Forever's Romantic Suspense Tour: Interview and Giveaway

Today I would like to welcome both Dee Davis and Jami Alden to RFTC. Both ladies are part of the Forever Suspense Blog Tour and have taken the time out of their busy schedules to let me ask them a few questions. So lets get to know them a bit shall we.

Dee Davis has a BA in Political Science and History, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration. During a ten-year career in public relations, she spent three years on the public speaking circuit, edited two newsletters, wrote three award winning public service announcements, did television and radio commercials, starred in the Seven Year Itch, taught college classes, lobbied both the Texas State Legislature and the US Congress, and served as the director of two associations.

Her highly acclaimed first novel, Everything In Its Time, was published in July 2000. Since then, among others, she’s won the Booksellers Best, Golden Leaf, Texas Gold and Prism awards, and been nominated for the National Readers Choice Award, the Holt and two RT Reviewers Choice Awards. To date, she has sold twenty-one books and four novellas, including the A-Tac Series and Set-Up in SoHo.

She’s lived in Austria and traveled in Europe extensively. And although she now lives in Manhattan she still calls Texas home.

Places to find Dee:

| Site | The Whine Sisters Blog | Facebook | Twitter | 

A la Twitter style, please describe your book in 140 characters or less. 
One wrong move will be their last…when a brutal murder hits too close to home, Hannah and Harrison race to outwit a sadistic mastermind.

What are the most difficult scenes for you to write? 
Anything in the middle of the book. Seriously, I find that the beginning, when anything is possible, is slow writing but still fun. And the end of a book comes so quickly that you can’t write it down fast enough. It is the middle that always seems to me to be the hardest. When you have made enough decisions to know where you’re going, but not enough to know for certain how you’re going to get there.

If you could have dinner with any three authors alive or dead who would you choose and why?
Madeline L’ Engle because A Wrinkle in Time is a perfect book. Ernest Hemingway because he’s bound to be fascinating and we’d be able to share a drink—or two. And Mary Stewart because she’s my absolute favorite.

As the intelligence officer for A-Tac, a black-ops CIA unit masquerading as Ivy League faculty, Hannah Marshall is used to working behind the scenes. But when a brutal murder hits too close to home, Hannah finds herself in the middle of the action, falling in love while racing to outwit a sadistic mastermind.

A KILLER CLOSES IN

After the death of her A-Tac partner, Hannah doubts everything she thought she knew about love and loyalty. When handsome Harrison Blake joins the team, she's reluctant to trust him - or to act on her intense attraction to him. Then Hannah receives a podcast of a gruesome murder, and the only person who can help her find the killer is Harrison.

Harrison has spent years trying to hunt down the cunning monster who killed his sister. Now investigating with Hannah, he faces a shocking possibility - his sister's murderer has resurfaced. As the danger escalates, Hannah and Harrison grow closer, the desire simmering between them ignites. And when Hannah disappears, Harrison has only one chance to save the woman he loves.

Places to Purchase:

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Like so many romance readers, my first romance novel was by Kathleen Woodiwiss - The Flame and the Flower, to be exact. I was thirteen. I spent the next month working my way through her entire back list. Shortly thereafter I discovered Judith McNaught, Johanna Lindsey, Karen Robards, Catherine Coulter, Shirlee Busbee among others, and devoured their lavish historical epics full of overbearing alpha males and the women who brought them to their knees. I was hooked. My high school teachers marveled at my ability to read romance novels under the desk and still score straight A's. I started to imagine myself, living in a cabin in the mountains somewhere, writing romance novels.

It took me quite awhile to pursue my dream. After graduating from Stanford with a degree in English Literature, I worked in a variety of soul sucking admin jobs before I began my career in marketing. It wasn't exactly my dream job, but at least my writing appeared on several web sites and in many software marketing brochures. Unfortunately I wasn't able to fit the phrase "and her loins melted like hot wax" into any of them.

During my stint as the world's surliest receptionist, I took my first stab at writing. The result was a very melodramatic western historical which reads like a bad Elizabeth Lowell rip off. Its currently languishing on my hard drive, forever stuck on page 330.

Then in fall 2001 I had an incredible stroke of luck and got laid off from my marketing job. I decided it was time to stop saying I wanted to be a writer and to actually give it a serious go. Fortunately my husband, a socially well adjusted alpha male, is a very generous patron of the arts.

Four years later, I sold my first book and I'm pretty much living the dream of getting paid to write romance. I don't live in a cabin in the mountains, but I do live in a rural-ish town near San Francisco (hey, we have deer and bunnies in our yard, along with the occasional coyote) with my husband, sons, and DOG who patiently listenS to my dialogue and helpS me work out plot points. When I'm not writing sexy romance, I enjoy running, reading, yoga and watching Food Network and bad reality TV.

Places to find Jami:

| Site | Blog | Facebook | Twitter |

A la Twitter style, please describe your book in 140 characters or less.
Talia Vega wants only to escape her past. But an evil man with a sick fascination won't let her forget. Jack Brooks stops at nothing to protect her.

What are the most difficult scenes for you to write?
I think the hardest scenes to write are the "connector" scenes, when you're moving from one big event to the next. There's nothing REALLY AMAZING going on, but you still have to keep things interesting and the story moving forward.

If you could have dinner with any three authors alive or dead who would you choose and why?
Monica McCarty, Veronica Wolff, and Bella Andre, my fellow members of the brunette mafia. We always have great conversations about life and the business and laugh our bloody heads off.

With each step she takes, he tracks her every move, waiting for the perfect time. The perfect revenge. Until then, he’ll watch her…

More than anything, Talia Vega wanted to leave behind her harrowing past. Moving 800 miles away, she succeeded . . . until the one man who knows her darkest secrets wanders into the restaurant where she works. Now the agonizing memories come crashing back—along with an undeniable desire for Jack Brooks, the ex-Green Beret who rescued her from a sadistic monster two years ago.

Jack Brooks knows that showing up unannounced is a purely selfish move. Talia doesn’t need his protection anymore, but he can’t get the raven-haired beauty out of his mind. And when a twisted madman is hell-bent on resurrecting her tortuous past, Jack vows to do anything to keep her safe--even risk his own life to save the only woman he’s ever loved.

Places to Purchase:

| Amazon | Kindle | Barnes & Noble | The Book Depository | 

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