Showing posts with label Gail Roughton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gail Roughton. Show all posts

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Saturday's Blurbs featuring Books by Gail Roughton and Jude Pittman #MFRWAuthor #BWLPublishing #Paranormal


Sisters of Prophecy

So for both of us, Sisters of Prophecy

The Shipton history is—well—complicated. Some families have a guardian angel. The Shiptons have a guardian ancestor, one who jumps right in, boots first, whenever one of her girls has a problem.

Of course, Mother Shipton's girls aren't always limited by blood ties. They're connected by power, shared and used wisely. That power needs to get busy, too, or Katherine's oilman fiancé is going to disappear for good in the Gulf of Mexico, Katherine's best friend Sylvia is never going to reconnect with her childhood soul mate, and Irene's world champion saddle bronc rider fiancé Matt Dillon (yep, that's his real name) might end up under the hooves of one of those bucking broncos. It's a good thing Mother has back-up in the form of Lillian Shipton, this era's family troubleshooter. The spider-web of trouble stretching between these three modern Sisters of Prophecy might be too much for even a time-traveling guardian like Mother Shipton to handle on her own!

Then here’s one for me, and one for Gail

Deadly Secrets, Kelly McWinter PI, Book 1
Welcome to the world of Indian Creek, Texas, where you'll meet some of the most amazing characters to ever grace the pages of fiction. Kelly McWinter, a retired cop who has sought out a simpler life in Indian Creek while trying to put a personal tragedy behind him. Kelly's dog, Jake,  a German Shepherd who has fought some battles of his own and is still the best partner a man could ever hope for. Anna Davis, an old woman hiding from her past whose secrets come back to haunt her.

 Kelly McWinter is a former Fort Worth police officer who suffered a personal tragedy that caused him to quit the force and isolate himself in the community of Indian Creek, Texas. Kelly is the Clint Eastwood, John Wayne type who makes everyone feel safe.  The inhabitants of Indian Creek are so unique and eccentric that readers and reviewers alike have fallen in love with the regulars who frequent Cam Belcher's Hideaway Bar and Barbecue

Country Justice


What goes around comes around. That's justice. Especially in small towns where everybody knows how many eggs you ate for breakfast before you've even left the Scales of Justice Café. Funny thing, though. Usually what everybody thinks they know—they really don't. Take the folks in Turkey Creek. Oh, everybody knows Maggie Kincaid doesn't speak to her father. They think they know why. But they don't. They know Billy Brayton died twenty-five years back. Too bad nobody told him. Because now he's home. And it's time to right some past wrongs. Time for justice. Country Justice.

Country Justice Reviews: "One of the best books I've ever read and I read about 100 or more a year. I loved the characters from the very beginning and was sorry when the story ended. I'm ready for the sequel—hint, hint." ~ Amazon Reader tvlgds "I've never been to Georgia—and that's my loss. But Country Justice took me close. Real close. So some inside and meet some new good friends—and some bad ol' boys. Because there's a gray Mustang doing lickety-split over the hill. Because a dead man's coming home—and Turkey Creek doesn't know what's about to hit it." ~ Author Graeme Smith (formerly published as Down Home)





Friday, November 23, 2018

Friday's Guests Gail Roughton and Jude Pittman #MFRWAuthor #BWLPublishing #Genres #Mystery #Paranormal


1.  What’s your genre or do you write in more than one?

Gail:  I honestly don’t think I have a genre.  An idea occurs to me and if I’m lucky, that idea sustains itself long enough to become a book. And that book is whatever genre it turns out to be, and is usually a mix of several, most likely paranormal suspense or thriller, usually with some romance, a good bit of humor (I hope), and occasionally a tad bit of horror though there has been one I myself consider pure Southern Gothic Horror. There’s even been a paranormal romantic fantasy.

Jude: It’s mystery for me. I do write romance, but even then there’s always a mystery component.  I cut my teeth on Rex Stout and Agatha Christie mysteries and the habit’s never lef tme.

2. Did you choose your genre or did it choose you?

Gail:  See answer to No. 2.  I most definitely don’t choose my genre(s).

