Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Author Lasairiona McMaster"

Brian Marshall in the Rock 108 Morning Show.

Actually, she's the only Irish author I know right now.

So she's been on the show before but her new series is coming out shortly.

So I figured we welcome her back to the Rock 108 Morning Show.

Welcome back.

Thank you very much.

I'm glad to be back.

So you're missing out on the wonderful winter time that we are having here in eastern Iowa.

I don't know.

I think I've seen on your Facebook page that you have had some snow in Ireland.

We had a little, yeah, mostly ice, which we don't normally get where I'm at is right next to the Irish Sea and because of the water and the salts and all that.

We don't tend to freeze here.

So when we do get snow,

We know the rest of the country is basically snowed under.

So, I mean, not Iowa snowed under by any rate.

Lussarine and I met each other at a Iowa Hawkeye tailgate.

Wisconsin Badgers were in town.

We were wandering around and we stumbled upon this tailgate.

We're pulled into this tailgate by someone.

And then we end up meeting you.

We heard your accent and we were like, where are you from?

And then you tell us that you're an author, that you write hockey romance novels.

And I'm like, oh, well, I'm interested now.

What's this all about?

You've been doing this for quite some time now, haven't you?

I have.

I published my first book in 2019, I think it was, but I've been writing for years and years and years.

the older books, the 2019 books are going to be pulled down this year and rewritten to be better.

They're not quite where I need them to be.

So I'm going to take them down and rework them and rebrand them and put them back up again.

No, hang on a minute.

George Lucas did that with Star Wars and then added all the extra junk.

What are you doing?

Are you freshening up the scenes themselves or what do you got in mind?

So my early work is kind of so there's

three books for the girl and three books for the guy, which is already a lot because normally it's one book per couple.

So I need to remove the junk instead of add more junk.

And my early books are closed door slash feed out.

They don't have explicit sexy scenes on the page.

So I need to add the heat to be in line with the rest of my brand.

If the audience didn't hear the first time that we were together being based in Ireland, but writing about Eastern Iowa.

But Minnesota first, but now the Cedar Rapids raccoons is a hockey team that comes up in your new books.

How in the world are you inspired to write about Iowa being based in Ireland?

Well, I have a big piece of my heart in Iowa.

My best friend and her family lives in Keystone and I have been visiting Iowa since 2006.

I was there in November of last year and I plan to go again this year.

I've been there so often and I've made a lot of friends throughout the years.

And there are a couple of authors I know in Iowa too, so I met them on my last trip when we had a chat about the fact that I was basing a series in Cedar Rapids.

I've been there so often, I know so many people there, and it has just become a place that I love, despite the fact that everyone says, oh, it's Iowa, where do they have other than corn and beans?

But I love Iowa, so.

I wanted to give it its moment to shine in my books.

Nice.

So Lesterina McMaster, Irish author, is joining us here on Rock108.

So the Minnesota snow pirate series was the last series that you have done before you're starting with the new team, which is a hockey team, the Cedar Rapids raccoons, correct?

Yes, that's right.

So you've got one of them, the part one of the series, which has three different books.

Two for interference, two for holding, two for roughing, available now on Amazon.

And you got them at a discount deal, right?

I do.

They're at $0.99 for this week.

They'll be going back up just after the weekend.

So I got like a big promo deal going for the next few days, if anyone wants to check out the first three books.

I'm going to read the first one.

This is the description for two for interference.

Ready on this?

When Lincoln Scott attempts to return a misplaced bra, a wrong number gets him way more than the hookup he bargained for.

Does Link have the skills off the ice to keep up with her?

It's two for interference for

Lacerena McMaster, available now on Amazon.

I want that sign bite.

Um, I've just actually, that whole series has just been picked up by an audio publisher.

So they're going to become an audio.

So I'm going to have them like contact you to, to sample and put forward a sample so I can see what you would sound like.

So tell us about the Cedar Rapids raccoons and the new books that are coming out, please.

They are.

