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Please welcome
Author Deanna Jewel onto the Road to Hell. Deanna is the author of Never
Surrender, a time travel romance. Other books written by Deanna are No
Turning Back, Whispers at Ghost Point (sequel to NTB) and Unleash Your Inner
Strength.
Now, it’s time to
create a little hell and get to the good stuff by revealing all of Deanna’s wicked secrets while on the
Road to Hell. LOL Yeah, you wish!
;-D
Grab your
favorite drink, sink your teeth into something decadent, sit back, relax and
enjoy getting to know Deanna…
GRACEN: Tell me three things about yourself that we
cannot find on the internet or in your bio?
Deanna: Gracen, thank you for having me as your
guest. I can’t wait to chat with your readers! I love paranormal shows, I’m
afraid of the dark (LOL), I hate spiders!!
GRACEN: What
hobbies and interests do you participate in when you’re not writing?
Deanna: I enjoy working in the yard, especially when
I get stuck in a scene while writing. Get outside somehow reconnects me to my
characters and they talk to me again. Maybe that’s their way of telling me it’s
time for a break.
GRACEN: Do you
have any writing quirks or certain things you MUST have or do before beginning
the writing process?
Deanna: I prefer to be alone when I write and since
hubby and I are usually the only two home, that works for me!
GRACEN: If you
were plotting to take over the world, how would you do it?
Deanna: Put women
in charge of things, first off! We organize our homes, bills, family and
usually know what needs to be done before anyone else. I’m sure I’d have a few
men interspersed in there somewhere...one would be my husband…we work very well
together!
GRACEN: If you
could make one statement that the entire planet would hear and remember, what
would it be?
Deanna: Oh shit…my thoughts aren’t that profound but
something along the lines of thinking about what you want to achieve in life
and make it happen. I’m a firm believer in the power of positive thinking! We
can change our lives by changing our thoughts!
GRACEN: What
genre do you write and why that genre?
Deanna: I’ve made sure not to get locked into just
historical, or time travel…each of my books so far is in a different genre. I’m
working now on the sequel to Never Surrender, which will be my second
contemporary.
GRACEN: For those
who are not yet familiar with Deanna Jewel, can you please give us some details
about the book and/or series?
Deanna: I wrote Never Surrender when I visited my
brother when he lived in Dubois Wyoming, 9000 feet up in the Rockies near the
Shoshone Indian Reservation. I’m not sure how to explain it other than the
characters began playing out the book as though it were a movie in my head and
I just wrote it all down! It was pretty amazing for the writing of that book.
GRACEN: Do you have any new stories in the works and
can you tell us a bit about it/them?
Deanna: Readers have been wanting the sequel to Never
Surrender ever since it was released back in late 2009. I’ve now had time to
concentrate on that book and am loving that the characters are talking to me
again.
GRACEN: If you
could describe your writing with one word or brief phrase, what would it be?
Please delve into the core of your writing to tell us what word or phrase you
want readers to take with them when they’ve finished reading your story.
Deanna: Love can happen a second time! I think that
seems to be the theme for all of my books. Perhaps because it happened for me
when I wasn’t looking for it and I couldn’t be happier right now. I’m married
to a man who is always making me smile and also pushing me to write more books!
GRACEN: What, in
your opinion, makes your story unique and what makes it stand out from other
stories in your genre? Think of this as a pitch to convince readers to pick up
your books.
Deanna: Never
Surrender is about souls traveling through time, to show that it IS possible
for souls to reincarnate into current bodies. I’ve heard from a few readers who
disagree but I’ve heard from many more who know this is possible. I had a
Native elder call me from our town where I live to tell me it is definitely
something that DOES happen. Talking with him was amazing.
GRACEN: What’s
the weirdest thing you’ve ever done in the name of research?
Deanna: I’ve stayed at a haunted hotel in New Orleans
to research for the writing of Whispers at Ghost Point and stayed in Wilmington
NC, which is where the story takes place. My husband also went with me to stay
in Savannah GA before I released Whispers at Ghost Point.
GRACEN: Of all
your books, which character did you have the most fun creating and why?
