I want to welcome Adam
Mann. First I’d love you to introduce
yourself.
I live on the outskirts of a small city in a mountainous
area, which I prefer to a tropical island.
The sand and the sea look good, but are hot and sticky, unless you have
the services of a six star hotel! The
air up here is cooler and cleaner, but it does get hot in the summer months.
Tell us about your
latest release.
I’ve been very lucky to have two novels released this month:
BODY HEAT from Phaze Books - Jennifer and Charles team up to start their own 21 day
wilderness program, without clothes, food or drink, or a TV sponsored back-up
team. They choose a remote area, and as
complete strangers they only meet a day before the adventure starts! Watch the sparks begin to fly, not from the fires
they light, but from the passion that somehow ignites between them.
and
Claudia and the Lords of Peterborough from Global
Publications Group - Two brothers, heirs to an Earl, meet the attractive and
passionate Claudia. She enters a
childless marriage with the elder brother, who dies in a flying accident, but
then the younger brother come back from Central Africa to claim the title on
the death of his father, the future begins to look brighter!
Now I have a few
questions for you – I have found readers do like to know fun things about us
writers.
1.) Who is your
favorite villain – it can be from a book (even one of yours), movie or TV show.
And why?
Fagin from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens – his sense of
humour and his villainy.
2.) Who is your favorite
character out of your books? Why?
All my heroes I love especially the older ones. Especially Colin from The Road to Beira,
coming from Phaze Books on 13 OCT 2015.
3.) What do genre do
you write? What made you pick that one?
Romance – most of the time simple love stories.
4.) What are you
working on now?
When I do some research for novels I sometimes come across
odd stories. In 1862 a novel was written
called Lady Audley’s Secret, and accidental Bigamy, and that got me thinking…
5.) What got you to
start writing?
I have written four historical novels, which are devoid of
love and passion, so I began to think about my own life – four wives, seven
children, and four grandchildren, and I realized that perhaps I knew a thing or
two about romance.
6.) Where do you get
your ideas from?
The latest is from the series of TV programs about survival,
and some of the contestants who haven’t a clue what they are doing.
7.) What would people
who read your work be surprised to find out about you?
I used to be a Rugby Referee, and actually refereed a
qualifying match for the Rugby World Cup, but not recently.
8.) Do you have any
special talents?
Yes, I love gardening, especially flowers that have a
perfume.
9.) What was the one
piece of advice you received when you were an aspiring author that has stuck
with you? Why?
Do your research thoroughly.
Some authors write about places or journeys they’ve never been to which
is obvious to readers who have been there or live there.
10.) If you could talk
to any famous figure (present, past or fictional) who would it be and what
would you talk about?
Agatha Christie – about her plots.
11.) What song would
you say describes your life?
I love all the romantic light operas – any of those,
especially the arias sung by a soprano.
12.) If you could come
back as any animal – what would it be?
A horse, preferably an Arab stallion!
BODY HEAT –
excerpt:
For
the rest of that week, she followed her quest for messages, and most of them
were inconsequential except for the man in South Africa.
She
saw a message from him:
Found
that program on Discovery—agree cooperation between man and woman essential for
their existence.
To
this day, she never knew why she replied to him as she did:
Have
you ever thought of trying such a course yourself? I would if you would!
The
reply came back to her a day later:
We
won’t be able to get on a TV program, but we could do it ourselves. Where would
you like to go?
She
thought about it, and even emailed her mother to ask where she came from before
she met her father in Bangkok. She was careful not to mention the TV programs
she had seen.
Her
mother’s email surprised her:
I was born in a
village near the Thai/Laos border. The nearest town was called Nan. If you
decide to go there I can give you some directions to my sister’s house which I
can remember from my childhood.
Her
reply to Charles on Twitter was:
My
mother was born near the Thai/Laos border. Her family could give us local basic
support.
She
read her message again after she had sent it.
“US!”
she read, but she laughed aloud and the girl on duty in the Games Room looked
up at her.
Two
days later, Charles sent her another message:
Please
look at your email for messages from me, Charles.
She
rushed to look at the Google mail account, and there was a message from
Charles!
Hi
Jennifer. Your Twitter messages amused me, but then I began to think that you
might be right, it would be very interesting to try an adventure course
together, but first we need to establish some basic facts.
What
is your full name, age and position? Your CV would help.
I’ve
sent you my full details at the end of this message.
You
would need to take a month’s leave from your work. Can you do that?
If
we can agree I can fly to Bangkok, and then onto Nan.
How
would you get to Nan, we really shouldn’t travel together.
How
far past Nan would we have to travel, and how?
A
short CV from Charles followed, which she read carefully.
First
of all, she wrote to her mother:
I want to go to
the area beyond Nan on a walking holiday, so could you please give me the names
of anyone you know that I might be able to contact, and any addresses, please
Mum.
Then,
in her office, she opened the file on her office computer with her CV, and
copied it on to her USB, which she put into her handbag.
Her
mother replied, giving details of her younger sister who still lived there.
There was only a postal address, but no telephone number, so Jennifer had to
assume there was not one.
At
the Games Room, she updated and modified her CV, deleting all the information
about her work history. She copied everything on to an email that she sent to
Charles. As an afterthought, she also copied her mother’s email to Charles.
The
reply from Charles startled her:
Jennifer,
could you please arrange to take four weeks off, preferably next month, and
tell me the dates so that I can arrange to travel.
I’ll
fly to Bangkok, but I don’t think that we should meet there. Make your own way
to Nan, and I’ll suppose we’ll have to meet there and travel to the site
together.
I’ll
hire a small car in Nan so that we can leave our clothes and possessions in it
until the end of the twenty-one days, unless you have a better suggestion.
That
means we’ll organize our own drop point and our pick up point ourselves, again
your comments would be most welcome.
We
have to cheat a bit, as we need some maps.
Please
tell me what you think we should each take.
Phaze
http://phaze.com/book.php?title=Body+Heat
ARe
B&N
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Heat-Adam-Mann-ebook/dp/B015YKQW66
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