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Patricia Hale is a graduate of the MFA program at Goddard College in Vermont. She is a member of Sister’s in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, NH Writer’s Project and Maine Writer’s and Publisher’s Alliance. Her essays and articles have appeared in New England literary magazines and the anthology, My Heart’s First Steps. When not writing, she enjoys hiking with her dogs and kayaking on the lakes near her home. Patricia lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two German shepherds.
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Everybody thought brilliant Cecily would leave dead-end Miller’s Falls for something better. But a two-decades-old tragedy locks her in place. Few understand the fierce bond that Cecily and Amelia share with Hilary, who was assaulted one summer as the two other girls watched helplessly. It’s a bond of love and guilt…and a desire for vengeance that cuts clear to the bone.
So Assistant DA Cecily Minos waits, eager to see the guy in her courtroom. When Amelia meets a man who has the tattoo the girls remember seeing that day, they think they’ve finally caught a break. But the police refuse to reopen the case, and it’s up to Cecily and Amelia to pursue their suspect.
Their investigation soon uncovers secrets best left buried. But the law is slow, and they’ve waited long enough for revenge…
My lungs were tight as fists and the voice inside my head said run, but my legs couldn’t be trusted. Standing up wouldn’t have gotten me out of there, it would only have drawn attention to the pee that was warm in my shorts and it might have gotten Hilary killed if he was serious about running that blade across her neck.
All of a sudden the man stood and keeping his back to us, lowered the kerchief and put a cigarette in his mouth. Hilary never moved though I saw her blink. She was looking at something far away like she was somewhere else entirely and I hoped that that was true so she wouldn’t have to know what happened. He pulled his baseball hat low over his face the same way it’d been when we first climbed into the railcar and without ever looking at us he jumped to the ground and walked away.
“Stay here,” I’d told Amelia, though I knew she wasn’t going anywhere. And I ran. I ran faster than I’d ever run not even caring about the pee burning the inside of my legs. I’d taken the woods instead of the path, running in the opposite direction from the way he’d gone. My legs were scraped and bleeding by the time I’d reached the road and the stitch in my side had made it almost impossible to breath, but I just kept thinking of Hilary laying there and I couldn’t stop until I was pulling open my own back door. I ran into the kitchen and through the house until I found my mother kneeling beside her bed, rosary beads draped around her prayerful hands like a spider web. I stood in the doorway and looked at her, imagined wrapping my arms around her neck and her drawing me in, holding me. I imagined feeling safe. She glanced at me standing there then dismissed me with a nod of her head, knee deep in Jesus. I turned and ran for the telephone.
BOOK DETAILS:
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Published by: Carina Press
Publication Date: July 15, 2013
Number of Pages: 280
ISBN: 978-14268-9584-5PURCHASE LINKS:
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Eric James Fullilove is the global Chief Financial Officer for World Vision International. Originally from Newark, New Jersey USA, Fullilove now splits his time between Los Angeles and London and travels extensively for his job; he has visited 59 of the 100 countries in which World Vision is active. Fullilove is of African American origin and his grandmother, Maggie Shaw Fullilove, was one of the first African American women to become a published author in the US in 1918; his father was a prominent physician and his mother a prominent civic leader. This is Fullilove’s sixth novel; other works include Blowback which was published by HarperCollins. Narcolepsy by Eric James Fullilove (paperback published by CreateSpace RRP £6.39 ebook published by KDP RRP £3.22) is available online from Amazon from 23rd September.
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Do you draw from personal experiences and/or current events?
I draw from both current events and personal experiences. Since I travel extensively, I use the knowledge I have of locations to inform my writing. Narcolepsy is very much a current events driven book as it is focused on the on-going European/Euro financial crisis.
-Do you start with the conclusion and plot in reverse or start from the beginning and see where the story line brings you?
