5 Easy Questions
An author interview with only five simple questions.
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Unmasking Lady Helen: Kinsey Family #1 Maggi Andersen @maggiandersen #RLFblog #RegencyRomance
Maggi Andersen author of Unmasking Lady Helen – The Kinsey Family Book One answers five easy questions.Please tell us about yourself.
Maggi Andersen fell in love with the Georgian and Regency worlds while reading the books of Georgette Heyer. After studying for a BA and an MA in Creative Writing, she decided to write her own. She has written over 25 novels and novellas and is working on her third Regency series. Maggi also writes historical mysteries, contemporary romantic suspense, and two young adult novels. Her books are constant bestsellers on Amazon and many have been nominated for awards. Maggi’s free time is spent feeding the local wildlife, reading, gym, movies, and BBC2. She lives in the beautiful Southern Highlands of Australia.
What’s your favorite down-home family style meal?
Roast lamb with mint sauce, broccoli, pumpkin, and baked potatoes. Apple pie and cream.
Who is your “book boyfriend” (that hottie you read about and drool over)?
I’m presently reading Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child. Reacher is a ruthless killer, but with a sense of honor. He coolly works through any problems he faces, and at 6 ft 5 and two-fifty pounds with a 50″ chest, and ‘assassin’s blue eyes’, he’s definitely hot. If I was ever in danger, I’d want him around. I’m considering basing a Regency hero on him. I think he’d make a very good one.
Describe the perfect vacation.
A villa in the south of France, enjoying the local wines and food. Swimming in the Mediterranean Sea. Popping over to Cannes for the film festival.
When you read for pleasure, what kind of books do you choose?.
Romantic suspense, and mysteries, either historical or contemporary.
What kinds of things do you read when you’re researching a new book?
My research tends to wander from the language of flowers to a recipe for casseroled grouse. Terrible time waster. I’m writing a contemporary romantic suspense so I’m researching hand guns. One that fits in a lady’s handbag. For my Regency series, anything about spies, the Prince of Wales, his court, customs, fashions, food and architecture, plus the Napoleonic era. I have some wonderful books with glossy pictures of English estates and gardens.
Please tell us about your latest book.
Genre Regency Romance Series
Book heat level (based on movie ratings) 18+:
Sometimes the biggest risk we take is with our hearts.
1821 London
At twenty-four, Lady Helen Kinsey has her future carefully mapped out. A life of gentle quietude in the country caring for her unmarried brothers and walking with her dog. It does not include marriage, a dream she banished after her first Season. But when a handsome earl enters Kinsey House in London on a mission to find out why their footman was poisoned, she finds herself drawn into solving the mystery. And despite resistance on her part worthy of an army maneuver, she is irresistibly drawn to the earl himself.After Whitehall receives a letter warning of a plot against the Crown, Jason, Captain Lord Peyton, is sent to investigate. Surely the famous explorer, Lord Lawrence Kinsey could not be behind it. He is engrossed in roaming ancient libraries and tombs in the East and bringing back their treasures for the museum. But after Peyton finds a fragment of a burned letter it appears that something dangerous lurks in Kinsey House, and Peyton becomes determined to keep the defenseless family safe, and one member particularly. Lady Helen has built a wall around herself and holds him at arm’s length. But arm’s length is not where Peyton wants to be.
As the mystery unfolds it becomes imperative for Peyton and Lady Helen to work together, very closely indeed.
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When She Knows: Franconia Notch Trilogy Book 1 @JessieClever #RLFblog #contemporary
Jessie Clever author of When She Knows: Franconia Notch
Trilogy Book One answers five easy questions to help readers get to know her better.Author Bio
In the second grade, Jessie began a story about a duck and a lost
ring. Two harrowing pages of wide ruled
notebook paper later, the ring was found.
And Jessie has been writing ever since.Armed with the firm belief that women in the Regency era could be truly
awesome heroines, Jessie began telling their stories in her Spy Series, a
thrilling ride in historical espionage that showcases human faults and triumphs
and most importantly, love.Jessie makes her home in the great state of New Hampshire where she
lives with her husband and two very opinionated Basset Hounds. For more, visit her website at
jessieclever.com.What’s your favorite down-home
family style meal?My mom’s mac and cheese!
