Mandy M. Roth's Blog, page 19
February 11, 2022
Mandy M. Roth: Running with the Devil
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Mandy M. Roth® loves 80s music and movies and wishes leg warmers would come back into fashion.
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Author Q&AQ: Tell us about one of your upcoming titles.
A: Starry with a Chance of Nightshade, Grimm Cove book 4. Those of you who have read the series know this is Stratton's story. You'll learn so much more about his mysterious past.
Q: What words of advice would you give to new writers who are just starting in the genre of Paranormal Women's Fiction?
A: Put the time in to learn and study the genre. Understand the key elements of the genre. And then have fun!
Q: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: It's a story about redemption and a second chance at love.
February 10, 2022
Jade Greenberg: Magic Takes Manhattan
Jade Greenberg is an emerging author of Paranormal Women's Fiction and Rom-Coms. She lives in New York City with her family.
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Author Q&AQ: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: One intoxicating New Yorker, a lifelong curse, and a splash of magic make an unforgettable midlife cocktail.
Q: Why was this story important for you to tell?
A: Joy, magic, and laughter felt like a valuable and necessary direction to go in with everything we've gone through over the past few years.
Q: What is something you hope the readers take away from your story?
A: If readers can glean joy from it, if they get that magical feeling, if they laugh out loud at least once, I'll be happy. And if reading Mandi's story makes them happy too, even just for a little while, I'll have thoroughly accomplished what I set out to do.
February 9, 2022
Shéa MacLeod: Day of the Were-Jackal
Shéa MacLeod lives in the Pacific Northwest where she spends her days dreaming up ways to murder her characters.
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Author Q&AQ: Tell us about your experience writing a book for the Aged to Perfection Anthology.
A: It was a bit wild. I had a story in mind and was several pages deep before I realized that story wasn't ready to be told (it will be, just not now). Instead, Edwina Gale (who is one of my favorite characters) kept showing up with her witchy self, telling me I needed to write HER story. So I gave in and did what she wanted. Once I did that, the words just flowed like melted chocolate being poured over a hot donut.
Q: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: Edwina Gale is used to tracking down supernatural bad guys, but when her romantic weekend is interrupted by the murder of a drag queen, she's determined to solve the crime before an innocent person is convicted.
Q: Why was this story important for you to tell?
A: I guess Edwina Gale is the sort of person I'd like to be in 15 years. She isn't sitting in her chair, watching Judge Judy and waiting for the end. She's out there following her calling, using her magic, and living life to the fullest.
February 8, 2022
Michelle M. Pillow: Merely Mortal
Michelle M. Pillow is a prolific NY Times & USA TODAY bestselling author with over a million books sold. Though she writes in many genres, she is best known for romance and mystery. Her rich world building creates portals for the imagination.
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Author Q&AQ: What was your favorite part of writing Paranormal Women's Fiction?
A: Growing older is a part of life and we want to celebrate and demystify some of those parts through fiction. Women in midlife face our own set of issues and challenges—empty nests, widows, divorce, menopause, health, etc.–and these issues deserve to be addressed and embraced in literature. I wanted to write about women my age having adventures, finding magic and friendships, while entering that next natural chapter in life. Clearly readers wanted it too because they cannot get enough of this genre. The support has been overwhelmingly positive.
Q: What words of advice would you give to new writers who are just starting in the genre of Paranormal Women's Fiction?
A: If you’re 40+, tell your truth. There is no ‘one’ midlife experience. If you’re not yet of that age, talk to women who are and listen to their experiences, their joys and pains. I love to listen and learn from the women who have gone before me.
Q: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: Tamara is a character I’ve been wanting to write for a long time. She’s the only “normal” unmagical one in her family, and she proves you don’t have to have superpowers to save the day.
February 7, 2022
Bobby Leigh: Snow Hill: Hexed On A Feeling
When not penning fiction, Bobby can be found working on the next movie script, playing D&D, recording guitar and piano tracks, traveling the world, or checking out a new food place with friends.
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Author Q&AQ: What's a misconception about midlife that you'd like to clear up?
A: That your value is less. This is absolutely not true. Experience, and knowing yourself is such a rewarding place to be.
Q: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: This short story follows an empath, a sorcerer of the mind, traveling to a small town to research a curious case involving a curse. But the town isn't as welcoming, except for one of the local magic wielding men. Is he a friend, foe, or lover?
Q: Do you have a personal connection with any of the characters in your story? Does one resonate with you more than the others?
A: I was told early in life that I was too sensitive. So I wanted to create a character where that sensitivity wasn't a liability, but an asset. By taking it to a paranormal level, it became a power for our heroine.
