I am SO excited!
If you know me, you know two of my favorite fictional characters are the creations of the fabulously talented author, Lou Sylvre. And those fellas are Luki Vasquez and his husband, Sonny James from the "Vasquez and James" series.
Well...giddy here, please forgive me...Lou and the boys are stopping here on their blog tour, and I---yes, me, the Zampzter---get to tag along with them to San Antonio!
So let's begin the trip! We're all yours, Lou Sylvre!
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Hi! I’m Lou Sylvre. Let me wave to
Carol Zampa before I do anything else, and say thank you so much for letting
the guys and me visit your state and your beautiful, classy blog.
I am presently touring with Luki
Vasquez and Sonny James, a husband-husband pair that usually live in my Vasquez
and James series books. The most recent suspense adventure, Saving Sonny James,
was released a couple weeks ago—10/18. I am afraid I put them through hell in the
pages (or pixels) of that book, and once they’d survived, they decided they
needed a vacation—a road trip in Sonny’s Mustang, which was mostly Sonny’s
idea. I agreed to it, as long as I could ride along in the backseat and
chronicle the affair. Luki grumped about that quite a bit, but, because I’m the
author, he really had no choice at all.
Alas, I think fate had other
ideas.
They started in France (where Saving
Sonny James ends), took the Chunnel train to Ashford, Kent, England, and from
there to London, where they got to meet up with friend (and future love
interest of Luki’s nephew, Jackie) Brian Harrison. So far so good, and the
flight to Providence, RI,
where they picked up the Mustang, and a brief visit to New Hampshire all went well, But, then…
On their way to Ohio on I-90
Westbound they hit some kind of anomaly in the time-space continuum, and found
themselves deposited sans car in the future Yellow Knife of Elizabeth Noble’s
Sentries world. Fortunately, Todd and Nick Ruger (Sentries in Elizabeth’s books) helped them out, and they
made it back to I-90. But then…
As soon as they got the car started,
another disturbance occurred and they found themselves, again without the
Mustang, wet, cold, and tired on a beach in New Zealand. They were once again
fortunate, because vampire (and
supernatural agent for good) Simon, and his human partner, Ben, who will greet
the world in early 2014 as characters in Anne Barwell’s Shades of Sepia,
rescued them. After a little cock-crowing by Simon and Luki, they capitulated
to the good sense of their sweeties, and everyone got in the car for a drive to
Anne’s house in Wainuimata (no, no typo). So then…
Anne contacted me on chat. We
decided that since the four men involved were all fictional characters, the
best way to get them where they needed to be was to write them there. Kind of
like magic only with keyboards and pixels instead of Wolf’s bane and stoat’s
belly. We thought about having them fly back to the States, but we were worried
that the anomalies might keep happening, so instead we utilized Luki’s
superstitious nature. Like this:
Lou: Luki, ask St. Christopher to
help you.
Luki: What the hell are you talking
about now, Ms. Sylvre?
Anne: Don’t be disrespectful, Luki!
You might be a badass, but she can write you down to size!
Luki: (Somewhat sheepishly, but
rolling eyes.) I beg your pardon.
Sonny: But, honey, listen! That’s a
good idea she has! He’s the travelers patron, right? And you’ve got this…
connection thing with him. Try it!
So Luki did, holding his St.
Christopher medal in his hand, then putting the chain over Sonny’s head and
letting it fall down to lay over his heart. Then he pulled Sonny close, and
though he didn’t say anything at all, we all knew he was… hooked up somehow
with his saint. Finally, he just said, “Please, St. Chris, Sonny is dying out
here without the Mustang.”
Sonny kissed him, and Luki thought
it probably was in appreciation, but I (the author) happen to know it was
mostly to shut him up… well and also, Sonny finds Luki’s thick, rich, curvy
lips completely irresistible.
Now, as authors go, I sometimes am
admittedly tough on Luki and Sonny, but I’m not without mercy. They’ve been
through hell. So after a few chatted lines and scenes, Anne sent her boys back
to their (weird) home in Flint,
and I got Luki and Sonny back to the Mustang.
“What about you, Ms. Sylvre?” Luki
pretends he doesn’t care, but he does. “I thought you wanted to go on this road
trip, too.”
“Tell you what, Luki,” I said. “I’ll
let you and Sonny have some time together to enjoy your trip, and I’ll meet you
in San Antonio.”
“I’ll take pictures, Ms. Lou, okay?
Then you’ll have something to blog.”
Luki rolled his eyes again, and we
parted ways. The guys made excellent time travelling South and West, stopping
only for hamburgers, a few hours of sleep, and occasional roadside
surreptitious and inappropriate touching. Then they got to San Antonio, met up with Carol Zampa’s
characters Honor C and his ultra sexy partner Jorge, and Candy G with the
more-badass-than-he-looks Carlos. They stuck together, the six of them, for
off-color jokes, drinks, and dinner at Las Canarias on the Riverwalk, and then
Luki and Sonny set out on their own to explore the Riverwalk while dusk fell
and the lights came on.
They held hands, stopped for kisses
in a quiet spot…
Lost themselves in the rainbows of a
million lights…
And finally retreated to a fabulous,
warm, not-too-soft bed in the hotel La Mansion del Rio, where there was lots of sweet
touching, none of it inappropriate or surreptitious at all.
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Ahhhh.....Luki. Sonny. Oh, man. Did you enjoy hanging out with them as much as I did?
Coming down from my Cloud No. Nine, let me give a huge thank you to Ms. Sylvre for sending the boys our way and letting us spend some time with them. And...let me give point you in the direction for Luki and Sonny's latest adventure, Saving Sonny James.
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The Blurb....
Luki Vasquez and
his still newlywed husband are back home after pulling off a harrowing desert
rescue of their teenage nephew Jackie. But the events of the last couple of
years have begun to catch up with Luki—loving Sonny James and letting Sonny
love him back has left gaps in his emotional armor. In the gunfight that
secured Jackie’s rescue, Luki’s bullet killed a young guard, an innocent boy in
Luki’s mind. In the grip of PTSD, memories, flashbacks, and nightmares consume
him, and he falls into deep, almost vegetative depression.
Sonny devotes his
days to helping Luki, putting his own career on hold, even passing up a
European tour of galleries and schools—an opportunity that might never come
again. But when Luki’s parasomnia turns his nightmares into real-world terror,
it breaks the gridlock. Sonny realizes what he’s doing isn’t working, and he
says yes to Europe. Enter Harold Breslin, a
dangerously intelligent artist’s promoter and embezzler whose obsessive desire
for Sonny is exceeded only by his narcissism. When Harold’s plan for Sonny
turns poisonous, Luki must break free of PTSD and get to France fit and
ready in time to save his husband’s life.
What are you waiting for? I've got my copy! Go get yours!
