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When Your Creativity Fails, Kill a Beloved Character:

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Jennifer Pierce offers fast-paced, nail-biting suspense with fun characters and the can't-put-it-downness you hope to find in good suspense. via @chautonahavig

Get your safety harness strapped on because this book will take you on a roller coaster ride of suspense, action, and all the feels. I’m talking about Jennifer Pierce’s, Deadly Connection, and today I’m talking with Jennifer Pierce herself!
We talk about her love of fiction, her iffiness with romance, and how she became an avid reader and writer of romantic suspense.

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When Your Creativity Fails, Kill a Beloved Character

Deadly Connection.  Where do I begin?  First, you should know that this book kicks off with just about everything it could. Ambiguous phone calls, orders to do something weird, a murder, an attempted kidnapping… arson.  We’re talking one kicker thing after the next, and here’s the deal.  None of it feels thrown in there for shock value.  It all makes sense!

A story that is fast-paced and crazy intense at times, you’re dealing with a mom protecting her child, a guy with a past… and well, so does she.  Just sayin’.

And it started off as a contest entry for Love Inspired Suspense.

When we talked about that, Jenn told about how she’d made a lot of requested changes, but one turned out to be more than she could do.  If she changed that, the villain’s entire motivation changed, and that would kill the story.  So, as teachable as she obviously is, she wasn’t willing to risk the integrity of her story in favor of trying to fulfill a dream.

BRAVA!

After all, would her dream truly be realized if she didn’t recognize her own book by the time it got changed?

Still, she told us a bit about another one coming up, and today I zipped her a reminder that readers like me want more.  Just sayin’.

What I also love is that her books are published by Anaiah Press and are far different from other Anaiah books. We’ve enjoyed hearing from Joiya Morrison-Efemeni and Sara Beth Williams as well.  Stay tuned for another Anaiah author, Allison Pearl.

Deadly connection Jennifer pierceBut Deadly Connection isn’t Jenn’s only romantic suspense novel!

With a few others in her head, she has two more in print.

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Not to mention a hysterical Christmas novella, Giving Grace.  Come on… with a Maltese named Bob, who mistakes mailman legs for fire hydrants, what’s not to crack up about?

Jennifer Pierce has a lot of books planned or in the works… but she says God hasn’t given her to go on which one to do next.

I sure hope it’s the first book she’s doing in the Suamalie Islands series with Celebrate Lit.  Or that wild cat story.  Or maybe a sequel to Deadly Connection.  Whatever it is, I’m just certain it’ll be good!

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Episode 595: A Chat with Jeremiah Friedli
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Have you ever had to choose between saving one life or twenty? Fifty? Listen in as Jeremiah Friedli and I chat about his Core Decipher and whether his character Seth should save one life at a time or if he risks his life to save many.

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This Core series is so timely–with the way surveillance becomes more intrusive every day, ummmm. Yeah.

Core Decipher by Jeremiah Friedli

One hacker. One impossible mission. Zero margin for error.

Seth Alvarez has the ultimate power in a surveillance state: cyber invisibility. Using stolen tech that makes him a ghost to the all-seeing CORE system, he’s the resistance’s most valuable protector. But when CORE prepares a deadly upgrade that will crush all hope of freedom, Seth must make an impossible choice: stay hidden and keep saving lives one at a time, or risk everything by going undercover inside CORE’s fortress for a chance to liberate thousands. Allying with a former enemy, Seth must pull off the most dangerous hack in history—one that will either liberate an entire nation or destroy everyone he loves.

Learn more about Jeremiah on his WEBSITE and follow him on GoodReads.

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