Hello Shari! Thank
you so much for visiting Written Butterfly with me today! It’s such a pleasure to chat with you. So tell me…
Q) Is this book part
of a series? If so, can you tell us
about it?
First, thanks so much for having me. I’m glad to be here. Race
to Redemption is Book #1 of the science fiction romance series Green Rising. It
is set in a world where corrupt corporations fund an equally corrupt
intergalactic government. They all hoard resources, keeping the general
populace poor and use 24/7 surveillance and a Cyborg Army to maintain control. Below
the surface, a rebel coalition is emerging. I have seven romance novels planned,
in which the opposition will take several steps forward, then get knocked back
a few steps, until their alternative world finally takes hold. In this book,
which gets it all started, our heroine, Elaina is very much part of the
corporate world. Through her experience as a transport pilot for Erik, she
discovers that there is another way to live.
Q) Can you give a
fun or interesting fact about your book? And what gave you the inspiration for
your book?
I am answering these together because a really fun fact is
how this concept evolved. I wanted to write a story about heroes and heroines
who had different careers. In the very first version, Elaina was a NASCAR
driver, and Erik was a doctor on an outpost in North Africa, who ran a clinic
as a cover story, but he was actually a special ops agent assigned to monitor
bioterrorist activity. As the idea
developed, I found the issues so complicated, and the research so vague, that
it morphed into a science fiction romance. In this way, I could play with the
ideas with a greater degree of freedom. Elaina
became a storm racing pilot, and Erik a doctor-scientist monitoring biogenetic tampering.
Q) Do you have any
habits that get you in the writing frame of mind?
I generally write at the same time every day, which is first
thing in the morning and on the metro to work.
I think the persistence and regularity ‘trains’ the muse. My life, like many of you, is hyper-busy, so
by identifying a time and keeping it sacred to my writing, it keeps things moving
along.
Q) What are your
upcoming projects?
I just finished a draft of a paranormal novella entitled Unnatural Allies. It picks up at the end of my previous
Evernight Release, Shifter
Trials. I am also about a quarter finished with the Scent of
Memory, which is Green Rising Book #2. It will be a big win for the rebels.
Book info
Race to Redemption (Green Rising Book #1) is science fiction
romance jam-packed with action, one panty-melting hero, sexy alien races, and a
kickass heroine. In the story, a pilot and a doctor race across the desert to
prevent a deadly plague while fighting the pull of their own hearts.
Race to Redemption Blurb
A woman who lost everything.
Intergalactic storm racing
champion Elaina Carteret had it all – fame, wealth, men – until a horrific
accident took it away. To get it back, she agrees to pose as Lainie Carter,
medical transport pilot and corporate spy. Her risk-taking attitude infuriates
Dr. Erik Johansen, who runs the outpost with an iron hand, a permanent scowl
and the tightest bod on the planet.
A man desperate for redemption.
Unable to forgive himself for
a past tragedy, Erik works himself into an early grave. He has no patience for
the insubordinate Lainie Carter, who can’t take an order, disrupts routine and
flames his body to ash.
A planet at risk.
When the outpost is attacked,
they’re thrown together in a race across the desert to stop a deadly biogenetic
weapon As a fragile trust blossoms between two damaged hearts, their pasts
resurface and threaten their growing bond.
Be warned: anal sex, bondage,
menage sex, gender neutral characters.
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About Shari Elder
Hello, I'm Shari. By day, I crawl
out of bed, mainline coffee, walk the dog, get my kid off to school, hop on the
metro, and save cities within the four walls of my office. Usually by email.
At night, the other Shari emerges.
I take off the suit, curl up on the couch and let my imagination play,
with words and images until stories take shape (while periodically checking on
my teen-ager, hiding out in the bedroom and plotting world domination).
As my alter ego, I save cities in a cape and spangled tights, wander
space and time on a surfboard, fly over the Himalayas on feathered wings, make
six-toed footprints in indigo talc snow on the sixth planet in the Andromeda
galaxy or eavesdrop on Olympian gods while pretending to whip up a bowl of ambrosia.
In all these wondrous worlds,
romance and passion blossom. I can't resist a happy ending. And I am
particularly prone to writing happy endings for those who have given up on ever
getting one. That gives me immense satisfaction.
Join me on my journey. The best
ideas emerge from team work.
Find Shari
Twitter: @ShariElderBooks
Web/Blog: www.sharielder.com
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ShariElderBooks/
Thanks for hosting me. What a sexy site!!!
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