I
was lucky enough to meet Rachel at the RNA Conference last year, in Caerleon.
It’s great putting faces to internet names, and she was truly lovely to meet.
Rachel now writes full-time when her children
are at school, but is still proud of her law degree and accountancy
qualifications. She has worked in the space industry, pharmaceuticals,
insurance, a supermarket, a bus station, a railway depot, and a lingerie
department.
She lives with her daughter, son and The Exec
in Fareham, Hampshire, on the south coast of England and can sometimes smell
the sea from her back garden. When not working, her hobbies include rummaging
through antique shops, talking to her chocolate brown Rex rabbit and popping
into Sainsbury’s. She also has a fondness for wine and expensive lipstick.
Rachel
loves to hear from readers.
So
here’s her questions!
Q: Give us your
elevator pitch (to the reader) for what your book is about?
A:
Golly, I hope I never have to do this in real life! Here goes:
A
Greek billionaire takes a penniless English gypsy girl back home with him and
offers her the world. But it’s not enough, she wants his heart.
Q: My 'Twitter'
question - Describe your heroine in 140 characters. (you can always check it on
Twitter rather than count the 140 characters lol!).
A:
Kizzy Dean is an English, half-gypsy graduate. She has dark curls. She’s
independent, feisty, proud and naughty. No man will tie her down.
Q: Obviously you're in love with your hero - you
wouldn't have written him otherwise - but why do you love him, and think your
readers will too? No character limit this time lol!
A:
Andreas Lazarides is utterly gorgeous for starters – tall, dark, handsome and
very much in charge. Andreas is also very rich – which I happen to quite like
in a man, it makes life a lot easier. Underneath his stern exterior is a man of
honour and dignity. He spends his time as a human rights lawyer and quietly
pours millions into charity projects. He treats his staff like his own family.
He is aware of his flaws and does his best to address them but sometimes his
passion is too strong. He has a cat. He doesn’t know how to use a washing
machine. He is unbelievable in bed …
Q: Your heroine's house is on fire! She's allowed
to save one item. Does she save a) the dishwasher, b) her hair-dryer or c)
something else? (I would take the dishwasher... there's no way I'm going back
to washing up!).
A:
I’m with you on the dishwasher! Once you’ve got one there’s no turning back.
However, my heroine, Kizzy, really hasn’t got much in the way of worldly goods
at all. She’s lost pretty much everything when she meets Andreas Lazarides.
She’d save a box of old photographs and mementos, including her late mother’s
gold hoop earrings, I think. She’s not in the least bit materialistic.
Q:
And can you prove that all published writers are really human? i.e how do
juggle writing with real life?
A: You
should see me now as I type – no make-up, head still wrapped in a towel (just
as well, you can’t see my roots that way!), surrounded by ironing, washing and
lots of little bits of paper. I still have to put the bins out (or take the
stinky black bags down the dump when I forget) and the children completely
refuse to feed themselves or pick up their bath towels. I have a dishwasher
(see above). I also worry about wrinkles, grey hair and wobbly bits and have to
bite my tongue with bossy junior school teachers. I doubt myself hourly, maybe
even more than that. :0)
Kidnapped!
Or that’s what it
feels like to Kizzy Dean when a business disagreement with arrogant Greek
lawyer Andreas Lazarides leaves her no choice but to accompany him to the Greek
Isle of Rhodes. It doesn’t help matters that this sexy brooding stranger, who
is unaccustomed to the word No and the very idea of commitment, shows her what
it feels like to be truly desired.
Amidst the ancient
myths and alleyways, tensions run high as Kizzy feels an immediate attraction
for the man she wants to both ravage and strangle.
Accustomed to
gold-digging women, Andreas is mesmerized by Kizzy’s feisty nature and Gypsy
beauty. Guilt and sorrow have been his only bedfellows since his sister’s
death, but Kizzy stirs up a desire he’s unwilling to succumb to . . . until she
makes him an offer he simply can’t refuse.
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Thank
you, Rachel, for popping by and good luck with Kizzy and Andreas’ sizzling tale. Can I just say, that book cover is Hot! Hot! Hot!
Any questions for Rachel, please leave below.
