The Author Spotlight shines on Lori Robinett. Lori has
visited with us before and now she's back with a brand new novel to keep you
turning the pages!
A bit about Lori:
Lori was born in Centralia, Missouri and now lives just a
few miles from there with her husband on a small hobby farm. They manage the
place for their Miniature Schnauzer and Miniature Beagle, two cats, and three
miniature horses. Though she appears to be a normal person, she has a bit of an
obsession with Star Trek and is quite proud of her autograph collection. She is
even prouder of her "marksman" qualification for shooting. That's not
the only reason not to mess with Lori - she keeps in shape by working out at a
kickboxing gym. During cold winter months, she enjoys crafting, especially
scrapbooking. And, of course, she always has a book with her, so she can read
whenever the opportunity arises. She
always has a book or two in process - one at home, one at work, and one on her
Nook for those got-a-spare-minute times.
Her first book, Denim & Diamonds, was published in
2014, and her second, Fatal Impulse was published in 2015. Her award-winning
short stories have appeared in several anthologies and in The Storyteller
literary magazine.
Thank you for being here today, Lori!
Let's see how Lori answered my Fast Five:
1) Why do you write?
Writing is a
socially acceptable way for me to indulge my creative side . . . including
those dark thoughts that cross
my mind.
2) What is your ‘Daily Mantra’ for writing? What gets you to
your keyboard above other activities?
It's one I got
from Book in a Week (a monthly writing challenge I participate in):
BIC HOK
TAM - butt in chair, hands on
keyboard, typing away madly.
3) What is the best
writing advice you ever received?
That the first
draft is perfect purely because it exists. I'm often paralyzed by
perfectionism. The idea of not
doing something perfectly terrifies me, and I struggled for YEARS with the
first draft of my first novel (it's
still not finished). Once I heard that quote about the first draft being
perfect . it was incredibly freeing.
4) What is your favorite genre to write and why?
I love to write
mystery/suspense. That's what I like to read, and I love working out the
details to figure out how it's
all going to come together.
5) What is the one key career you remember from your
childhood of wanting to be when you grew up?
When I was in
elementary school, I wanted to be a lab tech. I had no idea what a tech did
exactly, but I knew they were
involved in research, and that's what I wanted to do. My mother had health issues when I was little and ended up
at the Mayo Clinic for what seemed like a very long time. I thought if I could do research, I could
help cure her.
Blurb from Fatal Impulse:
Andi is the wife of Dr. Chad Adams, a well respected
orthodontist in the small community of Buccaneer Bay, Maine. Together, they
appear to be the perfect couple, but behind closed doors Chad has controlled
every aspect of his wife's life. After years of control and abuse, he pushes
Andi too hard . . . and she pushes back.
In the blink of an eye, Andi becomes a widow. She struggles
to find her way, but revels in the joy of her newfound independence. Just as
she begins to accept her new status, her husband reaches out to control her
life from beyond the grave. As she fights to maintain her newfound
independence, she learns that her husband was living a double life, and those
he crossed threaten to expose her as a murderer. Can she put the pieces of the
puzzle together before her life is destroyed?
Excerpt:
Lightning slashed the sky above them, thunder rolled and the
windswept the rain in sheets across the blackness of the Atlantic that
stretched away to the East. Andi hugged herself to calm the shivers. The wipers
slapped at the rain while Chad berated her for the way she acted that evening.
She stared out into the inky darkness.
He glanced at her, “You act like you don’t know what to say
or do when we're out in public. You ignored me during dinner, and giggled like
a schoolgirl at Carl Franklin at the bar.”
He overlooked the fact that he monopolized the gentleman’s
time after dinner, leaving her alone in a sea of strangers. He accused her of
flirting with other men on a regular basis, and that night was no different.
Hopefully the anger would get out of his system before they got home.
“You make me look bad when you flirt like that,” he
continued. “It’s not like Carl Franklin would ever be in the least bit
interested in you, even if you weren’t my wife.”
It never occurred to him that his wife found the man’s hobby
of rock hounding to be interesting. His accusations stung, and he didn't always
stop with words. The two celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary the
previous May, and she was determined to make her marriage work. Her parents
raised her to believe marriage is forever, ‘til death do you part, so she would
not leave him. No matter what he did.
Lori's book is available on Amazon
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Thanks for having me today!
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