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Stephanie Queen

USA Today Bestselling Author

Enter the Notorious Man on Campus TikTok Video Contest

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TikTok Video Contest

NMOC TeaserDo you have what it takes to WIN?

Do you have a creative streak?

Most importantly, do you love to read steamy new adult romance? The steamy enemies to lovers kind, with a broken boy redeemed by the love of a wonderful giving girl? The kind with a hot football star at an elite college and a gorgeous yet poor misfit girl trying to win him over?

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Post your video on TikTok with the #Booktok and #StephanieQueen hashtags.

Prize: $50 Gift Card

Deadline 10/24/21

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SQ Tidbits: What makes this romance author tick

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So what kind of person writes romance novels anyway?

I can’t claim to know about all of us writers out there in romance-land, but I can give you a few tidbits about myself that will illuminate some of what inspires me. In case you didn’t know, I love to read and write new adult/college sports romance, the steamy kind.

My stories are intense, characters redeemed and endings are satisfying and smiley. My goal is to have you put the book down with a sigh. And then to one-click the next one in the series because there’s always going to be a next one!

Now about those tidbits:

1. I’ve been *boy-crazy* since kindergarten
2. If only I weren’t allergic, because I adore kittens
3. Chocolate is my favorite food group
4. NFL Football is my favorite entertainment—watching, not playing (see above fact about boy-crazy)
5. Winter weather doesn’t scare me—I thrive in it
6. I’ve been a blond for only half my life
7. My secret power is my ability to shut out the outside world (comes in handy when writing in bars)
8. Coffee makes me talk fast, like way too fast (I could be an auctioneer after two cups)
9. My favorite reads are regency romances and thrillers, not necessarily in that order
10. I’m happy because my husband makes me laugh all day (Dad jokes, but still…)

Shout out to Tammy @butfirstletsread on Instagram for posting my list HERE!

In the meantime, my next intense, steamy college sports romance is Notorious Man on Campus to be released in September—but pre-order it now so you don’t miss it!

Brick
Growing up, I had 3 different step-mothers before dad figured out he was best suited to bachelorhood. Despite promises, once they left I never saw any of them again.
To say I don’t trust women is impossible. I would never use the word trust and women in the same sentence.

And in the universe of un-trustworthy women, the girl who broke my brother’s heart, the one who caused him to drop out of college to work in nowhere Pennsylvania, holds a specially vile place in the black hole that would be my heart.

And heck if she isn’t the girl I’m looking at right now in the kitchen at BMOC House where I live, where I rule. Nyla Rhoades stands at the sink, washing pots and pans more temptingly forbidding than ever.

Welcome to my senior year. Turning from the best time of my life as star QB on campus, on my way to the NFL to a living purgatory where I’m reminded daily of the one most absolutely messed up mistake of my life.

All because of her…

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Special Sale Day: Best Man on Campus

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If you love bully romances, this is the sale for you. Best man on Campus is a reverse bully college sports romance with sizzle. It’s on sale this week for only $0.99!

What’s a REVERSE BULLY romance you ask? It’s where the heroine bullies the hero. Jazzy bullies Ben mercilessly, but he stands up to it, knowing she’s hurting and needs someone to unlock the door to let out all the pain. Ben is her unicorn, patient and kind and more than smitten. She’s the strong, brave girl of his dreams, full of life and talent and spunk. Check it out.

Here’s a snippet:

(Warning: adult language)

I find what I need to clean the blood from her hand and arm.

“Nice song,” I say when she stops and I secure the bandage and stand, gritting my teeth against the surge of nausea now that I’m finished. I take a long slow deep breath to shake it off.

She ignores my comment, venturing a look at her hand, and then smiles at me.

“You’re good at this.” I’m in danger of vomiting, but I don’t tell her.

“Tell that to the med schools I’m applying to.” I take her good hand to pull her from the chair. “All set.”

“Med school. Damn. I thought you were going to be a big hockey star and I could score myself some big-shot jock cock.”  No humor in her sarcasm, she eyes me with interest more than disappointment.

“Guess you’re feeling better. And don’t pretend you’re disappointed.”

She laughs. It’s a startling sound that does more to light my cock than the sight of her nipples through her wet T-shirt.

“You’re right, I don’t give a fuck what you do. Maybe the rumor I heard isn’t true.”

“What rumor is that?”

“That you’re being scouted for the NHL.”

I shake my head, suppressing the beat of excitement. “It’s true.” I shrug. “But it doesn’t matter. Being a doctor is more important than playing hockey.”

She gives me an evil look like she knows, as if she can see through to me to the dilemma in my soul. No way she has a clue.

“Big decision. Play hockey or go to med school,” she says as if I haven’t already made the decision, hadn’t just told her my decision. Fuck. “The way I see it, it’s all about choosing now or the future. Which is it, unicorn boy?”

Ignoring her sarcastic unicorn boy tag, I say, “No contest. I’m only playing hockey for the scholarship.” I lie my ass off. There may have been some truth to it once, but I love hockey and playing for St. Paul University with these guys is the best thing in my life, if I’m honest. Now pretending that I only play for the scholarship is a lie that’s getting harder and harder to pull off with the Hockey East Championship and Frozen Four Tournament coming up. And the real possibility for a shot at the NHL taunting me.

“Let’s go,” I say as we step out of the back room.

She laughs at me, for real, and I wonder again if she sees through me as we head back to the bar. I escort Jazzy along the bar toward the front with a hand on the small of her back hovering just above her perfect round ass. The bartender calls out to her from the back, less crowded corner, offering her a free beer to make her forget her pain.

