Showing posts with label contemporary fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contemporary fiction. Show all posts

Friday, September 1, 2017

With Every Heartbeat - Release Day!

A starry-eyed romantic grows up fast when the man of her TV dreams comes to town. Lust, and secret glances, start to heat amid an enraged father and a kidnapped child.

In this contemporary romance, taking place mainly in Manhattan and Long Island (near where I was born and raised), I bring together an Olympic hopeful and an older actor wanting nothing more than to act. 

Book Blurb
Rebecca Delacourt plans to try out for the US Olympic tennis team and loves being a tennis pro at a Long Island country club. Her mother gave up everything for love, but Becka refuses to take time for love or marriage. Her older sister’s problems add to their family’s discord which escalates after dumping Becka’s nephew with their parents. On the phone, Laney demands more help, the same time their parents show up courtside with the man Becka has secretly loved since he first appeared on television. Becka is swept into Laney and her nephew’s problematic, and ultimately dangerous, lives, pulling Taylor Adams into danger with her.


Taylor Adams left his home and family in New Hampshire, changed his name, and followed his dream to be an actor in Hollywood. Unfortunately, his science fiction television show went into reruns many years ago. Commercials, and appearances at Sci-Fi conventions, are not enough. He has set his eye on a film career. Visiting an old friend on Long Island, a producer who promises to help him achieve his goal, little does he realize the young woman swinging a racket at their country club has loved him for years. Their subsequent meetings in Baltimore and New York City turn steamy, until her older sister’s dangerous lifestyle interferes. Worse, all Hell will break loose if her father discovers their secret romance.


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Friday, August 14, 2015

Nancy Lee Badger Interviews Author Sharleen Scott

Sharleen Scott stopped by to share intimate details of her life, and the release of her latest book.

Tangles is contemporary fiction and was released May 14, 2015. Please tell my readers a little bit about your book.

Sharleen- The original idea for the book was to share our experiences while caring for my mother-in-law who was stricken with Alzheimer’s disease. I began by journaling but soon realized just talking about it wasn’t working for me. I needed to show the realities of living with the disease and that required a fictional framework. So I tapped into my romantic-suspense writer arsenal and created a family to play it out. Along the way, Tangles became a multifaceted love story, mystery, and family drama.

Nancy- Describe the genre of this particular title, and is it the only genre you write in?

Sharleen- Tangles is my first foray into contemporary fiction. I also write a romantic suspense series including Caught in Cross Seas and Caught in the Spin. A third book in the series will be released in 2016.
  
Nancy- When did you start writing toward publication?

Sharleen- I started writing seriously eleven years ago when a story idea wouldn’t leave me alone.  I settled in with a yellow pad and started scribbling, but before I finished, another story idea grabbed be. At this point I ditched the yellow pad and moved to the computer, bought some writing books, and began to learn the craft. My first attempt went into a desk drawer where it will stay. The second attempt, Caught in Cross Seas, was published in May 2014.

Nancy- What is your writing routine like?

Sharleen- I don’t know that I have an actual routine. I have a day job so I fit my writing in wherever and whenever I can. I do have a writing process though. I usually have Word files for each book and I add to them as ideas occur to me, things like character profiles, location/setting information, and plot/scene ideas. When all of that has jelled and the scenes begin to play in my head like a movie, it’s time to sit at the computer and write the first draft.
  
Nancy- Having achieved your goal to be a published author, what is the most rewarding thing?

Sharleen- I get a real kick out of knowing people are reading my stories.
    
Nancy- Please Share three fun facts about you that most people don’t know. 
1) I love homemade macaroni and cheese.
2) We have two shelter cats, Snarky and LuLu.
3) I can spend hours researching my family’s genealogy.

Nancy- What’s next for you?

Sharleen- The third book in the Caught series will be released in 2016.

Book Blurb for Tangled
Can tragedy mend a wounded family?
While faced with the challenge of his mother’s escalating Alzheimer’s disease, Logan McKinnon discovers secret journals that leave him questioning everything he knows about his family. With no one left to ask, Logan must find a man mentioned in the journals to discover a truth he may not want to know.

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More About the Author
Romantic-suspense author Sharleen Scott is taking a brief detour from her CAUGHT series with the release of Tangles, a novel dedicated to her mother-in-law who succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease. Sharleen lives in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband, Brett, two college kids, and two spoiled cats.





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