Thank you Stephen Osborne, for dropping by Love Bytes today with a quick interview of your new book, Under a Blood-Red Moon.
Title: Under a Blood-Red Moon
Author: Stephen Osborne
Series: Duncan Andrews Thrillers #5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: May 30th 2016
Blurb:
Private Detective Duncan Andrews is back, along with the usual gang: Robbie, Gina, Nick, and Daisy, the zombie bulldog! Duncan is trying to figure out how his boyfriend, Robbie, will fit in with the team now that he is no longer a ghost. That worry is soon set aside when Duncan accepts a new case to locate a missing young man named Graig Betz. Duncan soon learns Graig is part of a werewolf pack that is terrorizing Indianapolis. The pack is led by a witch, Ashley Campbell, an old rival of Gina’s. Duncan and his team must try to rescue and cure Graig and stop the wolf pack from destroying an entire city.
Buy Links:
It amazes me every time, but occasionally readers ask me a question. Some of them are the usual (Where do you get your ideas?) but some aren’t. One asked if I was single. That one scared me a little. But I thought with Under a Blood-red Moon being released, I’d share some questions about the Duncan Andrews series, or comments readers have shared with me.
DO YOU HAVE TO READ THE BOOKS IN ORDER?
Well, I’d certainly like it, as the author, if people did! But I’ve been told by readers who didn’t that it doesn’t matter much. They weren’t confused at any rate, and none of the books end on a cliffhanger, so you don’t have that to contend with. However, it is a series. Some minor plot points—and a couple of major ones—carry over to the next book. Under a Blood-red Moon, however, sort of starts with a clean slate. So a reader could easily start there, and decide if they want to go back and read the first four books.
ARE THERE GOING TO BE MORE BOOKS IN THE SERIES?
Yep. At least two. Maybe three. I’m thinking about doing a Robbie stand-alone book. Thinking about it, anyway.
WHO DOES YOUR COVERS? THEY’RE GORGEOUS!
Anne Cain has done every cover in the Duncan Andrews series. Heck, she’s done every cover for every novel I’ve written! Feel free to tell the folks at Dreamspinner Press that you like her work.
ARE DUNCAN AND ROBBIE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE?
Okay, the question from the reader really only asked about Robbie, as she was in love with him, but I added Duncan for the sake of this blog. Duncan is, partly, your quintessential private eye. Big, strong, and quick with a quip and a gun. But he’s also soft-hearted, and he shares my self-deprecating sense of humor. Robbie is composed to two different people I know. I took the physical characteristics of one friend and added the personality of another. And no one asked, but Daisy is based on a dog I had who looked a bit like a zombie after she had to have an operation to have her right eye removed. Jadzia lived for many years with one eye, and several more with no sight at all. Dogs adjust magnificently.
And I promised I’d answer a question from a reader in the U.K., even though it isn’t about the Duncan Andrews books. WILL YOU BE WRITING ANY MORE WEASEL (Pop Goes the Weasel, Rat Bastard) STORIES? I think so. I’ve got plans for a Weasel novella.
Stephen Osborne lives in Northern Illinois with Christine, the diva border terrier mix, where he works at a food packaging plant, testing food. So basically he makes brownies for a living. His loves include Doctor Who, Dark Shadows, and Broadway musicals. A mystery fanatic, his favorite authors are Rex Stout, Ellery Queen, and the wonderful Agatha Christie. His goal: to be the Phantom of the Opera. Not play the part…he wants to find an opera house to haunt!