Interview with Clare Revell
So I guess the first question is, who is Clare Revell? Well, Clare Revell is a friend of mine who has a book out today. The book is called Season for Miracles. I'll let the interview speak for itself. It was pre-recorded because both her and I are doing NaNoWriMo (writing 50,000 words in one month!). That being said, enjoy:
Hello Clare and welcome to my journal. Everyone wants to know about you and this exciting new book you have so I'll dive write into the interview!
1. What is the book about?
The book is called Season for Miracles.
The back cover or blurb says:
A Killer lurks in Headley Cross…
…And Holly Carmichael is the only woman to survive his attack. Now she lives in fear, searching for normalcy and trying to put her life back together. When she meets Kyle Stevens, he turns her world upside-down. He’s as exasperating as he is appealing. How can Holly make sense of her awakening feelings when she’s so unsure of Kyle? His voice is familiar, he’s left-handed, and he wears the serial killer’s cologne. Who is he…really? As Holly struggles to restore her damaged faith, she must find the strength to trust once again-in Kyle and in God.
Kyle Stevens isn’t ready to live again. Racked by guilt, he’s afraid to feel. His sole focus is finding the Headley Cross serial killer-his girlfriend's murderer. That is, until he meets Holly Carmichael. He’s drawn to Holly, vows to protect her where he failed to protect his former love. But Holly makes him feel again, emotions quickly morphing into something much more dangerous to his hardened heart.
When the serial killer returns to finish what he started, only a miracle can save them…but then, it's the Season for Miracles.
2. What is Christian Romance as opposed to the traditional romance?
Christian romance has to have either hero or heroine a Christian at the start and both by the end. They uphold the ten commandments, there's no drinking, no sex before marriage... and if the couple are married then the bedroom door stays closed. There is conflict and action, as in every romance, and the characters are real people, dealing with real issues, same as in every romance, with the added relationship with God. And they don't swear either. It's the kind of thing I feel comfortable lying around with my underage kids in the house.
3. Who are your literary influences?
Tom Clancy, Danielle Steel, Ellis Peters. I love romance and action, crime and mystery. Which is why I write the genre I do.
4. What made you choose this genre?
I write romantic suspence. Which is a wonderful mix of everything I love in a book. The hero and heroine meet, fall in love, along comes the bad guy. There's guns and serial killers and cops and going into the witness protection programme and its just as much fun to read as it is to write.
5. When you're not writing, what do you do?
I watch a little TV - but only if the kids aren't around, otherwise its sport or Hannah Montana or Zach and Cody or any other Disney Channel programme. I like Without a Trace and the Murdoch Mysteries atm.
6. What is your writing process? Do you have any rituals you do before or while writing? Hemingway used to stand in front of his typewriter; Raymond Chandler wore kid gloves.
Yes. The first draft of anything is done by hand. With a nice propelling pencil, with a rubber on the end (that's an eraser to you US peeps) on narrow feint paper. Nano prohibits this, so I do my notes like that instead.
7. How do you come up with your ideas?
Some are prompts from writing communites. Some are from dreams or nightmares. Some come just from a walk or a sound in the street. Season for Miracles came from a prompt on the LJ community nanowriwee. 'Why do they call it falling in love?' was the prompt. The original result was a 14k first person POV story. The story was rewritten completely during nanowrimo last year. After edits it ended up at just over 37k
8. Are you a religious person? How does this influence what you write?
Yeah. I've been a Christian since my late teens. I write what I know and try to write stuff I wouldn't mind anyone picking up and reading. Esp with the way the kids just appear over my shoulder at times.
9. Where can everyone buy your book?
It'll be availiable direct from the publisher as an ebook.
http://www.whiterosepublishing.com/Clare-Revell-1?osCsid=2973b172c1449398264dadf0811ee33d
sorry it really does need all those numbers - dunno if you wanna hide that under a HERE link lol.
10. What are you working on now? I heard you have another novel coming out?
I've just completed a requested rewrite and sent it back. Right now it'll be nano - and as I have 2 ideas I may well end up writing both, we'll see. As my MMC is a cop and one story involves a disappearance (time travel) he can be investigateing that one, when mystery number 2 happens and he has to switch cases lol. We'll see
Yes. :) That one is called Saving Christmas. It doesn't have a release date yet, but I'm hoping before the years end.
Blurb:
Rather than do the expected thing, Christmas Daniels, pursued a high powered career in London, flying across the world, never being home long enough for anything. When her father is taken ill, she returns to Hollies Christmas Emporium, an all year round Christmas shop to run it in his absence.
Matt Pringle, store artist and accountant, doesn't make a good impression on his new boss when he accuses her of stealing his parking space. Wanting to make up for it, he tries to impress her, but ends up falling for her instead.
When the store is threatened with closure, Christmas, who insists on being called Chrissie sacrifices everything to try to save it. A committed Christian, Matt knows that Chrissie needs saving just as much. Will their growing attraction help Matt save Christmas before it’s too late?
