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Flick Smith has developed a dangerous cyber-war
program, when its stolen and her boss murdered she realises lives are at risk.
What is the one thing you wish you knew
before you tried to get published?
Rejection is not an excuse to put on ten
pounds!
What to you is the best part of being a
writer and what is the part you wouldnt mind giving up?
I enjoy the whole writing process. I’m very goal motivated, so I get a real
sense of satisfaction from setting goals and reaching them. I also enjoy the
editing process, getting someone else’s point of view on your story is painful
and fascinating at the same time.
I think the worst part is the waiting to
see how the book is received. I’m always
terrified there’s some huge mistake that every reader will pick up, which we
missed in editing. Yes, pre-release
nerves, I could do without them.
What city would you love to set a story in
but the right one hasn’t come along yet?
London.
I was born in the UK and have lived there for just under half my life
(the other half in Sydney, Australia).
So I love England. London is the most amazing city. The history is incredible and the place
itself is wonderful.
Vampires, Shifters, Zombies, Angels - who
wins the final ultimate battle?
Erm. Can Greek Gods win? My money is on the Greek God contingent.
If you could witness any historical event
past, present or future what would it be and why?
Oh goodness. How can I pick just one… I’d like to see the jubilation in England
when World War 2 ended. It must have
been so bittersweet. Celebrating that it
was all over, but thinking of everyone that they’d lost.
If you were going to cowrite a new book,
who would you want to write it with?
Kylie Scott. She’s an Australia writer and
writes the most sensational books, including Flesh, and The Colonists Wife.
What books are currently on your
nightstand?
There’s a couple of Harlequin Romantic
Suspenses and a kindle plugged in to recharge.
The battery went flat right at the end of the book I was reading (Marked
by Elizabeth Naughton) had to finish it on my phone!
When writing what is your favorite part of
the story?
The beginning. This is when I’m brimming
with ideas and so many possibilities lie ahead.
The first chapters are always the most fun.
Anything else you would like to share
today?
My next
book, The Bunker, is out in July 2013.
It’s a romantic suspense set in an old nuclear shelter in the green
hills of England, and if you liked The Danger Game, you’ll love The
Bunker.
When
terrorists strike the British financial system Dimity Pond, who is already in a
world of trouble, has to face her fears and save the country from total
collapse. The man who wants to send her the jail for the rest of her life, Lord
Richard Summerhayes, is the only one who can help her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Danger Game
by Caitlyn
Nicholas
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BLURB:
Flick
likes computers. She’s good with them, and they do what she tells them, mostly.
People, however, are more of a challenge.
But
when a terrifyingly dangerous program is stolen, and her mentor killed, Flick
finds herself on the run. The police are convinced she’s committed murder, and
a sinister weapons developer will stop at nothing to force her to work for him.
In
Ben’s line of work being suspicious keeps you alive. So when Flick turns to
him, he quickly realises that she’s up to her neck in trouble and hasn’t fully
grasped the danger she is in.
First
he has to keep her safe, and then, together, they have to figure out how to
save the world from an epic meltdown.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EXCERPTS:
.
“It’s your last chance with the Vice Chancellor.”
“I said I’d be there.” Flick didn’t bother to hide her
irritation. “I just won the man a million dollar grant, what more does he
want?”
“Your bubbly and fun personality?” There was amusement
beneath Andy’s sarcasm.
Flick snorted. “All right. Okay. I’m leaving now.” She
growled the words, and hit the off-button on her phone.
They both knew she lied.
She dropped the phone onto the desk. Then, scowling, she
clicked on the icon that’d run the Bellona program. It crashed instantly, and took the computer
with it.
“Awesome.” She threw
herself back into her chair and stared at the ceiling panels, running the
changes she’d made to the code through her mind. Realizing it’d be a waste of time to unpick
what she’d done, Flick rebooted her computer and went in search of a clean copy
of the program on the backup server.
There were two versions. Usually they only kept one, but she
thought nothing of it, and after saving a copy to her hard drive, she opened it
up.
She scanned quickly through the code, looking for the
section she’d been working on, so preoccupied with figuring out how to
manipulate it into doing what she wanted, she nearly missed the strange
command, her eye travelled straight past it. But then she hesitated, and went
back to the unusual group of letters.
They hadn’t been there before.
A logic bomb? Some little joke Andy was playing?
She ran the command and it brought up a whole section of
Bellona that she’d never seen before.
“Bloody hell -” For a moment she simply stared at the
screen.
It was no joke.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
I began
writing in 2005. Exhausted, pregnant (sure I was going to expire from
morning-
Still, it
kinda worked out. My debut novel - and the first manuscript I'd ever written -
Running Scared, was published in January 2007.
My next book, Secret Intentions followed. Then I had a short story published in the Mammoth
Book of Special Ops Romance (MBSOR) in 2010 - my story is called The Grey Man.
In 2012 my
novel Drive Me To Distraction was published, and my novella The Danger Game
came out just before Christmas. My next
book, The Bunker, will be published in July 2013.
Author Links
You can find
me online at: http://www.caitlynnicholas.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/CaitlynNicholas
Google plus:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105412279044420141735/
Buy links
Or on
Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16280752-the-danger-game
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ReplyDeleteFascinating interview! Thanks for sharing :)
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Sounds like a great story, I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Excellent interview. Is there a genre you haven't written in yet but would like to?
ReplyDeletekareninnc at gmail dot com
Loved your interview. When wwII ended, my mother told me that everyone was so happy, they swung on the flag pole and broke it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great interview. My grandfather in law was in the Netherlands and I know it was a huge deal when the war was finally over
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"Rejection is not an excuse to put on ten pounds! " - I just cracked up. Too funny.
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