{"id":1281,"date":"2016-06-11T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:47:57","slug":"cbbs-anniversary-guest-stephanie-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2016\/06\/11\/cbbs-anniversary-guest-stephanie-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"CBB&#8217;s Anniversary Guest: Stephanie Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Favorite Anti-Hero:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raymond Reddington from The Blacklist (TV show) &#8211; Love this guy who is a ruthless killer and completely corrupt because he is devoted to protecting young FBI Agent Liz Keen (where not sure why but suspect she&#8217;s related or he made a promise to her father). He has honor in his warped way and keeps his word. One of the most fascinating fictional bad guys I&#8217;ve seen and James Spader is excellent in the role.<\/p>\n<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1283\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2016\/06\/11\/cbbs-anniversary-guest-stephanie-queen\/olympus-digital-camera-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StephanieQ.jpg?fit=250%2C334&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"250,334\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E-10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;-62169984000&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;29&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0166666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StephanieQ.jpg?fit=250%2C334&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1283\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StephanieQ-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StephanieQ.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StephanieQ.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>USA Today<\/em>\u00a0Bestselling Author <strong>Stephanie Queen<\/strong>\u00a0is a romantic at heart and a writer by nature with the enthusiastic soul of a cheerleader. So of course she loves creating stories where the good guys always win. Although she&#8217;s lost count of all the jobs she had before she settled on being a novelist, her favorite was selling cookies as a Keebler Elf. She is a graduate of UConn (go Huskies!) and Harvard U and lives in New Hampshire with her family, her cat, Kitty, and her (real or imagined?) chauffeur, Myren.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SQ Newsletter Sign-up:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stephaniequeen.com\/newsletter-sign-page\/\">http:\/\/stephaniequeen.com\/newsletter-sign-page\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniequeen.com\/\">www.StephanieQueen.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1282\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2016\/06\/11\/cbbs-anniversary-guest-stephanie-queen\/stephqueenbeachcomber-trouble-book-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StephQueenBeachcomber-Trouble-Book-5.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;stephaniegiancola2&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"StephQueenBeachcomber Trouble Book 5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StephQueenBeachcomber-Trouble-Book-5.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1282\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StephQueenBeachcomber-Trouble-Book-5-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"StephQueenBeachcomber Trouble Book 5\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Latest Book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beachcomber Trouble<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Book 5 &#8211; Beachcomber Investigations &#8211;\u00a0<em>A Romantic Detective Series<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Buy Links:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SDgtpN\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SDgtpN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>iBooks:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/beachcomber-trouble\/id1067654693?mt=11\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/beachcomber-trouble\/id1067654693?mt=11<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>B&amp;N:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/beachcomber-trouble-stephanie-queen\/1123184182?ean=2940158046735\">http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/beachcomber-trouble-stephanie-queen\/1123184182?ean=2940158046735<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>KOBO:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/beachcomber-trouble\">https:\/\/store.kobobooks.com\/en-us\/ebook\/beachcomber-trouble<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-via=\"compbeastsblog\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favorite Anti-Hero: Raymond Reddington from The Blacklist (TV show) &#8211; Love this guy who is a ruthless killer and completely corrupt because he is devoted to protecting young FBI Agent Liz Keen (where not sure why but suspect she&#8217;s related or he made a promise to her father). 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