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Dec 17th Releasing the Catch by Jeny Heckman

Happy holidays to all! Give a big welcome to Jeny Heckman, author of Releasing the Catch. Have a seat and grab an insulated mug. I’ve got hot chocolate, hot cider and coffee. Choose your pot, they’re labeled. Pick your choice of a Snicker-doodle, Chocolate Chip or Peanut butter cookie from the plate. Yep, I baked them myself. Lets see what Releasing the Catch is all about. Thanks for joining us!

Jeny tell us a little about Releasing the Catch:

Women. Crab fishing. The Bering Sea. Some men don’t think they belong together. One woman wants to prove them wrong.

Mack Carter’s life is circling the drain. When he hears about how lucrative the fishing industry is in Alaska, he decides to try his luck on the frigid Aleutian Chain. There he meets, Nels Pearson, who teaches the younger man how to be a crab fisherman on the deadly Bering Sea and becomes the friend and father-figure Mack’s never known. Carter must learn to navigate both the foreign world on the water and home life on land, finding a tenuous balance with both.

Through circumstances beyond her control, Faith Pearson is inserted into the dangerous life the men live in. To most fishermen in this high-velocity world, women onboard a crab boat is a bad omen. Faith finds life on the sea difficult to maneuver, not just the conditions but the men and superstitions she must also endure.

When tragedy strikes her life again, Faith strives to overcome great obstacles, and prove herself worthy mentally and physically, as she navigates self-discovery in a man’s bleak yet adventurous world. She also discovers lessons about love from a delicious new co-worker and just how deadly the Bering Sea can be when her own life is on the line, possibly never releasing her from the catch.

Releasing the Catch, is a story of fathers and daughters, letting go of the past, self-discovery, and overcoming odds made harder simply for your gender. It’s the story of two individuals at different times in an intertwined and extraordinary life, with so much to teach one another.

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A sneak peek between the pages of Releasing the Catch:

“So, what do you think so far?” Jake leaned his forearms on the handgrip of his shopping cart as they walked down the canned food aisle. “You’re taking the heat from Book pretty well.”

“What a fucker.” Faith spat out the words as she tossed several cans of corn into her own cart. “Why is there one on every boat?” Jake chuckled. Touche. “Come on, seriously, why do you guys put up with him?”

“Well, for as much as he complains… when we go out there, he gets the job done. He’s a helluva fisherman.” Jake grabbed canned green beans and started throwing them into his cart.

Faith nodded. “And is that the only reason? I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s a good reason but…”

“We went to school together since second grade. Same with Brandon. Booker’s better once he relaxes and gets used to you. He just has a big bark.”

“Like a Chihuahua?”

“Exactly. He’s a lot better around his around his girlfriend, too.” They turned the corner to go down the next aisle, filling their carts with groceries, then unloaded them onto a pallet in the back before continuing.

“He does not have a girlfriend.” Faith removed the last items from her cart, then started down another aisle.

“Sure does. Her name’s Ashley. She’s almost inverted she’s so small, but she loves him, and he seems to understand he got lucky with her.” He paused. “Well, most of the time.”

“But it was like rutting season in the bar last night.”

“He’s a guy without a conscience gone for a long time at sea, without his woman.” Jake shrugged and grabbed twelve boxes of Ding Dongs.

“And that makes it okay?” Watching him, she drew her brows together. “What are you, twelve?”

“What? The guys like them.” He grabbed some Fruit Roll-Ups. “Here you go… fruit.” He pointed at the label and dropped several more boxes into the cart. Faith rolled her eyes at him, and he returned to their conversation. “When you’re a woman up here, trying to make ends meet, you can name your price and if a guy’s horny enough, he’ll pay it. You understand that, living up here as much as you are, let alone the only woman aboard a crab boat.”

“No… I don’t. Because I’m not a ho, and I don’t have relationships with men onboard the boats I work on.”

“Oh yeah, is that like a, “don’t date anyone at work,” thing?” he flung up his fingers in air quotes.

“No, I’ve had relationships with guys I like from the boat before. I just don’t have sex or anything on the boat.”

He stopped the cart and looked at her. “So, you’re saying it’s okay for you to fuck off the boat, but not on?”

“Yeah, I guess… sometimes.”

“Is this a new rule of yours since meeting Mariano?”

“No,” she snickered. “I’ve had that rule since I was sixteen.” She grabbed five boxes of cinnamon and walked a little further. He didn’t follow her anymore, and she turned to look back at him. “What?”

“I thought you’ve been on a boat since you were eight?” he asked with suspicion.

“Yeah, so?”

