Today I interview Paige Tyler about her new book. There is also a giveaway :)
Welcome!
1. Tell me about yourself?
I was born and raised in New Jersey, then moved all over after marrying my hubby (South Korea, Louisiana, Atlanta, Washington State), and currently call the beautiful Florida coast home. I’m a USA Today Bestselling Author of sexy, romantic fiction and I’ve written over fifty books in practically every genre of romance, although I have to admit that my favorite genre is definitely the paranormal/romantic-suspense combo. Hubby, my very own military hero, and I live with our adorable fur baby (also known as our dog) and spend a good portion of our time writing. While I graduated with a degree in education and was well on my way to being an elementary school teacher, I decided to pursue passion of writing instead. These days I’m fully committed to writing books about hunky alpha males and the kickbutt heroines who fall in love with them.
2. What is your new book, Her Lone Wolf about?
HER LONE WOLF is the second book in the X-OPS Series. For those who aren’t familiar with the series, it revolves around the Department of Covert Operations, a top secret organization that’s buried deep within the Department of Homeland Security. The DCO pairs the very best soldiers, law enforcement people, and spies together with shifters—humans that have special animal attributes in their DNA. They take on impossible missions that few people in the world will ever know about.
In Book One, HER PERFECT MATE, the reader gets a taste of how these DCO teams operate, especially how my particular kind of shifter works. These shifters have naturally occurring animal DNA that has blended with their human DNA to allow them to possess certain animal-like capabilities, such as speed, strength, aggression, and keen senses. While these abilities make them the perfect asset for the DCO, they’re also labeled by some as “freaks” and “monsters.” In HER PERFECT MATE readers get to see how much the shifters distrust the very people they work for. In HER LONE WOLF, the distrust continues to grow until the shifters—and the people who love them—aren’t sure whom they can trust.
All of this shadowy intrigue takes place against the backdrop of the DCO sending the hero Clayne Buchanan, the wolf shifter with the “bad attitude” readers met in Book One, out to California to deal with a possible rogue shifter that just might have turned into a serial killer. Clayne prefers to work alone, only this time it’s not going to happen that way. To get the job done, he’ll be forced to work with the one person on the planet he’d rather claw his own eyes out than see again. Here’s a quick blurb for HER LONE WOLF for you:
Leaving him was Impossible...
It took everything she had for FBI Special Agent Danica Beckett to walk away from the man she loved. But if she wants to save his life, she has to keep her distance. Now, with a killer on the loose and the stakes higher than ever before, the Department of Covert Ops is forcing these former lovers into an uneasy alliance...whether they like it or not.
Seeing her again is even worse…
The last thing Clayne Buchanan wants is to be shackled to the woman who broke his heart. She gets under his skin in a way no one ever has and makes him want things he has no right to anymore. All he has to do is suffer through this case and he can be free of her for good. But when Clayne finds out why Danica left in the first place, everything he's tried to bury comes roaring back-and there's no way this wolf shifter is going to let her get away this time.
3. For those who missed book 1, does this one work as a standalone?
As you can see above, there are a lot of arching plotlines from HER PERFECT MATE that carry over into HER LONE WOLF, but I went out of my way to give the a new reader to the series enough background material that you’ll know what’s going on. So from that point of view, yes you can read this book as a standalone. But of course, the moment you do, you’ll be running out the door to get Book One!
4. What was your inspiration behind this series?
I love to tell this story. Hubby and I were at the Lori Foster Get Together in 2011 and were having dinner at PF Chang’s with our friend Monette Michaels and her friend Linnea Sinclair. We were talking about writing, especially about jumping from e-books to New York. I doubt Linnea even remembers me, but she said some really insightful things about finding a niche and a voice that is undeniably mine, then she pointed at hubby and suggested that I should be using his military experiences to lend an edge to my books that other writers might not have.
That suggestion led to the X-OPS series. Since the very building block of the series is these human-shifter teams, I spent a lot of time developing them. After I developed the Special Forces hero (Landon) and feline shifter heroine (Ivy) in HER PERFECT MATE, the very first secondary character I created was the wolf shifter Clayne Buchanan, who was specifically written to be the complete opposite of the Landon. Those two butt heads constantly in book one, but by the end of the book, the reader starts to see that there might be something more to Clayne than he appears. Fans were screaming for his story the moment they finished book one!
