Welcome to my Reading Nook, Loni Lynne. Please
make yourself at home and let my cabana boys get you a drink.
Thank you, I’m happy to be here. The Mai Tai is fantastic!
Comfortable?
Ohhhh yeah! I could get used to this.
Wonderful.
Now let’s get started.
To get us started can you tell us a little
about what you are working on or have coming out?
Right now, I have a few books I’m
finishing up. One being the sequel to Wanted: One Ghost, Distilled Spirits.
Wanted: One Ghost is out now through Amazon and Barnes & Noble for order in
both paperback and eBook/Kindle formats.
How would you describe yourself using
only five words?
Eclectic, domestic, maternal,
unorganized, pantster.
If you could write a warning label for
yourself as a person or an author, what would it say?
Danger: Known to grab pieces of paper
at a moment’s notice and write down ideas for stories.
Do you have any guilty
pleasures?
Tootsie Rolls—the midgees I can just
nibble on once in awhile.
Name one thing readers would be
surprised to know about you.
One of my first jobs ever was as a
country-western radio DJ in Oklahoma, back when you had to have an FCC license.
If you could live anywhere in the
world, where would it be?
I’m quite happy where I am so far but
dream of having a cabin or vintage cottage up on a secluded inlet on Lake
Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for writing in the summer time. I
know—not that exciting but that would be lovely.
How do you get yourself in the mood to
write?
I write from home but I will get dressed
as if I’m working in an office. I’ll settle in, visualizing my characters for a
moment and what they are doing at that moment to start the scene.
Can you share with us your typical
writing day. Is there anything you have to have while writing?
Usually I will get up around 5am and
bring up my document and begin writing. I will try to get in a few thousand
words before everyone else in the house wakes up. Once I get them off to
work/school, I manage a couple of hours of housework/errands before settling
down for a few more hours of writing before I have to pick up daughter from
school. Once that happens…I’m lucky if I get any more writing in before I quit
my day around 5pm to have family time. I have to have a couple of cups of
vanilla bean latte and my yellow legal pad with a sharpened pencil to take
notes while I’m writing.
Who are some of your favorite
authors?
I cut my teeth on romances years ago
with Zebra Historical romance authors (Kensington) and loved to read many of
them. This past decade or so I began enjoying such authors as, Cindy Miles,
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lynsay Sands, Katie MacAlister, just to name a few.
What is in your To Read Pile that you
are dying to start or upcoming release you can’t wait for?
I’ve been dying to finish Darynda
Jones, First Grave on the Right series. I loved the first two and just haven’t
had time to finish the rest of them.
Is there something
special you do to celebrate when one of your books is released?
Since I’ve only had
one released, I haven’t set a tradition yet. We did go out to breakfast to
celebrate when I noted it had appeared on Amazon a few days early. But the
actual release date was my daughter’s high school graduation so we celebrated
with her taking her next step.
Do you have a
favorite TV show you can't miss?
The great thing about
TV shows is the fact I can record them. I love watching Castle, Hawaii 5-0 so I
tape them both. I also like Ghost Hunters and my oldest daughter and I watch it
when we can.
If you could date any
character from any book, who would it be and why-no it doesn't have to be from
your books?
Wow! Great question!
Hmmm…let me think…I had this thing for Sherlock Holmes when I was younger. He
fascinated me as a character. His intellect is amazing but then it’s all based
on the talent of the author so perhaps I would have loved to date Sir
Conan-Doyle. J But
then if Sherlock Holmes looked like Robert Downey Jr….*sigh*. :D
What is the strangest
source of writing inspiration you’ve ever had?
I was looking through
this hair-style magazine and saw these women all made up and they had these
glaring stares. I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to be sexy but they had this
dominance about them and I started thinking about a plot line for a series that
I thought would be fun about a group of sister goddess’s who were banished to
mortality until they learned about love and humility. It’s one of the series
I’m working on.
If your muse were to
talk behind your back, what secrets would he/she tell?
He would be annoyed with
me mostly because I’m a stickler when it comes to research. I will get away
from writing and wrap myself up with an article I’m gathering information on
and one thing will lead to another until the internet has distracted me with
pages of research.
Anything else you want to add?
I would love to hear from your readers. They can contact or follow me at these sites:
https://www.facebook.com/lonilynne
Thanks for taking the time to be here today. I wish
you many sales and wonderful reviews.
Thank you for inviting
me to your site today. I had a great time…and thanks for the drink!
About Wanted: One Ghost by Loni Lynne
Stuck in ghostly
limbo for 238 years, James Addison can't move on to an afterlife. After being falsely accused of treason and
executed, fate's cursed him to remain an earth-bound specter until he meets a
historian sent to research his past.
Distrustful of
fate, Dr. April Branford wants to be taken seriously, but her unique ability to
divine history by touching objects seriously compromises her credibility. Her
latest assignment? James Addison, a legendary
colonial ladies' man with a shadowy past.
