Celebrate 2016: Play Author Trivia Hunt (Day 1)

What better way to end the year than to celebrate our 2016 author guests? For a fun way to do this, we've put together a three-day Author Trivia Hunt.

How much do you know about your favorite authors?  If you need help finding the answers, click on the link to their interview. 

Put your answers in the comments and we'll enter you into a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card. Answer as many questions as you can to earn more chances. (Don't forget to leave us your email address.)

Let's get started with our first mystery author!

JILL MARIE LANDIS

E.E. Burke has interviewed this author for Get Lost In A Story several times, and she's always drawn a great response from our readers. No wonder. She's a seven-time Romance Writers of America finalist and winner of a RITA Award, and a New York Times bestselling author. 

Jill Marie Landis started out writing historical romance. She now writes humorous mysteries set on the island where she lives with her husband and a spoiled cat. You can visit Jill's world of tiki, hula maidens, and tropical fun at www.thetikigoddess.com.

Her latest book, Hawaii Five Uh-Oh, is the fifth in her Tiki Goddess Mystery series.

What is the name of the island where Jill's mysteries are set?

Click this link to her interview to find the answer. (Scroll down to her interview)

CAROLINE FYFFE

Next up, a USA Today Bestselling author who was born in Waco, Texas, the first of many towns she would call home during her father's career with the US Air Force. A horse aficionado from an early age, Caroline earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications from California State University-Chico before launching what would become a twenty-year career as an equine photographer. 

She began writing fiction to pass the time during long days in the show arena, channeling her love of horses and the Old West into a series of Western historical romances. Her debut novel, Where the Wind Blows, won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious Golden Heart Award as well as the Wisconsin RWA's Write Touch Readers' Award. She and her husband have two grown sons and live in the Pacific Northwest.

This year, Caroline introduced us to Texas Lonesome, the 8th book in a highly popular series. What is the name of that series?

Click this link to her interview to find the answer. (Scroll down to her interview)

MARY JO PUTNEY

Regan Walker interviewed this NY Times bestselling author as a part of the Best of the Regency series of posts. Mary Jo was born in upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition with no known cure.  Her entire writing career is an accidental byproduct of buying a computer for other purposes.  Most of her books contain history, romance, and cats.  She has had ten RWA RITA nominations, two RITA wins, RWA's 2013 Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, and she's so distractible that she’s amazed that she ever finishes a book. 

What turns off Regency author Mary Jo Putney like nothing else?

Click this link to find her answer! (Scroll down through her interview)

CHERYL BOLEN

Regan also interviewed this NY Times bestselling author as a part of the Best of the Regency series of posts. Cheryl is the author of more than twenty novels, including some great Regencies! She has been in the top five on the New York Times bestselling list and is also a USA Today bestselling author. Her novel One Golden Ring won Best Historical for the Holt Medallion and her novel My Lord Wicked won Best Historical in the International Digital Awards, the same year her Christmas novella was Best Novella. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages.

What is Regency author Cheryl Bolen's favorite movie of all time? 

Click this link to find her answer! (Scroll down to her interview)

CALLIE HUTTON

Another of Regan's Regency author interviews... Callie Hutton, USA Today bestselling author of both Western Historical and Regency romances with “historic elements and sensory details” (The Romance Reviews). She lives in Oklahoma with several rescue dogs, two adult children, a daughter-in-law, twin grandsons and her top cheerleader husband (although thankfully not all in the same home!). Living in the Midwest provides plenty of opportunities for Callie to pursue her interests: researching history, meeting readers, spending time with her adorable two year old twin grandsons, and discovering new adventures.

Where would Callie Hutton travel to in the past, if given the chance?

  

Click this link to find her answer! (Scroll down to her interview)

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Regan Walker's Best of the Regency with Callie Hutton!

Callie Hutton

Hi, all. Regan here. Welcome to the Best of the Regency! Today my guest is Callie Hutton, USA Today bestselling author of both Western Historical and Regency romances with “historic elements and sensory details” (The Romance Reviews).

Callie lives in Oklahoma with several rescue dogs, two adult children, a daughter-in-law, twin grandsons and her top cheerleader husband (although thankfully not all in the same home!). Living in the Midwest provides plenty of opportunities for Callie to pursue her interests: researching history, meeting readers, spending time with her adorable two year old twin grandsons, and discovering new adventures.

Be sure and comment on Callie’s interview (and leave your email) as she is giving away to three winners their choice of  any of the Marriage Mart Mayhem ebooks.

My interview of Callie:

 

What’s the first book you remember reading?

I know this wasn’t the first book, because I read this one in eighth grade. For some reason it always stuck with me, though. The name of the book was Binnie Latches On. It was about a young girl who didn’t quite fit in. I guess I was feeling the same way at that point in my life, and it spoke to me.

