Welcome, Booklovers!
Settle in for another Coffee Chat and meet mystery author Maggie Foster.
Good morning, Maggie. Before we get started, may I get you something to drink?
MF: I drink Earl Gray tea every morning and coffee everywhere else. My characters drink LOTS of coffee because that’s what night shift hospital workers do.
Ally: It’s pretty early here, so I’ll fix you that cuppa tea. While I do, please tell readers something of your background.
Settle in for another Coffee Chat and meet mystery author Maggie Foster.
Good morning, Maggie. Before we get started, may I get you something to drink?
MF: I drink Earl Gray tea every morning and coffee everywhere else. My characters drink LOTS of coffee because that’s what night shift hospital workers do.
Ally: It’s pretty early here, so I’ll fix you that cuppa tea. While I do, please tell readers something of your background.
Bio:
MAGGIE FOSTER is a seventh-generation Texan of Scottish descent. In addition to being steeped in Scottish traditions and culture, she has spent a lifetime in healthcare as a nurse, lawyer, and teacher. Her interests include history, genealogy, music, dance, travel, dark chocolate, good whisky, and men in kilts.
FUN FACTS: She earned a high school athletic letter in Highland Dancing, in Texas. [True!] She also played bagpipes (less successfully). She is a certificated RSCDS Scottish Country Dance instructor and has demonstrated SCDing both at the State Fair of Texas and on the stage at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX.
Something unique/unusual that isn't in your regular bio: “I didn’t cut my hair until I was in my thirties.”
Author Contacts:
She can be reached at maggiesmysteries@gmail.com
For more information please visit:
Twitter – http://www.Twitter.com/maggiefoster55
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/lochlonach/
Website – http://www.maggiesmysteries.com or http://www.lochlonach.com
MAGGIE FOSTER is a seventh-generation Texan of Scottish descent. In addition to being steeped in Scottish traditions and culture, she has spent a lifetime in healthcare as a nurse, lawyer, and teacher. Her interests include history, genealogy, music, dance, travel, dark chocolate, good whisky, and men in kilts.
FUN FACTS: She earned a high school athletic letter in Highland Dancing, in Texas. [True!] She also played bagpipes (less successfully). She is a certificated RSCDS Scottish Country Dance instructor and has demonstrated SCDing both at the State Fair of Texas and on the stage at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX.
Something unique/unusual that isn't in your regular bio: “I didn’t cut my hair until I was in my thirties.”
Author Contacts:
She can be reached at maggiesmysteries@gmail.com
For more information please visit:
Twitter – http://www.Twitter.com/maggiefoster55
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/lochlonach/
Website – http://www.maggiesmysteries.com or http://www.lochlonach.com
INTERVIEW:
Ally: Where do you get your story ideas?
MF: From my hobbies, mostly. I tend to use obscure details that tell an insider (my protagonist) something, but that look meaningless to everyone else.
Ally: Do fans influence your writing? If so, in what way?
MF: Absolutely! Create-a-Corpse is a promotion in which I ask readers and would-be readers to suggest a person from his or her life that would make a good Dead Body. Readers are also allowed to suggest other characters and roles. I have one who wants to be the murderer!
Ally: What three books in your genre would you recommend to fans (after they’ve read yours, of course!).
MF: Josephine Tey – Brat Farrar; Dorothy Sayers – The Nine Tailors; Ngaio Marsh – Light Thickens
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
MF: I am working on Books Four (Final Fling) and Five (Incarnadine) of the Loch Lonach series and hope to have Book Four done by October of this year.
Ally: Let’s take a look at which short answer questions you selected...
MF:
Ally: Where do you get your story ideas?
MF: From my hobbies, mostly. I tend to use obscure details that tell an insider (my protagonist) something, but that look meaningless to everyone else.
Ally: Do fans influence your writing? If so, in what way?
MF: Absolutely! Create-a-Corpse is a promotion in which I ask readers and would-be readers to suggest a person from his or her life that would make a good Dead Body. Readers are also allowed to suggest other characters and roles. I have one who wants to be the murderer!
Ally: What three books in your genre would you recommend to fans (after they’ve read yours, of course!).
MF: Josephine Tey – Brat Farrar; Dorothy Sayers – The Nine Tailors; Ngaio Marsh – Light Thickens
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
MF: I am working on Books Four (Final Fling) and Five (Incarnadine) of the Loch Lonach series and hope to have Book Four done by October of this year.
Ally: Let’s take a look at which short answer questions you selected...
MF:
- a. an author (living or dead) I'd love to take to lunch: Ellis Peters, author of the Brother Cadfael series
- b. an item on my bucket list: I want to visit Skara Brae, a 5000 year old Neolithic site in Orkney, Scotland
- c. favorite movie: Paint Your Wagon
- d. favorite accessory: I like to wear a Celtic Tree of Life pendant while I write.
- e. What comes to me first - character or plot? Plot – I start with a hook
Viking Vengeance (Loch Lonach Mystery Series* Book Three)
Genre: murder mystery
We all know some laws are made to be broken. The trick is knowing which – and when.
The Up-Helly-Aa was not intended as a real Viking funeral. A least, there wasn’t supposed to be a body tucked inside the ship the Loch Lonach Homesteaders built and burned each January. But the discovery of a charred corpse hidden in the wreckage sends Jim and Ginny racing cross country in a perilous attempt to obtain justice for one of their own, with the law and divine retribution in hot pursuit.
Buy Links:
Available on Amazon -https://www.amazon.com/Maggie-Foster/e/B07FPXJZ6L
and elsewhere - https://books2read.com/u/3GaWnp
*Book one in this series,The Arms of Death, took the Blue Ribbon in the 2019 Best of Texas Books, Fiction, Medical Thrillers category. Book info: https://www.maggiesmysteries.com/the-arms-of-death
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