Hi Raven! It's great to have you here and to be a part of your ongoing tour - I am looking forward to learning more about you and your work. Let's get started with my questions...
1.)
What is the strangest talent you have?
I can write (badly) with a
pencil between my toes. The best is being able to block out everything and
everybody when I write. Very useful on a plane journey.
2.)
What is the best Halloween costume you’ve ever
worn?
As a child it was always
something ordinary. Guising (the Scottish version of trick and treat I guess.)
wasn’t a big thing. We just went to the neighbours, recited a poem or sang and
got an orange or a few peanuts. As an adult? I’ve only been to one Halloween
party. I was a ballet dancer. (Boring I know. Now I think of it, my other half
was a Regency Gentleman. I must put that into a time slip novel. ;))
As we live out in the sticks,
my children didn’t go guising around where we live, but usually went to a disco
at school. I was just the taxi driver.
3.)
Are the titles of your books important?
Yes, very. I like to think
they give you a hint and a tease about what the story is about. A title is as
important as the blurb.
4.)
If you’re struggling with a scene or difficult
character, what methods help you through it?
Eat chocolate, ignore them
and write something else. Moan to my mate on skype, and open a bottle of wine.
I don’t stress. It will or will not get sorted.
5.)
Do you prefer dog, cats or none of the above?
We had cats for about 30
years, until a couple of years ago. Then when our last one died we made the
decision not to have more pets. My husband often travels for work, and we also
enjoy our holidays. It’s not fair on the pets.
6.)
Who’s your favourite author? Why?
I plead the 5th.
I don’t want to upset anyone. However, I enjoy Doreen Tovey and her books about
her Siamese cats, and Miss Read and her tales of village life. Romance wise it
depends on my mood.
7.)
Do you have a pet peeve?
It changes. At the moment
it’s restaurants that say they do a full gluten free menu, and then offer you a
green salad. Also, I can not stand spitting, people who meander down the
pavement three abreast and don’t want to move to let others past and ripen at
home fruit. It never does.
8.)
Do you remember your dreams when you wake up in
the morning?
Some of them. I keep a
notebook in the Ensuite so if an idea for a book hits me I can jot it down. I
never remember those. I still remember a nightmare from when I was about five.
All tied in with school, a man on a machine that tore up tarmac, (and would
mark naughty children) and using the wrong cloakroom. Why I have no idea.
The Duke’s Temptation by Raven McAllan
Publisher Totally
Bound
Raven’s page there
Pub dates Pre
order 10 October
Early
download 24 October
General
release 21 November
Blurb
Tortured duke Gibb Alford has vowed
never to love again... until a beautiful French knife thrower brings him to his
knees
When Gibb
Alford, Duke of Menteith, saves a beautiful French knife thrower from the
unwanted attentions of a fellow aristocrat he is ill-prepared for the immediate
tug of attraction to the beautiful Evangeline. Widowed, he has sworn off love
forever, so he can well do without this temptation.
Evangeline
certainly doesn’t want the complication of being in the sights of one
smoky-eyed Scottish Duke. She’s a lady on a mission, with no time for love or
dalliance.
However, fate
and life have other plans and gradually Gibb and Evangeline become a couple.
As each struggle
with the demons of their pasts, Evangeline finds life in the ton difficult. The
spurned aristocrat Gibb saved her from, is not prepared to give in and retire
gracefully. And while Gibb fights the man, he also declares war on his own
emotions. When Evangeline’s past is revealed to her, everything changes. She
has a decision to make.
Fight for
Gibb—or flee to a safe but unfulfilled future.
As for her Duke…
All is fair in love and war—right?
Raven’s
bio and nosy links
Well what can I
say?
I'm growing old
disgracefully and loving it.
Dh and I live on
the edge of a Scottish forest, and rattle around in a house much too big for
us.
Our kids have
grown up and flown the nest, but roll back up when they want to take a deep
breath and smell the daisies so to speak.
I write in my
study, which overlooks the garden and the lane. I'm often seen procrastinating,
by checking out the wild life, looking—only looking—at the ironing basket and
assuring tourists that indeed, I'm not the bed and breakfast. That would mean
cooking fried eggs without breaking the yolks, and disturbing the dust bunnies
as they procreate under the beds. Not to be thought of.
Being able to do
what I love, and knowing people get pleasure from my writing is fantastic. Long
may it last.
https://www.facebook.com/ravenandkera (my page)
https://www.facebook.com/ravenmcallanandkerafaire
(author page)
http://amzn.to/2r3i55e (Amazon. com page)
http://amzn.to/2r32baI (Amazon UK)
Giveaway
This giveaway is for 2 prizes, a paperback copy of one of
Raven's previous Regency books, “The Earl and the Courtesan” which is UK only
and a Ecopy which is open Internationally.
Thank you so much for letting me come and chat today
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