A warm welcome to author Tinnean joining us today to talk about her new release “Whither Thou Goest”

Tying stories together

Hellooo! (/Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire impression) I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Love Bytes for welcoming me here today. And I’d like to welcome you as well.

Okay, I’m going to talk a little about Whither Thou Goest, my newest release from Dreamspinner.

Few people like the movie Jaws 3-D, and while I have to agree that it can come across as a little lame, I happen to like it. Let me tell you why. It ties in with the first movie. Sheriff Brody’s two sons, Michael and Sean, appear as a marine biologist and an employee of a marine park respectively. Since this was set in Florida, away from the gray bleakness of Amity Island, that absolutely floored me.

Bear with me, this all ties in, I promise you.

I love doing this! Not in a series, where it only makes sense that characters you’ve met previously will turn up again and again. You’ll find characters from various books I’ve written putting in cameo appearances here and there. For instance, an extremely minor character from Greater Love Hath No Man is also mentioned in The Start of a Beautiful Friendship. The same can be said for Whither Thou Goest. Our people arrive in Honolulu, and Johnny learns that Mr. Chetwood has gone to have a drink with an old friend. This old friend, John Abberley, Lord Creighton, hasn’t appeared in other books per se, but his wife, Lady Portia, is Portia Mann’s godmother. And of course, Portia is Quinton Mann’s mother, from the Spy vs. Spook books, among others. At one time, I’d considered Lord Creighton’s son Jack as a possible partner for Portia Mann, but that didn’t work out. Characters can do that. 😉

And I have an added little tidbit just for readers of Love Bytes: scientist Dr. Jackson Carteret, who also turns up in Honolulu, will take a job with the Biederman Institute of Meteorological and Oceanographic Studies once he returns from his travels. BIMOS is also mentioned in the Mann of My Dreams series, as well as the Strange, Strange World books.

How about you? Does it make a story more enjoyable for you if characters or companies from another story put in a surprise appearance?

Blurb:

Johnny Smith meets Church Chetwood during the dark days of the Great Depression. He knows Mr. Chetwood can’t be his forever. Why would the handsome and charming director want to stay with a young man who has nothing but his body and skills in bed to offer? His Mr. Chetwood can have any women—or man—he wants, but Johnny is going to keep him as long as he can.

When they have to leave suddenly on the SS August Moon to evade the process servers trying to find Church, Johnny is glad they’ll have more time together. But the crew rises up against the good Captain Johansen, urged on by a stowaway who wants the August Moon for himself. Johnny and Church, together with the captain, the cook, a wireless operator, and the little girl Johnny saved from prostitution, are cast off into a small lifeboat—and doomed to the open sea. Their other option is to try to land on the island where Church once discovered a saber-toothed tiger. The problem is, the last time Church was on this island, twelve men paid the price with their lives. Will Johnny, Church, and their friends make it out alive this time?

Mr. Chetwood’s companion was tall and powerfully built. His thick black hair was combed back from a broad forehead, and his gray eyes missed nothing of what was going on in the bar.

He appeared to be close to Mr. Chetwood’s age or maybe a few years younger, and wore a white suit that spoke quietly of wealth and style and was obviously custom-made to fit his frame. The man had panache.

“Is there a problem, Henry?” The man’s voice was lightly accented—I couldn’t tell if it was British or French—and I slumped in on myself. How could Mr. Chetwood fail to be aroused by that voice?

“Not at all, Lord Creighton.”

And he was nobility to boot?

“I was simply telling this… person that I was sure he’d be more comfortable at Pierre’s. It’s just across town, and it caters to his sort.”

I swallowed, completely forgetting the supercilious Henry. Lord Creighton was the epitome of sleek, elegant male beauty. How could I compete with him?

Then I remembered Charley’s words: “If you love him… fight for him.”

Buy Link:

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Tinnean has been writing since the 3rd grade, where she was inspired to try her hand at epic poetry. Fortunately, that epic poem didn’t survive the passage of time; however, her love of writing not only survived but thrived, and in high school she became a member of the magazine staff, where she contributed a number of stories.

It was with the advent of the family’s second computer – the first intimidated everyone – that her writing took off, enhanced in part by fanfiction, but mostly by the wonder that is copy and paste.

While involved in fandom, she was nominated for both Rerun and Light My Fire Awards. Now she concentrates on her original characters and has been published by Nazca Plains, Dreamspinner, JMS Books, and Wilde City, as well as being self-published. Recent novels have received honorable mention in the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Rainbow Awards, and two of the 2014 submissions were finalists. At the moment, she’s working on Just the Thought of You, Book 3 of her Mann of My Dreams series.

A New Yorker at heart, she resides in SW Florida with her husband and two computers.

Ernest Hemingway’s words reflect Tinnean’s devotion to her craft: Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

She can be contacted at:

Email: tinneantoo@gmail.com

Live Journal: http://tinnean.livejournal.com/

Twitter: @tinneantoo

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tinnean

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Tinnean/e/B004QS65KQ/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1391469662&sr=1-2-ent