“So, your telling me you’re a thirty-seven-year-old virgin?” He grinned, discovering the joy in teasing her.

“God, no! Why would you say that?”

“Well, if you don’t have sex on boats, and you live on boats, but have only had relationships,” -he made more quotation marks with his fingers- “With men you work with off boats… whatever the fuck that means… What you’re saying is you’re a prick tease, aren’t you?”

She guffawed. “No. You can have sex in other places other than a crab boat, you know. Come on Jake, you need to expand your horizons and give your ladies some romance.”

Now Jake guffawed. “Just so I’m straight. You do like to have sex? With men?”

“Jesus, how did we get on this topic?” She turned to face him and spoke to him, slow. “Yes, I love sex. Sometimes it’s with guys from the boat, sometimes it’s with guys I meet back home, sometimes it’s all by myself.”

She turned and a broad smile crossed her face as she walked off and left him to ponder that nugget. He looked after her, a little shocked, then tried to give some back.

“But if you’re doing it with yourself on the boat,” he yelled down the aisle. “Isn’t that the same as sex? Or is this one of those, I didn’t inhale or have sexual relations with that woman, kind of deals?” He hoped to shock or better yet embarrass her.

“Masturbating isn’t the same as having regular sex,” she yelled back even louder. “Sometimes I know better what to do with my own fucking body than a fumbling, irritating, incompetent man.”

She rounded the corner and disappeared from sight, leaving customers to stare in her wake. He stood frozen in the aisle, mouth open and blushed crimson. An elderly, heavy-set woman, wearing a three-tiered skirt over her pants and red bandana kerchiefed on her head, stooped to pick up a bag of dried peas from the bottom shelf. She straightened and eyed Jake.

“She’s got something there, handsome.” Smiling, she revealed several missing teeth, winked and walked toward the cash registers.

“Oh my God,” he blurted out in a breath and raced to catch up with his fellow deckhand.

About the Author:

Jeny Heckman is the award-winning author of the paranormal-romance series, Heaven & Earth. When she isn’t writing, you will find her boating with her husband, enjoying game night with her kids, cocktails with her friends, getting frustrated with photography or dreaming and plotting her next adventure. Jeny lives in Washington state with her husband of over twenty-eight years.

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It’s been great having you with us today. Good luck with Releasing the Catch!

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Aug 4th Interview Jeny Heckman Author of The Warrior’s Progeny

Give a warm welcome to Jeny Heckman, author of The Warrior’s Progeny. 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 Jeny and The Warrior’s Progeny.

Let’s start with why should we read this book/series and what sets you apart from the rest and makes your book/series unique?

This book is an interesting take on the Greek gods. It’s not a traditional fantasy or paranormal romance and it’s not set in the ancient Greek era. It’s the story of the gods being doomed forever and the only ones that can save them are their modern-day descendants. Mortals that don’t believe in mythical Greek gods. It’s like Percy Jackson meets Nora Roberts. The modern romance isn’t two people finding each other and just working out their quirks. They have figure out and come to terms with what they’re a part of and if what they’re feeling is real or manipulated. So, a little different adventure, with a lot of spice thrown in.

Who is your favorite character of all of the books you’ve written and Why?

It’s got to be Dee Taylor. Dee is a 75-year old woman who lives on Kauai. She only wears brightly colored, floral muumuus and a large floppy hat that she makes wreath around each day. Sometimes the wreath is floral, sometimes there’s kumquats, and a twig, with Dee you never know. She’s tiny, sassy, mischievous, has long, wavy silver hair and eyes the color of blueberries. I knew I had someone special when the fans asked for her story. So, I wrote one entitled, Dee’s Cornucopia, which will hopefully be out around Christmas time.

What do you want your readers to take away from your books?

First, I want them to be involved. I want them to go on the journey and become invested in the characters and their cause. Whether it be from the Greek god’s point of view or the modern-day descendants. Second, I want them to ask themselves what they would do if a stranger befriended them, then told them they were descended from the Greek gods and an integral part of a quest. Hopefully, I’ve captured that incredulity. Finally, I want them to enjoy themselves and be transported from reality, for a short time.

Do you find it easier to write from a male or female point of view? Why?

It’s easier writing from a woman’s point of view for me because I obviously know how they think better. I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister and a friend, I can place myself in their reality and be able to navigate it. Men are harder but very interesting to write. Often, I will covertly study men and how they behave, from a place of non-judgement. They aren’t so different in feelings, just how they express those feelings, and have varying degrees of emotion about them. They look at things quite literally, rather than emotionally. Not that all women or men are like this but it’s easier to identify. If I’m ever in doubt about what a man would think, I’ll find fun ways to present the scenarios to all the men I know, then they show up in a book, and they’re like, “Whaaat?”

