DEAD PEOPLE

Edie Ramer and her Character, Cassie Taylor

Hi everyone!

This is Marie-Claude. Thank you so much for attending Edie’s interview on Monday. We had many wonderful comments and ….. a winner…….JOYE wins one of the wonderful prizes from Sylvia’s treasure chest!!!

Monday also marked the launch of the American Title V finalist group blog: LOVE CONQUERS. With posts nearly every day, I encourage you to visit at loveconquers.wordpress.com/ and bookmark the site.

Today Edie is interviewing Cassie Taylor, DEAD PEOPLE’s Ghost Whispering Heroine. So here to you Edie:

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For months Cassie Taylor from DEAD PEOPLE lived in my head and my heart. I felt her pain, her passion and her humor. I heard her voice in my head — and it wasn’t soft. The only thing soft about Cassie were parts of her body. I admired her grit. But once the book was written, we split up. She’s gone on, and so have I. Other characters have taken up residence in my mind. Now I feel nervous sitting at this table for two in a long white hall, as if I were waiting for an old friend or lover.

CT: Did you have to tell everyone about my extra pounds?

ER: Crap. I mean, darn. How do you know I said that?

CT: [sitting across from ER] A little ghost told me.

ER: Right. [shivers. The talking-to-dead-people thing creeps me out.] So how old were you when you first started talking to ghosts?

CT: How old were you when you first started breathing?

ER: Did it make your life hard when you were a child?

CT: I don’t blame dead people for my unhappy childhood. [She sits back, her eyes darkening.] I blame live people.

ER: Your father and stepmother?

CT: If the name fits … Remember the book I was writing about former cases?

ER: You didn’t write that book. I wrote that book. Well, excerpts of it.

CT: You honestly believe that? Puhlease. We both know it was me. There’s only one author name on my contract.

ER: You sold it? Was it reported in PM? [Cassie nods, her mouth curved in a self-satisfied smile.] What kind of deal? Nice? [I lean forward and speak in a hushed voice.] Major?

CT: [smirks] I’m not saying a word. Aren’t you supposed to ask me about the book you wrote?

ER: [glaring] I know what happens in DEAD PEOPLE. I wrote it, remember? It’s your life before or after the book I’m curious about. Tell me, what was your hardest ghost busting case?

CT: [glaring back] I don’t bust ghosts, I’m more like a ghost therapist. I help them leave earth. I’m so tired of people calling me that. I thought you’d know better.

ER: Sorry. [my voice small, because Cassie was right. Another character who knows more than I do. Since I make them up, I don’t understand how that happens.]

CT: [gestures dismissively] You asked about my hardest case. It was the one in DEAD PEOPLE. Someone killed the former owner of Luke’s house and tried to kill me. I naturally fell in lust with Luke and he with me.

ER: Why naturally?

CT: You’re interviewing me for the American Title V contest, right? The book will be excerpted in Romantic Times magazine, not Scientific Journal. It’s all about the romance, baby.

ER: [shaking head] You’ve changed. You’re more relaxed, less defensive.

CT: We did create a fabulous beginning of the rest of my life.

ER: You mean an ending.

CT: Ha! That’s what you writers like to think.

ER: [shuddering] That can’t be true. If all our characters came to life, there really would be vampires, werewolves, dragons, half-dressed lusty Vikings, sexy devils that can give you an orgasm with one look from their fiery eyes … [Cassie’s smile widens, and I swallow] If this is true, why haven’t I seen them? Where are these sexy devils … er, I mean we should know this so we can exorcise them. Or erase them. Put them back onto the pages.

CT: [standing] Sure, I believe you want to put them between the covers of a book and not the covers of your bed. [winks] Gotta go. I’ve been invited to a party. Everyone’s going to be there.

ER: Where? Who? The Vikings? The vamps? The sexy devils? The hunky firemen? Will they be at the party too? Don’t go. Take me with you.

CT: [striding away, laughing manically]

ER: [getting off my butt and running after Cassie] It is, after all, my duty as a citizen to make sure there aren’t dangerous sexy devils roaming the streets of America, causing lust and havoc. And it’s my duty as a writer to research. Especially those lusty Viking. Lots and lots of research.

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What a great heroine. This was great, definitely a little snarkiness there, LOL. Thank you so much for being with us this week Edie and good luck in the contest. You can keep up with Edie at www.edieramer.com

Next week we have Tamara Hugues, who will tell us all about her Victorian Historical Romance ONCE UPON A MASQUERADE.

Thanks to Sylvia for hosting us today and to all for visiting. Don’t forget to leave Edie a comment for another chance to win!

See you all next Monday!

Marie-Claude
www.mcbourque.com

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