She just don’t make it often enough.Describe the perfect vacation.Me and a bag of books relaxing by a quiet New Hampshire lake
in the brilliant, warm sunshine. I’ll
let my dogs come, too.Tell us about your
favorite toy as a child.I’ll show my geeky side here and say my mom’s medical
dictionary. I would pretend it was the
grail diary from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It looked just like it and provided hours of
make believe.What kinds of things do
you read when you’re researching a new book?For this book, I read a lot of vacation websites. I had lived in Portland for many years, but I
wanted to visual Portland as if I were a reader, absorbing the city for the
first time.If the hero of your latest
book called you on the phone, what would be a perfect ringtone for him?K.C. and The Sunshine Band’s Boogie Shoes.About the Book
Title: When She Knows: Franconia Notch Trilogy Book OneGenre: Contemporary romanceAuthor: Jessie CleverBook heat level (based on movie ratings): RHis
latest problem is her newest assignment.
Shannon Wynter has it all figured it. Abandoned by her mother and left to care
for her agoraphobic father, Shannon focuses on building her career as a
journalist to the detriment of all else including her love life.
Ian Darke has his own problems. Battling past failures, Ian sets his eyes on
launching a new factory for his father’s defense firm. But it’s the very father
he failed that will do anything to sabotage Ian’s progress.
And when Shannon follows an anonymous tip that leads her to Ian’s factory door,
the last thing she expects to discover is what she already knows.Buy This Book
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Alanna Lucas author Wish Upon a Waltz @alannalucas27 #RLFblog #historicalromance
Alanna Lucas author of Wish Upon a Waltz answers five easy questions
to help readers get to know her better.Author BioAlanna Lucas grew up in Southern California,
but always dreamed of distant lands and bygone eras. From an early age she took
interest in art, history, and travel, and enjoys incorporating those diversions
into her writing. However, she believes that true love is the greatest source
of inspiration and is always an adventure.Alanna makes her home in California where she
spends her time writing historical romances, dreaming of her next travel
destination, spending time with family, and staying up too late indulging in
her favorite past time, reading.What’s your favorite
down-home family style meal?Anything with pasta!What is your go-to meal
when you dine out?In-N-Out! Best hamburgers…ever! And dipping the fries in a vanilla
milkshake is good too!Describe the perfect
vacation.An all-paid trip traveling through Europe with my family visiting
museums, castles, and historic sites. Plus a couple of shopping sprees. Oh, and
first class would be nice ;-)When you read for
pleasure, what kind of books do you choose?I love to read historical romances :-)If the hero of your latest
book called you on the phone, what would be a perfect ringtone for him?I Miss YouBlink- 182About the BookTitle Wish Upon a WaltzGenre historical romanceAuthor Alanna LucasBook heat level (based on movie ratings): PG 13ONE
NIGHT, ONE DANCE, ONE CHANCEAt twenty-five, Anastasia Quintin has
resigned herself to live in quiet seclusion as companion to Miss Albryght, but
one lost wager by her headstrong bookworm of a mistress soon requires
Anastasia’s return to the society from which she hides. Her first event in
eight years is to be a house party in honor of the recently entitled Earl of
Huntingdon, hosted by his haughty old grandmother.Having come to his title by tragedy, the
handsome Huntingdon is new to the ton, but he is not new to Anastasia. Dante
St. Clair is the very man who long ago stole her heart and thereafter dashed
all her hopes and dreams. He is the man she must never let discover her
identity, but whom she can no more avoid than a moth can a flame. One waltz
will destroy her, and for it, Anastasia will risk everything…and win.Buy
This BookBarnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wish-upon-a-waltz-alanna-lucas/1122692409Author Social MediaWebsite www.alannalucas.comAmazon Author Page http://www.amazon.com/Alanna-Lucas/e/B00HPC0MYU/ -
Eve Dangerfield of Degrees of Control @Eve_Dangerfield #RLFblog #contemporary
Eve Dangerfield of Degrees of Control answers five easy questions
to help readers get to know her better.What’s your favorite down-home
family style meal? My mother’s Italian and
on special occasions she makes hand rolled gnocchi which we serve with homemade
sauce, fresh bread, red wine and braised pork ribs. It’s basically the best
meal ever. Just typing that has made me unbearably hungry.Who is your “book
boyfriend” (that hottie you read about and drool over)?Any of Cara McKenna’s blue
collar heroes majorly get my blood pumping but I have a huge soft spot for
Flynn. He’s a boxer from one of her early novels Willing Victim. Even though I
think I would annoy him in real life (he’s very stoic, I’m very ‘court
jester-y’) I would do bad things to spend a long weekend in his bed.Describe the perfect vacation.A complete replication of the
trip to Europe I took with my boyfriend when I was 22. We spent our days in
museums and art galleries and cafes, eating cheese plates and drinking wine and
we spent our night dancing and drinking cocktails and making love. It was the
kind of vacation where there’s so much beauty and pleasure in hindsight the
whole thing feels like a dream.Tell us about your
favorite toy as a child.A rocking horse called Dandy.
