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Triskellion Trilogy

Triskellion Trilogy

An island steeped in history, a string of unsolved crimes and a ghost story that links them all. Coming 2014 Three individual books: Book 1 ...

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lDkYHENV198/UDoFa839AjI/AAAAAAAABP0/M2b9nMxBAq0/s1600/DarkWaters400x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lDkYHENV198/UDoFa839AjI/AAAAAAAABP0/M2b9nMxBAq0/s400/DarkWaters400x600.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><b>RJ: Morning Chris... Congratulations on some awesome books you have published recently. I have read Dark Waters and Falling Again and I love them both... (I may be biased - I love all your stories!)</b><br /><br />CQ: [say something nice and funny and CQ!] Thanks, RJ - what was the bribe again? Chocolate, red wine, warmed baby oil and a naked JA?<br /><br /><b>RJ: Tell us a bit more about Dark Waters. I know this was originally a story you published a few years back. What made you re-release it? I am so glad you did!</b><br /><br />CQ: Well, I wasn’t very happy with the cover the previous publisher had for it, and the thought of a Reese Dante cover made my mouth water. So I did some re-editing and submitted it to Silver Publishing in the hopes they’d accept it for a second edition. They did,  and I couldn’t be happier! The cover is everything I’d wished for, and I’m hoping the story will reach a new readership. <br /><br /><b>RJ: Where can we buy it?</b><br /><br />CQ: It’s available from Silver Publishing - and their titles can be sent direct to your Kindle. <a href="https://spsilverpublishing.com/product_book_info/new-release-c-1/products_id/1214/?zenid=f34aaf6fd532547e4fd0738c2944382d" target="_blank">Silver Publishing - Dark Waters</a><br /><br /><b>RJ:  And now on to Falling Again - This most recent release is a short story that you have self published. What made you decide to release a short story?</b><br /><br /><a name="more"></a>CQ: Well, it was originally intended for an Anthology call, but it sort of took off in a different direction and no longer fitted that Anthology. I checked some other calls out there, but it didn’t really fit them, either. I’d been playing with the idea of self-publishing for a while, and this seemed an ideal opportunity to try it. It’s on Amazon here - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Falling-Again-ebook/dp/B009OILEUO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349941516&sr=8-1&keywords=falling+again+quinton" target="_blank">Amazon - Falling Again</a><br /><br /><b>RJ:  What was self publishing like?</b><br /><br />CQ: In a word? Nerve-racking. And that’s with a certain somebody doing all the hard work. One day I’ll be able to make it up to her *g*.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K_XrtBFp0QA/UHaZw4u67YI/AAAAAAAAEes/sGsRbEBA3TE/s1600/FallingAgain_+400x600++%C2%A9+Jabiru++Dreamstime.com+dreamstimefree_1472984.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K_XrtBFp0QA/UHaZw4u67YI/AAAAAAAAEes/sGsRbEBA3TE/s320/FallingAgain_+400x600++%C2%A9+Jabiru++Dreamstime.com+dreamstimefree_1472984.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><b><i>RJ: ROFL... payment in mutual support works! </i><br /><br />RJ: What are you writing now?  </b><br /><br />CQ: I’m in the last stages of Fool’s Rush, the third in the trilogy I’m writing for Manifold Press. It’ll hopefully be ready for release on February 1st, 2013.<br /><br /><b>RJ: What are your plans for future books? Any more self pubs?  </b><br /><br />CQ: Future plans? Oh, God, yes. My Plot Ideas list just gets longer and longer. To be honest, I don’t know what I’ll be working on next - several plots and people have their elbows out, demanding attention. But I’ll certainly be looking to self-pub again in the future.<br /><br /><b>RJ:  Thanks for coming over and chatting.. Good luck on the new release.</b><br /><br />CQ: This has been fun, as always *g*. And don’t forget, we need to arrange that research expedition to the HellFire Caves...