Where do you read and how often?

I ready everywhere. I have my Kindle and phone synced, so wherever I go I can read. I read in line at the supermarket, the bank, anywhere I have to wait. I also read at stop lights if the story has me mesmerized, and I’m bored staring at a red light.

What was the first story you remember writing?

The first thing I remember writing that wasn’t a school assignment was a play I wrote when I was in high school. It was a very funny story of a woman who is expecting to entertain her in-laws for dinner for the first time and she takes a friend’s tranquilizer, and it hits her the wrong way. She does a lot of stupid things. Also, her brother decides to leave home that night and comes to her house, and sits under the kitchen table, playing his guitar. I never did anything with it, buy it was fun to write.

What’s something you’d like to tell your fans?

I love my fans. They are the reason I get up in the morning and write my stories. They would not be as much fun to write if no one read them. When I receive an email from a fan, it keeps me happy all day. Thank you so much, each and every one of you.

If you couldn’t be a writer anymore, what profession would you take up?

I would do a lot of volunteer work. There are a lot of places that need help. Schools, soup kitchens, hospitals, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, things like that.

If you were given a chance to travel to the past where would you go and

specifically why?

I would go to the late 1800s. I love London, New York and the Wild West at that time. I think it would be cool to see the way they dressed (much more dignified than today), how they acted, and things like that. I think it would be fun and romantic. Also, I write in that time period in both the American West and Victorian and Regency.

Do you read reviews of your books? If so, do you pay any attention to

them, or let them influence your writing?

When I first started writing, I read my reviews, and after about the first five, or so, books, I stopped. I don’t read them now, just check to make sure my overall review rank is at least a 4. Reviews are a way for a reader to let everyone know what they think about an author’s book. If they like it, I feel good, if they don’t, I feel bad. Either way, it’s impossible for everyone who reads you book to like it. Tastes vary.

Why did you decide to write Regency Romances?

I decided to write regencies because I cut my historical romance teeth on Madeline Hunter, Mary Jo Putney, Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn and Stephanie Laurens. I started off my writing career with western historicals, but eventually wrote my first regency, and had a great time researching and writing it. From there I wrote the first in my Marriage Mart Mayhem series, The Elusive Wife, which didn't start out as a series. My publisher loved it so much, my editor asked me to turn it into a series. The Earl's Return is the final book in that series, and I've already started on my next series, Lords and Ladies in Love. The first book in Lords and Ladies in Love is Seducing the Marquess, to be released in October.

And if you have a favorite of your stories, which would it be?

If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be The Duke's Quandary. Besides the interesting title, I loved my heroine, Penelope in that book. I had her make an appearance in several books in the series.

The Earl's Return:

 

Four years ago, Darius, the Earl of Redgrave fled London two weeks before his wedding to Lady Mary’s sister and married another woman. Now a widower, he has returned to seek a new wife. One woman catches his eye  . . .

At first, Lady Mary doesn’t recognize the handsome lord as the cad who ran out on her sister. After giving him the cut direct in a London ballroom, she finds herself running into him everywhere she goes, and fighting a forbidden attraction. Not only has Mary sworn off men, Redgrave is so very wrong for her. But she cannot stop thinking of his kisses. Redgrave means to stay away from Mary but it is impossible. Passion between two people who can never be together is a dangerous game

Excerpt:

When he reached Lady Mary, Miss Edgeworth was no longer there.

“I just saw Miss Edgeworth standing here with you. I’ve come to claim my dance with her.”

Lady Mary chewed her lower lip, a habit he’d never noticed before, but found endearing. “Oh, I’m so sorry, my lord, but she spilled champagne on her gown and left for the ladies retiring room to have it cleaned.”

Couples floated past them, swaying and dipping to the lilting strains of a waltz. He held out his hand. “Since my partner is unavailable, may I have the pleasure of this dance, Lady Mary?”

She stared at his palm as if she expected it to speak. Very slowly, she placed her gloved hand in his and raised her eyes to his face.

Callie loves to hear from readers and welcomes the opportunity to become friends, both in person or virtually. Keep up with her on her Website, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon.

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A switch in time! Busy socialite Kathryn Monroe visits her parents in South Carolina only to find herself transported to 1825. Forced to step into the shoes of a near-identical ancestress, she is desperate to get back - until she falls for the very man her counterpart most wanted to avoid. Catherine Prescott wants nothing more than freedom-from rules and from the prospect of an unwanted marriage. When she finds herself in 2013, it seems all of her dreams have come true, especially when she finds her soulmate in a man her counterpart never cared for.

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Claire McGowan gets sucked into 1672, naked and scared. Duncan MacLeod rescues her only to realize she’s the key to finding his brother who was kidnapped by the Fae. Can they work together and both get what they want? Will sudden passion for each other change their goals?

