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Good morning, everyone! Today, we have CJ Johnson, a long time friend of mine whose book, JarDan, the first book of her series The Men of Anderas, has just been released. I've read JarDan and it's an excellent read, full of love and adventure and good old fashioned HAWT men, LOL. If you're looking for a good read, give it a shot. Now, on to CJ who'll be talking about how she arrived at the concept for the books.

Oh, by the way, CJ is having two drawings so make sure you read all of her article to find out how to enter. -- Lynda

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The question I’m most often asked is “How did you come up with that?” Depending on what I’m working on at the time, the answer is usually a shrug and generic comment. That isn’t the case with THE MEN OF ANDERAS. I know exactly how they came to life. My husband was watching a documentary about the probability of alien abduction and he casually asked why a being from an advanced planet would come to Earth. I think I answered him with a flip “for wild monkey-sex” or something along those lines. Later, I started thinking about that and all the “what if” situations began popping in my head.

If they came for monkey sex – why? Don’t they have women at home to do the deed? Ok, what if they DON’T have women at home? Why don’t they have any women? You see how all of this built one question after the other? Needless to say, I had a very sleepless night but by morning I had all the details of a plague that only affected the males of the planet – they were unable to father female children. No cure could be found; they realized they were doomed to extinction. Well, what could they do but go out and find the females? Knowing I had to resolve the problem even if I couldn’t solve it, I picked up a slogan from a commercial for a beer popular in the Pacific Northwest.

The first in the series, JARDAN, will be available at www.newconceptspublishing.com later this month and I'm frantically working to finish the second in the series, DAK. Everyone who leaves a message on the blog will be in the drawing for a copy of JARDAN and some other stuff as well. If you read the book and recognize the brand name of the beer in the Epilogue send me an email to cjjohnsonwriter@yahoo.com. I’ll select a winner from the correct entries for a special gift. I hope you enjoy JARDAN as much I as enjoyed bringing Melodie and JarDan to life and I look forward to hearing from you. PS – I won’t say whether JarDan and Melodie have wild monkey sex but here’s a short preview:



Excerpt

“Do you really dress like this all the time?”

"Yes.” He said glancing at his tunic and boots.

“Why?” She demanded, turning to look at him in the moonlight. “You didn’t look like Robin Hood on the space ship. Everyone there dressed like … like you’d imagine space men to dress. This,” she indicated the garden and castle with a sweep of her hand, “is like living in a fairy tale.”

She paced back and forth for several seconds and JarDan knew she was gathering her ammunition for another salvo. She was working herself up to a full-blown confrontation and he loved every minute of it. If she could get past her fear enough to argue with him -- to openly confront him -- then he was making definite progress.

“One minute I’m a farmer. Then -- ZAP! -- I’m in a space ship headed for God knows where. Now I’ve zigzagged back through a time warp expecting any minute to see knights fighting dragons or capturing unicorns or something.”

She stopped beneath the overhanging branches of a willow tree and wrapped her arms around her waist before turning to confront him.

“In all those tapes you recorded there wasn’t one word -- not one -- about this.” She swept the area with a wide arc of her arm. “I’ve never worn a long dress or been to a dance or had dinner with so many people -- unless you count eating a hot dog at the county fair. You don’t dress yourself or wash yourself or …”

She turned her back to him and JarDan had to step close behind her to hear her whisper.

“You should have told me how to greet a king. You should have told me.”

CJ Johnson
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