Deanna: That would Taima, my blue eyed warrior in
Never Surrender. He was fun to write and he always gave me insight to his
character. He’s a one-woman man…I can’t say more or it will spoil the story
line. But his beliefs get tested in the story.
GRACEN: If you
had the opportunity to meet just one of your characters in real life, who would
it be and why?
Deanna: I’d love to meet Nathaniel Clairmont from No
Turning Back. He’s a duke in London, a captain on his own ship and owns a
castle (passed down through his family) at the top of a precipice overlooking
the sea. Sailing with him as he stands at the wheel would be an adventure, not
to mention more fun at night!
GRACEN: Which of
your characters would you never want to meet under any circumstance and why?
Deanna: I wrote a
villain in No Turning Back, Langley, and he is a nasty person, hates women who
are strong-willed, and tries to control too many situations. I’ve also written
him into Whispers at Ghost Point, but readers will have to figure out on their
own which character he is.
GRACEN: If you were interviewing yourself, what is
the one question you would ask yourself and please give us the answer to that
question?
Deanna: Are you an old soul? I think I am because I think I’ve lived
before. Perhaps that why I have such a love for the English historicals. I
started reading them as a teen and have been lucky enough to correspond with
Virginia Henley…one of my favorite authors!
GRACEN: Thanks so much for joining us, Deanna! It’s been a treat getting to know you better!
Deanna: Gracen,
thank you for having me this week. I can’t wait to read questions or comments
from your readers. I also have a contest below so do be sure to get your
entries in for a $10 gift card!
GRACEN: My pleasure to have you!
BLURB:
Is it possible for souls to travel through time and reunite
more than one hundred years later? Does the soul continually search until
somehow, it finds the one true soul mate even through time? Anything is
possible when one believes in soul reincarnation. A half-breed warrior has
entered into Kate’s dream, in search of her as his soul mate and doesn’t let
her rest until she is reunited in time with her true lover from a past life.
Kate and Taima endure personality clashes, jealousy and shape shifters before
they understand what the Great Spirit has planned for them.
Deanna Jewel lives in the Pacific Northwest and has been writing
multi-genre romance since 1991. She is married to a retired captain of the fire
department. He’s also owned his own businesses for 23 years. They have two
Siamese cats: Zoie and Sinbad, who keep them entertained. Deanna has enjoyed
reading historical romance novels for over thirty years, camping with her
family, and traveling.
She
writes to draw the reader into the story to experience what the characters
feel, to show both the hero's and heroine's points of view, and to take the
reader away from their every day stress to a place not yet visited.
A trip to Dubois, Wyoming, south of Yellowstone, inspired her time-travel
novel. The landscape and town locations described in NEVER SURRENDER are real.
Jon Daley, a professor at Boise State University, translated the
Shoshone language that you will find in the book. This novel won an Honorable
Mention in the 2008 Quill Awards at Writing.com.
NO TURNING BACK, her
historical romance, takes place in England, 1778, was released in April 2010, and
is available in print, eBook and iBook for download to your electronic readers.
Her newest novel, WHISPERS AT GHOST
POINT, released in late December, 2012. Whispers
takes place at an abandoned lighthouse in Wilmington, NC and is the sequel
to No Turning Back. The characters are
reincarnated into the present. Join Dana as she learns about her past while working toward her future.
The dangers that lurk at an abandoned lighthouse pull her into a past she was
unaware of but also involves a man she's never met...in this lifetime!
Follow her books on Pinterest!
Her site links:
TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/632gqmp
Twitter (@deannajewel)
Buy Links:
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4 comments:
Gracen, thank you for having me as your guest. I'll be around all week to chat with readers.
Readers, thank you so much for taking the time to stop over, read the interview and get your entries into the contest. Good Luck!
I'm working on the sequel to Never Surrender now and have started a FB page also. Come visit! See you on FB!
Thank you so much for the interesting Q & A! These books sound so wonderful!
Great interview, I really enjoyed it. I have read your book No Turning Back and loved it. Looking forward to reading more books by you
Thanks for the great interview! I love the premise of this book.
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