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Guest Blog with Andrea Baker
Hello Wenona and Thank You so much for
inviting me along!
I’d like to talk a little today about
music, and its importance to me in the writing process. My writing style relies heavily on music – to
the extent that I would put a particular piece of music on time and time again
when writing scenes, as the music would easily place me back in the middle of
the story.
Music also has a strong theme within
“Worlds Apart – Leah”, Ben plays the guitar, and there are several instances
where the right music is vital - There is a scene where Leah goes and watches
Ben and his band mates practice, for example, where the wrong music could
completely destroy the scene. Then of
course there are the regional finals, just before the fight scene, where the
music is again, intrinsic to the story.
My own taste in music is pretty eclectic;
you can find a sample of most different genres of music on my ipod – in the
same way that I have read so many different genres of books. I’m pretty sure however you’re not that
interested in what I would listen to, but how about Leah’s playlist?
Leah is nineteen, and about to start
University. Raised by her father since
she was fourteen, after her mother’s death, she finds escape in music and
books, so her playlist is very important to her. I asked her what she was listening to right
now, and this was her response:
“I’m in a good place right now Andrea, so
my music is not as melancholy as it can be.
Life is calmer, although the Harbingers can appear at any time, but I
feel stronger and more able to do battle.
I’m going to see “Hey Beatles” tonight, although the music is old
school, I listened to it a lot with my Mum when I was little, so I still really
like it. Right now I’m listening to my
“general” playlist, so here’s just a sample of the next few on the list:
“Feeling Good” – the Muse version, although
it’s a cover, I love this particular one
“Maybe Tomorrow” – Stereophonics
“You Give me Something” – James Morrison
“Decode” Paramore
“The Swan Nebula – A Perfect Storm”
Jonathan Hood
“I won’t give up” Jason Mraz
“Moves like Jagger” Maroon 5
I could go on forever...”
Thanks Leah, that is really interesting –
I’m sure most people recognise those, even if they’re not something you’d
listen to yourself.
Anyway, thanks again Wenona, hope your
readers enjoy the brief snapshot of Leah’s music J
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Fang-tastic Books
Worlds Apart-Leah
Andrea Baker
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Taylor Street Books
ISBN: 978-1480083684
ASIN: B009P4C3GG
Number of pages: 173
Word Count: 60,000
Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/Ms-b5rrONdQ
Book Description:
Leah knows that her mother died in a car accident when Leah was small and that her father, who used to be the gentlest dad in the world, has become increasingly controlling and occasionally violent.
She also knows that her recurring dreams are telling her something more about how and why her mother died, and why her dad turned nasty, but they are becoming progressively more disturbing and confusing.
When Leah meets Ben, she is excited to have a friend she can confide in and have fun with, but is he what he seems?
The voice of Leah’s mother repeatedly tells her to rely on her instincts, but when Leah is run over in a freak accident and Ben’s family take over her welfare, are they protecting her or using her?
And why would anyone, good or evil, bother with an ordinary girl just about to go to university?
About the Author:
Andrea Baker has written stories and poems all her life, although most of them no longer exist. After graduating from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in Economics and Marketing, she convinced herself to stop making these stories up, believing it to be something a "grown-up" should not do.
Since then she has spent most of her career working on major programmes across both private and public sector. Of all the ideas that continued to occur to her, Worlds Apart has been the most insistent, refusing to go away.
Since then she has spent most of her career working on major programmes across both private and public sector
Andrea Baker lives and works in the beautiful English county of Warwickshire, with her husband and daughter. Kenilworth, the base for her Worlds Apart Series, is just a few miles away from their home.
Website: www.AndreaBakerAuthor.com
Twitter: @RoseWall15
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rose.wall.15
Interview with George D Shuman Author of Rattleman
I am pleased to Welcome George D Shuman to The Creatively Green Write at Home mom today.
Please share a little
about yourself, your genres, any other pen names you use.
I
was a perfectly awful student through high school and no better in my single
semester of college. I worked in the steel mills for a time, but then the
industry began to collapse and I packed my car for DC at the age of nineteen. I
took odd jobs in construction sites and spent a lot of time reading the piles
of old paperback novels that the landlord of an old rooming house kept in the
basement along with some mannequins of naked women:-/
Two
years later as rookie policeman on the D.C. Force, I made my first attempt at
writing. For a decade I could never get past forty pages, but then two years
before the optional retirement age of 40 I finally did. That book was RATTLEMAN and even though a major
publisher loved it, it was eventually turned down. I had to wait another fifteen
years, through hundreds of rejection letters, before my second novel, 18 SECONDS was bought by Simon and
Schuster. That novel was nominated for both a Shamus and Best First Novel by
the National Thriller Writer’s Association. It has now been translated into 23
languages.
Tell us a little about your latest or upcoming
release.
(RATTLEMAN …A woman’s head surfaces from a frozen mountain
lake, a cyclist goes missing from a national park, a young girl is snatched
from the fields where she tends her goats. Bodies are found in West Virginia,
Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee… slit open, shorn of their hair, fillings removed
from their teeth. The police and FBI are setting up checkpoints and roadblocks
throughout the Appalachian’s. But Sheriff Wayne thinks they’re looking in all
the wrong places. Sheriff Wayne said it best and he was no stranger to the
mountains. “Consider the man that comes
down out of the wilderness to kill. Now that would be one dangerous son of
bitch.”
Are you a parent ?
