Rogue's Angels Present: Reckless Beginnings by Tina Hogan Grant

Please welcome Tina Hogan Grant author of Reckless Beginnings

One randomly chosen winner via rafflecopter will win a $50 Amazon/BN.com gift card.

Reckless Beginnings

by Tina Hogan Grant 

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GENRE: Women’s Fiction  (based on true events)

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INTERVIEW:

Do you have any tattoos?  Where? When did you get it/them? Where are they on your body?

No I do not. I’m not a fan of tatoos. What I wanted back when I was twenty is completelydifferent from what I want today, thirty years later. Back then I was a huge fan of the musician“Prince” and if I was into tattoos, I would probably have gotten one of him or something to do with him. Today I’m not a big fan and I’d be upset if I’d had that tattoo. 

Is your life anything like it was two years ago?

Let’s say it’s more comfortable. We finally moved into our new home last year. A home that my husband and I built ourselves.  After tearing down the old house it took us three years to build it. We had built a small guest house in the back of the property. When I say small, I mean small. Its 300 sq feet. We lived in that tiny building for almost ten years while we worked on getting the main house torn down, plans drawn up for the new one and rebuilding. 

How long have you been writing?

I’ve always loved to write, as far back as I can remember. It’s a passion of mine that I’ve finally decided to take to the next level and become published.

What advice would you give a new writer just starting out?

Keep writing and read a lot. It doesn’t matter what you write, a story, poem, journal, letters. Just write everyday. Use writing prompts. They are a great way to get your creative juices flowing. Join writing groups on Facebook and websites. Talk to other writers, mingle in the groups. Read what you like to write. Learn from the successful authors. Pay attention to their writing. Ask yourself why you like him/her as an author? 

Tell us something about your newest release that is NOT in the blurb.

Hmm something that is not in blurb - The main character, Tammy Mellows fears for her life and out of desperation realizes she has to go into hiding and virtually disappear for at least two months.  Did she actually do this and did it work. Where did she go may wonder? Well You’ll have to read the book to find out.

BLURB:

Tammy Mellows, a fourteen-year-old native of England, was shocked when her father and troubled older sister, Donna, moved to the States.

With her family now separated by divorce and divided by an ocean, Tammy felt helpless when she learned Donna had run away and couldn’t be found.

Thanks to her father insisting she stay behind in England to finish school, Tammy could do nothing for the next three years but pray that Donna would be found safe.

When Tammy’s lifelong dream of moving to the States was finally fulfilled, she had high hopes of looking for Donna. But with no leads and faced with turmoil in her own life, there wasn’t much Tammy could do.

After a forbidden secret love affair and a catastrophic dispute with her father, Tammy eventually meets Steven, settles down and has his child, only to discover he is a heroin addict. Thrown into a life of drugs and violence. Shadowed by his addiction, she becomes the silent and forgotten one. Living in fear of what Steven might be capable of and struggling alone to provide for her young son.

What consequences might she face if she leaves Steven? Is she ever going to find her sister alive? Will she have enough courage to conquer the impossible challenges of her twisted world and still come out on top?

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EXCERPT:

“What do you mean she’s gone, John?”

Who was gone? Tammy wondered.

Her mother became angry. “She can’t just disappear, John! Someone must know where she is!”

Glued to the railings, Tammy was dying to know who and what they were talking about.

Then her mother began to cry hysterically while she held the phone tight and screamed into it, “She’s still a child, John. She’s just seventeen. You should never have put her in that home! She isn’t an object you can just discard because she’s in your way. She’s your daughter!”  

Tammy remembered how her heart sank to the floor when she suddenly realized they were talking about Donna. Her sister had run away and was now missing. She wanted to race down the stairs and snatch the phone from her mother’s hands and ask her father WHY? Why had he put her in that awful place?

Donna had written a letter to Tammy and Jenny, telling them how much she hated being in the home. How no one wanted her anymore and she was going to run away. Frightened by what she had read, Tammy showed the letter to their mother. As upset as she was by both the letter and the fact that Donna had written to her sisters and not her, Rose never believed Donna would actually run away. “I’m sure she’ll be okay. She just needs time to adjust. It’s all new to her. We have to trust your father’s judgment. He said this would be good for her. I have to believe that. She is a very troubled young girl and needs help,” her mother had told her. But she had run away, and now no one knew where she was.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Tina Hogan Grant was born in England and grew up in a small town on the Yorkshire Moors. She is the youngest daughter of science fiction author, James P. Hogan. After moving to California, she became a commercial lobster fisherwoman, fishing off the coast of Southern California for ten years with her husband Gordon.

For fourteen years, she’d had a notion of writing her debut novel “Reckless Beginnings”. But it wasn’t until the sudden death of her father in 2010 and a battle with breast cancer a year later that she made the decision to get it done. Seven years later, she finally completed it. She is now working on a sequel titled,  “Better Endings.” 

She currently resides with her husband in the small mountain community of Frazier Park in Southern California. Together they enjoy anything that involves the outdoors, fishing, hiking, kayaking and riding quads.

Website: www.tinahogangrant.com

Buy Links may be found here: https://tinahogangrant.com/tina-hogan-grant-press-kit-book-reckless-beginnings/

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Book Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1BilNEwsCI&t=5s

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