Cheeky Reads is pleased to welcome Melissa Bourbon Ramirez, author of the new release Deceiving the Witch Next Door! Melissa agreed to do an interview for our readers and is giving away an eBook copy of Deceiving the Witch Next Door to one lucky reader!
Be sure to leave a comment on this post letting Melissa and me know if you love magical stories as much as we do! 1 comment will be randomly selected before 5pm Friday, Sept. 7th and will receive an eBook copy of Deceiving the Witch Next Door!
Welcome Melissa!
WOULD YOU TELL US ABOUT DECEIVING THE WITCH NEXT DOOR, YOUR NEW RELEASE FROM
THE COVET LINE FROM ENTANGLED PUBLISHING?
Of course! Thank you for having me today J Storie Bell is a witch whose powers are fairly rooted in
the natural world. She comes back to
Bloomington, Texas and has to figure out how to fit in. But Reid Malone, a man she had a close
encounter with just after high school, is also back (helping his dad with a
very important task that forces him into the Storiebook Café, the business
Storie just opened. And, well, sparks
fly—magical and otherwise.
WHAT ABOUT YOUR HEROINE? WHAT THREE WORDS WOULD BEST
DESCRIBE HER?
Survivor. Resilient.
Girl-Next-Door (does that count as one word?)
NOW THAT WE KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS, WHAT WAS IT
ABOUT THEM THAT HAD YOU WANTING TO WRITE THAT HEA FOR THEM?
When
Storie learns a truth about her mother, she goes to the lake and harnesses the
power of a brewing Texas summer storm.
Clouds rolling in, thunder, lightning, and rain help ground her. But Reid Malone is there, and he thinks she’s
drowning and going to be electrocuted in lake.
I loved writing that scene and that’s when I knew Storie and Reid had to
have a happily ever after.
WAS THERE A PARTICULAR SCENE THAT WAS THE MOST FUN FOR YOU
TO WRITE?
Absolutely, the mirror scene!
WHAT KEEPS YOU INSPIRED WHEN YOU'RE WRITING?
I love writing, and I love creating magical stories. I’d love the world to have magical
realism. I like light magic, and that
keeps my stories grounded in a contemporary world, and that is what keeps me
inspired!
DO YOU HAVE A PROCESS YOU LIKE TO FOLLOW OR A FAVORITE
PLACE TO WRITE?
As long as I have my computer and a mocha, I’m happy and
can write! Inspiration
happens…eventually.
I ALWAYS FIND THAT AUTHORS HAVE THE BEST BOOK
RECOMMENDATIONS. ANYONE YOU'VE READ RECENTLY THAT YOU LOVED READING OR A NEW
AUTHOR YOU'VE DISCOVERED?
Good question! I
wish I had more time to read than I do.
I have a few standouts from the last year: Jennifer Donnelly’s
Revolution and Kristen Hannah’s Night Road.
I loved them both so much!
WHERE CAN READERS FIND YOU NEXT AND IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE
YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH US?
I’m
working on the next book in my Magical Dressmaking cozy mystery series, A
Custom Fit Crime. Book 3, Deadly
Patterns, comes out in October. After
that is my next romantic suspense, the next Deadly Legends book following
Sacrifice of Passion. Busy, busy!
About Deceiving the Witch Next Door:
Storie Bell has a little secret—she’s a witch. But magic
hasn’t exactly kept her life from being a complete mess—her love life is
non-existent and the town thinks she’s a total nutter. Plus there’s her
neighbor Reid Malone who runs hot one minute and cold the next.
Reid Malone can’t wait to escape Bloomington,
Texas. Unfortunately, he’s stuck where he is unless he helps his father hide a
very illegal secret. The only key to Reid’s freedom lies with the eccentric
Storie…and he’ll do whatever it takes to get the information he needs from
her.
But Reid’s holding something back. Something
big. And if he’s not careful, he’ll find out exactly what happens when you try
to deceive a witch…
Also by Melissa Bourbon Ramirez:
Sacrifice
of Passion
Texas rancher, Vic
Vargas, finds himself facing more than his stubbornly silent son when the
chupacabra, a supposedly mythical blood‐sucking beast, starts
killing his livestock—and stalking Delaney West, the town’s newly returned
veterinary assistant, the sensual woman who ran from the altar and broke his
heart twelve years earlier.
Reluctantly, he seeks
her help to get to the bottom of the disturbing animal mutilations, only to
have her break through to his sullen son...and rekindle the love he’d thought was
lost forever. But her refusal to share a terrible secret sends her running
straight into the lair of the chupacabra, plunging her back into her worst
nightmare, and forcing them both to confront the wrongs of the past—in order to
stay alive for the future they desperately want.
Bare
Naked Lola
Going undercover
is second nature for Private Investigator Lola Cruz, but she’s out of her
league when the case of a murdered Royals Courtside Dancer leads her to a local
nudist resort. Parading around the sidelines of Sacramento’s professional
basketball scene in a barely-there cheerleading outfit is one thing—but
parading around in nothing but smile? If she has any chance of hiding this from
her traditional family and on-again/off-again boyfriend Jack, she’s going to
have a lot more than her duct tape bra and killer dance moves to keep under
wraps…
About
Melissa Bourbon Ramirez
Melissa Bourbon,
who sometimes answers to her Latina-by-marriage name Misa Ramirez, gave up
teaching middle and high school kids in Northern California to write full-time
amidst horses and Longhorns in North Texas. She fantasizes about
spending summers writing in quaint, cozy locales, has a love/hate relationship
with yoga and chocolate, is devoted to her family, and can’t believe she’s
lucky enough to be living the life of her dreams.
She is the
marketing director at Entangled Publishing, is the author of the Lola Cruz
Mystery series with St. Martin’s Minotaur and Entangled Publishing, A Magical
Dressmaking Mystery series with NAL, and is the co-author of The Tricked-out
Toolbox and two romantic suspense titles.
