Interview and Book Spotlight with Nancy Gideon writer of Unleashed by Shadows (Book 10) Giveaway


1. What made you want to be a writer?  

The voices in my head!  Seriously.  I was always dreaming up spin off plotlines for my favorite TV shows and books and started jotting down fragments in a notebook when I was in grade school (I probably still have it somewhere!) Those evolved into my own plots and characters.  I write because I can’t NOT write.

2. Who is your favorite author?

Just ONE?!  Dean Koontz is my go-to guy for a fantastic read. When I travel, one of his books goes with me on the plane.  Exceptional plotting and characterization!  Other must reads are Kresley Cole and J.D. Robb. And I can WAIT until the next installment in Justin Cronin’s post-apocalyptic vampire series.

3. What is the name of the last book you read? 

To escape my paranormal world, I picked up AFTER MIDNIGHT by author pal, Sarah Grimm.  The heroes are in a rock band and the cover abs . . . well, you get the idea.  Great read.  I’m already looking forward to the second in the Black Phoenix series.

4. Tell us about yourself in 3 words? 

Organized, perfectionist, procrastinator.  Yeah, I know.  The first helps balance the other two because they’re always fighting.  I’m OCD with ADD rising

5. What is your favorite activity?

A mini-vacay binge with Netflix!  Now that House of Cards is done, I have to get my Supernatural fix.  I’m only up to season 8!

6. If your book could be made into a movie? Which actors would you have play the main two characters?

Squinty-eyed tough guy Jeremy Renner was always my image of Cale Terriot. He could probably still carry it off.  It’s all in the great guns! I rarely model my heroines off a real person but rather an ideal.  I don’t know.  Who would you cast?

7. Who is your favorite character in your book?

The hero, Cale, my strutty, tattooed, rock-n-roll prince-now-king.  Fell for him in a big way when he was the hero in PRINCE OF SHADOWS and had to have him reappear in REMEMBERED BY MOONLIGHT.  When he almost stole that book, I knew he had another story that needed telling.  I love ‘em dark, sassy, tortured and driven. If you get hooked on him in UNLEASHED BY SHADOWS, there’s more goodness in the backlist!  You don’t necessarily have to read them first but you’ll want to later.

8. What's in your TBR (to be read) pile?

Which pile?  The one in my office?  The one in my bedroom?  The one on my Kindle? Sooooo many to choose from.  I love to read in every genre which is why I have such clutter.  But next I’ll probably be looking for something non-paranormal.  Oooh, just heard Lisa Gardner’s new suspense came out in paperback.  Off to One Click . . .

9. What are 3 of your pet peeves?

Slow drivers in the passing lane, slow Internet connection, slow moving lines anywhere.  Can you tell I’m a tad impatient?

10. What's your favorite ( cats or dogs), ( coffee or tea), and what's your favorite food?

Cats (I have two, Scotch and Stubs-sounds like an ‘80s vice cop series!), coffee from the Keurig at 5:00 a.m. (brain fuel!), and cold pizza for breakfast (from those years in college) so nothing goes to waste-only TO the waist.




















Unleashed by Shadows


By Moonlight

Book 10

Nancy Gideon
 
Genre: dark paranormal
 
Date of Publication: 10-26-15
Number of pages:  326
Word Count:  105,000
Cover Artist:  Patricia Lazarus
He feared no man, no foe, no obstacle or challenge . . .
Burdened by the weight of his secrets and his father’s sins, the need for redemption pulls Cale Terriot from his duty to his clan and the arms of his new mate into deadly intrigues in a rival territory.  His dangerous masquerade in a high-stakes Shifter fight club is about to be exposed to those who would show no mercy – if he can survive in the ring.
How to protect a prince turned king made pawn?
Fearing she’ll lose her soulmate to the darkness he carries inside, Kendra Terriot, newly made queen in the Shape-shifter House of Terriot, must provide him with an heir in order to save his life . . . and his soul.  But first she must risk all to coax him back from the edge of violence inherited with his crown.
Can her love tear him from an unbreakable vow that can only end in death?
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“Every delicious word Nancy Gideon puts on the page exhilarates with a sensuous ferocity.   Hopelessly addicted.” 
—Darynda Jones, NY Times Bestselling Author
“Complex characters, vivid writing and intriguing plot twists keep readers coming back to Gideon’s magical NOLA.”
–Publishers Weekly
Excerpt 1 from UNLEASHED BY SHADOWS . . .Cale
He feared no man, no foe, no obstacle or challenge. He’d learned to stand his ground and take it without a wince while growing up with the most to prove in the House of Terriot. He’d been schooled beneath the heavy heel and meaty fists of Bram Terriot, bearing the marks of those lessons scored into his skin and once tender psyche. He understood intimidation better than he did compassion. Had once indulged in every savagery Lee now expected from him. Would have become a brutal, heartless monster walking the same path his father followed had it not been for the two things that called to his latent decency: The brothers who’d fearlessly stood beside him and the female brave enough to believe his claims.
 He owed them. He owed his family prosperous lives without fear and subjugation, where pride wasn’t measured in cruelties. He owed the woman he loved the fulfillment of promises made by a starry-eyed boy. He owed them a future in which they bowed to no one and had no reason to expect the worse from one another. And to achieve those things, all he had to do was right the wrongs of the man who’d desecrated the crown he now represented
 All . . .With a weary laugh, Cale closed his eyes.
His debt. His burden. His to carry and complete alone. No whining about the costs to body, heart or soul. No crying over what couldn’t be changed, repaid or repaired. No shirking from sacrifices sure to cost more than he’d ever thought to wager. The blood on his hands would never come clean. There was no forgiveness for his sins—the sins of the father now those of the son. He was lost but he wouldn’t drag those he loved and respected down with him. Not while he still had strength and breath and opportunity.
He couldn’t save his people hiding on their mountain top. He couldn’t purge his guilt without a willingness to surrender his life.
And he couldn’t protect his mate if he couldn’t provide her with his heir.

Excerpt 2 from UNLEASHED BY SHADOWS . . .Kendra
She’d spend her entire life cloistered behind protective walls both physical and psychological in the care of her protective cousins. She’d been an object of pity, of well-meaning devotion that smothered more than it sheltered, of terrorizing manipulation being dangled as a prize in a battle for a crown. She’d never known emotion stronger than her fear until a fierce, claiming kiss on a moonlit night woke her to passion. She’d never known independence until she clasped a dangerous prince between her knees on her first wild motorcycle ride down a mountainside. She’d never realized her own strength until a hoarsely whispered, “Don’t let me fall” demanded it of her.
The timid girl clinging to the protection of others had evolved into a woman eager to embrace all the world offered, beginning with an impulsive trip to a dangerous city to support her prince now king.
If Brigit MacCreedy could see her now
            Since bonding, she’d felt driven by an almost ferocious need to provide whatever her mate needed be it comfort, support, or the one thing he desperately desired that she’d yet to supply. A child to cement their relationship and his legacy.
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About the Author:
 
Nancy Gideon is the award winning author of over 58 romances ranging from historical, regency and series contemporary suspense to dark paranormal, with a couple of horror screenplays tossed into the mix, and is currently testing the “Hybrid author” waters.  She works full time as a legal assistant in Southwestern Michigan, and when not at the keyboard, feeds a Netflix addiction along with all things fur, fin and fowl. She’s also written under the pen names Dana Ransom, Rosalyn West and Lauren Giddings, and is a member of the Mid-Michigan, PAN and FF&P Chapters of RWA.
 
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