A #Western Historical Romance about a #Ghosthunter for #TGTBTG

Warning this is not a hot erotic series - sweet and sensual instead. 

Amazon

Every author in this box set is busy creating their story but I managed to get them to stop for a few minutes to answer a few question. Read them over the next several weeks.

Here is today’s question:  Seeing as this box set also includes a romance, which characters in your story do you see getting together?

Keta Diablo said:

Well, I hope I can count on my hero and heroine to find their happily-ever-after, although they have many obstacles to overcome first. But that’s what romance is all about, right? One has to kiss many frogs before they find their prince.

Anita Philmar said:

My agent, Ruth Olivia Wilson and Konnor McKee fall for each other from the moment they meet. The problem is his ex-girlfriend, a helpful ghost and Ruth’s job are getting in the way.

Blaire Edens said:

Cole Swansby and Annabelle Lawson *might* be perfect for each other but there are a couple of problems. She’s hell-bent on getting back to Kentucky and her grandmother. He’s so convinced that there’s no such thing as ghosts and her ability to speak to them scares him. The only way they can get together is if they’re both willing to open their minds and their hearts to each other and that’s a tall order.

Charlene Radddon said:

     My agent, Burke Jameson, is the hero. The heroine is a woman who shot her abusive husband and believes he's dead. Instead, he's alive and "haunting" the area. But there's a real ghost in my story as well. Burke and the "widow" fall in love as she tries to help him solve the mystery of the paranormal activity in the area. 

Patty Sherry-Crews said:

There are two love stories in my book.

Nat Tremayne assigns Healy to this case for a reason other than to solve the case. Nat wants to put Healy out of her comfort zone. He wants her to find adventure and romance.

Healy and Aaron meet at the hotel and the sparks fly. When he asks what she’s doing in Tucson she teases him and tells him he’s the detective so he can figure it out. He can’t get a read on her and thinks she’s everything from a prostitute to a serial killer (term not invented yet). He’s a concrete thinker and Healy completely unmoors him.

Healy has had her heart-broken once and thinks she’s too odd a person for men to like. Aaron along with some mysterious props that appear along the way change her view of herself. She blossoms in the desert.

When Aaron gets a telegram instructing him to locate a lady posing as a mail-order bride in order to kill men, Healy and Aaron’s cases converge.

There is a secondary love story between Abbott and Cora’s ghost. Cora died when they had some unresolved issues. Healy has to act as marriage counselor to put Cora’s ghost to rest, and as a result of talking things out, Abbott and Cora remember the love they shared.

Margo Collins said: If they can just move beyond their respective pasts and learn to work together, I think Ruby and Trip might just have a shot…

Erin Hayes said:

I feel like Hattie would get mad at me if I revealed it. So my lips are sealed!

Andrea Downing said:

Well, Lizzie and her husband, Colby, of the 1800s are very much in love but she needs to get back to her contemporary, 2016, life.  Will it happen for them?  You’re going to have to read the book to find out…

Up for Pre Order any day now.

Amazon

Anita
www.anitaphilmar.com

#TGTBTG Psychic Specters Investigators – aka #GhostHunters a New Box Set I #AmWriting

I’m very excited about a new box set that’s going up for pre-order around August 15. I wanted to let my readers know what I’m working on and share with you what others in the box set are doing.

Here is a question that I asked my fellow contributors and their responses.

Also, warning - This is not an erotic box set - sensual to sweet but it has some great stories you're still going to love.

I understand all the stories in The Good, The Bad and The Ghostly are connected to the P.S.I. Agency in St. Louis. How is your character connected and does he/she have any special paranormal abilities?

Keta Diablo said:

Psychic Specters Investigations = P.S.I. Agency. We decided to connect all the stories in the anthology with a common thread. And we knew we wanted to write about ghosts and cowboys. Thus, the Agency was created and its location would be St. Louis, MO. Some stories might have one of the main characters working for the Agency; others might have a secondary character connected to the Agency.

In my story, Comes An Outlaw, a secondary character worked for P.S.I. before his death. He plays a minor but important part in the story. He doesn’t have special paranormal abilities, but rather held an innate interest in spirits and the afterlife when he walked the earth. As a result of his dealings with ghosts, he’s able to transcend the veil between life and death.   

Patty Sherry-Crews said:

My character, Healy Harrison, is an agent for PSI. Unfortunately for Healy she sees dead people. This fact has made her early life hell. She became a social recluse and decided to move to the anonymity of a large city before she ends up becoming the eccentric maiden aunt of the family.

But she has learned how to turn her curse to her advantage, seeing and communicating with ghosts for profit.

Blaire Edens said:

My main male character, Cole Swanson, is a native of St. Louis. He’s an up and coming agent with Tremayne PSI who’s just opened an office in Reno. But he has one big secret: He doesn’t believe in ghosts. Instead of solving cases using paranormal abilities, he relies on logic and deductive reasoning. It’s worked just fine until he picks up a case that has nothing to do with rats in the attic or loose roof tiles and everything to do with ghosts.

