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Are the ghosts in Macy Lyons’ past stronger than the promise of a future with her new lover…
Tell readers a little about your main character or characters?
Macy Lyons is a beautiful she-wolf scout for a secretive Arizona wolf pack housed in an old abandoned fort that was once a popular tourist attraction. She has special Were traits that no one yet knows about, and was given the moniker of “Lightning Woman” because of both her speed and her love of the wild desert storms. She is sometimes visited by the ghosts of departed souls that roam the desert…but no one knows about this, either.
Logan Carter is a gorgeous Florida detective who chases a rogue werewolf all the way to Arizona. He is a tall, intelligent, capable Were, and dangerous in his own right…but in Arizona’s prickly desert landscape, he is a fish (or werewolf) out of water. His task gets divided once he meets and is instantaneously attracted to the Desperado she-wolf scout who first finds him – a she-wolf as unique as the stripes of color on her face that are reminiscent of western war paint.
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I write best in my office at home. My fingers tend to fly over the keyboard there. Often ideas and whole pieces of dialogue come to me when I’m driving my car, so I have about fifty notebooks full of things I scribble by the side of the road.
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Do what you can do, and ask for advice from others who have gone before you. Chat with readers. Engage with people about your enthusiasm for the stories you write. Partner with other authors for book signings (once the pandemic is over). Get the word out about your work with newsletter swaps and blog tours like this one.
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Any advice for aspiring writers?
Write all the time. Keep the words flowing. Be true to the genre that inspires you the most, even when the popularity of various genres come and go…because trying to write to market trends can dull or ruin your love of writing.
Wolves of the West
Book One
Linda Thomas-Sundstrom
Genre: Paranormal Shifter Romance
Publisher: GothicScapes
Date of Publication: June 28, 2021
ASIN: B096PTNWZ5
Number of pages: 282
Word Count: 60,000
Cover Artist: Magnetra
Tagline: Meet the Arizona wolf pack and the ghosts that haunt them.
Book Description:
Are the ghosts of Macy Lyons' past stronger than the promise of a future with her new lover?
Macy Lyons is a respected member of the wolf pack housed in an old Arizona tourist attraction. Her special Were abilities make her a good scout, and also enable her to see the ghosts that haunt the desert. When those ghosts lead her to a visiting lawman from another state, she must find out why...and if those ghosts have a hand in shaping her future.
Florida detective Logan Carter has chased a criminal all the way from Florida to Arizona, and now can use the help of the secretive wolf pack housed at Desperado to find the crazy werewolf he seeks. But will his attraction to Desperado's beautiful she-wolf scout be a help or a hindrance to his mission in a landscape so different from his own?
Excerpt:As Logan studied this female vision that had appeared like a desert spirit borne on the blistering hot wind, he couldn’t help but appreciate her uniqueness. In fact, this representative of the Desperado pack was quite stunning, and radiated enough personal power for her outline to waver.Pretty and dangerous...Moonlight slid down each strand of straight black hair that fell to the she-wolf’s waist like sparkling water dripping from the skies. All that hair curtained a narrow body with few noticeable curves and very few wolfish traits, even though she had shape-shifted.She was tall and slight of frame, with long, shapely legs. Her bare arms were beautifully sculpted with a layer of smooth, lean muscle. One arm bore the swirls of a colorful tattoo Logan couldn’t get a read on from where he stood because his focus kept returning to her face.A slightly elongated facial structure, shadowed, angular, and with prominent cheekbones, was the real proof of what she was, and made him think this female might be a pure-blooded Were. Under the moonlight, the shadows on her face represented her missing patches of fur, or where fur would have been on any normal werewolf under a full moon. In fact, she bore no fur anywhere that he could see.Crossing her right eye socket and extending two or three inches beneath it were three stripes of color that could have either been paint or tattoos. White. Black. Green. The effect suggested to Logan she might have Native American roots, though lots of women had unusual tattoos these days.Damn, though. Maybe she really was some kind of a spirit.
Linda Thomas-Sundstrom is an award-winning author of 40+ stories in the realms of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy. She has been published by Kensington Publishing, HarperCollins/Harlequin Nocturne and Desire lines, and GothicScapes.
Website: http://www.lindathomas-sundstrom.com
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