It's time for this week’s Coffee Chat!
Grab your favorite beverage and prepare for some book talk with guest author Pamela Turner, and check out her featured paranormal suspense novel, Watchers Chronicles Book 1: Rogue Angel.
Welcome to the blog, Pamela. How do you take your coffee?
PT: Just cream and sugar.
Ally: Well, aren’t you easy to please? :) I’ll pour while you introduce yourself to readers.
Bio:
Pamela Turner drinks too much coffee and wishes she could write perfect first drafts. Publications include Death Sword (a Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Paranormal Awards 2013 Finalist), Exterminating Angel, and The Ripper’s Daughter. Her short dark suspense story “Family Tradition” was a finalist in the EPIC 2014 EBook Awards. She’s also an award-winning screenplay writer. A member of the national chapter of Sisters in Crime, she’s currently vice-president of the Louisville Chapter. Besides coffee, she likes cats, cemeteries, and old abandoned buildings.
Tell me something unique/unusual that isn't in your regular bio: “Back in the late 90s, I took a few flying lessons in a Cessna 152. Executed several go-arounds, but never got to solo. My depth perception was too bad. But I still have my books on general aviation. One of these days, I’ll have to create a character who’s a pilot.”
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Pamela Turner drinks too much coffee and wishes she could write perfect first drafts. Publications include Death Sword (a Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Paranormal Awards 2013 Finalist), Exterminating Angel, and The Ripper’s Daughter. Her short dark suspense story “Family Tradition” was a finalist in the EPIC 2014 EBook Awards. She’s also an award-winning screenplay writer. A member of the national chapter of Sisters in Crime, she’s currently vice-president of the Louisville Chapter. Besides coffee, she likes cats, cemeteries, and old abandoned buildings.
Tell me something unique/unusual that isn't in your regular bio: “Back in the late 90s, I took a few flying lessons in a Cessna 152. Executed several go-arounds, but never got to solo. My depth perception was too bad. But I still have my books on general aviation. One of these days, I’ll have to create a character who’s a pilot.”
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INTERVIEW:
Ally: Let’s start with your featured book. Why did you write it?
PT: I wanted to tell a story that would update the Watcher Angels (Grigori) to modern times. For example, Azazel and Gadreel taught humans how to make weapons. In modern times, they would be using AK-47s, M16s, and other arms.
Ally: Tell us about your reading habits. Any current favorites?
PT: My favorite genres are thriller, mystery, and suspense. I don’t know how many books per month I read, but for the past few years I’ve done the Savvy Reader 50 Book Challenge, and have “won” it each time. I’m also doing it this year. As for print or eBook, I read both. A current favorite is the Remy Chandler series by Thomas E. Sniegoski.
Ally: Have you written or considered writing in other genres or other forms, such as short stories or screenplays? Would they be easier, harder, or just different?
PT: I’ve written short stories and screenplays. Regarding writing screenplays vs. novels, for me screenplays are easier because the focus is on action, dialogue, and description. Also, full-length screenplays average about 90-120 pages, which is a lot easier than writing 300 pages.
Ally: Do you enjoy research? Does your genre require it?
PT: I do enjoy research. While my genre doesn’t necessarily require it, I think it makes for better reading if I’m able to show that I cared enough to get something right. For example, when writing Rogue Angel, I researched not only the angels, but also cyber security and cybercrime and weapons.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
PT: I’m looking at releasing a stand-alone paranormal suspense novel in October 2019 featuring a young woman who is tricked into breaking the rose window of a mysterious cathedral and opening the gate between Hell and Earth. Tentative title is The Gate Between.
Ally: Which of the quick answer questions did you choose?
Ally: Let’s start with your featured book. Why did you write it?
PT: I wanted to tell a story that would update the Watcher Angels (Grigori) to modern times. For example, Azazel and Gadreel taught humans how to make weapons. In modern times, they would be using AK-47s, M16s, and other arms.
Ally: Tell us about your reading habits. Any current favorites?
PT: My favorite genres are thriller, mystery, and suspense. I don’t know how many books per month I read, but for the past few years I’ve done the Savvy Reader 50 Book Challenge, and have “won” it each time. I’m also doing it this year. As for print or eBook, I read both. A current favorite is the Remy Chandler series by Thomas E. Sniegoski.
Ally: Have you written or considered writing in other genres or other forms, such as short stories or screenplays? Would they be easier, harder, or just different?
PT: I’ve written short stories and screenplays. Regarding writing screenplays vs. novels, for me screenplays are easier because the focus is on action, dialogue, and description. Also, full-length screenplays average about 90-120 pages, which is a lot easier than writing 300 pages.
Ally: Do you enjoy research? Does your genre require it?
PT: I do enjoy research. While my genre doesn’t necessarily require it, I think it makes for better reading if I’m able to show that I cared enough to get something right. For example, when writing Rogue Angel, I researched not only the angels, but also cyber security and cybercrime and weapons.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
PT: I’m looking at releasing a stand-alone paranormal suspense novel in October 2019 featuring a young woman who is tricked into breaking the rose window of a mysterious cathedral and opening the gate between Hell and Earth. Tentative title is The Gate Between.
Ally: Which of the quick answer questions did you choose?
- a. book you're currently reading: David Baldacci’s The Last Mile
- b. an author (living or dead) you'd love to take to lunch: Albert Camus
- c. favorite movie: Ashes and Diamonds
- d. Your pets: Three rescue cats: Arkady (named after Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko), Rosie, and Sasha. Arkady and Rosie are tabbies and Sasha is a black cat
- e. If you couldn't write anymore, what would you want to do? Either something to do with aviation or cyber security
Watchers Chronicles Book 1: Rogue Angel
Genre: Paranormal Suspense
Rating: Adult/some violence/language
Archangel Raguel investigates crimes involving angels. When he inadvertently kills a young woman and her son while trying to apprehend a malevolent angel, he quits his job, unable to justify his actions. But his self-imposed retirement is interrupted when Semyaza, leader of the Watcher Angels, also known as the Grigori, asks him to find Penemuel, the Watcher who taught humans to write, and who has disappeared. Meanwhile, fellow Watchers Azazel and Gadreel, who taught mankind how to make weapons, learn someone is interfering with their gun-running operation on the Dark Net.
As Raguel investigates first Penemuel’s disappearance, then his murder, he finds himself drawn into the world of the Grigori. Semyaza seems to have an agenda, but is it related to Azazel’s and Gadreel’s operation? And what about the mysterious and reclusive Sariel who’s come out of exile for one reason: vengeance. But will his desire for revenge destroy humanity?
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