Jude:  It chose me, no question about that, drew me in and hooked me good.

3.  Is there any genre you’d like to try?  Or is there one you wouldn’t?

Gail:  I’ve never consciously picked any genre, I just follow along down whatever path the story and characters take.  That being said, I can’t imagine any story leading me along a pure sci-fi genre path because I don’t have the expertise or knowledge to write pure sci-fi.

Jude: One I definitely would not try is fantasy where you have to create an entire world as well as all the characters that inhabit it.  I have tremendous admiration for those who can do that, but it’s just not a place where I’d excel.

4.  What fiction do you read for pleasure?

Gail:  The older I get, the more I value humor, so I prefer light reads such as cozy mysteries or romantic/paranormal suspense with lots of humor thrown in.

Jude.  Mystery all the way; I read romantic suspense to but my very favorite read is a really good who-dunnit.

5.  Tell me a bit about yourself and how long you’ve been writing.

Gail:  I’m a retired paralegal who lived in a law office for forty-one years, during which time my husband and I raised three kids and I raised quite a few attorneys on the side.  We’re lucky in that our kids didn’t run away from home when they were old enough and live very near us, which means we have a very active role in our grandchildren’s lives; in fact, we’re Grandparent Day Care. Our grandson is 12 and our granddaughter is almost 6.  After retirement two years ago, I enjoyed staying home and doing nothing so much I was afraid my brain would turn to mush, so I started substitute teaching in my grandchildren’s school system. A good day in a classroom is like nothing else. And of course, the same can be said for a bad day in a classroom, lol.

Jude:  As you know I’m also a publisher, having gravitated to that after years of writing, publishing, then getting involved in marketing for myself and a bunch of other authors, and finally taking the leap into publishing.  I love what I do but I confess that there’s a lot less time for reading and writing for my own pleasure than I used to have.  But in place of that I get a lot of pleasure out of seeing our BWL books enjoyed by more and more readers and I get to bask in the glow of the great reviews our authors receive, so that’s a pretty special tradeoff for the time I don’t have anymore.

6.  Which of your characters is your favorite?

Gail:  I don’t have one, or at least, I don’t have the same favorite all the time, it depends on my mood at the time anyone’s asking.  It’s rather like picking a favorite child. Sometimes you might like one of your kids more than you like the others, but you still can’t honestly say you love one more or that one’s your favorite.

Jude:  Kelly McWinter has been with me so long and is so much a part of the 12 years I spent in Texas, that he’s got to be my favorite.  He’s the PI from my Kelly McWinter PI series, and he and I go way back to Texas in the 1990s.

7.  Are there villains in your books and how were they created?

Gail:  Of course there’re villains in my books! Every hero/heroine has to have an adversary.  But I can’t tell you how they’re created except to say they’re created just like all my characters are.  They just get up and start walking and talking and I transcribe what they say.  If they didn’t, I wouldn’t have a book.

Jude: Oh of course there are villains in my books. You can’t have a mystery without a villain.  Usually it’s a murderer but sometimes it’s a particularly nasty thief or a character everyone loves to hate – usually the boyfriend of a very nice gal you wish had more sense.

8.  What are you working on now?

Gail:  I’m not actively working on anything at the moment.  I have a couple of ideas I’ve scribbled some on, and both of them lean heavy toward humor, but I’m a slow writer, always have been.  Ideas have to sit on the back eye of the stove and simmer.  If they come to a boil, then a book gets finished and if that happens, the actual writing time’s pretty short, usually no more than six months.  But there’s never any guarantee they’ll come to a boil and if they don’t, then there’s no book.

Jude: I wish I could say I was “actively” working, but I am trying to get the 6th Kelly McWinter PI novel, Deadly Ghosts, ready for 2019.  It’s a very slow process with a lot of other stuff interfering, but I am trying.

9.  What’s your latest release and how did the idea arrive?

Gail:  Jude Pittman and I just published a re-work and expansion of Sisters of Prophecy, which is a true genre hybrid of paranormal/suspense/romance.  For years, Jude wanted to write a novel starring a family ancestor, Ursula Shipman, known to history as Mother Shipman, a lady famous for making a great many prophecies.  As previously noted, paranormal’s kinda my thing, and mixing genres is definitely my thing, so she asked me to co-write the story with her, and Sisters of Prophecy is the final product.

