Get ready…get set…READ…
Flesh Market
Kate Lowell
Release date: November 10, 2015
Turn on the spotlight…we’ve got Kate Lowell in the hot
seat.
What is the most satisfying thing about
being a writer?
I
really enjoy solving puzzles, and the biggest puzzle of all (aside from what on
earth my boys see in football) is getting all the pieces of a story to come
together coherently, with appropriate tension, and in an engaging manner. It
seems so terribly easy, but it’s like one of those 5000 piece jigsaw puzzles,
based on a winter scene, with one red bird in the corner. So, when you finally get all the bits in
place, it’s a really satisfying feeling, and only gets better with time as you
get more comfortable with the writing and take the opportunities to challenge
yourself.
It
will never be boring. J
Do your characters ever take over your
writing and make the story go somewhere you hadn’t originally planned?
All
the time. Usually it’s because they know
better than I do. Leo did that a couple of times in Flesh Market, getting all
feisty when I wasn’t expecting it. There was a kiss in there, too, that came
out of the blue. Darn kids—you try to raise them right, and what do they do?
Run off to get involved in human trafficking rings and get themselves into
romantic troubles in the middle of it.
How did you celebrate the release of
your book?
With
a nice bottle of Scotch, and an evening of Assassin’s Creed. Although, after
the scotch, Arno had some serious issues with running into walls and such. And
falling off things. And getting caught. He’s kind of a sucky assassin, isn’t
he? Arno, I expected better of you.
How did you come up with the idea for
this book?
The
idea for this book actually came from a call that Loose Id put out. They wanted
stories based around secrets, deceptions, and double lives. The obvious
connection was an undercover operation, and Leo was born. And then my sadistic
muse decided that one double life wasn’t enough, so it threw in a few more in
the form of Julian. Then it decided that there weren’t near enough lies, so
ASAC Harrow got tweaked. And then the bad guys started adding lies and double
lives.
Monkey
see, monkey do. Everyone wanted in on the action.
Wait
until you meet Mauer. *grins*
Have you ever written naked?
Noooooo!
I’m Canadian, eh? All my best bits would freeze off.
Blurb:
Special Agent Leo Gale is up a creek. A year
and a half of deep cover is about to go up in flames. He needs help –
something, someone to salvage the operation and save the lives of untold numbers
of trafficked teenagers.
But he wasn’t expecting the partner they
sent, or his own gut-punch of a response to the man.
Julian worked hard for that FBI Honors
Internship. It was supposed to be a foot in the door. He’d never expected it to
catapult him into the middle of a major undercover operation. Yet here he is,
sleeping on a filthy mattress and using every trick in the book to avoid
torture—and worse. He’s never felt so scared, or so alive, in his entire life,
and he’s not sure if it’s the danger, or Leo, that’s making his heart race.
There’s no time to think about it, though.
The operation is heating up, and Leo and Julian are running out of time and
options. As choices become more difficult, they must find a way to take the
traffickers down, or risk becoming just another set of organs for sale.
Categories: Contemporary, M/M
Romance, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Gay Fiction, Romance, Thriller
75,000 words
Publisher: Loose ID
Cover Artist: April Martinez
Excerpt:
Inside the bathroom, DeGraff peered behind
the door and moved an OUT OF SERVICE FOR CLEANING sign from the back
to the front.
Julian was at the sink at the far end of the
room, staring into the mirror with water dripping off his face. DeGraff stepped
into one of the stalls, and Leo went to wash his hands at one of the other
sinks. Julian glanced up at him, then tore off some paper towel and wiped his
face dry. He tossed the towel in the overflowing garbage can and slunk past Leo
with all the angsty self-consciousness of a hormonal teenager.
Leo wished he had time to appreciate the
performance, but he had a job to do. As Julian passed him, Leo spun and grabbed
him from behind, pinning Julian’s arms to his side and covering his mouth.
Julian made a startled noise, muffled by Leo’s hand, and began to thrash. He
kicked Leo painfully in the shin, but by then DeGraff was out of the stall and
had jabbed his syringe into Julian’s shoulder. Leo fought the young man down to
the floor while DeGraff stood watch by the bathroom door. Five tense minutes
later, Julian was completely spaced out, limp as a rag in Leo’s arms.
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Let’s talk about Kate Lowell:
Kate lives on the east coast of Canada, in
an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. She has one horse now, who still has
medical issues, and three cats, all of which still have mental issues. She
still refuses to get a dog, because who knows what would be wrong with it?
Kate loves to read and write. She also likes
playing with computers and is going back to school to do a programming degree,
just for giggles. Or the opportunity to take over the world. (Oh, who are we
kidding? Think of all the work that would mean.) She also likes pictures of
pretty men and keeps many of them on her computer. (The pictures, not the men.)
She would dearly love a cabana boy to mow her lawn and maybe rub her shoulders
after a long day of making men fall in love with each other, then cackling
evilly and raining frustration and danger on them.
Find Kate here:
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