A TUMBLE THROUGH TIME by USA Today bestselling author Callie Hutton
A jilted bounty hunter lands in the year 1870 three weeks before an interview vital to her law enforcement career. A Kansas marshal wages a daily battle with Civil War memories, but now has to deal with a strange woman who dropped out of nowhere at the same time townspeople are turning up dead.

HIGHLAND SORCERER by Clover Autrey
Charity Greves has the gift of healing. So when a bleeding Highlander materializes out of the air into her kitchen, she does what any herbalist would do-she heals him. She didn’t expect to be drawn back to the 13th Century where a dangerous witch holds the Highlander captive. Nor is she prepared to be drawn so strongly to him that she’ll do whatever it takes to save him.

Imprisoned by the witch, Toren Limont the High Sorcerer and Protector of the Fae’s magic, uses the last of his magical reserves to go forward in time and find a healer. He merely seeks the small respiteof healing to withstand the witch’s tortures long enough for his clan and siblings to flee. Until Charity falls with him through time as either his salvation or his entire clan’s downfall.

SMOOCH by Laura Marie Altom
Once upon a time in the not so distant future there was a beautiful scientist determined to capture her every dream. Money. Fame. And most importantly, her father’s respect. All Lucy Gordon must do is discover a new frog species. Then, miraculously, that frog finds her. Consumed with joy, she kisses the little guy. And poof! By magic, her frog is replaced by a wholly naked, wholly medieval, bad-boy prince claiming she’s saved him from an amphibian eternity. But Lucy doesn’t want a prince. She wants her frog-her dreams. At least until the prince returns her kiss with spellbinding intensity.

RIDGEWAY by Louise Clark
When Jaclyn Sinclair researches the Fenian Invasion of 1866, a little known incident in US and Canadian history, strange things start happening, until she is flung back in time to the day the invasion began. Taken prisoner, she is questioned by Sean O’Dell, one of the invading Fenians. Now she’s stuck in 1866, in the middle of a historical event she knows far too much about, being interrogated by one of the most gorgeous men she’s ever met...Uh-oh.

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Londoner Maddie St.Clair discovers a medieval ring that throws her back to 1102 Cumberland and into the life of heiress Lady Madeline Vincent a woman about to be married by Kings decree to Baron, Lord William Dowell. Their marriage does not start well, but when Madeline’s life is threatened, William’s loyalty to his kin is tested by the astonishing desire that flares between them. Not to mention the love that Madeline ignites that would last an eternity. If fate will allow.

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I asked each author who their favorite character in their book within the boxed set is?  

C.A. Szarek 

The hero of my story, Duncan MacLeod. He’s yummy, of course, but a caring family man who fights for what’s right, as well as what he wants. He’s tough on the outside, and mushy on the inside and he loves hard. I just love him. Oh, and he wears a kilt. What’s not to adore?

Callie Hutton

My Favorite character is probably Marshal Shannon. He is so perplexed by this strange woman who dresses scandalously and doesn’t seem to know her place. Women should not be doing what this woman does.

Clover Autrey
(Okay yeah, I asked myself too. Awkward)

I'd have to say my heroine, Charity Greves. She's an out-of-the-box thinker who rolls with being a modern woman thrown into the 13th Century and is brave enough to admit when she's messed something up and then brush her borrowed kirtle off and figure out how to fix it. I also love the thoughts that sprout in her head. I mean, traveling back to mingle with dashing Scotsmen is romantic and all, but a gal is simply going to miss plumbing and Diet Coke.
Wouldn't you?


Brenda Hiatt

Probably the best friend Annette, in the modern parts of the story. She's the one who gets to live my fantasy of showing the girl from the past all the wonders of the twenty-first century. She's also loosely based on an actual friend of mine, which made her great fun to write!

Laura Marie Altom

Wolfe!! At first, this bad-boy Medieval prince seems hopelessly overbearing and full of himself, but over the course of the story, he ends up being a sweetheart I fell in love with, and so does his heroine, Lucy!

Louise Clark

Jaclyn Sinclair, my time travelling heroine. I love that she’s up to the challenge of surviving in a world she’s only read about and how she manages to twist all the males she meets around her finger, even though she’s a modern, liberated female masquerading as a boy. I also admit to having a soft spot for Sean O’Dell, my Fenian hero.

Tamara Gill

My heroine, Maddie (Madeline). She’s feisty and no matter how much she knows she should not, she doesn’t take any bullying from her medieval husband. I just love her gumption.

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Anna Devlin, a recently jilted bounty hunter is a modern woman from the twenty-first century. She is anxious for the hearing that will reinstate her law enforcement career, but an encounter with a strange Native American woman sends Anna back in time to the year 1870.