He was furry and had huge red button eyes than in hindsight were super creepy.
When I was too big to ride him my mum and dad gave him to my little brother.
Unfortunately his unblinking gaze gave Tom nightmares so off to the tip Dandy
went. I like to think he’s still out there, riding a big wave of garbage,
waiting for me to reclaim him.When you read for pleasure,
what kind of books do you choose?Romance and erotica. I
started reading them when I finished an English literature course and needed a
break from Medea and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (urgh) and I never looked
back. A cup of tea and good romance is my favorite way to spend a weeknight and
I find all the subgenres fascinating. If I want to read something chill and I’m
not in the mood for romance I just go through Harry Potter again. I’ve read
twelve times and it’s always, always amazing. I feel for people who lived and
died without reading Harry Potter.About the Book
Title Degrees of ControlGenre Contemporary RomanceAuthor Eve DangerfieldBook heat level (based on movie ratings): RCharlotte Bell is a typical yoga teacher. She’s friendly, earnest and has some slightly masochistic tendencies. After a painful break-up she’s determined to address her long-denied kinks with the kind of man she’s always been too terrified to approach. Charlie’s friends select James Hunter, a male model turned suit who has some dark inclinations of his own. After a ‘chance’ encounter at a party James agrees to school Charlie in the harsher side of sex. He knows she’s too genuine, too kind, too everything for a guy like him but he won’t turn down the chance to break in a starry-eyed submissive like her. As Charlie and James attempt a strings-free sexual relationship they’re alarmed to discover a connection that runs deeper than either of them could have predicted.Buy This Book
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A Knight for Kallen @LaurenLinwood #RLFblog #medievalromance #RLFblog
Lauren Linwood author of A Knight for Kallen answers five easy
questions to help readers get to know her better.Author Bio
Lauren Linwood’s historical romances use history as a backdrop to place her characters in extraordinary circumstances, where their intense desire for one another grows into the treasured gift of love. Her romantic suspense novels feature strong heroes and heroines who unite to defeat a clever antagonist and discover a deep, abiding love during their journey.A native Texan, Lauren is an avid reader, moviegoer, and sports fan who manages stress by alternating yoga with long walks. She plans to start a support group for House Hunters addicts—as soon as she finishes her next piece of dark chocolate.What’s your favorite down-home
family style meal?I’ve got to go old school here—meatloaf, mashed potatoes,
and green beans. And a brownie accompanied by a scoop of ice cream would
certainly top things off right!What is your go-to meal
when you dine out?Tex-Mex is my favorite, but if I can stick some shrimp
inside those enchiladas? Magic!Describe the perfect vacation.I love a mix of sightseeing and relaxation. I had a friend
who just completed this same vacation, and I think I’d like to copy her. She and
her husband flew to London with another couple and did tons of sightseeing, and
then they did a walking tour through the Cotswolds. Their luggage was sent
ahead each morning, and they walked about 10 miles a day for 4 days, taking
their time to see the countryside and stop in at local pubs along the way.Tell us about your
favorite toy as a child.It has to be my blue bicycle. I would jump on it and be
transported to another world. I felt independent and free when I rode it.When you read for pleasure,
what kind of books do you choose?I crave thrillers! Especially if they have a twist of
history in them. Steve Berry and Brad Meltzer are great about mixing those two
things into an action-packed thrill ride.About the Book
Title: A Knight for KallenGenre: medieval historical romanceAuthor: Lauren LinwoodBook heat level (based on movie ratings):PG13Kallen de Mangeron grew up in a convent, her noble family
