Mystery Author Lynn Slaughter Stops by the Blog!

Good Morning, Booklovers!

It’s time for our weekly chat with a guest author regarding all things writing and reading. Today’s guest is mystery writer Lynn Slaughter with her featured YA romantic mystery, DEADLY SETUP.

Welcome, Lynn. How do you take your coffee?

LS: Black, dark roast.

Ally: You’re certainly making it easy on me. While I pour, please tell readers something about your background.

Bio:

After a long career as a professional dancer and dance educator, Lynn Slaughter earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She writes coming- of- age romantic mysteries and is the author of the newly released Deadly Setup. She is also the author of: Leisha’s Song, a Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards bronze medalist, Agatha nominee, Silver Falchion finalist, and Imadjinn Award recipient; While I Danced, an EPIC finalist; and It Should Have Been You, a Silver Falchion finalist. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where she’s at work on her next novel and serves as the President of Derby Rotten Scoundrels, the Ohio River Valley chapter of Sisters in Crime.

Something unusual not in my regular bio: I used to sing vocals for a rock band. (Ally note: Sounds interesting. I’d like to hear more sometimes!)

Author contact links:

https://lynnslaughter.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lynnslaughterWriter/
https://twitter.com/lslaughter2

INTERVIEW:

Ally: Do you use critique groups or beta readers? Do you find them valuable?
LS: I’ve been a member of several critique groups over the years, and I also have enlisted the services of beta readers. I think it’s helpful to have outside eyes look at our work. If more than one person points to a problem area, I definitely pay attention!

Ally: Why did you choose writing as a career? Is it your only career, or do you have a “day” job?
LS: I consider myself an “accidental” writer. When age and injury led to my retirement from dance, I grieved the loss of dance in my life. As a therapy project, I began writing a story about an aspiring ballet dancer. That became my first novel, While I Danced. Then I fell in love with writing fiction and ended up going back to school to earn my MFA from Seton Hill.
I currently write fulltime.

Ally: What’s the best writing advice you’ve been given?
LS: Don’t wait for inspiration. Place your “butt-in-chair” and write!

Ally: What three books in contemporary realistic YA would you recommend to readers:
LS: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen

Ally: What is your next writing project?
LS: I’m currently working on two projects. One is an adult mystery, Missed Cue, in which a homicide detective investigates the suspicious onstage death of a ballerina while dealing with her messy personal life. The other is a middle grade fantasy about a kid vampire who hates the taste of blood and is convinced he landed in the wrong body.

Ally: Which five trivia questions did you choose to answer?
LS:

Book I’m currently reading: Five People Die by Trace Conger
Ebook or print? Print
Favorite comfort food: Anything pasta!
Pie or cake? My husband’s chocolate peanut butter pie
Beach lover or snow skier? Huge beach lover

Ally: It’s been a pleasure chatting with you, Lynn. Before we finish, please show us your featured book, DEADLY SETUP.

Deadly Setup:
Genre: YA romantic mystery (contemporary realistic)

When her New England heiress mom announces she’s marrying Adam Holloway, Samantha (Sam) is horrified. She’s almost sure he’s after her mother’s money, but her mom is convinced she’s finally found her “happily ever after.”

And then Sam’s life implodes. Holloway has been shot to death, and Sam gets arrested for his murder. She fights to prove her innocence with the help of her boyfriend’s dad, an ex-homicide cop.

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