Live chat/interview with TV and mystery writer Hy Conrad

The Writer's Chatroom presents TV and mystery writer Hy Conrad.

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Promo for YA novel Hidden by M. Lathan

Today is a promotional stop for the YA fantasy novel Hidden author M. Lathan. This is the first in her Hidden series.

M is offering a $50 Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner's choice) gift card giveaway. Use the form below to enter for a chance to win. For more chances to win, visit other tour stops and enter there, too.

In addition to other tour stops that offer interviews and guest posts, you can find out more on Twitter with #GF_Hidden, too.

Blurb:  

Sixteen-year-old Leah Grant has given up on being normal. She’d settle for stopping the voices in her head, intrusive visions of the future, and better odds of making it to her seventeenth birthday.

That’s the thing about pretending to be human in a world where magic used to exist – at any moment, her cover could be blown and she’ll be burned to death like the rest of the witches.

Everything changes when she loses control of her powers and flees the orphanage she grew up in. She desperately wants to be invisible but finds her face plastered on every news channel as humans panic over the possible resurgence of her kind. And now the hunters won’t give up until they find her.

Making friends for the first time in her life and falling in love with one of them drives her to discover why she is unlike any being she’s ever met – human or otherwise. The dangerous powers inside of her that would repel Nathan, her new, handsome reason for living, are priceless to some. The locked up forever kind of priceless. And to others, they are too dangerous to allow her to live.

Let’s hope she can stay hidden.

Excerpt:

A far second to oranges, the song I sang in the shower every night had a way of soothing me. More than anything, it made me tired enough to fall asleep. With Whitney gone, I didn’t have to whisper it.

The stars are out,

It’s time for bed.

Now close your eyes,

And rest your head.

May angels shield you with their wings,

As you dream your little angel dreams.

I didn’t recall composing that song, but apparently, I used to think I was good and perfect like the angels. I knew better now.

I stepped out of the shower and tugged a brush through my unruly brown tangles. I stared into the mirror over the sink as I started the song again. My skin screamed winter. I should be a warmer tan; I looked less creepy in the summer. Maybe that was why the girls had been digging into me so hard. I looked rather witchy. The unease that made them mock me was probably their souls warning them, urging them to notice I was different and dangerous.

At my worst, it feels like the fire that could easily shoot from my palm is raging inside of me. My heart picks up, more than when I’m scared. It pounds, I can’t hear. My blood dances, taunting me, begging me to hurt whoever’s hurt me. And I know that I can. I feel that I can.

But I don’t. I breathe and pray and let the magic cool.

Author information:

M. Lathan lives in San Antonio with her husband and mini-schnauzer. She enjoys writing and has a B.S. in Psych and a Masters in Counseling. Her passion is a blend of her two interests – creating new worlds and stocking them with crazy people. She enjoys reading anything with interesting characters and writing in front of a window while asking rhetorical questions … like her idol Carrie Bradshaw.  

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Interview with mystery/suspense author Bruce Hartman

Mystery/suspense author Bruce Hartman is here today to talk a bit about himself, as well as his novel The Rules of Dreaming, which is now out from Swallow Tail Press.

Bruce will award a $50 Amazon or BN.com gift card (winner's choice) to one randomly drawn commenter. For a chance to win, leave a comment below. And to increase your chances of winning, visit other tour stops and leave comments there.

Bio:

Bruce Hartman lives with his wife in Philadelphia. He has worked as a pianist, music teacher, bookseller and attorney and has been writing fiction for many years. His first novel, Perfectly Healthy Man Drops Dead, won the Salvo Press Mystery Novel Award and was published by Salvo Press in 2008. If all goes well, a steady stream of new books will be coming out over the next few years.

Welcome, Bruce. Please tell us about your current release.

