Today,
I’m excited to introduce you to a new book, Life Flight by Shaunna Wolf.
Shaunna was also kind enough to agree to an interview so we can get to know her
better. That’s not all, she also brought along some prizes. Enter the giveaway
using the Rafflecopter at the end of the post. Good luck.
INTERVIEW
Welcome to my blog, Shaunna. What is
your least favorite word?
My
least favorite word changes with whatever manuscript I am working on. Sometimes in my own I get on a run and use
the same word over and over, it then becomes the least favorite of the day, the
same when I am editing, if a word is used as a crutch or overused I see jump
out at me all over the place.
What part of the writing process do
you dread? I hate editing. It’s just never seems to end.
I
really enjoy all parts of the process, even edits, but I really hate taking
that one final read through and finding some major flaw that somehow got missed
on a few bazillion read throughs. After
that, cover art, I love getting my cover, but when it isn’t right, then the
process becomes painful in the extreme.
I know how that feels. My stomach is
always clenched tight when I do a final read through. Those errors just keep
popping up, don’t they? Okay, let’s have a little laugh to help us forget about
those pesky errors. What is your
favorite Joke?
Kitten:
small homicidal muffin on legs; affects human sensibilities to the point of
endowing the most wanton and ruthless acts of destruction with near-mythical
overtones of cuteness. Not recommended for beginners. Get at least two.
That’s so cute and funny. Thanks for
sharing. Where do you get your best ideas? Please don’t say the showerJ
Music. Of all the things around me, music seems to
spur the muse on the most. I will hear a
song, or a phrase in a song, or even the title of a song and a story idea
builds from there.
That happens to me quite a lot too.
Country music has the greatest effect on me.
Apart from listening to music, what do you do to relax?
Writing
for me, even though I see it as a job is my form of relaxation. If I am angry I can get that anger out of my
system through a character, if I am sad the same thing. The free flow of writing when an idea takes
off is the best therapy there is.
Oh, yes, writing definitely is
therapeutic. Shaunna, thank you for opening the doors of your world to us. I
wish you all the best in your writing career.
Now
that we’ve heard from Shaunna, it’s time to know about her novel.
LIFE FLIGHT
by
Shaunna Wolf
BLURB:
Malachi
Blackfeather has spent twenty years in the Army. Two of those years as a
Vietnam POW. Now that he's out, all he wants is some peace and quiet to figure
out what to do with the rest of his life. Between the flashbacks, and an over
interest in sex that is now being called sex addiction, finding his path isn't
easy.
Kat is trying to escape an abusive marriage. Her soon to be ex is a master at manipulating the system, and her family thinks she should stay with him, "because no other man will want her". She's looking for escape in any form she can get it.
When they meet, sparks fly. Trapped by a blizzard, can two damaged people, who think there is no chance of love in the world for them, find each other, and survive an unforeseen circumstance that puts both of them in danger?
Mystery, romance, and danger, fill this novel, with a story that will draw you in and not let go.
Kat is trying to escape an abusive marriage. Her soon to be ex is a master at manipulating the system, and her family thinks she should stay with him, "because no other man will want her". She's looking for escape in any form she can get it.
When they meet, sparks fly. Trapped by a blizzard, can two damaged people, who think there is no chance of love in the world for them, find each other, and survive an unforeseen circumstance that puts both of them in danger?
Mystery, romance, and danger, fill this novel, with a story that will draw you in and not let go.
EXCERPT
We
stared at each other until Johnny cleared his throat. The back of her hand went down the side of my
face. She put the back of her hand to
her face. Frowned, and then moved back
to her place on the floor. What had that
meant?
The
trooper cracked a beer. Began telling us
about a nudist house party he’d broken up.
Kat laughed, stroked his ego with her voice. But her gaze kept coming back to me, I’d look
back and she’d shift her attention away, then I’d catch her again. Did she want me out of the room? Did her soul’s demon want this new
prospect? Did she even see it as a
demon? As something that had taken the
place of real feelings and human emotions--to the point they had to be borrowed
and stolen from others?
My
third beer and the room felt like the outdoors.
Wind whistled over the glass. I
pulled the other blankets out of the closet.
Zipped my coat. Johnny zipped his
and pulled gloves on. Stood up. At least not drunk.
“Going
to my car,” he told us, “Y’all welcome to come sit in the warmth.”
“Mine's
got a full tank as well. Gets too bad,
we can sit in it.” I grasped his hand,
glad I’d gone back for this man. “Thanks.”
“Smoke,
before we’re in for the night?”
I
stepped outside with him. The air felt
as if it would shatter. Amazingly, the
lights were on over in the restaurant.
The sound of a diesel engine running echoed over the parking lot. Johnny laughed.
“Guess
I know where I’m heading, find me a booth, and get some shut eye.”
Not
a bad idea. At least warm--and hot
food. He lit his Winston, I lit a
Camel. We stood that way, two men, each
scarred in his own way by a shared experience that we hadn’t even realized was
one. And Kat scarred by something,
something before her marriage.
“That
little woman,” Johnny said. “Ain’t none
my business. But everyone said she’s a
free spirit--born after her time, shoulda been her age in the 60’s.” His blue-eyed gaze flashed to me, then
away. “Take the right kinda man to make
that kinda woman into a wife, but if you got any smarts, you’ll give it a
shot. The way you look at her, and the
way she looks back, yeah, the way of things brought you together for a reason.” He dropped the butt in the snow and took sure
steps across the ice covered parking lot.
AUTHOR LINKS:
Blog:
Critters at the Keyboard http://srhowen1.blogspot.com/
GIVEAWAY
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I loved the excerpt! Thank you! :)
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