Rogue's Angels Present: Bella Toscana by Bella Toscana Nanette Littlestone

Please welcome Nanette Littlestone author of Bella Toscana

Nanette Littlestone will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

Bella Toscana

by Nanette Littlestone

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GENRE: Women's Fiction

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INTERVIEW:

1. What or who inspired you to start writing?

            I didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. I was sitting in my bedroom one Saturday afternoon in 1994 (I was forty-one years old), minding my own business, when I heard my name. I was alone. I waited several moments for something to happen, but nothing happened, so I shrugged it off. The following week I heard my name again. Irritated, I yelled, “What! What do you want?” There was no response, but this time I felt something, a sense that I was supposed to write. I knew how to write a letter but to write a story? That was crazy! Still, I decided to give it a shot and began a story about a woman who wins the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, the most exciting thing going on in my life. (So not exciting.) A few pages in, the story took a turn with a dead body, and since I had no experience with murder or mystery, I gave up. Months later, I began again with a fairy tale romance and completed my first novel in nine months. 

2. How did you come up with your idea for your novel?

Bella Toscanais the sequel to The Sacred Flame(a historical novel about a Vestal Virgin in ancient Rome who falls in love with a married man). When I was writing The Sacred FlameI knew about the sequel and the fact that it would borrow from the first book—Roman history, the duties of the Vestals, the culture, the food, the clothing. The characters’ names (Toscana and Flynn) came easily, but their situations and lives and obstacles did not. That involved a LOT of thinking and working things out in my head and wondering what if. First, Toscana had an Italian store, then she was a wedding photographer, then I went back to the Italian store. And in one version Flynn was married with a daughter. I also wanted to use the love from the first book to influence Toscana’s journey in the sequel, to show the process and the steps she takes to find herself and start listening to her heart.

3. What expertise did you bring to your writing?

            For many years I’ve been fascinated by personal relationships and the struggles and challenges involved. Why do people make the choices they do? What if they took the left fork in the road instead of the right? Where would they be now? When I first started writing I had no idea how to plot. My stories and characters were weak and undefined and uninspired. Then I took a class on plotting and learned the magic of GMC—Goal, Motivation, and Conflict—and how to use your character’s default behavior to create conflict, otherwise known as wreaking havoc with your characters. As I was planning the story and being inspired by Spirit, I would always search for ways to create emotional conflict that would touch on the characters’ deepest needs and fears. I also traveled to Rome twice to gather information on the history, costumes, culture, architecture, and I connected with a history professor from the John Felice Rome Center who answered many questions and took me on a guided tour of the Forum. And Toscana’s brownies (and the various flavors) and her passion for chocolate are based on a gourmet brownie company I ran for several years. Excellent brownies. Really, really good.

4. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans?

I’m working on a YA fantasy about a teenage girl who tries to heal the heart of the planet. There are a lot of new areas to investigate: the human heart, the ocean, math and logic, synesthesia, fractal geometry, Hebrew traditions. So a lot of thinking and planning and plotting to do.

5. Do you belong to a critique group? If so how does this help or hinder your writing?

            When I moved to Atlanta (my current home) I joined a critique group for the first time. I’d never read any of my work in public and managed to get through my five pages without stumbling too badly. Then came the critique: everyone said something positive and also pointed out something that needed work. Of course I focused on the negative and went home with shell shock. I vowed never to return. Good sense kicked in after a couple weeks and I went back and eventually took over the group. 

Critique (or feedback) is critical to good writing. I had no idea about all the mistakes I was making until people pointed them out. Over time, those suggestions improved my writing, as did a number of writing classes. I’m also a professional editor and see places where authors are missing description or explanation or analogy because they’re too close to the story. They know what happens or why things happen so they assume everyone else does too.

6. Do you outline your books or just start writing?

            I used to be what one writing teacher calls a pantser(writing by the seat of your pants). I started off writing romance and I would always write the love scenes first. They were the most exciting part of the book, the most fun, and they came easily. But then I was left with the big question of how to connect all those love scenes. What was the story really about? What kinds of situations did I need to create for the characters? I hadn’t thought any of that through and my early stories were a huge struggle. When I set out to writeBella Toscana I decided to try to write chronologically, with an outline. I created the GMC for Bella Toscana and filled in Toscana’s and Flynn’s goals and needs and fears. I also kept a spreadsheet of the chapters and notes about what happened in each. But the empty spaces stared back at me with arms crossed and an evil grin, as if to say “you think you can do this? Hah!” Not an easy task for a pantser. Not easy at all. But I persevered and I’m proud of it. Now I’m not sure I can go back.

