Interview with Madelle Morgan, Romanic Suspense Author
Biography
Madelle began her engineering career in the early 80s in Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Her job took her to most of the tiny communities speckled across the vast Arctic. After the birth of her son and one-too-many close calls in a small plane, she decided a regular job south of the 60th parallel would be prudent. However, she vowed to write a romance one day that captured the northerners’ heroic and adventurous spirit and her deep love of the north.
When not at her day job as a senior engineer and manager with the federal public service, Madelle hangs out with her husband and three cats and writes. She completed four manuscripts and won or placed in several contests prior to publication. Her work in progress, For Love and Money, is about an engraver of U.S. currency who is forced to hide out under the protection of a damaged ex-military body guard while she waits to testify against a counterfeiting ring.
5 Minutes with the author Madelle Morgan
Rayna: What project are you currently working on?
A free short story, The Next Big Thing, will soon be available on the Cerridwen Press web site. I really had fun with it. I have an engineering background and I thought “What if a brilliant geek invented a very special sex toy but needed Angela, the heroine, to help assemble the financing to bring it to market. And test it, of course! Angela’s sister Sophie and cousin Lucy are secondary characters, and their turn to find love is planned for full length novels.
My work-in-progress, For Love and Money, is another romantic suspense and tells Sophie’s story. Sophie is a spoiled socialite whose day job is an engraver of U.S. currency. After she agrees to testify against counterfeiters, her life is threatened. A hunky ex-military body guard whisks her to a remote island off the coast of Maine where, out of her element, Sophie discovers herself, the real man beneath the macho façade, and how to love.
Next, Lucy must decide whether to break her own code of honor for the sake of love. It’s not yet decided if Lucy will be a gemologist or in the perfume business. I’d love readers’ feedback on their preference. You may have noticed the theme running through my books: diamonds (in my debut novel, Diamond Lust), money, gems, perfume…
Rayna: What influences you when you write?
I’m insatiably curious. When dreaming up a book, one question I ask myself is: “The plot has likely been done before, so how can I put a twist on it to delight the reader?” The late author Dick Francis is my inspiration. Many of his heros had very cool jobs: toymaker, photographer, artist, etc. I love to read time travel, sci fi, and fantasy, but our own planet and era is a rich and wonderful place. I try to provide a glimpse into aspects of our contemporary world that are fresh, entertaining and maybe even useful. In my research I collect fascinating tid-bits that I can weave into the story. I’m hoping hundreds (okay, thousands) of readers also wish to learn more about how diamonds are produced, or how money and perfume are made.
Rayna: What do you hope readers get from your books after they read them?
I hope readers will come away very happy they spent a few hours of precious leisure time reading that particular book. Making someone’s day a little better would be immensely satisfying.
Rayna: Is there a genre of book you would like to write but haven’t yet?
Diamond Lust is a romantic suspense, but my three unpublished manuscripts are straight contemporary romances. The perfume book was initially conceived as a light, fun romance. It’s all up to Lucy and my readers. I’m waiting to hear what they say.
Rayna: If you could make a movie of your book, who would you cast as the h/h?
Funny you should ask, but Marie Lilly, an Ottawa-based screenwriter, is developing a screenplay based on Diamond Lust. The producers to whom she’s pitched it insist that it be converted into an action-adventure – a “Die Hard North” type of film – to appeal to the male half of the population.
As the undercover cop/pilot hero I would cast Kiefer Sutherland. He’s got that no-nonsense edge, but underneath he’s gotta be a sweetheart; he’s Canadian, after all. For the heroine I’d cast Sarah Michelle Gellar with dyed auburn hair. As Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah was deceptively soft and beautiful on the outside, kick-ass personality on the inside, just like my geologist heroine Petra.
You can find Madelle Morgan at Cerridwen Press or on her web site. Her debut novel Diamond Lust was released in February.
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Diamonds and death—a combination Petra Paris never expected in her quest to exonerate her father of fraud charges. Petra is a headstrong geologist assigned to a Canadian diamond mine that is accessible only by plane. But the beautiful diamond hunter becomes the hunted. Unwittingly she has landed in a nest of smugglers who are becoming increasingly desperate to escape with millions in uncut stolen diamonds. She’s in their way.
Seth, a cop with the RCMP Diamond Protection Unit undercover as a pilot, has wangled his way into the mine complex by posing as Petra’s boyfriend. She agrees to share a bedroom as long as he in turn protects her while she collects proof of her father’s innocence. That means working around the clock to meet the deadline. To her frustration, there’s almost no time for another type of exploration, that of the cop’s rock-hard body.
But murder changes everything. The remote mine complex becomes a death trap, and lust on many levels threatens to consume them all.
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