A warm welcome to author TA Moore joining us today just before New Year to talk about her new release Swipe, which is available now!
Welcome TA 🙂
First of all, thank you so much for having me! I’m thrilled to be here with my new contemporary novel SWIPE by TA Moore — well, it would be weird if it was by someone else wouldn’t it?
So, first of all I hope that you’ve had a good December, celebrated the festive season of your choice, and are looking forward to 2020. The whole New Year’s thing usually tends to just be another feast day in my family, and I have never remembered to make an actual resolution on the day OR keep it for longer than three days. But it’s a new decade and I hope we’re all going to have good one!
Back on topic! I love me a good outlaw biker gang. Even better, however, is a bad outlaw biker gang. In SWIPE the biker gang in question are The Corpse Brothers. They are inveterate criminals, not very nice people, and I kind of loved writing them. I have my favorite, but you’ll have to see if you can pick him out. He’s not a nice guy, but he’s not the worst either and he was fun to write.
The Corpse Brothers are a proper 1% MC, well-established as a criminal gang in the town of Plenty (which is also the setting of my Digging up Bones series). They only recruit members who are local and can be vouched for by an existing member. The demographics of Plenty, 25% wealthy blow-ins from San Diego and 75% disenfranchised locals whose traditional industries have dried up, mean they are never short of recruits. Discontented, petty criminal youths eager to make a move into more profitable crimes are ten to a penny.
Drugs are their major source of income, although they’re open to most anything that will pay. Drugs are always a money maker, though, and relatively low risk, so that is the foundation of their criminal empire.
Most people who deal with the Corpse Brothers know who they are. Big, dangerous dudes on bikes are pretty easy to pick out of a crowd. For those who don’t, that’s what the cut is for. For anyone who doesn’t like MC romances as much as I do, a cut (kutte or battle-vest) is a leather (or denim) vest or jacket with the arms cut out of it and decorated with various patches and embroidery. The large patch on the back is usually of the club’s insignia, in the Corpse Brothers case this is a gaunt, screaming death mask icon, while others can signify if the biker has committed violence on behalf of the club or if they have an official role in the club. Nico, in Swipe, is a Prospect, which means he’s still being considered for membership. This is mostly because while he grew up in Plenty, and got in plenty of trouble, he was sent away as a teenager and only recently got back.
So he’s got to prove himself. Which is one of the things that Tag, his love interest and the main character, isn’t too keen on.
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Blurb: Swipe by TA Moore – A Novel of Plenty, California
As one of the top trauma surgeons in Plenty’s ER, Dr. Taggart Hayes knows how to fix broken things—fractured legs, ruptured spleens, allergies, and traumatic brain injuries. He can put them back together good as new.
A broken heart, though? That’s a bit trickier. Especially when it’s his own.
When Tag swipes on the photo of the hot man in the dating app, he just wants a distraction from the wreck that used to be his life. A one-night stand with a safely inappropriate stranger, no names, no feelings, and no complications.
But the headless photo on the app belongs to a man who isn’t so easy to forget the next day… or the next week. And it becomes increasingly clear that Bass is neither safe nor uncomplicated. Drawn into the dark, criminal underworld his lover inhabits, Tag has to decide if the cure for his broken heart is worse than the disease.
Cover Artist: Kanaxa
Dreamspinner: http://bit.ly/SWIPEdsp
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YRtrZb
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TA Moore is a Northern Irish writer of romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and contemporary romance novels. A childhood in a rural, seaside town fostered in her a suspicious nature, a love of mystery, and a streak of black humour a mile wide. As her grandmother always said, ‘she’d laugh at a bad thing that one’, mind you, that was the pot calling the kettle black. TA Moore studied History, Irish mythology, English at University, mostly because she has always loved a good story. She has worked as a journalist, a finance manager, and in the arts sectors before she finally gave in to a lifelong desire to write.
Coffee, Doc Marten boots, and good friends are the essential things in life. Spiders, mayo, and heels are to be avoided.
Website: www.tamoorewrites.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TAMoorewrites/
Twitter: @tamoorewrites
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