never knowing of her birth. When a new Mother Superior informs them of her
existence, they send trusted knight Griffith Sommersby to escort her home.Griffith’s heart broke when he lost his wife and infant son
during childbirth, and he’s kept his feelings locked away from the world—until
he meets Kallen. He soon learns her dark secret—that she sees auras around
people—which allows her insight into their actions and personalities.Now Quentin, bastard brother to the king, decides to harness
Kallen’s gift in a plot to win the throne. Will Quentin successfully use a
kidnapped Kallen as his political pawn, or will Griffith be able to stop him
before Kallen changes the course of England’s history?Buy This Book
Publisher: Soul Mate PublishingAmazon: http://amzn.com/B015JB79KIAuthor Social Media
Website: http://www.laurenlinwood.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/LaurenLinwoodFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/laurenlinwoodAmazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Lauren-Linwood/e/B00CSSG8BC/ -
Kristina Knight author of First Love Again @AuthorKristina #RLFblog #contemporary
Kristina Knight author of First Love Again answers five easy
questions to help readers get to know her better.Author Bio
Once upon a time, Kristina Knight spent her days running
from car crash to fire to meetings with local police–no, she wasn’t a
troublemaker, she was a journalist. Her career took her all over the United
States, writing about everything from a serial killer’s capture to the National
Finals Rodeo. Along the way, she found her very own Knight in Shining Cowboy
Boots and an abiding love for romance novels. And just like the characters from
her favorite books, she’s living her own happily ever after.Kristina writes sassy contemporary romance novels; her books
have appeared on Kindle Best Seller Lists. She loves hearing from readers, so
drop her a line!What’s your favorite down-home
family style meal?Gosh, so many to choose from! I’m going to go with chili,
because we’re heavy into fall right now. When the weather turns crisp, my
family loves soups. This weekend I’ve got chili perking in the crock pot and in
another hour or so I’ll make some grilled cheese sandwiches to go with it. Yum!What’s your favorite hashtag
to watch on Twitter?I follow the #amwriting and #amreading hashtags a LOT! Those
two remind me that I’m not alone in my love of books. I can’t tell you how many
new authors I’ve found by following #amreading, and when I’m deep in deadline
hell and feeling like I’m all alone, the #amwriting hash helps to remind me
that I’m not.Describe the perfect vacation.Warm, tropical breezes, a sandy beach…and RadioMan sitting
beside me watching the sun go down.When you read for pleasure,
what kind of books do you choose?I read across the gamut, it kind of depends on my mood. If I
want to escape I’ll turn to Kristan Higgans or Nora Roberts…and more times
than not I’m in that escape mode!If the hero of your latest
book called you on the phone, what would be a perfect ringtone for him?Oooh, good one! I think I’d attach Ride by Chase Rice to
Emmett from First Love Again…it just fits him.About the Book
Title – First Love AgainGenre – Contemporary RomanceAuthor – Kristina KnightBook heat level (based on movie ratings): PG13Some loves deserve a
second chance…Coming back to Gulliver Island after a ten-year absence to
take care of his father should have been simple. Emmett Deal would fix and sell
the family home, and return to Cincinnati with his ailing father in tow. Yet
something compels him to stay a little longer. The beautiful, bright eyes of
Jaime Brown.Ten years ago, traumatic events changed the course of
Jaime’s life forever, catching her in a small-town life she can’t escape.
Emmett’s return stirs up the memories she wanted to ignore…and dreams she had
forgotten. Now she finds herself with a rare opportunity—a second chance. Only
this time, it’s not just for love…Buy This Book
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