Hi everyone!
Thanks so much to Sandy Curtis for inviting
me to participate in the Meet My Character Blog Hop.
Sandy Curtis lives on Queensland’s Central Coast, not far from the
beach where she loves to walk and mull over the intricate plots in her novels.
Her husband says he doesn’t know how she keeps it all in her head, and her
friends think she must be far more devious than she appears.
Actually, after having dealt with the chaos involved in rearing
three children, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and a kookaburra (teaching it to fly
was murder), creating complex characters, fast-paced action and
edge-of-your-seat suspense is a breeze for Sandy.
Her first five novels were published by Pan Macmillan Australia,
were nominees in the Ned Kelly Crime Awards, and two were finalists in the
mainstream section of the Romantic Book of the Year Award. They were also
published in Germany by Bastei Luebbe, and are now available as e-books from
Clan Destine Press. Her sixth thriller, Fatal
Flaw, and seventh, the recently released
Grievous Harm, are published by Clan Destine Press in print and as ebooks.
Sandy was a magazine feature article writer for two years, a
newspaper columnist, and has had short stories and serials published in leading
Australian women’s magazines.
She was a member of the Management Committee of the Queensland
Writers Centre for four years and has presented many writing workshops,
including the 10-day USQ McGregor Summer School Creative Writing course. She
has organised WriteFest, the Bundaberg writers festival, since its inception in
2005. In December 2012 she was presented with the Johnno Award by the
Queensland Writers Centre for her “outstanding contribution to writing in
Queensland”.
Her various occupations, from private secretary to assistant to a
Bore Licensing Inspector, as well as hitch-hiking around New Zealand and
learning to parachute, have given Sandy lots of people and research skills.
It’s the paperwork going feral in her office she has trouble with.
Now, I’d like to introduce my heroine, Ciana
Ruebana from my latest book, Black is the Colour.
1.) What is the name of your character?
Ciana Ruebana, she is the youngest of
the three Ruebana sisters.
2.) Is he/she fictional or a historic person?
Fictional.
3.) When and where is the story set?
Black is the Colour is a
fairytale which is set in a fantasy world with a medieval European backdrop.
1.) What should we know about him/her?
Ciana very determined and she
will do anything to protect the ones she loves.
2.) What is the main conflict? What messes up
his/her life?
The love of her life, Oran
the blacksmith is cursed into a raven by an evil witch.
3.) What is the personal goal of the
character?
To save her beloved so they can
have a life together.
7.) Is there a working title for this
novel, and can we read more about it?
Black is the Colour. It’s the first book in the Tales from the
Hearthfire series.
Come on over to my website – www.nicolehurley-moore.com
Blurb
Ciana
has loved Oran all her life and nothing, not even her father will prevent them
from being together. But the Mayor of Stonemark has higher aspirations for his
daughter than the village blacksmith. He engages the help of a witch and dark
magic to bend Ciana to his will.
Oran
knows that he doesn’t deserve Ciana. But their love is stronger than the metal
he forges and welds. She has his heart and he will never turn from her no
matter the cost.
Separated,
Ciana will need all her strength to journey through the deep forest and save
Oran from the witch’s curse. Alone and with only a trail of black feathers to
follow, Ciana will fight against the odds and attempt to bring her lover home.
Black is the Colour is
available now from Amazon.
Canada http://goo.gl/wbGltB
Next I'd like to introduce Elizabeth Ellen Carter
who will be sharing with us one of her fabulous characters from her new
release, Warrior’s Surrender next week.
Using her mother's Olivetti type writer with the italic keyboard, she spent endless school holidays making up her own stories and then using the Dewey Decimal System to arrange and categories her bookshelf.
Somewhere around the age of 13 she determined to become a journalist and at 17 was awarded a cadetship to the Gold Coast Bulletin.
She covered news, council, education, health but had the most fun as the paper's entertainment and features reporter covering film, TV and music.
Best of all she met her husband there and together they started a small award-winning media, marketing and advertising agency and now she works as marketing manager for an international organic skin care company.
In 2012, Elizabeth also returned to the keyboard to write stories (and laptops are so much better than manual typewriters).
Her debut, Moonstone Obsession was shortlisted for the 2013 Romance Writers Of Australia's Emerald Awards for unpublished manuscripts.
It was published by Etopia Press on October 18, 2013.
Her second historical romance is Warrior's Surrender, set in England in the years after the Conquest of England by William in 1066.
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Thanks for stopping by.
Nicóle xx
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