Wednesday Coffee with Alexa Bourne

Alexa! Welcome to Wednesday Coffee. It will be fun learning more about you and your writing.  

Thanks so much for having me!

It’s my pleasure. First let me tell everyone a little about you.

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Alexa Bourne is a teacher by day and a romance writer by nights, weekends, and all school holidays. She also teaches online classes for writers throughout the year. She writes romantic suspense and contemporary romance for Decadent Publishing and is thrilled to have the chance to share her love of Great Britain with readers everywhere.

When she’s not concocting sinister plots and steamy love scenes or traveling and exploring new cultures, Alexa spends her time reading, watching brainless TV and thinking about exercising. She loves to interact with readers, so visit her web page, hang out at her blog, follow her on Twitter or drop her a note at Alexa@alexabourne.com!

Q. Do you do any special research for your novels?

I do a bit of research, depending on the setting or the crimes involved in each story. Sometimes I need to also research an occupation for one of my characters.

Q. What made you pick your particular genre?

I’ve always loved stories about crimes and how they’re solved.

Q. What are you working on right now? Can you tell us about it?

I’m working on a couple of stories right now, both novellas. One is a romantic suspense set in Mexico with an American woman who doesn’t understand Spanish and the Spanish-speaking villains who believe she overheard their conversation.

My other novella is a contemporary romance. It’s about a Scotswoman going through some medical issues and she feels she has no support. The man she’s been in love with since childhood, her best friend’s brother, wants to help but doesn’t know how to be her rock.

Q. Do you ever hit the wall or find you’ve written yourself into a corner? How do you turn that around?

Yep! It usually happens when I don’t listen to my characters. LOL. If I let them guide me, the story comes out great!

Okay…enough with the business questions! How about some fun stuff. You know, just between the two of us.

Q. The opportunity to go on a surprise vacation arises. You have 90 minutes to pack and get to the airport. Where will you go and what will you pack?

Scotland! Edinburgh is my favorite city in the world, so I’d definitely go there. I would pack my money, some clothes, some notebooks (because I write all my rough drafts by hand) and my camera!

Q. Are you more likely to be spotlighted on the TV show Hoarders or Fashion Police?

Fashion Police. I know what looks good, what goes well together, but I’m usually in jeans and T-shirts. And I’m also accused of holding onto a piece of clothing looooooong after it should be trashed. (Hey, if it’s comfortable, why get rid of it???)

Q. If they make a movie about your life, who do you want to play your part?

Hhhmmmm, that’s a good question. I don’t really know. Maybe Anne Hathaway or Emma Watson. Or Jordana Brewster from the Fast & Furious movies. I like all of them and think they could do a great job playing me.

Q. Tell us one thing about you that might surprise us…it can be a secret…we won’t tell.    I’ve lived in 5 states and have visited 11 countries….so far!

Okay! let’s tell everyone about your romantic suspense novel, Through The Eyes of Darkness.

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BLURB:
The International Protective Network hires the most efficient operatives to protect their clients, but what happens when those employees need to face their personal demons in order to get the job done?

A broken-down bodyguard with no confidence…an American lass with no memory…a technical analyst more confident with computers than people…a lad living in the past…a new operative with something to prove…a former soldier struggling with her war scars.

In the cozy communities of the British Isles, three couples charge through the dangers confronting them in order to find truth, justice and the love they deserve.

Website: www.alexabourne.com

Blog: http://alexabourne.blogspot.com

Twitter: @AlexaBourne

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AuthorAlexaBourne

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5818611.Alexa_Bourne

Buy Link: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=alexa+bourne