Federal Marshal Wesley Shannon of Denton, Kansas, has no idea where this woman with the strange clothing and way of speaking came from. Since he fights his own inner demons, the last thing he needs is an attraction to a woman who has given him no clear idea who she is.

But when danger arrives in the form of stagecoach hold ups where drivers and passengers are being killed, Anna torments Wes with plans to help him bring in the outlaws. 

Will Wes be able to keep Anna out of harm’s way, or will his attraction to her distract him enough that they are both in danger?

EXCERPT

Anna was quiet on the walk to the café. Her eyes darted back and forth as she took in the sights around her, all the time fiddling with her ring, spinning the silver and black circle round and round. She continued to draw in deep breaths and chew on her lower lip, occasionally muttering ‘not possible’ under her breath, as if fighting an internal battle. Her natural color seemed to have paled, the light dusting of freckles more prominent.

Once they’d settled in their seats at the café and ordered dried apple pie and coffee, Wes rested his forearms on the table. “Tell me a little bit about this ‘Tulsa.’”

Anna cleared her throat. “It’s in Oklahoma.” She flinched when he shrugged, still not sure what she was talking about.

“Oklahoma. You know, the state south of Kansas?”

He narrowed his eyes. “The only thing south of us is Indian Territory, then Texas.”

“No,” she whispered, her eyes round as saucers.

Wes nodded at the waitress as she placed cups of coffee and two cuts of pie in front of them. She glanced at Anna, who stared straight ahead, taking in shallow breaths.

Once the waitress left, Anna nodded, as if she’d made a decision. “Wes, can I ask you something?”

“Sure.”

She looked him in the eye, seeming to draw strength from within herself. “What year is this?”

His forkful of pie stopped halfway to his mouth. “What?”

Anna licked her lips and cleared her throat. “Just tell me, please. What year is this?”

He frowned and lowered the fork. “It’s eighteen hundred and seventy. Why?”

Then he leapt forward as Anna’s eyes rolled to the back of her head and her slack body slid to the floor.  

A bit about Callie

USA Today best selling author of The Elusive Wife, Callie Hutton writes both Western Historical and Regency romance, with “historic elements and sensory details” (The Romance Reviews). She also pens an occasional contemporary or two. Callie lives in Oklahoma with several rescue dogs, two adult children, and daughter-in-law (thankfully all not in the same house), and her top cheerleader husband of thirty-eight years. She also recently welcomed twin grandsons to her ever expanding family. Callie loves to hear from readers, and would welcome you as a “friend” on Facebook. You can contact her through her website.

If you would like to keep informed on sales, contests and new releases, sign up for her newsletter, Callie’s Comments or join her street team, Callie’s Cohorts, where fun, gossip, contests, and general mayhem lives and flourishes.

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CLOVER: What’s the first thing you do when you finish writing a book?

CALLIE:  Although I write mostly historical romance I tend to be a ‘futures’ person, always thinking about what comes next. So once I finish a book I immediately switch gears to the next one, and start doing the pre-writing on it. I don’t have any type of celebration, or whatever. Just jump into the next project. 

CLOVER: If you were given a chance to travel to the past where would you go and specifically why?

CALLIE: I would love to travel to the late 1800s to the Old West. Then take a train ride to New York City. I think that time period was a nice one in our history. Civil war was over for about 20 years, WWWI was twenty years away, and new inventions were cropping up every day. Then I would love to take an ocean voyage to England and spend time in Victorian London.

  

CLOVER: I love that we are in a boxed set together with books focusing on time travel. A Tumble Through Time is the book you have in this set.

CALLIE: Yes. A Tumble Through Time is the story of a female police officer who is on leave from her law enforcement job due to charges she filed against a fellow officer for sexual harassment. She is currently working as a bounty hunter when she catches her best friend and her fiancé going at it on her living room couch. After a confrontation with them both, she leaves and while travelling back from visiting her aged aunt in a nursing home, stops at a Native American store and meets an old woman who sends her back in time to 1870s Kansas, where she meets Marshal Wes Shannon.

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Callie, what do you have coming out next?

The Baron’s Betrayal (The Marriage Mart Mayhem Series) will release on January 12^th. Here is the

blurb:

It's been two years since Lady Marion Tunstall lost her husband at sea. Two years of sorrow and grief. Only now has the young, comely widow finally re-entered society. It isn't until she and her family attend the merriment of a country dance that Lady Marion sees her dead husband, alive and well...and faints dead away.

Lord Tristan Tunstall has no choice but to confess—he is alive, yes, but not a whole man who can be a husband and father. When he offers her a divorce,  however, Marion stubbornly refuses. Now she has forced herself back into his life, and into his home and (oh, God forgive his weakness) his bed. He cannot stop himself from wanting her. Loving her. But can he live with the secret she is keeping from him?

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