7. How do you maintain your creativity?

            Creativity is part of my M.O. and I’m so tremendously grateful for it. That doesn’t mean that I write every day. Far from it. In addition to being an author I’m a professional editor and publisher and the Editor in Chief for an inspirational magazine called the Conscious Life Journal. So I often feel like I don’t have time to write. And I help my husband with his business. But the creativity gene constantly gives off sparks and if I’m not writing I may be making origami butterflies, or designing card decks, or trying out new recipes, or picking up a knitting/crocheting project. Whatever strikes my fancy. 

8. What would you want your readers to know about you that might not be in your bio?

            If I could come back in another life, without restrictions, I would be a cat. Cats are highly intelligent and independent. They’re ferocious hunters and fierce protectors. Think of the Egyptians and the goddess Bastet. Besides that, I love to curl up in the sun and sleep and be petted. Being worshipped is wonderful, don’t you think?

9. Who is your favorite character in the book. Can you tell us why?

            The obvious choice would be Toscana or Flynn, and I love them dearly. One reader told me that Flynn was the man of her dreams, and I told her Flynn is the man of every woman’s dreams. But I’m choosing Charlotte because she’s a dynamo. She’s got brains and beauty, incredible style, she’s loyal, she’s charming, she has a way with people, and she’s strong. She’s also survived pain and heartbreak so she’s compassionate and considerate, and she’ll love you forever. The best kind of friend one could hope for.

10. Can you give us a sneak peek into this book?

I loved him before I knew him.

Some people talk of synchronicity. The rhythm of life. I know of rhythm, in the lyricism of words, in music, in the ebb and flow of the ocean, in the monthly cycles of plants and trees. A beautiful orchestration exists in the simplest of nature. But my world operates on logic, practicality, reason. I do not believe in a grand plan. I do not believe in God.

And then he came.

Before him, I had a well-ordered life. Habit and routine carried me through the day, warmth and comfort eased me through the night. There were disappointments. Longings. Not all was perfect. But such is life. If there was no great passion, so be it. Peace is preferable to something wild that soars then fizzles and leaves you with an aching heart. I had a different kind of love—security, respect, admiration, friendship. 

I was fine. Just fine.

He showed me my lies in a slow creep of warmth that grew and teased and eventually began to burn. The thought of him burrowed deep inside me until I could think of nothing but him. 

We were soul mates.

Soul mates. I scoffed at that. But we were linked inextricably, inevitably by some deeper force, some older reckoning that began many years ago.

To this day I don’t think he knew what would happen. How do you know what fate has in store for you? They say man has free will to act, to choose, to create whatever he desires. But what of other people’s actions, choices, desires? What if those choices conflict with your own? We tried to resist the seemingly magnetic pull. We did our best to act rationally, to behave with honor and dignity. To be selfless. But love is not selfless.

Love is selfish. Love craves attention. Love needs to be heard, to be felt. Love is a natural disaster.

You may think this is nothing new. We all know stories of love. But this story is different. This story spans over two thousand years. This story began in ancient Rome.

So I beg you, for as long as it takes to read this story, to put aside your beliefs. Something took hold of me, pulled me along. Was it fate? Destiny? Divine intervention? 

Look to your own heart for the answers.

BLURB:

An explosive yearning that can’t be denied.

Disturbing visions from an ancient past.

A mysterious stranger that somehow feels familiar.

On the night of her fiftieth birthday, the comfortable ride of Toscana’s life takes an alarming plunge. Haunted by seductive visions, she tries to push aside the desire and focus on the husband who adores her. Then she falls for Flynn, a younger man with an eye for adventure and a heart full of romance, who leaves her doubting everything she’s believed about love and passion. 

In Atlanta, Rome, and the lush scenery of Tuscany, Toscana searches for answers to the mysteries of her life while she faces her biggest question. If she listens to her feelings will she lose everything she holds dear, or does her heart hold the key to love and joy?

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EXCERPT:

I loved him before I knew him.

Some people talk of synchronicity. The rhythm of life. I know of rhythm, in the lyricism of words, in music, in the ebb and flow of the ocean, in the monthly cycles of plants and trees. A beautiful orchestration exists in the simplest of nature. But my world operates on logic, practicality, reason. I do not believe in a grand plan. I do not believe in God.

And then he came.

