A warm welcome to author Elizabeth Noble joining us today here @Love Bytes on her blog tour for Shifting Chaos
Welcome Elizabeth 🙂
Author Name: Elizabeth Noble
Book Name: Shifting Chaos
Series: The Sleepless City #4
Release Date: Sept 7 2015
Pages or Words: 73,000 words
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: TL Bland
Blurb:
Chaos reigns in The Sleepless City, and it’s really beginning to piss Detective Jonas Forge off. He’s got inner demons to battle and a life to build with his new soul mate, Blair Turner. Nothing is going right, and he already feels the universe is conspiring against him when a turn of events he never saw coming flips his world upside down. Hallucinations grip the town and everyone in it, threatening to tear their precariously built family apart, and the only way forward is to bare all to each other. This means Declan and Blair need to learn to accept one another. Lucas Coate has to move forward without ties to his werewolf pack and live a monogamous life with Declan.But while Forge and Declan confront horrors from their shared past, Simon learns a terrible truth about vampires—one he couldn’t have imagined in his worst nightmares.
Categories: Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Mystery, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Today I’m very happy to be interviewing Elizabeth Noble author of Shifting Chaos. Hi Elizabeth, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.
Hello, and thank you so much for having me today!
I’m Elizabeth Noble and I write urban fantasy, mystery/thrillers and scifi for Dreamspinner Press. I also write a more mainstream LGBT series for DSP Publications. The first book will be out next year.
My current book, Shifting Chaos, is the fourth and final installment of The Sleepless City. It’s a series written with Anne Barwell. Anne wrote books 1 and 3 (Shades of Sepia and Family and Reflection respectively). I wrote books 2 and 4, Electric Candle and Shifting Chaos.
The series in general is an urban fantasy following the lives, loves and adventures of four vampires, a human and a werewolf. Shifting Chaos ties up all the previous story lines as well as challenges our heroes with a seriously dangerous and supernatural advisory.
Shifting Chaos is very much an ensemble cast type of book. The previous three books focused on the solving of a supernatural mystery and the relationship between one of the three couples. In Shifting Chaos there is no one relationship that is at the center of the story. The six men aren’t only three couples, they’re a family that is more than the sum of its parts. I’ve tried to explore not only each couple, but the family they’ve created.
I decided to interview Blair Turner, the youngest of the vampires and one of the newest family members. He’s bonded to Jonas Forge, one of the oldest vampires.
1) What do you find attractive in a man?
What is the saying? Eyes are the windows of the soul? A person’s smile tells you so much… Oh who the heck am I kidding? I like a pair of broad shoulders and rock hard thighs. Forge has nice eyes and a killer smile, but it’s his strong arms, wicked wit and the fact he’s loyal to a fault is what I really find is most attractive about him.
2) The first thing that went through your head when you saw Forge.
He was standing on a beach and I can’t swim so I was worried he’d fall in the water. Then I was worried about him finding out I was a vampire. Of course at the time I didn’t realize he was a vampire also. Then I thought, ‘my gosh he fills out his clothes nicely.’ Okay, I’ll admit I’m a tad shallow.
3) Do you think you’ll insist the author visits you again?
Oh, yes. We, all of us, visit her on a regular basis and poke at her brain about other stories to write about us. She loves us.
4) Before you met Forge, what was your ideal man?
I will admit Forge changed my thoughts on an ideal man a bit. Before him I liked guys like me, sort of quiet and geeky. They were safe and I felt they weren’t a challenge.
Forge is a challenge.
He’s outgoing, sometimes downright obnoxious with how he teases me, and he’s a cop. That makes him a bit overprotective. He’s not quiet by any means and I think his brain to mouth filter broke about a century ago.
5) You’re going out for dinner. What’s your favorite food?
That is one thing Forge and I agree on! We LOVE pizza and will drive miles to try a new pizza place. Like that commercial says, respect the pizza.
“What happened?” Blair asked. He turned his head toward the back door. A second later Moose was running to the back of the house.
Jonas strode in, jerked his jacket off, and tossed it down beside Ben’s helmet, muttering as he went. He stopped and faced them. “Those fools have decided I must be head detective.”
Lucas came to a stop behind Jonas, grinning.
