Books by Priscilla Brown are featured today #BWLAuthor #Finding Billie #Dancing the Reel #Silver Linings

 For mechanic Billie, repairing cars is easier than perking up her love life. https://books2read.com/Finding-Billie

Struggling with a tricky assignment on a wild Scottish island, journalist Jazz's almost literal lifeline is the sexy ferry deckhand. https://books2read.com/Dancing-the-Reel

He almost runs her over, she breaks a shoe in a drain. What can he do but play Prince Charming? https://books2read.com/Silver-Linings

Friday - Priscilla Brown is Visiting and talking about her books #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #romance #Caribbean island #contemporary

 1 Tell me about the book you wish to feature

 contemporary romance Where the Heart Is, set mostly on a  subtropical Caribbean island where he lives and works, and she's visiting on business

2 Where did the idea arise?

from a holiday visit to such an island several years ago (without the romance!)   

 

3 How much research was involved? 

 only about small aircraft

4How long did you take to write the book?

 off and on, about a year

5How long have you bee writing, What is your sun sign

writing again off and on during many years. Sun sign, no idea.

6 Do you stick to one genre or write in a number?

only contemporary romance

7 https://priscilllabrownauthor.com

Saturday's Blurbs feature books by Priscilla Brown #BWLAuthor #Shopping #Prince Charming #Caribbean resort #Contemporary romance

 Class Act  She's lover shopping, and her new boss could never be the goods on her wish list. Besides, which of them is really the boss?

https://books2read.com/Class-Act

Silver Linings  He almost runs her over, she breaks a shoe in a drain. What can he do but play Prince Charming?

https://books2read.com/SilverLinings

Where the Heart Is  Cristina intends her working holiday at a luxury Caribbean resort to be a much-needed man-free zone. Why won't this zany charmer of a pilot get the message?

https://books2read.com/Where-the-Heart-Is

Priscilla Brown is visiting and talking about her up coming release #BWLAuthor #Contemporary romance #Helsinki #Heirlooms #Italian food

 

1. Tell me about your latest release or the book you wish to feature? Genre?

A Contemporary romance Herlooms to be released August 2022

 

2. Where did the idea arise?

I shared a table in a Helsinki cafe with two goegeous Italian men (strangers) as does the lead female character. From then on, her story is fiction.m

 

3. How much research was involved? Did you stay on point or be distracted by wanting to look at just one more thing? Not much geographical researc as I'd already visited the locations of Helsinki, Amsterdam and Lake Como. Italian food and wine tastily checked.

 

4. How long did you take to write the book?

About 6 months off and on

 

5. Now a bit about you. How long have you been writing? What is your Sun Sign?

Writing about 20 years. Sun sign, no idea.

 

6. Do you write in a number of genres of stick to one?

Contemporary romance only.

 

7. Where on the internet can you be found?

. https://priscillabrownauthor.com

Saturday's Blurbs feature Books by Priscilla Brown #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Hot Ticket #Where the Heart Is #Sealing the Deal #Romance

 Hot Ticket. Love or her career? Will ambitious lawyer Olivia listen to her heart or her head before it's too late?

https://books2read.com/Hot-Ticket

Where the Heart is. Cristina intends her working holiday at a luxury Caribbean resort to be a much-needed man-free-zone. Why won't this zany charmer of a pilot get the message?

https://books2read.com/Where-the-Heart-is

Sealing the Deal.  Mayor Anna Marshall agonises over the parlous finances of both her country town and her alpaca stud. Is this sexy television

producer financial salvation or major trouble?

https://books2read.com/Sealing-the-Deal

Friday Priscilla Brown is Visiting and Talking about Characters #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Writing #Characters

 Day 1 Characters

 

2. Heroes, Heroines, Villains. Which are your favorite to write?  heroes

 

3. Heroes. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or plain imagination create the man you want every reader to love? Do they come before the plot or after you have the idea for the story? Magazine ads and editorial style pages, composite creations from various real life sightings and eavesdropping and lots of imagination. They come before the plot since I am a' pantser' not a 'plotter'. See #7 below

 

4. Heroines. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or imagination create the woman you want the reader to root for? Do they appear before the plot or after you have the idea for the story?  Almost always from imagination.

  Your favorite book? Hot Ticket

5. Villains or villainesses or an antagonist, since they don’t always have to be the bad guy or girl. They can be a person opposed to the hero’s or heroine’s obtaining their goal. How do you choose one? How do you make them human? I think I don't actually choose one, he/she pops up in the plot and gets developed into a villlain possessing some little quirk or attitude or activity.

6.  Sorry Janet, the computer stole the first words of the question.

hero, heroine and or the villain? Dancing the Reel. Hero is a Scottish ferryhand who may be more than he seems. Heroine is a visiting Australian journalist. Villain is his mother.

 

7. What are you working on now? A contemporary romance set in Finland and Italy with a hero based in on a real person I met in a cafe in Helsinki.

8. How can people find you? https://priscillabrownauthor.com

 

9. Who are your favorite authors?  I have many - any writer in any genre who can keep me turning the pages.

Saturday's Blurbs Feature Books by Priscilla Brown #MFRWauthor #BooksWeLoveLTD #contemporary romance

Sealing the Deal

Excited that television producer Kyle Kinross wants to shoot his blockbuster drama not only in mayor Anna Marshall’s struggling country town but on her cash-strapped alpaca farm, she sees his company’s fee as a solution to financial predicaments. Can she survive accusations of payola? Is this sexy younger man buying her influence against community opposition, or could he possibly want her for the generous loving nature masked by her business suit?

