Guest Post with Author Hayson Manning and Giveaway

Please welcome back to RFTC author Hayson Manning. Hayson is celebrating the recent release of her book, Winning the Boss's Heart and has stopped by to chat. Please give Hayson a warm welcome.

Hayson Manning's debut release, Wife in Name Only with Entangled Publishing, is available now. She lives in Southern California with her lovely sloth children, infuriating but much loved shoe-dropping husband, a tubby opinionated cat (as if a cat never doesn't have an opinion). There will often be a foster dog parked on the couch waiting for their forever home. She loves to read, cry watching Antiques Roadshow and is an expert at finding new and inventive ways to avoid exercise.

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big thank you to Dani and Ramblings from this Chick for having me on her fab-o blog today.


What are my favorite types of stories and why.

I had a hard time answering this. Let me sip my wine, (I’m in Sydney, it’s late and let’s say something the cat ate didn’t agree with him, so there’s a Sauvignon Blanc on my desk as I write this), and explain.

When I became a serious writer – as in I have an agent who expects me to write and not sneak off to watch the Abbot’s and the Newman’s duke it out on daytime TV, or contemplate the stalagmites that need chiseling off my oven. Yes, some days getting words on the page…well I’d rather offer myself up for sacrifice to cannibals having a lean year.

I used to always read what I write which is contemporary romance. One day I received a recommendation on Goodreads about a dystopian series. I’d never read this genre before, so I toodled off to Amazon and downloaded the first in the Beyond series by Kit Rocha. I swear I threw bread at the kids and told them where the toaster hung out. I had to finish the book. It was awesome. It also got me wondering what else I’d been missing. With my ‘buy now’ finger clicking away, I drained the bank account and downloaded some fabulous M/M romances, sci-fi, historical, biographies, paranormal. Pretty much everything. What a revelation!

I now read every day. Forty minutes is mine. The sloths (I have boys who are part sloth, part bacteria), know that unless they have severed an artery, have a bone sticking out or there is a strange man asking them to help find his lost puppy, don’t interrupt me when I’m reading. At the moment I’m devouring ‘An Abundance of Katherine’s’ by John Green. This is a recommendation from my oldest sloth. As he speaks mostly in grunt I thought we could at least have something to grunt about in common. I’m a bit of a fan of Mr. Green’s, having wept and laughed in equal measure reading ‘The Fault in our Stars.’ Next up is Wallbanger by Alice Clayton.

Now I do have a pet hate in any genre and that’s a cliffy. Tell me upfront I’ll not know what happens until book three or five. I’ve nearly broken my Kindle throwing it when I’m at the last page and there’s a huge cliffhanger. I have a policy now, I won’t buy the next book unless I will actually spontaneously combust if I don’t know what happens, but I’ll be very wary of reading that author again.

What do you read? Do you have a genre you adore? A pet peeve?

Mason Christian has twelve weeks to flip something old into something new, and then he's getting the hell out of Footsteps Bay—a tiny New Zealand coastal town. Not even his temporary secretary and personal assistant—the feisty, luscious Billie McLeod—will deter him, but there's no denying she makes him feel alive. More alive than he's felt in three years...

As for Billie, she has one dream: save enough money to finish her degree. That's why she's agreed to work for hard ass, all-business-no-pleasure Mason Christian. But can they stick to a hands-off policy that gets harder every day?

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If you get the job, I’ll be calling you Forty-Two, as none of my assistants stay. I work long hours and expect the same.”

“Forty-Two?” she blurted out. She did some quick math. He didn’t look to be older than thirty. She’d put him at twenty-eight tops unless he was dipping his face into cell rejuvenation fluid each night. “You’ve had forty-one assistants?” A quiver of doubt covered her skin like a blanket of cobwebs. Of course, if he called them all by number, like they were nothing more than prison convicts, was it any doubt he’d gone through them so quickly?

She should get up and leave and never look back. And she might if not for the huge paycheck he was offering.

He watched her with those unblinking blue eyes. Didn’t look like the man smiled a whole lot. She resisted the urge to shift in her chair. She doubted his middle name was jocularity or could even form the word “fun” in an anagram. In fact, she’d bet her ThighMaster and Zingo knife that he’d never heard a funny joke. He shrugged. “As I said, none of my assistants stay long, so I number them. It’s easier to remember.”

“Yeah, because remembering the name Sue, Jane or Henrietta would be a hardship.”

He blinked as if he’d just noticed her for the first time and did a full scan of her. A heartbreaking smile that would get him admitted to secret societies, exclusive men’s clubs, and women’s underwear transformed his face.

Check out what's up for grabs.

Up For Grabs For Entire Tour:

• 1 $50 Amazon Gift Card

To Enter: 

• Please answer Hayson's question: What do you read? Do you have a genre you adore? A pet peeve?
• Please leave your email address along with your comment to be entered. 
• Giveaway ends October 30th.

Good Luck! 

Special thanks to Hayson Manning & Goddess Fish Promotions for sponsoring this tour-wide giveaway.