Guest Post: Beth Albright

Today, I’m so pleased to have Beth Albright, author of the the Sassy Belles trilogy, stop by. She’s been busy promoting her latest novella, Saved by the Belles, which is on the top of my stacks just waiting to be read. I just adored her Sassy Belles trilogy – The Sassy Belles, Wedding Belles, & Sleigh Belles – and was quite bummed when I got to the end, but I’m happy to say that we have not seen the last of our favorite Belles. They will be back in a new trilogy in the late spring!!!

Romance & Love: Belle
Style

Thank you so much Kristin, for this fantastic opportunity to
connect with you followers! I am just thrilled to meet y’all!

Ah, February, love is in the air. And us Belles just love
LOVE, and especially ROMANCE! It’s what we love to write about! Seriously, I
love a good love story like anybody else, but for me, it’s the romance that
really sends me swooning. And really for us romance writers, isn’t every month
a month for romance? Handsome sweethearts, with flowers, dinner reservations,
and yes, ahem…jewelry! Ahhhhh, yes! We just LOVE anything that sparkles!

A southern belle just has
to be a little flirtatious, too, in the way she approaches love. We would never
become the pursuer. It’s just not Belle-like.
No. We love to be the pursu-ee. Our prince charming needs to chase us, even
if just for a few minutes. We love to be desired. It makes us feel beautiful.
It gives us a reason to bat our eyes and tease our men—and we live for that.

And the Belles I write are no different than the real Belles
I grew up with.

In my most recent book, Saved By The Belles, a particular
scene takes place in a hotel room on Valentines Day. My narrator, Blake, is
eight months pregnant. Sonny, her soon- to- be- husband and old childhood
sweetheart lures her to a hotel and tricks her into peeking into a random room
by finding a key on the floor in the hallway. Just as he opens the door, she is
enveloped in the amber glow of flickering candles. Rose petals were strewn across
the bed and all of her overnight items in the bathroom. He had packed for her.
That was amazing as he knew just what she would need.

Sonny, her lover, sits down on the bed next to an
overwhelmed Blake and tells her things are about to change—change for the
better with their new little bundle, but change no less. This would be the last
time they would be together as only the two of them, a couple, and he wanted to
make it as special as he could.

It was a tearjerker of a scene and every reader LOVES Sonny.
He is such a romantic, (and quite a lover- attentive and gentle and soft.) But
he loves to devour her whenever he can. Their romance has been hot through all
of the series.

 Everyone seems to
want to know if this was real–I have received so much mail on this—now the
truth comes out.

Y’all, this was an actual scene from the pages of my real
life. I know. I’m a lucky girl. My hubby did this for me just two months before
our sweetheart son was born.

He took me to a hotel, telling me I should go to the
bathroom before we hit the road to drive the sixty miles back to Tuscaloosa
after a day of shopping up in Birmingham. He pulled into a hotel and said he
better go, too. I came out of the bathroom and he said, “Look I found a key,” and
before I knew it, he opened the next door in the hallway and voila. Rose
petals, candles, my lotions and makeup, gifts…man he works FAST. I was
overcome. And I never forgot it.

Sonny and Blake are hot. But then again—could some of those
scenes from my other books be taken from real life? Ahem…we shall have to
discuss this at a later date!

Scenes from my own life seem to always wind up in my novels.
And that’s okay. Writers write what they know.

For example, in Saved By The Belles, that accidental pee
scene, where Blake hides her entire pregnant self under a red blanket in the
front seat of her car? She is trying to hide as she MUST go potty RIGHT THIS
MINUTE! She is pregnant after all–
Yep, that happened too!  But that story
will have to wait for another time—just know that it was me relieving myself in
a 32oz Slurpee Styrofoam cup from the seven-eleven! I wasn’t pregnant for this
one but was trapped in a car in the middle of the Chicago Marathon! And I had to go! When you read the scene, you will know just what happened next!

Love is a funny thing. But Belles really love LOVE. Romance
is the key to a Belles heart. Give me candlelight, soft music, love notes, and
soft kisses any day. And always in front of a fireplace. Surely I’m not alone
here. At our core aren’t we all Belles? We loved to be wooed and pursued. No
matter what age you are, femininity never ever goes out of style. And honey,
chivalry wins out over hot bods every time. Well– chivalry AND a hot bod
wouldn’t be a bad thing! But the minute someone opens the door for me, I melt a
little inside.

Valentines Day is a day for romance and love—have a
love-filled month y’all! Why limit all that fun to just one day?? *Wink Wink*

You can contact with Beth on Facebook, Twitter or her website.

Thanks so much Beth for stopping by and sharing this post today!!! I am definitely eager to read Saved by the Belles now and see how these scenes come together, knowing they are based on your life! If you want to read the book, head over to Amazon – the e-book is only $2.99.