<br /><div><br /></div><div>Chris Quinton has a website at <a href="http://chrisquinton.com/">chrisquinton.com</a> and her facebook is here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chris.quinton.14">chris.quinton.14</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Excerpt from Dark Waters </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Chapter One</b></div><br />"Incubus!" the hermit howled, springing to his feet and holding the crudely fashioned cross before him. The shaft was a spike of forged iron, not sharp but enough to pierce the creature's flesh. He'd finally found the strength to deny it and since dawn he'd waited for the beast to come to him so he could banish or destroy the unnatural enticement. Now it was here, in the perfect man-shape that mocked every belief the hermit held and was everything he himself was not.<br /><br /><div>It stopped in its tracks at the edge of the small corrie in front of the hermit's cave, its head thrown up in surprise, long black hair flowing in the breeze. Layers of firm muscle shifted under a hide glowing amber in the noon sun as if fashioned from the light, and it was naked. Naked and profligate, flaunting its apparent youth and potency, its overwhelming vitality, like the Satanic spawn it was.</div><div><br />Even now, it lured him, silently called to him to reach out and stroke at last the warm silk of its skin, its unbound hair. As it had called to others before it killed and devoured them. Although he knew what the thing was and what he had to do, he could not stop his traitorous body from responding to its sorcery.</div><div><br />"What is—incubus?" it asked, puzzled.</div><div><br />"You!" In his bespelled madness, he'd taught it human speech, the Gaelic, convincing himself that if it did have a soul then he could turn it from evil to Christ's mercy. But the sinful dreams that afflicted him at night, leaving him sullied beyond cleansing when he awoke, could no longer be ignored. The memories of them welled up as clear as if they had been reality. It would kneel before him and part his robes, its eyes wide and dark as it gazed on him with awe. It would worship his body with hands and mouth and wicked tongue, and beg him to save it from evil, to purify it with his touch.</div><div><br />Arousal shuddered through him, heat pooled in his loins, and his penis was throbbing between his legs, rising as if it had a mind of its own, and he was close, so close to that dazzling peak of ecstasy. But the coarse wool of his robe chafed on his turgid flesh, dragging painfully on the gathering dampness there, bringing him back to himself—and the hermit knew that he was irrevocably damned and it was all the beast's fault.<br /><br />He'd lost count of how often he'd been awakened by the echoes of his cry of release, to find he was alone with his own seed smeared on his belly, and the terrible—wonderful—images fading away. Every time he'd scrubbed himself raw with twists of heather, but still he knew himself defiled even though he had resisted all temptation to touch it in reality.</div><div><br />He'd thought he could tame it, bring it humbled and penitent before the house of the One God. But he'd been deluded, he knew that now. The monster was a soulless fiend that preyed on humankind, and he was a presumptuous fool to think he could do anything other than combat it. He could not have it, but he could destroy it.</div><div><br />"You are foul! Evil!" He raised the cross like a dagger and threw himself forward.</div><div><br />Even as he plunged the holy weapon toward the creature's broad chest, the hermit knew he had failed. He'd forgotten how swiftly it could move. In less than a heartbeat the man had gone and in its place was a daemon in the shape of a bay stallion with laid-back ears and bared carnivore's fangs. It reared and the last thing the hermit knew was the crushing impact of the monster's hooves.</div>

