Welcome Author Linda Nightingale
Give a warm welcome to Linda Nightingale, author of Four By Moonlight!
Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Linda and her tales of love in the moonlight from paranormal realms.
What do you want your readers to take away from your books?
A sense of enchantment. I want my reader to sink beneath the surface of reality, into the book and enjoy their time in my world, then surface as if they’re leaving reality behind. I am delighted if the reader feels he/she knows and loves the characters and is sorry to leave them.
Do you find it easier to write from a male or female point of view? Oddly enough, the male. Why? For some reason, the male character, usually the hero, is the first to take the stage and begin to tell me the story that becomes peopled by other characters as his tale unfolds. The hero of Sinners’ Opera—Morgan D’Arcy—is very talkative and my first draft of the novel galloped to a whopping 1,000 pages. Needless to say, I had to trim, trim, and finally hack and slash.
What do you like to do when you are not writing? I love sports cars and just treated myself to my second-childhood 2-seater roadster. Zoom-Zoom! He’s called Midnight Prowler—Midnight for short, and is a triple black Miata Club Miata. I also like to dress up and host formal dinner parties. Well, dress up, period.
I can understand the sports cars, but dressing up, not my style. LOL
You’ve got a time machine, a cloak of invisibility, and one hour. Where would you go, and what eavesdropping would you do?
It’s a toss-up between Charles II’s merry court of the mid-sixteen hundreds or Edward VIII during the trying times before and after he abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee. I’d love to hear their conversations just before he surrendered the English throne. Yet, I’d have a lot of fun listening to the King romance the Orange Seller Nell Gywn. I could go on and on about either subject, but I’d better turn the mike back over to Tena.
Interesting, I’ve recently read a few historical romances and find royals are an interesting lot.
Born in South Carolina, Linda has lived in England, Canada, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Atlanta and Houston. Linda’s seen a lot of this country from the windshield of a truck pulling a horse trailer, having bred, trained and showed Andalusian horses for many years.
Linda won several writing awards, including the Georgia Romance Writers Magnolia Award and the SARA. She has two wonderful sons, is a retired legal assistant, member of the Houston Symphony League, and enjoys events with her car club (in her snazzy convertible). She owns a piano she can’t play without the remote(it has a player system).
You can find more information about Linda here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LNightingale – @Lnightingale
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LindaNightingaleAuthor
Web Site: http://www.lindanightingale.com – Visit and look around. There’s a free continuing vampire story.
Blog: https://lindanightingale.wordpress.com/ – Lots of interesting guests & prizes
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4839311.Linda_Nightingale
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/lbnightingale1/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Linda-Nightingale/e/B005OSOJ0U
Tell us a little about Four By Moonlight
An anthology of love in the moonlight…in the paranormal realms…
Gypsy Ribbons – A moonlight ride on the moors and meeting a notorious highwayman will forever change Lady Virginia Darby’s life.
Star Angel – Lucy was stuck in a rut and in an Idaho potato patch. She’d seen him in the corner of her eye—a fleeting glimpse of beauty—now he stood before her in the flesh.
The Night Before Doomsday – All his brothers had succumbed to lust, but Azazel resisted temptation until the wrong woman came along.
The Gatekeeper’s Cottage – Newlywed Meggie Richelieu’s mysterious, phantom lover may be more than anyone, except the plantation housekeeper, suspects.
Do you have an excerpt for us?
Red eyes watched from the grate as she slipped into the cold, empty bed. Simon should have been there to warm her rather than the dying fire. Not pursuing a dangerous dream. Too angry, too miserable to weep, she tossed and turned. The relief of sleep eluded her.
An icy breath whispered through the room. Tory snuggled deeper beneath the goose down covers. Had the weather made up its mind? Was Simon riding in ice and snow? She imagined white flakes in Goliath’s long black mane and on the highwayman’s plush velvet cloak. Poor darling, he would be cold. Tory slowly drifted to sleep unrelated thoughts scrolling in her mind. A soft sound snapped her wide awake. She sat bolt upright, tugging the covers over the breasts. The room was iceberg cold. The ghost.
“Not Simon.” She held her breath, ears stained for the horrifying, otherworldly whisper, a warning of imminent death. The sound came again, closer. A slow footstep creeping over the old oaken floor. Tonight, the ghost of Darby Manor wandered its dim corridors.
“No. No.” Tory squeezed her eyes closed and prayed, forgetting she didn’t believe in ghosts.
The footsteps halted. Tory’s heart stopped. She started to cover her ears, refusing to hear. The ghost breathed that heartbreaking sigh at her door.
Shuddering, she slid back under the layers of down. The warmth had no effect on her shivers. She folded into a fetal position. I’m no longer alone. Fear chilled her anew. Though she couldn’t see clearly in the dim light, she knew her breath puffed white clouds in the frigid air. Dread sank its wicked claws into her racing heart.
Ooohhh, the stories sound like great Halloween tales! I love Halloween. Don’t you?
Buy Links: Amazon eBook
Print – ClassActBooks
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Four By Midnight.
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Posted in Authors' Secrets Blog and tagged Historical Romance, Paranormal, Romance by Tena Stetler with 4 comments.
Hi Tena and Linda. Loved your interview. Wow, very sexy sportscar, I’m green with envy. But I’m with Tena about dressing up—high heels and sparkles don’t really work at the beach! 🙂 Anni. xx
Thanks for stopping by Anni! We really appreciate it!
Loved the interview, ladies! Loved that car! And you look fabulous next to it, Linda. All the best! 🙂
Great excerpt! I find with my heroes, you have to do what they want. If I try to insert my will, they stop talking to me. It sounds crazy, I know.