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Please welcome Cara Covington, author of Love Under Two Outcasts!
Cara
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1. Tell us a
little about yourself; your hometown, your age, anything cool!
I’m from a rural
community in southern Ontario, Canada called Flamborough. I turned 60 on my
last birthday. I’ve been married for 42 years to my High School sweetheart.
We’re parents, grandparents of 6, and great-grandparents of 2. Cool? I think
the fact that I had to retire from work when I had open heart surgery at the
age of 48, and then went on to live my dream of becoming a published author is
as cool as it gets. Some days, I have to pinch myself!
2. How did you know you wanted to write?
I began to write
when I was around 8 or 9. Picking up a pen was just something that came
naturally to me. My father passed away when I was 7 and it wasn’t until much
later that I learned that he, when he’d been younger, had always, always had a
pad of paper and a pencil in his pocket, as he was a writer, too. In fact, I
discovered not that many years ago, that my brother had a few of his poems and stories
tucked away. So I guess you could say that for me, writing is in the blood.
3. What inspires
you to write on those inevitable rough days?
I remind myself,
on those rare days when I don’t feel like writing but I know I must, that there
are readers waiting to read my next book. Just lately, I only have to turn my
head to the left to see a picture—my street team sent me an enormous picture
frame with their photos pasted inside it. All those beautiful smiling women who
treasure my books! Can you imagine it? That’s reason enough for any writer to
get back to work.
4. Tell me some
of your current projects- Your works in progress,
ideas, or any
crazy, off the wall things.
The Lusty Texas
series began with two historical novels, set in Texas in the 1880s. The series
then jumped to contemporary times, as the heroes and heroines, descendants of
the characters in the historical novels, clamored to have their stories told. Some people would
say that having a series that already expands beyond 24 books is crazy! My
December 2014 release, Love Under Two Outcasts was book 24 in the series; the
next one, A Very Lusty New Year, released January 23rd was the 25th book in the
series. And as I am writing this in January, I can tell you that I am working
on Love Under Two Extroverts, book 26, and I expect a late March release date
for it.
5. What would you
like people to know about your work?
I write erotic
romantic fiction. Some, under my pen name Morgan Ashbury, but lately, as Cara
Covington. My stories are entertainment, mostly—a place for readers to escape
from their every day trials and tribulations. A place they can visit and bask
in my ideal of small town life. Where your neighbors care about you, and where
you soon find that you belong.Within the pages of
a Lusty, Texas book, you may find a few hugs for your heart – that was the way
one reader described my stories, and nothing has ever touched me as deeply as
that.
6. This is a
chance to meander or talk in greater depth if you like. Here you can talk
about what hobbies you pursue, how you refresh your well of ideas,
what you would recommend to other writers.
I’m afraid I
don’t have any exciting hobbies; I’m limited, mobility-wise, but my husband and
I have traveled a great deal throughout North America over the last few years.
We’ve been on several cruises, as well as having visited some vastly different
cities from New York to Dallas, Chicago to New Orleans, to Anaheim and Orlando
and Daytona Beach.
I love to read, of course, and some of my favorite authors
are also friends: Heather Rainier, D. B. Reynolds, Emma Wildes, and Kelley
Armstrong to name a few. I also love to read Nora Roberts/J D Robb, Julie
Garwood, Catherine Coulter, Barbara Delinsky and Linda Howard.
I have 2
surviving children, 6 surviving grand-children and 2 great-grandchildren. Life
in the Ashbury household can be very hectic. We have a cat who adopted us and
has graciously allowed us to stay in the
house, and a Morky dog who is most definitely a spoiled little fur baby.
My advice to my
fellow authors: if you are not yet published, do not quit. If you want it bad
enough, keep working at it and do not quit. Just write and write and write some
more. Believe in yourself; make your craft excellent; and you will get
published. If you are
published, I have a word of advice for you, too—because I’m 60, you see, and
feel entitled to give a bit of that prickly commodity now and again.
Please, remember
that once you put it out there on the web, it is there, forever. So try to
remember that whatever you do, your readers are watching you. Be the best you
that you can be.
And now, Love Under Two Outcasts!
Charlotta
Carmichael is mostly not ashamed of the way she paid for her college degree.
Mostly. As an exotic dancer at a gentlemen’s club, she earned enough to get her
degree in psychology. But sometimes the
scorn she’s suffered in the past comes back to haunt her. She fears a similar
reaction from Jesse and Barry Benedict. Will they still think she’s good enough
for them if she tells them the truth?
Jesse and Barry
know all about past mistakes and regret. Feeling like outcasts, they left their
Montana home and headed to Lusty, hoping to make a new start. Once they
understand that Charlotta is their soul mate, they confess their sins of the
past—because they want their relationship to have a solid foundation.
As Jesse and
Barry rush to save Charlotta from a stalker, they all soon learn that moving on
is easier said than done—and requires a bigger leap of faith than they’d ever
imagined.
Appetite whetted? Here's a teaser.
The sound of high
heels on the marble floor echoed in the reception area. Jesse realized
belatedly the feminine footsteps were coming their way.
“Gentlemen, I
apologize for keeping you waiting.”
Jesse knew the
voice from the two telephone conversations he’d had with the doctor. He looked
up—and had the surreal sensation that in that instant, with that simple tilt of
his head, his entire life had just changed. One quick glance over at Barry, and
he knew his twin was experiencing his own personal epiphany.
Jesse got to his
feet, his gaze taking in her piled high blonde hair, soft grey eyes, and the
way her beige silk blouse and trim brown skirt displayed her made-for-sin body.
He met her gaze,
pleased when he read in hers that he and his brother weren’t the only ones to
get gob smacked with a flood of pheromones.
She’d extended
her hand and Jesse wasted no time in clasping it in his. The zing of
electricity shot straight to his groin, and it took supreme will to keep his
wood from tenting his jeans.
“I’m Jesse. And
you have no need to apologize, ma’am. We’re here at your service.” He saw the
double entendre hit its mark and liked the humor he read in her eyes.
And then he
appreciated her ability to give as well as she got, when she said, “Well in
that case, please follow me to someplace a little more private.”
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