Interview and Giveaway with Tara Sivec

Tara Sivec

You've probably seen our reviews and have noticed how much we are enjoying reading Tara Sivec's series, CHOCOLATE LOVERS.  Today is the official release day of FUTURES AND FROSTINGS, which was awesome by the way.  We are very excited to have her here with us today!

So Tara, let's get to know you! Tell us five things about yourself that will shock and amaze us.

1. I've never had a one-night stand
2. I married my high school sweet heart
3. If I see a clown I WILL punch it in the face
4. I have 5 tattoos
5. I hate chocolate

Describe your Chocolate Lovers series in five words!

Inappropriate, drunken, foul-mouthed with vibrators.

What can we expect from your second book Future & Frostings?

Inappropriate, drunken, foul-mouthed with vibrators.

Seduction & Snacks is the first book in your Chocolate Lovers series and the first book published and is really popular, how does it feel to be a successfully published author?

I still don't feel like a published author. I'm just a soccer mom from Ohio! All of this still feels like a dream. I figured I'd have to pay people to read anything I wrote. And it would just be family members which would mean I'd have to pay them double since they're greedy bastards.

Claire from your series loves to bake, do you also like to get busy in the kitchen? Any recipes you wold recommend?

I LOVE to bake. I'm a huge baker and my cookie trays at Christmas are legendary. I'm not one to try any crazy recipes, I usually stick to the basics. Chocolate chip, snickerdoodles, etc. Although, if you like white chocolate and cranberries, Google the recipe for Cranberry Hootycreeks. DELICIOUS!

I thought Seduction and Snacks was hilarious, is it hard to write the humour in your books, or does it come naturally?

 It sort of comes naturally for me. The way I write is the way I talk and interact with people so it's not forced or anything. Some days I don't feel funny at all, but then I just text my best friend or call someone in my family and they get me on the funny track again.

What was the last book you loved, and more interestingly the last book you wanted to throw against the wall?

The last book I loved was One Pink Line by Dina Silver. So sweet and wonderfully written. Total opposite of me LOL! I really haven't wanted to throw any against the wall. Well, 50 Shades and I have a love/hate relationship. So maybe that one.

If you only had $20 left in your purse what would you buy?

Books for my Kindle. Or a hooker. But $20 wouldn't buy me a very good hooker.

Do you listen to music when you wrote, is their a favourite playlist on your iPod at the moment?

I'm kind of weird about that. I can't concentrate if I'm listening to music. Music gives me TONS of inspiration for story ideas so if I'm listening to something while I write, I will go completely off track imagining a different story I could write instead of the one I'm supposed to be concentrating on. I like to listen to music when I'm not writing to give me ideas. Right now, 30 Seconds to Mars is on constant repeat on my iPod and has helped give me inspiration for my romantic/suspense series.

Quick fire questions!

 Sex or chocolate? SEX SEX SEX!
Morning person or night owl? Morning person. I'm too old to stay up late with all those youngsters.
Blonde and beautiful or dark and broody? Dark and broody
Ereader or book? Ereader
Sweet love making or rough sweaty shagging? Rough sweaty shagging!


Futures and Frosting
by Tara Sivec
(Chocolate Lovers # 2)

Carter, Claire and Gavin have formed the perfect little family. Their friends are getting married and everyone is growing up, maturing and ready to face the future. Or are they?

From bachelorette party hell, porn addictions, dinner roll baseball and botched wedding proposals to finding out everyone's extended family is chock full of crazy, Carter and Claire begin to question the strength of the ties that bind them. Unfortunately, these ties have nothing to do with fuzzy handcuffs and everything to do with the mounting differences between them.

Will their friends make a mess of things with their inappropriate comments and need to know everything, or will they convince the couple that happily-ever-after sometimes really can start with beer pong?


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Review: Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec

Futures and Frosting

by Tara Sivec

(Chocolate Lovers # 2)

After a few months of moving in with the love of her life and the father of her child, Claire is blissfully happy. I mean yeah his snoring drives her to the brink of murder and finding his best friend passed out drunk on her sofa far more frequently then she would like drives her a little insane, but they are mature adults right? They can move past these obstacles and find their happily ever after, no well meaning but crazy friends, bizarre family members or fake porn addictions can tear apart their relationship...

