Tawny will be awarding a $20 Amazon or
B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
If you could have one
paranormal ability, what would it be? I’d love to be able to teleport. Think of how much easier it’d be to
travel! No lines, no crowds, no
airplanes (I really hate flying). It’d
be awesome to just pop into my parents’ place, to visit reader events, to hit
the beach without having to deal with all the travel stress.
What is one thing
your readers would be most surprised to learn about you? Hmm, maybe that
before I began writing, I earned my living as a tarot reader and Reiki
master. I started reading the tarot when
I was 17, and spent a few years working the psychic fair circuit and building
my client list.
When writing
descriptions of your hero/ine, what feature do you start with? I always
seem to start with their hair. The
color, the style, the degree of trendiness, it’s such a huge point of
self-expression and always seems to set the tone for who that character
is. For example, Harper Maclean, the
heroine in CALL TO HONOR, has blonde, shoulder length hair in an edgy, layered
style. To mean, that was a nod to her
being a California girl with the beach-styled hair, but length was mom-easy, versatile
and the style fashionable, which fit her career as an interior decorator.
Are you a plotter or
a pantser? I’m closer to a plotter than a pantser, but I never actually
solidify my plot until the story is about 1/4 of the way solid. I start with a generally idea of who I think
the characters are and a pretty good handle on the story question/plot and
where it’ll end up. I write those first
few chapters over and over again, honing the characters, intensifying their
conflicts, getting to know their personality at the same time I’m really
getting a handle on the actual plot.
Usually by that one-quarter mark, I have a good enough feel for it that
I can create my plotting board, which is a huge white board sectioned into
chapters that I fill with colored post-it notes. Yes, I color code my plotting board. It makes
me happy!
Did you learn
anything from writing this book? If so,
what? Over the course of writing CALL TO HONOR, I learned a lot more about
military missions than I’d know before.
I also learned how fabulous it felt to write a longer story. At over 90k words, CALL TO HONOR is
considerably longer than my Blaze books were.
Having that much more room was fabulous.
It let me really delve into Diego and Harper’s pasts, into their issues
and to not only add in secondary characters points of view, but also a secondary
romance. So probably my biggest lesson
was that I really don’t want to go back
to writing shorter books again.
BLURB
“No man left behind”
is inscribed in the DNA of every SEAL and Lieutenant Diego Torres is no
exception. But with a team member killed—and the body missing— Diego’s honor is
sorely tested. Now his career and reputation are on the line, and a traitor is
hiding among them. Diego wants answers...and only one woman has them.
Single mom Harper
Maclean has two priorities—raising her son Nathan and starting a new life. Her
mysterious new neighbor may be impossibly charming, but Diego asks too many
questions about her past—and about the father of her child. Questions she fears
will reveal her burning attraction for Diego, and ultimately put them all in
danger’s path.
EXCERPT
Damn.
Not even signing for a slew of packages and fending off the
flirtations of the delivery guy were enough to keep Harper Maclean from sending
her son a protective frown.
So far his glimpses of her had been at a longer distance
than the twenty feet currently separating them. Her photos didn’t do her
justice. He’d known she was a looker, but no way he’d have thought fully
dressed in person could trump that bikini shot, even if that bikini shot had
been kind of blurry.
He’d have been wrong.
Even glaring at him, as if she thought he’d get greasy
cooties all over her sweet little boy, she was gorgeous.
From the tip of her tousled blond hair to the toes of her
strappy high-heeled sandals, she screamed California girl. She was too far away
to see many details, but he knew from the file Lansky had compiled that she had
strong features. A wide mouth with its generous bottom lip and dark brows that
arched over big blue eyes.
Diego wasn’t sure why he felt as if he’d just taken a kick
to the solar plexus. He’d never gone for the good-girl look, and there was
nothing particularly sexy about what she was wearing. The turquoise pleated
skirt flared in a way that made her waist look miniscule and her cream-colored
top looked like a silky T-shirt, but both were a little too generous with the
fabric for his tastes.
Which didn’t matter, he reminded himself as the woman walked
from the front door to her courtyard’s arch. Sexy or dog ugly, she was a means
to an end. And that end had nothing to do with getting her naked, mores the
pity.
AUTHOR Bio and Links
New York
Times and USA TODAY Bestselling author of more than forty books, Tawny Weber
loves writing about sexy heroes, most notably her popular Navy SEALs series. Her sassy, emotional romances are filled with
men dedicated to being the best—and women determined to have the best. Tawny credits her ex-military alpha husband
for inspiration in her writing, and in her life. The recipient of numerous writing accolades,
including Romantic Times Reviewers Choice and in addition to the NY Times and
USA Today bestseller lists, Tawny has also hit the number one spot on Amazon
and Barnes & Noble.
A
homeschooling mom, Tawny enjoys scrapbooking, gardening and spending time with
her family and dogs in her Northern California home.
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