The Rules of Dreaming is a literary mystery that takes place in and around the Palmer Institute, a private mental hospital in upstate New York. A beautiful opera singer who lived nearby hanged herself on the eve of her debut at the Met. Now, seven years later, strange things begin to happen:

The singer’s 21-year-old schizophrenic son, who has never had any musical training, sits down at the piano and plays a fiendishly difficult piece of classical music;

A beautiful graduate student, struggling with her thesis, suspects that her psychiatrist is ruled by the fantasies of a poet who’s been dead for two hundred years;

A young doctor’s life spins out of control as he falls under the spell of three irresistible women;

A blackmailer stumbles on an isolated town with more crimes on its conscience than he could have imagined...

Until all are enmeshed in a world of deception and delusion, of madness and ultimately of evil and death.

What inspired you to write this book?

Years ago I imagined a story about a patient in a mental hospital who sits down at the piano in the patient lounge and flawlessly plays a difficult piece of classical music. Although this usually requires years of instruction and practice, the patient’s psychiatrist discovers that he has no musical training or experience. So the question I started with is: Where did this music come from? Where does any music come from? Does music come to you as a kind of inspired madness, or does it come from outside the human mind?

The troubled graduate student, Nicole, is the female hero of the book. I identify with her intellectual preoccupations, her compassion for the schizophrenic twins, and the sense of bewilderment that leads her to play such a significant role in the story.

Excerpt:

Here’s an excerpt about Nicole arriving back at her apartment after being discharged from the mental hospital, where she has spent two weeks after a brief mental breakdown:

Nicole had mixed feelings about going home after two weeks at the Institute. She occupied a dingy garret in a dark rambling house that had been converted to apartments, overseen by a nosy landlady named Mrs. Gruber who owned several cats but never seemed to feed them. One bright spot: the computer was still on, waiting faithfully for her return. The screen was blank but all she had to do was touch the space bar and a magic technicolor world rose up before her. Out of habit she opened her “Things To Do” folder. Most of it was out of date now—unminded reminders, dead deadlines, pointless appointments. With one sweep of the mouse she consigned the entire contents of the folder to the trash bin. It was a grand feeling, having nothing to do, but it was short lived. Now the computer stared at her with a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun. Tentatively she started typing:

Bread, milk, eggs, corn flakes.

Pick up dry cleaning.

Find a thesis topic.

Keep from going crazy.

Let’s put that one on top and keep it there. Thing To Do Numero Uno: Keep from going crazy. But how? Much as she liked Dr. Hoffmann, she wanted to accomplish that particular Thing To Do in her own way, without any help from the pharmaceutical industry. She reached in her purse and found the pills he’d given her, and without thinking very much about it she ran into the bathroom and flushed them down the toilet.

Now, she thought, I’m on my own.

What exciting story are you working on next?

My next book will be coming out this Fall. I’m putting the finishing touches on it right now.

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

I don’t know if I’ve ever actually considered myself a “writer.” I’ve been writing since I graduated from college. In the meantime I’ve had a few other careers that enabled me to raise a family and live a fairly normal life.

Do you write full-time? If so, what's your work day like? If not, what do you do other than write and how do you find time to write?

I am now writing full time. I can’t say that I get up very early in the morning or keep very regular writing hours, but since writing is my preferred activity I don’t have any trouble squeezing it in. I’m usually writing at the expense of all the other things I’m supposed to be doing.

What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?

My only writing quirk is that I don’t have any. I’m a fast typist, so I like to work at a computer with a regular keyboard, not a laptop; I can’t stand the sound of ringing telephones, barking dogs or loud music, and I don’t like to be interrupted; I surround myself with dictionaries and other reference books and have papers piled up around me until it’s almost a fire hazard; I can’t do anything in the morning until I’ve had about four cups of coffee and sometimes I get so engrossed in my work that I sit in front of the computer for hours until I’m famished and barely able to stand up—but no, I don’t have any writing quirks.

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I aspired to be a writer from an early age—I don’t know why; it certainly wasn’t anything my parents encouraged—but I knew nothing about what being a writer really entailed. I realized later that it’s a solitary activity, which can be depressing for a gregarious person like myself. So I’ve pursued a number of more social occupations and now I’m happy enough sitting at my desk writing. I have enough other things going on in my life to keep me from getting too lonely.

