Category Archives: Monday Inspiration

I was looking up “muscular back” the other day (don’t ask), and I stumbled onto this hot piece of beefcake. His name is Clay Matthews and I get the vague sense that he plays football. Just guessing here.

So, grab a football and go long. This guy looks like he’s ready to tackle something and it might as well be you! *snicker*

You’ll be pleased to know that I was working hard this weekend, catching up on the first season of Game of Thrones. Research, my friends. Research. Take this sexy morsel, for instance.

His name is Khol Drogo and he’s king of the barbarian warriors. The second he stepped on stage, I melted. Sure, he’s delicious, but he’s also dangerous, powerful and fiercely protective of the woman he loves. He’ll rip a man apart, literally, for threatening his woman. Wow. I’m in.

Drogo got me thinking about my own heroes. I write mostly Regency and in that world a man can’t rip another man’s throat out to prove he cares. It simply isn’t done. But every one of my heroes has a little bit of Drogo in him. That wild, fearless warrior type speaks to me on a biological level. But it’s his love for the heroine, his absolute devotion to her, that gives us glimpses of his humanity. Those are the heroes I melt for; those are the heroes I want to write. I want to watch the mighty warrior fall to his knees for love.

This little morsel is Sven. Sven wants to do all kinds of wicked things to you, because he’s naughty like that. He also cooks, cleans, and does laundry. Amazing, right?

Happy Monday!

I think we can all agree that Mondays, in general, are unpleasant. The weekend is gone, and now we must trudge through another five whole days before tasting freedom again. So, I thought we could use a little something to lift the Monday blues. Let’s call it visual inspiration. For you writers out there, it’s research. Completely necessary in our line of work.

And because I’m in a True Blood mood, I plucked this little gem off the interwebs. The thousand year old Viking, Eric Northman. Isn’t he pretty? He’s just lying there, pondering all the different ways he’s going to make you squeal.

You. Are. Welcome.

And just for fun, here is a youtube video of the actor who plays Eric, Alexander Skarsgard, drunk, dancing to Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake. In spandex, no less. Oh, to be that dude he’s licking…