It's my pleasure to have Dana Michelle Burnett on my blog today!
Dana, tell us about yourself:
I am a
paranormal romance writer from beautiful Southern Indiana.
Do you prefer
Milk chocolate or Dark? Dark
Coffee or tea? Coffee
Vodka or tequila? Tequila
Romance or a Thriller? Romance
Mystery or Horror? Horror
Did you always want to be an author?
Ever
since I can remember I was making up stories and as soon as I could put a
sentence together I was writing them down.
What authors had
an impact on you growing up and as an adult?
Margaret
Mitchell and VC Andrews, but I have to say that the novel Lolita was one of my
favorites all through high school.
Did anyone in your life
influence you or encouraged you to be a writer? (teacher,
family member, friend) My family was always supportive, but for me
there wasn’t really ever anything else that I wanted to do.
What is your
writing atmosphere like?
Complete chaos at all times. I can’t really work in an organized world.
What is your favorite aspect or
writing? Your Least Favorite?
The early creation stage is my favorite,
when the idea is just forming is my favorite.
My least favorite is the waiting to get the manuscript back from beta
readers, it’s very nerve racking.
Your current book your promoting
is:
Haunted,
it’s book #2 in my Spiritus series.
How did you come up with the your
story line?
I drive past these old houses in Corydon Indiana all the time and
started wondering about the people that lived there over the years, the story
just sort of took off from there.
How do you choose
your characters names?
For the main character Becca, I picked her
name because Rebecca was one of the most popular names during the Civil War and
it is still popular today. As far as
Alastor the ghost, I just always loved that name.
Haunted - Spiritus Series Book Two
Alastor came at me
then, forcing me back against the wall. He was so solid that I could feel his
weight against me. I
could feel his frozen breath on my face….He ran his hand up my arm, over
my shoulder, and rested
at the base of my throat. His blue eyes glittered dangerously.
With the publication of
Spiritus, Dana Michelle Burnett created ghostly romance in a small town.
Now, in her new novel,
she brings us again - even more magically - into the midst of the haunted
love story she
introduced in Spiritus, of the solitary and beautiful Becca McAllister and
Alastor,
the darkly captivating
ghost whom she loves and killed over a century ago.
Becca has already
decided that it’s Alastor that she loves, but now, as their uncommon
relationship limits
Becca’s future, Alastor must decide if he’s willing to make the ultimate
sacrifice for Becca’s
happiness….
Dana Michelle Burnett
spent most of her life writing short stories and sharing them with family and
friends. Over the years, her work was published in numerous commercial and
literary magazines including Just Labs, Mindprints: A Literary Journal, Foliate
Oak, and many more. Her short story John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust was
included in The Best of Foliate Oak in 2006.
In 2010, Burnett’s
first novel, Ghost Country, was released. Based on her own Cherokee heritage,
the novel marked her return to the literary world after a four year hiatus. She
followed that with the release of her romance novel, Two Out of Three in the
summer of 2011.
Spiritus is the first
novel in her new paranormal romance series by the same name. The second book,
Haunted, is now available.
Thanks so much for having me on the blog!
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