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Thanks, Bruce. Readers, don't forget: Bruce will award a $50 Amazon or BN.com gift card (winner's choice) to one randomly drawn commenter. For a chance to win, leave a comment below. And to increase your chances of winning, visit other tour stops and leave comments there.

Interview with mystery author Joanne Lessner

Today's guest is mystery author Joanne Lessner. She's here to talk to us about a couple of her novels that she's currently touring: The Temporary Detective and Bad Publicity.

Joanne will be giving away one e-book copy of her novel Pandora's Bottle, inspired by the world's most expensive bottle of wine at each stop to a lucky commentor. And there's also a grand prize of a $25 Amazon gift card to be awarded to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour. So, to be entered for a chance to win either or both of these prizes, make sure to leave an e-mail with your comment below so Joanne can get in touch with you. And for more chances to win, visit other tour stops and leave comments there.

Bio:

Joanne Sydney Lessner is the author of BloodWrites award-winner and Awesome Indies Mystery Pick The Temporary Detective, which introduces Isobel Spice, aspiring actress and resourceful office temp turned amateur sleuth. Isobel’s adventures continue in Bad Publicity. 

Joanne’s debut novel, Pandora's Bottle (Flint Mine Press), which was inspired by the true story of the world’s most expensive bottle of wine, was named one of the top five books of 2010 by Paperback Dolls. 

No stranger to the theatrical world, Joanne enjoys an active performing career, and with her husband, composer/conductor Joshua Rosenblum, has co-authored several musicals, including the cult hit Fermat's Last Tango and Einstein's Dreams, based on the celebrated novel by Alan Lightman. Her play, Critical Mass, received its Off Broadway premiere in October 2010 as the winner of the 2009 Heiress Productions Playwriting Competition.

Welcome, Joanne. Please tell us about your current release.

The Temporary Detective is the first installment in a series featuring Isobel Spice, aspiring actress/office temp turned amateur sleuth. Isobel’s adventures continue in Bad Publicity, which just came out in April. The series follows Isobel from job to job, solving murders along the way, but it will also trace her attempts to break into show business. Isobel is aided in her various quests by her temp agent, James Cooke, who is struggling with his own career as he tries to stay sober; two new actor friends, Delphi and Sunil; and her precocious younger brother, Percival, who is about to matriculate at Columbia at the ripe young age of sixteen.

What inspired you to write this book?

Like Isobel, I arrived in New York fresh out of college and prepared to take Broadway by storm. I did get there, but it took six years! In the meantime, I built my resume, and, of course, I temped. I got fired from my first assignment by an obnoxious secretary who complained that I yakked on the phone too much. (Guilty as charged!) So I decided then and there to kill my nemesis on the page. But I didn’t do it right away—I waited almost twenty years. I think the experiences I’ve had and the stories I’ve collected in that time give me a perspective I lacked when I was still in the middle of that part of my life. Plus, I’m a better writer now.

Excerpt:

“I wouldn’t go back if I thought there were an insane murderer on the loose,” Isobel said. “On the contrary, whoever did this was very sane. Let me tell you, I wanted to kill that woman after three hours.”

Delphi looked askance at Isobel. “You…didn’t, right?”

For some reason, Delphi asking her point-blank bothered her less than James’s confused hinting. “Of course I didn’t. But I don’t blame you for asking. You hardly know me.”

“It sounds like whoever did it also wanted to humiliate her,” Sunil mused. “I mean, think about it. Captured for all eternity on the pot!”

“Could it have been somebody from outside who came in, waylaid her in the bathroom, pulled the emergency bell and left?” Delphi asked.

Isobel shook her head. “She was such an unpleasant person that it just doesn’t seem random.”

“Then you definitely should not go back there, paycheck or no paycheck,” Delphi said.

Sunil nodded. “Delphi’s right.”

“You’re sweet to be so concerned, but I’ll be fine.” Isobel smiled. “It was really nice meeting you both. Good luck with everything.”

“I think you need it more than we do,” Sunil said.

