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Available everywhere August 30th, 2015
Epilogue
October 25th, 2007
(Unedited, copy written @ MJ Fields)
I look in the mirror one last time, my hair is longer on top
that it is on the sides. The gel I use to style it makes it look messy and
black instead of dark brown. With my black boots I stand six foot three. I
having spent an hour at the gym every night after school, I finally have great
definition. I’m stage ready.
I walk out on stage with my guitar strung around my neck, pick
in hand, waiting for the nerves to consume me. But they don’t.
Why? Because I’m a damn legend, that’s why.
The stadium is sold out and the crowd is going wild.
“Hello New Jersey!” I hold the mic out for the crowd’s roar.
They give me exactly what I want.
“I am Memphis Black, lead singer and guitarist extraordinaire
for”—fuck I hate this part. The band, what the hell is the band’s name?
“Black Hawks,” my sister Madison whispers.
“The Black Hawks!” I yell to the ‘crowd.’
“That name is so lame.” I hear my sister’s friend Tally giggle.
“You two, out.”
“No, you said if we video taped this, you would…”
“Out!”
“Come on, it’s our first dance, we need to learn how!” Madison
stomps her foot.
“Well, you didn’t hold up your end of the deal, now did you?” I
lift the guitar strap over my head.
“Come on, please,” Madison says, eyes huge.
“Yeah please,” Tally joins her.
I consider telling them to fuck off, but they’d tell Mom. I
consider a simple ‘no,’ but they’d tell her that, too. So I choose the safest
answer: “Fine. But you both have to shut the hell up.”
Tally covers her mouth, looking horrified. Girl is a train wreck
in epic, adolescent proportion. She has kinky brown curls and a ribbon always
wrapped around her head. Freckles bridge her nose and dot her face, and she
always wears cartoon character tee shirts, today it’s Care Bears.
“What now, Tales?” I huff.
“You said—”
“Hell?” I laugh.
“Yeah, you did.” She giggles again.
“You know what? I think the both of you should just stay home.
All freshman girls do at a dance is stand in a corner, giggle, and look like
dweebs.” I look at my sister. “Mads, a boy asks you to dance? You’ll start
laughing and snorting.” Next, I point at her friend. “Tales, you’ll get some
big ass grin.” I roll my eyes when she covers her mouth again—little girl can’t
handle a curse word to save her life. “Just keep smiling and laughing, and
they’ll think there’s something wrong up in those crazy heads of yours.
Besides, you’re both in that—I don’t know, awkward stage: braces, boobs just
budding....”
Tally covers her mouth again while Madison starts to get really
pissed off.
“I mean, look at that hair. Mads, you’re so used to wearing a
ball cap you have permanent hat head. And you,” I can’t resist taking one more
shot at Tally. “How the hell are you gonna get a comb through that kinky mess
before Saturday?”
That’s when Madison finally screams for Mom. Tally just looks at
me like that cat from the cartoon, the one with the big green guy. Shrek? Yeah Shrek. Puss , Puss in Boots. That’s what
her face looks like.
Looking back at her, I almost feel kind of bad for giving them a
hard time.
Mom comes in then and gives me the third degree, She tells me,
‘Girls are sensitive when they’re going through changes,' and that I should ‘be
more thoughtful.’
Finally, I can’t take it anymore. “Okay Mom, fine. I will buy
into their little girl fantasies about that girl, with the blue dress, the one
with the mice that turn into horses—”
“Cinderella.” In spite of herself, my Mom laughs.
“Yeah. Her.”
Her face goes from amused to suspicious. Mom face. “What exactly
are they doing in your room, anyway?”
“They were supposed to be taping my performance.” I try not to
smile as she gives me that look. I know exactly what she’s about to say—that my
rock star fantasies are just as lame as some dumb fairy tale with talking mice.
“It’s not the same thing, Mom. This is my dream, something I
can actually make into a career one
day.”
“I know, Memphis.” She pats my back, smiling. “But maybe their dream is to dance.”
