***UPDATE: PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT!***
The winner of the original version of The Trouble with Moonlight is CHRYS FEY!!!
Congratulations, Chrys! Please contact Donna via her website at www.DonnaMacMeans.com
I hope you enjoy the book (I did!)
Today's letter in the monthlong A-Z Challenge is "P". Our guest is Donna MacMeans, talking about Paranomal romance. And one lucky commenter will win a prize! YAY!!
I love paranormal stories. As a child, my favorite fiction book was the Dragons of Blueland - does anyone remember that book? Unlike the dragons in Game of Thrones (aren’t they cool?), the friendly Blueland dragons had yellow stripes and polkadots. Nothing threatening about that. My older brother read his way through Edgar Rice Burrough’s Barsoom series and as soon as he laid down a book, I’d pick it up. I devoured the stories of an earth man flying across the Martian landscape with a green woman/princess in his airship. I always thought the Nancy Drew books would be improved with a witch or a dragon, or maybe a mystery full of magic. So I come by my love of paranormal naturally.
My
very first publishing credit was a paranormal story in the Dream Quest
anthology. Smoke and Mirrors dealt with magic and mystery. If my historical
story, The Education of Mrs. Brimley, hadn’t changed the direction of my
publishing career, I’d be writing paranormals still.
Which
is why I’m so thrilled to be able to announce that one of my paranormal stories
will be released on Amazon next week. Bound By Moonlight is actually a reissue
of an earlier release that won the critic’s choice award in Historical Love and
Laughter from the reviewers at Romantic Times. Here’s the blurb:
A woman of extraordinary talents...
Lusinda
Havershaw turns invisible in moonlight. Just her - not her clothes. She can’t
help it, it just happens. A descendent of a rare race, her ancestors have been
burned as witches, persecuted and tormented as the devil’s children. She must
be careful to avoid detection. However as her family has no other means of
support, she must reluctantly shed her petticoats and corset during a full moon
to prowl the gas lit streets of London, stark naked, as a thief.
A man with a dangerous mission...
The
only tools British spy and master safecracker James Locke needs are his hands and
his brains. But when a hand tremor threatens his mission to secure a list of
agents for the Crown, the accidental discovery of a lady thief with an
extraordinary secret may just be his salvation. However, as James and Lusinda
discover, there’s more than one kind of trouble to be found in the moonlight. The
kind that begins with blackmail and ends with a kiss...
Be
warned, this is a sexy book in a way that only a story with a naked invisible
heroine can be. The hero discovers that just knowing the woman before him is
stark naked is more intoxicating than if he could actually see her. I hope you
give it a try and if you do, let me know what you think. The lovely thing about
releasing this book on Amazon is that I’m free to write a sequel. You’ll have
to stay tuned for details.
So tell me, what’s your favorite paranormal romance? I’ll choose someone leaving a comment to receive a copy of THE TROUBLE WITH MOONLIGHT, the original version of my Bound By Moonlight story.
Please check back on Sunday, April 20th, to see if you're the lucky winner of one of Donna's wonderful romances!
For the first four months of the year, Donna is a mild-mannered certified public accountant with a small tax practice. But come April 16th, she rips off the green eyeshade and transform into an impassioned writer of sexy historical romance novels, paranormals and romantic suspense.
The "P" Book List:
Louise Penny: Canadian-set police procedural series featuring Chief Inspector Gamache
Steven Pressfield: The War of Art. Every writer or artist should have this guide to defeating resistance and creating a plan for success.
J.F. Penn: Crime thrillers with a supernatural edge.
