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Showing posts with label Viviana MacKade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viviana MacKade. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Today's #Guest #Interview #romanticsuspense ALL THOSE MILES I WALKED by @ViviMackade





Welcome to Romance Books 4 Us, a place for all romance and all genres. We’re very happy to have you here with us today. First, tell us a little bit about yourself…


I’m Viviana, from south Florida by way of England and, before that, Italy. I write contemporary suspense, but ready to dip my laptop into the Fantasy genre (this is kind of a newsflash).



-What kind of research do you do for a novel and how extensive do you get?
It depends of the subject. As a general rule, I research enough to get me started, then I research as I go. Which sometimes gets me stuck for a day or two because I’m nuts and I at that point I want to know EVERYTHING about a subject.



-Is there any other genre that you would love to try writing?  If so, what is it?
Fantasy. There. I said it. Which means when the third and final book in the Crescent Creek Series will be done (September–just saying) I’ll have to start writing this new thing buzzing in my head.


-Do you ever see yourself as the heroine/hero or find yourself relating to them when you write a story?
Oh, no! I’m nowhere near that interesting and/or gutsy. I’d be the lamest Heroine ever.



-What is your favorite method of writing...as in laptop, desktop, iPad or the old-fashioned pencil and paper?  And do you plot out your story or go with the flow of your muse?
It’s computer for the actual writing, but good ole’ pencil and paper to plot, note, and the such. I’m a hybrid, meaning I need to have a general idea about the book, for which I’ll plot, and then let the character move through it freely.



-When you need a break or some time off from the trials of being a writer, what can you be found doing?
Taking a walk with my earbuds blasting music. It used to be jogging, but I have MS and jogging doesn’t happen anymore. So, I walk.



-Share your favorites:
Favorite color – purple
Favorite dessert/snack – tiramisu (when I make it) / cinnamon rolls
Favorite Season – Spring when I was in Europe. Here in Florida, winter.
Favorite sad song – Tonight I’m Gonna Cry by Keith Urban
Favorite Romantic movie – Australia
Favorite Actor – Too many I like–I’m such a tramp….
Favorite way to relax – walking or pool



Where can our readers find you?  



Is there an upcoming or current release you would like to share with us today and where can we find it? 


All Those Miles I Walked
by Viviana MacKade


At eighteen, DJ made a choice–her heart or her dreams. Neither was wrong, yet either would break her heart. She chose the world. Over a decade later, she returns to Crescent Creek and to the one regret she's ever had–Scott.

Scott’s always been steady as a rocky reef. He’d loved once and when she’d left, his strong heart had crumbled like a sandcastle. Now DJ is back, and Scott wants nothing to do with her. If only Eva, his and DJ’s old friend, didn’t need their help. Because of her, he’s stuck with DJ and he’d be damned, she still gets under his skin.

DJ is a free spirit who needs the road under her feet. Scott is a family man who wants to groom his roots. With danger on their doorstep and a baby to keep safe, how much are they willing to compromise for love?


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Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Author Viviana MacKade stops by today! Join us to learn more about this author #RB4U #Romance

Welcome to Romance Books 4 Us, a place for all romance and all genres. We’re very happy to have you here with us today. First, tell us a little bit about yourself…
Hi all, and thank you for having me. I'm Viviana, or Vivi, or V (but that's only for my mom). I am Italian, adopted by the Sunshine State a few years back by-way of England. I've been a lawyer, a teacher, and currently trying to survive being a mom and a writer. I am addicted to my blog. And chocolate. And the beach. And my husband. And my son's dimple. And books.

~ Do real life events find their way into your stories?
Not really. The stories are their own, with their events. It would feel like forcing something into the story that doesn't belong.

~ Do you ever mimic family members or people you know when you choose characters?
No, for the same reason of why I don't use 'my' events. It would be a disrespect to both the character and the person I 'used'.

~ Do you find yourself going back to the same inspiration for each story or is it always something different?
It's always different. It can be the line of a song, something I read on the paper, something I see. Inspiration comes in different size and shape, and I learned to recognize it and catch it.

~ When do you write?  Early morning? During the day sometime or all day?  After the kids go to bed?
Right now, I write in the mornings. My son goes to daycare and I work. Things will chance in August, when he start vpk and will be away the whole day. I'll have the entire day then, and I have BIG plans!

~ Do you have a special place you like to do your writing? Such as an office, a spare room, the dining room table, your couch?
Right now, I'm writing from the College library because it's close to my son's school and it minimizes the traveling time. But when he'll be in vpk I'll steal the nook he has in his bedroom and make it mine. *whispering* Please don't tell him, he still doesn't know he's gonna have a roommate.


~ Share your favorites:
Favorite color – Lavander
Favorite Season – Here in FL, winter. Before that, spring.
Favorite sad song – Tonight I Wanna Cry by Keith Urban
Favorite Romantic movie – Notting Hill, Love Actually, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days and Dirty Dancing.
Favorite way to relax – Music at the beach.

~ What is your ideal romantic vacation?
Anything that involves little clothes (I don't mean a bikini. I mean little clothes) and my husband.


Where can our readers find you
Website/blog: www.viviana-mackade.blog



Is there an upcoming or current release you would like to share with us today and where can we find it.
I have an entire Series that just got out!
I just re-released both She Came With The Tide, a Crescent Creek Novella (0.5), and All Those Miles I Walked (Crescent Creek 1). I also released Painted Love in the Lawbreakers Collection, which is the second int the Crescent Creek Series. You can find all on Amazon.
Here's the blurb for Painted Love.
Thou shalt not steal.
Oh, but Florence had, and would do so one last time.
Ten pieces her grandfather painted for her because he loved her.
Ten pieces her mother lost, along with anything else, for loving the wrong man.
She couldn’t get back everything he’d wasted away, but she’d be damned if she’d give up those paintings. 

Easy and genuine, Rhett loves his life–his family, his market, his town. Until he meets a British woman with grey eyes and a cute little smile. The woman he’s been waiting for.
The thing is, to love her is easy, but can he trust her?

When Rhett pushes to uncover her agenda, Flo knows she will lose something–the man she loves or what she’d been fighting for years.
Which road will she choose?

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