Today I’m thrilled to welcome over Lacey Edward, author of Remembering
Raven: Allegra, Remembering Raven, Book 3.
Genre: Paranormal romance/suspense
Publisher: Asselin Group Online Publisher
Date of Publication: May 22, 2015
ASIN: B00Y1NZJIK
Word Count: 20,000
Book Description
Raven LeClaire is starting to move past the two horrible
murders that have targeted her Tarot reading clients. Although she has vowed to
stay actively involved with solving these highly puzzling deaths, she is
finally allowing herself to get closer to the handsome Viktor Thorssen. The two
of them feel the centuries old connection between them and have given into
everything that sort of bond brings with it.
Raven’s best friend and business partner, Allegra Canelle,
has been acting like a school girl since she has met the elusive and mysterious
Philippe. Because of her relationship with him, Allegra has been shirking all
of her responsibilities including holding up her end of things at The Little
Shop of Secrets. She agrees to sell her half of the shop to Raven so that she
can be free to spend more time with Philippe.
Raven is finally beginning to be truly happy in life. She
has a thriving business that she can now call her own. Viktor and she had a
relationship filled with both undying love and passion. Not only that, but she
has recalled much of their previous life together in the 14th century.
Not everything is happy, though. She has seen danger ahead
for Allegra as well as a new Tarot client and neither of the women will listen
to her. When tragedy does strike seemingly without warning, Viktor makes a
decision that will change the lives of all of them. Believing that he is doing
the right thing, he is not fully prepared for the reaction that he gets from
Raven.
Whatever else may happen, however, Viktor is determined not
to lose the love of his life – his soul mate – ever again. No matter what it
takes to keep them together, he will do it.
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Let's Interview!
What inspired you to write this book?
I have always loved writing about
vampires. My first short story in middle
school was my interpretation of a Barnabas Collins story. Now, there are many books written in the
paranormal genre. I recently went to a
Tarot card reading with my sister-in-law and that’s what gave me the idea for
Raven, the main character in the series, who is a psychic who reads Tarot
cards.
How did you come up with the title?
The main character, Raven, is reincarnated
and meets her husband from a previous life.
Over the course of the first few books, she slowly starts to remember
their past life together. In the
prequel, we find out how their previous life ended. So, I thought that the title Remembering
Raven was a great choice, as she is remembering the “old Raven”. But, I also wanted to make the title of each
book also about the victim in each book.
So, each book is titled, Remembering Raven and then also the name of the
victim.
What made you choose the main setting for
your book?
New Orleans has always had a reputation for
its paranormal culture. I just felt it
would be the perfect setting for Raven and Viktor’s love story.
If you could spend an hour in real life
with one of your characters, who would it be and why?
Actually, I would love to spend some time
with Darian. He is the guy who works
with Raven and Allegra in The Little Shop of Secrets in New Orleans. He is a character who I still feel has a
story to tell. Maybe we’ll see another
Raven book in the future, but this one will feature Darian!
Tell us a little bit about the conflict in
your story.
If you had to sell your book based on one
run of dialogue (start quote to end quote), which would it be?
Tell us about your book cover and how it
relates to your story.
I LOVE the book covers in this series! I started by having an artist do a rendering
of how I envisioned The Little Shop of Secrets would look. He did a fantastic job! Once the shop graphic was done, I found graphics
that personified each of the victims in the books and added them. Finally, the cover designer and I found a
fantastic font that looks very “vampirish” and used it for the title and the
author’s name. I was so happy with the
finished product.
Are you currently working on another story?
If so, we’d love some details.
Yes, I am!
I’m actually working on a few projects – typical writer, I guess…
I am finalizing a series of short shifter
stories. They have been fun to
write. Also, I am in the editing process
of a new YA paranormal stand-alone book about a young girl who finds out that
she is a twin and her twin has the “vampire gene”. She travels to Italy and becomes deeply
involved in the old vampire lore. Of
course, she suspects all of her new friends are vampires!
