Hi Red,
welcome to Adventures in Authorland. Please get comfortable and tell us about
your adventure.
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| Red L. Jameson |
As a child, what did you want to do when
you grew up? Writing, or something else?
I always wanted to write. Before I could
read, I wanted to write. I’ve written short stories almost all my life.
However, I never thought it was a viable career choice, until I was in my
mid-thirties. I’d written in all that time, but had thought I should do
something more pragmatic. It is a crazy career—writing. In this career there
are no guarantees. I’ve seen one of the most talented writers I’ve ever met
give up; crazy skilled writers never making enough money; and SO MUCH
rejection.
The only
reason why we write is because we are compelled to do it. Call it God, a greater
good, fate, or just plain stubbornness, writers are a complicated breed with
much against them—so it seems sometimes, and I’m honored every time I’m
considered one.
If you could time travel back, or
forward, for one day, where would it be and why?
I’d love to be able to see my son in the
future. I’m fascinated by his big brain and even bigger heart. I truly believe
he’ll make the world a better place just by his existence. So I’d love to see
that.
Have you ever travelled to a place and
come away with a story unexpectedly?
I am the queen, although unintentionally,
of odd traveling stories. I have one about my sister and I getting lost in
Boston, but somehow always finding our way when we ran into Cambridge; a story
about my sister nearly getting me arrested in Detroit—there is a theme with my
sister, did you notice? A story of driving behind falling Christmas trees on a
highway in Utah, a story about my brother nearly getting arrested in California
for driving my car too fast while I was asleep; a story about a naked man
accosting a friend and mine on a beach in St. Croix; and the list goes on and
on!
Do you hear from readers much? What
kinds of things do they say?
I can’t believe the things my readers say. I’m baffled and so, so honored. They write of how much they loved my stories, and can’t wait to read the next. I cry almost every time a reader has made contact, and, to me, it feels better than any prize I’ve won, than any sales rank. I LOVE my readers and wish I could buy them houses! Maybe one day I will.
I can’t believe the things my readers say. I’m baffled and so, so honored. They write of how much they loved my stories, and can’t wait to read the next. I cry almost every time a reader has made contact, and, to me, it feels better than any prize I’ve won, than any sales rank. I LOVE my readers and wish I could buy them houses! Maybe one day I will.
Share three fun facts about you that
most people don’t know.
I have
skydived, gone to Cuba when it wasn’t exactly legal, and get very shy around
crowds.
Can you give us some details about your
upcoming release/s?
ENEMY OF
MINE came out October 1. It has already received great reviews and was a
finalist in Pages from the Heart Contest! Here is the cover and blurb:
Kidnapping mortals to different eras is
such fun. Trickster muse sisters, Clio and Erato, call it a glimpse, but
military historian Minerva Ferguson, Erva, is fairly certain she’s gone nuts
when she wakes two hundred miles from her apartment. And two hundred years in
the past to Brooklyn, 1776. In an unfamiliar manse, during the American
Revolutionary War, she’s not too sure how to regain her sanity. Especially when
she realizes whose mansion she’s just woken in, the one British general she
studied more than anything else, Lord William Hill.
When Will hears
Erva’s screams of panic, he breaks down a door to save her, even if he can’t
quite remember why she’s visiting. She calms, though, the instant she sees him,
as if they’ve known each other for eons. From the second he sees her dressed in
a toga made from a bed sheet to later when she’s with his troops, wooing them
with her musket skills, he realizes he’s smitten. But he’s a weary soldier,
shrouded in grief, while she reminds him of a sun goddess. Is she too good for
him? Lord, how he wants her to want him.
How could Erva
not fall for a guy who accidentally quotes a Cheap Trick song? But now she has
to get to the bottom of if Will is really a rake, how to stop one of the most
important battles of the war, and lastly how to stop her insane crush on the
general. After all, he’s going to die in less than a week.
The muses have to
work fast for this glimpse. But that’s when they work best. And as explosions
erupt through New York, sometimes it’s not from the artillery.
And Links:
Amazon
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