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I'm am very excited to say Kathleen Dante has taken time out of her busy schedule to grant me an interview!!

I've been hooked on Ms. Dante's novels since reading Entangled.

Read on for her interesting interview:



Bookworm: What got you interested in writing? How long have you been writing?



Kathleen Dante: When I was growing up, I was a voracious reader. I would make up scenes
in my head, usually about characters from stories I'd read or TV shows I
watched, and I made sporadic attempts to get them down on paper --
without much success.



About five years ago, there was this scene that popped to mind and I
couldn't let it go. I found myself revisiting it and adding dialog and
getting the details and description down just so. I couldn't let it go.
So I decided to write it down, because I had to know what happened. To
my surprise, I liked what I'd written -- a lot. I challenged myself to
get serious: write a novel. Essentially, put up or shut up. That scene
was Lantis' clairfield conference with Dillon.








Bookworm: In your two books, Entangled and Enticed, there is a bit of the paranormal involved, what made you to add this aspect to these stories?

Kathleen Dante: Part of it probably stems from my love of science fiction and fantasy.
It seemed natural for me to combine magic. In fact, all my stories to
date have an element of the paranormal.



I never considered not having a paranormal element in Entangled. As I
said, that first scene that came to me was the clairfield conference.
That teleportation delivery of the files at the end of that scene hooked
my imagination. I wanted to explore that world. Another thing I was
exploring was the concept of entanglement, a quantum phenomenon that was
getting some write-ups in the science news at the time and intrigued my
imagination. In stories by other authors, when two characters are
linked, they usually experience the link in the same way; I didn't think
that should be the case, so in Lantis and Kiera's entanglement, Lantis
perceives Kiera's input as emotion, while Kiera perceives Lantis' input
as sensation.



Since Enticed is a sequel, set in the same universe, it also had to have
a paranormal element. In my opinion, the paranormal has to be central to
the plot if I'm to include it, so Jordan's abilities became a source of
tension.







Bookworm: Who chooses your book covers? They are great.



Kathleen Dante: I've been lucky with my book covers, since it's my publisher's art
department that handles that. I don't have much input into the covers, I
just squeal for joy when I finally see them.





Bookworm: How long does it take you to write a book? Do you ever get writers block?


Kathleen Dante:
These days, actual writing takes around seven months, but the start and
completion dates are farther apart than that because real life happens.
Entangled took a year and a half because I had a day job. Enticed took
nine months and Dreamwalker was seven months.



I've never suffered from a block, per se. My writing might slow to a
crawl (a hundred words a day), but generally, if a scene is giving me
problems, I just jump to another scene. If the writing is going really
slow, I break out the dark chocolate.



When I'm having difficulty, that usually means I have insufficient
information (usually on character motivation, setting or research) or my
hindbrain is trying to tell me there's something wrong with the set-up.
Otherwise, I'm just dreading a scene. When I realized Timothy would get
injured in the showdown in Enticed, my writing stopped cold. I had to
write that scene in nibbles -- a sentence here, a paragraph there, then
back to another scene.







Bookworm: Who is your favorite author and what is it that really strikes you about their work?


Kathleen Dante: Just one? That's a tough question. I can't limit it to just one.
Patricia Briggs, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jim Butcher, Sharon Lee & Steve
Miller, John Ringo, Wen Spencer. Some have more romance than others.
John Ringo's are usually bloody and violent. But for me, it boils down
to storytelling. When I open their books, I get caught up in the story.
That's what I look for and what I try to achieve with my writing.






Bookworm:When you aren't busy writing, what do you like to do?


Kathleen Dante: I try to write seven days a week, to keep the writing muscles in shape.
But when I'm not writing, I read and I travel. But mostly I read.









Bookworm: Are you working on any books now?


Kathleen Dante: I recently turned in Endangered, which is Rio and Cyn's story and will
be out in April 2009. Right now, I'm working on two proposals: one is
another erotic romance that's set in the same universe as the En series,
but isn't connected; the other is an erotic fantasy, still with a
romance, of course, but with swords.








Bookworm: Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?

Kathleen Dante: Thank you for your support. I'm honored that you enjoy my books. I hope
to continue to write stories you enjoy.