Without much to go on, she doesn't hold out much hope to discover the
man behind the legend until the day she accidentally touches him and brings him
back to life.
With the help of
family and ghosts from James’s past, they unravel the truth. But after falling
in love and with time running out, it’s hard for April to believe in fate and a
future where forever is now.
Excerpt:
James
Addison stopped in his tracks and turned around, sensing he wasn’t alone. A
young woman dressed in leggings and woolens, her small, flat hat cocked
jauntily over her eyes stood there, smiling at him.
Could
she see him or was she looking at something behind him?
No.
Impossible! No one could see him.
She
examined the damn tree.
“Did
you ever wonder what trees would tell us if they could talk?” She glanced
towards him again. “Do you think James Addison hanged from these branches?”
James
looked to the right of him, to the left. No one was there. Who was she talking
to, the blasted tree?
“I
wonder why he was never given a trial. Wasn’t the Treason Act of 1695 enacted
at the time? James Addison should have been provided a counsel and jury for his
crimes.” She turned towards him again. “Was he really executed for treason?”
“Was
he really executed for treason?” James said, mimicking her feminine voice with
his own British brogue. He walked toward the odd girl, wanting to shout in her
face at the idiocy of her questioning the bloody tree. Didn’t she know how
foolish she looked? “No, he wasn’t executed for treason. He was beaten to a
bloody pulp and murdered!”
With
eyes gone wide, the girl stared up at him.
“Murdered?”
she asked back. “Are you sure?”
James
stiffened. Dear God in heaven! Was she actually talking to him? He looked
behind him to see if she might be addressing someone else. No one was there.
Gathering his wits, he studied her closely. Could this girl actually hear him,
see him?
Giveaway Information: Loni will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B&N gift card (winner’s choice) to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. Leave a comment tobe entered for this wonderful prize. Also follow the tour and comment; the more comments you leave, the better the chances of winning. The tour dates can be found here:
About the Author
Loni Lynne is a stay at home
mom, domestic goddess, U.S. Navy Veteran and
lover of all things
vintage/shabby-chic/Victorian and antique. From china cups
and tea sets to lace doilies
crocheted by hand (her grandmother made the best)
she believes a touch of
femininity never goes out of style.
Growing up all over the
country she's been blessed with experiencing a good
deal of culture and
lifestyles. Much like her personality, she has eclectic
tastes in what she likes to
read and write. There is no 'one' genre in which
she settles for.
God and fate have been big
influences in her life. Both have taken her to
places she never thought
she'd be, both in the physical sense and in the
spiritual. She wrote brief
stories and snippets of life as it happened to her
in her youth, and encouraged
by her teachers, continued to write. Blessed with
a loving supportive family
growing up, she was able to explore her options
which at times have been put
into use in her stories. The Navy--and fate,
afforded her the opportunity
to meet her Army, "Annapolis-native" husband and
team up with him to parent
two beautiful daughters.
Years later, her husband
gave her the best birthday present ever--a laptop, a
membership to Romance
Writers of America and a goal to complete a
manuscript for submission by
her next birthday. She did it. A few years later
she was blessed with one of
those novels, Wanted: One Ghost, as her
debut novel.
Believe in Fate
Links:
http://www.lonilynne.com
http://www.crescentmoonpress.com
https://twitter.com/#!/LoniLynne1
https://www.facebook.com/lonilynne
14 comments:
Love being here! The cabana boys were great!! Very relaxing. Thanks for hosting me today and look forward to hearing from everyone!
Here is a question for readers: If you could bring anyone from the past back to life--who would it be and why?
I would be very easily distracted by research. I follow links & end up light years away. A great interview thank you.
marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Thank you, Mary! I know...I find so many fascinating ideas by being distracted. :)
Thanks for the great interview. So does are many of your stories loosely based upon real stories you see on tv?
fencingromein at hotmail dot com
What a great interview, I enjoyed learning more about you.
Kit3247(at)aol(dot)com
Shannon,
Good question! Not really. I do get some ideas from certain situations that I might see whether personal or via media. But not sure if they are based on stories I've seen. If so, purely coincidental.
Thanks for the great question ! You had me stop and think for a moment :D .
Ingeborg,
Good to see your name here! Okay, what can I say...I'm in a class all by myself. ( I think others are afraid to join me.) Lol. ;)
Very nice interview
bn100candg at hotmail dot com
Love being here, bn100! Did you check out the great drinks? ;)
Thank you so much for hosting me on your site today. Great day! :)
As a michigander, Let me formally welcome you to get that cabin off Lake Superior! Hey, if you get it close enough to me we can be writing buddies! lol
andralynn7 AT gmail DOT com
Awesome giveaway! Thank you so much for sharing!
hense1kk (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks for the chance to win!
Sounds like a great read!!
natasha_donohoo_8 at hotmail dot com
Andra,
I'm native Michigander but haven't been back in awhile. Would love to be up on Superior when the colors change.
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