Where My
Tats At?
By Avery
Flynn
OK, I’m old.
Not like old, old but old enough to remember when getting a tattoo was an act
of bad-assery on par with a night in jail. At least in my family it was. So you
can imagine that the first thing I did when I went off to college was to get a
tattoo. A nice, green shamrock on the hip. I followed that up with a second
trip to add a trio of daisies in a circle around it.
My mother
was less than amused. She rolled her eyes and told me to just wait until I saw
what it looked like when I got pregnant. It hurts me to type this, but she was
right. My shamrock looked like an alien octopus when I was nine months pregnant
with Flynn kid No. 1. By the time Flynn kid No. 3 came around, I’d gotten over
the shock.
The little shamrock has never looked the
same, but I still love it and wouldn’t give it up for anything. It’s a visual
reminder of where I’ve been. I only have one other tattoo, a J that looks like
the first decorative letter in a fairytale. That was my celebration for
retaining my sanity while the fabulous Mr. Flynn served in Iraq for a year.
I didn’t
plan on tatting up Josie Winarsky, my heroine in Passion Creek which is coming out Aug. 31. A struggling painter
and Vegas cocktail waitress, she is a free spirit with plenty of chutzpah, but
the idea of adding tattoos didn’t occur until I came across this photo. I saw
it and something clicked inside me. This girl is
the short-haired version of Josie Winarsky (also, I’d kill to look that good as
a blonde) .
That little
detail really helped formulate a picture of Josie in my head and her character
just took off after that. My favorite of Josie’s tattoos is one on her right
bicep of a tiny, pink princess slaying a fire-breathing dragon. That image
defines Josie’s character and the way she sees herself. So when a slimy Vegas
loan shark comes after one of her family members, well, you know she isn’t
about to let that one go.
So do you
have any tattoos? If so, what do they say about you?
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Fang-tastic Books
Passion Creek
Layton Family Series Book Three
Avery Flynn
Genre: Steamy romantic suspense
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-77130-104-6
ASIN: B00947WLUC
Number of pages: 164
Word Count: 52,886
Cover Artist: Sour Cherry Designs
Book Description:
Uptight history professor Sam Layton may have the abs of a movie action hero, but he stopped believing in the joy of adventure a long time ago. However, when a one-night stand with a tattooed bombshell leads to a treasure map for the long-buried Rebecca’s Bounty, the call to action is too strong to ignore.
All Las Vegas cocktail waitress Josie Winarsky wants to do is paint. But when she lands smack dab in the middle in a mob plot, she has to push aside her dreams to find a treasure in Dry Creek, Nebraska and save her family from harm. With Sam at her side and a Vegas loan shark on her tail, the treasure she finds turn out to be much more valuable than emeralds and rubies.
Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQely51PYI
About the Author
Avery Flynn has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip. Find out more about Avery on her blog (www.averyflynn.com ), follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/averyflynn ), like her on Facebook
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Avery-Flynn/177161972329973 ) or friend her on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/avery.flynn.7 ). Also, if you figure out how to send Oreos through the Internet, she’ll be your best friend for life.
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2 comments:
I don't have any tattoos because I would want something meaningful to me and can't come up with anything. My sister has 7 or 8 and says they're addicting. She has an obsolutely hideous Aries sign on a calf, it looks like a red and black devil to me. She also has three celtic knot and flower type ones that are very pretty. My parents weren't pleased and still don't like them. but she's an adult so they say nothing if she doesn't ask for their opinion.
This sounds interesting.
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