This week our Author under the spot light is spotlight Brenda Franklin
Bio:
My name is Brenda Franklin and I am a writer.
I was born and raised in Louisiana where I live with my loving
family in the country, a couple of cats, and any other wildlife that wants to
walk through the yard--excluding my husband, of course. I spend most of my time
writing Fantasy and Paranormal Romance. When I'm not writing I can be found
drawing, going for a nice walk to a nearby cemetery, playing a few games with
my husband, reading any book I can get my hands on, and trying to fend off all
the voices in my head telling me to get back to writing. It's
hard sometimes to focus with so much going on in my head and if I ever need to
truly relax I enjoy a nice hot bubble bath. :)
I am currently
giving the final touches to Flat Line, the last in my paranormal romance
trilogy, Pulse. Once done, I plan to jump right into my next series. The
Middle-Lands. Pack your things for an adventure which will steal your heart and
leave you breathless.
Books:
Pulse Trilogy:
Book 1: A Steady Pulse
Info:
There’s no rest for 23-year-old Elizabeth Parks as she soon learns
a vampire has picked up on her unusual ability and plans to use her. Why
couldn't she have picked a different week for a vacation, she wonders realizing
she’s knee deep in a vampire family feud which will cost Elizabeth her life! If
they can survive long enough!
Now, Virgil Hart must try to defeat his brother at his twisted
games to keep Elizabeth safe, but it’s turning out to be a lot harder than he
thought.
Book 2:
Barley Beating
Info:
Days after surviving
Virgil's crazed brother, Elizabeth Parks is in the first phase of becoming a
vampire herself, and Virgil couldn't be happier to have her apart of his life.
But with William still on the loose and Elizabeth wanting to go home things
couldn't be more stressful.
After a feeding goes
wrong Virgil is captured, tortured, and left starving in a basement where his
only choice for food is Elizabeth’s best friend. It’s only a matter of time
before Virgil gives in as Elizabeth searches desperately for him with two new
faces.
Can she get to him in
time or will William finally seek his revenge?
Book 3:
Flat Line (Coming out in July)
Info:
After eight months from
when Elizabeth Parks was first introduced into a world of vampires she thought things
couldn't get more complicated. Her wedding to Virgil Hart is only a week away,
her store is busier than ever, and to top it all off she can't seem to ignore a
feeling as though she's being watched.
Keeping Virgil in the
dark about her feelings may not have been the smartest of ideas a
vampire mistakes her for someone else and kidnaps her right under their noses
to a vampire who is as shocked to see her as she is to see him.
Again, Virgil finds
himself racing the clock to get Elizabeth back, but this time will it be
impossible to save her ? Will this be Virgil's last fight as he faces
off with a house full of vampires? Or will he be able to reach her and once and
for all settle things with his past?
Join Virgil and
Elizabeth in the final book of the Pulse Trilogy, Flat Line.
Other works:
Guardian, A fated Pairing
Vampires are on the brink of disappearing. Their numbers in the
low thousands hidden all over the world. After years of searching for the cure
to turn humans into their kind, one vampire believes he has done it! But in
creating the cure he has started a bloody and desperate hunt. A race among
animals, vampires and wolves, to find the cure and either destroy it, or use
it.
Alisa Chamberlin as three jobs: Keep her sister safe,
find Mr. Holiday, and stay alive. With a strong vampire hot on their heels
Alisa's life can't get more complicated until a werewolf named Peter
Woodrow shows up in her neck of the neighborhood, but this isn't a chance
meeting. Peter has been hired as a Guardian to protect her, the only problem
is, she's a vampire. She's a creature his kind hopes to one day make extinct
and to top it all off he's certain she's his mate, but that can't be. A
vampire's blood is sickening to a werewolf and goes against
everything their kind believes in.
As Peter tries to keep an unwilling Alisa safe he begins to
unravel the web of secrets surrounding her and why she is being
hunted, but is what she protects worth the life of the one man she is destined
to be with? And can he get over the fact that she is everything he hates long
enough to realize she's just what he needs? Or will the sacrifice be too great
in the end for either of them?
My newest project is the
Middle-Lands Series.
