Book Title: LAST MISSION Character Name:  Mack McRooney   How would you describe your family or your childhood?  Tough. Mom took off on my dad, leaving him to raise me, my brother and sister on his own while also training smoke jumpers and hotshot firefighters.   What was your greatest talent?  Showing up at the right time to save people.   Significant other?  Haven’t had one of any significance, but I can’t get this female trooper out of my mind.   Biggest challenge in relationships?  Sticking around.  Must be in the genes with our mom taking off like she did.   Where do you live?  Wherever I’m needed, like right now I’m in Northern Lakes, Michigan.   Do you have any enemies?  More than I can list.   How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place?  My family has settled here, and I’m about to become an uncle. So if I was able to stay anywhere, it might be here.  Too bad someone’s trying to kill me.   Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?   No attachments or dependents.  …

“Write what you know…” Mark Twain said it first, and well-meaning English teachers and critique partners have repeated it.  But, with my wild imagination, it’s not advice I’ve had to take very often until this book, The House by the Cemetery.  And no, I did not grow up in a funeral home situated next to a cemetery, but I spent some time hanging out in a cemetery when I was a teenager.  My friends and I would dare ourselves to meet there after dark, certain that we would see ghosts rising from their graves. As a Halloween baby, I was naturally obsessed with the macabre and probably had a morbid fascination with death. Or maybe I was just an average teenager in the eighties. I also knew a real live grave digger who used to dig the graves by hand before there was special equipment to do it. He was quite the character, too.  Tall and thin, he looked like a skeleton, and he had a glass eye and an ornery disposition. But he also had a soft spot for me for some reason. I met him when I worked weekends as a waitress in the local coffee shop, and…

1–What is the title of your latest release? HUNTED HOTSHOT HERO 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Hotshot firefighter Rory VanDam is in danger and not just from the saboteur targeting his hotshot team but also from an ambitious reporter determined to uncover the truth about him.  Brittney Townsend finds more than a story with Rory; she finds danger and passion. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve been setting this series in Michigan because it’s where I live and my fictional town of Northern Lakes is very much like the area where my husband grew up and where he worked summers with the U.S. Forest Service. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes, I would hang out with both of them.  Rory VanDam is a very honorable man, and Brittney is ambitious but loyal.  She loves her family very much. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Rory is: tough, resilient, smart 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned about Rory’s backstory.  While he’s been in the series for a while, I didn’t know exactly what had happened to him and how he’d…

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 Lisa Childs!   Writes: Hi, I write everything.  My current release is a Harlequin Romantic Suspense called HOTSHOT HERO ON THE EDGE.  It’s sexy and suspenseful. I also write sweet and wholesome family stories like my Bachelor Cowboy series for Harlequin Heartwarming.  Then there’s my super sinister suspenseful Bane Island series with Kensington about an exclusive resort on a remote island off the coast of Maine where guests and some of the hired help keep turning up dead. About: I’m a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author with nearly 100 books published. I like fast-paced plots with a lot of action in my romantic suspense with some friends and family sprinkled in to support the central romance.  And the central romance is always the most important element of the story for me.  I am a “hopeful” romantic. What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: Someone who likes a variety Someone who likes to live and read fast Someone who likes…