I know the beginning and I know the end when I start. The fun part is the middle, and in the middle it’s pretty much where the story takes me. I may start with an outline, but stories have a rhythm. I write to the rhythm of the story, meaning, the way the characters interact, the focus on the characters, the pace of the plot, all these things have a rhythm that the flow of the story dictates. As long as the rhythm feels right, the story is generally okay.
-Your routine when writing? Any idiosyncrasies?
I write pretty rapidly, but I tend to do it in chunks. It is often helpful to me to check into a hotel room for a weekend and simply focus on writing. Since I’m paying for the space and every meal is expensive, it helps to force me to focus, but at the same time, the amenities, particularly the exercise room and the pool, help me relax between sessions and think about the plot.
-Is writing your full time job? If not, may I ask what you do by day?
It is not my full time job. I am the global CFO of World Vision International, the nearly $3 billion Christian, child focused, humanitarian relief organization that works in 100 countries around the world. Our programs help 100 million people every year, which sounds like a large number but is only 5% of the 2 billion or so that live in extreme poverty. I travel extensively for my job, and am based in both London and Los Angeles, where I have a significant number of staff and my wife.
-Who are some of your favorite authors?
Lee Child, John Sandford, David Baldacci, Dennis Lehane, Robert Crais, J.D. Robb (pen name for Nora Roberts) Stephen Hunter, Linwood Barclay, George Pelecanos, Elmore Leonard, Tananarive Due, Barry Eisler, and Paolo Bacigalupi, David Brin, and Ben Bova are some of my favorite authors, to name a few.
Lee Child’s character, Jack Reacher, is my favorite recurring character in a series. I was hopeful when Tom Cruise played him in the film, even though purists were upset that Cruise looks nothing like the physically imposing Reacher, because I was hoping with Cruise starring more films would be made. But while I write novels that are easily converted to movies, most books have a difficult time making the transition to the big screen.
-What are you reading now?
Steve Alten’s “The Omega Project”
-Are you working on your next novel? Can you tell us a little about it?
I am moving my novel “Credible Threat” through the publishing process. Credible Threat is about a presidential assassination threat that claims to have roots going back to the Kennedy and Martin Luther King’s assassinations, which initially raise questions about the “credibility” of the threat.
The assassin claims to have been a kid during the Kennedy assassination, and the real story is that in the 1960’s he was a prodigy with a gun. His father had something on Jack Ruby, whom the conspirators needed to kill the patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald. So they take the kid to coerce the father, and stick the kid on the grassy knoll in Dealy Plaza, which at least one writer believes is an impossible shot with a rifle at a moving target.
And then…the assassination goes awry, as Kennedy is supposed to be killed when the motorcade first turns into the square headed towards the Texas Book Depository. As the motorcade turns onto Elm, the plotters realize that the assassination is slipping away, and the only option they have is the kid with the impossible shot…on the grassy knoll…
Fun questions:
-Your novel will be a movie. Who would you cast?
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis.
-Would you rather read or watch TV/movie?
Read.
-Favorite food?
The well executed hamburger
-Favorite beverage?
Generally, Diet Coke, particularly when returning from the developing world.
Narcolepsy is the fast-paced thriller from established author Eric James Fullilove. Fullilove delves into a financial underworld where those who are really in charge of the banks are not their CEOs. Narcolepsy unravels expeditiously over four days; it is a surging thriller which charts the dark and duplicitous events which will lead to a new world order where corruption will be commonplace. The sequel to the book is due out at the end of 2013 and will pick up where Narcolepsy left off.
BOOK DETAILS:
PB Published by: Createspace
EBook Published by: KDP RRP
On sale at Amazon: Sept. 23, 2013PURCHASE LINKS:
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When she was in the third grade, Megan Hart fell in love for the first time. Not with a boy (that would wait until fourth grade), but with a story. The Homecoming by Ray Bradbury leaped out at her from the pages of a library book, and she tumbled head over heels. In the dark ages, before the days of photocopiers, the only way for her to keep a copy of this story was to copy it out by hand so she could read it over and over again. Something funny happened, though, as she carefully printed it on lined notebook paper.