So book one gets published on the 23rd of February, book two comes out in May and book three comes out in October.

They are in a fictional university in Cedar Rapids but there are some like local businesses that I have tried to include a little or you know I have asked some of my readers are in iOS so I've asked them like what their favorite place to eat pizza for example is so I've tried to throw in like little tidbits about the city and the local area even though it's a fictional team and a fictional university I still wanted to throw in some like

real life things for people in Iowa reading going, oh, yeah, I've been there or, you know, the stuff that makes it a little more believable and relatable.

There

is a coffee shop in town with somebody that has pink hair.

I've heard that that individual makes the book.

She does.

She's actually getting her own short story in an anthology that's coming out later this year.

I was asked to contribute to two anthologies this year.

One is a charity anthology.

So I needed a couple of extra

characters to write about that aren't going in my main series.

And my alpha readers suggested that my pink haired barista gets her own short story.

So that's going to be fun.

Does she go behind

closed doors or is she a part of or are you not going to reveal any of

this?

There is on page sexy times, but any what is the way that they say it's like any it's not based on her.

It's a fictional character in a fictional world.

So last arena, McMaster, Irish author here with us on rock 108.

The reason she's on the show, she's been here before, but writing romance novels.

And, you know, this is perfect for right around Valentine's Day.

So I mean, it's just a couple of days away.

She has her Minnesota snow pirates first part one series with two for interference, two for holding, two for roughing and the bonus book, big vibe energy.

Fill in the blanks on that one.

That's all available now.

And you have tons of other books too, don't you?

I do.

And actually my, um, one of my Alpha readers has just finished book two in my raccoon series.

So she's getting a sneak peek to the books for the rest of this year.

And she messaged me and she said, you're now my husband's favorite author because I jumped him.

I just had an author on a couple of days ago.

Her name is Laura corn and she had a book, a 101 nights of great sex.

And her book, if you just flip through the pages, you're like, Oh, she's charging $30 for something that just has a couple of words per page.

But it turns out you open up those envelopes and it tells you what to do.

Her book is about doing your book.

There's a lot of doing inside it.

There is a lot of doing inside it.

Yes.

But there is a plot outside of the romantic moments.

They do other

things.

They sure do.

There's

some hockey in there.

Oh.

See, next time you're in town, you'll have to swing on by that fictional coffee shop, which is just up the road from the fictional radio station

that has a fictional DJ

at it too.

I need to write the fictional DJ into my next.

I'm going to make a note to do that.

The fictional DJ is going to become

Like a character in this.

Oh, no.

What are you going to do

for that?

That dingbats name?

I don't know.

I'll maybe ask my readers to come up.

No, no, this is going

to be in my in this series.

There is a secret pie shop in Cedar Rapids, right?

It's inside like this laundry place.

You go through a secret door and there's this dude and the dude that runs the pie shop is actually called Brian.

So I can't use Brian for the fictional DJ because he's already got a pie shot.

Well, that's completely fine.

As long as you don't spell that Brian with a Y, we're all good,

right?

No, Brian with an I.

That's right.

So anything else you want to tell the audience about what you're doing, the books that are coming out, where can they find you on social media, Lassarina?

They can find me everywhere.

I'm on Instagram.

I'm on TikTok.

I'm on Twitter.

I'm on Facebook.

I have my own Facebook group.

All of my books are available exclusively on Amazon right now.

And my new release is out in two weeks.

Panic, panic, panic.

Looked at the calendar there and I was like, just

coming up.

I appreciate you taking time out of your morning, which I know that we're a little bit different as far as time goes.

You call an in from Ireland.

And here in Eastern Iowa, writing about us and over here and watch out somebody, you're going to end up in a book, I promise.

Yeah, your banana behind you is going to end up in a book.

I almost said your banana is going to end up in a book, but I know how you would have taken that.

Me?

Me?

Of all people?

No.

No, I'm an innocent little angel.

La Sarita, thank you for being on the program one more time.

Thanks for having me.

The Rock 108 Morning Show with Brian Marshall.