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Thank you again Ms. Dante for chatting with me. I hope fellow readers will pick up one of Kathleen Dante's sizzling books.






visit her website: http://www.kathleendante.com/

author: Kathleen Dante

title: Enticed

pages: 314


genre: paranormal erotic romance

first sentence: A hot extraction barely sped his pulse these days.

rated:

story line: 4 out of 4 :




steamy love scenes: 5 out of 5:






'Special ops agent Dillon Gavin is taking a break from his demanding schedule when his life takes an unexpected-and complicated-turn. Her name is Jordan Kane, a beautiful artist. Legally blind, she paints with her inner eye-which affords her an uncanny, and sometimes breathtaking, clairvoyance. What she sees in Dillon-comfortable in an unpredictable world of intrigue, espionage, and brute violence-is the kind of man that an artistic, gentle soul like Jordan never experienced before. Her sixth sense tells her that Dillon wants her. Her common sense says stay away.'



You know, I've become a Kathleen Dante fan. It's very unexpected, but it is true.
I really enjoyed this read. It wasn't as steamy as Entangled, it was milder.
I enjoyed Entangled, but Enticed has more story line to it. The first love scene doesn't happen till after page 70. They took thier time and it was romantic. And there's plenty of romantic tension between Jordan and Dillon. It was sweet.


'He'd drawn her attention like a soft melody that teased her ears into listening, dominating her senses with his mere presence, so much that the others in the room faded into faceless blurs-her clairvoyance responding to her interest. His deep-set black eyes had turned dreamy or glittered in slitted response to some thought as he stalked among her artwork. A strong chin, slashing brows, an aristrocatic-almost Roman- nose, high cheekbones, and well formed lips, her fingers itched to trace.'






Agent Dillon Gavin, Lantis' best friend, is taking a mini vacation from work. Lantis and Kiera (from Entangled) are now married and expecting a baby.


Beautiful artist Jordan Kane, meets Dillon at her gallery, and there is an attraction right away, but Jordan is very reserved. She is also blind and a clairvoyant, so she can 'see' with her inner eye. She 'sees' what Dillon looks like and knows how dangerous his line of work is. Jordan lives with her cat, Timothy, and her cousin Dan. Dillon decided he wants to seduce Jordan, but knows he needs to take it slow. Jordans cat Timothy actually has a main part in the story, he's got his own 'character' and personality.



As the story goes on, Lantis and Kiera and also involved in the plot. And Dillon ends up having to protect Jordan from harm. The story does have mystery & suspense to it as well as the romance. There is also magic involved, just like in 'Entangled'.




I'm going to have to get a copy of Dreamwalker, K. Dante's latest novel.



visit the author's website:http://www.kathleendante.com/


this read has been part of the following reading challenges:

-RRC

-Triple 8

-TBR

author: Kathleen Dante

title:
Entangled


genre: paranormal erotic romance

pages: 308

first line: John Atlantis prowled the narrow confines of the clairfield spell, its precise metal curliques inlaid into the floor, as he awaited Dillonn's summons.








'What's in a woman's heart...

Brilliant executive Kiera Stevens finds herself in a vulnerable position when she suspects insider espionage. Someone she trusts is stealing company secrets and threatening her professional future. What she needs is an undercover man... '





Okay, now this was my first time reading this genre. I bought this book, plus her second book as well, I figured, the covers looked pretty good, so what the heck, live a little. One thing is for sure, author Kathleen Dante has one heck of an imagination :P





Um, I didn't expect it to be this...graphic. But it was tastefully done and oddly addictive...lol. The story line was good, one unexpected thing to the story was that there is 'magic' involved.


Kiera, the head of a toy making corporation, hires a security expert named John Atlantis a.k.a. Lantis, to find a leak in the security system. Lantis turns out to be tall, dark and handsome. He and Kiera are both single. Kiera is also gorgeous and looking for a good man.


Kiera is a healer and Lantis can work magic through his thoughts, the two quickly become involved.





'She was as sweet as he remembered. No, sweeter. Heady as a straight shot of wiskey and twice as potent on an empty stomach. He sank into the kiss, in her scent. The combination of vanilla and musk that was uniquely Kiera's. The scent of home.'










I like that there was a story line to it that was interesting. There's some mystery and suspense to it, thrown in with the paranormal. I found the main characters Kiera & Lantis, to be likeable, a believeable couple. There are a few other characters thrown in there as well, mostly Kiera's best girlfriend & her friend Dillon, whom the next book 'Enticed' is about.





I give this one 2 seperate ratings:

5 for the steamy love scenes:








4 for the story line:





I'll be reading Kathleen Dante's second book, 'Enticed', and reviewing it as well.

visit the author's website: http://www.kathleendante.com/