Interview with Second Chance author Debbie Gould

If you follow my blog you already know that I'm obsessed with the 1 Night Stand Series!

 Today I have an author of a 1NS book on my blog, Debbie Gould!

Debbie welcome and tell us about yourself.

Grew up in New Brunswick, NJ until the age of 14 when my mom dragged me kicking and screaming to rural Vermont, lol. Been here ever since. Now work as a nurse at a small family practice and live with my two Maine Coon cats and 21 year old son.

Do you prefer...

Milk chocolate or Dark? 

Milk chocolate definitely! Dark is yucky, lmao. But it I really had a choice it would be white chocolate, and YES white chocolate is still chocolate, I don’t care what the haters say, lol.

Coffee or tea?

Neither. Never did acquire a taste for either of them. I do like Hot Coco, and Swiss Miss has a pick me up line with lots of caffeine in it.

Vodka or tequila? 

Vodka! Although was just on vacation in Mexico and they were giving out free shots of Tequila. Now THAT was fun.

Romance or a Thriller?

 A romantic thriller please.

Mystery or Horror?  

Both with romance added in, lol. Do you see a pattern? I guess I don’t conform well. I love A good thriller, mystery, horror or all in one, but I need some romance in it too. Don’t like them without it anymore.

Did you always want to be an author?  

No, I actually work as a Nurse M-F at a family practice in rural Vermont. I read every thing I could get my hands on though. Started with Stephen King as a teenager. Then my daughter had a few bad break-ups and I decided I wanted to write about the man I wanted her to find in fall in love with. The rest, shall they say, is history, lol.

What authors had an impact on you growing up and as an adult?  

Stephen King was THE man in my teens. I also read VC Andrews and Dean Koontz. As an adult I moved more to the Romantic Suspense genre. Love Suzanne Brockmann, Cindy Gerard and Lori Foster.

Did anyone in your life influence you or encouraged you to be a writer? 

 No, not really. My kids are all very proud and tell all there friends about my books. They do encourage me and now I have several fans that keep me plugging away at the computer.

What is your writing atmosphere like?

 Either I’m on my couch with my laptop with some silly TV show in the background, or at my messy desk in my bedroom, with the cats trying to help.

 

What is your favorite aspect or writing? Your Least Favorite?

Favorite is writing The End! Gosh I love that feeling. Least favorite is the middle of the book when the ending seems so far away and I begin to wonder if I can do the story justice.

Your current book  your promoting is: 

Second Chance

 Lieutenant Colin Beckett, US Air Force special ops, lost his wife in childbirth while off on a mission. Two years later, he’s still trying to come to grips with the guilt that tortures him. And to complicate matters, he finds himself undeniably attracted to his wife's sister, Emily. Struggling with his desire, he tells himself he doesn’t deserve a second chance with such an amazing woman.
....Emily wants Colin in her life and her bed. Enlisting the help of Colin's teammates and Madame Eve's 1Night Stand dating service, she plans to prove to Colin he can have everything he lost once again.
....Will their one night lead to the happy ending she longs for or the loneliness he thinks he deserves?

How did you come up with  your story line? 

I love military hero’s. My daughter is in the Air Force, and they miss so much when they are deployed. My hero’s deployment had a devastating event happen when he was gone and I wanted to see how he’d deal with it.

How do you choose your characters names? 

TV, books, people I know, news. All over really

 I've read Second Chances and reviewed it a few weeks back! 

Click here for my review

 

Lieutenant Colin Beckett, US Air Force special ops, lost his wife in childbirth while off on a mission. Two years later, he’s still trying to come to grips with the guilt that tortures him. And to complicate matters, he finds himself undeniably attracted to his wife's sister, Emily. Struggling with his desire, he tells himself he doesn’t deserve a second chance with such an amazing woman.

Emily wants Colin in her life and her bed. Enlisting the help of Colin's teammate's and Madame Eve's 1 Night Stand dating service, she plans to prove to Colin he can have everything he lost once again.

Will their one night lead to the happy ending she longs for or the loneliness he thinks he deserves?

 About the Author...

Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the age of two Debbie and her mother moved to New Jersey, spending many happy years on her grandparents' horse farm. You'll sometimes find this setting as a backdrop in her work. 

As a teenager, she and her mother found a new home in Vermont, where she currently resides. With a daughter in the Air Force,  one son in college and the other working for the family business,  Debbie now shuffles her time between a husband and full time job as a nurse, and writing.

About seven years ago, while looking at over three hundred treasured books lining her shelves, she realized there was a multitude of stories of her own clamoring for release. Since then, she's seriously persevered in keeping the keyboard in constant motion. 

With two novels, Mountain's Echo and Infidelity, and two novellas, November Rain and Second Chance now published, Debbie is now also working with a partner, L.J. Garland. Together the two have written Sins of the Mind and are hard at work on many more manuscripts.

Debbie has been a member of KOD, FTHRW, ELEMENTS and RWA Online.

  You can find the author on-lines:  Website / Blog