Lisette Brodey's Blog, page 12
March 8, 2015
CHAT WITH JENNIFER JAYNES
Jennifer Jaynes is the USA Today bestselling author of Never Smile at Strangers and Ugly Young Thing.
What is your latest book?
Ugly Young Thing. It’s about Allie, a disturbed sixteen-year-old orphan, who was raised by her serial killer brother. After he commits suicide, a very kind older woman named Miss Bitty takes her in and promises to give her a brighterfuture.
It takes Allie a while to open up and trust Miss Bitty, to even believe that it’s possible she could ever be happy since deat...
February 22, 2015
CONFESSIONS OF A SHORT-STORY VIRGIN
Short stories have always been elusive to me. Despite the countless number that I wrote in my late teens and early twenties, I never finished writing even one of them. Although there wasn’t a name for it back then, I was basically writing flash fiction, though purely for my own enjoyment. Apparently, though, nothing I wrote interested me enough to finish it.
At age nineteen, I had 150 pages of a novel added to my repertoire of incomplete stories. Stories, novels—it didn’t matter: I was an...
February 15, 2015
CHAT WITH JULIE STOCK
Julie Stock is an author of contemporary romance novels and short stories. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s New Writers’ Scheme and an Associate Member of The Alliance of Independent Authors.
When she is not writing, she works part-time as a teacher. She is married with two teenage daughters and lives with her family in Bedfordshire in the UK.
What is your latest book?
My latest book is also my debut novel and it is a contemporary romance called From Here to Nashvill...
February 8, 2015
CHAT WITH PAUL CUDE
Paul Cude was born in Southampton, Hampshire. As a small child he moved to Salisbury, and as a much older child he developed a fanatical interest in playing hockey, something he is still obsessed with to this very day. He has the privilege of being a full-time house husband, watching and shaping his two fantastic children as they progress in life. He likes days out with his family, taking computers apart (sometimes even putting them back together again, occasionally successfully) and, of...
February 1, 2015
CHAT WITH DIANA HOCKLEY
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Diana Hockley is a prolific reader, animal welfare advocate, classical music nut and community volunteer from South East Queensland, Australia. She is married to Andrew, mother of three, granny of three.
Time to chat with Diana!
What is your latest book?
After Ariel
Who would have guessed that the world of classical music could be so deadly?
Asked what she would do on her last night on earth, Ariel may have rolled her eyes, giggled and said, “Listen to Miley Cyrus while, like, kissing red hot...
January 25, 2015
GATHERING MY FORCES (Why I relaunched my memoir) by Doreen (Dody) Cox
There have been several instances in my life when I’ve woken up from some stupor and realized that it’s time to take charge of something that is important to me. Instead of continuing to be swept along by events and conditions as they were, I’d gathered my own internal forces together in order to direct my own passage through the event. Such reversals are rarely done without the influence of others met along the way. Within this past year, my gathering forces converged and swept me into...
January 18, 2015
CHAT WITH CAROL ROSE
Carol Rose is an award-winning author of contemporary romances. She has written twenty books, including Always and Forgotten Father. Her books have won numerous awards, including a final in the prestigious Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award.
Her husband and she married when she was only nineteen and he was barely twenty-one, proving that early marriage can make it, but only if you’re really lucky and persistent. They went through college and grad school together. She not only l...
January 11, 2015
MUSIC & MYSTERY – Guest blog by RJ McDonnell
TweetThe purpose of this blog is to show you how I relate my series theme to specific marketing and plotting efforts in hopes that fellow writers will find an idea or two that will help build readership. Most of these concepts apply to standalone novels as well.
I write a mystery series that features private investigator Jason Duffy, who worked as a club musician for 10 years before earning his PI license. Although he’s handled a diverse range of cases in his first few years of private practic...
January 4, 2015
CHAT WITH SHAYE MANN
Shaye Mann is a former comedian turned trial lawyer, and now author of the novel The Executive Graveyard. Born and raised in New York City, Shaye migrated west to follow his passion of exploring the mountains and canyons of the Southwest. Shaye currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife and three boys, He spends his free time hiking, writing, reading, and following his beloved New York sports teams.
Time to chat with Shaye!
What is your latest book?
Right now, The Executive Graveyar...
December 14, 2014
CHAT WITH I C CAMILLERI
I C Camilleri is a medical doctor and author living in the UK. Her novels include The Blake Soul, The Blake Curse, The Blake Mistake and Week of Lies.
Time to chat with Isabella!
What is your latest book?
Week of Lies was published just over three months ago. It is a revenge thriller and romance set in London and it spans a fateful week of lies and deceit. The opening chapter takes us to New Year’s Day where Beth Banks wakes up to find her father dead in their multimillion pound house in Lo...