As Isobel rode south on the subway, sardined between a bike messenger in need of deodorant and a young mother juggling twin toddlers, she wondered whether to take her new friends’ advice. No job was worth risking her life. But what about the other people at the bank? They were all continuing to show up for work, weren’t they? They had no choice. They all had jobs to do.

Well, so did she. She needed the money. James didn’t have anything else for her, and even if he did, he might not send her out again. She still hadn’t proven herself, not really.

And that was what she had come to New York to do. Prove herself.

What exciting story are you working on next?

Now that Bad Publicity is out (whew!), I’m hot on the third Isobel book, And Justice For Some. This one will be a little different in that the murder doesn’t happen at Isobel’s place of employment. However, her current assignment, working for a lawyer in solo practice, enables her to research the case. She and Delphi witness the murder of a prominent judge and are implicated in his death at first. But, Isobel being Isobel, she can’t let it drop even after they’ve been cleared.

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

I’ve always written. When I was in fourth grade, I wrote a murder mystery play. I recently found it when my parents were cleaning out their basement, and my eleven year-old daughter and I read it aloud in British accents. It was pretty awful! I think I started calling myself a writer during my junior year in high school. My dad brought his electric typewriter home from the office so I could type a term paper. I was having so much fun hitting the keys (clearly, I didn’t get out enough) that I rolled in another sheet and kept writing. Out came my first novel. That turned up in my parents’ basement too, but I’m too chicken to read it.

Do you write full-time? If so, what's your work day like? If not, what do you do other than write and how do you find time to write?

I don’t write full-time, and the truth is I don’t think I’d want to. I have a short attention span and multiple interests. It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally come to terms with the fact that doing a bit of everything is what makes me happy. So I jump in and out of writing, performing (I just gave a solo voice recital and recorded two one-act operas), being a mom (that’s the full-time job!) and my day job, which is in public relations. So it’s all a big juggling act, and I steal writing time whenever I can, like now! But I’m fairly efficient, so somehow it all gets done.

What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?

My husband and I have written five musicals together, two of which have had full productions in the U.S. and in Portugal (we’re very big in Lisbon). I write the book, he writes the music, and we collaborate on the lyrics. This is what we do for fun in my house.

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

An actress! Can’t you tell?

Anything additional you want to share with the readers?

Although I’ve never solved a mystery (I always wanted to) or found a dead body (I never wanted to), I have drawn on many of my own experiences from my early days in New York. I hope readers will embrace the hybrid nature of the books, because opening a window into the day-to-day life of a working actor is as important to me as crafting a satisfying puzzle. As one friend said, “At last someone will tell it like it is.” Any audition anecdote you read is pretty much certain to have happened either to me or to someone I know. I have a never-ending supply of hilarious and humiliating stories. That well isn’t going to run dry anytime soon!

Links:

Website: http://joannelessner.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoanneSydneyLessner

Twitter: https://twitter.com/joannelessner

Bad Publicity Buy Links:

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The Temporary Detective Buy Links:

Paperback | Kindle | Nook | Kobo

Thanks, Joanne. And Readers, don't forget: Joanne will be giving away one e-book copy of her novel Pandora's Bottle, inspired by the world's most expensive bottle of wine at each stop to a lucky commentor. And there's also a grand prize of a $25 Amazon gift card to be awarded to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour. So, to be entered for a chance to win either or both of these prizes, make sure to leave an e-mail with your comment below so Joanne can get in touch with you. And for more chances to win, visit other tour stops and leave comments there.

Book blurb blitz for The Book of Phinn by Frank Anjakos

Today, Reviews and Interviews is a book blurb blitz tour stop for the YA paranormal romance novel The Book of Phinn by Frank Anjakos.

Frank will be awarding a $25 Starbucks gift card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. So, leave a comment below to be entered to win, and if you'd like to increase your chances of winning, visit other stops and leave comments there. 

Blurb:

Hey, Phinn here.

