Interview Q & A
Other than writing, what other jobs or professions have you undertaken or considered?
I have worked as a librarian, a museum curator, a customer service representative for an HVAC parts manufacturer, and in a deli. Writing is something new, but I have found that a lot of my previous work experiences have helped me come up with some interesting ideas for stories.
Which fictional character would you most like to have met?
Jack Reacher. Isn’t everyone’s answer Jack Reacher? I would take that man out for some good coffee and feed him some diner food and try to get him to tell me some stories. Then I would try to convince him that he could try shopping for clothing at a more upscale location once in a while. Then he could teach me some cool fight moves before I drop him off at the side of the highway.
Blurb for Bent Boot Road
Lydia Back has problems; a dead end job cataloging artifacts no one wants to see, an office in a dusty basement storage room, and she’s just discovered that her friend is missing. Adding to her frustration is the arrival of a too-charming private investigator who needs her help.
Carter Harris has no problems; he has his own successful business and is enjoying a few days in a scenic southern Ohio town to gather information on a missing professor. But his local contact turns out to be an uncooperative woman who prefers traipsing around the forest to having a civilized conversation with him.
While working together, they begin to uncover the secrets that lurk under the surface of other people’s lives and also discover an inconvenient attraction. When danger looms, Carter and Lydia realize it will be impossible to survive without each other.
Excerpt from Bent Boot Road by Lynn Rae
So
now they were heading down a narrow township road, trees overhanging
the vehicle. The road itself was narrow, graveled asphalt with crumbling
edges. It was primitive and he couldn’t imagine trying to drive on it
in icy or snowy conditions. Yet again he was glad that he had a rental.
His Audi shouldn’t be exposed to such a surface. Back’s face was buried
in the county road map and she had resisted his efforts at conversation
for the last mile. He decided to try again, the local radio station kept
fading in and out due to interference from the hills looming over them
and he was bored. Whenever he was bored he made questionable decisions,
or so his mother had warned him.
“How are your hands, Back?”
She folded the county map and glanced at him before pulling out one of Dr. Cooper’s maps to look at next.
“They are okay, sore but I’m managing.”
He
nodded, he was making progress now. Her nose was back to reading or
surveying or viewing the map, whatever you might call it. He had no
idea, since interstates and urban areas were his specialty. All this
overgrown deserted rural environment was confusing. Back had told him
that the Mullins lived on Bent Boot Road and he’d laughed, sure that she
was joking. She hadn’t been, and that’s why she had been sulking and
silent next to him.
“Give me some background on the Mullins couple, so I am prepared.”
She
sighed and looked up at the passing trees. They hadn’t even passed a
mailbox, let alone seen another car or house for quite a while. It was
creepy.
“He is a retired engineer, so he’s pretty particular about things, and she puts up with it.”
“That’s it, the one sentence definition of them?”
“Pretty much.”
“Sounds like a successful marriage to me.”
She grunted and folded a map. Carter was still bored. Time to make a questionable move.
“So tell me Back, are you seeing anyone?”
She
unfurled the map and pulled it up higher so that he couldn’t see her
face anymore. Silent, and he was sure she was glowering.
“So, anyone serious, or just casual dates? No one? What’s your type?”
The
map rattled violently and she pushed it down on her lap with a grunt,
wrinkling it irreversibly. Carter had to repress a grin, he was getting a
reaction now.
“Are you going to continue this line of questioning?”
“Yes.”
“Criminy
Harris, there are far more interesting things to talk about, like the
collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact on the future of
geopolitical power.”
“Too heavy. Let’s keep it light.”
“I thought we weren’t going to talk about that sort of thing.”
“I’m not asking you about sex, I’m asking you about dating. They aren’t the same thing.”
She
shot a foul look his way and leaned her head back on the rest, sighing
loudly. “We have one more mile on this road and then we turn. I’ll talk
until we need to turn onto Bent Boot Road.” This last sentence was
pronounced in a growl. So she was still irritated by his scoffing.
“So, are you seeing anyone?”
“Not that it matters at all, but no, I am not.”
“Why not?”
“I guess I haven’t met that special someone.” This reply was in a saccharine tone.
“Do you want to know if I am seeing anyone?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because it is completely irrelevant.”
“Not
to me. I like going on dates.” And he liked sex, but he had a sense
that she would open the door and leap from the moving car if he
mentioned that. Carter had been too busy for either activity the past
few months, but prolonged exposure to Lydia Back was stimulating all
sorts of impulses.
She groaned and began to roll the map up, making far too much noise in his opinion.
“Fine,
tell me all about your fabulous girlfriend and your fabulous life back
in Fabulous Columbus. Where they don’t have streets with silly names.”
“At least you admit it is a silly name.”
“It’s
not a silly name, you thought it was a silly name. I think it is a fine
name, one that the people of Bent Boot are proud of.” She sounded a bit
self-righteous.
“The people of Bent Boot?”
“Yes, the People of Bent Boot,” she snarled back.
Bio for Lynn Rae
Lynn Rae is a romance writer residing in Columbus, Ohio. With
professional experience in fields ranging from contract archaeology to
librarianship along with making donuts and teaching museum studies, Lynn
Rae enjoys incorporating her real-life adventures into her writing
(except the naughty parts). This is her first novel with Sweet Cravings
Publishing.
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