Please welcome awesome author, Cathy Perkins who will answer the BIG QUESTION: Where do authors
get their ideas? Someone told me they think an author’s brain is a scary place!
We do constantly ask, “What if…?”
Sometimes a daydream
offers a story start, but ideas and inspiration can show up in the strangest
places. My husband and I were hiking along the Snake River in a game management
area called Big Flats (which happens to feature in So About The Money, the first book in the Holly Price Mystery
series). We had to push through some tangled foliage at the shoreline.
Being a mystery writer whose mind really can go strange places, I glanced over
my shoulder and said, “Wouldn't this be a great place to find a body?”
That germ of an
idea kept growing. Why would the heroine be at Big Flats to stumble over the
body? How did the body end up beside the river in the first place?
The idea for In It For The Money, (Book 4 in the
series) came while I was chatting with a friend’s nephew at a party. He was all
excited about designing some bizarre machine called a Rockcrawler. I had no
clue what he was talking about, but I picked up on his passion. And my writer’s
brain went, Hmmm… Rockcrawlers… That’s
different.
Let me explain
Rockcrawling—or rather, here’s how Holly described the sport to her friend,
Laurie Gordon, after Holly dragged Laurie to the opening day events:
"Two guys
were sitting on their back porch, drinking." Holly raised her wine glass
and Laurie clicked the rim. "One polished off his beer, belched, and
popped open another can. He pointed at the vacant lot next door and said,
'Betcha I can drive my truck over those rocks.'"
"You're
lying." Laurie narrowed her eyes.
"Swear to
God." Holly raised her right hand. "And since God takes care of
idiots and drunks, the first one made it over—alive—and his friend and all
their friends had to try. And their friends..." She waved at the scene
before them.
In
It For The Money just released! After several “related
world” stories, it was fun to climb back into Holly’s head. What a crowded
place—rockcrawlers, drug rumors and relationship woes compound an already
hectic work schedule. (Guess I better get busy on Book 3 and see what happens
next.)
IN IT FOR THE MONEY
Holly Price traded
professional goals for personal plans when she agreed to leave her high-flying
position with the Seattle Mergers and Acquisition team and take over the family
accounting practice. Reunited with JC Dimitrak, her former fiancé, she’s
already questioning whether she’s ready to flip her condo for marriage and a
house in the ‘burbs.
When her cousin
Tate needs investors for his innovative car suspension, Holly works her
business matchmaking skills and connects him with a client. The Rockcrawler
showcasing the new part crashes at its debut event, however, and the driver
dies. Framed for the sabotage, Tate turns to Holly when the local
cops—including JC—are ready to haul him to jail. Holly soon finds her cousin
and client embroiled in multiple criminal schemes. She’s drawn into the
investigation, a position that threatens her life, her family and her already
shaky relationship with JC.
Links
Amazon:
http://bit.ly/In_It_ForTheMoney
Thank you for visiting today. Meet Cathy Perkins!
An award-winning
author of financial mysteries, Cathy Perkins writes twisting dark suspense and
light amateur sleuth stories. A contributing editor for International Thriller
Writers' The Big Thrill, she also coordinated the prestigious Daphne du Maurier
contest.
When not writing,
she does battle with the beavers over the pond height or heads out on another
travel adventure. She lives in Washington with her husband, children, several
dogs and the resident deer herd.
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