Before him, I had a well-ordered life. Habit and routine carried me through the day, warmth and comfort eased me through the night. There were disappointments. Longings. Not all was perfect. But such is life. If there was no great passion, so be it. Peace is preferable to something wild that soars then fizzles and leaves you with an aching heart. I had a different kind of love—security, respect, admiration, friendship. 

He showed me my lies in a slow creep of warmth that grew and teased and eventually began to burn. The thought of him burrowed deep inside me until I could think of nothing but him. 

To this day I don’t think he knew what would happen. How do you know what fate has in store for you? They say man has free will to act, to choose, to create whatever he desires. But what of other people’s actions, choices, desires? What if those choices conflict with your own? We tried to resist the seemingly magnetic pull. We did our best to act rationally, to behave with honor and dignity. To be selfless. But love is not selfless.

Love is selfish. Love craves attention. Love needs to be heard, to be felt. Love is a natural disaster.

You may think this is nothing new. We all know stories of love. But this story is different. This story spans over two thousand years. This story began in ancient Rome.

So I beg you, for as long as it takes to read this story, to put aside your beliefs. Something took hold of me, pulled me along. Was it fate? Destiny? Divine intervention? 

Look to your own heart for the answers.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Nanette Littlestone never knew she wanted to be a writer until she was over forty. But once she began, the ideas didn’t stop. Her fascination with relationships, history, and the spiritual path has opened her writing to women's fiction, historical fiction, and inspirational nonfiction. 

A native Californian, Nanette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, far from the beach (which she loves) but a place that’s warm with spectacular scenery. On the professional side, she helps entrepreneurial women write and get published with Words of Passion. On the fun side, she takes walks with her husband, cooks, plays with graphic design, and makes origami butterflies. She loves to travel, but she’s waiting for the teleportation machine to whisk her off to Greece or Asia. In the meantime, she’s happy with dark chocolate and romantic movies that make her cry.

Author links:

Website: www.wordsofpassion.com

Blog: http://www.wordsofpassion.com/blog

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nanettelittlestone

Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00STND58Y

Goodreads author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4426344.Nanette_Littlestone

Goodreads book page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42586516-bella-toscana

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wordsofpassion/

Newsletter signup: www.wordsofpassion.com

Email: nanette@wordsofpassion.com

Book Buy Links:

Amazon Kindle: https://amzn.to/2AY52q0

Amazon paperback: https://amzn.to/2FRj7bZ

Barnes & Noble paperback: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bella-toscana-nanette-littlestone/1129755075

Books-A-Million: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Bella-Toscana/Nanette-Littlestone/9780999657928

Powell’s Books: https://www.powells.com/book/-9780999657928

Alibris: https://www.alibris.com/Bella-Toscana-Nanette-Littlestone/book/41800810

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE

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Rogue's Angels Present: My Darkest Prayer by S. A. Cosby

Please welcome S. A. Cosby author of My Darkest Prayer

S. A. Cosby will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

My Darkest Prayer

by S. A. Cosby

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GENRE:   mystery/suspense

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INTERVIEW:

1. What or who inspired you to start writing? 

S.A.: My mother. My family was extremely poor when i was a child. My mother was disabled and my father left us when i was five. We didn’t get a television until i was nine. To keep me occupied my mother would get me books from a thrift store, a library or a yard sale. Many times after I read these books i would sometimes complain about the ending. Finally one night she told me to if i had such a big problem with the way the story ended I should write my own. And i’ve been writing every since.

2. What elements are necessary components for this genre?

S.A.:  I have been called a rural noir writer. it’s a title i embrace wholeheartedly. In my mind a good rural noir story has to take place in a pastoral  setting. The main character must be a resident of this setting. There should be some acknowledgement of the class and racial struggles inherent to this setting. The protaganist  should be someone on the edges of the criminal underground but that criminality should never be glorified.  The nature of small town life should play a pivotal role in the narrative. There should be at least one showdown in an area that is decided by a combination of the combatants skill and their knowledge of the area. 

3. How did you come up with your idea for your novel?

S.A.: The inspiration for MY DARKEST PRAYER was two fold. I was fascinated by an unsolved murder in my small rural town. I also had a desire to write a private eye novel in a setting that I was intimately familiar with starring a protagonist not usually represented in crime fiction. A black man in the present day American South. I used these dual motivations to create a story that allowed me to create an interesting mystery set a world not often explored in crime fiction.

4. What expertise did you bring to your writing?

S.A.: Well the main character of MY DARKEST PRAYER is an assistant at a funeral home and I happen to work at a funeral home in real life. I used some of the behind the scenes knowledge I’ve gained working at a mortuary to imbue the story with a sense of realism. 