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USA Today Bestselling author MJ
FIELDS grew up on a farm surrounded by her extended family. She attributes her
ability to write a realistic male character to the fact that she had a large
amount of male influences in her life... that and the dirty joke books she would
steal from her uncles or the farms hired help and run away laughing while they
chased her yelling obscenities trying to get her to return the books before her
God fearing mother found out and spanked her butt with a flyswatter.
No she wasn't physically abused, she
very openly admits that she deserved every imprint left on her ass from the
flyswatter. (Could this be why she loves tattoos? Maybe.) After each spanking
she would run away, usually through the fields and down to the falls where she
would laugh because it really didn't hurt, while she read the book she had
stolen and stashed when no one was looking.
When she wasn't misbehaving she was
working side by side with her male family members learning what hard work,
loyalty, and dedication was all about, spending time with her grandmothers who
taught her all about love and blind faith, or dancing and singing in the
kitchen with her four siblings while her mother gave them all a childhood
filled with love and encouragement to use their imagination and follow their
dreams.
Her love of writing was in full
swing by age eight. Together with her cousins, she wrote a 'newspaper' that
they sold for ten cents to family members.
Her school years were spent hanging in the principal’s office or a shit list somewhere. Weekends she could be found spending time with her family or hanging out with more males than females, in the fields with tailgates down and a bonfire burning while music played loudly in the background. Some of those times 'allegedly' had alcohol involvement, she will neither confirm nor deny.
Her school years were spent hanging in the principal’s office or a shit list somewhere. Weekends she could be found spending time with her family or hanging out with more males than females, in the fields with tailgates down and a bonfire burning while music played loudly in the background. Some of those times 'allegedly' had alcohol involvement, she will neither confirm nor deny.
As an adult she self-published her
first New Adult romance in January 2013. Today she has completed six
self-published series. The Love series, The Wrapped series, The Burning Souls
series, The Norfolk series, The Men of Steel series, and The Ties of Steel
series. She also just released a book she wrote with five, yes five, other
authors. It is her darkest book to date. The Original Sin is available now.
MJ has been told by several readers
that they had never read a book that involved a Prince Albert piercing and
although she cannot claim the title, it is said she may possibly be "The
Pioneer of the Pierced Penis", in the New Adult book world, of course.
(Naughty naughty.)
MJ is a hybrid author who loves her
readers and tries her best to write as much as she can for them. She believes
she has the best reader’s crew in the entire world (many of us agree. Forever
Steel baby). She publishes an Indie book almost every month. She is also signed
with a traditional publisher, Loveswept, Penguin Random House, for her
co-written series The Caldwell Brothers with Chelsea Camaron. Hendrix is
available now. Morrison, the second in the series, will be released on December 22nd, 2015.
And Jagger, the third of the series, will be released on April 19th, 2016.
Her next Indie series is Rockers of
Steel. Book one, Memphis, releasing late August or early September 2015. Each
can be read as a stand-alone, but really who doesn't want MORE STEEL!
There is always something new in the
works and she has stories to write for her readers for years to come. Her alpha
male characters are some of the best in the industry, but remember before they
fall many of them can be considered crude, rude, pierced, and tattooed. (Just
the way we like them!)
If you are offended by the 'F' word
she advises you either take a pass on her books or pull up your big girl thong,
sit back with a glass of wine and enjoy the ride. If you can't handle the heat
you should stay out of the ... well the Steel and Sin book worlds anyways. If
heat is all you're looking for she insists you be warned the heat will draw you
in, but the heart, depth, and emotion in the books will keep you coming back
for more.
MJ was a former small business owner
who closed shop after the success of the Men of Steel series so she could write
full time.
MJ Lives in central New York
surrounded by family, friends and fur babies. Ninety percent of the time life
is a noisy, beautiful, chaotic mess but in the evening hours when everyone is
tucked in tight you will find her with a laptop in her comfy chair writing
about the men we dream will step off the pages and into our lives.
MJ believes in love and that there
is someone for everyone.
She is represented by Marisa
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