Interview with Chris Quinton

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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigczyB9CK5aoHzv2VQVNVe83Csh4144DzI8fYHQaRmC4-hwC25G5p64rXWsf8Pj1AKuXIp8YQsuch9uX_zaX70RG26e8StX6zYjr4stwMsqxx8ii989ErToP9NEVjjtlnFRuy8IPMzO6Y/s1600/270778996315923599_P0C6DFoO_f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigczyB9CK5aoHzv2VQVNVe83Csh4144DzI8fYHQaRmC4-hwC25G5p64rXWsf8Pj1AKuXIp8YQsuch9uX_zaX70RG26e8StX6zYjr4stwMsqxx8ii989ErToP9NEVjjtlnFRuy8IPMzO6Y/s400/270778996315923599_P0C6DFoO_f.jpg" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jack Campbell, The Texas books</td></tr></tbody></table>Happy Saturday!<br /><br />What am I doing at the moment? Besides writing this (thank you, I'm here all week, please tip your waitress).<br /><br /><b>Interview</b><br /><br />Go and read why writing is my drug and my passion over on Chris Quinton's blog today to celebrate her new release 'Paradox' - <a href="http://chrisquintonwriter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/dont-tell-chris-but-rj-scott-has-stolen.html">Don't tell Chris but RJ Scott has stolen your blog</a><br /><br /><b>Texas 3 - working title 'Texas Heat' (August 2012)</b><br /><br />Texas 3 is in planning and thinking stage - this is an excuse for me to stare into space and think about hot men! 3 will have more cowboys, more sex, and oh yes, jealousy... watch this space...<br /><br />Also, if you want to look at my Pinterest board to see what I am using for inspiration have a look here: <a href="http://pinterest.com/rjscottauthor/texas-3-texas-heat/">http://pinterest.com/rjscottauthor/texas-3-texas-heat/</a><br /><br /><b>Sanctuary</b><br /><br />All five Sanctuary books are done now... I have line edits on the final book and then the first arc of five books is finished... Don't worry though Jake and Sean's story is being planned for November so I get to revisit my sexy gorgeous protectors another time. I also think maybe another Joseph/Dale story is on the cards... What if Dale is captured and held prisoner and Sanctuary have to call on Joseph's SEAL team to extract...hmmmm<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9x3coH3fo6ogueAZLTg3nkJ2FWyQkO_5O6ZQukcnETOaM9amhs7Ebww1nfd2QkUwaXZRHbIN_ZtHsxNb5ePSbVSdBX1qQxdNGki1fjaYmv5xCrgxPQfPumNEwkyLGUz5TwYzRQVeK1ww/s1600/message_400x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9x3coH3fo6ogueAZLTg3nkJ2FWyQkO_5O6ZQukcnETOaM9amhs7Ebww1nfd2QkUwaXZRHbIN_ZtHsxNb5ePSbVSdBX1qQxdNGki1fjaYmv5xCrgxPQfPumNEwkyLGUz5TwYzRQVeK1ww/s320/message_400x600.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><b>Young Adult</b><br /><br />Love Is In The Message is with my editor and I am hoping for a release date of 19 May. Luke receives a message and it throws him for a loop. Cameron is his anchor but sometimes it is easier to push the person you love away...<br /><br /><b>Collaborations</b><br /><br />A Better Man, written with Jaime Reese, has been offered a contract with Silver and is now in Editing... I can't wait till you read this story of two men and the year it takes them to learn to be better men.<br /><br />Wolfy 3 and the Detective Agency stories (with Diane Adams and Amber Kell respectively) are trucking along nicely... watch this space. Southern Charm with Nicole Dennis is also on the move.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9uc7iMK8TwA/T6T05Aiy7hI/AAAAAAAABhs/YnXpGWkfqb4/s1600/paradox.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9uc7iMK8TwA/T6T05Aiy7hI/AAAAAAAABhs/YnXpGWkfqb4/s400/paradox.PNG" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New from Chris Quinton</td></tr></tbody></table>The island series with Meredith Russell is in planning, though we do have words on paper... go us!<br /><br /><b>The Passionate England Anthology (Totally not the title of the antho!)</b><br /><br />This is news, in that we have been toiling away on this in secret and have been planning working together for AGES! Chris Quinton, Sue Brown, SA Meade, Meredith Russell and I are nearing the end point of an anthology of stories set in England and written by English authors... I am getting very excited about this... We have no antho title as yet but we are having a meet up at the end of May to finalise it all ready for submission. Is very excited. (As a side note, Chris and Sue B, I am hoping there is a cute barista again at this new place...)<br /><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span><br /><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO CHRIS QUINTON!</span></b><br /><br /><b>Don't forget to go and read why writing is my drug and my passion over on Chris' blog - <a href="http://chrisquintonwriter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/dont-tell-chris-but-rj-scott-has-stolen.html">http://chrisquintonwriter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/dont-tell-chris-but-rj-scott-has-stolen.html</a></b>

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Jack Campbell, The Texas books Happy Saturday! What am I doing at the moment? Besides writing this (thank you, I'm here all week, please...

