Literary
Nymphs Interview
Title:
No Turning Back
Author:
Deanna Jewel
Publisher: Swallowtail Productions LLC
Genre:
historical romance
Release
Date: 2010
LN: Do you write in more
than one genre?
Deanna: Yes, I write in three
genres: historical, time travel, and
contemporary because I enjoy not being pigeon-holed in only one genre. That way
I feel it keeps my characters active and I have many wanting their story told.
LN: What if any, is the
hardest part of writing for you?
Deanna: Keeping my butt in the seat! We run our own
business and my time is require to be there also, which means I have to split
my time between writing, blogging, and the office.
LN: What inspired the
story?
Deanna: I’ve read historical
romance since I was a teenager, reading Virginia Henley and Johanna Lindsey. I
felt as though their writing pulled me into the story and wanted to be able to
do that for my readers. I’d love to get No Turning Back in front of more
readers so they can let their friends know the story may have done that for
them. I take the reader to London in 1778, let
them ride in Hyde Park , take carriages rides
and be a part of swords fights aboard ships at sea. I’d also wanted to be able
to wear the beautiful gowns worn at the balls and to dance to the orchestras
with a handsome duke. No Turning Back has all of that and I hope the readers
feel they’re taken to each location in the story.
EXCERPT:
North Yorkshire , England
Michael
‘Nathaniel’ Clairmont, the Fourth Duke of North Yorkshire, crumpled the missive
he’d received from his fiancée’s parents as he raked his fingers through his
shoulder length hair. Fear tightened his chest as he stepped to the door and
called to his squire. “Prepare Caesar, now!”
Stepping
back into the room, he addressed his longtime friend, Anthony Faulkner. “I’m
going to see Lady Stockholm’s parents. Clarissa is missing. Are you with me?”
Faulkner
jammed his tricorn hat atop his head. “Bloody right I am!”
Moments
later, after meeting with the Stockholm
After
tethering Caesar to a branch, he motioned for Faulkner to follow him along the
path. A piece of green silk shimmered atop a briar bush, and Michael grabbed up
the soft material. It was the color he’d last seen on Clarissa. The fragrance
of jasmine assailed his senses. His eyes widened in recognition of the
scent...the same one Clarissa wore!
He
gripped the material in his fist. Bile rose in his throat as fear knotted his
gut. Though afraid of what he’d find ahead, he pushed forward; low-hanging
branches slapped at his face and caught at his shoulder-length hair. He pushed
the foliage out of his way and tromped the underbrush in his desperate search.
When
he reached out to block another branch, a silk stocking skimmed his face and he
grabbed the stocking for inspection. Michael looked at Faulkner’s worried face,
swore under his breath and moved on but a foreboding feeling ate at his senses,
almost like being watched.
He
couldn’t miss a gown strewn atop the bushes. The shock that tore throughout his
system stopped Michael dead in his tracks, his muscles recoiling in reaction.
Meticulously arranged over the waist-high bushes, as if in preparation for
wear, lay a dark green silk gown, a vicious tear low in the neckline. His gaze
moved slowly over the material. Tightness gripped his chest, feeling as though
someone had reached in and squeezed his heart, the pain so intense it burned.
He touched Faulkner’s arm, and gritted his teeth. “It’s the gown Clarissa wore
at the ball last night,” he said in a gut-wrenching rasp. His gaze
searched the area until the very thing he wanted to avoid seeing lay before
him. His body froze.
A
bare, delicate ankle peeked from beneath the underbrush.
Lunging forward like a wild beast, ravaging
the area, throwing branches and uprooting ferns, he uncovered her body...clad
only in her white satin chemise, splattered with her own blood.
His
tortured scream echoed throughout the surrounding forest as he fell to his knees
beside her battered body. Praying she might hear, he whispered her name.
Touching her bruised cheek--he found it still warm. A flicker of hope ignited
within his heart as he pressed his fingertips against the slim column of her
throat. Moments later, finding no trace of a pulse, that slight flicker of hope
extinguished itself. His mind was a whirlwind of thoughts at who could be her
killer.
LN: Do you have other books
out?
Deanna: I released Whispers at Ghost Point in
December 2012, which is a sequel to No Turning Back where I’ve
reincarnated the characters 200 years later in a contemporary ghost story. The
characters meet again, feel they know each other, yet aren’t sure why. The
heroine helps renovate an old lighthouse where a ghost is determined to reclaim
the heroine…dead or alive! If you love ghost stories, please check out the book
at my website.
I have a blog tour Grand Prize Drawing
going on and all readers can enter by clicking HERE where
they’ll also find links to other stops where more contest are going on that
they can enter, too.
LN: Where can we find your
website?
Deanna: My site links are listed below. Ladies, thank
you for having me chat with your readers this week!
Author
Biography &Links
Deanna
Jewel lives in the Pacific Northwest and has
been writing multi-genre romance since 1991. She is married to a retired
captain of the fire department. He’s also owned his own businesses for 23
years. They have two Siamese cats: Zoie and Sinbad, who keep them entertained. Deanna
has enjoyed reading historical romance novels for over thirty years, camping
with her family, and traveling.
She
writes to draw the reader into the story to experience what the characters
feel, to show both the hero's and heroine's points of view, and to take the
reader away from their every day stress to a place not yet visited.
A
trip to Dubois , Wyoming ,
south of Yellowstone , inspired her time-travel
novel. The landscape and town locations described in NEVER SURRENDER are real.
Jon Daley, a professor at Boise
State University
NO TURNING BACK, her historical romance,
takes place in England
Her
newest novel, WHISPERS AT GHOST POINT
released in late December, 2012. Whispers
takes place at an abandoned lighthouse in Wilmington , NC
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Her
site links:
Website
http://deannajewel.com
TinyURL
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(@deannajewel)
YouTube-Deanna http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhee
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Avid Readers Haven http://avidreadershaven.com
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/deannajewel
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