Finally, I have started working on a new YA
series about a young woman who finds out that she is a witch, descendant from a
long line of powerful witches.
Ultimately, it is a series of good versus evil. I am having a lot of fun with it!
It’s time to promo. What is your favorite
marketing tool?
I have two new tools that I
recently started using. The first is
askdavid.com He offers a fantastic
service where he tweets to his over 44,000 Twitter followers and then gives you
four links to post your own tweets to his followers.
The second is a gig I just found on
Fiverr that is a package deal. She posts
your book to 10 Goodreads Listopia lists, 10 FB groups, a Twitter following and
more. Lots of bang for your buck!
Are your book/books available in
audio? In other languages? If so, give us more details about where we can get
them and what languages they’re in.
I am in the process of having the
Remembering Raven books published in audio – stay tuned!
What genre/genres do you prefer to
write? Are there other genres you’d like to write in the future?
Right now, I prefer paranormal and
YA fantasy and supernatural. I have so
many ideas! Once I run out, I’d love to
try thrillers or suspense novels.
Excerpt
“Surely, Viktor, you cannot argue that your wife is the
fairest in the land,” Kol said with a flourish. “And that is why the lovely
Raven will be mine.”
“Kol!” Allegra cried. “What is wrong with you?”
“Allegra, do be quiet,” he said. “Or I shall be forced to
silence you.”
“Silence me?” she shouted.
Before any of them could take a breath, Kol leaped to his
feet and snapped Allegra’s neck with his bare hands.
“I did tell her to be quiet,” he said as he pushed her body
out of the chair.
“Raven, Raven, wake up, love,” a voice whispered urgently in
her ear. “You are dreaming. Wake up, now.”
Raven drew in a quick, deep gasp of air and bolted upright
in bed. She was simultaneously sweating and shivering. Viktor wrapped his arms
around her and drew her to him.
“It is ok now, my love,” he said. “You were having quite a
dream.”
“No,” she said.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, it was not a dream,” she replied.
“Ah,” Viktor said. “So it was another memory?”
“Yes, and it was clearer and more frightening than any
nightmare I’ve ever had.”
“Do you want to tell me about it?”
“Maybe,” Raven said. “I think I probably should. Allegra was
in this one.”
“Yes, that is to be expected because she was a very close
friend to you during that lifetime,” Viktor assured her.
“I know. But this was
kind of awful, Viktor.”
“In what way, my love?” he asked.
“Well, she was killed,” Raven replied. “Right in front of
us.”
Imperceptibly, Viktor’s body tensed. He tried to control it,
but she picked up on it.
“What do you know about that?”
“I…I really do not know much,” he said. “What did you see
happen?”
He listened intently as Raven recounted her dream/memory to
him.
This is bad, he thought. At this rate, she will be
remembering her own death without any help from me. I do not believe she is
ready to handle that yet.
“Something keeps trying to break through,” she said. “I do
have one question from this dream.”
“What is that, love?” he asked.
“I’m wondering about Allegra’s companion in the dream. The
one who killed her,” she said. “Viktor, just who is Kol?”
About the Author
Lacey Edward was born and raised in Canada. She writes mainly paranormal romance fiction
but enjoys throwing in a little mystery and suspense for good measure and to
keep things interesting. Her first
experience with vampires was the Barnabas Collins book she read in grade eight. She devoured it and never looked back – well,
maybe over her shoulder once or twice.
Lacey lives in the country with her husband and two
daughters. They enjoy skiing and sliding
in the winter, swimming, golfing, and boating in the summer, and music all year
long. Lacey also tries to keep up her
mixed martial arts skills, just in case one of her unsavory characters comes to
life…
For up to date promotions and release dates of upcoming
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2 comments:
A fabulous book description. This sounds great.
Thanks so much for featuring my book on your blog - I really appreciate it!
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