I have two grown children, a son Daniel and daughter Melissa.
Have you ever based your book or characters on
actual events or people from your own life?
No. And now that I’ve said that, I must qualify
the answer. It was only after many decades that I reflected on two events from my
childhood that certainly inspired my first novel. I swear on all that is Holy
that they were never on my mind when writing it years later. But after reading
the novel no one could doubt that they must have planted the seed. If anyone is
interested, I have described each in the foreword of RATTLEMAN.
So now I say with a degree of caution that NO I don’t consciously
ever write about specific events or people and CAN say with unwavering
certainty that the joy of the process is in filling a blank page with purely
imaginative places and people. I kid you not, they joy is in the imagination!!!
The reward is when my readers are heartbroken or concerned for the welfare of
my fictitious characters. Or to visit one of my crime scenes (real locations,
made up towns and people, like Wildwood New Jersey or Ohio Pyle Pennsylvania—I
had a book club that used to do that after discussing my novels. They used to
say how it was just like I described. Even though it wasn’t real! And they all
had their picture taken together and sent them to me. :-)
Is there a theme or message in your work that you
would like readers to connect to?
You probably
know I was an investigator for twenty years and I’m sure it’s given me a voice
I would not otherwise have. But my work is fiction in the purest sense of the
word. I conjure up some geographical place and I throw characters into it to
see what they do. I have a general idea about my topic and I am a purest in
every sense of the word. I study my topics diligently and I require
plausibility. 18 SECONDS was about a serial killer who gets out of prison after
twenty-five years and takes up where he left off. For LOST GIRLS it was about Human Trafficking. For SECOND SIGHT it was Cold War biological experimentation on humans by
budding pharmaceutical giants. Beyond the basic premise however, I have no
outline, no old cases I’m thinking of. I just dig into my imagination and
places begin to appear and characters develop.
What would your readers be surprised to learn about
you?
That I’m
terribly shy…nearly catatonic in front of people, I like crowds and television
cameras as much as Superman liked Kryptonite. One of my favorite annual events
used to be joining some ladies at the Country Club near where I lived in
Pennsylvania. Arnold Palmer’s Country Club next to Arnie’s local airport too be
sureJ But I’m drifting…the ladies
had come to learn that two Bloody Mary’s were necessary for me to ease my way
into our noon book discussions. In many forums I made my audience rearrange the
chairs in a circle so I was one of them. People who’ve met me will tell you
that sounds ridiculous, that I can be funny and witty (or so I think anyhow)
but I’m telling you different. My comfort zone is in my books.
Is there a genre(s) that you’d like to write that
you haven’t tackled yet?
There is something that keeps nagging me and that is writing
a historical novel/thriller. I’m purely fascinated by the Middle Ages and
particularly the Reformation. The Malleus Maleficarum, which means the Witches
Hammer and is a 1486 treatise on how to unveil/detect (torture) and punish (kill)
Witches, is one of my coffee table books ;-)
Of all the characters you’ve ever written, who is
your favorite and why?
Jeremy Smyles from 18
Seconds! Wow that came easily to me!!!
Jeremy is the most unlikely “minor” character and hero in any of my
novels. Survivor of a school bus accident in his high school youth, oxygen
deprived and brain damaged he now plods through life working for the Sanitation
Department, picking up trash with a spear. He is a gentle soul, slow of thought
and apparently unaware he used to be a heartthrob quarterback. But Jeremy has
his moment in the end…for when the stakes couldn’t be higher something long and
buried emerges…
What is next for you? Do you have any scheduled
upcoming releases or works in progress?
RATTLEMAN is out on Kindle now and should be going to paper in a matter
of two or three weeks. A yet untitled Fifth Sherry Moore novel is in the final
stages of editing and will also be released in the weeks to come. AND yet a
Sixth Sherry Moore novel is well underway and due end of summer.
What book are you reading now?
A History of the Inquisition actually—Yes, I KNOW!!!!!!
It’s a little dark to say the least. ;-)
Just re-read Henry VIII by Alison Weir (she
writes history like Anne Rule writes true crime!) Before that the bio of
Eleanor Roosevelt, and then Tony Dungy and Vince Lombardi—I’ve been going
through a lot of non-fiction lately if you haven’t noticed. I did zip through Daniel
Silva’s wonderful Gabriel Alon series though and have his latest FALLEN ANGEL
on my Kindle.
Rattleman
George D Shuman
From George D. Shuman who served twenty years with the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington DC, and whose international bestseller, '18 Seconds', is currently in production as a major Hollywood motion picture.
Better still, 'Rattleman' is George D. Shuman's most gripping crime thriller yet.
The Rattleman knows every crevice, every creek, every cave, every ravine, every inch of his remote hunting grounds in the Appalachian Mountains.
He is a determined serial killer, always waiting for his next victim to cross his path.
When Park Ranger Jane Cameron literally stumbles across the remains of two of his victims, she discovers that she too has been caught in his trap.
And when the 'Rattleman's prey is at his mercy, she’s dead.
About George D. Shuman
George Shuman is the international bestselling author of the Sherry Moore series about a blind woman who can see 18 seconds from a dead person's life, using her innate ability to track down their killers.
George's first four Sherry Moore books are published by Simon & Schuster. '!8 Seconds' is currently in production for a major Hollywood motion picture.
'Rattleman' is the first of George's books to be published by Taylor Street. It too will be a major Hollywood motion picture.
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