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1–What is the title of your latest release? FULL BEAVER MOON   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Virginia, late 50’s. Mixed-race boy with aspirations for college inherits a whorehouse, searching the south for a long-lost friend.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? From my previous novel, THE BELLS OF MOSES HENRY.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Most definitely.   5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Smart, tender, tough.   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? How the law swings both ways.   7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Both   8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Anything with salt.   9–Describe your writing space/office! Top floor. Peaceful, quiet, long rectangular wooden table. Windows. Trees.   10–Who is an author you admire? McEwan, Tolstoy, Kingsolver.   11–Is there a book that changed your life? Walden Pond   12–Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish. Birch Brook Press published my first two novels before shutting down….

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE VACATION 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Eight people from across the world stay at a run-down backpacking hostel in LA. They’re all trying to escape from different things, but some of them unwittingly have shared pasts. How far can you run before there are no places left to hide? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? As a 21-year-old I left the UK to go backpacking around the USA. I ended up staying in a similar hostel in Venice Beach to the one featured in my book. It was such a strange, quirky place with lots of colorful characters. It was the perfect backdrop for a story of travel, escape and redemption. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Hmm… there are elements of Tommy’s character that are based on me. And as much as I enjoy my own company, I don’t think I’d want to hang out for too long with myself! Too much of me isn’t always a good thing. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Adventurous, frightened, underestimated. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE CURSE OF PENRYTH HALL 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? The Curse of Penryth Hall is a country house murder mystery set in the first few years after the First World War. It’s centered on the adventures of Ruby Vaughn, an unconventional American bookseller, who is sent deep into the Cornish countryside to deliver a box of old books and ends up with a dead baronet and a centuries old curse on her hands. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’d actually intended to set the book in Wales, and my heroine Ruby was going to be a folklore scholar. During my research process, I was reading accounts from 19th and 20th century folklorists, in order to ground myself in what I thought was going to be my heroine’s academic worldview. But as I read more, I kept finding these intriguing stories of Pellars appearing in the Cornish folk tradition and I ended up shifting the entire story to Cornwall instead just so I could include a Pellar in the story. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely, Ruby…

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1–What is the title of your latest release? DAZZLING. You should check out that cover. It’s magnificent. Many thanks to The Overlook Press! 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Two fatherless boarding schoolgirls recently become enmeshed in dealings with the supernatural world, one as protector, the other as possible destroyer, putting them on a collision course with each other, as all around them, girls their age begin to vanish. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Oh this was the easiest bit. I went to boarding school in Nigeria at nine years old and was exposed to all sorts of people, routines, dialects, foods, punishments, coursework and chores. It was a huge change. I knew the setting would be perfect for a coming-of-age and the supernatural. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes. I will feed her and give her books and just generally leave her alone. She is carrying a lot on her shoulders at the moment, bless her. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Brave, empathetic, observant. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Persistence. If it wasn’t ready or it did not sit…

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 Laura Anne Gilman!   Writes: From urban fantasy to horror to historical fantasy, with a few stops along the way for romance and mystery, my writing’s earned me the reader-bestowed hashtag of #DarkCozy. Things might get a little spooky, there’s probably going to be some blood spilled along the way, but the dog never, ever dies. In my Huntsmen novels, the year is 1913.  America – and the world – trembles on the edge a modern age.  Political and social unrest shift the foundations, technology is beginning to make its mark. But in the shadows, things from the past still move.  Things inhuman, uncanny.  And the Uncanny are no friend to humanity. In UNCANNY VOWS, Rosemary and Aaron Harker are Huntsmen, part of a not-entirely-secret organization dedicated to protecting humanity.  They—and their hellhound, Botheration— are sent to discover what is attacking a well-to-do family in Boston, and stop it.  But what they find is far more complicated than it seems…   About Me: Jersey Girl, currently…

CHAPTER 2 Marin Shaw would never forget the sound of prison doors locking behind her—the whoosh and heavy thud, the dungeon scrape, the almost medieval clunk of the metal workings, or the slow slide of the impenetrable barrier, its opening preceded by a warning blare, a Klaxon cry, when a prisoner was on the move. She knew those sounds, as desolate as a catacomb, as devoid of life as death itself, would wake her in the night in a cold, hard sweat for as long as she lived. The sound of the cell door had already nested in her gut like a watchful raven with twitchy eyes, taunting her, not letting her forget for even a second how she’d thrown her life away for $5,000, a two-martini lunch, and a lie. “Sign here,” the incurious clerk at the prison-release window said, her blank expression proof that she had become inured to the routine of the turnout process. Prisoners came and went like trains on a track, like loaves of bread down a conveyor belt. The only things that changed were the day and the time and the signature on the form. The clerk pushed a large plastic bag toward Marin….

Book Title: ART OF THE CHASE – Book 1 of the Bostwicks of Trillium Bay series Character Name: Emerson Joan McKenna… um…Talbot   How would you describe your family or your childhood? My childhood? Hmm, I suppose that depends on whether I deliver the unvarnished truth or provide you with my standard, slightly-less-than-honest answer. I have a reputation to protect, you see, and a lady is entitled to her secrets. However, I can tell you that my father was a well-respected portraitist with an eye for the ladies he painted. They didn’t seem to mind. My mother was not a part of our lives because she passed away soon after I was born. (Pssst… that’s not true. She abandoned us, leaving my father to raise me on his own.) Growing up in 1880 Chicago was an exciting time. The city was burgeoning with new industry (especially after the great fire) and although our home was modest, we had a fair number of well-to-do friends. Still… I often felt as if was on the outside looking in.   What was your greatest talent? Ah, that one is much easier to answer! I’m an artist, just like my father. I could hold…

1–What is the title of your latest release? UNDEROVER CHRISTMAS ESCAPE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Undercover as Santa and Mrs. Claus, DEA agent Duncan O’Brien and deputy US marshal Sera Morales must expose money laundering and bring down a drug cartel. But armed thieves steal the incriminating evidence forcing Duncan and Sera to protect long-lost family members before this Christmas becomes their last. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? My US Marshal series is set mostly in Texas so I wanted to set the book in Dallas. I took inspiration from the Christmas movie DIE HARD. I wanted the opening of Undercover Christmas Escape to be in a high rise and Dallas had several to choose from. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes, I think Sera Morales would be interesting to spend time with. She’s bold, brash and the exact opposite of me. LOL 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Sera is bold, brash and determined. Duncan is courageous, by-the-book, and protective. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned a great deal about the US Marshals while writing this and…