Books & Chocolate: Hard Glamour, By Maggie Marr

AUTHOR's FAVORITE QUOTES FROM HARD GLAMOUR

By Maggie Marr

Maybe this summer in Los Angeles was a Big Risk, but I wanted into the world of entertainment. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to live in California. I wanted to feel alive and whole. I wanted so much more than a girl from Kansas should ever want. --Lane Channing.

Maggie: I love the above quote because it is so Lane. The quote expresses her excitement and her optimism as wel as this fearlessness that resides deep inside her. Even though things have been tough for Lane she stil believes in dreams and taking chances.

Author ChemistryI turned off the jets of water and wrapped a towel around my waist, then stepped out of the shower and turned toward the steamed mirror. I wiped it clean and looked into that face of mine The hard, cold eyes of a man who would never get the chance to love a good girl like Lane Channing stared back. Sometimes I hated that guy. - Dillon MacAvoy.

Maggie: I love this quote because it shows who Dillon is in the beginning of the story. He is closed off and he doesn't even like the guy he's become and yet he has no idea how to change himself, how to be the guy that deep down he wants to be.

as falling in love with Dillon MacAvoy A love that could never be returned. I could have my summer, could have him for a while, but the girl that would have him for forever— knew for certain that girl wouldn't be me. --Lane Channing.

Maggie: This quote is great because Lane won't stop herself from falling in love with Dillon--actually she can't stop herself and yet she can't believe that possibly she is the right girl for him- at least not yet.

My heart thudded and my throat thickened. I closed my eyes and licked my lips. I was an asshole. I was a man whore. I was a guy that used girls and kicked them to the curb and now finally when I met a girl I couldn't get out of my system, a girl I wanted to stay a girl I cared about, I was going to pay for my past sins. --Dillon MacAvoy

I was falling in love with Dillon MacAvoy A love that could never be returned. I could have my summer, could have him for a while, but the girl that would have him for forever— knew for certain that girl wouldn't be me. --Lane Channing

Maggie: Again, another quote where Dillon doesn't like who he was or what he was, but here he is starting to accept that his past actions have repercussions. Here in this quote we see remorse and a desire by Dillon to change so that he won't ruin his future.

"You'll walk out there to the premiere you'll go to the party, and you'l pretend. You'll pretend none of this bothers you. You'll pretend you're having a great time. You'll follow Dillon and his team's lead and you'l even pretend you aren't sleeping with him and you aren't in love. And you'll do it for his career. For the business." --Amanda Sterling

Maggie: I LOVE Amanda. She grew up in the entertainment industry and totally gets it. Amanda is giving Lane the truth about being a part of entertainment. About the compromises that Amanda has made in her life and the compromises that she is certain that Lane will have to make and all for a career in an amazing but demanding industry.

Author Interview....Maggie Marr

) Q: Do you have a routine that you use to get into the right frame of mind to write?

Maggie: I write first thing in the morning My mind is clear and it's the best time for me to get my words down Also, I am trying to send a message to my muse that Writing Is Important by making my writing the first thing do in my day. Plus, it is so easy with everything else that goes on in a day to not get the writing done if I don't make it the first thing I do.

2. Where did you get the idea or inspiration for HARD GLAMOUR?

Maggie: I love the New Adult genre. I've lived and worked in Hollywood and written about Hollywood for nearly a decade so when Dillon and Lane started telling me their story it seemed like a natural fit.

3. Q: What was your favorite part writing this novel? Don't forget to tell us why.

Maggie: I love it when the characters start to act on their own and surprise me. This usually starts to happen around page 60 or so. Up to then I am listening to them tell me their story but I kind of know what they are doing and where I *think* they are going to go with it but then all the sudden Wham! The characters are off and they are surprising me with their words and their actions--I love that!

I also love to write the sex scenes :

4. What was the most difficult part writing this novel?

Maggie: How hard Dillon was as a male character in the beginning. He is just so Alpha and in unlikeable and closed off--we start to understand why and see that this is a defense mechanism and how Lane is able to break through those barriers but at first he was a really tough guy to like.

5. : What do you like to do when you are not writing?

Maggie: Read!I love to read! I read al kinds of books truly it is my favorite activity. I also love chasing after the children and yoga.

6. Any future writing news you would like to share?

Maggie: So many fun things this year Broken Glamour, book 2 in the Glamour Series publishes March 2014 Fast Glamour, book 3 comes out in May and finally Easy Glamour, book 4 is set to publish in July.

AUTHOR'S TAKE ON DILLON FROM HARD GLAMOUR By Maggie Marr

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Dillon MacAvoy is a study in contradictions. He is a great character to get to write. Here is a guy who completely an alpha male but with this soft interior. An interior that was not honored when he was a child. He gets plucked from obscurity, does a huge underwear add and is now on his fourth film. Dillon is on the ride of his life when we meet him--but he is also terrified and lonely and he is doing what he learned to do when he was a child when he was terrified and that is to act tough and not feel--or at least act like he doesn't feel.

Many of Dillon's qualities come from being raised by a very tough dictatorial father who never showed emotion.

A father that believed everything was disposable. Dillon was a kind and emotional kid and his father quite literally tried to beat the emotion out of Dillon.

Dillon's father saw his sons caring nature as a vulnerability, a weakness so he did everything he could to 'toughen' Dillon up.

We also see how dictatorial the MacAvoy family was/is in their reaction to their youngest son Choo. Dillon makes a painful choice to support his brother, Dillon eschews a relationship with his parents because of their refusal to accept Choo for who he is: A gay man.

Dillon is loyal and kind and just and he will do anything to protect his brother from any further pain inflicted by their parents.

Dillon is a physically gifted man. He has dark hair, beautiful blue eyes He is thick and well-muscled. He exudes a fearless confidence. When write him I often see glimpses of Channing Tatum, in his looks and the way he moves. He has a great appetite for women, and woman love Dillon. He is that good-looking guy that you can take home to mom but really he is a bad-boy in disguise.

About the Author

Maggie Marr grew up in the Midwest and made the move to Los Angeles to work in the movie business. She was a motion picture literary agent for ICM before becoming a full time writer. She's written for film and TV and ghostwritten for celebrities. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.

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