WHO’S YOUR DADDY by Caren Crane, Jeanne Adams, Nancy Northcott

Please welcome Caren Crane, Jeanne Adams, Nancy Northcott authors of WHO’S YOUR DADDY

One copy each of Kick Start by Caren Crane, Dead Run by Jeanne Adams, and Danger’s Edge by Nancy Northcott.

WHO’S YOUR DADDY

by Caren Crane, Jeanne Adams, Nancy Northcott

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GENRE: Contemporary Romance

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INTERVIEW:

1. What or who inspired you to start writing?

Loving books started early for me. My Mama was an English teacher (8^thgrade) and my Dad was a Director of Libraries. My siblings and I joke that we were all born with a book in our hands. At some point, my Mama said something to the effect that the people who wrote the books I loved were blessed with a good imagination. For whatever reason, that coupled with her constant plaint that I was waaay too imaginative for my own good, gave me the idea that maybe, one day, I too could tell stories well enough that people might like to read them

3. What expertise did you bring to your writing?

Since I write a lot of suspense and urban fantasy, you’d think I might have an expertise in police work, but I don’t. I guess my only “super power” is the ability to research just about anything. I have a library science certification and grew up in a library so I know how to find the info I need to make a book or character work.

4. What would you want your readers to know about you that might not be in your bio?

            One of the fun things about this particular book is that it’s essentially a genealogy story. It isn’t in my bio but I’ve been doing family history/genealogy research since my early twenties. (More than 20 years)

5. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans?

I’m excited to say that I’ve got a new space adventure in the works in my Outcast Station series with my friend Nancy Northcott. I also expect to have the second book in my Slip Traveler series out this fall. I’ll have another story in my Haven Harbor Witches series in the anthology Trick or Treat at Caynham Castle, available in late September.

7. If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your leading roles?

Oooh! Taylor Kitsch would make an amazing Derek Millington and Erica Hubbard as Alexis Chase.

8. Do you belong to a critique group? If so how does this help or hinder your writing?

I belonged to a critique group when I first started writing professionally and it helped me a lot. That said, I now belong to a plotting group. We get together several times a year to help one another plot our books. It’s really great – encouraging, creative, fun. This group is better for where I am now as a writer.

9. When did you first decide to submit your work? Please tell us what or who encouraged you to take this big step?

I first decided to submit after I finaled in Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart contest for unpublished writers in 2006. It was, back then, a tough competition because traditional publishing was the most sought after prize at that point. I did a lot of submitting, but it was finally because of an editorial appointment at a conference that I sold to Kensington. My family was super encouraging, as were my then-critique partners.

10. What is the best and worst advice you ever received? (regarding writing or publishing)

The best writing advice I ever received, which I try to pass on, is write YOUR book, YOUR way. If you like to plot, great, do that. If you like to fly by the seat of your pants, do that. Don’t be afraid to try new things, but if they don’t work for you, don’t force-fit them. Do what works for you and what keeps you writing.

The worst advice I ever received was to not write a sports book because “sports books don’t sell.” Grrr.

14. Have you started your next project? If so, can you share a little bit about your book?

I’ve definitely started my next book. I have an Urban Fantasy series and I’m getting the second book out for that in the fall. It’s called The Rum Runner’s Ghost. I’ve got another story in an anthology coming out in September. The anthology is called Trick or Treat at Caynham Castle. I’m also working on a new book in my Haven Harbor Witches series.

15. Who is your favorite actor and actress?
    Oh, there are so many! I’m a huge fan of both Tom Hanks and Liam Neeson for their versatility, but love Chadwick Boseman, Jason Stratham, Dwayne Johnson, Michael B. Jordan, Vin Diesel, and Idris Elba for both the hubba-hubba factor as well as the action-blow-things-up movies they inhabit. On the actress front, I’m a big fan of Helen Mirren, Octavia Spencer, Anjelica Huston, Angela Basset, Katherine Hepburn. I especially loved Helen in the RED movies and Hobbs and Shaw.

16. Can you tell us a little about the black moment in your book?
    It’s a wee bit of a spoiler, but the black moment in my story in Who’s Your Daddy?!? Comes when an employee believes he deserves to inherit instead of the real heirs and pulls a gun…

17. What is your favorite reality show?

Oddly enough, my favorite reality shows are really about creativity. The Voice, Top Chef and Project Runway are my favs, and all for the same reason. The singers, designers and chefs are soooo creative and talented, and the challenges are so interesting. It’s also a superb study in human motivation. Do you make excuses or get to work? Are you willing to learn, to stretch yourself or take a chance? How badly do you want to win? How do you act toward the other contestants, are you cutthroat or cooperatively competitive? What intimidates the designers, what makes them overconfident? Ha! I think about it a lot and put characters in those scenarios as well. Pretty interesting!

