Author Name: Ashley Ladd
The hero or heroine in your latest book is asked to decorate for a Halloween party. What does he/she use?
Lots of spider webs and spiders. Glowing eyes. Disembodied fingers and toes.
She’d also use projectors to make it look as if ghosts were flying around the room.
Your hero or heroine occupies a room in a haunted mansion. Which room is it and why?
The master suite of course! Because it has access to secret tunnels where they can move through the mansion sight unseen and look for the ghosts and murderers.
What is your favorite Halloween or autumn decoration?
For Halloween, we like to put bloody body parts around our yard, such as bony hands and feet sticking up out of the ground. To celebrate Harvest in November we like to put out some stacks of hay and lots of pumpkins and some yellow and orange fall flowers.
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Featured Book Title: Spooky Sojourn
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Blurb:
Someone’s trying to kill Deanna, but is it the ghosts she doesn’t believe in, the rich socialite who might be a murderess, or someone else with a beef against The Gilroy Hotel and Resort that Deanna has just been hired to manage? The Gilroy’s owners want the ghosts, or whoever is causing the trouble at the hotel eliminated, and they are pressuring Deanna to do the job as quickly as possible. Harry DeVeaux, paranormal investigator comes highly recommended to do the job and against Deanna’s better judgment, she hires him.
Although Deanna thinks Harry’s crazy for believing in ghosts and Harry thinks Deanna has a closed mind to the possibilities of ghosts and they highly annoy each other, sparks fly. Deanna can’t help but fantasize about Harry and inspired by a romance convention visiting her hotel, writes her fantasies in a private blog that Harry finds, hacks, and reads. Ooh la la!
Excerpt:
Wow!
Deanna reread her fantasy, barely able to believe she’d penned it, wondering if she should delete it. Did she really want to make out with Harry, a perfect stranger, on a public beach? Did she really want her words on the Internet, even in a supposedly private blog under a make-believe name?
Well, it was confidential, right? As long as she didn’t give anybody the web address or password or tell them about it, it would remain secret.
Enough fantasizing! She had to get back to work. Dragging the files out, she familiarized herself with the ghost sightings as well as Lynette’s and Grant’s history. By the time she finished, she knew how they’d died and the theories about their suicides-slash-murders. She also knew that everybody was afraid to point fingers at the now very influential and powerful Roxanne Cambridge-Anderson. Could Roxanne be behind the haunting nonsense? Did she want the hotel shut down? But that made no sense. The rumors portrayed Roxanne as a murderess. It wouldn’t be in her best interest to keep their legend alive.
Deanna’s temples began to ache the harder she thought about everything, so she decided to go to sleep. Hopefully she’d awake if any hijinks took place in the bowling alley.
About three a.m., deafening booms awoke her. Light brightened lane fourteen and all but one pin lay scattered on the wooden floor.
Groggy, Deanna tried to gather her senses. She looked around then, to her horror, she saw an iridescent figure of a man on lane fourteen picking up a glowing ball. Collecting her presence of mind, she grabbed her webcam, pointed it at the ghostly shape and turned it on. Shaking, she tried to hold her computer steady. Not believing what she was seeing, she knew there had to be a rational explanation. Perhaps some machine was projecting the image onto the lanes. Perhaps a real person stood in front of her in glowing phosphorescent powder.
Whatever or whoever it was, picked up the ball, and knocked down the spare pin. Then the ‘apparition’ bowled three strikes in a row.
Unexpectedly, he turned and glared at her, fire shooting from his eyes. Pins flew from all the lanes at her. Her heart racing, she ducked under the score table.
Author Bio:
Ashley Ladd is a disabled Air Force vet that is hard of hearing but still loves language, especially the written word. She loves a sexy man, especially one with a military background and they’ll often pop up in her stories. She also loves cats and has been known to empower a cat with the gift of speech. Unfortunately he wouldn’t shut up. J She loves to plug into Pandora and sip Diet Coke while writing, usually with a cat or kid at her side.
Halloween Page Contest
As part of the Halloween Page Contest, Ashley is offering a PDF download of Spooky Sojourn to one lucky winner. For details on how to enter for the chance to win, visit http://www.kate-hill.com/halloween2014.html.
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Hi, Ashley.
I must be living under a rock to have missed your works. Well, I’m going to make up for lost time!
Spooky Sojourn sounds great; I look forward in reading it and your other works.
I am not so sure I would decorate with spiders. I am not fond of them. thanks for sharing your work. I have read and enjoyed them.