Cate: Please welcome Lorelei Buckley to my special Halloween
celebration. Lorelei, please tell us a little bit about yourself.
Lorelei: I’m happily married, and it so happens we’re celebrating our
seventeenth wedding anniversary this weekend. I’m an animal welfare advocate,
ghost enthusiast, and chocolate addict. I’m a Chicago woman at heart, but
currently live in the great state of Texas.
Cate: Happy anniversary! What do you love most about Halloween?
Lorelei: Spook movies, costumes, chocolate. What’s not to love?
Cate: My sentiment exactly. :) Do you have a favorite memory of a Halloween
past?
Lorelei: Yes! As a kid, I’d found an after school job doing light
housecleaning for one of our neighbors in Chicago. The woman employing me made
costumes for a living. My mother was a single mom, and money was tight. So, when
we were invited to a huge Halloween party, it caused a bit of anxiety. The
costume lady saved the day and dressed me and my girlfriend in “I Dream of
Jeanie” costumes, and put my brother in the coolest Wizard outfit. We rocked
that party.
Cate: How cool! Have you ever had an unusual experience you couldn’t
explain?
Lorelei: Countless experiences influenced my decision to write
paranormal romance and mysteries.
Cate: What frightens you the most?
Lorelei: I’d have to say natural disasters, tornadoes, earthquakes,
droughts or floods.
Cate: Ever gone on a ghost tour? Or ghost hunting on your own?
Lorelei: Yes, for research and inspiration. I recently returned from a
weekend in Jefferson, Texas, a haunted town near Shreveport, Louisiana. I try
and blog about my ghostly excursions. Look for images of the broken wine glass
from that trip. Very strange.
Cate: Any favorite Halloween recipes you’d care to share?
Lorelei: Not really. I don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen
anymore. I cook, but quick and uninteresting meals.
Cate: Tell us about your latest release, and where readers can find it
online.
Lorelei: The title is Medium Crossing,
and this is the short blurb:
Gritty
medium Scarlett Prowse unintentionally alters her channeling technique to help
streetwise hottie Holt Cavanaugh solve his brother’s murder. The event
initiates a twisted ride, traversing the afterlife, the city’s underbelly, the
deep, emotional fractures of an odd couple destined to be more than steamy
lovers, and the mind of a killer who intends to make Scarlett his next victim. Medium
Crossing is available on
Amazon.
Cate: Love that blurb. Care to share more?
Lorelei: This is the Medium
Crossing official burb:
Scarlett Prowse survived a
hard-knock childhood, and today channels the dead to pay her rent. But nothing
prepares her for Holt Cavanaugh, an intriguing new client riddled with familiar
inner wounds and questions about his brother’s murder. To retrieve answers for
him, Scarlett channels the darker side of the afterworld. There, sudden
heightened abilities on her part thin the veil between life and death, enabling
her to obtain vital information for her client.
Meanwhile, in the physical
realm, a mystery person terrorizes Scarlett. Simultaneously, Holt’s shady
street dealings slowly come apart. Her curiosity and his protective streak set
them on an inseparable course where the afterworld
and the underworld collide.
Scarlett and
Holt’s nonstop journey through urban pockets, along with her jaunts to the
hereafter cultivates a sensual romance, and exposes a tightly spun web of
large-scale crime, mutually crossed paths, murders, and a relentless stalker
with fatal intentions for Scarlett.
Cate: What inspired you to write about the theme?
Lorelei: I’d written novels and short stories about everyday people
with, for various reasons, the sudden ability to see or hear ghosts. So then I
wondered what life or a ghostly encounter would be like for someone whose daily
normal included otherworldly phenomenon. That’s where it started. After I had
my general idea, the characters introduced themselves.
Cate: Anything else you’d like to share?
Lorelei: Another newer release is Lighthouse:
Midnight Road. It’s the first in the Midnight Road novella series, but it
also stands alone. I wouldn’t leave anyone hanging. Lighthouse is described as a genre-bender, braiding paranormal,
soft Sci-fi, and romance. It was really fun to write.
Cate: Readers, you’re in for a treat! Lorelei has a giveaway.
Lorelei: Free, signed, print copy of Lighthouse: Midnight Road for the first person who can tell me the
name of the hero in the story.
Free, signed, print copy of Medium
Crossing for the first person who can tell me the name of the haunted hotel
I visited in Fort Worth, Texas.
Cate: Thanks for joining in the Halloween fun, Lorelei! Good luck to you readers!