19. Anything else you might want to add?
Thank you again, Christine, for having me on the blog! I hope you’ll check out my website, www.JeanneAdams.comand those of my co-authors, Caren Crane and Nancy Northcott! You can also find me on social media especially Twitter and Instagram, and find my boo

BLURB:

Presenting three tales of secrets revealed and histories uncovered by DNA testing.

Brown-Eyed Boy by Caren Crane

A carpenter discovers his father isn’t actually his father. Coming to terms with the truth reaffirms his place in his family, but it also leads him to love with an old friend’s sister and helps him find a path for his life.

Lost in Time by Jeanne Adams

A lawyer learns his grandmother had a secret marriage before his father was born. With the help of a talented genealogist, he tracks down his ancestry. Will he find the truth about his grandmother’s secret before whoever’s trying to kill him succeeds?

Worth Waiting For by Nancy Northcott

A burned-out spy goes home for a holiday and re-encounters the woman he never dated but never forgot. As he and she grow closer, he learns her niece, his ex-girlfriend’s child, bears an uncanny resemblance to him. When the truth comes out, it will alter three lives.

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EXCERPT:

From Brown-Eyed Boy by Caren Crane

Eric Burns had simple tastes. He loved cold beer, working with his hands, and hanging with his big, rowdy family. He didn’t have much use for trendy things.

So when his brother Tim gave everybody in the family DNA test kits for Christmas last year, Eric wasn’t thrilled.

But he set up a profile on the testing website. He spit in the test tube and mailed it off. When he got the email saying his results were ready, he clicked the link and logged into his account. It showed he shared half his DNA with his mother, Bebe, of course. Among his siblings he saw most of them shared about half their DNA with each other.

Then he saw he only shared about 25 percent with his sibs. That he shared so much less with all of them than they did with each other made no sense to him.

Then he saw two other people in his list of DNA relatives who shared about the same amount of DNA with him as his siblings did. Two people with the same names as kids from their neighborhood. He felt all the blood drain out of his head and a roaring sounded in his ears as he realized the only thing that could mean.

The mother he adored, the one who had given birth to him and his five siblings, who had mourned his daddy so much that she basically couldn’t function for most of his childhood, had cheated on his father.

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AUTHOR Bios and Links:

Jeanne Adams writes award-winning romantic suspense, fantasy/paranormal, Urban Fantasy and space adventure that’s been compared to Jack McDevitt and Robert Heinlein. She also knows all about getting rid of the bodies. Both traditionally and indie published, Jeanne has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine. She teaches highly sought after classes on Body Disposal for Writers and Plotting for Pantzers, as well as How to Write a Fight Scene with her pal Nancy Northcott. www.JeanneAdams.com Twitter: @JeanneAdams Instagram: @JPAGryphon www.Facebook.com/JeanneAdamsAuthor

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Caren Crane began writing warm, witty contemporary romance and women’s fiction to save herself from the drudgery of life in the office. An electrical engineer by training, she longed to create worlds where things were any color except cube-wall gray. She still works in a cubicle, but gets to hang out with witty, fabulous people whenever she’s writing, which greatly encourages butt-in-chair time.

Caren lives in North Carolina with her wonderful husband and semi-feral rescue cat. She has three fiercely intelligent, gorgeous grown children, having neatly side-stepped her mother’s threat that she would have children Just Like Her. You can find info and excerpts at www.carencrane.com.

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Nancy Northcott’s childhood ambition was to grow up and become Wonder Woman.  Around fourth grade, she realized it was too late to acquire Amazon genes, but she still loved comic books, history, and genre fiction. A sucker for fast action and wrenching emotion, Nancy combines the romance and high stakes (and sometimes the magic) she loves in the books she writes.

She’s the author of the Light Mage Wars/Protectors paranormal romances, the Lethal Webs and Arachnid Files romantic suspense series, and the historical fantasy trilogy The Boar King’s Honor. With author Jeanne Adams, she co-writes the Outcast Station space opera series. Website: www.nancynorthcott.com Twitter: @NancyNorthcott

Facebook: https://facebook.com/nancynorthcottauthor

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3468806.Nancy_Northcott

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE

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One copy each of Kick Start by Caren Crane, Dead Run by Jeanne Adams, and Danger’s Edge by Nancy Northcott.

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