Back To Life by Linda O. Johnston
How would you describe your latest book Back to Life?Linda O. Johnston's Back to Life is a dark, sexy and suspenseful paranormal romance, published by Silhouette Nocturne. It's about a woman with the Valkyrie power of bringing the near-dead back to life... or not. She's a K-9 cop, and accidentally imparts some unanticipated powers to a SWAT officer whose life she saves.
How did the idea for this book come to you?
A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to take a Baltic Sea cruise. I visited several Scandinavian countries, and was interested to see that very little today spoke of the fascinating legends of their past. I started doing research on my own--and Back to Life was the result!
You write in a wide variety of genres, from traditional mysteries to paranormal romance - what are the benefits and challenges of having such a diverse range of projects on your plate?I love to exercise versatility in my writing--all aspects of it! I'm also a lawyer and intersperse drafting contracts and other legal documents with my fiction writing. Because the market for fiction is so changeable and sometimes unpredictable, I think it's an advantage to be able to switch tones and subjects to be able to keep writing and selling. Even so, all my fiction stories contain mystery and/or suspense.
What drew you to write about the paranormal in Back to Life?
My first published novels were paranormal--time travel romances. I have also written other stories for Silhouette Nocturne based on Alpha Force, a covert military unit composed of shapeshifters. While writing paranormal stories, a writer can let her imagination run wild... and that's what I do!
Which authors inspire you?
I read a lot in the genres in which I'm writing... and in which I aspire to write. The authors who inspire me tend to change often.
Contributing editor, Clare Langley-Hawthorne,
was raised in England and Australia. She was an attorney in Melbourne
before moving to the United States, where she began her career as a
writer. Her first novel, Consequences of Sin, has been nominated for
the 2008 Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Macavity award. The
second in the Ursula Marlow series is The Serpent and The Scorpion.
Clare lives in California with her family.
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