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Catching Up With Robin D. Owens

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Catching Up With Robin Owens

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The Reading Cafe is happy to welcome back Robin D. Owens. Yesterday, Robin released Heart Fortune, her newest release in her wonderful Celta series.  Robin is  here to discuss her new release, as well as to tell us what she may have in store for  us in 2014.

Before we start our interview, let’s refresh your memory about Robin.

 

 

About the Author silver

Robin D. Owens has been writing longer than she cares to recall. Her fantasy/futuristic romances finally found a home at Berkley with the issuance of HeartMate in December 2001. My best writing moment— winning the Romance Writers of America RITA award! My worst writing moment is every time a rejection hits.

I’m a true INFJ personality type = Introverted, intuitive vs. factual, “feeling” rather than thinking, and make quick judgments. I’m a nightowl, Scorpio, love pets, and I learn best through touching (tactile). I’m usually optimistic. My other creative outlet (and major achievement) is as a member of the Lungfish Theater improv group.

I love to read and read everything, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thrillers, romance. I firmly believe that any man who reads a well-written romance will learn what a woman wants.

 

Interview-Black and Deep RoseHi, Robin.  Thank you for taking the time to visit again us at The Reading Cafe, to discuss your release of Heart Fortune, as well as giving us an update as to what else you have upcoming for us in 2013.

TRC: Heart Fortune is the 11th book in your Celta series.  For those who may not have read your series, can you please briefly tell us the premise of the series?

Robin: Celta was colonized by Earth people with psi power that has now developed essentially into magic, which they call Flair.  It is a pagan-Celtic society and includes telepathic animal companions…most with attitude, which, when talking about cats, is redundant. 🙂

Heart Fortune
TRC: With Heart Fortune having been released yesterday, can you please give us a brief description of the book?

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Robin: The heroine is Glyssa Licorice, a librarian, who discovers where her fated mate, her HeartMate, is when he has a life-threatening accident.  Glyssa and Jace had had a brief, hot fling, and he'd left the city, then she'd realized he was her HeartMate.  Now she's ready to travel across the continent to the  excavation site of the "lost" starship, one of three that had brought the colonists to Celta.  Love and danger ensues, along with bonding with Familiar companions, a fox kit and a hawk for Glyssa and Jace.  I use the Fams often for comic relief.

TRC:  When you started the Celta series, did you expect to still be writing this series 11th books later?  Do you have an end in sight, or do you plan to keep writing this wonderful series indefinitely ?  I hope so  🙂

Robin: Wow, of course I didn't know I'd still be doing it…and I have done other series that have let me try other things, and come back to Celta renewed.  Right now I have a 3 book contract and Heart Fortune is the first book of the three, so there will definitely be 2 more.  I have ideas for several more and no intention of ending the series anytime soon.

feral magicTRC:  You recently wrote a novella, Feral Magic.  Is this going to be a new series?  How did you come up with the idea of this book?

Robin: Long answer (as if the others haven't been).  I had the idea some years ago but didn't think a publisher would buy another shapeshifter romance, particularly when the hero was from another world who landed in Denver, Colorado, searching for his lost infant nephew.  When epublishing burgeoned, I thought this would be a good thing to put Feral Magic out.  Again, I have several ideas and should have actually gotten more novellas out by now, but I sold ANOTHER series (Ghostlayer) and Berkley wants very short deadlines on them so my time is booked.

enchanted ever after
TRC:  You also released Enchanted Ever After (Luna series) in December.  Can you give us a brief description of this series?  Also, how many books are you planning for this series?

Robin: Ah, I loved the Mystic Circle series, again set in Denver with brownies and elves, firesprites and mer people…and Kiri, my heroine in Enchanted Ever After, is a full human who moves into the magical cul-de-sac and becomes transformed…  I had planned nine books in the series, but it didn't sell as well as Luna and I would have liked, so there will be no more unless I do them on my own, and, as I said, my time is booked, though I had the first chapters of the next one written.


TRC:  Can you please tell us what else you may have upcoming in 2013 or early 2014?

Robin: April 2014, August 2014, December 2014 should see the Ghostlayer series, currently titled, Ghost Seer, Ghost Layer, and Ghost Slayer.

Series Concept:
An edgy lawman whose leg and life have been shattered… an uptight, rational accountant who’s inherited a psychic “gift” along with a fortune…and ghosts of Old West gunmen.

Book One: Ghost Seer:
Contemporary Denver, Queen City of the Plains, modern and thriving…and haunted by restless and reckless ghosts of a dusty past that only a few can sense.

Accountant Clare Cermac doesn’t think of her gypsy ancestry very often, that is until she inherits a fortune, and the gift to see ghosts – and to help them move on to the other side.  Not just any ghosts, but those of the Old West.  Strong and determined, she struggles to save her sanity and her life.

