How do you incorporate the parapsychic twists into the plot?

By putting the characters who have those special abilities into situations where only they can accomplish the mission.  For example, Dr. Morgan Cabot, the protagonist in Kill Zone, is a psychologist, a subject matter expert who overtly acts as a consultant  to the military.  But her covert position on the Special Abilities Team relies on those skills and her skills as an intuitive.  Without the intuitive skills, she can't do what needs to be done the way it needs to be done.  Example.  She and her two team members must positively identify an individual before that person clears international waters.  That's critical.  But there's no field lab in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, so the team must rely on their special abilities to make the call and then verify after the fact.  The possibility of being wrong carries grave consequences, so it makes for a tense situation. I love that.

Your expertise is creating strong female action heroines.  Tell us about the women of Kill Zone.

I've talked about Morgan Cabot already.  The other team members are Jazie Craig, who's a bit of an idealist and the peacemaker, which makes for interesting situations in the obstacles they face in the story.  Taylor Lee is the third team member and she's a loose cannon.  You never know what she might do, but you can bet it'll be risky.  Taylor Lee doesn't just walk the razor's edge, she slides it, bends it, knocks chinks it--whatever it takes to reach her goal.  And they're all as neurotic as the rest of us when it comes to their private lives and personal relationships.  For example, Taylor Lee loves being engaged, but she's not fond of actually getting married.  So the other two--Morgan and Jazie--just take turns being Taylor's maid of honor.  It's not a big deal.  She always backs out before the real work begins.  Yet she's positively militant at being devoted to protecting John and Jane Q. Public from the villain.  Very outspoken, could care less about being politically correct or diplomatic--the total opposite of Jazie and Morgan often has to reel Taylor in.  

The other women are protagonists in former books.  All military members.  Amanda, who came face-to-face with her own body double; Kate, whose idea of a bridal shower is fireworks (Kate loves to blow things up and joined the military so she could do so without going to jail for it); Darcy, who has total recall; and Maggie, who has fulfilled every wife of an unfaithful husband's fantasy (she banned them from her house nude and shot the tires out on the car--all four of them--leaving the offenders stranded in a bit of an embarrassing position).  

The last of the female major players is Colonel Sally Drake, a tiny redhead with a will of steel and more determination than is legal in forty states.  She was married, happy, but a terrorist after her got her husband instead.  She's been relentless ever since and determined to do whatever it takes to complete her missions.  She's also at war with the base commander who assigns her teams office space, which is why he dumped them in the middle of an abandoned bombing range.

They're a diverse group and a lot of fun--and I guess you can tell by my enthusiasm I enjoy them very much.  I'm constantly surprised by what they say and do, and I love that.

Publishers Weekly called Kill Zone a "paranormal Charlie's Angels" what do you think of that?

Honestly, I chuckled.  Women in the military and subject matter experts facing the challenges they face are a bit more serious than Charlie's Angels brings to my mind, but both are women's action/adventure stories and the women are strong and capable and they have a little life on them, meaning, they're not clueless as to what's at risk and what they stand to lose.  And one can't deny Charlie's Angels's successes as a TV series and as movies, so I guess that parallel was a perk and Kill Zone is in good company.  

An enormous perk to me personally is that Kill Zone is book five in this series and writing the stories is still a kick.

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As a pediatric ER doctor, CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge suspense novels.  Her debut, LIFELINES (Berkley, March 2008), became a National Bestseller and Publishers Weekly proclaimed it a "breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller."  The second in the series, WARNING SIGNS, was released January, 2009 and the third, URGENT CARE, is due out October, 2009.  Contact her at http://www.cjlyons.net