Meet Molly Harper, author of Better Homes and Hauntings.
Molly Harper worked for six years as a reporter and humor columnist for The Paducah Sun. Her reporting duties included covering courts, school board meetings, quilt shows, and once, the arrest of a Florida man who faked his suicide by shark attack and spent the next few months tossing pies at a local pizzeria. Molly lives in western Kentucky with her family.
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First off, can you tell us a bit about you?
I’m a newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned romance novelist. I’m married to my high school sweetheart and live in the small western Kentucky town where I grew up. I’m the author of the Nice Girls and Naked Werewolves series.
A la Twitter style, please describe your book (or series) in 140 characters or less.
Nature girl romances king of all nerds while fixing up haunted house and solving his family’s century-old murder mystery.
What types of scenes are your most favorite to write?
I love writing large cast of characters talking. I like bouncing the funny comments off of each other and making wry observations, inside jokes, etc. It really shows the relationships they have and their personalities.
What are the things that influence you the most as a writer?
Music and calm. I have a really hard time writing if there are other people awake in the house. I need an empty house or house full of sleeping people. And I have playlists for each series to set the proper mood.
What are some of your favorite characteristics to find in a hero?
Intelligence and a evil exterior with teeny tiny sliver of humanity that can be redeemed. Give me Loki, Peter Hale and Bane any day.
Tell me, is there anything that we would be surprised to learn about you?
I am addicted to sushi. If I don’t eat it once or twice a week, I get a little twitchy.
If you could live inside any book, which one would you choose and why?
Harry Potter, I would be sorted into Ravenclaw and whoop some Death Eater butt with the power of my mind.
If you could spend the day in the shoes of any of your characters, who would you choose and why?
Probably Jane Jameson. Probably Mo Wenstein-Graham, because she gets Cooper. And Cooper is my favorite hero. Plus her life is a bit more calm now that werewolves aren’t trying to kill her.
If you were stranded on a desert island and could bring only three items, what would you bring and why?
Lip balm, a solar-powered kindle and an avocado seed, so I could grow my own. I can’t live without avocado.
Last question, are you working on anything right now?
I will be writing several more spin-offs to the Half-Moon Hollow books. I could tell you what they’re about, but I would have to send Ophelia after you. Also, my Half-Moon Hollow Christmas short story, I’M DREAMING OF AN UNDEAD CHRISTMAS, will be available in ebook on November 3, 2014. And third book in the Bluegrass contemporary series, SNOW FALLING ON BLUEGRASS, will be released on September 22.
What is the scariest back story to a haunting you have ever heard, in fiction or real life?
Author of the beloved Half Moon Hollow series of vampire romances (Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs), Molly Harper has created a standalone paranormal romance in which a dilapidated haunted house could bring star-crossed lovers together—if it doesn’t kill them first!
When Nina Linden is hired to landscape a private island off the New England coast, she sees it as her chance to rebuild her failing business after being cheated by her unscrupulous ex. She never expects that her new client, software mogul Deacon Whitney, would see more in her than just a talented gardener. Deacon has paid top dollar to the crews he’s hired to renovate the desolate Whitney estate—he had to, because the bumps, thumps, and unexplained sightings of ghostly figures in nineteenth-century dress are driving workers away faster than he can say “Boo.”
But Nina shows no signs of being scared away, even as she experiences some unnerving apparitions herself. And as the two of them work closely together to restore the mansion’s faded glory, Deacon realizes that he’s found someone who doesn’t seem to like his fortune more than himself—while Nina may have finally found the one man she can trust with her bruised and battered heart.
But something on the island doesn’t believe in true love…and if Nina and Deacon can’t figure out how to put these angry spirits to rest, their own love doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance.
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- 1 copy of Better Homes and Hauntings
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I have so many that I have read over the years, but one that really got me was a book based on true events, written by the woman who experienced it. It wasn't a well known story, and took place on Long Island or somewhere thereabouts in New England. I have the book somewhere, just have to find it. But anyhoo, while reading it, I was totally freaked out, and books or movies usually don't do me that way, but this one did. If I come across it soon, I will post it, but this poor woman went through hell, and it was frightening.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Amityville Horror" as a 13 yr old after seeing the movie, and the book was much more frightening. Now that I'm much older, very little bothers me, but there are times when I get a feeling about a house. One time we were looking at possibly buying a house, and I didn't get a good feeling about it. I found out that the owner's son had committed suicide in the garage (hanging). We live in the neighborhood, and to this day I get a weird feeling when walking by that house.
ReplyDeleteAmityville scared me and I spent a weekend in a haunted hotel in New Orleans once.
ReplyDeleteThe Exorcist -- any possession really
ReplyDeleteI don't know. I think they are all scary!
ReplyDeleteI love Molly's books! thanks for sharing! This looks awesome :)
ReplyDeleteThere is a home in my town that dates back to the Revolutionary War and it is haunted. Neighbors say that they have seen a little boy dressed in period clothing playing in the front yard.
ReplyDeleteI'd say Poltergeist is the scariest haunting story I've heard.
ReplyDeleteI'd say The Shining.
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ReplyDeleteThe Amityville Horror has to be the scariest I have read about. Scared me to death when I watched the movie.
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