New York Times bestselling, RWA Hall of Fame author Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel has published 31 romance novels in most genres, 8 medical forensic suspenses, and 10 short stories.
2015 sees Eileen enjoying critical acclaim for her foray into historical romance, the Drake’s Rakes series, which Eileen labels as Regency Romantic Adventure that follows a group of Regency aristocrats who are willing to sacrifice everything to keep their country safe. She is also working on her first nonfiction book, TRAVELS WITH DAVE, about a journey she's been taking with a friend's ashes.
A retired trauma nurse, Eileen lives in her native St. Louis with her husband, children, and large and noisy Irish family, of which she is the reluctant matriarch. She has animals but refuses to subject them to the limelight.
2015 sees Eileen enjoying critical acclaim for her foray into historical romance, the Drake’s Rakes series, which Eileen labels as Regency Romantic Adventure that follows a group of Regency aristocrats who are willing to sacrifice everything to keep their country safe. She is also working on her first nonfiction book, TRAVELS WITH DAVE, about a journey she's been taking with a friend's ashes.
A retired trauma nurse, Eileen lives in her native St. Louis with her husband, children, and large and noisy Irish family, of which she is the reluctant matriarch. She has animals but refuses to subject them to the limelight.
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| Eileen (left) with Patricia Rice and Cathy Maxwell RT/2011 in Los Angeles |
Eileen joins us to celebrate the re-release of ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? from her alter ego Kathleen Korbel ...
I Love a Road Trip
I love road trip stories. Maybe that's because I like to travel so much myself. But I think it's more likely that road trips automatically offer more opportunity for different experiences to impact our hero and heroine's relationship. There is inherent forward momentum.(Okay, and sometimes I get to travel myself to the places I drop my characters. You know. Research)(It's my story and I'm sticking to it).
So when I was coming up with the idea for ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? I had to figure a way to get Brooke Ferguson and Pete Cooper to have to leave home and rely on each other in order to survive and triumph over all the challenges I was going to strew in their path. And then, out of the blue came Pete's Aunt Mamie. Pete grew up with his Aunt Mamie. Brooke spent most of her formative years tagging along after Pete and her brother, which meant she, too, became best friends with the tiny gray-haired woman.
When Mamie dies, it is up to Brooke and Pete to fulfill Mamie's tenets of her will and more importantly the plan for her funeral. It seems that Mamie's fluttery Southern sisters refused her request for a Jazz Funeral or Limericks at Sunrise or an Elvis Impersonator or even to dress up as their favorite characters in Gone With The Wind.
So the day after the funeral Mamie's sisters planned for her(which didn't even include a drive-by from the Hell's Angels), Brook and Pete head out in the vintage robin's-egg-blue 1956 two-door T-bird coupe to fulfill Mamie's last wishes.
And I admit that I had a wonderful time sending them on their journey from Rupert Springs, Arkansas to New Orleans, then Shiloh, Natchez and up to Atlanta, passing time with, yes, Hell's Angels, a Jazz funeral, limericks at sunrise on the banks of the Mississippi and an otherworldly meal in an antebellum mansion named Thirteen Oaks. The fact that they also encounter a tornado and muggers just enlivens their journey from friendship to love, all the while guided by the gentle hand of Pete's canny aunt.
Brooke and Coop, as she calls him, first made this trip in 1992, when I wrote as Kathleen Korbel. It's been so much fun for me to take the trip with them again. I hope you'll come along with me.
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I love road trip stories. Maybe that's because I like to travel so much myself. But I think it's more likely that road trips automatically offer more opportunity for different experiences to impact our hero and heroine's relationship. There is inherent forward momentum.(Okay, and sometimes I get to travel myself to the places I drop my characters. You know. Research)(It's my story and I'm sticking to it).
So when I was coming up with the idea for ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? I had to figure a way to get Brooke Ferguson and Pete Cooper to have to leave home and rely on each other in order to survive and triumph over all the challenges I was going to strew in their path. And then, out of the blue came Pete's Aunt Mamie. Pete grew up with his Aunt Mamie. Brooke spent most of her formative years tagging along after Pete and her brother, which meant she, too, became best friends with the tiny gray-haired woman.
When Mamie dies, it is up to Brooke and Pete to fulfill Mamie's tenets of her will and more importantly the plan for her funeral. It seems that Mamie's fluttery Southern sisters refused her request for a Jazz Funeral or Limericks at Sunrise or an Elvis Impersonator or even to dress up as their favorite characters in Gone With The Wind.
So the day after the funeral Mamie's sisters planned for her(which didn't even include a drive-by from the Hell's Angels), Brook and Pete head out in the vintage robin's-egg-blue 1956 two-door T-bird coupe to fulfill Mamie's last wishes.
And I admit that I had a wonderful time sending them on their journey from Rupert Springs, Arkansas to New Orleans, then Shiloh, Natchez and up to Atlanta, passing time with, yes, Hell's Angels, a Jazz funeral, limericks at sunrise on the banks of the Mississippi and an otherworldly meal in an antebellum mansion named Thirteen Oaks. The fact that they also encounter a tornado and muggers just enlivens their journey from friendship to love, all the while guided by the gentle hand of Pete's canny aunt.
Brooke and Coop, as she calls him, first made this trip in 1992, when I wrote as Kathleen Korbel. It's been so much fun for me to take the trip with them again. I hope you'll come along with me.
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Kobo
Pete Cooper and Brooke Ferguson were once childhood friends who spent evenings watching TV with Pete's Aunt Mamie.
Now Pete is a famous cable news anchor who earned his stripes in war zones, and Brooke watches Pete on the same old TV in the same small town.
Then Aunt Mamie passes away, and everything changes.
When Pete and Brooke set out on a road trip to fulfill Mamie's last wishes, they discover more than tornadoes, Hell's Angels, New Orleans Jazz Funerals, and one unique antebellum mansion. They find they might just be falling in love.
Now Pete is a famous cable news anchor who earned his stripes in war zones, and Brooke watches Pete on the same old TV in the same small town.
Then Aunt Mamie passes away, and everything changes.
When Pete and Brooke set out on a road trip to fulfill Mamie's last wishes, they discover more than tornadoes, Hell's Angels, New Orleans Jazz Funerals, and one unique antebellum mansion. They find they might just be falling in love.
To enter the giveaway,
1. Leave a comment about road trips - can you share a special memory? When I was a Lieutenant at Hanscom AFB outside Boston, I took a road trip with a group of friends to Annapolis for the Air Force-Navy game. We reserved an RV for the trip ... but we were given a van when a couple kept the RV for an extra week of fall foliage. Luckily, we could crash at a friends' parents' house outside Annapolis. What a weekend!
2. Comments are open through Saturday, September 19, 10 pm in Baltimore.
3. I'll post the winner on Sunday, September 20.
Mahalo,
Kim in Baltimore
Aloha Spirit in Charm City
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| US Naval Academy ... it's romantic! |