She made “improvements.”
At age 12, reading Stephen King’s The Stand for the first time one memorable summer, it occurred to her that people really did write books for a living. That’s when she decided to become an author.
Megan began writing short fantasy, horror and science fiction before graduating to novel-length romances. In 1998, as a stay-home mom, Megan took up writing in earnest, attending her first writing conference and getting her first request for a full manuscript. In 2002, she saw her first book in print, and she hasn’t stopped since.
Published in almost every genre of romance fiction, Megan also writes fantasy, science fiction, women’s fiction, horrifyingly awful screenplays and continues to occasionally dabble in horror.
Megan’s goal is to continue writing the kind of books she’d like to read. She spends too much time playing the Sims. Her dream is to have a movie made of every one of her novels, starring herself as the heroine and Keanu Reeves as the hero. Megan lives in the deep, dark woods with her husband and two monsters…er…children.
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Writing and Reading:
-Do you draw from personal experiences and/or current events?
Of course. I like to say about my work that everything is fiction, and all of it is true. I don’t do everything I write about, and I don’t experience everything I write about, but I usually know someone who has. Drawing from personal experience means keeping ears and eyes open to other people’s experiences, too.
-Do you start with the conclusion and plot in reverse or start from the beginning and see where the story line brings you?
I most often start at the beginning, know the ending, and discover the middle along the way. I used to write in order, but now I’ll write scenes that move me, even if they’re not in order, then put them together in the revision process. I’m not a huge plotter. I like to discover the story as it unfolds.
-Your routine when writing? Any idiosyncrasies?
I sit at my computer and…write. Sometime I write on my laptop. Very rarely, by hand. I listen to music and drink Coke Zero and sometimes coffee or tea. I procrastinate on the internet and then write some more.
-Is writing your full time job? If not, may I ask what you do by day?
Writing is my full time job! Hooray!
-Who are some of your favorite authors?
Jacqueline Carey. Robert McCammon. Clive Barker. Stephen King. Gary Jennings.
-What are you reading now?
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett.
-Are you working on your next novel? Can you tell us a little about it?
I’m working on the final part to my horror serial, The Resurrected, and I’m about to start final revisions on Flying, my next erotic fiction release from Mira. Flying’s about a woman who, in order to block out some pain in her life, flies to various airports and meets men and has one night stands. Then she meets a man who changes her life, and they begin a passionate affair! Hooray!
Fun questions:
-Your novel will be a movie. Who would you cast?
For Tear You Apart, Will is definitely Norman Reedus. I can’t even pretend otherwise. Elisabeth (if I can’t play her, because um, hello, she’d get to kiss Norman Reedus) I’d like to see Gillian Anderson.
-Would you rather read or watch TV/movie?
Depends on the book or show!
-Favorite food?
Steak
-Favorite beverage?
Coke Zero!
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I don’t know which stop I got on at; I only know the train is going fast and the world outside becomes a blur. I should get off, but I don’t. The universe is playing a cosmic joke on me. Here I had my life—a good life with everything a woman could want—and suddenly, there is something more I didn’t know I could have. A chance for me to be satisfied and content and maybe even on occasion deliriously, amazingly, exuberantly happy.
So this is where I am, on a train that’s out of control, and I am not just a passenger. I’m the one shoveling the furnace full of coal to keep it going fast and faster.
If I could make myself believe it all happened by chance and I couldn’t help it, that I’ve been swept away, that it’s not my fault, that it’s fate…would that be easier? The truth is, I didn’t know I was looking for this until I found Will, but I must’ve been, all this time. And now it is not random, it is not fate, it is not being swept away.
This is my choice. And I don’t know how to stop.
Or even if I want to.
BOOK DETAILS:
Genre: Erotic Fiction
Published by: Harlequin Mira
Publication Date: August 27, 2013
Number of Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780778314776PURCHASE LINKS:
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