Romance at Heart Magazine Author Interview: Patricia Crossley

Interview with Patricia Crossley:

Hi Patricia. Thank you for doing this interview. I would like to welcome you to the Romance at Heart Interview and Author Grilling session. *bg* We are interested to find out as much about you as we possibly can, so lets get started...

- Please tell us about your latest book.

I have two books that have been released almost simultaneously. A Suitable Father is now out from Zumaya Publications This is a contemporary romance, a tale of deceit and betrayal and the triumph of love. It tells about a woman whose former lover comes back into her life, just when she has a new romance and a stable life. No one has heard from Kurt Rainer for twelve years. He’d loved Maggie once with an all-consuming passion but doesn’t know she bore his son, married his half brother and was now widowed. He doesn’t know she’s planning to marry a wealthy, sophisticated doctor who owns the retirement home where she works. He doesn’t know how much his son resembles him in looks and in character. Most of all, he has no idea what havoc he will create in Maggie’s carefully planned life. Maggie longs for a stable family and a loving father for her child and when Kurt turns up on her doorstep, wounded and implicated in a high-profile murder, she has to fight every instinct she has to help him. Despite the strong sexual attraction, she resists letting back into her life the man who once betrayed her so coldly and callously, and is now possibly a wanted criminal. This book has earned some good reviews and is also available in large print, hard cover, from Atlantic Bridge and just this month in large print, hard cover from Ulverscroft.

You can see the reviews for both these books and read the first chapter on my web site Patricia Crossley

- What can we expect from you in the future?

Two things coming up. First, Cerridwen (the mainstream imprint of Ellora’s Cave) has contracted Journey’s End, a time travel romance. This is a story of a modern doctor who is out walking her dog, when she meets Mr. Tall, Dark and Mysterious and is whisked back four hundred years into the past.

Somewhere in the twenty-fourth century, Aidan Torrance realizes what he has done and plans to make good his mistake by picking up the annoying woman - and her dog - and depositing them back into their own time, like a wrongly directed parcel.

Aidan does not reckon on Kari’s strong will. Kari does not expect to have to make choices that threaten her whole future. Neither of them expects to fall in love with someone far removed from their own space and time. Journey’s End culminates in lovers meeting after a wild ride through time.

Can a doctor from the twentieth century find love and happiness with a maverick historian from the future when they meet in Tudor England?

This book has earned four stars from Romantic Times and I’m excited about it coming out from Cerridwen. I don’t have a release date as yet, but it is in editing.

The other pending release is a short story –a cozy mystery, in fact– entitled September Song, which is part of All About Murder Anthology, volume one. This is a kind of promotional effort by a group of writers and will be released soon through Café press. This story is a big departure for me and I had lots of fun writing it.

- How do we find out about you and your books?

Look on my website: Patricia Crossley.com

- How may readers contact you?

Easily at patricia@patriciacrossley.com

- How many readers contact you?

I have a subscribers list of nearly 700 who have joined, mainly through contest entries.

- Why did you decide to write romance novels?

I have favorite quotation. Let me share it with you:

“Solomon said one of the most wonderful, mysterious things on Earth is ‘the way of a man with a maid.’ Every culture has a means of recognizing the delicate, breathtaking dance that takes place between a man and a woman–getting to know someone, liking what you experience, falling in love...To be wooed and won was a beautiful, romantic process, one that fostered a lifetime of passion and commitment.” (Elizabeth Nixon, in the National Post, May 11 2001)

Doesn’t this describe the course of the romance novel? No one on this earth is exempt from the desire to find the one person with whom they can fall in love. I like to follow the dance, leading to passion and commitment–that is why I write romance novels. I delight in seeing what brings two people together, how they fight the odds against them, how they stay together. All my books are about two lovers ‘finding’ each other: across time, after betrayal, through history.

Thank you again, for taking the time with us and answering our questions. I really appreciate this interruption to busy schedule. Good Luck, and we will be looking forward to the next delightful creation from your talented imagination! I for one, greatly enjoyed A Suitable Father.

Yours in good reading,
Rose!

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