Elizabeth Lowell Talks to Jayne About Lies, Dang Lies and WHITE LIES

ELIZABETH: *pulls her head out of a book called WHITE LIES* It's finally here, the first contemporary hardcover in your sizzling new series featuring the mysterious Arcane Society! And I'm supposed to talk about it instead of READ IT?!!!? *takes deep breath* Only for you, my friend, would I do this. *uses finger to keep place in book* Tell us about the Society and how you chose it as the background for these books.

JAYNE: I've always loved working with paranormal elements. Saw the vampire/werewolf craze coming a few years ago and yearned to get on board that train. But, sadly, I discovered that I don't write supernatural. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading about sexy vampires and werewolves, but for some reason I'm not compelled to write them. And, as you and I have often lamented, it's darn hard to write fiction if you aren't personally compelled by the underlying archetypes and myths that fuel it.

ELIZABETH: Try impossible. Remember the old glitz-and-glamour novels that used to be so popular? *yawn* We couldn't read them, much less write them. But if there had been vampires back then, I might have... *ponders the haunting specter of the might-have-been* I love well done "what if" book. And your Arcane Society is definitely one of my loves! Woo-woo without being whoa, can't go there.

JAYNE: You know, I can absolutely see you writing vampire novels. You'd be a natural for that genre. But as for me, I'm all over the psychic thing. Love it.

ELIZABETH: I know why I love it. *looks longingly at WHITE LIES* Why do you?

JAYNE: I think it's because I see it as an extension of normal human intuition. And who doesn't believe in intuition? I can make the fictional leap very easily. I love the way a psychic twist adds a whole new dimension to the romantic relationship. It also lets me put a different spin on the mystery. I knew going into this series that each of the books would stand alone and feature a different hero and heroine, but I wanted to provide a loose link between the stories -- a familiar world for readers to re-enter whenever they picked up one of the books. I decided to tie the novels together with the Arcane Society, a mysterious five hundred year old organization that is devoted to paranormal research. Ahem. This is probbly an excellent opportunity for me to mention that people can read more about the Arcane Society and the first two books in the series by going to www.jayneannkrentz.com and clicking on "The Arcane Society Files"

ELIZABETH: After folks read about the Arcane Society, they'll be slavering for WHITE LIES. And it's worth drooling over! This is flat-out psychic romantic-suspense. Your heroine, Clare Lancaster, is a human lie detector. Your hero, Jake Salter, is a private investigator who tells lies to stay alive. Obviously you set out to make life difficult for this pair.

JAYNE: Being endowed with a psychic talent that allows you to know whenever someone is lying is a curse, not a blessing. Turns out everyone lies. Clare's social life is a disaster. What man wants to date a woman who knows for sure he's not telling the truth when he says he'll call? As for Jake, he's working undercover, lying to stay alive. Clare is the one person who can really screw up his investigation. He knows he has to get her under control in a hurry. But Clare isn't the kind of woman who takes to being controlled.

ELIZABETH: Good thing Jake has a few psychic tricks of his own.

JAYNE: And, like Clare, a lot of relationship issues because of them. Let's just say that his unusual talents not only make other people nervous, they've done a real number on his love life. As far as Clare is concerned, Jake's problems with women all stem from the fact that his previous lovers haven't known how to set boundaries. But setting boundaries for Jake proves to be a real challenge. Jake doesn't do boundaries. He's the take-charge type.

ELIZABETH: Yummy, yummy alphas. *licks lips* Thanks for telling us about WHITE LIES. I'm happy to say that the book is available in stores as we speak or readers can click on any of the links below to order a copy. Obviously I have mine mine mine! Now don't take this wrong, Jayne, but ... go away. *sticks head back in WHITE LIES*