Jude:  Gail answered that one just fine.  Loved working with her on Sisters and loved the end result, what a fun book to write and to read.


Saturday, April 23, 2016

Saturday's Blurbs featuring Books by Gail Roughton #MFRWauthor #paranormal #susepnse


Paralegal extraordinaire Ariel Anson’s life isn’t going at all the way she planned. Not after private investigator Chad Garrett of War-N-Wit, Inc. roared into her life in response to her urgent call for a skip-trace. Instead of settling down with her steady CPA fiancé, Ariel’s swept into another life entirely. How could she know War-N-Wit stood for Warlock and Witch? Or that Chad Garrett was a warlock in search of his eternal soulmate, the witch he’d reincarnated with through many lifetimes? The witch he insisted was – her! From Vegas to Savannah to Daytona Bike Week and back to Vegas, this series takes the characters on some out-of-this-world adventures! 

What goes around comes around. That’s justice. Especially in small towns where everybody knows how many eggs you ate for breakfast before you've even left the Scales of Justice Café. Funny thing, though. Usually what everybody thinks they know—they really don’t. Take the folks in Turkey Creek. Oh, everybody knows Maggie Kincaid doesn’t speak to her father. They think they know why. But they don’t. They know Billy Brayton died twenty-five years back. Too bad nobody told him. Because now he’s home. And it’s time to right some past wrongs. Time for justice. Country Justice. 


Deep in the woods that slide off into Stone Creek Swamp, teenage drug dealers retrieve their stash and receive an unexpected dividend—the unwitting resurrection of Cain, powerful Bokor of Black Magic. Atop Coleman Hill, two young attorneys renovate a decrepit relic of a house for their home and office. A house with a past it wants to share, showing Ria Knight tantalizing scenes of its original owner, Dr. Paul Devlin. Dr. Devlin’s not exactly alive and well, but he’s not dead either. With Cain’s resurrection, the battle between the two first begun in 1888 rages again. Because the past, like evil, never dies. It just—waits. 

Friday, April 22, 2016

Friday - Who She Was Before - Gail Roughton #MFRWauthor

1.      What were you in your life before you became a writer? Did this influence your writing?

To a certain extent, I think every writer is born a writer. It’s something that’s just there, the urge (and hopefully the ability) to make something that lives only in your imagination come to life for others through your words, and I say this because without that urge (and hopefully ability) writing in the sense of telling a story’s just not possible. That being said, of course there’s that day-to-day thing of making a living. In my case, I worked as a paralegal for forty-one years and yes ma’am, that’s had a huge impact on my writing, both in technique and subject matter. I’m also a country girl raised in the small town Deep South, which has definitely had a major impact on my writing. I’m also a wife, mother, and grandmother, and since everyone’s life is their own novel, that’s also a great source of material.   

2.       Are you genre specific or general? Why? I don't mean genres like romance, mystery, fantasy etc. There are many subgenres of the above.

I’m all over the place. I never set out to write a specific anything. A story occurs to me and I tell it, and it’s whatever genre or subgenre it turns out to be. In general, if I have one thread that does recur in my work, it’s a paranormal slant.  Sometimes a little, sometimes a whole lot; sometimes humorous, sometimes anything but. 

3.      Did your reading choices have anything to do with your choice of a genre or genres?

Undoubtedly. I’ve always been an eclectic reader, and my preferences have changed over the years. I’ve always loved romantic suspense and thrillers, I’ve always preferred novels with a paranormal element. I used to be quite a horror fan, but with age I’ve grown away from that. Life’s sometimes horrible enough, just watch the news. In the last few years, I’ve preferred to read lighter suspense, especially the ones with humor. I read for entertainment, and in fact, I write for the same reason. Entertainment. My own. So my hope is in entertaining myself, I manage to entertain readers, too. 