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Hot Ticket

Seconded to a different city, ambitious lawyer Olivia intends her new life to be man-free—until barista Callum serves her coffee topped with a chocolate heart. When her secondment concludes, will she listen to her head and return, or to her heart and stay?

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Where the Heart Is

After a failed marriage, men are off Cristina’s essentials list, and no way does romance figure in her expectations of her working holiday at a luxury Caribbean resort. The resort’s pilot has other ideas, aiming to put himself at the top of said list. Can this zany charmer break through her defences? But is he a playboy with secrets?

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http://bwlpublishing.ca

Friday's Guest - Priscilla Brown #MFRWauthor #BooksWeLoveLTD #contemporary romance #Australia #NewSouthWales

1. What’s your genre and do you write in more than one?  Contemporary romance is currently my sole genre.

2. Did you choose your genre or did it choose you? It chose me. Some years ago, as Australian correspondent for UK Writers’ News, I attended a Romance Writers of Australia conference. I left the conference inspired to write romance novels, something I’d never considered in either genre or length.

3. Is there any genre you’d like to try? Or is there one you wouldn’t? Historical appeals, specifically the medieval period, but at the moment I am daunted by the amount of research necessary. Not mystery, fantasy.

4. What fiction do you read for pleasure? A wide variety, including romance, historical, light crime and general (non-genre) novels

5. Tell me a bit about yourself and how long you’ve been writing. I’m based in regional New South Wales. I’ve been writing for many years; my published career started with non-fiction magazine articles, and continued via short stories in various genres to book-length romance.

6. Which of your characters is your favourite? A male favourite is Lee, chief protagonist in the forthcoming romance Class Act, because of his significant character development. From a man held hostage by guilt and regrets and coping only through rigid control of every aspect of his life, he comes to realise that he can break free and permit himself to love.

7. Are there villains in your books and how were they created?  Not villains in the sense of being criminal, but the stories do contain a character whose malicious actions or motives are important to the plot. I don’t know how they were created—they arrived ready-made to speak, and wrote themselves in!

8. What are you working on now? The missing middle of a story that has its beginning and ending.

 9. What’s your latest release and how did the idea arrive? Silver Linings is a romantic comedy born of my enrolment in a silver jewellery class, about which there was nothing either romantic or comedic so I invented a more enjoyable experience.

Saturday's Blurbs features Books by Priscilla Brown #MFRWauthor #sweetromance #contemporary

Where the Heart Is

Men are off recently-divorced Cristina’s essentials list, so no way does romance figure in her expectations of her working holiday as English/Italian interpreter for a conference at Lovers’ Lagoon, a luxury Caribbean resort. She wants to discover why the resort has not settled a huge three-year outstanding debt owed to her father, previously its Australian representative. Meanwhile, she’s fighting attraction to the resort’s pilot, who aims to put himself at the top of her list. Can this zany charmer break through lovely Cristi’s defenses and set free her warm and funny persona? But is flying merely to pass the time between his activities as a playboy holding secrets?

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Hot Ticket

What kinky no-hoper would attach his business cards to the sexiest bras in a luxury boutique? Ambitious Sydney lawyer Olivia, seconded to Darwin for six months after ending a toxic affair with her boss, looks forward to a rest from men. Yet curiosity leads her to investigate the guy at the café identified on his card. Expecting the tropical climate to be the steamiest aspect of her new life, she’s shocked by the kick of heat when Callum serves her coffee topped by a chocolate heart. Surely such a charmer would not be so romantically challenged he needs to use his cards as date bait. Callum doesn’t have time or inclination for a relationship, but he might make an exception for this classy blonde.

Resolving the enigma of the cards, Olivia learns Callum is not only the waiter she’d assumed. He learns she’s a PhD, out of his league for a boy who left school at fourteen. While the friendship they’d both intended blossoms into love, her departure looms. He knows she’s in line for a law partnership; if he begs her to stay and she does, she may regret this opportunity. Stay or go—her decision.

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Friday's Guest featuring Priscilla Brown #MFRWauthor

What were you in your life before you became a writer? Did this influence your writing? I think I wanted to call myself a writer since I won a short story competition while in primary school. As an adult, my writing has struggled alongside seven different paying occupations, some of which have been worked concurrently and all of which from time to time have had to take priority over crafting prose. To date, I’ve used two of these jobs as backgrounds for novels, but, other than that, I don’t think they’ve influenced what or how I write.

Are you genre specific or general? Why? I don’t mean genres like romance, mystery, fantasy, etc. There are many subgenres of this above. Specific—I write sweet contemporary romances showcasing sparkling protagonists, with a fairly low heat level but with sexual and sensual tension. Why? Hard! Maybe because I’m comfortable with characters who are not really larger than life and exist in believable circumstances and locations. Perhaps I should emerge from my comfort zone!

Did your reading choices have anything to do with your choice of genre or genres? Not initially, possibly the other way round. Some years ago, as the Australian correspondent for UK Writers News, I attended a Romance Writers of Australia conference. Impressed, I decided I could write in this genre, and added romances to my already eclectic reading choices. I made the switch from short stories and articles to book-length romances.

What’s your latest release? Hot Ticket, December 2016

What are you working on now? A series of three stories, all contemporary romances, in which each has reunion as its theme.

Where can we find you? https://priscillabrownauthor.com http://bookswelove.net