Nancy-
Lynda K. Scott stopped by for a little one-on-one as she shares her latest
release, Riding The Odds. This book is science fiction romance and was released
on February 3rd. Please tell my readers a little bit about your book.
Lynda-
Riding
The Odds is a story of beating impossible odds to survive and to thrive
when it seems the entire galaxy is against you. Tara Rowen survived the Risien
Plague but lost her family. She’s rescued by missionaries but the rescue ship
crashes on an outlawed planet. She accepts a Wild Rider, Zie, but has to flee
to keep Zie and herself safe. She ends up on Bittersweet, a planet of down-on-their-luck
settlers and hiding-from-the-law criminals but she learns to play poker and to
create jewelry from a mentor there. All this before she turns 14. By the time
she’s an adult, she’s a crewman on a cargo ship but her heart is always with
the family-style space ship her parents owned before their deaths. She has a
new identity for herself and Zie when the odds turn in her favor and she’s able
to salvage the trade ship and re-name it Rowenhawk. She stays just above
bankruptcy and obeys the laws…until her Rider, Zie, names a devastatingly
handsome man as Tara’s mate. Although Riding
The Odds is a science fiction romance, I’ve also done paranormal and
horror, but I tend to gravitate toward science fiction. I’ve found that I can
blend science and paranormal elements to make what I like to call Science
Fantasy. I’m weird like that.
Nancy-
Nothing wrong with that! When did you start writing toward publication?
Lynda-
I started with short fiction a looonnngggg time ago in a land far away. No,
wait, that’s a different story. It has been a long time though. As I said
earlier, I started with short fiction, made some sales, got a huge number of
rejection slips and spent a lot of money on stamps. Yes, I started before it
became common to email your manuscript to your editor.
Nancy- Why have you become a published author?
Lynda-
What else was I supposed to do with all these stories floating around in my
head? Stories exist to be read, to be shared and/or to teach. So I needed to
find a publisher for them.
Nancy-
What is your writing routine like?
Lynda- I
take care of my furbabies, the alien kitten Wookie and my darling Skye, a
Golden Retriever first, then prep breakfast for myself and hubby. I try to get
most of my writing done from mid-morning to noon, then in the evening. Of
course, there are times when I get more or less writing time but my family and
my pets tend to be time sponges unless I get very firm with them.
Nancy-
Having achieved your goal to be a published author, what is the most rewarding
thing?
Lynda-
I LOVE people telling me that they loved the story or the characters. I LOVE
hearing them say they cried at the sad parts or bit their nails at the scary
parts. I LOVE hearing them tell me how much THEY loved the ending or the
characters or…anything really. It’s like hearing a teacher praise your child
when you go to Parent-Teacher conferences. It just makes you want to smile and
say, ‘Hey, I created that!’
Nancy-
Will you share some encouraging words for authors still struggling for that
first contract?
Lynda-
Don’t give up when you get that nasty rejection letter (and you will). Keep
writing. Keep learning. Keep sending your manuscripts out. Eventually you’ll
get the last laugh, just as I did.
Please Share three
fun facts about you that most people don’t know.
1) If a tiny kitten
has lost its mother, I know how to teach it to go potty.
2) I can bake a cake
on a camp fire.
3) I know how to
churn butter (learned at my grandmother’s knee).
Did I mention I’m a font
of useless and possibly scary information?
What’s next for you?
Right
now I’m working on book 2 in my Rider universe. It’s tentatively titled Riding
The Storm and is about Christopher Drummond, aka Drummer, who made an
appearance in Riding The Odds. He’s an ice jockey who wants revenge on the
villain who tried to kill Tara in Riding The Odds.
BOOK BLURB Spaceship captain Tara Rowan has a Rider—an organic symbiote—that enhances Tara's physical abilities. But she can
never risk anyone discovering her Rider's true origins. Especially not the
sexily dangerous stranger who appears out of nowhere. Trace Munroe is looking
for a kidnapped princess, and the only way to find her is to blackmail Tara.
Except that a blazing attraction to Tara is definitely complicating
things...and if Trace follows his code of honor, it could destroy the woman
he's falling for.
How can my readers
buy your book?
Readers
can go to the Entagled Publishing's HOME PAGE
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lynda
K. Scott is a member of RWA and
several RWA chapters. She has been a member of the Horror Writers of America
and the SFFWA (for science fiction writers) which was also a good learning
source.
You
can find more information about
Lynda K. Scott here:
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