Bootscootin' Blahniks (The Bootscootin' Books) [Kindle Edition]

D. D. Scott (Author)

Book Description

Romantic Comedy writer D. D. Scott two-steps into your heart with book one of her debut series. It's Chick Lit, Gone-Country. Think Sex and the City meets Urban Cowboy.

Book Description:

Manhattan apparel designer Roxy Rae Vaughn, who's also a still-in-the-closet, country line dancing queen, wants to be a fashion success story. Tired of being nothing more than a Fifth Avenue up-and-comer, thanks to her elitist parents, Roxy moves to Nashville, Tennessee and opens a boutique in a local tractor supply store, the only retail space she can afford. Short on cash and way, way down on luck, she rear-ends a pick-up truck belonging to a tomato-growin', bootscootin' cowboy who is anything but the perfect fit for her career plans, although he is her ideal dance partner. Can Roxy accept that her best fit is on the dance floor moving to her own style and her cowboy's lead?

Tomato farmer by day and bootscootin' instructor by night Zayne McDonald doesn't give a damn about winning Nashville's heirloom tomato contest, even though his late father did. Zayne wants to honor his father, but what he really wants is to line dance his way to a winner's spotlight. When he and Roxy are discovered by a huge dance show producer, Zayne learns it's partnering with Roxy that's his winning hybrid mix. That is, if he can keep her and the tomato contest away from Beefsteak Jack Baudlin, the toughest tomato man in CMT country.


About the Author:

D. D. Scott's romantic comedies are all about sexy, sassy, smart, career-driven women and the men who complete them. They're a bit chick lit with a gone-country twist. She's agented, and her series The Bootscootin' Books - think Sex and The City meets Urban Cowboy - debuts with book one BOOTSCOOTIN' BLAHNIKS in August 2010 on both Amazon's Kindle and at Smashwords.

She's a member of RWA as well as RWA's Chick Lit Writers of the World, Kiss of Death, ScriptScene, ESPAN, and IRWA Chapters plus serves on RWA's History Committee for the National RWA Board. She's been a guest blogger on Romance Writers on the Journey, Inside the Writer's Mind, Daily Dose Fantasy Romance, Romance University, and Romance Lives Forever. In addition, her first RWR article was published by RWA in the July 2010 issue.

Also a Writer's Go-to-Gal for Muse Therapy, D. D. debuted her Muse Therapy Live Workshops this past March and April for GCCRWA's Silken Sands Conference in Florida and RT BookLovers' Convention in Ohio. She's busy now preparing for (1) the launch of MUSE THERAPY: UNLEASHING YOUR INNER SYBIL (the book version of her Muse Therapy Online Classes & Live Workshops) on Kindle and Smashwords this Fall, and (2) the Kindle and Smashwords release of book two in The Bootscootin' Books STOMPIN' ON STETSONS which will hit E-shelves in time for the 2010 Holiday Season.

Product Details

• File Size: 812 KB
• Print Length: 301 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Belfrey Media (August 10, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003ZDO30W
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,360 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #43 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Humor

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't September 22, 2011

By michelle

Format:Kindle Edition

Does the story have potential? Yes. Of course I'm a firm believer most stories have potential and with a lot of work this story could be great too. There is no way on earth I would rate this at more than a 2 and that's really pushing it. I was unable to read past chapter 3, and it's very rare for me to be unable to finish a book. I was bored and just didn't care about the characters because the author spent more time focusing on the minor things instead of on developing the characters. And even though I thought the book was set in modern times, with the wording I felt like I was stepping into a 1900 Nashville instead of a modern one.Being from Nashville myself I can tell the author did absolutely NO research on the location and just used a stereotype for the storyline and characters.
The idea that Nashville is full of cowboys and cowgirls who chew on straw all day and go to "saloons" (we call them bars and clubs just like everywhere else)is completely ridiculous. Yes Nashville is the country music capital and all, but seriously the whole cowboy, line dancing, farmer, and cowboy dancing boots thing was way over done in this book. Walk around Nashville and it's just like every other city in America. Maybe if I didn't live outside of Nashville I would feel differently, but knowing that the area is nothing like the author portrayed really just made the book unrealistic to me.
The author needs a lot of editing and needs to spend more time focusing on the major aspects of the novel, like developing the characters and less on the "country" setting.
With some work and research I could probably give the novel a higher rating, I really wanted to like the book, it being based in Nashville, but I just couldn't.

