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About Texas Mutiny
The Texas Mutiny Soccer team is known for their skills
on the soccer field. They work cohesively
as a team, and their bond shows.
But off the field, each team member has a unique
story.
Daniel Zavaro , Team Captain. A self-proclaimed bachelor who loves nothing
more important to Daniel than soccer, his extended family, and his mother’s home
cooking. When fate steps in and he
inadvertently meets a woman who needs his help, Daniel is Juked by love.
Rowen Flanighan, The Rookie. Son of a legendary forward in the European
Premier League, he prefers to be known for his own skills, not his heritage. Full of integrity, he tries to maintain his
cool when he meets and falls for the team Groupie.
Santos DeGuajardo, The Veteran. A family man at heart, Santos is madly in
love with his wife and kids, yet he still can’t seem to stay faithful. When confronted with his infidelities and the
end of his marriage, Santos must figure out if he can win her back or if he has
to move on. And as long as he’s the team
Goalie, there will always be temptation.
Have you been “Juked” by the boys of the Texas Mutiny
yet?
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Ten Fun Facts about the Texas Mutiny
Every
author has their own writing process.
The things that make them most comfortable and help them reach their
goals.
Problem
is, characters seem to have a mind of their own and sometimes that means the
original process goes out the window!
I
experienced that phenomenon over and over while writing the Texas Mutiny
series. Here are Ten Fun Facts about the
series and how the writing process didn’t exactly go as planned.
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My youngest
child, who most know as “Bug”, is the inspiration for multiple younger
characters in the series. When I wrote
Juked, baby Chance started out as a two month old – the same age Bug was at
the time. When I wrote Goalie, Theo
was about 14 months old – the same age Bug was at the time. I try to keep the characters different, but
babies/toddlers all tend to be pretty similar in their learning process, so
many everyday situations have been added to various scenes.
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I never
planned to write a book about a groupie.
But when inspiration hits, there’s not a lot you can do to stop
it. I was in my car writing Juked one
night, while my daughter was in dance practice. I was researching derogatory terms for
“soccer groupie”. (For the record,
there are several terms, but nothing I’ve been able to find that is exclusive
to the sport of soccer, like “puck bunny” would be to hockey.) Instead, I stumbled across several blog
posts from former soccer groupies and I was fascinated. So yes, some of the things that happen in
Groupie? They’re not the result of my
imagination at work as much as they are based on true stories.
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I never
panned to write Goalie either. One of
my beta readers for Groupie mentioned that she would be interested to know
what happened with Santos and Mariana, who were at that point, just secondary
characters that popped in and out very briefly. I told her there wasn’t a story there. The following morning, I sent her quite a
few texts cussing her out, as I suddenly had a 30 chapter outline and story
rolling through my brain.
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Goalie is
about a couple going through a divorce.
I wrote it while I was going through a divorce. There’s a misconception that I wrote my own
divorce story. I didn’t. We could all be so lucky as to divorce a
man like Santos. Which is weird to say
since he’s a serial cheater. But if
you make it to the end, you’ll see why I can wish for that.
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I’m not a
fan of naked torsos on covers, but I wanted to try a “Social experiment”, if
you will, about how well a naked torso cover is received. That’s how Juked ended up with a soccer
player on the cover. Then it turned
into a whole series and I have to keep the covers consistent with more torsos. Serves me right.
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Speaking
of covers, one really cool feature with the paperback, if you put two of them
side by side, the second one upside down, and push the covers together, the
pictures come together like a puzzle to make one whole person. It
works with the covers of Groupie, too.
However, it does NOT work with Goalie.
If you put those two pictures together, it looks like a threesome with
a four-boobed alien woman in the middle.
That’s a different genre, altogether.
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I toyed
with just letting the soccer team be the Houston Dynamo, which is our actual
team here in Houston. Then the inspiration
for Groupie hit and I figured their very real PR department wouldn’t want to
have any sort of association with some of the things my players do off the
field. And since a lawsuit didn’t fit
into my schedule, I very quickly changed the team name.
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Speaking
of changing the team name, I couldn’t come up with one I liked for
anything! So I had a contest in my
group for one. The winner, Helen Cope,
came up with the name “Texas Mutiny”.
Not only did she win some books, she is a character in Juked. Remember Rosemary Cope? Erik’s mother? Helen’s middle name is Rosemary and liked the
sound of it for the character.
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In the
acknowledgements of each Texas Mutiny book (except Megged) is the name John
Marshall. He is the husband of a good
friend of mine and has been obsessed with all things soccer since he can
remember. He’s in his 40’s and still
plays on a competitive league. John
has never read a romance book in his life until he beta read the entire
series. It’s not uncommon for him to
send me notes from his job because he’s gotten caught up in a chapter. His wife has even texted me pictures of him
reading my books the day they go live, so he can see the final product! I also been told the conversations they had
while he beta read Groupie were, um…. Interesting.
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My
favorite characters in this series, by far, are Tiffany and Rowen. There is something so lovely and wonderful
about knowing nothing in your past matters to the person that loves you the
most. I love them so much that they
are getting a second book, tentatively titled Outswinger. It’s scheduled to release in July.
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