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Chris Quinton - ADHD and her family

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFGaER1xQvC_5Cn2VFDMd12mXhDQCsigLglcY7vMGiPEliCCu9ZkYWlZiFL7QFsRc4Ov9VpunFyzUjjcq8SaiFWcVjAmYy1h9bkYGt8nMIOxsXzzphjH3gQwNOI2NXZr1-u1PsssfC5IY/s1600/cq.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFGaER1xQvC_5Cn2VFDMd12mXhDQCsigLglcY7vMGiPEliCCu9ZkYWlZiFL7QFsRc4Ov9VpunFyzUjjcq8SaiFWcVjAmYy1h9bkYGt8nMIOxsXzzphjH3gQwNOI2NXZr1-u1PsssfC5IY/s1600/cq.PNG" /></a></div>Chris Quinton writes a beautiful essay on how ADHD has touched her family.<br /><br /><a href="http://chrisquintonwriter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/autism-awareness-adhd-and-my-family.html">Autism Awareness, ADHD and My Family</a><br /><br />She is also running a competition along side the blog to win an e-book from her back list...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">oOo</span></b></div><b><br /></b><br /><b>DON'T FORGET...</b><br /><br />Silver is running a month long competition to win a special prize and a whole heap of donated e-books...<br /><br /><a href="https://spsilverpublishing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=867&start=20" target="_blank">Click here to see</a><br />

Chris Quinton - ADHD and her family

Chris Quinton writes a beautiful essay on how ADHD has touched her family. Autism Awareness, ADHD and My Family She is also running a compet...

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Author Interview: Chris Quinton

