Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I sort of fell into the job of running a crop-dusting business when my dad decided he’d rather go on a cruise than take another season of lazy pilots, missing flaggers, testy farmers and horrific hours. After two years at the helm, I handed him back the keys and fled to a city without any of the above. And no, I was never a crop-duster.
I write about a tall, blond and beautiful ex-model turned crop-duster who, to quote Lalla Bains, says: “I’ve been married so many times they oughta revoke my license.” I wanted to give readers a peek at the not so-perfect -life of a beautiful blond. Lalla Bains is no Danielle Steele character, she’s not afraid of chipping her manicure. Scratch that, the girl doesn’t have time for a manicure what with herding a bunch of recalcitrant pilots and juggling work orders just to keep her father’s flagging business alive.
I am presently editing the 4th in the Dead Red Series (above) and I also write a romantic mystery sailing trilogy (yeah that’s a mouthful but you gotta call it something so this is it). This series is based on my experiences sailing in Mexico with my husband aboard our 47 ft. Hylas. Boy, the characters you meet sailing are enough to write for the rest of my life–but I prefer to stop at three in this series.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Hurricane Hole, is the 2nd in the romantic mystery sailing trilogy. Stories of sunken treasure abound with many sea stories, but this one involves Chechen mobsters with sunken cargo, but it’s not what you’d think. And then there’s a hunky Greek billionaire’s son whose talents as a deep sea diver will bring him into the cross-hairs of said mobsters, and the American soap queen who rescues him after his boat burns to the water line, and her questionable crewmember who is still trying to sneak back into the States–that is if he can avoid the Feds who will slap him in jail if they can catch him.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Unusual? I lay on my couch with my laptop, my little Papillion keeps my feet warm.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich.
What are you working on now?
My next book in the Dead Red Mystery series is titled, “A Dead Red Alibi” and I had several independent stories come together to produce the premise for this one book: When Lalla and her dad take a trip to Arizona to inspect her new property, Dad disappears. But Lalla enlists the help of a local tracker and is relieved to find him unharmed in the bottom of a mine pit. Unfortunately, he’s got company–a local police chief, and it looks like he’s been murdered. Then too, a young woman artist living nearby has also been murdered. What’re the chances that these two murders are going to be related? Well, if you’re Lalla Bains, you don’t guess, you start looking for the killer!
Hopefully will be published on Amazon in early June.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Well, now that you ask. I created the first genre-specific newsletter. Est. 2011, All Mystery is now multi-platform promotion. It’s a colorful, linked newsletter goes out Tues and Thurs. to 7000+ fans of mystery and suspense, then stays on our home page until the next batch rolls over. Authors also get tweets, RT’s, Facebook 2 pages and multiple groups) Google+ and Pinterest posts.
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http://allmysteryenewsletter.com
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Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writers block doesn’t exist when you put your fingers to the keyboard and let ‘er rip.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write every day. Don’t expect to have your first draft be golden.
What are you reading now?
When I’m editing, which I’m doing now, I don’t read. But mostly I read mystery.
What’s next for you as a writer?
more Dead Red series. My readers seem to like it.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
All of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. They’re long enough to keep me busy until the boat or plane finds me.
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