Today I'm delighted to welcome Stacy Eaton just before the launch of her new book Six Days of Memories.
Marie – Thank you so much for having me here today! It’s been a whirlwind this month with my birthday, the release of Distorted Loyalty and now Six Days of Memories coming out in a few days! I’m so glad I could be here to entertain your readers for the day!
Before we tell you more about
Six Days of Memories- lets have a good old fashioned Q&A session.
You seem to be writing one story after
another – Do you have lots of ideas for books or do they come to you as you
finish one and where do they come from?
Funny thing is I have all these ideas, but not enough time
to work on them all. Right now, I believe I have 3 plot lines that I have only
written general notes on. I have 6 other books that I currently have started.
What I write and when I write it depends on the character voices and who feels
like coming out to play.
Three days after I published Second Shield last November,
the plotline for Distorted Loyalty
came to me. It had a very intense need to write – and the story was written in
28 days. The same thing happened with Six
Days of Memories. No sooner did I finish writing Distorted Loyalty, the plot started twisting. When I finished Six Days, a new plot line started
boiling and now I am working on a book called One Every Thirty-Six.
Does anything you plan ever change as
you’re writing it?
Holy cow! Yes! I can
sit down with clear plans on where I want the scene to go, but no! The
characters will have minds of their own and before I know it, I’m sitting back
going where the heck did that even come from! I love that though. I have to
give the characters some control of the story, or they would drive me crazy!
What made you decide to write?
Lol…. I have no idea. I came up with an idea and said, “Hey,
I’m going to write a book.” My husband thought I was crazy – of course now that
I am releasing books 7 and 8 he doesn’t think I’m crazy for writing, he just
wonders what really goes on inside my mind.
Do you use it to escape from a hard day at
work?
Absolutely! Being a detective full time is very stressful. I
deal with so much drama every day, that sometimes the only way to deal with it
is to lose myself in a story with my characters.
There must be bits of you in your main
female characters – do you want to tell us what they are or would that be
telling?
All of my female characters are pieces of me. In the My Blood Runs Blue books, Kristin
doesn’t like for people to take her choices away, neither do I. In Whether I’ll Live or Die, Nichole is a
survivor, so am I. Corey deals with moral issues in Garda ~Welcome to the Realm, and as a police officer I deal with
those issues quite often. Jacquelyn in Liveon~No
Evil fought to keep her emotions out of her job and in Second Shield, Mack was intense and focused, yet still a woman with
feelings and needs.
I have to put pieces of me into my characters. I’m a very
strong person and I want my characters to carry those same qualities. In Distorted Loyalty, which was published
June 13th, Rachel has to deal with emotional issues while still
focusing on her job and doing the best she can. And in Six Days of Memories, Natasha thinks outside the box on how to deal
with the situations.
You bend some aspects of law enforcement to
fit into your stories. Do you ever wish anything you’ve altered was reality?
Lol… I love this question! If you ever really knew what I
deal with in my job as a police officer, you would know that life is really
altered all the time. Sometime reality
is stranger than fiction.
Some of the scenes you write are very
emotional – I’m thinking in particular of the funeral scene in Garda – Welcome to the Realm – Do you
get upset writing them?
Oh boy! In one word, Yes. There are times I have written an
emotional scene and had to walk away when I was done. My heart would be
thudding and I’d have tears on my face. What I love to hear is that when
readers read those scenes, they get the same feelings. I love hearing that a
reader was so touched they cried while reading the book or could so relate to
the character that they were laughing along.
When I wrote Whether
I’ll Live or Die, I had a really rough time with some of the scenes. There
were many times I had to force myself to get through a scene because of the
intensity of it. The emotions came from a personal knowledge and it was like I
was reliving many of the scenes. I did a lot of cleaning when I wrote that
book, lol…
In Liveon
No Evil the story line has them turning Garda
– Welcome to the Realm into a film. Is that something you would like? Have
you actors already picked out for the roles?
I would love to see one of my books turned into a movie.
That would be the ultimate! I was half way through writing Liveon when I figured out I needed to give the movie a name that
Ryan was filming. I chuckled when I added Garda
to it. I thought it was funny and even gave myself a little cameo
appearance! As for characters, no. I
have never really thought about it. That’s not my job, my job is to write the
story, someone else can put the faces to the characters.
In Six
Days of Memories you describe a car crash. Is that something you’ve had to
deal with and, if so, did it make it hard to write that scene?
I can’t tell you how many accidents I have handled in my
fourteen years on the force. I have dealt with minor fender benders, more DUI
accidents then I care to think about and even some serious fatal accidents.
When police do our jobs, we tend to push our emotions to the side. Sometimes we
seem cold when we deal with serious incidents, but that is just our defence
mechanisms kicking in. The fact that I
have investigated so many crashes just makes it easier to write about.
Six
Days of Memories has an interesting fact item in it; a tattoo. If you could have any tattoo, size, colour,
pain notwithstanding, what would it be?
I have two of them – and I plan to get more. Right now I
have a few symbols on my ankle that stated “Gemini Justice” and I have a wolf
on my back. I am thinking real hard about what I want to get now, but it will
either be other words, a ribbon for domestic violence or another wolf. We shall
see!
Six
Days of Memories is out on June 30th – tell us about it.
First let me tell you that I loved writing this story!
Natasha and Jay are awesome characters! And I fell in love with both of them! I
hope readers do too! Here’s the blurb!
Detective Natasha Foster will put her job
on the line to prove her gut feeling is dead on.
When Detective Foster responds to the scene
of a crash, she finds the female passenger dead, a bag full of money in the
back seat and a body in the trunk. It is only when the driver, whom she
nicknames Jay, wakes up with no memory that she must go with her instincts and
continue the investigation in a way that was never taught.
Jay finds himself lost, but drawn to the
beautiful detective who steps above and beyond the call of duty. His need to
know if he was a victim or the criminal pushes him to try and recall what
happened and who he is. With the pull of a trigger, Jay’s memory will suddenly
return and with it, the terrible truth.
Thank you so much for joining me here today Stacy - and good luck with Six Days of Memories.
Thank you Marie for allowing me to visit and share so much about myself and my books! I look forward to hearing any comments from your readers!
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