Kylie Brant - Deadly Intent Blog Tour with Guest Post and Giveaway

I am so excited to have Kylie Brant here to talk about her here at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

Kylie is currrently touring to promote her newest release Deadly Intent, which is her newest book in her Mindhunters series!

For more information about each book, please visit http://www.kyliebrant.com/

Thank you Kylie for being here today in a Guest Post, I greatly appreciate it!

Please take it away, Kylie!

Where Story Ideas Come From

I don’t think there’s a prolific author out there who isn’t often asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” And it’s so much easier to flippantly reply,“I get them at the idea store.” Or, “I’m on the idea route. A driver drops them off every other Friday.” Those pithy answers are easier than the truth, which often is “I don’t know.”

I suspect it’s dependent on the writer. I’ve heard people say they clip out stories from the newspapers or magazines, and an idea might grow from one of the headlines. Some writers brainstorm with critique partners and plot out stories from those sessions. Others, like me just always have them, wisps in the mind that take shape, meld and reform until they resemble something solid, something that can be articulated. They tend to be a mishmash of things I’ve seen, heard, watched, read, imagined… It’s impossible to verbalize exactly where they come from because although they might have springboarded from something specific, by the time they’re on paper they bear little resemblance to what elicited them in the first place.

Until a few years ago I thought everyone had storylines running in their heads all the time. I was shocked to discover that wasn’t true. (And I’m still wondering what you all are thinking about all the time!) I just know that I’ve always had them, as far back as grade school. It was like having a little movie reel stuck in my mind, with a story that had no end, altered by constant embellishments and additions along the way.

Sometimes it’s the suspense plot that will occur first, but more often it’s the characters who initially spring to life, fully developed. For DEADLY INTENT, I had the idea first of a child kidnapping. An emotional topic, to be sure. Made even more emotional by the character of eleven-year-old Ellie Mulder who immediately began to take shape in my mind. She insisted on having her story told, and dicated it to me whenever she was in a scene. And despite the circumstances of the plot, she refused to be a victim.

This is the first time in thirty books that a secondary character has taken over like that. I’ve had minor skirmishes with a hero or heroine who wanted to dictate their storyline along the way. Usually we work out a compromise J. But Ellie is too young to have learned the art of give and take. I gave her a lot of leeway.

Ellie wasn’t the only one who revealed a stubborn streak as I wrote the story. Forensic linguist Macy Reid, didn’t turn out to be the quiet unassuming character I had first thought either. Turns out she’s used to being underestimated. People meeting her for the first time are charmed by her quiet competent air and faint British accent. They don’t see the strength beneath. They don’t suspect the sort of trauma in her past that has forged it.

Kellan Burke comes head to head with that strength over the course of the story. He hasn’t been able to get their one-night stand six months ago out of his head. It might be pride — he’s used to female attention, after all — but he hasn’t been able to forget her. The investigation requires them to work closely together, and being a multi-tasker J he’s more than up to the challenge of working the case and working to shred Macy’s defenses at the same time. Except that the more he learns of the woman the more intrigued he becomes. He wants to protect her at all costs, but learns that a person can’t be protected from their past. They can only be supported as they confront it.

Another question I’m often asked is if I’m afraid I’ll run out of ideas. The truth is, I used to fear that very thing. But sometime after the fifth or sixth book the fear faded. I always two or three storylines in my head at once, one for the book I’m writing and others for future stories. I really have never found myself in need of an idea store J . Although if one existed, I’d feel compelled to check it out!

Have you ever had a great idea for a story? What’s the most intriguing story premise you’ve ever read?

Deadly Intent (Mindhunters) [Paperback]

Product Description

Forensic linguist Macy Reid is an expert on kidnapping, having been abducted when she was a child. So, she is the perfect investigator to be called in when a Denver tycoon's eleven-year-old daughter is abducted-for the second time. But Macy's biggest stumbling block may be a member of her own team: Kellan Burke, the wise - cracking, rule - breaking investigator who relishes getting under Macy's skin - and who just may be the man to help her confront the demons from her past.
 
Product Details
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (November 2, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425238539
ISBN-13: 978-0425238530

Giveaway Rules

Thanks to the Kylie I am thrilled to be able to offer a copy of Deadly Intent to my followers!

This giveaway is open to anyone including international!

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