Guest Post and Giveaway: Sidney Halston, Author of Below the Belt
Sidney Halston dropped by the virtual offices to share a Top Five. Check it out, and be sure to enter the giveaway below!
Top Five “Walk Out” Songs for Tony by Sidney Halston
There’s certain songs that you hear and they just pump you full of adrenaline and make you want to kick some serious butt—The Rocky Song, for example.
Tony, the hero in BELOW THE BELT, is loud, arrogant, and boisterous. He’s been winning MMA bouts for the last decade. He’s the typical fighter you see on Pay Per View fights who comes out to loud music while wearing flashy shorts. When we first meet Tony in BELOW THE BELT, I envisioned him jogging into the cage in his first fight in vibrant blue shorts with logos of all his sponsors emblazoned everywhere while the crowd cheered to some misogynistic vulgar rap song or maybe an old rock song such as AC/DC Thunderstruck. Then we see him take a huge blow to his ego. The song and his clothes are examples of who he is and how he lives his life: A little crude and a lot arrogant. So when the final fight happens at the end of the book, he’s really made some big life-changing decisions regarding his career and personal life and, even though he is still the loud and boisterous Cuban fighter that everyone loves to hate, the music and the shorts had to go.
What Tony “walks out” to is really telling of the new Tony. I won’t say which song I actually chose and I know it is really cheesy but it makes sense when you read the book. Or, at least, I hope it does. My husband rolled his eyes big time when he read the scene (but he ‘got it’).
Any who…here are the runner ups for the “walk out” songs for the final fight (in no particular order).
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Eye of the Tiger or The Rocky Song: Inspirational and classic. Shows that he’s concentrating and matured.
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Imagine Dragons, Radioactive
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The Final Countdown by Europe
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Seven Nation Army by White Stripe. Just because I really love it and because it makes me want to work out. Hee hee
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Rusty Cage by Johnny Cash.
What are some songs you think about when you think boxing or MMA?
Below the Belt
Worth the Fight # 3
By: Sidney Halston
Releasing February 10th, 2015
Loveswept
Blurb
In Sidney Halston’s latest sizzling MMA romance, a former title contender turns the tables on his knockout trainer with a lesson in seduction.
Once one of the most sought-after names on the mixed martial arts circuit, Antonio “Scarface” Marino watched his career go down for the count as he chased skirts and made tabloid headlines. Now he’s finally making a comeback, and it’s all thanks to Francesca Silva, a Brazilian bombshell as tough as any of her fighters. But who’s the real Francesca: the trash-talking trainer who rides him hard, or the vulnerable woman who blushes at his touch?
Francesca went to the mat to sign Tony because she believes he still has the potential to bring big success to her gym—if she can keep his head in the cage and out of her personal life. After a short-lived marriage soured her on love, a one-night stand is all she can handle. Now Tony’s kisses are stirring up complicated feelings—especially when he agrees to face her ex in the ring. Francesca’s used to freezing guys out. But Tony’s tempting her to give in to the heat.
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Author Info
Sidney Halston lives her life with one simple rule: “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain, or even simpler, “Just Do It” Nike.
And that’s exactly what she did. After working hard as an attorney, Sidney picked up a pen for the first time at thirty years old to begin her dream of writing. Having never written anything other than very exciting legal briefs, she found an outlet for her imaginative romantic side and wrote Seeing Red, among four other novels currently in the works, including the sequel to Seeing Red. That first pen stroke sealed the deal and she fell in love with writing.
Sidney lives in South Florida with her husband and children. She loves her family above all else, and reading follows a close second. When she’s not writing you can find her reading and reading and reading… She’s a reader first and a writer second.
When she’s not writing or reading her life is complete and utter chaos trying to balance family life with work, and writing (and reading). But she wouldn’t have it any other way.
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