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And What Does Your Hero Do?

Julia Barrett — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:49:53 +0000

A fan/friend sent me this link yesterday – Can you name the most common occupations of heroes in Harlequin romance novels? I hope this link works – Sporcle was kind enough to tweet me the correct link.

So have fun, take the test, and then come back here and share your list of the most common occupations of romance heroes – doesn’t have to be a Harlequin hero.

Here’s my list, some are sort of interchangeable:

Highland Laird.

Prince/Sheik/King.

Millionaire.

Special Forces/Navy SEAL.

Cop/Detective.

Super Hot Space Alien.

Vampire/Shifter/Fae.

C’mon, give me your list and I’ll sweeten the pot – a paperback copy of the first two books of Daughters or Persephone and a pdf or Kindle copy of books three and four. It’s a win/win, guys.

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Captured: 2011 Booksellers Best First Book

Julia Barrett — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:03 +0000

How did this gem come into being? Here’s the short version. I was working on a space opera – my four-book Daughters of Persephone series – when I dreamed a glorious dream…Captured.

Despite a looming deadline, I stopped working on the Daughters series and wrote Captured. Took me three short weeks from rough draft to fully edited version. The story pretty much wrote itself since I simply recorded the dream, dialogue and all. I sent it off to Siren and voila! Accepted and published fast as lightning! It continues to be my bestseller and my best regarded book. The story has won numerous awards in RWA contests, including the 2011 Booksellers Best First Book, announced at the RWA convention this past summer in NYC. It’s just a great read.

Mari never expects to find herself caged in a cargo hold on a spaceship. She quickly learns from her captors she’s headed to the meat market. When they try to return her to hypersleep, she resists. After allowing her to stay awake, Mari realizes her survival depends on connecting with the male in charge, Ekkatt. She must make him see her as a sentient being or she will end up as dinner.

Ekkatt has never spoken to any human. They are valued for one thing, the money they bring at auction. The Attun race is vegetarian, but other species prize human flesh and bring in good money. Then the female with red hair speaks to him and forces him to admit she has a name. Mari throws Ekkatt’s entire life into question, the biggest question…can he watch her sold to the highest bidder?

Buy Captured here and here. Just heard from Kristy at Dirty Geeky Sexy Reviews. She totally loves the book!

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Release Day – One Four All

Julia Barrett — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:23:35 +0000

Nervous, excited, anxious, happy, worried, stressed, relieved…

My first menage so yeah, I’m kind of a wreck, wondering how it will be received. Here’s the blurb and the buy link and you can read an adult excerpt over there…yum! http://www.bookstrand.com/one-four-all

AVAILABLE: Wednesday, September 22nd

[Ménage Amour: Erotic Sci-Fi Ménage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M]

Lira Pakan, heir to the Throne of Zhinshu, has vanished. Her zealots gather along the border with the neighboring state of Khubuk, awaiting the outcome of her father’s pleas to the World Court.

Captain Tanner Kepp serves in the elite Special Forces of Khubuk. When the captain is ordered to choose two men to accompany him to Land’s End, an isolated compound on the maritime border between Khubuk and Zinshu, the last thing he expects to find is the missing princess.

Captain Kepp, Arms Master Cer Watso and Sergeant Redda Till realize they must rescue her and avert all out war.

The princess, however, has other plans. These men can be more than her rescuers. According to the law of Zhinshu, she must choose three men as consorts. Her people say: “one to guard the right hand, one to guard the left hand, and one to guard the back, always.”

A Siren Erotic Romance

Today I’m kicking off a blog tour to promote One Four All. You can find me at Tina Donahue’s place, where I’ll be giving one lucky person a copy of the menage: http://www.tinadonahue.com/blog/

And author Stacey Espino has interviewed me on her site: http://www.staceyespino.blogspot.com/

Drop by and leave me a comment! Thanks and wish me luck! julia

Oh…last word – I’ve been meaning to tell you about some blogs to check out:

Fire Pages is hosting a Double Trouble Giveaway: http://firepages.wordpress.com/

Five Agents and a Funeral has a horrifying post entitled ‘Wrong Answer’ about a woman who falsely accused her father of sexual abuse: http://www.fiveagentsandafuneral.com/

The author of Perils of Pauline made me cry with Tuesday’s post, Closed Doors: http://perilouslyyours.blogspot.com/2010/09/closed-doors.html

A gift from Stephanie at Fangs, wands and fairy dust – from the Oatmeal – think twice! http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally

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It ain’t so funny.

Julia Barrett — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:26:06 +0000

This picture is labeled ‘funny cat fight’. Fighting ain’t so funny.

Just before we leave, life gets crazy to the point of insane. I think I will be happy to be without a cell phone and the internet for a week.

I doubt I’ll have time to post Friday – we leave at 4 a.m., so ya’ll be good, read lots of books and I’ll see you when I see you.

Drop by Rhobin’s Rambles: http://rhobinsrambles.blogspot.com/

She’s posted one of the best blogs I’ve read on why some of us love to write science fiction and science fiction romance – you get an overview from many wonderful authors, including moi. Just FYI.

Much love, Julia

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A Guest Blog by My Friend, Author Katalina Leon.

Julia Barrett — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:37:59 +0000

I asked my friend, Katalina Leon, to write a guest blog.

I was hoping she’d describe in detail the loss of her bathing suit bottom while para sailing but…no such luck! She surprised me by sending this blog about my book, Captured.

I just finished reading a very usual and wonderful book “Captured” by Julia Rachel Barrett. Julia is not only a blog-mate of mine and a friend is she is also a hardcore Science Fiction fan and that’s makes her a bit unique in a field of romance authors who often look elsewhere for inspiration. I’m a big Sci-fi fan also. Julia and I have a lot of common ground, and shared influences in our lives and that’s why I was so excited to read “Captured” her first of what I’m convinced will be many wonderful Sci-fi novels.

I loved “Captured” because it works on so many levels. Make no mistake about it this book is a very tender romance with a strong sexual attraction and lots of emotional interaction between the human woman Mari and her Attun-ra captor and ultimately her savior—Ekkatt. Both characters are vividly written and we easily understand how they come to feel what they feel for each other.

What’s exceptional is Ms. Barrett’s clever balancing act. All the classic elements of great Sci-fi are here, world-building, controversy, social commentary, visionary elements of a changed society and most of all a working philosophy. After all Science Fiction’s great strength is that it allows us to step outside our culture—even our humanness in order to get a clearer view of it. That definitely happens in Captured. I had lots to think about long after the book was finished and that’s what good Sci-fi does. Captured beautifully deals with a dozen very difficult and certainly controversial social issues and handles the subjects maturely. This same plot, which prophetically appeared to Julia in its completion during a dream last summer, could have gone terribly astray in the wrong hands but it didn’t here. This book works as a romance, it’s erotic and it fulfills its mission as complex entertainment that has many layers to discover and ponder long after you’re done reading it.

I’m happy to announce Julia Rachel Barrett has lots more Sci-fi on the way with the “Daughters of Persephone” series, which is coming next month. I’m really looking forward to reading more.

XXOO Katalina Leon

Katalina Leon is the author of Owned by Rome and Beautiful Stranger. You can find her here: http://www.katalinaleon.com/ She’s amazing!

I have to give a shout out to author Stacey Espino who surprised me with an interview yesterday – I’m over at her site talking about science fiction and my upcoming release, Daughters of Persephone: http://staceyespino.blogspot.com/

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