1–What is the title of your latest release? DANGER ON THE ATLANTIC 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Jane Wunderly and her handsome companion Redvers take a transatlantic cruise to uncover a German spy, and wind up embroiled in the disappearance from the ship of a wealthy socialite’s husband. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? When I started the series, I had a sort of mental list of fun places or things that were associated with the 1920’s, and a transatlantic cruise was one of them. It was a golden age for large ships like this, and it was fun to write as a setting. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Oh, absolutely. We would have a fantastic time laughing over a few cocktails. I’m a little sorry she’s not real, actually. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? I’m so tempted to write tall, dark, and handsome, but I’m going to restrain myself. Instead, I’ll say Redvers is mysterious, smart, and compassionate. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned that the ship I set this on—the Olympic—had actual Turkish baths on board for…

Q: For readers who may be unfamiliar with it, tell me a little about your “Buckhorn, Montana” series. What makes the stories so compelling? A: I have readers who could probably tell you better than me. But I think it’s the characters in this small, isolated town in the middle of Montana. They’re quirky to say the least and yet they are familiar like people you’ve known. The books center on two characters who find each other and love against all odds – the odds usually being a mystery that must be solved for them to survive. But the series also peeks into the lives, hopes and dreams of the residents of Buckhorn. It’s fun to follow their stories even from a distance. Q: In your latest book, BEFORE BUCKHORN, your two characters – Jasper and Darby – have a history together. Do you particularly enjoy writing “second-chance-at love” stories? A: I definitely do, especially this one. Jasper just wants to be left alone. Then this woman (who he spent a very memorable night with at college) moves to town, she doesn’t seem to remember their night together, but he sure does (of course, she remembers). She drags him –…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present ACF Bookens Writes: Cozy mysteries full of twists and turns, great friends, a bit of history, good food, and a taste of social justice. About: ACF Bookens loves rural life and enjoys the fact that she can hear the stream near her house in the quiet of a moonlit night. She enjoys hanging out with her pre-school age son at the local playgrounds, where she is continually astounded at the fact that his shoulder doesn’t dislocate on the monkey bars.  When she’s not writing or playing, she loves to cross-stitch, walk with her rescue dogs, and garden. She plans to try salsify in her garden for the first time this year. What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: My ideal reader for BLOOD AND BACK STITCHES is: Interested in fun, warm murder mysteries. Loves history and the untold stories of our communities. Appreciates friendships that are imperfect but deep and loyal. Has an interest in justice and how we learn to love…

Hi, I’m Molly MacRae, author of ARGYLES AND ARSENIC, book 5 in the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. The series is about four women from the Midwest, ready for a change, who pool their money, buy a bookshop on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, and move there to run it. It’s Scotland! The Highlands! What could possibly go wrong?   A is for arsenic – King of Poisons, Inheritor’s Powder, the People’s Choice. Did someone put arsenic in Wendy Erskine’s teacup during Violet MacAskill’s party? R is for red herrings. There are plenty of them. Will the four women of Yon Bonnie Books be able to sort through them before the villain strikes again? G is for guilty. Someone is guilty. Is it the owner of the Mr. Potato Chef food truck? The unidentified woman at Violet’s party who said she was going for help but apparently didn’t? Surely it can’t be Violet’s granddaughter Isobel. Y is for Yon Bonnie Books. The four women who own the bookshop and adjoining tearoom are a clever crew of amateur sleuths but, with this villain, have they finally met their match? L is for the lies being told. Who can the sleuths trust?…

1–What is the title of your latest release? MURDER AT PRIMROSE COTTAGE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When Flora Steele sets off for a peaceful vacation, the last thing she expects to find is a body in her cottage garden, or to feel her safety threatened as she uncovers long-hidden secrets from the wartime past. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Flora owns a bookshop in a small Sussex village called Abbeymead in the south of England, and most of her adventures take place in that area. In this third book in the mystery series, though, she is on holiday in Cornwall, a county I know well. It’s a magical place, with magnificent landscape and a stunning coastline. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? I would! Flora is a feisty girl, courageous and hardworking, who confronts the barriers facing women in the 1950s with energy and humor. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Lanky, laconic, caring. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? How involved Cornwall was in the Second World War, particularly in preparations for the D-Day invasion. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait…

