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Chautona Havig

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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 579: A Chat with Lauren Smyth
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Dystopian in the desert? Sign me up! Seriously, listen in while Lauren Smyth and I chat all things “glowy” in the desert!

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Not a lot of people write books about the boring Mojave Desert. When they do, I take note. Especially when it’s a super-cool dystopian delight! EEEP!

All That Glows by Lauren Smyth

The apocalypse didn’t take everyone. It just took us. Ever since the rain turned green, Kyrie’s world has been bathed in glowing dust. She packs it into old mascara tubes and sells it as makeup alongside dried cacti, threadbare blankets, and long-expired canned food. There’s not much else to do when everyone outside Kyrie’s small town in the Mojave Desert died from the plague-bearing rain ten years ago. Everyone—except the man in the rubber mask. He’s on the dangerous side of the fence, huffing infected air like it’s nothing, babbling to Kyrie about college and umbrellas and yogurt and everything else that disappeared the day it rained. He doesn’t seem to know that the world ended, and he has no explanation for how he survived the apocalypse. But Kyrie doesn’t believe in ghosts. She can’t trust him, but he’s right about one thing: Towns without secrets aren’t surrounded by chain-link fences. And chain-link fences won’t keep out the plague forever.

Learn more on Lauren’s WEBSITE and follow on GoodReads and BookBub.

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