Remember my post where I reviewed, Where Angels Rest? Well after Kate Brady, the author, speaks her mind, you will have a chance to win a copy. Provided you live in the U.S. that is.
So without further adieu, I give you Kate Brady.
Authors talk about it all the time:
“The book under the bed.” And it used to be that when I heard
that phrase, I thought these savvy writers had a stash of manuscripts
at the ready and whenever their publisher wanted something new, they
dug one out and sent it in.
I suppose it might work that way for
some writers, but apparently I’m not one of them. Having just had
my first experience pulling a book from under the bed, I can tell
you, it wasn’t quick and it wasn’t easy. It was, however, a
whole lot of fun!
I first wrote WHERE ANGELS REST during
that period of time when I was waiting for my agent to call me with
the good news about my first manuscript, ONE SCREAM AWAY. I sort of
didn’t know what to do with myself… Write a sequel? Start
something new? Change genres? Give up? And my agent said, “Write
another book, just like ONE SCREAM AWAY.” I secretly doubted the
wisdom of that—after all, ONE SCREAM AWAY hadn’t sold. But I did
it, anyway, because I knew my agent was All Things Wise. I forced
myself to accept the fact that my first hero, Neil Sheridan, would
never see the light of day, and neither would his brother, for whom I
had such dreams. Abandoning them, I set out to create a new hero
from a new family with a new story – but in the same vein as ONE
SCREAM AWAY.
Then: The magic phone call. ONE
SCREAM AWAY sold, along with an unplanned sequel. Suddenly, the
Sheridan brothers were alive and well again, and needing attention.
WHERE ANGELS REST went under the bed.
It languished there for three years
until I had the occasion to start a new series of books. It was kind
of a scary thing, going under the bed, but I was curious as to
whether or not the first draft of ANGELS could serve as the bones of
a new book. I found that I still loved the hero in ANGELS—Nick
Mann—but I tore apart most everything else. I changed the
heroine’s issue and goals, changed the plot, changed the murder
scheme, and believe it or not, I even changed who the villain was.
Only the hero—a small-town sheriff
with big-time dreams—remained the same. And now, the Mann family
has become the source for my next three books, starting with WHERE
ANGELS REST.
I hope you’ll enjoy reading WHERE
ANGELS REST as much as I enjoyed writing it – both times!
Happy reading!
Kate Brady
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i havent read them yet
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Congrats to Kate on the new release and series.
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