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5faCC2YwIILNHjL53h0EUX7znLG8Y6TYyOqNXI4urdhzsq1U6ZQyc4OnhG4yLoLeFBz_cwgFIfQ1XhzsgY5Qe192tbH4TLt6z8QTMVQ6zb8t7NDXFYqzL2_CirqD2oyPNnoe1Y92WMM/s1600/Sullivans_YardMM3-400x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5faCC2YwIILNHjL53h0EUX7znLG8Y6TYyOqNXI4urdhzsq1U6ZQyc4OnhG4yLoLeFBz_cwgFIfQ1XhzsgY5Qe192tbH4TLt6z8QTMVQ6zb8t7NDXFYqzL2_CirqD2oyPNnoe1Y92WMM/s320/Sullivans_YardMM3-400x600.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><b>New books from the awesome Chris Quinton</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><b><a href="http://chrisquintonwriter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Chris Quinton's Website can be found HERE</a></b><br /><br /><b>Sullivan’s Yard (</b><a href="https://spsilverpublishing.com/product_book_info/coming-soon-c-2/sullivan-s-yard-ebook-p-734" target="_blank">Buy Link</a>)<br /><br />Cal Beaufontaine, trainee chef, is starting his career at the Alhambra in Modesto. He doesn't want the attention of the local super-stud, but Luis is determined to win him. Cal has other problems. He's hearing things -- voices that drove the previous tenant in his apartment to wholesale destruction.<br /><br /><b>Fox Hunt </b>(<a href="http://www.manifoldpress.co.uk/2011/12/fox-hunt/" target="_blank">Buy Link</a>)<br /><br />Rob is under commission to clean two Elizabethan portraits painted on wooden panels. But a couple of collectors want them as well, and one will stop at nothing to get his hands on both panels.<br /><br />The portraits were stolen from Fox Courtney's home, and he wants them back. Fox is a vampire and he, too, will stop at nothing.<br /><br />The inevitable clash will endanger Rob and his family, but as he grows closer to Fox, there's even more at risk - his heart.<br /><br /><b><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white; font-size: large;">COMPETITION: Win a copy of Sullivan’s Yard and Fox Hunt by commenting on THIS POST. Closing date is Friday 17th February at 10am, GMT (London).</span></b><br /><br />oOo<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />Hello Chris and welcome to my blog!<br /><br />CQ: It’s great to be here!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6cv6jlNPc0EtVU-GNORgpivpcsqGbv7EnKcgRce0geaFTkjboScOm2F7jPeYvXCRXgl4no-yf-EwtbwL65JObMqjWjcRRPHV89ORKNcy_lda0aCsICB_idy1FfyxZSG1oKnkYgtOKzg/s1600/foxhunt432x709.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6cv6jlNPc0EtVU-GNORgpivpcsqGbv7EnKcgRce0geaFTkjboScOm2F7jPeYvXCRXgl4no-yf-EwtbwL65JObMqjWjcRRPHV89ORKNcy_lda0aCsICB_idy1FfyxZSG1oKnkYgtOKzg/s320/foxhunt432x709.jpg" width="195" /></a>RJ: I know you have had a million new books coming out over the last few weeks and I wanted to grab this opportunity to drill deeper into the writer that is Chris *wonderful* Quinton (Yes, I am biased)... So I am diving straight in with my first question:<br /><br /><b>RJ:  Do you write an outline before every book you write?</b><br /><br />CQ: A short outline in the first instance, just to set the main points in my head *g* Then I write the opening lines. If that gels, I fix the title, and start a proper synopsis and build characters. Not that it’s carved in stone, of course.<br /><br /><b>RJ: So you have this story in your head. Does it ever refuse to be written down on paper - do you ever experience writer's block?</b><br /><br />CQ: Do I ever! Mental Constipation is a pain in my virtual arse! [can I say that?]<br /><br /><b>RJ: As long as it’s a virtual arse then I am happy.... ROFL!</b><br /><b>RJ: What do you do to get past the mental block?</b><br /><br />CQ: Usually, getting out of the house helps. For instance, I’ve been finding that Finders Keepers, the current WiP, has been sluggish. I get in the train Wednesday and by the time I’ve reached Chester I have a couple of thousand words scribbled. But the simple fact of walking from home to my favorite coffee shop does the trick.<br /><br /><b>RJ: Do you ever have days where the words flow so fast that you get cramp in your hand?</b><br /><br />CQ: Oh, yes! Not as many as I’d like, but when the words flow as if you’re taking dictation, it’s a blast!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ggkXPafG5WVQXIt3QkT5Jprr_R22HQzOvEBFd8BkmhX6iXleHZhCA3XWdrdbudBNOIo1BClSlnYyaMgRyNsqx_2BC5S0R_nLG3zmtCh1upia-t97H_brw6PqyY1yBkE25IdRn50geiQ/s1600/5187243AMFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ggkXPafG5WVQXIt3QkT5Jprr_R22HQzOvEBFd8BkmhX6iXleHZhCA3XWdrdbudBNOIo1BClSlnYyaMgRyNsqx_2BC5S0R_nLG3zmtCh1upia-t97H_brw6PqyY1yBkE25IdRn50geiQ/s1600/5187243AMFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" /></a></div><b>RJ:  What books have most influenced your life most?