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Gavin (from LAST CALL) is visitng with All Things Books today, talking about his life before he met Sunny, what their future holds, and sharing some of his favorite scenes from the book - the G rated parts! :)
Have a great weekend!!!
Alannah
Friday, October 19, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
Countermeasure Series Tour Day 5
I would like to welcome Authors Chris Almeida and Cecila Aubrey to the blog today. They are here for Day 5 of their Countermeasure Series tour.
Before we talk to Chris and Cecila, take a look at the second full length novel in their Countermeasure Series
Now to hear from Chris and Cecila....
10/1 featuring Countermeasure ~ Harlie's Books
10/2 featuring Ectasy by the Sea ~ Queen of the Night Reviews
10/3 featuring Cuffed at Midnight ~ Guilty Pleasures
10/4 featuring Passion at Dawn ~ Kinky Book Reviews
10/5 featuring To Russia with Love ~ Author Alannah Lynne
Before we talk to Chris and Cecila, take a look at the second full length novel in their Countermeasure Series
Blurb:
In the second novel of the COUNTERMEASURE SERIES, Trevor and
Cassandra Bauer are starting a new life across the pond where they continue
their search for Trevor's parent while he still works as an NSA consultant.
When George Miller, his best friend, comes across what looks to be a new piece
of information on his parents' case, they embark on a new adventure following a
digital trail to Saint Petersburg.
They are encumbered with the task of infiltrating a Russia
Mafia's stronghold and recovering stolen files in exchange for that new clue.
As they dive in the job, Trevor becomes bound to a Russian mafia crime lord.
What started as a simple data file recovery turns into a dangerous game of cat
and mouse deep in a world of betrayal, hidden identities, and secret agendas.
Cassandra will do anything to keep Trevor safe. When
everything goes FUBAR and she finds herself on the run, her sole focus is
finding Trevor even it if means she has to depend on those who might not have
their best interests at heart.
Stephan Connelan, Brennan Enterprises' CEO and Trevor's
Parents' friend, has fought his desire for Jessica Forrester since the day they
met at Trevor and Cassandra's wedding. Events in his past stop him from giving
in to temptation, a temptation that would cause them both regret and hurt. But
how long can he resist something so powerful as his attraction for the little
vixen who has crowded his thoughts for months.
Jessica knows what she wants. Their age difference won't stop
her from having the man of her dreams. She is determined to find a way to reach
the heart he has locked away behind high walls. Little does she know that her
greatest obstacle is Stephan himself.
Read an Excerpt HERE
Buy in here...
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Now to hear from Chris and Cecila....
The Reality Within
Fiction
We wrap up our Passionate Tour at Alannah Lynne’s blog. We
thank Leagh for once again using her magic to make this tour happen and run so
smoothly, for keeping us in check. We tend to wander and we need her to steer
us back to the light. Alannah, it has been a pleasure chatting with you and we
hope to have many more of these exchanges in the future.
To close the week, we’ll talk about how fiction imitates
life and sometimes life imitates fiction.
From time to time, we’re asked how we come up with our plots.
For the Countermeasure Series, we turn to world events and innovations in
technology for inspiration. Because the series is a contemporary romantic
suspense thriller, we have to stay in tune with what’s current around the
world. World events are our playground.
When the plot idea for Countermeasure surfaced, we wanted
certainty that something of magnitude of the original idea could happen for
real. We spent weeks prowling the internet and libraries reading everything we
could get our hands on. We made a wonderful contact that actually had firsthand
knowledge of the pharmaceutical world we were exploring who validated the
premise for our story, corroborated our information, and provided us with a
wealth of knowledge.
Armed with research, world news events, and validation,
Trevor and Cassandra’s adventure began taking shape. The pharmaceutical
industry is as cutthroat as we depicted. It was amazing to find out how
competitive the corporations are and the lengths they will go to to stay ahead
of the game.
Enter To Russia with Love. While tossing around the idea for
Trevor and Cassandra’s next adventure, we tapped into Chris’s background and
connections as a programmer. We started once again on a journey of discovery
asking questions, searching the internet to exhaustion, and checking out a
gazillion books from the library. We confirmed that Russia had indeed become a
mecca for hackers and that they focus on online fraud. A great number of
infiltration attempts into financial institutions’ systems come from that part
of the world. Additional research revealed the role the Russian mafia played
and its hierarchy. We researched them thoroughly, watched numerous documentaries
on the Vory, and gleaned what we could to ensure that we portrayed our villains
in their true environment. They are a brutal bunch and those in our story are
no different. When you couple hackers and the Russian mafia, you get a gut wrenching,
throat tightening adventure.
Eight months after we had finished the original manuscript
we read about a raid in a Russian mafia’s stronghold and a number of men
arrested, including a member of the St. Petersburg police force who was
involved in the mafia operation. As you can see, there’s a big dose of reality
in our fiction.
For our current work in progress, the third novel of the
series, we will be once again diving into current events. This time our eyes
are on the Middle East, a powder keg of politics and religious strife, where every
day is lived on the edge. The more we read, discuss, and digest, the faster our
pulses race. It will prove to be a rush of a ride and possibly Trevor and
Cassandra’s most difficult case to date.
We work hard to keep the world Trevor, Cassandra, George,
and all others live and breathe believable. By keeping our ears and eyes on
world events and understanding our facts, we can take our readers on an
adventure based in the here and now with a pinch of literary license from time
to time. We hope that the majority of the readers will enjoy our stories and,
even if they are not at par with the research we went through to write the them,
learn a bit from that world of adventure, from the reality of our characters’
lives.
Cheers,
Chris and Cecilia
How about you? Have you ever read a book that made you look
for more details on something mentioned on it?
Contest Time:
Chris and Cecila are offering one commenter from this blog an ebook copy of To Russia with Love. They are also offering one commenter throughout the whole tour a grand prize of the entire Countermeasure Series (5 ebooks total). All you have to do is comment and fill out the rafflecopter below to enter. Winner will be chosen on Saturday and emailed next week. The tour schedule is below so be sure to go back and check ou the first 4 stops in the tour.
10/2 featuring Ectasy by the Sea ~ Queen of the Night Reviews
10/3 featuring Cuffed at Midnight ~ Guilty Pleasures
10/4 featuring Passion at Dawn ~ Kinky Book Reviews
10/5 featuring To Russia with Love ~ Author Alannah Lynne
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