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Bootscootin Blahniks September 13, 2011

By tv

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Oh for heavens sake. I did my best to finish this book, I could not do it. Halfway into it I quit. Page after page of what people were wearing and what the furniture was like and what the pictures on the walls looked like. Life is to short to try and get through this book. Find something better to do.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Not ready for publication September 19, 2011

By English Teacher

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Up front, I admit, I did not finish the book. Couldn't. The disjointed, amaturish writing continuously disrupted my reading experience. The story has potential, but it needs to be edited, rewritten, polished. Recommendation to the writer: pull the book and find a good editor to work with to smooth out awkward plot sequencing, rough wording, and to edit out insignificant details that do not contribute to the story. Recommendation to other readers: wait for a rewrite.

More About the Author

I'm D. D. Scott, an Amazon and Barnes and Noble Top 100 Bestselling Humor Author. Also a Writer's Go-To-Gal for Muse Therapy and Indie Epublishing, I'm the Co-Founder of The WG2E - The Writer's Guide to E-Publishing, and the Founder of The RG2E - The Reader's Guide to E-publishing. You can get all the scoop on me, my books, and my fabulous Bitchy Sign Collection in my new cyber home...D. D. Scott-ville.

Full Bio:

D. D. Scott's Bestselling Books start out a bit Chick Lit, Gone-Country (The Bootscootin' Books). Then, they take on a Will and Kate gone-Bond, as in James Bond, twist (The Cozy Cash Mysteries). Next up, try Castle and Beckett, Gone-Country, with Bewitched tossed into the mix (The Stuck with a Series). And now, think The Good Witch meets The Three Stooges and Tinker Hell (The Belle Bishop Books).

She's a four-time Amazon Movers & Shakers List Author (making it all the way to #2 on that prestigious list) and both an Amazon and Barnes & Noble Top 100 Bestselling Author.

Her books have been Top Picks - including one of the Top 10 Books for Mother's Day 2011 - for such superfab Ereader-centric Blogs as Ereader News Today (ENT), Kindle Nation Daily, Cheap e-Reads, Pixel of Ink, The Frugal eReader, Indie Books List, Only Romance, and Bargain eBooks.

She can be spotted all-week long on her one-million-hits-per-month grog The WG2E, a writer's destination site for all-things-Epublishing. She often can also be found hangin' on her new site The RG2E, a reader's destination site for all-things Ereading, and has an active blog of her own in D. D. Scott-ville.

Declaring 2011 to be "The Year of the E-Book & Cross-Pollination", D. D. co-founded and launched The Writer's Guide to E-Publishing, your destination site for Everything E-Publishing. Whatever you want to know and/or cuss and discuss about E-publishing, it's right there at The WG2E waiting for you as well as in her latest bestselling non-fiction book 10 YEARS AND 24 HOURS TO INDIE EPUBLISHING SUCCESS.

Declaring 2012 "The Year of the Reader", she founded The RG2E - The Reader's Guide to Epublishing - a sister site to The WG2E, which launched February 1, 2012 and is "the" new destination site for the Best in Ereading and Ebook Gifting.

When she's not writing, she's busy luuuvin' on her real-life hero "Sweet Man" and their beloved shelter-rescued dog Buckley and his new playmate Siggy the Affenpinscher.

For updates on her books and to join in all of the D. D. Scott-ville quirky crazy fun, sign up for her newsletter here and hang with her in D. D. Scott-ville.

P.S. Wavin' atchya, D. D. Scott-ville Peeps!!!

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