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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
GATHERING SHADOWS PROMOTION!
Nancy Mehl lives in Festus, Missouri, with her husband, Norman, and her very active puggle, Watson. She’s authored eighteen books and is currently at work on a new series for Bethany House Publishing. The first book in her Finding Sanctuary series, “Gathering Shadows” was released on May 6th.
All of Nancy’s novels have an added touch – something for your spirit as well as your soul. “I welcome the opportunity to share my faith through my writing,” Nancy says. “God is number one in my life. I wouldn’t be writing at all if I didn’t believe that this is what He’s called me to do. I hope everyone who reads my books will walk away with the most important message I can give them: God is good, and He loves you more than you can imagine. He has a good plan for your life, and there is nothing you can’t overcome with His help.”
Readers can learn more about Nancy through her Web site: www.nancymehl.com. She has a newsletter located at: www.nancymehl.blogspot.com, and is a part of another blog, The Suspense Sisters: www.suspensesisters.blogspot.com, along with several other popular suspense authors. She is also very active on Facebook.
GATHERING SHADOWS
Wynter Evans is a promising young reporter for a television station in St. Louis, but even a bright future doesn't take away her pain over the disappearance of her brother nine years ago. So when she stumbles across a photograph of a boy with an eerie resemblance to him, she can't pass up the chance to track him down. With research for work as her cover, she sets out with one of the station's photogs for the place where the picture was taken: the town of Sanctuary.
Almost as soon as she arrives, she meets the town's handsome young mayor, Rueben King, and together they begin to uncover long held secrets that could tear the small town apart and change everything Wynter thought she knew about her life. As the truth of her family's past hides in the shadows, it's clear someone will stop at nothing to keep the answers she's searching for hidden forever--even if the cost is Wynter's very life.
See the book trailer here!
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Interview with Camy Tang and Formula For Danger GIVEAWAY!
Welcome to the Suspense Sisters. We're pleased to have the prolific Camy Tang with us today. She is giving away a copy of FORMULA FOR DANGER. To enter the drawing, please comment below and leave your contact information.
Camy Tang grew up in Hawaii and now lives in northern
California with her engineer husband and rambunctious dog. She graduated from
Stanford University and was a biologist researcher, but now she writes
full-time. She is a staff worker for her church youth group and leads one of
the Sunday worship teams. Visit her website at http://www.camytang.com/ to read free short
stories and subscribe to her quarterly newsletter.
SS: Do you write full
time? If the answer is no, what else do you do? If you are a full time author,
what other jobs did you have in the past?
I used to be a biologist researcher, and I wrote in my free
time, but now I’m a full-time writer. Making the jump to writing full-time was
tough, because I knew I wasn’t going to make the same writing as I did as a
scientist, but my husband had faith in me and I feel this is what God wants me
to do.
SS: Why suspense? Do you write in any other
genres? If so, what?
Maybe it comes from being such a troublemaker as a child.
LOL I was writing contemporary romance (my Sushi series) but kept wanting to
drop a dead body on my characters. Finally I succumbed to my dark and dangerous
side and wrote a few romantic suspense novels and submitted to Love Inspired
Suspense, who bought my first romantic suspense, Deadly Intent.
SS: How does your
faith play into your writing?
I have a really hard time not writing God into my stories, because
He encompasses so much of my life. He is always teaching me new things. Most of
what my characters go through are spiritual issues that I’ve had to wrestle
with many times.
SS: Tell us about your current release.
I am so excited because I just released a romantic suspense
novella, “Necessary Proof,” in a collection of other Love Inspired authors
titled, First Kisses. I also released “Necessary Proof” separately as a FREE
ebook on Kindle, Kobo, iBooks, and Smashwords (not Nook, sorry).
Here’s the blurb:
After opening his heart to Jesus in prison, Alex Villa has
left his criminal past behind him. However, his efforts to take down a gang
producing meth in Sonoma have made him a target. Set up to look like he’s being
bribed by the gang, the police blame him for the death of a cop. Only the
evidence on an encrypted laptop can prove he’s innocent.
Software engineer Jane Lawton has been betrayed by the men
closest to her, including a God she thought would protect her. She won’t let
Alex down, because she knows what it feels like to be disbelieved and
abandoned.
However, the men after them have orders to repossess the
evidence and make sure Jane and Alex take their knowledge to the grave. Can
they prove Alex’s innocence before time runs out for them both?
** Readers who have read my Love Inspired Suspense, Formula for Danger,
will recognize Jane and Alex as minor characters from that book. I was excited
to finally be able to write their own love story!
Here’s the website with links to download “Necessary Proof”:
SS: Where did you get your
inspiration for this book?
I’ve had the idea for a long time, ever since I finished
writing Formula for Danger. Jane and Alex were only minor characters in that
book, but I just KNEW they were meant for each other and I was waiting for the
right time and venue to write their romance.
SS: What is the main thing
you hope readers remember from your story?
That no matter where you are, who you are, and where you’ve
been, Jesus loves you deeply and is with you. You are not alone.
SS: What are you
working on now?
I’m working on a new novella to be included in another
collection titled, Sealed With a Kiss. In this romantic suspense, doctor
Geoffrey Whelan has returned from years serving on medical missions in Japan,
where he was dramatically changed from the playboy he used to be. He’s haunted
by the devastation caused by the tsunami and the stress of working overseas for
so long. Nurse Maylin Kinley has just escaped from the harsh criticisms of her
perfectionist family and a relationship with a verbally abusive man, and the
last thing she needs is to be forced to work with Geoffrey, who had been
selfish and arrogant when she last knew him years ago. But then Geoffrey gets a
strange message that he and Maylin are in danger and should run from their
lives. But they have no idea who is after them or why.
SS: Now let’s get a little personal. Name two
things on your “bucket list” that you haven’t done yet.
Go to Italy! Ideally, I’d like to spend a few weeks renting
a cottage with some friends so we can explore the countryside and write!
Also, I would like to run a marathon again. I’ve gained a
lot of weight since I ran my first one in December 2010, but I’m hoping to run
the Honolulu Marathon in December this year!
And can I list a third one? I’d really like to become more
proficient in Japanese! I took classes in high school and a little in college,
but I’ve forgotten most of it by now. I just picked up the Pimsleur audio
course for Japanese and I’ve been slowly going through it.
SS: Where can readers
find you on the internet?
http://www.camytang.com/
Feel free to sign up for my email newsletter! I only send
out an email if I have a new release or a sale/special on one of my books.
I’m also on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/CamyTangAuthor
SS: Anything else
you’d like to tell or share with us?
This might be a shock to some of my readers, but I’m
releasing a Regency romance in August! It’s titled Prelude for a Lord, and
it’ll be under a pseudonym, Camille Elliot. My editors thought it would be
better for me to write under a pseudonym so that any readers picking my Regency
romance up, expecting a contemporary romantic suspense, won’t be surprised.
If anyone’s interested, you can sign up for my newsletter on
my website (http://www.camytang.com) and I’ll send out an email when Prelude
for a Lord releases! I also have a Facebook page for “Camille”:
Thanks for the interview!
And thank you Camy! Wow a regency romance? Exciting stuff.
Readers don't forget to comment and leave your contact information below so be included in the drawing for FORMULA FOR DANGER.
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