“Wait, you’ve been pissed off all day because you got a promotion?” Blair asked.
Ben lunged forward and threw his arms around Jonas’s neck. “Sweet as! We have to celebrate. It’s about time they recognized you like this. I think it’s crappy you haven’t been promoted until now.”
Jonas pulled in a breath and stepped back from Ben. “I thank you, but it’s a fucking disaster.”
“Another of the Council’s tricks,” Declan added.
“They can’t do this, can they?” Simon said and sat down abruptly on the couch. “That’s against the Council rules.”
“What’s wrong with all of you?” Ben turned in a circle, glaring at each of them in turn.
“I can’t be the head detective.” Jonas took a DVD from the shelf under the television and put it in the player. He grabbed the remote control, aimed, and pointed. “This”—he waved at the scene appearing on the TV—”is why I can’t have this job.”
An image of Stewie in relation to some incident that, by the looks of it, had happened a few years ago appeared on the screen. Underneath were the words “Flint, Ohio, Head Detective Stewart Belle,” and Stewie was speaking to a reporter.
“Oh crap,” Blair said. He and Ben stood side by side.
“Yes. Oh crap covers it nicely. The head detective must be a human, has always been a human. You know, someone who can be seen by a camera and is available during the full moon,” Jonas said. “Before Stewie there was some dick by the name of Felton, and before that we had the oh-so-delightful Smyth.”
Ben nudged Blair and waved one hand between Declan and Jonas. “Have you noticed that between the thief and the cop, the cop is the one with the problems with authority?”
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Elizabeth Noble started telling stories before she actually knew how to write, and her family was very happy when she learned to put words on a page. Those words turned into fan fiction that turned into a genuine love of M/M romance fiction. Being able to share her works with Dreamspinner is really a dream come true. She has a real love for a good mystery complete with murder and twisty plots as well as all things sci-fi, futuristic, and supernatural and a bit of an unnatural interest in a super-volcano in Wyoming.
Elizabeth has three grown children and is now happily owned by an adorable mixed breed canine princess named Rosie, and two cats, Murphy and Yeti. She lives in her native northeast Ohio, the perfect place for gardening, winter and summer sports (go Tribe!). When she’s not writing she’s working as a veterinary nurse, so don’t be surprised to see her men with a pet or three who are a very big part of their lives.
Two of Elizabeth’s books have received Honorable Mentions in the Rainbow Awards.
Where to find the author:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.noble.77
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elizabeth-Noble/120757231345733
Twitter: @elizabethnoble1
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/elizabethnoble1/
Other: Google + https://plus.google.com/110207268360224371489/posts
Other: website http://www.elizabeth-noble.com
Other: Dreamspinner author page http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/index.php?cPath=55_423
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4781553.Elizabeth_Noble
Tour Dates & Stops:
28-Aug: Mikky’s World of Books, Love Bytes, Kimi-Chan
4-Sep: Bayou Book Junkie, Hearts on Fire, My Fiction Nook
11-Sep: BFD Book Blog, Divine Magazine, Prism Book Alliance
18-Sep: Vampires, Werewolves, and Fairies, Oh My, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, It’s Raining Men, MM Good Book Reviews
25-Sep: EE Montgomery, Michael Mandrake, Inked Rainbow Reads
2-Oct: Velvet Panic, Carly’s Book Reviews
9-Oct: Molly Lolly, Just Love Romance
16-Oct: Jessie G. Books, The Blogger Girls
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love the excerpt!
Thank you!
Thank you for hosting me!
Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for the great interview.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting. It was a fun interview and I was able to get Blair to chat a bit more than he usually does.
Sounds incredible.
Thank you. I’m rather fond of this story.
Congratulations on the new release! I loved the excerpt. Thank you!
Thank you. I hope you enjoy the book.
Hi, Elizabeth! It sounds fantastic…
Thank you, and happy reading!
Congrats on your new book. Thank you for the excerpt, it sounds really good =)
Thank you. I adore these characters.
congrats elizabeth
Thank you
Congratulations on the new release! Awesome interview. Looking forward to reading it!
Thank you so much.
Hiya, I love when we get to hear directly from your characters, so I’d like to say Hi to Blair and thank him for taking the time to be interviewed.
Blair says hi and thank you from both of us.