BOOK CLUB FRIDAY GUEST AUTHOR - ELAINE JOYCE

Our Book Club Friday guest today is Elaine Charton who writes under her own name and as Elaine Joyce. For as long as she can remember Elaine has had a book in her hands. She should have realized it would only be a matter of time before she began writing her own stories. Elaine is married to a writer who will be our guest next week.  To read more about her, visit her Elaine Joyce blog or her Elaine Charton blog.

Elaine is offering a free download of The Pink Lady to one of our readers who posts a comment. -- AP

When I started writing, I decided I want to write romances, the sweet kind

with a happily-ever-after where the strong man and the strong woman meet, fall in love, and live happily-ever-after. Just one thing, dead bodies kept showing up.  I may be a little slow sometimes, but eventually I figured out the universe was trying to tell me something.

All authors have stories about where they get their ideas. My current book, The Pink Lady has one of the most unusual ones, in my opinion. The Pink Lady is written by my evil twin, Eaine Joyce. It started on a Saturday afternoon shopping with my sister-in-law. We were browsing in a department store and came upon what had to be one of the most gorgeous beds ever created. It was large and hand-carved out of what could have been oak. My fingers itch to touch the intricate carvings all over the bed. The headboard showed small drawers perfect for hiding things. Then I saw the price tag, and the two of us almost fainted dead away.

There was no way I could afford that bed, then or now. However, I could not get it out of my mind. I knew it would end up in a book; I just didn't realize it would be so soon.

A few days later, I was sitting at work, and I hear this voice. You know the one. Every writer has one. This one kept saying, "She's in my bed!" and showing me a picture of a ghost dressed like a flapper, floating in the air over the bed.

Okay, Mr. Charton didn't marry a dummy. I grabbed some paper and wrote some notes. Good thing I was at lunch. That weekend my critique group and I did some brainstorming and The Pink Lady was born.

I am hoping this is the first of many in a series. If any of you are old enough to remember the movie Topper, you'll get an idea of my ghosts Reggie and Leticia Farnsworth.

Here's the blurb:

“Old Ghosts are good for business but dead bodies are not. “

The Pink Lady is a venerable Victorian home located near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It is the first in a series of mysteries set in and around the house and its residents.

Anna Murray inherits the home from her uncle and decides to turn it into a bed and breakfast with the help of the two resident ghosts, Reggie and Leticia Farnsworth, and BJ Kent, a contractor who specializes in Victorian restorations.

As Anna and BJ peel back the layers of grime, the layers of time reveal the truth behind Reggie and Leticia’s gruesome murder. Anna and BJ’s situation parallels the Farnsworth's, and they rush to solve the mystery before it reaches the same sinister conclusions.

The Pink Lady is available for download on your Kindle right now. Soon it will be available in other formats as well as POD.

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Thanks for joining us today, Elaine. Readers, if you’d like a chance to win a copy of The Pink Lady, post a comment. Don’t forget to either include your email address or check back on Sunday to see if you’ve won. We can’t get your book to you if we have no way of contacting you. -- AP