Books-n-Kisses is pleased to welcome Dana M Burnett to the blog today.
Dana Michelle Burnett spent most of her life writing short stories and sharing them with family and friends. Over the years, her work was published in numerous commercial and literary magazines including Just Labs, Mindprints: A Literary Journal, Foliate Oak, and many more. Her short story John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust was include in The Best of Foliate Oak 2006.
In 2010, Burnett’s first novel, Ghost Country, was released. Based on her own Cherokee heritage, the novel marked her return to the literary world after a four year hiatus. She followed that with the release of her first romance novel,Two Out of Three in the summer of 2011.
Spiritus is the first novel in her new paranormal romance series by the same name. The second book,Haunted, is expected in the spring of 2012.
- Dana can you please share with us a little about yourself I am a paranormal romance writer and the proud dance mom to a beautiful eight year old daughter. We live in Southern Indiana, not far from where my novel Spiritus is set.
- Have you always wanted to be an author? I think I was in elementary school when I went from wanting to be an actress to wanting to be a writer. Why just act out someone else’s stories when I could write my own?
- Who are some of your favorite writers? Who do you feel has influenced your writing? I love Stephen King! He has a way of describing things that put you right in the story. I also love Anne Rice and her attention to detail. My all-time favorite is Margaret Mitchell.
- How did you get into writing in this specific genre? Have you ever thought about writing in a different genre? I actually began my writing career as a literary author with some success, but then my daughter was born and life just got in the way of my work. When I took over the family home décor business, I wrote a few decorating articles and those eventually became a book. I went back to my roots of literary writing, but a few romantic story lines kept coming to me. I started writing a contemporary romance and once it was finished, I moved on to Spiritus. I think I have found my true calling in paranormal romance.
- What are some of your writing rituals? I tend to write all of my stories out of order. I write whatever scene is strongest in my mind at that moment. I also write everything out long hand first, then I do a rough edit when I type the story in the computer.
- Can you please tell us about your latest book(s)? Spiritus is a paranormal romance about a girl that is haunted by a ghost that loves her. He believes that she is his dead wife reincarnated. The problem? His wife was the one that killed him. So, is he back for love or revenge?
- How did you come with the idea for this story? I live very close to where Spiritus is set. I would drive past these old mansions and wonder about the people that lived there over the years. Bit by bit, Spiritus began to take shape.
- Can you share with us your current work(s) in progress? I am currently working on Haunted, book #2 of the Spiritus series, and should have it ready for release late this Spring.
- What would you be if you were not an author? I would probably go back to the home décor business. I really enjoyed it, but writing was always my true calling.
- What is in your To Read Pile that you are dying to start or upcoming release you can’t wait for? I have a few more Amanda Hocking novels to read and I’ve just recently discovered Amber Scott’s work. Since the dance competition season has started, I’m hoping get some reading in during my daughter’s rehearsals.
- Is there anything else you would like to add? I would just like to thank you for having me. Readers can keep in touch with me through:
Spiritus (Book One)
A love that refuses to die…
“As I watched him vanish into a soft mist that faded away, I knew that he was no ordinary spirit…I knew that he was a dangerous entity that could be in some corner of another realm planning his revenge, but I also knew that I was hopelessly in love with him.”
When Becca moves into her ancestral home in Corydon, Indiana, her life takes a puzzling and thrilling turn when she meets the ghost haunting the halls. As the seductive spirit lures her closer and closer, she learns about her own past and starts to understand that some mistakes are meant to last.
Becca McAllister has always been different from other girls her age. Never part of the “in crowd”, Becca never really fit in anywhere. When her mother dies and her father moves them to the small town of Corydon, Indiana, Becca didn’t expect things to change.
But things do change when Becca accidentally makes contact with a one hundred and sixty year old ghost, Alastor Sinclair, that haunts the halls of her new home.
To Becca, Alastor is a seductive spirit that seems to see straight into her soul. To Alastor, Becca is what he was waited a century for–A second chance.
But the closer they get, the more Becca realizes that this isn’t the first time she and Alastor have known each other. Worse still, is she the one responsible for his death so long ago? And if so, did he come back for love or revenge?
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