Running With Quills: Elizabeth Corners Amanda/Jayne

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Elizabeth Corners Amanda/Jayne

Elizabeth: Amanda Quick's latest novel of romantic-suspense, LIE BY MOONLIGHT, is out in paperback! I've tracked down and am about interview Ms. Multiple Personalities, herself: Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle.

Elizabeth: Tell me, Amanda/Jayne Quick/Krentz/Castle, do you ever suffer from identity confusion?

Amanda (Jayne): No, but lucky for you Amanda is the nice one.

Elizabeth: [Okaaaay. Somebody needs chocolate.] Tell us a little about LIE BY MOONLIGHT.

Amanda (Jayne): We're talking Late Victorian England, a mysterious girls' school, an intrepid teacher determined to save the four young ladies entrusted to her care, an evil crime lord and, oh, yeah, the last Master of Vanza.

Elizabeth: Could you explain Vanza? Briefly, of course.

Amanda (Jayne): A secret martial arts philosophy.

Elizabeth: That's brief. Yummy, too. Like your hero--sexy, mysterious, dangerous. My favorite kind of man. Tell me more.

Amanda (Jayne): Ambrose Wells started out life as a gentleman-thief but somewhere along the way he was inducted into the secrets of Vanza. He is still a very good thief, of course, but now he uses his talents in a slightly different capacity. He is a private enquiry agent -- a 19th century private investigator.

Elizabeth: And the heroine?

Amanda (Jayne): Concordia Glade is a dedicated teacher. But she was raised in a scandalous19th century commune which has made it difficult for her to hold a job. Whenever the truth about her past is revealed, she gets fired. It seems that Victorian parents don't want their daughters educated by a woman who was once a member of notorious, experimental community. Ambrose and Concordia are intensely attracted to each other but both have a lot of secrets in theirs pasts. Makes it hard to trust.

Elizabeth: And then there is the evil crime lord....

Amanda (Jayne): Well, you can't really have a sweet, loveable crime lord, now can you? I'm sure there's a rule somewhere about that sort of thing.

Elizabeth: Not that either one of us has ever written by the rules.

Amanda (Jayne): True. Where's the fun in that?

Elizabeth: I'll tell you where the fun is: LIE BY MOONLIGHT is out in paperback and it is in stores right now! If you don't feel like leaving your computer, you can purchase the book clicking on the links below.

16 Comments:

talpianna said...: You might try writing your villains by THESE rules:

http://minievil.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

I'm particularly fond of this one:

I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.

LIE BY MOONLIGHT is a great read. I just reread it for about the seventh time.

dfgtkui -- Did fierce, great Talpianna kill ugly iguanas?; 3:00 PM
DFender said...: I've reread it myself a few times... I can never wait for the paperback though, always a first choice to buy Jayne as soon as the hardcovers hit the shelf. For those of you that haven't read it... Concordia and Ambrose will not disappoint!

jleevw: Juveniles lean en mass eyeing violet worms.; 7:31 PM
Katrina said...: Question...

Whats with all the acronyms? I mean is it an inside thing?

Just wondering...; 8:30 AM
DFender said...: Katrina,
Tal started it! LOL
That being said, we're just taking the "word verification" letters that you have to type in to post and making them into a sentence.
Join in :)

wymakyv: Wander youngster miles around Kentucky youthfully venturesome.; 8:40 AM
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Anonymous said...: I read LIE BY MOONLIGHT in hardcover and now I'm awaiting your new novel SECOND SIGHT. I am one of those that can't wait for the paperback. I love your heroines, strong yet not too naive to know when they have met their match. The heros are men I would love to have for my own. It is amazing the different stories you write, historical, contemparary, and futuristic. GHOST HUNTER is also on my list. Love those dust bunnies.

Cher B; 8:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Under what name do you write your contemparary novels? (Not a fan of historical romance or sci-fi.); 9:56 AM
Katrina said...: Dfender,
Thanks for the 411!

It sounds fun!

iqfcbvd: if qualia fans can believe, very deluxe; 12:18 PM
Elizabeth Lowell said...: anon--

Jayne writes her wonderful contemporaries under the Jayne Ann Krentz name.; 2:56 PM
Teresa Medeiros said...: It's a gorgeous cover, Jayne! It was plastered all over my local Wal-Mart yesterday :); 4:14 PM
Ranurgis said...: Well, I have to read the books as soon as they come out. Definitely. However, I can't afford to buy them until they come out in pb. I really enjoyed "Lie by Moonlight". Well, can't really think of any Amanda Jayne Ann Quick Castle Krentz I didn't like. Maybe one of the few I haven't yet been able to read? Same goes for Elizabeth, though I "discovered" you later than I did Jayne and so have to really play catch-up.

Hi, Teresa. You've got some great books yourself. Well, since I'm praising everybody, Suzanne is great as well. Your name switches sort of threw me for a loop as well as did Jayne's to the the Amanda ones. Haven't really read enough of Stella's yet. I'm very leery of starting more authors with huge lists of books to their credit. I always want to read all of them.

xzelqjs: X-rays zone ever less quietly just somewhere.; 6:55 PM
talpianna said...: Quills, speaking of rules and such, I'd like to know your opinion of this; a novelist friend of mine (with a couple of dozen books under her belt and at least one RITA) was recently told by her new editor (who apparently came from the romance field; my friend writes SF/fantasy) "There's too much plot in your book."

My friend replied plaintively, "But my readers LIKE plot!'

What would you Quills have said? (Remember, innocent little children may be reading this blog.)

ltmczi -- Let Talpianna make cold zebras icier.; 11:43 PM
AgTigress said...: I have thought a lot about that 'too much plot' story, Tal, and although I think that in the specific case you cite it was probably a silly thing to say, I can envisage a situation where it might be true.

The complexity of a story, in terms of plot + sub-plots, numbers of characters, chronology and general scope, has to be commensurate with the length of the book. If the story to be told is a truly long and complex one, it needs enough space to be properly explained. Books that are strictly limited in size (like category romances) cannot support as many characters and as much plot complexity as those brick-like quarter-million-word jobs.

What I can imagine is a story with a premise and a basic cast-list that would fit nicely into a 100,000-word compass, being deliberately padded by the author with extra characters and sub-plots in order to blow it up into a bigger book, because there is a strange, but widespread, belief amongst certain sections of the population that a long book must somehow be more important than a short one.

I am perfectly sure this did not apply in the case of your friend, but I could see the criticism making sense in a case of deliberate padding, where an editor might feel that there was a good central story that would emerge with far greater impact if stripped of extraneous waffle.; 4:44 AM
talpianna said...: Tigress, one proof of the validity of your observation is that when both the original uncut versions of Robert A. Heinlein's STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND and Stephen King's THE STAND were published, the readership generally agreed that the edited versions were better.

nhiou --New Hampshire is often uffish.

didn't go through--

gyapx -- Good! You are perfectly Xeroxed.; 3:36 PM
BUGG said...: Great book Jayne. I loved it!
Charity; 3:51 PM
Becca said...: I usually don't catch books soon after they come out - not paying enough attention to release dates - but I did catch Lie By Moonlight. I loved it!

nxlmcmtu - No xylophone loves many curly-haired monsters tracking uranium. (I need some practise with this game.); 8:13 AM

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