Welcome to my First Kiss Friday blog. I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. Today I have Elizabeth Ellen Carter as my guest with an excerpt from My Earl Aas An Alien. I got such a kick out of the premise of this story that it was a one click buy for me. Read on and enjoy, my lovelies!
Excerpt from My Earl Was An Alien:
On the evening of the following day, after a flurry of messages back and forth to arrange a meeting of the parents, Jasper found himself unable to sleep. At first he imagined it to be the excitement of the day, but began to sense turmoil in Thalian’s guarded thoughts.
“What’s up, old chap?” he asked at last. “You’re keeping me awake.”
“I’m sorry,” said Thalian, “but there’s a problem. Will there be more kissing?”
“I should hope so! What’s wrong with that?”
Thalian sighed. “I’ve been reviewing the data. You remember I said your skin-to-skin contact with others caused a slight voltage differential? Well, when you and Celeste touched lips, it was much higher.”
“And the problem is?”
“I’m worried such contact might cross the consciousness barrier.”
“Are you saying she might hear you like I do?”
“I doubt it. But I did get a glimmer of her. Not her thoughts, just an overall… sense of her being there.”
“But she was there. I was kissing her!”
“You know what I mean,” Thalian snapped. There was a pause before he continued calmly. “It wasn’t that your feelings were heightened – which they were – but I had the idea that if it had gone on much longer, she’d start to sense I was there too. Anyway, we both know my presence has to remain secret, so I’d much prefer it if there was no more kissing.”
“Well, that’s not going to happen!” Jasper exclaimed out loud. “I’ve only just got started kissing Celeste. Let me tell you, there’s going to be a lot more of it.”
Thalian groaned, and Jasper could feel his dismay. Actually, he could feel another emotion from him – fear.
“Listen, old chap,” he said as soothingly as he could, “there’s no avoiding it. I’ve just proposed to the girl and been accepted. She’s going to expect kisses. If I stop now, she’ll get upset.”
There was silence between them for a minute. Jasper wracked his brains for a solution, and the first thought that came into his head was simply to tell Celeste what was going on.
“We can’t do that,” Thalian protested. “And I’m not just saying that for my sake. If you tell her about me – she’ll think you’re mad, and it’ll have the same effect as you refusing to kiss her.”
About My Earl Was An Alien
A Regency romance with aliens?
Don’t ever challenge me to write something!
It was movie night at our place one evening last year when my husband and I were still chuckling at the concept behind the film we’d just watched on DVD. It was Cowboys & Aliens, the 2011 Jon Favreau-directed action flick that mashes together, well, cowboys and aliens.
We’d thoroughly enjoyed how the cast played it dead straight as an amnesiac outlaw, various other characters, and the people of an 1873 western town battled invading aliens in this unexpected mix of genres.
Then Duncan turned to me and said, “I bet you couldn’t combine a Regency romance with aliens.”
“Bet I could,” I countered instantly. “But it’ll be a comedy and you’re going to help me do it.”
And now here we are – My Earl was an Alien, our first writing collaboration since we were journalists (and film critics!) together, released October 31, apt I thought since it’s Halloween, and it tells the tale of an earl who’s kind of haunted by a gaseous being from a far-off planet.
It’s a romantic comedy featuring Jasper Farley, Earl of Holcombe, and his childhood friend, Lady Celeste Belmont, dealing with an alien possession, parents who are pushing them to marry, and a race against time to make a rescue rendezvous.
My Earl was an Alien is available now. I think it’s got just the right mix of laughter and ‘the feels’. I hope you think so too.
Amazon Buy Link: https://amzn.to/3RbzggL
About the Author:
Elizabeth Ellen Carter is USA Today bestselling author and an award-winning historical romance writer who pens richly detailed historical romantic adventures. A former newspaper journalist, Carter ran an award-winning PR agency for 12 years. The author lives in Australia with her husband and two cats.
Social Media
• Web: http://eecarter.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethEllenCarter
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/eecarterauthor/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth_ellen_carter/
• BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/elizabeth-ellen-carter
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ElizabethEllenCarter