5. What would you want your readers to know about you that might not be in your bio?

S.A. I am huge fan of English drawing room mysteries. i also love playing chess but I am not very good at it.

6. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans?

S.A. I have a few projects I am working on now. I am in the final stages of editing a heist novel set (suprise suprise) in rural Virginia. I am also finishing the rough draft of a revenge thriller about two fathers seeking justice for their murdered sons who were in a relationship and were killed in an apparent hate crime. Other than that I am appearing at Noir At the Bar readings in New York, Washington D.C. and North Carolina. I also be a panelist at several writing conferences this spring. 

7. If you could be one of the characters from this book, who would it be and why?

S.A. That’s a good question. I think I’d like to be Shade. He is a crime boss in MY DARKEST PRAYER… He is as cool as I would like to imagine I am in my own life. 

9. Do you belong to a critique group? If so how does this help or hinder your writing?

S.A.: I was in a critique group in college for about two weeks. Personally I didn’t find it beneficial but I can see how it would work for other folks. I do enjoy talking about the art of writing with my friends who are also authors over a nice libation. I find that helps my writing  more than a strict structured environment

10. When did you first decide to submit your work? Please tell us what or who encouraged you to take this big step?

S.A. :I finished writing MY DARKEST PRAYER in the spring of 2015. I had wanted to write a novle for a long time. My friend and fellow writer Todd Robinson had given me some great advice about how to make the novel work in conjunction with the motifs i was trying to express. Shorty after the book started making the rounds i got an agent. I thought i was on my way to being a best seller. Then nothing happened. After six months the agent and I parted ways amicably and I started trying to sell the book on my own. i thought the story was worthy of publication, as all writers do when it come to their work, but I also had a chip on my shoulder. The reasons the book was rejected again and again had nothing to do with the quality of the writing and more to do with the unusual space it occupied in a staid genre. I think the thing that kept me going after numerous “no”s was the idea that if i didn’t tell this story no one would. 

11. What is the best and worst advice you ever received? (regarding writing or publishing)

S.A. The best advice i ever got was that a hundred people may have a talent for writing but only five or six people will actually stick with it. Make sure you are one of the five or six. 

The worst advice i ever got was to print out my entire story to edit it. I have terrible handwriting so that was just an exercise in futility. 

12. Do you outline your books or just start writing? 

S.A. : I usually write a synopsis of the story i have in mind then i work off of the synopsis which is inherently flexible. 

13. How do you maintain your creativity? I actually watch a lot of movies. Not just crime but anything that has a certain darker sensibility. I also love looking at old black and white photos. Something about that visual stimuli gets my creative juices going. 

BLURB:

Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riff raff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former Marine and Sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted. When a local minister with grandiose ambitions is found dead, Nathan is approached by his parishioners who feel the local police are dragging their feet with the investigation. What starts out as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police officers and a particularly treacherous preacher and his mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to navigate the murky waters of small town corruption even as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface.

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EXCERPT:

I handle the bodies.

That's what I say when people ask me what I do for a living. I find that gets one of two responses. They drift away to the other side of the room and give me a sideways glance the rest of the night or they let out a nervous laugh and move the conversation in another, less macabre direction. I could always say I work at a funeral home, but where's the fun in that?

Every once in a while when I was in the Corps, someone would see me at Starbucks that modern mecca Wal-Mart in my utility uniform. Sometimes they’d catch me in my dress blues after a military ball just trying to grab something before heading back to the base. They would  walk up to me and say, “Thank you for your service.” I'd mumble something like “No, thank you for your support” or some other pithy rejoinder, and they would wander away with a nice satisfied look on their faces. Sometimes what I wanted to say was, “I took care of the bodies. The bodies with the legs blown off or the hands shredded. The bodies full of ball bearings and nails and whatever some kid could find to build his IED. I loaded the bodies up and dragged them back to the base, then went back out on another patrol and prayed to a God that seemed to be only half-listening that today wasn't the day that someone would have to take care of my body.”

But I don't think that would have given them the same warm and fuzzy feeling.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

S.A. Cosby is a writer whose work has been published in numerous magazine and anthologies. His story "Slant-Six" received an honorable mention in Best Mystery Stories of 2016. His life experiences include being a retail manager, a bouncer, a forklift driver, a landscaper, a roadie, a construction worker, a mortuary attendant, and he once wore a cow suit when he worked for Chik Fil-A. He majored in English at Christopher Newport University and now lives in Gloucester, Virginia.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blacklionking73/

Twitter: @blacklionking73

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1940758866/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE:

S. A. Cosby will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f2910

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The Lending Library-a fantasy. By C. L. Kraemer

Faeries try to fit into the human world when the forest where they make their home is destroyed by a mysterious enemy.

