BREAKING AWAY my Work In Progress

<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b>My friend <a href="http://tarynraye.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Taryn Raye </a>and I were playing tag  and I ended up being IT so the challenge is to do a short interview about my WIP (Work in Progress). Since everything you do while writing a new book helps you flesh out your characters, I accepted her challenge. </b><br /><br /><b>What is the working title of your book?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">BREAKING AWAY</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><b>Where did the idea come from for the book?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">BREAKING AWAY is the third book of my SEAL TEAM Heartbreaker series. It’s Flash’s story. He’s missing in action at the end of the first story and throughout the second one. It’s time Flash’s story is told. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>What genre does your book fall under?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">My book is romantic suspense. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><b>Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Steven Amell. He’s a Canadian Actor and has done some really<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>strong stuff thus far on HBO. He’s rugged, masculine, built and a fine actor. I just saw him last night on his new show Arrow.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OO9SOFdzJg4..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OO9SOFdzJg4..." width="210" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style></div>  Navy SEAL is forced to go on the run until he can prove his innocence, when the smuggled museum artifacts he’s transported from Iraq trigger the murder of his FBI contact.  <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><b>Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">It will be self-published. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><b>How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript? </b></div><div class="MsoNormal">The last book BREAKING THROUGH took me seven months to write. I’m hoping BREAKING AWAY will take less. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><b>What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I can’t compare them to any other SEAL books out there because they’re a little different than most others.  I'm not saying that in an arrogant way. Just that my thoughts on the guys themselves may be a little different than what other writers envision for their books.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">My books delve deeply<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>into the personal conflicts that most military people have to deal with. Their sacrifices, the pain that it causes them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>These are real situations that the guys and women who love them have to face. BREAKING AWAY deals with Flash who’s been betrayed by an FBI handler and been cut loose from his team because of it. When he contacts the FBI they try to take him down and almost kill him. So, he goes deep underground and he’s on the run until he can figure out how to prove himself innocent of murder. And prove he isn't a smuggler. That he actually was duped into it. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">SEALs head for water when their at risk, but he’s been dropped in the desert country of Nevada.And is totally out of his element when he rents an apartment from a woman with secrets and problems of her own. And this brings trouble knocking on her door. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><b>Who or What inspired you to write this book?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I read an article about the museum in Baghdad being looted by people right after the city was taken. And how artifacts were being sold as souvenirs to service personnel. Several of the men who purchased them from street dealers turned them in after they came home and realized that the souvenirs they'd bought were actually the real deal. So what if they were being smuggled into the US through use of military transport? And what if a Navy SEAL were approached to do some undercover work to expose the real culprits responsible for that. And what if this Navy SEAL was someone who had a reputation for gambling and they thought he might be bought because of it. And the actual guys who approach him are bad guys and not who they say they are?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><b>What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">The book isn’t the normal Romantic suspense with a Navy SEAL. My guys are SEALs through and through. They eat sleep and breath the life. They sacrifice for it. And they love as hard as they work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The conflicts that consume them are realistic conflicts that any one of them could truly face.This book will be more of a stretch than the other books in the series. SEALs don't do police investigations in the US. Their business is usually conducted covertly in other countries, like South America, Africa, the Middle East. They use covert technologies to gather intel as well as take the bad guys out.  </div><div class="MsoNormal">They search out drug dealers, smugglers, terrorists, and work with other agencies in these countries. But this man has been used as a courier to transport a museum piece worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. And he was duped into doing it because SEALs keep their mouths shut and keep things to themselves. So by keeping the code of silence,  he's put his life in danger and on hold until he can figure how to make things right. <br /><br />I hope you found the premise of my book interesting.<br />And don't forget to go check out <a href="http://tarynraye.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Taryn's post</a> as well.  <br /><br />Write on,<br />Teresa R.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com...' alt='' /></div>