Woman Crush
Wednesday:
Sienna
is the leading lady in my Art of Love
books, Model Position and Private Internship. She is spirited,
talented, beautiful and yet still struggling with some issues, like her OCD
neatnik tendencies and her insecurity around relationships. Since most of us
struggle with one thing or another it makes her relatable, someone you want to
root for. Here are a few snippets from my two novels that illustrate these
traits. See what you think.
Two passages from Model Position showing Sienna’s pluck
yet insecurity:
1.
“Sienna,
you’re so incredibly sexy, I can’t take my eyes off of you.”
“That’s
a good thing,” I jibe, “because you need to study me to be able to paint me.”
2.
I
felt so out of control yesterday trying to get comfortable around Lydia
Hightower that it’s reassuring to line up my brushes and then my paints in
perfectly straight lines on my palette. Though I know that in the process of
painting, they’ll end up in multi-hued blobs. I wonder if I’ll feel compelled,
as I usually do, to keep realigning them.
And one from Private Internship showing Sienna’s
power and allure:
1.
I get up and walk away from Caz, stand in
front of my digital print still clipped on the drawing line. “You told me
earlier that you liked my work. Was that bullshit? And what about your work?
What are you really trying to say with it? Because, if that Tarot reading was
on the money, you play a lot of clever games, but distract yourself from what
your heart really needs to express.” I spin around and stare at him. The
candlelight lends everything a witchy, theatrical flair. Figures, after all, it
is Halloween.
His face is a fast moving flurry of
emotion: fury, that elusive, unnamed sadness, and could it be—a glimmer of
sudden lust?
My chest fills with waves of unexpected,
guilty desire. “Am I close?” I whisper, mirroring his words.
“Close,” Caz whispers back, his voice
thick. He rises and stalks slowly toward me, locking onto his quarry, the inked
panther on his neck rising and falling. “Sienna, beautiful, strong artist. My
lord, woman, what are you doing to me?” His expressive hands reach out and
lightly graze my cheekbones, the vulnerable sides of my forehead.
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series, Model Position is on sale at
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My Bio:
Kitsy Clare hails from Philly and lives in
Manhattan. A romantic at heart, she loves writing about the sexy intrigue of
the city and of the art world. She knows it well, having shown her paintings
here before turning to writing. Model
Position, her new adult novella is about
artist Sienna and her friends. Living in a Bookworld says: “Beautifully written! We learn
things about art & painting. A colorful story from a promising author.” The
next in The Art of Love series, Private
Internship launches Sept 29 with Inkspell.
Kitsy also writes YA as Catherine Stine. Her
futuristic thriller, Ruby’s Fire was
a YA finalist in the Next Generation Indie book awards. Fireseed One, its companion novel, was a finalist in YA and
Sci-Fi in the USA News International Book Awards, and an Indie Reader notable.
Her YA horror, Dorianna, launches
fall 2014 with Evernight Teen.
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