I love this topic. When suspense writers get together, discussing stories and plot twists keep our adrenaline racing. We can talk about how to add more details for hours because we live it. Every aspect of creating an anxious or uncertain character means adding tension, stress, and conflict into every line. And we love the various ways to fill our pages with this excitement. Our friends and families (unless they’re writers) have no clue how our minds work or where we find ideas for our next novel. The un-writers among us think we’re strange … We need counseling … Or prescription meds. Can you imagine that? For example: husband and I are driving into our subdivision. We see a neighbor has a roll of old carpet at the curb. Husband comment this person must have installed new carpet. Not me. I’m wondering if there’s a body rolled up inside that dusty mess. Is it a man or a woman? How were they killed? Why? Does the killer think it’s a perfect crime? What evidence did he/she leave behind? Then I spin out of control with characters and plot. See what I mean? So I’ve compiled a list of telltale signs…

Happy New Year, Fresh Fiction! Box sets are the new craze in the publishing world because bundled books offer literary treasure at a quality price and introduce readers to new authors. The ONCE UPON A TRUE LOVE’S KISS box set by USA Today Best-selling author, Julie Johnstone, and best-selling authors, Katherine Bone, Collette Cameron, Jillian Chantal, Samantha Grace, Alanna Lucas, Lauren Smith, and Victoria Vane, delivers what readers really want—eight tantalizing kiss-and-tell stories featuring dashing, wildly charming rogues, spies, pirates, rakes, and their extraordinary, intrepid heroines. What better way to usher in the New Year on a cold winter’s night than to be whisked away on sweet to sizzling romantic romps in wickedly entertaining historical romances, eh? But who are the authors of After Forever, The Pirate’s Duchess, Her Scandalous Wish, Milady and Her Spy, Kissed by a Scottish Rogue, Stolen Kisses from the Viscount, Tempted by a Rogue, and The Redemption of Julian Price? Here’s a short Q&A with the ONCE UPON A TRUE LOVE’S KISS authors for your reading pleasure: Julie Johnstone, do you have any favorite TV shows? Julie: The Affair, Shameless, Outlander, Game of Thrones. Katherine Bone, if you could have one superpower, what would it…

Thank you for joining us today at Fresh Fiction. I’m a real fan of military romance and suspense and loved your Shadow Warriors series. This new Delos Series brings us characters that are just as strong and dynamic and has some very scintillating plots. Viki: After reading the first four books in your new Delos Series, it is proving to be as fabulous as your other series. Who or what was your inspiration for the Delos Series? Lindsay: : Thanks for asking, Viki. Since Morgan’s Mercenaries, my first family saga that I created in 1980’s, was successful, I wanted to try it again. The Delos Series is my second family saga-series. Only this time, I wanted to create it based upon our world as it is today, in 2015, onward. We are a global community held together by a spider web-like digital age that makes connects all of us whether we like it or not. When you are no longer isolated, but communication, videos and other digital media, such as the social side (Facebook, among many others), we become ONE. Also, because of global travel, people are free to fall in love with one another, regardless of whether they come…