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Author Interview #241: Therapy for Ghosts by Eric Praschan

December 11, 2013
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Our interview today is with Eric Praschan, author of the Amazon Best Selling James Women Trilogy, which includes Therapy for Ghosts (suspense, 3.9 stars, 48 reviews), Sleepwalking into Darkness, and The Reckoning.  Before we get to the interview, here’s a brief description of the series: In Therapy for Ghosts, therapist Cindy James experiences bizarre panic attacks which trigger resurfacing memories of a haunted childhood she has long forgotten.  As she struggles to remember her dark family secrets, she discovers her role in the line of the James women.  Sleepwalking into Darkness and The Reckoning continue Cindy’s journey and explore the past and future women in the James family, unraveling a twisted legacy of lies, violence, and mental disturbance 100 years in the making.  A suspenseful family saga, The James Women Trilogy showcases the power of the human spirit, the darker side of family secrets, and the power to battle a family curse.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH ERIC PRASCHAN

Eric Praschan weaves an intricate, fast-paced family saga in The James Women Trilogy.  Sarah Kernochan, the screenwriter of “What Lies Beneath,” described Therapy for Ghosts as “a fine and well-written psychological thriller.”  Therapy for Ghosts, and its sequels, Sleepwalking into Darkness and The Reckoning, are available in print and e-book through Amazon.

1. When did you start writing, and was there a significant event that prompted you to do so? Read more »

Author Interview #240: Sent From Heaven by Dee Dee Scott

December 9, 2013
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Our interview is with Dee Dee Scott author of several books including Sent From Heaven (4.6 stars, 77 reviews). Before the interview a brief book description:

Best-selling romance author Maya Smith’s life is far different from the characters she creates in her novels. Left to raise a baby without the assistance of the married father, she has given up on finding a prince on a white horse to rescue her.

Enter Cardiologist and single father, Ford Tucker. Dr. Tucker is all work and no play. He has dedicated his life to work and raising his daughter. When Ford becomes Maya’s Cardiologist, he is instantly smitten with her. Sparks fly and the passion’s hot as ever between the two. But just when Ford thinks he has finally found Ms. Right, and Maya thinks she’s found her prince, a devastating secret is revealed that will rock the core of their relationship. Will their bond survive the terrible secret? Or will Ford end up alone and Maya prince less?

Interview with Dee Dee Scott

1.)Please share with us what your book about?

Sent From Heaven is about a powerful family (One sister and five brothers) named The Tuckers. To the outside world they appear perfect, but in reality they are all still hurting and devastated due to an incident that destroyed their childhoods. Sent from Heaven is a romantic suspense series that will consist of five books, each featuring a Tucker family member on the rocky road to finding love and healing from the past.

2.)When did you know you wanted to be a writer?

I have been writing since the age of six. It was something I always did. By the time I was a teenager, I was writing Read more »

Author Interview #239: Letting Go by Domino

December 4, 2013
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Our interview today is with Domino author of Letting Go (4.1 stars on 85 reviews). Before the interview a brief book description: Pregnant at 17 with no family or support, Shawna’s life has been turned upside down. She now has a big decision to make, for her and the well being of her unborn child.

Interview with Domino

What is your book about?

Letting Go is about a seventeen-year old girl, Shawna, that gets pregnant, with no family or support, and is forced to make a life-changing decision, for the benefit of her child. It delivers a vivid and moving experience of abuse, neglect, and despair, as well as hope, and happiness.

Tell us a little about your main character.

Shawna, the main character, is very headstrong and determined. She has endured a lot of heartache and disappointments in her life, but she is determined to succeed and live a life she has always wanted. Readers can relate to her, young and old. She is spunky, funny, and unforgettable

How do characters change or evolve throughout the course of the story? What events trigger such changes?

Shawna’s character changes when she gets pregnant and the man she is set to wed reveals he is nothing he claimed to be. Her outlook on life is dismal, but when she befriends two elderly women that show her she is capable of fulfilling all of her dreams, her outlook on life changes for the positive. Read more »

Author Interview #238: Dead Man’s Hand by Luke Murphy

December 2, 2013
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Our interview is with Luke Murphy the author of Dead Man’s Hand (4.6 stars on 112 reviews). A brief book description before the interview: What happens when the deck is stacked against you. . . From NFL rising-star prospect to wanted fugitive, Calvin Watters is a sadistic African-American Las Vegas debt-collector framed by a murderer who, like the Vegas Police, finds him to be the perfect fall-guy. . . . and the cards don’t fall your way? When the brutal slaying of a prominent casino owner is followed by the murder of a well-known bookie, Detective Dale Dayton is thrown into the middle of a highly political case and leads the largest homicide investigation in Vegas in the last twelve years. What if you’re dealt a Dead Man’s Hand?