Clare Revell
Where faith and romance meet
Season For Miracles - coming Nov 5th 2010
Saving Christmas - TBA
Thank you, Clare, for taking the time out for the interview. Much success with your new novel and I can't wait to read it!
Hello Clare and welcome to my journal. Everyone wants to know about you and this exciting new book you have so I'll dive write into the interview!
1. What is the book about?
The book is called Season for Miracles.
The back cover or blurb says:
A Killer lurks in Headley Cross…
…And Holly Carmichael is the only woman to survive his attack. Now she lives in fear, searching for normalcy and trying to put her life back together. When she meets Kyle Stevens, he turns her world upside-down. He’s as exasperating as he is appealing. How can Holly make sense of her awakening feelings when she’s so unsure of Kyle? His voice is familiar, he’s left-handed, and he wears the serial killer’s cologne. Who is he…really? As Holly struggles to restore her damaged faith, she must find the strength to trust once again-in Kyle and in God.
Kyle Stevens isn’t ready to live again. Racked by guilt, he’s afraid to feel. His sole focus is finding the Headley Cross serial killer-his girlfriend's murderer. That is, until he meets Holly Carmichael. He’s drawn to Holly, vows to protect her where he failed to protect his former love. But Holly makes him feel again, emotions quickly morphing into something much more dangerous to his hardened heart.
When the serial killer returns to finish what he started, only a miracle can save them…but then, it's the Season for Miracles.
2. What is Christian Romance as opposed to the traditional romance?
Christian romance has to have either hero or heroine a Christian at the start and both by the end. They uphold the ten commandments, there's no drinking, no sex before marriage... and if the couple are married then the bedroom door stays closed. There is conflict and action, as in every romance, and the characters are real people, dealing with real issues, same as in every romance, with the added relationship with God. And they don't swear either. It's the kind of thing I feel comfortable lying around with my underage kids in the house.
3. Who are your literary influences?
Tom Clancy, Danielle Steel, Ellis Peters. I love romance and action, crime and mystery. Which is why I write the genre I do.
4. What made you choose this genre?
I write romantic suspence. Which is a wonderful mix of everything I love in a book. The hero and heroine meet, fall in love, along comes the bad guy. There's guns and serial killers and cops and going into the witness protection programme and its just as much fun to read as it is to write.
5. When you're not writing, what do you do?
I watch a little TV - but only if the kids aren't around, otherwise its sport or Hannah Montana or Zach and Cody or any other Disney Channel programme. I like Without a Trace and the Murdoch Mysteries atm.
6. What is your writing process? Do you have any rituals you do before or while writing? Hemingway used to stand in front of his typewriter; Raymond Chandler wore kid gloves.
Yes. The first draft of anything is done by hand. With a nice propelling pencil, with a rubber on the end (that's an eraser to you US peeps) on narrow feint paper. Nano prohibits this, so I do my notes like that instead.
7. How do you come up with your ideas?
Some are prompts from writing communites. Some are from dreams or nightmares. Some come just from a walk or a sound in the street. Season for Miracles came from a prompt on the LJ community nanowriwee. 'Why do they call it falling in love?' was the prompt. The original result was a 14k first person POV story. The story was rewritten completely during nanowrimo last year. After edits it ended up at just over 37k
8. Are you a religious person? How does this influence what you write?
Yeah. I've been a Christian since my late teens. I write what I know and try to write stuff I wouldn't mind anyone picking up and reading. Esp with the way the kids just appear over my shoulder at times.
9. Where can everyone buy your book?
It'll be availiable direct from the publisher as an ebook.
http://www.whiterosepublishing.com/Clare-Revell-1?osCsid=2973b172c1449398264dadf0811ee33d
sorry it really does need all those numbers - dunno if you wanna hide that under a HERE link lol.
10. What are you working on now? I heard you have another novel coming out?
I've just completed a requested rewrite and sent it back. Right now it'll be nano - and as I have 2 ideas I may well end up writing both, we'll see. As my MMC is a cop and one story involves a disappearance (time travel) he can be investigateing that one, when mystery number 2 happens and he has to switch cases lol. We'll see
Yes. :) That one is called Saving Christmas. It doesn't have a release date yet, but I'm hoping before the years end.
Blurb:
Rather than do the expected thing, Christmas Daniels, pursued a high powered career in London, flying across the world, never being home long enough for anything. When her father is taken ill, she returns to Hollies Christmas Emporium, an all year round Christmas shop to run it in his absence.
Matt Pringle, store artist and accountant, doesn't make a good impression on his new boss when he accuses her of stealing his parking space. Wanting to make up for it, he tries to impress her, but ends up falling for her instead.
When the store is threatened with closure, Christmas, who insists on being called Chrissie sacrifices everything to try to save it. A committed Christian, Matt knows that Chrissie needs saving just as much. Will their growing attraction help Matt save Christmas before it’s too late?
Clare Revell
Where faith and romance meet
Season For Miracles - coming Nov 5th 2010
Saving Christmas - TBA
Thank you, Clare, for taking the time out for the interview. Much success with your new novel and I can't wait to read it!