I'm an Angel. A 16-year-old immortal. You don't know me. You've never seen me. Unless you're a dead teenager and you've been good and live in Southern California (narrows it down, huh?). If that's the case, we've probably met. See, I take the souls of good kids to Heaven, but I'm not allowed to interact with the living...which makes high school, being on the soccer team and writing for the school newspaper a little difficult. As an angel, I play by the rules.

My "arch-frenemy" Iszn, the demon who takes the bad kids to Hell, breaks all the rules...which is why he's one of the most popular kids in school. Iszn's hobbies are football, human girls, football, torturing me, football and evil....did I mention football?

Anyway, as an Angel I try not to have any direct contact with humans...well, that is until I met this girl. Actually, until she met me...it's kind of complicated. That's one of the reasons I write my blog...to let you guys in on a world you probably didn't even know existed...until it's too late, anyway.

But this world does exist, and it's about to get complicated. There are some deaths we can't explain and only Iszn and I seem to want to get to the bottom of them. It's going to cost us...a lot, but we can't let it go.

So ya, enjoy the blog...comment if you want. I read all the comments and try to respond. And don't let Iszn freak you out...to my knowledge, he's never actually eaten anyone's face.

Cya inside :)

Excerpt:

Ok, let’s clear up a few things.

In most ways, Iszn and I aren’t the same. I mean we come from seriously different places and we have completely different jobs and ideas on what we’re supposed to be doing.

Iszn kisses humans. I don’t. There’s a reason I don’t, though. The breath of an Angel has an effect on people.

You know how in vampire movies sometimes a vampire will bite someone and they’ll be all “ooohhh…ahhh…” and they’ll get all squishy and stuff, instead of like screaming and slapping the guy and yelling “What are you doing? That hurts!”

Well, that’s what an Angel’s breath does to humans. It gives them the ‘swoon.’ That’s what we call it when a human gets squishy with Angel breath.

Now, Iszn, on the other hand…when he breathes on a human, they get the ‘charm.’ It’s darker and more serious than the swoon. When a human gets charmed, they’ll basically do anything the demon tells them to. They’re kind of owned. At least until it wears off.

Obviously, a swoon isn’t as bad as a charm. But I still think it’s wrong. It’s just not right to make someone feel something…anything…that they don’t, simply because you can.

Iszn doesn’t agree. Iszn is a big fan of “I can do it, so there’s no reason I shouldn’t.”

There’s another thing, too. Iszn is the most popular guy in school. He’s captain of the football team. He’s smart. He’s funny. He’s good looking, like only an Immortal can be. SOOOO, he has many many groupies…both guys and girls. They follow him around because he is impressive as…well…as Hell. There’s no other way to put it.

I suspect that he charms some of them, but I can’t prove it, and he won’t admit it to me. And quite honestly, I don’t even want to know.

But there it is.

So, I’m not rushing into kissing Ashley. I could never be sure she was kissing me because she likes me. I’d never swoon her. I think she does like me, though. And I know I like her.

If she couldn’t see me…if none of this was happening, then I’d eventually move on. As an Angel I’m master of my feelings, so I’d enjoy the falling in love, suffer over the fact that it could never be, and then let it go. I’ve done it before…I could do it again.

But for whatever reason, I don’t have to. She does see me, and for the first time since the dawn of time, someone that I like, likes me back.

Do you know how weird that is for me? 100% weird.

So you can understand why I don’t want to screw this up. You can understand how big a deal this is for me. You can understand why I lay in bed at night and wonder why all this is going on. And I think you can understand why I’m not taking Iszn’s advice.

Author information:

Frank Anjakos lives in the Wild West, where he avoids writing about anything Western. Upon graduation from college in Michigan he was unwilling to get a real job, and so went to law school at the University of Arizona, where he studied listlessly, overcome by the desert heat, and obtained a law degree in the usual amount of time. After recovering from the stifling law school style of writing, he returned to his true passion, fiction…both writing and living it. Coerced by his son Finn, he turned away from adult science fiction and began writing children’s books. Now, if he could just get his son to actually read one.