5. And last what are you working on right now?
Beyond all the promo I’m doing for HER LONE WOLF, I’m also getting ready to do the promo for a special FREE X-OPS novella from Sourcebooks called HER SECRET AGENT. It gives the readers a peak behind the scenes of the very beginnings of the DCO. You get to see a younger John Loughlin, the Director of the DCO, getting to know a certain foxy shifter extremely well. It will be available on the 2nd of December from Sourcebooks (digital format only).
I’m also putting the finishing touches on Book Two of my Special Wolf Alpha Team Series (SWAT…as in a pack of werewolves working on the Dallas SWAT team. Cool, right?). At the same time, I’m working the first draft for Book Three in that series so I can send it to my editor in January. Plus, I’m starting to rough in the details on Book Four of X-OPS. It’s freaky jumping back and forth between the two series, but it keeps me on my toes!
Oh yeah, BTW, I’m also putting out a military ménage boxed set for Veteran’s Day, with a tribute to each of the uniformed services. It’s your basic, old-fashioned girl meets two guys, and decides that anything two people can do, three can do better!
Thanks!
Thank you for having me here. If you get a chance, stop by and check out my website and social media pages at the links below and see if anything grabs your attention. If you read any of my stuff, drop me an e-mail—I’d love to hear from you. Hope you’ll check out my X-OPS Series!
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Paige
Social media links:
Her Lone Wolf
Series: X-Ops Book 2
Author: Paige Tyler
Pubdate: November 4th,
2014
ISBN: 9781402292125
Leaving him was Impossible…
It took everything she had for FBI
Special Agent Danica Beckett to walk away from the man she loved. But
if she wants to save his life, she has to keep her distance. Now,
with a killer on the loose and the stakes higher than ever before,
the Department of Covert Ops is forcing these former lovers into an
uneasy alliance…whether they like it or not.
Seeing her again is even worse
The last thing Clayne Buchanan wants is
to be shackled to the woman who broke his heart. She gets under his
skin in a way no one ever has and makes him want things he has no
right to anymore. All he has to do is suffer through this case and he
can be free of her for good. But when Clayne finds out why Danica
left in the first place, everything he’s tried to bury comes
roaring back—and there’s no way this wolf shifter is going to let
her get away this time.
Paige Tyler is the USA Today
bestselling author of sexy, romantic fiction. She and her very own
military hero (also known as her husband) live on the beautiful
Florida coast with their adorable fur baby (also known as their dog).
Paige graduated with a degree in education, but decided to pursue her
passion and write books about hunky alpha males and the kickbutt
heroines who fall in love with them. Visit
www.paigetylertheauthor.com.
Buy Links:
Amazon:
http://amzn.to/1yrfkcH
Apple:
http://bit.ly/1sqM3MF
Chapters:
http://bit.ly/1CiPNRB
Indiebound:
http://bit.ly/1oi6CDQ
Kobo:
http://bit.ly/1pdr2xU
I just discovered Paige Tyler via her SWAT series which debuts in January, but this one is on my wishlist too. Great interview!
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Yay! Thank you so much! Let me know how you like them! :)
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Paige
Thanks for the giveaway! Off to look up these books.
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Yay! If you pick them up, let me know how you like them! :)
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Paige
This looks like a really good series. I'd want to shapeshift into a cat :)
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Paige
Oh I didn't know about this one but it sounds so much fun! thanks for sharing!
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Paige
If I could shapeshift into an animal it would be a tiger. Why? I simply love everything about them. The agility, the speed, everything.
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Good choice!
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Paige
:D Great interview ladies and I am drooling over the book! Count me in!
ReplyDeleteI would want to shift into...mmmm....:/....mmmm...a black panther. Boyfriend says he would be a giant eagle.
Thank you! If you pick it up. let me know how you like it! :)
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Paige
Love the interview and this does sound like something I would enjoy!
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Paige
Over 50 books! Wow! That is impressive!
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Thank you!
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Paige
Thank you Paige for the interview :)
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