caribbean for four years. For a short time during this period I also moonlighted as a fashion show model for an island designer. Don’t know why the memory of my hat blowing off by the pool stuck with me, but it did. My publisher didn’t like the idea of me modeling, though, and asked me to quit. I complied, and stuck to reporting. You might say my moonlighting job was none of his business, and you might be right. But I decided not to poke the bear.

#4. True. Cocktail waitressing at a Roman style restaurant complete with tacky fountains and fake pillars was one of my part-time college jobs. I’d work the dinner shift in my uniform and comfortable shoes, and then stay for an extra shift. I’d change into a toga and high heels for the cocktail lounge where the tips were much better.

#5.  True. When I was a teenager, every local girl dreamed of dancing with the Philadelphia radio celebrity who hosted a Friday night dance club. Being chosen to dance on stage with him was the highlight of my young life. I’ve never forgotten how thrilling that time was.

#6.  True. After my stint in the mall store selling men’s underwear I transferred to the cosmetics department. I worked there part-time selling skin care products and perfume and performing makeovers. I loved this job! Very girly, like me.

#7.  False. Though I had a bikini body as a younger woman I never wore my bathing suit off the beach. I write erotic romance novels these days, but I’m still the conventional type. I prefer to keep my clothes on in public.

#8.  True. The actor who kissed me on stage went on to become a television and movie actor who did quite well for himself. It was a thrill to watch his acting career flourish.

On the other hand, I had no interest in acting once I reached college. Community theatre was fun growing up, but I knew my acting skills were mediocre, at best. I stuck with writing. Though I’ve had many jobs in my life, I’ve continued that pursuit.

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The winner of my One Little Lie contest, who guessed #7 first, is… JOYE!

 Please contact me to claim your prize at:

 author@adeledubois.com/

Thank you all for playing!

Best~Adele