</b><br /><br />CQ: That’s a hard one. Let’s see - I discovered The Return of the King Trilogy and Mary Renault’s The Last of the Wine round about the same time when I was 12 or 13, Then I found CJ Cherryh’s Faded Sun trilogy, and I’d say they probably had the most impact on my reading and writing.<br /><br /><b>RJ: Are there any new authors that have grasped your interest? In your genre and outside of it?</b><br /><br />CQ: If you mean new to me, there have been lots! Far too many to list here. In the new to publishing authors, over the last couple of years and in no particular order, it’s got to be Sue Brown, Stuart Wakefield, Kate Sherwood, and um, Whatsername - RG Somethingorother... But seriously, there are a lot of new writers I like, too many to mention.<br /><br /><b>RJ: You have helped me a lot since I first started writing. It was your support that had me turning in Oracle and I think there are plenty of people who would hunt you down and shoot you for doing that! ROFL... You were my mentor...If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?</b><br /><br />CQ: Mentoring you? You mean nagging, threatening, patting backs and feeding you chocolate and wine? It was a tough job but someone had to do it. *G* Besides, I had help when I started writing many years ago, so I just pay it forward. My mentors? Not that I’ve ever met them, but only devoured their books - CJ Cherryh for deep and complex characterisations both human and alien, world building and convoluted plots. Josh Lanyon for great plots and characters, and bringing the MM plot arcs into the mainstream of mystery and romance fiction. They’ve shown me how to do it, and I do my best to find my own way to emulate them.<br /><br /><b>RJ: Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members.</b><br />CQ: The friends I made when I started writing fanfiction way back in the 70’s. They are still close friends. We’re a widespread band of sisters *g*.<br /><br /><b>RJ: How do you handle reviews (bad or good!)</b><br /><br />CQ: The good ones give me a warm, fuzzy feeling *g*. The bad ones that have absolutely no constructive criticism get laughed at and completely ignored. The bad ones that do have something constructive to say get thought about very carefully and kept in my internal editor’s file.<br /><br /><b>RJ: Okay, last question... I promise... What are your current projects?</b><br /><br />CQ:  Right. Okay. Um... Paradox is sitting with Silver Publishing and I’m waiting for the edits.<br />Finders, Keepers is the current WiP, and the first draft is about two-thirds done.<br />Bennett’s Folly is the collaboration with you - still in the planning stages. Then there’s Fool’s Rush, Oil and Water, The Lennox Selkie, Cause and Effect, Spiked, Taking a Chance - and about half a dozen more with titles, and even more still in vague outline.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh36SLr4GMqJHs0r-NeBlZ62nXlAZgG0Ibp-kFYm-xsmLjLWIQV4qRIlRUUMDzizI0DbypEqh1VkLGq7ojyPbNe2fcf3AsNb5qNoK_BIPpEQ1O78qQOQO05LmXvm4tn2glihq-tod6-MRA/s1600/image2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh36SLr4GMqJHs0r-NeBlZ62nXlAZgG0Ibp-kFYm-xsmLjLWIQV4qRIlRUUMDzizI0DbypEqh1VkLGq7ojyPbNe2fcf3AsNb5qNoK_BIPpEQ1O78qQOQO05LmXvm4tn2glihq-tod6-MRA/s1600/image2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eye candy</td></tr></tbody></table><b>RJ: I just remembered. I have one more VITAL question to ask you... If you met Alex O'Loughlin what would you say to him? Would you lose the power of rational speech or ask him relevant cutting edge questions?</b><br />CQ: LOL! I’d try for the cutting edge questions, but I’d probably end up being a giddy idiot. Hmm... Wonder if those tatts are real?<br /><br /><b>RJ: And what about Adrian Paul and Peter Wingfield... together... what would you say to them?</b><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsP0d0iS5flYKMcDq5G2FIBHD1QD5pDoO8v-7nQrXi-J-rjLwAlFdb7JjGpQpSz0w8LXrn95lJsaEyYET-dZiNh0Cnl-GTaVkzAnvCiKY-DgyBP4o7LeZ9HwNtllMMXUEovJ3fQHfMgA/s1600/Image1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsP0d0iS5flYKMcDq5G2FIBHD1QD5pDoO8v-7nQrXi-J-rjLwAlFdb7JjGpQpSz0w8LXrn95lJsaEyYET-dZiNh0Cnl-GTaVkzAnvCiKY-DgyBP4o7LeZ9HwNtllMMXUEovJ3fQHfMgA/s1600/Image1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More eye candy!</td></tr></tbody></table><br />CQ: Guh! Well, I already met Peter face to face and became ridiculously tonguetied, which considering he’s of an age to be my son, is plain silly. I’d almost certainly be the same with Adrian. I am obviously an old cougar at heart but with very little social courage.<br /><br /><b>RJ: On that note I want to thank you for answering my questions! And good luck with your new books. I have read both and I love them equally... xxx</b><br /><br />CQ: Thanks for having me, hon [[[hugs]]] I appreciate the invitation, especially now. It’s been a crazy few weeks.</div>

