Interviews

I love interviews and never turn down a chance for one.  Here are a few links to some of the interviews I've done.    

The Romance Studio/Holly Hewson/August 2008

HH: Bess, thank you for talking with us at TRS. Please tell us about your featured work, A Trail of Love.

BM: Thanks for having me, Holly! I love interviewing with The Romance Studio. A Trail of Love is one of my favorite books, a contemporary romance set in the magnificent scenery of Glacier National Park in Montana. Kerry, a woman running from a painful past, hides in plain sight as an employee of the National Park Service where she meets, Dace, a handsome bear ranger who is absolutely beguiling but completely ineligible. She cannot help falling in love with the ranger who rescues her time and again from her own foolish behaviors, but she knows she cannot have him because he is taken by a tall, beautiful blonde.

HH: Your heroine has been forced to leave all she loves and longs for that one man to instantly love her. She finds him, he protects her, but he's taken. Where did the idea for this intriguing story come from?

BM: Well, I worked at Glacier National Park in the summers of 2007 and 2008, and I knew I had to have a story set in the park. It seemed only fitting that my gal fall in love with a handsome bear ranger...of which there are plenty, mind you!

HH: How did Kerrie's character develop for you?

BM: She developed as a gal who had fallen for the wrong guy many years ago but who lacked the courage to leave him. It took her several years to muster up the courage to leave, but when she did, she felt a certain power in the knowledge that she didn’t have to take what he was dishing out ever again.

For the complete interview, go to http://www.theromancestudio.com/who11.php

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Wow!  You've done so much traveling!  Thus far, which was your favorite place?  Which one was totally different than you expected it to be?

I have done a lot of traveling.  My favorite place would be where I grew up on the coast of Venezuela from age 2 through 12.  I thought it was home...so most of my childhood memories come from that dry, windy coastline where I collected seashells and buried little treasures in the caves along the sandy cliffs above the water. 

Turkey, where I lived for three years, was far different than I expected.  It was a fascinatingly warm and vibrant culture with lively people, great food, wonderful shopping, spectacular scenery and exotic Greek/Roman ruins and antiquities.  I’d recommend a visit for anyone.

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The Romance Studio/Holly Hewson/February 2008

HH: Bess, welcome back to TRS! Please tell us about your featured work, A Sigh of Love. What do you like best about Tom?

BM: I like that he is a beta male. I’m particularly fond of beta males with kind and generous dispositions, a ready smile, and dancing eyes. I think Tom has all of these qualities. Oh, and his long dark hair. He is half Native Alaskan after all.

HH: What made you choose the Alaskan setting aside from the fact that you once lived there?

BM: My plan is to set as many romance novels as I can in the places where I have lived or will be traveling to. I’ve heard the question over and over: Which comes first? The plot or the characters. In my case, the setting comes first. I choose the location for my book, somewhere with beautiful scenery, and then I pick the story and the characters to enhance the location.

For the complete interview, go to http://www.theromancestudio.com/mcbridetrs0208.htm

Books and Authors/Joyce Anthony Blog/January 25, 2008

1.  What three words do you think describe you as a human being?

Fair, funny, foolish

2.  How do you think others would describe you?

Funny, nice, temperamental if they know me well. 

3.  Please tell us what you are most passionate about outside of writing.

Animal rights, women's equality, the environment, child welfare, global peace.

4.  Do you have any pets?  If so, introduce us to them.

I have two cats:  Deuteronomy is a humongous Idaho cat from the Humane Society whom we call Dooty.  He likes to pick on the older, smaller, female.  He talks a lot and loves to be pet.  Xena is my small petite warrior princess from a box in front of a grocery store in Washington State who doesn't like to be held, but will allow people to pet her on occasion.  She's half feral, her daddy having been a feral cat, and it shows.

For the complete interview, go to http://joyceanthony.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?from=20080125 

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The Romance Studio/Holly Hewson/November 2007

HH: Bess, welcome back to The Romance Studio! Please tell us about your featured work, A Sigh of Love.

BM: A Sigh of Love is the story of a lonely woman, Abbie, who finds herself stuck with nonrefundable tickets to Alaska to meet a man (George) she’s been corresponding with over the phone, a cousin of a friend. Unfortunately, after asking her to visit repeatedly, he gets cold feet and tells her not to come. What to do? She has tickets. She decides to go. On the way, she meets a handsome man, Tom, who seems more than happy to share her company. But George shows up to interfere in the budding romance. And Tom has a beautiful ex-wife who just won’t go away. It’s hard to tell who is going to end up with whom. (At least it was when I was writing the story.)

For the complete interview, go to http://www.theromancestudio.com/mcbridetrs1107.htm

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The Romance Studio/Holly Hewson/October 2007

HH: Bess, welcome to The Romance Studio! Please tell us about your featured work, Love of My Heart.

BM: Thanks for having me at the Romance Studio! I’m thrilled to be here!!! My current featured work, Love of My Heart, is my first published novel available in digital format at this time from The Wild Rose Press and in print on December 19, 2007. It is featured as a paranormal but was not really written as a paranormal. I started writing a contemporary with a historical twist and before I knew it, the novel had turned into a paranormal. "Love of My Heart" is the story of two sets of lovers who are forbidden by societal dictates to be together. The first couple are a modern day mental health therapist and the client she’s not supposed to fall in love with; the second star-crossed love affair, set in 1885, involves the daughter of a wealthy American-English family and an Irish journalist whom her family forbids her to see. Aggie, the therapist, who suffers from her own unrequited love, begins to dream of Victorian era Louise who loses the love of her life to bigotry and a message that never comes.

HH: A therapist, her mysterious client, and a letter documenting an impossible love over one hundred years ago. Where did you get the idea for this amazing story?

BM: The story started with a Christmas ornament, one of my favorite Victorian house collectibles. I love looking through the windows of miniature Victorian homes and I wanted to set a story there. Why a mental health therapist? Because I am one, and they do say write what you know.

For the complete interview, go to http://www.theromancestudio.com/mcbridetrs1007.htm

Text copyright by Bess McBride (c) 2008