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In the Spotlight – Constance Phillips

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Featuring author Constance Phillips and her new book, Resurrecting Harry, is a real treat! I had the pleasure of reading this beautiful story and was captivated by the characters, story and the writing itself.

Constance Phillips lives in Ohio with her husband, two ready-to-leave-the-nest children, and four canine kids. Her perfect fantasy vacation would involve hunting Dracula across Europe with her daughter, who also digs that kind of stuff. When she’s not writing about fairies, shifters, vamps, and guardian angels, she’s working side-by-side with her husband in their hardwood flooring business.

Constance is actively involved in her local Romance Writers of America chapter (MVRWA) and the Southeast Michigan chapter of the United States Pony Club. When not writing or enjoying the outdoors, she loves reality television or can be found at a Rick Springfield concert (just look for the pink Converse high tops).

For more on Constance and Resurrecting Harry read on!

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In the Spotlight – Jean Murray

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Today’s featured author is the fascinating Jean Murray. I’m proud to know Jean as a fellow author at Crescent Moon Press and she is an inspiration, as well as a generous person. Jean brings a wonderful new spin to the paranormal world with her Egyptian Underworld gods.  She broke ground in the paranormal romance genre with Soul Reborn and now continues the “Key to the Cursed” journey with Soul Awakened.

In her pursuit of a nursing degree, Jean Murray aspired to see the world and joined the Navy. At the end of 2011 she said a heart-breaking goodbye to her Navy family and retired after twenty years of military service. Although her dreams of writing full time have yet to come true, she continues her writing journey and draws inspiration from her travels abroad. She enjoys spending time with her family and of course, writing about the “Carrigan sisters and their mates, Gods of the Underworld,” to bring you the next installment of the Key to the Cursed series.

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In the Spotlight – Genevieve Dewey

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It’s a pleasure to welcome Genevieve Dewey, author of The Downey Trilogy. Described as “one part The Godfather, two parts Emma and a dash of Casablanca mixed together, ‘First, I Love You’ isn’t a detective novel, a gangster novel, a mystery, a romance or a family saga. It’s a little of all of the above.” I’m looking forward to reading these books!

Genevieve is also the author of the short stories The Bird Day Battalion & The V-Day Aversion. She is a wife, mother, sister, friend and anthropologist. She loves intelligent debates but has zero tolerance for uninformed opinions (unless it’s stated up front it is based upon an irrational belief in which case props for your honesty!)

She was raised mostly in Nebraska and partly in Arizona. Her parents are from Chicago. Don’t get her started on the subject of Chicago unless you want to be bored to death about how awesome Chicago is.

She got her Bachelors in Anthropology from Texas A&M University (Whoop!) and a Masters degree from University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Go Big Red!). She worked as an Applied Anthropologist for years (even ran her own research company for awhile) before deciding to be a stay at home mom.

She has three insanely brilliant and diabolical children and an incredibly funny and patient husband who is not a Dewey (for which he is thankful because that would be gross) and who hates Chicago (for which his wife forgives him on account of the funny and patient part).

Read on to find out more about Genevieve and her fascinating trilogy!

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In the Spotlight – Toni De Palma

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Today I’m pleased to welcome Toni De Palma as my featured author. Her new release is The Devil’s Triangle. Toni is another one of the wonderful authors with Crescent Moon Press. I’m almost done with The Devil’s Triangle and thoroughly enjoying it. Please join me in finding out more about her and her new Young Adult book.

Toni was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a child she spent many summers in Ischia, the Italian island where her father was brought up. Her first middle grade novel, Under the Banyan Tree, was published in 2007 and selected as a Kirkus New Voices Pick and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Her second middle grade novel, Jeremy Owl, was published in 2010. Toni holds her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College and she is a recipient of a New Jersey Arts Fellowship. She currently resides in New Jersey.

 

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In the Spotlight – Rebecca Trogner

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It gives me great pleasure to welcome Rebecca Trogner as today’s featured author. Rebecca’s novel, The Last Keeper’s Daughter, is a fascinating read that keeps you engrossed with every page.

Rebecca lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and frequently crosses the Blue Ridge Mountains that were the inspiration for Krieger’s home. She always dreamed of being a writer, but got sidetracked by the day-to-day adventures of life. With the encouragement of her family, she has finished her first novel and is currently writing the next book in The Last Keeper’s Daughter series. Rebecca lives with her husband and son, and a rescue dog named Giblet. Read More

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Alternative Booker Award

The fabulous Cindy Young-Turner tagged me me with an Alternative Booker Award. The idea is to mention five of your favorite books and then tag five other bloggers to do the same. Having to pick only five out of so many? Hmmmm…

In no particular order because I simply couldn’t narrow it down any more.

1.  Watchers  by Dean Koontz. It has a dog in it. A brilliant dog. A dog I wanted. Koontz has always been one of my favorite authors for sheer entertainment. Now I need to re-read this book because I haven’t read it in ages. But it’s always stayed with me and is an easy pick.

2.  A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. This started off the series that has engaged my imagination and quickly became my favorite (narrowly edging out Harry Potter). Gritty and shocking. Never knowing where he was going to go next, this book seduced me away from lighter reads. I’ve read it five times now and always discover something new every time. There is just such a rich and complex tapestry in it that it has to be in the top five.

3.  Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Post-apocalyptic, complex and first read more years ago than I care to admit. This is another book that has stayed with me and needs a re-read for its sheer epicness.

4.  Lost Boys: A Novel by Orson Scott Card. While Card get lots of attention for the “Enders” series, this book is one that touched me. No, this isn’t what the vampire movie was based on, but a story about simple, ordinary people caught in decidedly un-ordinary events. The young Stevie caught my attention and this book is one that was an emotional roller coaster for me.

5.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling. I could as easily picked any of the other books from this series, but this one has particular appeal with dragons and house elves. I’ve read this series more than any other (over ten times by my last count). For storytelling ability alone, Rowling must be included in this list.

And my five bloggers to see what they have chosen are:

LynDee Walker
Rebecca Trogner
Danielle DeVor
Constance Phillips
Shawna Romkey

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