Guest Post and Giveaway: Runner by Karma Kingsley

Please join us in welcoming author Karma Kingsley to TNA today on the tour for her new release from NineStar Press, Runner, book one in the Runner series. Enjoy Karma’s guest post and also be sure to check out the Rafflecopter giveaway at the end.

Welcome, Karma!

Karma’s Credit Card Expires

My credit card expired. Now, for normal, responsible adults, all this means is getting a new card and changing over all of your bills…for adults like me? Well, it’s basically the end of the world as I know it. Everything changes. EVERYTHING. I have to change my PayPal, my Amazon, my MyBills, my Verizon, my Kirklands, my everything. It’s basically the apocalypse.

So, I’ve been trying to just change things as I go to make it a little less daunting of a task, but of course I missed some of the bigger things. I forgot to pay:

-The Vet

-The Phone Bill

-Insurance (and no not just one. I forgot about ALL of the insurances)

-Netflix (yes, Netflix is a big bill. Don’t judge me)

So, every day I get a new notice in the mail and they all read something along the lines of Ms. Kingsley, we’ve noticed that you missed your last payment due on _____. We will be forced to terminate service/pursue action/slaughter your family -okay, maybe not that one- if the payment is not made by _____.

Anyways, every time I get one of the letters the Bitch Better Have My Money song kind of loops in my head, because that’s basically what it boils down to. I think I’d probably be more responsive if they sent me a naked Rihanna (why is she naked, you ask? Because, who doesn’t love a naked Rihanna, duh) pop-up that just said exactly that…And maybe some glitter. I got a new power vacuum. A girl wouldn’t be opposed to some glitter filled notices.

Also, who doesn’t love a little Bibi Bourelly? For those of you who don’t know, she’s the girl that wrote Bitch Better Have My Money, and she’s friggin brilliant.

About the Book

Title: Runner
Series: The Runner, Book One
Author: Karma Kingsley
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: August 21
Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 79k Words
Genre/Categories: Contemporary, age gap, celebrities, hurt/comfort, interracial, mild BDSM, movie industry, spanking, toys
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Blurb: Alex Banez is a runner for a Los Angeles film set. When he has a chance encounter with executive producer Atwell Richards, he finds himself falling fast and hard. Atwell is rich, powerful, gorgeous, and everything Alex never thought he would have. But Atwell also has a dark side and an inflexible need for control that threatens to suffocate everyone around him.

Alex has to figure out if he can love Atwell without losing himself.

Tour-wide Excerpt

Chapter One

“Dammit. Son of a…” Alex shook out his hand, holding back a curse as he blew a puff of cool air onto his burning fingers. The skin on his knuckles reddened and sizzled, and he clenched his jaw as he waited for the pain to subside. Goddamn new directors and their tea fetishes. He’d burned himself nearly a thousand times since the new management team had taken over the set. He was certain his hands were merely bone and burn marks, as the last of his skin had certainly just sizzled off.

Taking a deep breath, he carefully placed the scalding hot cup of Orange Jasmine onto a tray with two others, both varying pretentious flavors of tea. His new bosses from Maryland, flown in to save the current film from going up in flames, had a particular palate for teas.

Alex had thought they were joking when they requested that he place an order for the list of nearly fifty different flavors of the beverage, but the cold, sharp looks from his collection of recently arrived employers had quickly assured him that being a “tea connoisseur” was no laughing matter. He’d nodded in obedience and quickly hopped on the task, having to call in nearly every favor owed to him for the more exotic brands. He’d thought that was the hard part, until they had taken to requesting that he deliver them a new flavor of burning hot tea on the hour. In addition to the other millions of tasks he had to complete, he now had a timer attached to his waist, set to beep every fifty minutes and remind him to hydrate the arrogant devils that controlled his paycheck.

Though he wasn’t in the business for the money. God knows he wasn’t in it for the money. The shit job came equipped with equally shitty pay, but this was where he needed to be. Starting from the bottom was the only way to get to the top.

He picked the tray of mugs up and balanced it on his palm, keeping it steady with the light touch of his other hand. He plastered on a smile and moved forward toward the three men sitting confidently in chairs labeled with their individual titles. None of them mattered. They all outranked him.

“Oh, the tea is here,” one of them exclaimed, turning in his chair to reach back for one of the glasses.

Alex opened his mouth to warn him that he was taking the wrong glass. He’d arranged them in the order that they sat, so as not to forget who ordered what, but his effort was futile as the man brought the cup to his lips. He took a sip and immediately spit it back into the cup.

“Is this Pomegranate Raspberry?” he asked angrily.

“Uh, yes. But it wasn’t—” Alex started to answer but was quickly cut off.

The man stood up from his chair. He wasn’t an intimidating man. His features were light, his hair platinum blond, and he was barely half Alex’s size, but he was obviously used to having power and money and thought that his size was more threatening than it actually was. His gaze burned furiously into Alex. “I specifically asked for Red Velvet. Did you think that I wouldn’t taste the difference? Do you think that I’m an idiot?”

Alex stared back at him openmouthed. He had no words. He wasn’t even sure how the two questions correlated. He would never be able to taste the difference between any flavor of tea, ever, and he certainly didn’t think himself an idiot. “Well, it’s just—”

“It-it’s just—” the man mocked him. “Just go, runner.”

Alex stood frozen, still staring at him, and mortified by his outburst.

“I said go, before I find your replacement. Hopefully, one that can read the label on a bag of tea.” The man waved him off as his two companions watched silently. Alex gathered himself. He closed his mouth and turned to leave them to bitch about him and his incompetence. He clenched his teeth together. If you want to be in one of those director chairs one day, then you better damn well keep it together, he reminded himself. He was the set’s bitch boy for now but one day, he’d be running the show. One day soon.

About the Author

Karma is a wine-enthusiast, feminist, activist, humanitarian, vegetarian and just all around liberal and that often seeps into her writing. She loves any place with white, white sand and blue, blue water and an endless supply of prefix-mo drinks (Moscato, Mojito, etc.).

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