4.      What's your latest release?

Let me think, it’s been a while, actually. I’ve just retired and my last two years in a law office were rather—well, brutal, and didn’t leave me much mental stamina for writing.  But my actual last release was the fourth War-N-Wit, Inc. novel, MeanStreet, LLC.  That’s a light, paranormal romantic suspense series with lots of humor in it (that is, I hope it’s got lots of humor in it, that’s what I’ve been told anyway.) I tend to throw a lot of genre elements into one book. 

5.      What are you working on now?

Right now I’m working (and have been working) on the second novel in the Southern Justice series (Country Justice being the first novel in that series), titled Black Turkey Walk. Those particular books are small town suspense/thriller novels which are very dear to my heart. As I’ve always said of the first book, I know the places of Country Justice because I live there, and I know the characters of Country Justice because I’m part of them and they’re part of me. I also write occasionally with friend and fellow writer Jude Pittman and she asked me a few months ago to collaborate on a book she’s working on, the fourth of her A Murder State of Mind series titled Deadly Lights featuring private investigator Kelly McWinter. There was one plot line in there just screaming the name of one of the characters from my Southern Justice series, a character readers know as T-bone. It wasn’t planned, it just happened. So T-bone’s making a guest appearance. 

6.      Where can we find you?

I’m at Books We Love, Ltd. and available on Amazon. Readers can also visit on Facebook and at my blogs, Writin' With Southern Stylin'! and Flowers on the Fence.


Friday, May 10, 2013

Just a Few Lines via Gail Roughton from The Color of Seven


The Dark Series: The Color of Seven




He walked up to a little backwoods Alabama black Church. Seven

Cedars Baptist. It stood right outside Seven Cedars, Alabama. He laughed. “Be you de sebbenth son of a sebbenth son,

boy?” Well, maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t. Sounded good, though. He went

inside to join the ongoing service. Within a month, he’d collected a group of

ten or so of the black community’s finest young men. He met with them down by the

banks of Seven Cedar Creek.



“My name be Cain,” he announced. “An’ my color be sebben.”



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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Books We Love Blurbathon The Dark Series by Gail Roughton


The Dark Series (The Color of Seven and The Color of Dusk) by Gail Roughton


A Books We Love Special Edition - Two Complete Novels



"Whut I knows, son, is dat dis world, it be ringed with worlds on worlds...." Deep in the woods that slide off into Stone Creek Swamp, teenage drug dealers retrieve their stash and receive an unexpected dividend—the unwitting resurrection of Cain, powerful Bokor of Black Magic. Atop Coleman Hill, two young attorneys renovate a decrepit relic for their home and office. A house with a past it wants to share, showing Ria Knight tantalizing scenes of its original owner, Dr. Paul Devlin. Dr. Devlin’s not exactly alive and well, but he’s not dead either. Because what crosses over when the worlds overlap can change the course of a man's life. And death. And future. Explore the Dark. The past, like evil, never dies. It just—waits.



http://www.amazon.com/Series-Color-Special-Edition-ebook/dp/B009SCZ19Q/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1360627272&sr=8-4&keywords=Gail+Roughton



Drop in on February 16 for a preview from Vijaya Schartz!



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The Dark Series (The Color of Seven and The Color of Dusk) by Gail Roughton

A Books We Love Special Edition - Two Complete Novels



"Whut I knows, son, is dat dis world, it be ringed with worlds on worlds...." Deep in the woods that slide off into Stone Creek Swamp, teenage drug dealers retrieve their stash and receive an unexpected dividend—the unwitting resurrection of Cain, powerful Bokor of Black Magic. Atop Coleman Hill, two young attorneys renovate a decrepit relic for their home and office. A house with a past it wants to share, showing Ria Knight tantalizing scenes of its original owner, Dr. Paul Devlin. Dr. Devlin’s not exactly alive and well, but he’s not dead either. Because what crosses over when the worlds overlap can change the course of a man's life. And death. And future. Explore the Dark. The past, like evil, never dies. It just—waits.



http://www.amazon.com/Series-Color-Special-Edition-ebook/dp/B009SCZ19Q/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1360627272&sr=8-4&keywords=Gail+Roughton



Drop in on February 16 for a preview from Vijaya Schartz!



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