Interview with Luke Murphy

What do you do when you are not writing?

I always say I write because I can’t sing or dance (LOL). Writing isn’t my full time job, I would have starved long ago if it was.

I’m an elementary school teacher, I tutor Math and English part time and I’m a husband and father. So as you can see, I only write when I find time.

When did you first start writing and when did you finish your first book?

Actually it happened by accident. Growing up I never thought much about writing, but I was an avid reader. The only time I ever wrote was when my teachers at school made me. I wanted to be an NHL superstar…period.

It was the winter of 2000, my second year of professional hockey, and I was playing in Oklahoma City.  After Read more »

Author Interview #236: Escape to Big Fork Lake by Mary L. Ball

November 25, 2013
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Our interview today is with Mary L. Ball.  Her debut novel is Escape to Big Fork Lake, (4.6 stars, 34 reviews) published in March 2012, followed by Stone of Destiny released September 2013. She writes Inspirational/Christian fiction.

Both of these novels are available in eBook and print on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and most on-line retailers.

She currently has another novel in the works, waiting hopefully for acceptance by her publisher.

1.  Please tell us about Escape to Big Fork Lake.

Will an inheritance bring new happiness or a trap for murder?

Bad luck seems to follow Sam Blacker. She loses her job and faces daily struggles keeping her drunken neighbor away from her.

Sam, a city girl at heart, is hesitant. However, after a brutal attack she has no choice.

Making a decision that will forever change her life she flees to the small fishing town of Big Fork Lake, Alabama and soon finds herself in the arms of Noah Frye. A tumultuous relationship with Noah sparks buried desires of the heart, even if he is a Christian, surely, she can get around that little problem.

As Sam and Noah’s passion grows, trouble lurks in the shadows, waiting and watching. Inescapable, Sam’s bad luck returns when she stumbles upon a murder and becomes the only suspect. Will she have to run again, this time to stay out of prison? Worse, will she lose the best man she’s ever found? And what about the newfound hunger in heart to know God—can she truly trust in Him?

2.  Tell us about Stone of Destiny.

The sapphire symbolizes s mental clarity, faithfulness and truth. For centuries, the legion of the Harrison family Read more »

Author Interview #235: Mayan Interface by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin

November 20, 2013
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Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin are the award-winning authors of books, plays, stories and essays. Their most recent novel,  Mayan Interface (metaphysical thriller, 4.2 stars, 130 reviews) has been praised by a Maya scholar, a physicist, a major literary critic, and lots of readers. Mayan Interface won the Silver Medal for Adventure Fiction in the Living Now Book Awards and spent more than 8 months on Amazon’s top 100 metaphysical fiction list. http://www.amazon.com/Mayan-Interface-ebook/dp/B009JW4R6S

The authors are a married couple who write together. They often use exciting genre forms to investigate ideas that interest them. They have lived in various parts of the U.S., spent more than 13 years in Mexico, and are now in Chapel Hill, NC.

  1. What is Mayan Interface about?

Very briefly—with the aid of a brilliant computer geek, her steadfast former lover, and her own shamanic skills, Lydia Rosenstrom unravels deadly mysteries in a VR simulation of an ancient Mayan site. Our tale blends mysticism, technology, archeology, and authentic Mayan history into adventure on both the physical and spiritual levels.

  1. How did you do your background research?

When we started working on this story, we visited the Yucatan Peninsula, talked with people there, and took lots of pictures. We visited two linguists who were working in a Mayan village and we used that setting in the story. We also read every authoritative book we could get our hands on and attended an academic workshop on glyphs.

  1. What’s the most important aspect of your writing?

We have both always loved stories—not just reading and writing them, but also discovering how the stories we tell affect our culture and our personal lives. Here’s how we put it in one essay: “Instead of just an ancient Read more »

Author Interview #234: The Other Side of Heartache by Sarah Jo Smith

November 18, 2013
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Our interview is with Sarah Jo Smith author of The Other Side of Heartache (4.6 stars on 94 reviews).

SEMI-FINALIST in THE KINDLE BOOK REVIEW 2013 BEST INDIE BOOK AWARDS for LITERARY FICTION

Before the interview, a brief description of the book: The Other Side of Heartache is a women’s fiction novel that intertwines voices between the past and present where old morals and double standards from the historical 1950s and ‘60s clash with modern day values.  Grace’s well-ordered world shatters when she loses her unborn child and her mother within a few months.  Summoned to her childhood home to sort through Penny’s belongings, the timing couldn’t be worse.  Grieving over her losses and exhausted from a demanding teaching schedule, she worries that her marriage is collapsing under the pressure.  While packing her mother’s closet, Grace discovers a box filled with mysterious keepsakes and old diaries written in Penny’s hand and takes them home.  After reading pages filled with typical musings of a teenage girl from a generation ago, she stumbles upon a dark secret and is devastated to learn that what she believed her whole life about her family was based on lies.