Chasing Rainbows-a contemporary romance. By Genene Valleau

An eccentric aunt, an inventive uncle, a mother who wears poodle skirts, and a brother who wears pearls provide a hilarious backdrop for the courtship of a young woman who yearns for a "normal" family.

The Gift-an historical romance. By Christine Young

A man and a woman on opposite sides of the Civil War get a second chance at love after one final battle returns soldiers to their war-torn homes to rebuild their lives.

EXCERPTS: A Valentine Anthology

The Lending Library:

Ailidh wobbled precariously on her high heels. 

Kayne smirked. "Having problems, dear?"

"Shut up!" she snapped. "I need to practice this until I get it right. We don’t really have many options left open to us, Kayne. You had better practice, too."

He stopped and steadied himself on the railing of the porch. He wriggled his feet out of the closed leather shoes that encased them.

"I don’t know why you insist we wear these ridiculous articles of clothing. This long-sleeved shirt cuts off the circulation to my hands not to mention the lack of space for my wings and these long pants chap my legs.

"Worst of all, are these horrendous leather shoes. They pinch and make my feet swell. Why do we have to go through all of this? I don’t understand." Kayne grumbled.

Ailidh sighed and slowly, patientlyexplained to him, once again, why they were practicing.

Chasing Rainbows:

Ka-boom! The blast shattered the settling peace of dusk as Marissa Madison pulled into the circular drive. Rissa threw open the car door and sprinted toward the gray stone house.

"Please, no blood this time," she whispered as her feet hit the rough-hewn steps leading up to the broad double doors.

A bespectacled man stepped through the doorway amid a confetti shower of envelopes and leaflets. His silvery hair stood in startled spikes around a balding pate as if it too had been a victim of the explosion. 

"Too much torque in the mail conveyor," he muttered with a frown.

"Please turn it off, Uncle Horace!"

"Right." The old man disappeared back into the house. Within moments, the clanking stopped and silence fell over the rolling hills once again.

Just another normal day, Rissa thought, as she surveyed the day's mail scattered in gay abandon across the landscape. 

The Gift:

"Get in the house, now!" 

"Mama?"

Elice Weld shielded her eyes and watched the ground fog rising in the distance. She didn't know what was coming her way, but she could guess. The rumors that a Union cavalry unit was in the vicinity had spread like a wildfire on a Kansas prairie.

Rain had fallen all morning. Now the clouds had separated, and the sun heated the earth, causing the evaporation of the water-soaked ground. The cavalry rode through the mist like dark, avenging wraiths bent on the destruction of all mankind. She could see seven men silhouetted on the horizon. 

"Izzy, go." Elice didn't want to frighten her daughter but the urgency of the moment could not be denied.

"But mama?" 

"Go to the cellar. Now."

"It's dark."

Izzy's voice echoed in Elice's head, filling her with a wild panic she didn't know how to stop. Every time soldiers approached she was terrified. The last four years had been the longest years of her life. "Do as I say, quickly." Elice hugged her daughter, turning her at the same moment and with a gentle shove sent her through the open door of her house.

"Izzy."

Elice knew the panic in her voice would mobilize her young daughter. She despised the fear and the terror. She loathed the war. She looked up. The fog was dissipating, and she could see the dark blue of the Union coats. She didn't have anything left for the soldiers to take. Good God, they'd taken everything already--everything save her daughter and her hope for the future.

She inhaled a quick breath then stood on the steps, hands folded together in front of her, watching the dark wraiths inch closer. She knew from experience she couldn't fight these men. She would do as they said and when they left, she would put the pieces of her life back together.

Until the next time…

#CheckInAndShareDay

It's Check In Day.

Let's Make Fireworks

Time to pay the piper! How did you do? How much did you write? Did words explode on your WIP?

This is the Rogue's Angels weekly check-in. Every Thursday we encourage the Angels and visitors to let us know how their writing is going.

How well are you doing?

Had problems this week? That's ok. Just sit down this coming week and write. Whatever you do, don't let difficulties from the week before get in your way this week.

Every word is one word closer to the finished product.

I've a good start on Piper's Dream and her pickpocket dog. Scheduled for May 2020. I'm hoping to have 45,000 words this Thursday.

My story in the anthology series is done, the rough draft anyway.

I'm rereading Christel's story and adding at least one scene.