Book Spotlight/Giveaway: Grave Robbing and Other Hobbies

 

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Check out the Interview with author Jayce Carter

What would we find under your bed?

A lot of things that would embarrass both of us and probably get this interview taken down. Beneath the bed is basically Narnia for toys.

 

What was the scariest moment of your life?

This one won’t be funny, but I guess I’ll answer it. My daughter was born early. She was born at 27 weeks, which is very premature as a normal pregnancy will go 40 weeks. She was my first born, and I hadn’t realized I was in labor. It was so early, I hadn’t even taken the normal birthing classes or a tour of the hospital yet. I recall the doctor explaining that she would be born early, that there was no way to stop it. The scariest moment of my life was the silence between when I asked him what her chances of survival were and he had to tell me he didn’t know. The story has a happy ending, and she is eleven now and healthy, but that doesn’t quite remove the terror I had in those moments.

 

Do you listen to music while writing? If so what?

I listen to background music without lyrics. I have ADHD, and if there are any lyrics there is a 100% chance that I will be singing along to them and not paying any attention to my work. Instead, I pick video game sound tracks, Norse music with lots of drums, and ambient sounds like café noise. In fact, I’ve been known to wear noise cancelling headphones at a café while listening to fake café sounds.

 

What is something you'd like to accomplish in your writing career next year?

I have slowed down my plans for 2021 after a very full schedule in 2020 that included 11 releases. I want to spend more time learning some of the marketing side of things, to better my grasp of social media, and to find better balance between writing and the rest of my life. I’m excited to better connect with my readers and stop having to ask my kids help with social media.

 

How long did it take you to write this book?

I write quickly, and the first draft of this book took me around a month, then another month of editing. It still needed loads of editing by someone far more talented than me, but that ends my main process of creating the book. I am one of those annoyingly productive writers because I use routine and habit to make sure I spend time everyday writing. I find that the longer I spend letting a story languish, the better the chance that it never gets finished. I see that initial draft like a band-aid, and the quicker I rip that bitch off, the quicker I can get to fixing it.

GENRE: Contemporary Paranormal Erotic Romance

BLURB: 

Abandoned at three—whose parents want a kid who sees ghosts?—I learned the world is quick to punish misfits. I try my best to be a normal, boring human, but the call of the supernatural just won’t be ignored.

 

When a stranger shows up on my doorstep in the middle of the night, it’s no sexy tryst. Instead, I’m off to the graveyard, digging up the corpse of a murder victim at the demand of the local vampire coven—and that small felony is just the start.

 

The spirit of the woman has gone missing, something that shouldn’t be possible, and everyone is looking to me for answers. There's Kase, a vampire who’s both terrifying and secretive. Grant, a mage with a bad attitude and a lot of power. Troy, the possessive werewolf-detective next door and Hunter, a mysterious bad boy who isn’t even close to human.

 

It’s a race not just against time but against everything to figure out where the spirits are going, who’s behind it and if I can trust the men who now share my bed.

 

And all because of a little grave robbing…

 

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Excerpt One:

 

I took the stairs carefully, gripping the railing as I went, trying to peer into the darkness of my living room.

 

Was it Kase? Had he decided he didn’t care for a human telling him what to do or where to go? Or perhaps Troy figured waiting until morning for something between an apology and a lecture was just too far.

 

Except, I knew it wasn’t them. I could feel it deep in my bones, the way I knew when the sun rose without looking outside, the way I knew when a predator was staring at me.

 

Whatever was here wasn’t anything as trivial as a vampire or werewolf.

 

And what sort of screwed up world did I live in where vampires and werewolves were trivial?

 

When I reached the ground floor, that chill worsened. I struggled to breathe, and the darkness wasn’t run of the mill, as if someone forgot to turn on a light. It was deeper, as though light wasn’t just absent but devoured. Something was there inside it, shifting, staring back at me.

 

My wrists burned, as if fire licked along the edges of the scars there. It crept up my arms, searing me, and when I would have screamed, someone closed their hand over my mouth.

 

“Trust me, you don’t want it to hear you.”

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Grave-Robbing-Other-Hobbies-Paranormal-ebook/dp/B08X4QFG74

Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grave-robbing-and-other-hobbies-jayce-carter/1138904160

About the Author: 

Jayce Carter lives in Southern California with her husband and two spawns. She originally wanted to take over the world but realized that would require wearing pants. This led her to choosing writing, a completely pants-free occupation. She has a fear of heights yet rock climbs for fun and enjoys making up excuses for not going out and socializing.

 

Links:

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