Your book THE HIGHLANDER’S STOLEN BRIDE is described as an enemies-to-lovers romance. Not counting a few exceptions that prove the rule, I’ve always been more of a friends-to-lovers fan. What is the dynamic between these two characters? And what makes their love story so compelling? I confess, I’m a huge enemies-to-lovers fan, especially when it includes a wounded hero…which this one does. When the Campbell clan comes back from their exile in Ireland to reclaim their land in Scotland, the McMillan siblings scramble to ally themselves through the best way they could in those days – through marriage. This is the last book of the Highland Alliance’s series and the heroine, Elspeth MacMillan, is supposed to wed the son of a neighboring laird, but on her way to the unwanted union, she gets kidnapped by Calum Campbell, son of the notoriously cruel Alexander Campbell who killed Elspeth’s father and many of their people. However, Calum Campbell is not only the son of a terrible and powerful man, he’s also the hero of The Highlander’s Stolen Bride.   Do you like to throw third act surprises in your romances? Like the hero and heroine almost have their relationship worked out when…

What was your inspiration for BECOMING MY SISTER? Either from true crimes or from modern celebrity culture? I live in Palm Springs and have been at events and people’s homes and estates in what is the setting for this novel, The Movie Colony. So first, I thought of it as a perfect V.C. Andrews location, meaning the setting plays a dramatic role in the story. In our culture now especially, celebrity is almost a religious thing. People apply to celebrities what they apply to icons of film and television. Being in their presence is truly an almost spiritual event, even just seeing someone in person. To take that concept and apply it to the mother of two adolescents was a natural V.C. thought for me.  The girls are not so much in rivalry with themselves as they are with the ghosts of old movie stars. How can they compete? What does their mother demand of them in relation to this? How have the learned to deal with it and how does it make them more independent. Their father is almost oblivious to it all.  Gish, our man character, named after Lillian Gish, looks to her sister Gloria for guidance because…

Your book, DARK FIRE, just came out. It’s part of your “Fireblood Dragon” series. I think that might be the only series of yours I haven’t dipped into. Can you explain for readers what that world is about? Where it takes place and the basic dynamic between species. DARK FIRE is set in the world of Fireblood Dragons, which is our world, except seven years in the past, a Rift between worlds was torn open and a host of dragons flew into our world from another. The dragons immediately went crazy and destroyed everything, killing, and destroying until there wasn’t much of civilization left.  Now people live in ‘forts’ set up in old cities and try to eke out an existence. Turns out that the dragons aren’t just sky-sharks – they’re also people. Shifter people! And the only thing that can tame a male dragon is a mate.   I was so happy to find out your Ice Planet Barbarian books were being reissued. I have many of them on my kindle, but with the new covers being so pretty, I might finally get print copies of my favorites. Will all your Ice Planet Barbarian books be reissued? I get…

1–What is the title of your latest release? WITCH IN RETROGRADE released January 2022. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? 49-year-old Police Detective and witch, Sarah Jane Prentice, navigates life without her husband as she faces a serial killer in her town, a nosy spirit guide, and the loss of her magic. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Originally, I had the book set in Atlanta, but quickly realized its been more than 25 years since I lived there, and cities change so much. Placing it in California, specifically Silicon Valley gave me a great opportunity to share what I’ve learned living here for the past 10 years. I’ve really grown to love the area and setting is a character unto itself, so I’m excited about presenting it that way. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely. I like her a lot. Which is important to me as a writer because I intend to spend a lot of time with her in the future. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Smart, determined, no nonsense and loving. I know, I know that’s four. LOL 6–What’s something you…

Anne Rice forever changed my reading world over 30 years ago. Prior to reading INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, I had only read my mom’s collection of romance/gothic novels and horror authors such as Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Anne Rice opened my eyes to a world in which vampires were far more than the creepy nightmarish blood suckers (and definitely more sensual) than the ones I’d previously encountered in one of my favorite horror novels of all time, Stephen King’s SALEM’S LOT. From there, I devoured everything Anne Rice wrote (other than her early erotica novels), whether it was the religious exploration of Jesus Christ’s early years in CHRIST THE LORD: OUT OF EGYPT or the Mayfair Witches in THE WITCHING HOUR. Urban and dark fantasy novels weren’t something you could just walk into a bookstore and find back then, or at least not in my hometown in South Carolina. I remember my excitement when the first Anita Blake book came out and I continued eagerly scouring the shelves for others like Anne Rice who fueled my imagination. The battles between good and evil and the fine line that various urban and dark fantasy heroines and heroes must walk while…