Hot and Bothered

Yeah, I bet that got your attention, huh? Well, it's not a current state of affairs. It's the title of a really wonderful book by my bestest friend. She's our guest here today, and she's going to tell us all about the book, Savannah, ghosts and more!
Please welcome, Dianne Castell!


Hi, Everyone!

Thanks to Lori, and all the Quills for having me as a guest blogger at Running with Quills. I’m honored to be here. Lori and I have been best friends since before we were published and I have no idea how I’d get along without her. One of the reasons I wrote Hot and Bothered, my April release, is that it deals with four best friends.

Another reason I wrote H&B is because I wanted to set a book in Savannah. Not only because I love Paula Deen, pralines, magnolias and am a Southern Belle at heart...yes, I do own a set of pearls and have my own deviled egg plate...but I love that Savannah is the most haunted city in the US!

You can’t swing a ruffled parasol in Savannah without hitting something that has a ghost story connected to it. Every old restored building has strange noises, lights flashing, creaks and groans and stuff gone missing for no reason.

My daughter lives in Savannah in what was once an old Northern Aggression barracks (that’s the Civil War to you Yankees). When her sketching pencil goes missing she always finds it in the bottom of her duffle bag.
Ghosts just loooove to play games.

Waiters at the Pirate House Restaurant, where pirates actually hung out and did evil pirate things, talk of desserts being flung across the room.

At the Pink House Restaurant you can be shown to your table by James Habersham. That he died a hundred years ago is a bit unsettling!


Juliette Gordon Low has been seen on the porch tapping her foot if the visiting Girl Scouts are not out of her house at five o’clock sharp and Jim Williams of Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil fame has been seem more than once at the Mercer House where he lived and died. And of course there are the Savannah doorways painted Haint blue to ward off evil spirits and the hour before midnight for doing good and the hour after for doing evil.

There is definitely something unusual going on in Savannah...or not?

Do you believe in ghosts? Have superstitions?

Do you have a lucky shirt? Hat?

How many baseball players never step on the base line when taking the field or never shave before a game?

My house in Cincy is haunted. Too many things going bump in the night...and day...and shadowy figures at the window.





So, what about you?
Do you have a ghost story for me?
A favorite superstition?
Or do you think it’s all bunk?


I’ll give away a Hot and Bothered tote and T-shirt and copy of Texas Bad Boys from the answers.
Happy Hauntings,
Dianne Castell

Hot and Bothered
Kensington BRAVA
www.DianneCastell.com