Trish McCallan Forged in Fire Blog Tour with Giveaway and Guest Post

About the Author:

Trish McCallan has been writing for as long as she can remember.

In grade school she wrote children’s stories, illustrating them with crayons and binding the sheets together with pencil-punched holes and red yarn. She used to sell these masterpieces at her lemonade stand for a nickel a book. Surprisingly, people actually bought them. Like, all of them. Every night she would have to write a new batch for her basket.

As she got older her interest changed to boys and horses. The focus of her literary masterpieces followed this shift. Her first full length novel was written in seventh grade by pencil in a notebook and featured a girl, a horse and a boy. At the end of the book the teenage heroine rode off into the sunset . . . with the horse.

These days she sticks to romantic suspense with hot alpha heroes and roller-coaster plots. Since she is a fan of all things bizarre, paranormal elements always seem to find a way into her fiction. Her current release, Forged in Fire, was the result of a Black Dagger Brotherhood reading binge, a cold, a bottle of NyQuil and a vivid dream.

Find Trish Online:

www.trishmccallan.com


http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?id=100001292925346


http://twitter.com/#!/TrishMcCallan

I am so excited to have Trish McCallan here to to talk about Finding the Perfect Blend in a guest post here on Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

Trish is currrently touring to promote her new book Forged in Fire.

Thanks so much Entangled Publishing for connecting us on this blog tour!

Please take it away Trish!

Finding That Perfect Blend

I’ve been a fan of suspense blended with paranormal for as long as I can remember. Back when I was a kid one of my favorite televisions shows was Kolchak, the Night Stalker. My family used to make a night of it. We’d pop a huge skillet of pop corn, make a pitcher of Cool Aid, turn on the television and snuggle together on the couch or the carpet wrapped in blankets or hand knit Afghans. Oh man, I used to have some nasty nightmares following that show, but they never stopped me from watching it. The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits were two other favorite television series. Anything that combined paranormal and suspense and I was sooooo there.

Naturally, my reading tastes followed my television tastes. I read everything Stephen King had to offer, same with Robert McCammon, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub. Yeah I loved, loved, loved that blend of suspense/horror and the paranormal. When I gravitated toward romance for that Happy Ever After, I looked for this same blend: romance, suspense, and supernatural. But I could never find quite the mix I wanted. There were plenty of books that mixed romance with suspense; they just didn’t add the paranormal aspects back then. Or at least there were very few authors who were mixing the two elements and having success. And the ones who were mixing them and building a readership were doing it with vampires or werewolves.

Now I have nothing against fangs and fur. I just wanted books that mixed more of the bizarre paranormal elements, the kind that Kolchak The Night Stalker had tracked down week after week. Things like spontaneous combustion, psychic manipulation, out-of-body experiences, and doppelgangers.

When the X-Files premiered and gained popularity so quickly, I thought finally!! As popular as this show is, it’s bound to spur a trend of books along these lines. Only it didn’t. Yes, paranormal books gained popularity, but again they were mostly vampires, shifters, demons, with some witches or wizards thrown in to the mix every once and a while. But there were very few Kolchakish stories available, nor anything quite like a romantic X-files.

While I enjoy books featuring vampires, werewolves and demons, they aren’t my true loves. So it makes sense that every book I have written contains some kind of paranormal element of the non-fur, fang or demon variety. I’ve also noticed I tend to favor psychic heroines. Although in Forged in Fire the hero is actually the psychic one. Forged in Fire actually came about because of a dream. A dream about a precognitive dream. Bizarre, or what?

The second book in the Forged series is going to deal with faith healing, although how that is going to play out through the book I’m not quite sure yet. But I’m confident it will. That paranormal element always twines through the book and ends up saving the day. I fully expect Forged in Ice to follow this trend.

Someday, I would love to write a paranormal romantic suspense series along the lines of the old Kolchak, The Night Stalker television series — books that are full of bizarre paranormal elements, and terrifying situations.

Books that will haunt you long after you close the back cover. The kind of books I want to read.

Forged in Fire

By Trish McCallan
Genre: paranormal romantic suspense

Beth Brown doesn’t believe in premonitions until she dreams a sexy stranger is gunned down during the brutal hijacking of a commercial airliner. When events in her dream start coming true, she heads to the flight’s departure gate. To her shock, she recognizes the man she’d watched die the night before.

Lieutenant Commander Zane Winters comes from a bloodline of elite warriors with psychic abilities. When Zane and two of his platoon buddies arrive at Sea-Tac Airport, he has a vision of his teammates’ corpses. Then she arrives — a leggy blonde who sets off a different kind of alarm.

As Beth teams up with Zane, they discover the hijacking is the first step in a secret cartel’s deadly global agenda and that key personnel within the FBI are compromised. To survive the forces mobilizing against them, Beth will need to open herself to a psychic connection with the sexy SEAL who claims to be her soul mate.

"Forged In Fire is a smoking hot adventure with an irresistible alpha hero. Danger, action, suspense, and a steamy romance make a story that's impossible to put down!" ~Patti O'Shea, National Bestselling Author of Through a Crimson Veil

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Giveaway Rules

Thanks to the great people at Entangled Publishing and Trish I am thrilled to be able to offer an e-copy of Forged in Fire.

The e-copy of the Forged in Fire is open internationally.

If you’d like to enter this giveaway please leave a comment with your e-mail!

Please check back to see if you are the winner, thanks!

The contest runs till Oct 31st and closes at 11:59 PM EST!