Zach Slade (Jackson Zachary Slade) leaves southern Montana with a disability pension in his pocket and a bitterness in his heart after the recent betrayal of his fellow deputies.  He’d thought he was a member of a team, but he’d been considered an outsider.  And though he has paranormal “hunches” when he sees crows, he doesn’t believe in woo woo.  He can’t work for the public anymore, and going “private” with his investigative skills is being bought.

Two lives derailed, touched with the supernatural, collide…and the ghosts of the wild, wild West are no more reckless than two people challenging each other mentally, emotionally, physically.

TRC: Would you like to add anything else?

Robin: I am deeply indebted to my readers for all their support.  Thank you!  And many, many thanks for giving my enovella Feral Magic, a chance at pleasing you outside Celta.

Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.  May a little magic always grace your lives.

TRC:  Thank you, Robin for giving us an update on Heart Fortune. We wish you the best of luck and look forward to you visiting us again in the future.

Robin:  Thank YOU!

 

Giveaway

Robin has graciously offered one lucky member of The Reading Cafe an e-copy of Feral Magic, and a signed copy of any book on her backlist.

1.  You must be a member at The Reading Cafe. If you are not a member, please register using the Log-In at the top of the page, or by using one of our social log-ins.

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3.  Giveaway open  Internationally

4.  Contests runs from August 7 to August 10, 2013

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Heart Search by Robin D. Owens – a Review

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Heart Search by Robin Owens – a Review

Heart Search by Robin D. Owens is the 10th book in her Celta series. This book belongs to Laev T’Hawthorn and Camiella Darjeeling, who have spent years not accepting the bond of Heartmates, that they were to each other.  Instead, both were victims to the bad people that have effected their lives. 

In Laev’s case, he made a mistake many years ago, when he was only 17 years old,  by choosing a woman, whom he desired sexually.  But she was not his true heartmate.  His wife was a vicious woman, who only wanted Laev for his money and class, as she stole from him all these years.  Nivea, Laev’s wife died a few years ago to a sickness that effected many people in Celta.  Laev has closed his heart to finding who his true heartmate is, as he cannot forgive himself for his past mistake, and hides his shame.  Laev allows himself to care about his family and close friends, and is thrilled to now have a new Fam cat.  We meet Brazos, and he is just what Laev needs to open his heart a bit, even if he blinds himself to any other possibilities.  Laev’s is determined to find all the stolen jewels/articfacts that Nivea had stolen from him, and hires a private investigator to find them.

Camellia on the other hand, has known all these years who her heartmate was.  But since he was married to another woman, she bespelled herself to never think of him.  Camellia has devoted her time to open two restaurants, as that is how we meet her, at her second successful opening of her tea shop.  Camellia is a strong heroine, and maintains her independence.  You can’t help but like Camellia from the start, and when she meets her Fam cat, Mica, it is so great to watch them together.  In case you have not read this series, the Fams, who are mostly cats in this series, can talk telepathically with their owners, some of which is hysterical.  I enjoyed Brazos, but loved Mica.  Robin Owens’ use of Fam pets, is so much fun in this series.

Back to Camiella.  She has no desire to look at Laev, now that he is free, since she has sworn off men, most of whom have hurt her.  Camiella’s father and uncle constantly steal her valuables, destroy things in her house, as well as hurt her.  They are bad people, or as Mica says “mean mean people”  Her brother is weak, and refuses to see that truth about his father or uncle, and is no help for Camiella.  On that note, I really did not care for the brother, because of his ignorance in helping his sister, who was always in danger.  Camiella always files complaints, but nothing is ever done. She then decides to step up her self defense training, and is sent to classes for men, so she would learn how to handle and fight off her father.  It is there that Camiella comes face to face with Laev, who still does not recognize her has his heartmate, and she is not about to tell him.  She tries to avoid him any way she can.  But as we knew would happen, the attraction begins to bring them together as friends & eventually as lovers.  This happens has Laev makes advances to Camiella, and she hints to him about their aroused sexual dreams.  Then he knows she is his lover in his dreams, and his heartmate.  Laev, who wants nothing to do with a heartmate, walks away.  But realizes he cannot get her out of his mind, and he then makes a proposition that they become lovers, with no commitments.  Camiella is happy with that, as she also wants Laev as a lover, and cannot allow herself to become dependent on any man, as she has been hurt too much in her past. 

Camiella’s friends, and Brazos and Mica help with little things to bring them together, as it is apparent to all of their love for one another. It took awhile, as Laev was a hard man to open up, but he realizes he loves Camiella, and now he must find a way to convince her to trust him.  Just when you thought nothing will bring them together again, Camiella’s life is in danger, and Laev must save her from sure death.  It was a very exciting ending, with suspense, violence, action, and a very wonderful conclusion to a great story.  Heart Search was a great romance, though intense at times, but overall had great characters, and I enjoyed it very much.

Reviewed by Barb

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