Today, I’m participating in Dale Eldon’s “The Next Big Thing” blog hop. If you’re an author and would like to participate– leave me a comment with your e-mail address and I’ll link to you here. Your post must be set for Jan 3, 2013.
It’s simple: answer these questions about your current WIP.
1. What is the working title of your book?
Peril– book #3 of the Bloodline Trilogy. It follows Proof and Poison, the first two books in the Bloodline Trilogy. Poison releases Feb 1, 2013.
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
I’ve been fascinated by the stories of transplant patients remembering things only their donor would know. Is it possible that memories can be transferred between individuals? As a medical thriller author, I like to take things in medicine that HAVE happened and then ask a question or pose an ethical dilemma. Peril will be a very controversial book.
3. What genre does your book fall under?
Medical Thriller
Suspense
Christian
4. What’s the synopsis of your book?
Three armed men take a pediatric ICU hostage in order to force a researcher to disclose why they are suffering horrific medical complications after they’ve had a neural graft placed to give them superior autobiographical memory.
5. Will our book be self-published or represented by an agency?
It will be published by Kregel, October 2013. A good spooky read.
6. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
About six months.
7. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook
A Heartbeat Away by Harry Kraus
8. What else about your book might pique a reader’s interest?
If you LOVE tense suspense novels– you will love this book. I like to bring readers along on a very scary ride but I also like to pose ethical questions. What do you think about life? When does it start? What differentiates us— makes us special– what gives us our humanness. So, along with scaring off your pants, I’d like people to consider some of these questions.
Dale– thanks so much for allowing me to participate in your parade. It’s been A LOT of fun.
Jordyn
Over the next few days, I’m participating in the WordServe Water Cooler Christmas Blog Parade! The Water Cooler post will go live Dec 14th.
If you’re not coming from the Water Cooler, I hope you’ll stop by and take a look at all the posts and prizes being offered. There are LOTS!!
If this is your first time wandering to Redwood’s Medical Edge– it’s a blog designed to help authors write medically accurate fiction. Generally, how to maim, injure and kill your FICTIONAL characters. I field writing related medical questions and blog on medical topics.
I am giving away a chance to win one of three personalized copies of Proof to three people drawn at random (must live in the USA) who leaves a comment on this post that ***includes your e-mail address*** by midnight Christmas Eve. Winner announced here Christmas Day.
Hmm… my writer’s wish list.
Just one simple wish really…
Lunch with Dean Koontz– to say thank you.
Last June, when Proof released, fellow medical author Candace Calvert posed me this question and I have been thinking about it ever since. If you were in Southern California and were lunching with Dean Koontz, what three questions would you ask him.
I nearly passed out just thinking about that scenario.
But more than that, I would like to thank him for writing such great stories. I can’t confess to reading his entire body of works. I also don’t claim to LOVE every one of his books but he is, by far, an author I have learned a lot from. An author I would like to write like. An author I love to learn from. When I’m stuck in my own writing I’ll often crack open one of his books to get me going again.
Okay– I’m going to amend my wish. Dean, please write another book on writing! Please, for me. Just. For. Me.
Then I thought, why stop at Dean? What writers/authors would you say “thank you” to and for what? Let me know in the comments section– when you leave your e-mail (hint…hint).
Here’s a short list from me. If I could have a Castle like poker game with all these folks . . . well . . . heaven!!
1. Dean Koontz: for being a master story teller.
2. James Scott Bell/ Donald Maass: for writing such great craft books. Really, check them out.
3. Julie Cantrell: for being the most down to earth NYT bestselling author I’ve ever met that I get to call friend. Oohhh, I did lunch with her!
4. Candace Calvert: for being a mentor to me.
5. Lynette Eason: for being the first person to ever endorse one of my books.
6. Robin Cook/Michael Palmer/Harry Kraus: for writing great medical thrillers.
7. Harlen Coban/Linwood Barclay/Karin Slaughter: for writing great suspense.
8. God: for writing the best book there ever was.
What would your list look like?
To all my readers– and hopefully some new ones– Merry Christmas!!
Jordyn Redwood
I am putting one of my characters in a pretty major car accident — a rollover in which she lands on a broken window and ends up with a lacerated back full of broken glass, in addition to a broken leg, fractured ribs, etc. I need a scene to take place in the hospital where she is recovering. With those kinds of injuries, what treatments would she be under? More importantly, how exactly would she be laying in the bed? Obviously not on her back. But would she be on her side or stomach? Perhaps that depends on the other injuries she sustains… but the lacerated back is the biggest one I want her to have.
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