What inspired you to write The Other Side of Heartache?  Toni Morrison said, “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”  The Other Side of Heartache is that book from me.  This is a story that lodged in my heart for several years until I knew it had to be told and shared with women who ever had to make a difficult choice, or knew someone who did.

Do the characters seem real and believable? Who can relate to their predicaments?  The novel is character driven and if my characters didn’t seem real and believable, this story wouldn’t have worked.  Several reviews reflect this one:  “This book was incredible and had it all: fantastic and realistic characters that were well thought out, a true to life storyline that spans decades, and an author who pulled it all together beautifully. Read more »

Author Interview #233: A Night of Horrors by John Charles Berry

November 13, 2013
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Our interview today is with John Charles Berry, author of A Night of Horrors, a Historical Thriller on the 24 Hours of Lincoln’s Assassination  (110 reviews with 4.3 star average on Amazon).  He is also the author of the brand new Culpable, an Isaac Black Missing Persons Investigation.  Before we get to the interview, let’s provide a quick overview on A Night of Horrors.  It’s a thriller about the 24 hours leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The novel captures the single day when John Booth and his conspirators plot to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State; the Cabinet plans a post-war US; and the Lincolns dream about their future. It builds to the simultaneous and brutal attacks that left lives shattered and a nation paralyzed.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW

John Charles Berry is the author of the best-selling historical thriller on the 24 hours of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the contemporary missing persons thriller, Culpable.  He has spent more than 20 years as an executive in the banking and high-tech industries and continues to work full-time while he pursues his writing career.  He lives in Charlotte with his wife and has two grown children.

1. When did you start writing, and was there a significant event that prompted you to do so?

I’ve had a passion for writing for as long as I can remember.  I actually wrote my first novel when I was in high school.  That was a fantasy story about a man inadvertently steps through a worm hole and time travels to a Read more »

Author Interview #232: Crispens Point by JoHannah Reardon

November 11, 2013
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Today’s interview features JoHannah Reardon, author of the best-selling Blackberry County Chronicles, which includes Crispens Point (Christian fiction, 4.4 stars, 167 reviews), Cherry Cobbler, and Prince Crossing.

The Blackberry County Chronicles features three different women in Blackberry County who are trying to make important decisions about their lives. Charlotte, a romance novelist, moves to a small town in Blackberry County. She’s drawn to the local pastor, but she can’t admit that fact because of some dark things in her past. Will those dark things keep her from finding a lasting relationship? Cherry is overweight, lighthearted, and fun-loving. She also desperately wants to get married. But will she leave Blackberry County to find the man of her dreams? And will she end up with the right man? Vicki is a young pastor’s wife who wants to have a ministry alongside her husband. But when he feels called to a small town in Blackberry County, will this confirmed city woman be able to handle it?

AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH JOHANNAH REARDON

JoHannah Reardon is the author of the best-selling Blackberry County Chronicles, a Christian fiction trilogy that takes the reader to small-town America. The three books that make up the series are: Crispens Point, Read more »

Interview #230: Supernova by Crystal Ward

November 6, 2013
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Our interview is with Crystal Ward author of Supernova (The Supernova Saga) (4.5 stars on 43 reviews). Everyone is born for a purpose, and for Evania Laylen that vocation is about to make itself known. Guilt ridden after the death of her parents, she sinks into a deep depression.  Living only for the addiction, and the man who saved her, she gives up on life. That is until the enigmatic Desmond Kane enters and shows her the life she was born to live. Thrust into a secret, action-packed world of good versus evil, Evania must rid her life of the addictive temptation, prepare her body for battle, and learn to embrace the possible in a world of impossible.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH CRYSTAL WARD

What’s your book about?

There’s so much to Supernova that I can’t say it’s about just one thing.  It’s about Evania’s self-growth and how she beings to live her fate. She overcomes losing her family, a drug addiction, and severe depression, but with the help of a stranger, begins living life again. Desmond Kane enters her life and helps her discover that she is really a Guardian. Guardians are a different kind of superhero. They protect the world from a terrorist hell bent on domination. There’s romance, a lot of action, drama, deep friendships, a few paranormal twists, and so much more.

Tell us a little about your main character. Read more »

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