Author Interview: Chris Quinton

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzCeIJSj6IoInt9nWtVUUadcjPaBlWr9W0U9yHfBXm5BH6m6OFZTXTNUAt-qul4wEKD2JCiERK0iczEUdDyQSQrpoI488dKm6NV6vJ8my7lEkUnEjTeEzf1k3lX-VyBawNDtKxCnc6OJE/s1600/Sullivans_YardMM3-400x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzCeIJSj6IoInt9nWtVUUadcjPaBlWr9W0U9yHfBXm5BH6m6OFZTXTNUAt-qul4wEKD2JCiERK0iczEUdDyQSQrpoI488dKm6NV6vJ8my7lEkUnEjTeEzf1k3lX-VyBawNDtKxCnc6OJE/s400/Sullivans_YardMM3-400x600.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><b>Welcome to my wonderful friend CQ AKA Chris Quinton for whom 2011 was a very good year!</b><br /><br />Fool's Errand - Manifold Press - received an Honorable Mention in the Rainbow Awards of 2011.<br /><br />Starfall - Silver Publishing - received an Honorable Mention in the Rainbow Awards of 2011.<br /><br />Home and Heart, Game On Game Over, Fool's Errand and Fools Oath all have Silver Stars on All Romance eBooks.<br /><br />AND Home and Heart is among the nominees for Love Romances Cafe's 2011 Best Contemporary Award, and I'm among the nominees for Best GLBT Author!<br /><div><br /><b><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">Coming Soon </span></span></b><br /><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Fox Hunt - February 1st from Manifold Press </b><br />Rob is cleaning two Elizabethan portraits. But other people want them and one will stop at nothing to own both panels. Fox wants them back, and he, too, will stop at nothing. The inevitable clash will endanger Rob and his family, but as he grows closer to Fox, there's even more at risk for him - his heart. <a href="http://www.manifoldpress.co.uk/category/authors-2/chris-quinton/" target="_blank">More here>></a><br /><br /><b></b><br /><a name="more"></a><b>Sullivan's Yard - February 4th, A Sparkle from Silver Publishing </b><br />Cal Beaufontaine, trainee chef, is starting his career at the Alhambra in Modesto. He doesn't want the attention of the local super-stud, but Luis is determined to win him. Cal has other problems. He's hearing things - voices that drove the previous tenant in his apartment to wholesale destruction. <a href="https://spsilverpublishing.com/index/book_authors_id/86/typefilter/book_authors" target="_blank">More here>></a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Paradox - somewhen in 2012 from Silver Publishing </b><br />Phil is trapped in a coma, and he's sharing a parallel life. Centuries ago, someone is trying to kill Caius Marcellus Niger - Phil must find out who and why. He appears to be alone, but nothing is the way it seems.<br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;"><b>In my head…</b></span></span><br /><br />On my To-Do List - and believe me, I'm trying to keep these in order with a whip and a chair. <br /><br />Top priority is <b><span style="color: red;">Fool's Rush</span></b> - first refusal to Manifold Press - this is the last of The Fool's Odyssey, my vampire trilogy and I *must* get this finished in 2012!! <br /><br />Xavi is hired to trace the true owners of the gold found in the crypt of San Pedro-by-the-Wall, but it's a tangled and dangerous web. Andreas is there for him--which is not always a comfort. <br /><br /><b>Then, in no particular order, there's: </b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Bennett's Folly</span></b>, which I'm co-writing with RJ Scott [a lot] later in the year. It's set in the same town as Riding For A Fall [see below] <br /><br />How to turn a failing farm in the heart of England's West Country into an unusual going concern in one not so easy lesson. Sceptical neighbours, half a dozen bison, a piebald pony with an attitude problem and a belligerent tom turkey, are the least of Jason Bennett's problems. <br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Riding For A Fall</span></b> - which I'm aiming for Silver's Fathers' Day call *if* I can keep it under 15k <br /><br />Luke Petrie is back home in Fordingbridge, running the family bookstore. His ex-wife is about to go abroad for a lengthy period, so his young daughter comes to stay. Which is great as far as they are both concerned. Luke has no romantic interest in his life, until he reconnects with the first boy he crushed on. The trouble is, Steve is no more interested in him now as he was then. <br /><br /><b>And the others are further down on the To Do List </b><br /><ul><li>Finders, Keepers </li><li>Oil and Water - the sequel to Aloes and first refusal to Manifold Press </li><li>Spiked </li><li>Cause and Effect </li><li>The Carandor Interface </li><li>The Lennox Selkie </li><li>Tribulation </li><li>Amethyst </li></ul><i>and sundry other wisps of ideas not yet solidified into a plot line.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><b><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">Visit Chris online:</span></span></b><br /><br /><a href="http://chrisquintonwriter.blogspot.com/">http://chrisquintonwriter.blogspot.com/</a></div></div></div>

What's coming in 2012: Chris Quinton

Welcome to my wonderful friend CQ AKA Chris Quinton for whom 2011 was a very good year! Fool's Errand - Manifold Press - received an Hon...

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