Okay, you’re casting the movie version of your novel – who would you choose for the main characters? We’re talking dream cast.

I was hoping I’d get to answer this question! Okay, so I write with vision type boards on my computer and have photos of the characters to draw inspiration. Without a doubt Colt is Sam Heughan with an American accent. Mila Kunis, would play Lilly Morgan, and the lovely Jody Jaress for Ms. Dee Taylor. Mel Gibson is the perfect Ray Butler (think Blood Father and Man without a face combined). Jennifer Anistan would be Raven Hunter, model Ben Dahlhaus and sexy Finn Taylor.

SPEED ROUND FOR A LITTLE ADDED FUN:

Favorite movie: Pride & Prejudice
Favorite book: Outlander
Last book read: Betwixt
Favorite color: Green
Stilettos or flipflops: Flip Flops
Coffee or tea: Coffee
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: eBook/Audiobook
Pencil or pen: Pen

Favorite song: Unwritten

Streak or not: Absolutely Streak

Favorite dessert: Lemon Meringue Pie

Favorite junk food: Chocolate

Favorite thing to do to relax: Read!

Champagne or gin: Gin

Paranormal or Historical: Paranormal

Wonder Woman or Top Model: Wonder Woman

Favorite TV show: Documentaries

Hot or cold: Warm

POV: 3^rd person

I’d die if I don’t have: My family

Review or Not: Review

Tell us a little about The Warrior’s Progeny.

If love dies, can it be reborn…only stronger?

Colton Stone is a newly traded tight end whose reputation is as battered as his football helmet. When he receives a vacation invitation from his new teammates, he accepts. There he collides with Dr. Lillian Morgan, a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon, and doesn’t know what to think.

A widow with two children, Lilly is looking forward to her friends’ wedding. When she meets Colton Stone, his arrogant attitude only makes her long for the love she took for granted. Lilly struggles between letting go of her perfect past for an uncertain future.

Strange events occur, out of the realm of normal consciousness. When black energy touches their world Colt and Lilly become the pawns of the immortal Greek gods. Is the love developing between them natural, or part of a larger prophecy?

A sneak peek between the pages of The Warrior’s Progeny.

Colt’s body temperature heated until his helmet, now that of a Trojan, melted and became part of his skull. Painful, thick, fire plumes ignited from the sides of his head and curved toward the sky, until they solidified in a solid line down the middle of the helmet. Black snake-like smoke wafted up from the earth and encircled his ankles and wrists, locking him into place.

He looked over at Lilly, who now knelt helpless as her skin became dusky, then turned a brilliant shade of blue. However, the color became an iridescent hue that reminded him of something just outside the confines of his mind. Her skin bubbled, separated, and formed into thousands of compact hairs. Small points protruded from her shoulders and down her arms until they freed themselves from the surface of her skin, as she screamed. Several long, hollow shoots grew, lengthening into the elegant, arching rods, as more buds sprouted from them and turned into thready feathers. As the feathers lengthened, green and blue eyes opened in intervals. At a screech of transformation, Lilly turned into a peacock, whose tail plumed out in a perfect fan. A feathered diadem lifted from her skull and the beautiful eyes all blinked at him. He wanted to mate with her, devour her, possess her, and bellowed out an unearthly warrior battle cry. Breaking his bonds, he charged at her.

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About the Author:

Award-winning author, Jeny Heckman, was born in Bellingham, Washington, and was the youngest of two daughters. She met her husband, Jeff, in August 1992, and eloped three months later, at Magen’s Bay, on St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.

She wrote her first book, the Catch, in a few short months but took several years before she gained the courage to self-publish it at her son’s urging, and her love for writing began.

In 2018, Jeny knew her next project would be a series that showed adults could have adventures in the paranormal-fantasy genre too. So, she created the Heaven & Earth series, a story of doomed Greek gods and their only salvation, their modern-day descendants. Her first book of the series, the Sea Archer, was immediately picked up by the New York publishing house, the Wild Rose Press, and won, “Best in Category” from the 2018 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

In the year 2020, Jeny released, Dancing Through Tears, a short story from the anthology, Australia Burns: Volume Two, highlighting the Route 91 massacre from the perspective of one family at the concert, and at Mandalay Bay. She also intends to release, the Warrior’s Progeny, and Dee’s Cornucopia, in 2020, continuing the Heaven & Earth Series.

Jeny lives in Washington State with her husband of over twenty-eight years.

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