Buy link for book: http://amazon.com/dp/b00cdgptim

Book excerpt tour stop for the Vampire Elite series by Irina Argo

Today is a virtual book excerpt tour stop for the Vampire Elite Series by Irina Argo. The first two books in the series, Vampire Elite: Prophecy and Keepers of the Key become available this month.

Irina will be giving away a $50 Amazon or BN.com gift card to one randomly chosen commentor during her tour. To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment below. For more chances to win, visit other tour stops and leave comments there. 

And to learn even more about the series, you can follow updates on Twitter with #GF_VAMPIRE.

Blurb:

Can the ultimate choice be made if saving your race means destroying the one you love?

At the beginning of the twenty-first century of our era a millennia long war between two immortal races was coming to an end. The Vampire Elite, the strongest among vampires, forced the race of immortal beings, the Amiti to become their blood suppliers, called bloodstock, locking them in their underground cells and treating them like livestock. The surviving free Amiti make a final attempt to strike back. The Queen of Amiti is proclaimed a traitor and is executed. Her death signifies the rise of a new Queen, her young daughter Arianna who becomes the last hope of her dying race. Arianna totally embraces her mission and is ready to fight for her people to the last drop of her blood but encounters an unexpected challenge—the vampire King Tor. They both are captured into a trap of love where they had to make an ultimate choice; to kill the loved one or to let their races die.

Vampire Elite is the epic story of a bitter conflict between two peoples, and the effect of that conflict on everyone living in its grip. The characters are driven to love and betrayal, vengeance and sacrifice in a world without easy black-and-white answers.

Based on an ancient Egyptian legend, packed with action and intrigue, Vampire Elite will pull you into the entrancing world of immortals and open new portals into their hidden universe.

Excerpt:

(Oberon is captured. Anock is interrogating him)

“I can’t do that, Anock.”

“Oh, but you can. You don’t want this female to die, do you?”

“No, I don’t, and I appeal to your mercy, Anock. You can spare her life; it’s your choice as much as it is mine. More than mine. I will not give the Keepers up. There’s nothing that you can do that will change my mind.”

“Yes, Oberon, you will. At the count of three. One.”

“I am so very sorry.” Oberon glanced at the woman. She held her head down, but her shaking shoulders betrayed that she was crying. “There is nothing I can do for you. The Keepers are the only Amiti’s hope, I cannot give them up.”

Please Goddess, kill me. Spare me from having to make this choice.

* * *

“Two!” Anock was bluffing. He had no intention of letting the woman die. It was a test of wills.

“Please, Anock. You’re a warrior, not a butcher. How can you reduce yourself to this level? Torture me, kill me, do whatever you want, but please, don’t waste her life.”

Anock looked one last time at the Amiti.

This is so wrong.

“Three!”

Blade’s sword hissed through the air, slicing through the female’s neck. Her head hit the floor and rolled toward the cage, lifeless jade-green eyes staring into Anock’s soul. It took a few seconds for the body to collapse to the floor.

The hysterical screams of the other Amiti filled the room.

Anock stared, transfixed, at the lifeless eyes.

Cara’s eyes. Oh Goddess.

 “Take the bloodstock to her cell and clean the place up,” he ordered, his voice and brain totally disconnected, and left.

Author information:

Irina Argo is a combined pen name for two authors, Irina Kardos and Jo-An Torres.

Irina

Irina’s world is dark. She works as a clinical psychologist in a Juvenile Correctional Facility dealing with the extremes of human behavior on a regular basis and takes care of her paralyzed husband who suffered a stroke several years ago. To bring light into her life she writes. Writing has always been her passion. She is originally from Russia where she was employed as a TV journalist.

Jo-An
Jo-An is a Leo, a lioness who has emerged to follow her dream, to someday write a book of her own. She owned a costume shop for 15 years and was able to satisfy and excel in her creative nature. She is an over-achiever and believes that anything is possible if you believe in yourself and ignore the nay-sayers. Her philosophy is based on Shakespeare "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves." She currently resides in California with her 5 cats and 1 husband.

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Live chat/interview with romance author Barbara Winkes - 6/16/13

The Writer's Chatroom presents romance author Barbara Winkes.

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