The first book will be
set on Earth, introducing two key characters, and setting the tone for the
whole series. Essentially, for all those wondering, the Middle-Lands is a world
outside of our own connected by hidden doors, and Earth isn’t the only planet
that connects to the Middle-Lands, but I’ll leave it at that.
Book one of the Middle
Lands blurb:
Nineteen
year old Eve dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, received her GED a
year later, has worked from one dead end job to the next since she was
thirteen, and was kicked out of her step mother’s house yesterday.
She
has no home, no family, no friend good enough to take her in, and barley enough
money to get her anywhere, but she isn’t at a total loss.
She
may not have any friends with the living, but she has plenty of friends with
the dead and they aren’t about to let Eve be thrown away like trash. They give
her the key to her freedom, the knowledge of a place she could go to escape her
life and the world, known as the Middle-Lands.
Now,
with her ghostly companion, a small backpack, and nothing to lose, she is on a
journey that will change her life forever.
Join
Alice as she passes from one world to the next in the first installment in the Middle-Lands
Series.
All my links:
Blog:
In my World of Reading and Writing: http://beefranklin.blogspot.com/
Social
Media connections:
Author Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/AuthorBrendaFranklin
Where to Buy my works:
Pulse Trilogy:
A Steady Pulse (Book One)
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Steady-Pulse-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B0099U5U02/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/111454
Barely Beating (Book Two)
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Barely-Beating-Pulse-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00AA2F9UE/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/158741
Other Works:
Guardian, a Fated Pairing
Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/Brenda-Franklin/e/B009TAXHI4
Free Short ghost stories on Smashwords:
Drowning with Problems:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/248010
Lady with Blue Lips: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/248010
Questions from the public
If you could be any paranormal
creature what would you be?
I couldn’t be anything other
than a vampire. Even my Twitter account says, “Vampire in hiding.” I’m a
vampire lover till the end.
Do you have any writing ritual? if
so what?
My recent ritual has been
to get up supper early with my husband, make some coffee or Tea to drink, kiss him
goodbye, and then crawl back to the bedroom to write. In my latest work I have
discovered that writing between 4 and 8 in the morning in silence has been the
best stimulus.
Who inspired you to become a writer?
When I was younger, perhaps around the sixth grade range, my father
had an old bookshelf in our living room. From top to bottom it was filled with
combat related books, old westerns, a stack of magazines (I’m not sure he ever
read them), several Dean Koontz (my sister’s favorites), a few Stephen King
books, a book called, ‘My Brother John’, the Necromancer series by Brian
Lumley, and a whole bunch of other things. But the one book I remember most was
a book by Anne Rice (Howard Allen Frances O’Brien if you didn’t know). It was
‘Interview with a Vampire’. It was this book that introduced me into the world
of vampires and I haven’t been the same since.
What is the strangest place your
writing has taken you?
I wrote a short story
which has yet to be posted where my main character was transferred to a forest
of Gold by a man with blue glowing tattoos. It was inspired by The Golden Key, a great classic written
by George Macdonald. That would be the strangest so far.
Now, if I had to pick out
of the stories that are published, it would have to be to a cemetery in Guardian, A Fated Pairing, but even that
isn’t as strange as the golden forest.
Do you prefer Traditional book
or ebook?
I love traditional books.
I feel of paper between your fingers, the smell of the pages at every turn, and
the lovely look of the entire package as it sits up on my shelf. I am beginning
to use ebook readers more, like the kindle app. For space saving and quick,
easy access I can rely on it, but I still love traditional more.
Where do you get your
writing inspiration from?
Everywhere. When I dream,
when I’m brushing my teeth, when I’m soaking in a hot tub, and even when I’m
working at my day job I just can’t stop thinking about writing. I will get
brilliant moments while I’m at work and have to stop what I’m doing to jot down
a not or two. I just get these heavy cravings to write at any moment that I
can’t control.
What story/ character have
you most enjoyed creating?
I created a character
named Ava Lynn in my book, Guardian, A
Fated Pairing and the character Garrison in the Pulse Trilogy. Those two would have to be my favorites. Ava is my
favorite because she is a bit on the sadistic side and you can never be too
sure what she might do and Garrison is my favorite because he looks and seems
serious with a level of mysteriousness due to his job, but at heart he’s a very
compassionate man.
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