My female lead, Annabelle Lawson, dreams of the dead. After she contracted scarlet fever, the dead come to her every night in an attempt to contact the living. On the run from an abusive father, she spots an ad for Tremayne agents and thinks it might be the perfect job for her. All she needs is enough money to get back to her granny in Kentucky and she’ll be safe from her father.  

Anita Philmar said:

My character, Ruth Olivia Wilson, R.O.W. is an agent for Tremayne PSI Agency. She is a medium and talks to dead people. She has travel across the country, helping people free themselves of ghost. She knows how painful losing someone can be and wants to make sure bring people here on earth peace but the spirits as well.

Charlene Radddon said:

  My hero, Burke Jameson, is an experienced agent for the agency and has had strong instincts regarding spirits and supernatural activity since he was young.

Margo Collins said:

Both my heroine and hero are agents for the Tremayne Agency. Ruby Silver is a former demon-hunter who comes to the agency with a number of paranormal ghost-busting skills—and a lot of baggage. Her newly assigned partner, Trip Austin, doesn't have any paranormal skills, but he does have a lot of experience helping the living deal with the their ghosts (both literal and figurative).

Erin Hayes said:

Hattie Hart was a saloon girl in a rough part of St. Louis who was plagued by seeing ghosts ever since she was little. She was rescued from this life by Nat Tremayne, although she has never met the mysterious leader of the Tremayne PSI Agency. For the past five years, she’s traveled around the country investigating paranormal disturbances, although she has disturbances of her own.

Andrea Downing said:

My agent, Dudley Worksop, comes from the Denver agency.  The PSI agency has done so well in finding ghosts and helping them that they’ve had to open a Denver branch! Dudley is an Englishman with very great powers of communicating with ghosts others may not be able to see and hear.  He is a very precise person, too.  These characteristics seem to run in the family because his descendent, Malcolm Worksop, who appears towards the end of the book, is very similar.

Wow, after reading all of this can’t you see why I’m excited by this box set.

 Anita

#AmWriting A Historical Ghost Story Along with Others #TGTBTG

Hi everyone,

I'm very excited about a new story I'm working on. It's called McKee's Ghost and is part of a box set that I'm going with a group of other authors.

If you spend any time on Amazon, you probably have seen the popularity of box sets. So to get a better perspective on why author do these types of books, I asked the other members of the current box set I’m doing The Good, the Bad, and the Ghostly.

Tell us what you like about contributing (writing a story) for a boxed set. What are the benefits?

Keta Diablo said:

This is my fifth anthology and I really enjoy writing for and contributing to boxed sets. One plus is the friendships and corroboration while bringing the whole thing together. An added benefit is having eight authors help market and promote the anthology. Lastly, I think it’s exciting to start with the germ of an idea and see it develop into eight complete stories that we hope people enjoy reading as much as we enjoyed writing.   

Anita Philmar said:

There are many benefits to writing a box set. I’m sure everyone can say help with marketing, sharing ideas, coming together on a joint project. I personally, like the idea of taking one idea and having different stories all stem from that central idea. Can wait to read all of them.

Blaire Edens said:

Boxed sets are great for several reasons. I love working with other authors to create a common theme or setting and then seeing where each contributor goes with her story. It’s also a great way for readers to find and connect with new authors. From a business perspective, I always learn tons of new stuff from other authors when I’m working on a boxed set contribution. It’s a win-win.

Charlene Radddon said:

One benefit is working with some great authors, getting to know them and how they work. I believe having a story in an anthology helps give authors more exposure as well.

Patty Sherry-Crews said:

I agree with you, Anita. I love to see what happens when you give a group of people a kernel to work with and what direction they go with it. We are amazing creatures.

Working on an anthology is an education. I’ve learned so much working this way. And in this arena, people bring their strengths as well as their weaknesses, so together we can put out a finished product that is strong. Everyone brings something to the table.

Margo Collins said: 

I love working with writers with such different backgrounds and ideas! We might not always agree, but we still manage to work together to come up with a fascinating concept. I'm looking forward to seeing how everyone develops this idea.

Erin Hayes said:

I like the collective consciousness that comes from working in a boxed set. Everyone interprets the setting and story differently, so that is always fun to see. It’s a fun process!

Andrea Downing said:

I like the interaction and support the other authors give, but most of all I guess I like the shared responsibility for promotion!  You know how we authors all love promotion…  It’s also good to learn from each other.

As you can see there are lots of reasons for authors doing a box set.

I'm very excited about this group and will be sharing more about the box set over the next month or two. The release date is in Sept with the box set going up for pre order sometime in August.

Thanks as aways for taking the time to read my blog,

Anita