“Honey, you can pour an ocean of beer down my throat and it won’t put out the fire of this pain. It’s who I am. I’ll be out of my misery when I die.” She bellies up to the bar and takes the beer from Leon anyway.

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Why Do We Love Bully Romances?

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I know, I know. Not everyone loves bully romances. But in spite of the evil, un-romantic sound of the genre niche, it’s grown in popularity in the past few years. This niche takes the bad boy hero a step further into the realm of vicious. These days you can find a half a dozen bully romances in the top 100 romances on Amazon at any given time, with titles like Angry God by L.J. Shen.

The extreme bad boy trope has not only spawned the high school/college bully romance niche, but has expanded into other dark romance sub-niches such as the mafia romance and the motor cycle club romance (MC romance).

Why all this popularity with evil heroes, from high school and college bullies to professional criminals? On the surface, these horrible men hardly seem appropriate heroes for a happy-ever-after romance. The cruel bully seems antithetical to everything a romantic hero should be, right?

But like the pirate romances of the past, these romances thrive because they represent the ultimate conquest of love over evil. Redeeming the worst possible man with the power of romantic love, plus the right heroine, is an irresistible idea. Not to mention very romantic.

The strong heroine is central to these new dark bully bad boy romances, differentiating them somewhat from the pirate romances of the seventies (though you could prove me wrong with some examples, most of the pirate heroines seemed to be cast as victims needing rescue.)

The irresistible appeal of the-darker-the-better hero comes from the satisfaction of that redemption, so much more powerful when the hero is finally led to the seemingly impossible happy ending. The stakes of saving the extreme bad boy in a romance is the equivalent of saving the world in a thriller or fantasy novel, allowing the heroine and romantic love to achieve the ultimate victory.

Needless to say, these stories are not easy to pull off! I love reading them, getting drawn in by the raw and extreme emotional stakes, but writing them? That takes some doing. Hopefully, I’m up to the challenge.

How do you find these crazy monster bad-boy romances? They’re often labeled as bully romances, dark romances, mafia romances and MC romances. Sometimes enemies-to-lovers and hate-to-love romances can feature evil heroes. Also, vampire romances often feature the similarly extremely dark heroes transformed by love.

A few of my favorite dark/bully romance authors are L.J. Shen, Meagan Brandy and Ilsa Madden Mills.

You can also look for Big Man on Campus featuring a bully hero on the mend in this enemies-to-lovers college sports romance.

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Playlist for Writing (and reading) BIG MAN ON CAMPUS

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Playlist for Writing (and reading) BIG MAN ON CAMPUS

Writing Big Man on Campus, an enemies to lovers college romance, was an emotion packed journey for me. Although I’ve never done it before, I found music, certain songs that resonated, that really put me there, in the moment, feeling everything the characters felt as I wrote. I was truly inspired and my writing was enhanced by listening to some kick-a$$ songs.

Both the lyrics and the sounds of these songs vibrate in my soul against the backdrop of the story of Jack and Joni.

To really sink into the emotions and let them have their way with you, to make you feel like you are living in the characters’ skins, I highly recommend you listen to these songs while you read– before and after too!

Big Man on Campus is an angsty and steamy story about a troubled boy becoming a man and a young woman finding her stride as they negotiate life at St. Paul University and pull away from their family and homes to banish their demons and establish new lives.

The Big Man on Campus Playlist:

Believer, Imagine Dragons
Demons, Imagine Dragons
The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel
Whatever It Takes, Imagine Dragons
Fix You, Fearless Soul
Conversations in the Dark, John Legend

The Sexiest Voice!

I Am Yours, Andy Grammer

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BMOCTHE BOOK:  Available at AMAZON on Kindle Unlimited February 26th

Jack

My life looks great from the outside, but on the inside, I’m on edge, teetering on disaster, trying to hold it together for my senior year long enough to realize my dream, achieve my goal of winning the Heisman Trophy.

What’s the problem? Me. I’m the problem. I’m an imposter, not the big man everyone thinks I am.

And Joni, the lifelong bane of my existence, knows my secrets, who I really am.

I desperately need money, enough to keep my mother afloat since she can’t seem to do it herself. I need to get the money by any means.

Without getting caught.

Without losing everything, including Joni.

WARNING: Contains sex and language for a mature audience.

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Research Tidbits: Big Man on Campus

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Big Man on Campus

a college enemies to lovers romance

Even college romance stories require research though, heaven knows I’ve been there and done that! It’s an ongoing process, even in the middle of writing the story.

The Latest RESEARCH TIDBITS

One of the things that’s cool to do in a story is to have a “signature scent” for the hero and/or heroine.
But for the hero in this story, Jack Hunter, I didn’t want it to be the same old spicy musky scent, so I did some research.
How?
I googled men’s colognes. And I found the perfect one for Jack Hunter, BMOC. Since he doesn’t have a lot of money, I didn’t want to use one of those crazy expensive chi-chi designer colognes. So this is what I found!
Perfect, don’t you think?

Here’s the ad copy:
“Hard-working men don’t have time to screw around with messy sprays that leave them smelling like they were attacked by the perfume lady at the mall. They need a fool-proof way to smell good on the go…. perfect for gym bags… lasts a good long time“
The Scent:
“The Bourbon Solid Cologne offers a woodsy, oak barrel scent inspired by the rack houses at our favorite place in the world, the Buffalo Trace Distillery.”

To get the intoxicating description of Jack’s signature scent—and why—you’ll have to read the story…

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