It’s Coffee Chat time!
Grab your drinks, pull up a chair, and meet this week’s guest author Candace Carter, bringing us her featured book, Muddy Waters.
Good morning, Candace! What may I get you to drink?
CC: I’m a tea drinker. In winter, I like it hot. Iced in summer. If I do drink anything coffee-ish, it has to be a caffe mocha or a latte with a little flavored syrup, and almond milk.
Ally: Then tea it is! While my magic pot is at work, please introduce yourself to readers.
Grab your drinks, pull up a chair, and meet this week’s guest author Candace Carter, bringing us her featured book, Muddy Waters.
Good morning, Candace! What may I get you to drink?
CC: I’m a tea drinker. In winter, I like it hot. Iced in summer. If I do drink anything coffee-ish, it has to be a caffe mocha or a latte with a little flavored syrup, and almond milk.
Ally: Then tea it is! While my magic pot is at work, please introduce yourself to readers.
Bio:
Author and retired biologist, writing mysteries and reconnecting with my inner cowboy.
Tell me something unique/unusual that isn't part of your regular bio: “I have chronic Lyme Disease, the neurologic variety. It took a while (a couple of years) to get my creativity back following diagnosis/treatment. I love photography, so I used that to help nurture my creativity. I think that’s why I’m a Pinterest addict. So many cool pictures!”
Website: www.candacejcarter.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ccarterwrites/
Facebook (Aiken Writer’s Bloc): https://www.facebook.com/groups/1297973180351096/
Author and retired biologist, writing mysteries and reconnecting with my inner cowboy.
Tell me something unique/unusual that isn't part of your regular bio: “I have chronic Lyme Disease, the neurologic variety. It took a while (a couple of years) to get my creativity back following diagnosis/treatment. I love photography, so I used that to help nurture my creativity. I think that’s why I’m a Pinterest addict. So many cool pictures!”
Website: www.candacejcarter.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ccarterwrites/
Facebook (Aiken Writer’s Bloc): https://www.facebook.com/groups/1297973180351096/
INTERVIEW:
Ally: Do you use a professional editor with your books? If not, what do you do to ensure quality ?
CC: I’m in an awesome critique group. It’s five authors are writing a mix of genres, which I enjoy because they bring different perspectives.
Ally: What's the best writing/marketing advice you’ve been given?
CC: Join a writers group, whether it’s local or national. Go to a few conferences. Learn craft.
Ally: Do you read your reviews?
CC: I don’t have that many, so for now I do read them.
Ally: Tell us about your reading habits.
CC: I used to be an avid reader. I’ve cut way back because I need time to write. Mostly I read ebooks. Certain books, like reference books, or ones about writing, are better in hand. My favorite genre is mystery, especially British. I’ll occasionally read a light romance or western.
Ally: Have you written or considered writing in other genres or other forms, such as short stories or screenplays?
CC: I’ve written a few short stories. They’re more difficult for me to write because they’re so much shorter than a novel.
Ally: What three books in your genre would you recommend to fans (after they’ve read your books, of course!).
CC: C.J. Box, Open Season (Joe Pickett series), Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time (Leaphorn and Chee series), Graham Thomas, Malice in the Highlands (Erskine Powell series), Caroline Graham, The Killings at Badger’s Drift (Inspector Barnaby series). Okay sorry that’s four. Two are set in the western U.S. and two are British mysteries.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
CC: I’m working on the second in the series, Where the Blacktop Ends, and expect it to be out in early 2020.
Ally: Let’s see how you responded to some of our quick answer questions.
CC:
Ally: Do you use a professional editor with your books? If not, what do you do to ensure quality ?
CC: I’m in an awesome critique group. It’s five authors are writing a mix of genres, which I enjoy because they bring different perspectives.
Ally: What's the best writing/marketing advice you’ve been given?
CC: Join a writers group, whether it’s local or national. Go to a few conferences. Learn craft.
Ally: Do you read your reviews?
CC: I don’t have that many, so for now I do read them.
Ally: Tell us about your reading habits.
CC: I used to be an avid reader. I’ve cut way back because I need time to write. Mostly I read ebooks. Certain books, like reference books, or ones about writing, are better in hand. My favorite genre is mystery, especially British. I’ll occasionally read a light romance or western.
Ally: Have you written or considered writing in other genres or other forms, such as short stories or screenplays?
CC: I’ve written a few short stories. They’re more difficult for me to write because they’re so much shorter than a novel.
Ally: What three books in your genre would you recommend to fans (after they’ve read your books, of course!).
CC: C.J. Box, Open Season (Joe Pickett series), Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time (Leaphorn and Chee series), Graham Thomas, Malice in the Highlands (Erskine Powell series), Caroline Graham, The Killings at Badger’s Drift (Inspector Barnaby series). Okay sorry that’s four. Two are set in the western U.S. and two are British mysteries.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
CC: I’m working on the second in the series, Where the Blacktop Ends, and expect it to be out in early 2020.
Ally: Let’s see how you responded to some of our quick answer questions.
CC:
- an author (living or dead) you'd love to take to lunch - Louis L’Amour because he's been to all the secret canyons and valleys he writes about in his stories. That drive to explore fascinates me.
- favorite movie - Princess Bride or Paul (it’s a toss up)
- high heels or sneakers - Sneakers
- hiking or sunbathing - Hiking
- What comes to your first: character or plot? - Definitely plot
Muddy Waters
Genre: traditional mystery with a modern western feel
Rating: PG-13
Publisher’s blurb:
Candace Carter, a former park ranger, gives us an exciting outdoor mystery featuring a new sleuth.
Handy with a six-shooter, Henry "Whispering" Smith is a range detective for the Colorado Plateau Cattlemen's Association. The action begins when he apprehends an old acquaintance moving cows that belong to someone else. Shots ring out from the bushes and bullets fly. In the aftermath Henry is faced with arresting an old friend who'd just saved his life. We travel with Whispering Smith from Colorado Plateau to the North Carolina mountains in this fresh, new mystery from an "author of great promise."
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Muddy-Waters-Candace-J-Carter-ebook/dp/B07J3Y728X
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/muddy-waters-candace-j-carter/1129690234;jsessionid=7D7860AAD4EEBC64EFCB66AF1496D951.prodny_store02-atgap09?ean=9781949504149
If you need further temptation to add this series to your TBR list, here is a preview of the cover for Book Two...
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