I blame this book ENTIRELY for my reputation at work for being a crazy person! For example this is an actual conversation I had in my head whilst I was reading this at work:

Sane Suzanne: Must not laugh, must not laugh, must not laugh..
*gargled laughter noise*
Paranoid Suzanne: What the HELL is that bitch looking at!
Sane Suzanne: Maybe I shouldn't read this book in public..must not laugh..
Id Suzanne: Fuck um! Read on...you know you want to, just one more chapter...
*shuffles round in seat to disguise the crazy muttering*
Paranoid Suzanne: Was she staring at me AGAIN! Has she nothing better to do...
Sane Suzanne: Must not laugh, must not laugh, must not laugh
*smoother laughter, ends up making a snorty laughter noise, not dissimilar from a asthmatic pig*
Id Suzanne: Who cares what they think, this book is sooo good, read some more...c'mon you know you want to hear what Gavin will say next....
Sane Suzanne: Must... Stop... Reading....smoother laughter SMOOTHER LAUGHTER
*more asthmatic pig noises and some shuffling to hide face behind kindle*
Paranoid Suzanne: God she is looking and whispering with her friends now damnit why are they laughing at me, WHY?WHY ARE THEY LAUGHING!
Sane Suzanne: Right back away slowly from the kindle... And NO don't bitch slap her, remember you NEED this job, back away back away....

This conversation lasted the whole hour, don't get me wrong, it has its advantages, I always have plenty of room at my lunch table as no one wants to sit next to the girl who has weird convulsions and I can always get to the front of the queue, and now I have no friends, I can get much more done in my spare time!

Okay, now less about my traumatic lunch time experiences and more about the book. I loved it, much like the first one is was hilarious in a foul mouthed sarcastic way, which I adored, whilst still managing to have a sweet love story at its core. I liked that this book was after the HEA of the first one, showing that just because they have said their I-love-yous doesn't mean to say that their lives are now perfect, they still have insane friends, strange families and a 4 year old with a mouth like a trucker, as well as their own foibles to contend with.

This was a fantastic read definitely one of my favourites for this year, I am not sure if this series continues after this book or not, but whatever Tara Sivec brings out next you can guarantee I will be reading it.

Under the Covers Quote

"I think there's green Jell-O in the trunk with the turtles." I state before rolling over and snuggling under the covers.

 

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Review: Seduction and Snacks by Tara Sivec

Seduction and Snacks

by Tara Sivec

Chocolate Lovers #1



Claire never wanted children, so getting knocked up after losing her V card in a one night stand at a frat party at the age of 20 wasn't part of her life plan. But 4 years later she is happy and her funny, adorable demon child is fimly entrenched in her heart and although she still daydreams about her baby daddy (she really should have caught his name!) she never expected to see him again. Until she sees his eyes drunkenly staring at her from across the bar she now works in...

I am making a few new rules about rating any book I read...

1. If I finish it in under 8 hours it gets 5 feathers

2. If I have to put the book down because I am laughing (in a non-mocking way) so hard I see stars the book gets 5 feathers.

Seduction and Snacks gets 5 feathers twice over. I couldn't put it down, I bought this in the morning because I needed something hilarious to get me out of a book slump, hours later I was turning (clicking, it was an ebook) the last page. The main thing I loved about this book was how freaking hilarious it was, it didn't produce Julia Quinnesque chuckles, it was full blown belly laughs that made me extremely grateful I started and finished this book at home and not sitting in work's resturant so I wouldn't have to try desparately smothering my laughs which just makes me look and sound like a pig snorting cocaine.

The romance in this was also great, almost like a love at first sight kind of story only adding more wine/vodka/whisky, a small devil child and nosey friends with no barriers. But Carter and Claire were a great couple and it was sweet (and obviously funny, see above paragraph!) seeing them reconnect. This book was also steamy, and although I have never seen the word vagina (is it just me who thinks that work is unsexy?) so many times in one book, it still managed to have a few knicker melting scenes in it and a very memorable one involving some chocolate!

This was a great read that I highly recommend to everyone, I am definitely going to be looking for more Tara Sivec books!

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