February 2, 2022
Christine Zane Thomas: A Touch of Twilight
Christine Zane Thomas is the pen name of a husband and wife team. A shared love of mystery and sleuths spurred the creation of their own mysterious writer alter-ego.
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Author Q&AQ: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: While I can't write anything without a little mystery and magic, at its heart this story is a second chance romance between two kids reconnecting after nearly fifty years.
Q: Why was this story important for you to tell?
A: I always enjoy writing second chance because that's my love story. I went on a couple of quasi-dates with my significant other, spent years without talking, then reconnected.
Q: What song best fits your story?
A: "Head Over Feet" by Alanis Morissette
Macy Dixon: Midlife Shelf Life
Macy Dixon writes single, hot-mess, high-achieving women over forty who live in magickal worlds and take no shirt from anyone… even the hot ones.
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Author Q&AQ: What was your favorite part of writing Paranormal Women's Fiction?
A: Being able to write characters who are still badasses, no matter how much their back aches.
Q: Tell us about one of your upcoming titles.
A: I'm releasing more books in the Forty First Dates for a Midlife Magicker series, and specifically, the next book, she meets her Matchmaker.
Q: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: Emmaline is a single academic booklover who's had a lifelong crush on the same man. And when she inherits a Magicker Office that can turn her into any person in the world, she turns into his ex...
February 1, 2022
Yasmine Galenorn: Weaver’s Web
NYT, PW, and USA Today bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn writes urban fantasy and all things paranormal. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and cats.
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Author Q&AQ: What's a misconception about midlife that you'd like to clear up?
A: That life declines after 50. I'm sixty and--although the body takes a toll--I'm more clear about my life than I've ever been. I am stronger as a person, I am happier, and feel more successful than ever before.
Q: If you could live the life of one single character in your story, who would it be and why?
A: I think Rowan, January's great-grandmother. Though she doesn't make much of an appearance in Weaver's Web (since January is on vacation), I love her character. She's witchblood, over two hundred years old, and a powerful, confident character who helps January learn as her powers blossom out.
Q: Tell us a bit about your story and why you wrote it.
A: Paranormal investigator and witch January Jaxson, and her wolf-shifter boyfriend Killian O’Connell, take a vacation for Valentine’s Day and find themselves in a search for their hostess’s missing sister.
I had an abusive childhood, an abusive first marriage, and so I know all about starting over. I've learned a lot about living life without a safety net, and about taking those lemons and making lemon meringue pie out of them. Sometimes, the baggage spurs you on to become stronger and more secure in yourself.
January 31, 2022
Nicole Rosas: Eternal
Nicole Rosas is a writer and award-winning filmmaker located in Toronto, Canada.
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Author Q&AQ: What's a misconception about midlife that you'd like to clear up?
A: There's the misconception about midlife that you begin to slow down after forty. That couldn't be further from the truth. Everyone is living life on a different path and trajectory. Some of us find our true loves in our forties and beyond, while some of us find our life's purpose after thirty. There's no wrong way to live it, and that's why we need this representation in literature and on the screen.
Q: Do you have a personal connection with any of the characters in your story? Does one resonate with you more than the others?
A: Sadly, I resonate with Fernando's feelings of isolation. The pandemic has been incredibly hard for people. I wanted to paint these feelings into his experience.
Q: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: The story of "Eternal" has many parallels to the isolation felt during the Covid-19 pandemic. It revolves around two people trying to find their way back to connecting to something real in the midst of surrounding horrors.
January 27, 2022
Renee George: The Age of Inno-Scents
USA Today Bestselling author Renee George writes paranormal mysteries and romances because she loves all things supernatural and whodunit. Her paranormal women’s fiction series, Nora Black Midlife Psychic Mysteries, came about as a direct result of wanting to read about characters her age who still had gas in the tank for romance, adventure, and the best friendships.
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Author Q&AQ: What is something you hope the readers take away from your story?
A: I want them to feel satisfied and happy, and I want them thinking about the characters and their relationships long after the story ends.
Q: What words of advice would you give to new writers who are just starting in the genre of Paranormal Women's Fiction?
A: Love women. Love older women. Give readers heroines they can identify with and aspire to be. Even with paranormal and fantasy, readers love seeing themselves or seeing who they want to be in these characters.
Q: Tell us a bit about your story.
A: A fun '80s-themed mystery event takes a deadly turn when Nora Black's psychic nose sniffs out a real murderous plot. School may be out for murder, but Nora and friends will have to find a killer to avoid a deadly detention.
