Retribution Tour: Top Ten Inspirational Authors
Big Book Little Book welcomes as she shares her top ten of inspirational authors.
An eye for an eye. Bailey Russell is an assassin on an Artemis Agency assignment that is both business and personal: take out Amir Fahad, the arms dealer, who killed her partner. She’s put together an ideal plan that includes using herself as bait. Grieving the loss of her former partner and her team’s faith in her she vows the only way this mission ends is in death: hers or Fahad’s.
A dangerous web they weave. British Intelligence Operative, Ben Ambrose, is married to his job. And for the past three months that has meant living undercover as part of Fahad’s crew. Three month’s work blown when he feels compelled to risk his life to protect Bailey and her friends from Fahad’s men.
The best laid plans. Bailey’s plan ruined. Ben’s cover blown. Their entire professional lives consist of lies and subterfuge, but there’s one thing Bailey and Ben can’t hide from each other, their growing attraction. Still, each wants to complete their mission at all costs: personal and professional.
Payback’s a bitch and this time her name is Bailey.
Jane Austen
She sweeps us into the past and teaches us that women don’t have to accept the lot that’s handed them. They’re allowed to dream and reach for goals.
Louisa May Alcott
She too won my heart with Jo March and her desire to write and strive for things otherwise denied her gender at the time.
Sandra Brown
I just adore her writing. It can be gritty and real and pull you in easily. What writer doesn’t aspire to that?
Steig Larrson
In Lisbeth Salander, he creates the ultimate outcast, an almost frightening character who becomes a vigilante and seeker of justice.
Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants was such an amazing book. I cried, I loved it, I borrowed it from my mom and read it in a day and then bought a copy for my in laws. She’s a great story teller.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Her books take place in our world and yet there’s some serious world building going on in her books. She’s a master at it and she makes it look easy. I love Greek Mythology too so that’s an added bonus.
Johanna Lindsey
If you like historicals and you don’t know her name; well you’ve been living under a rock. The amount of research to accurately write a historical boggles my mind and yet she does it well. And often. She should teach a class on being prolific with so many hit titles under her belt.
JK Rowling
She worked as a single mother on welfare while writing the Harry Potter series. She knew what she wanted and she never gave up. She is endlessly inspiring.
Neil Gaiman
“Make Good Art.”
Dean Koontz
For scaring the hell out of me while I was home alone one summer morning and teaching me how powerful words can be. And making me invest in a nightlight.
Post written by Virginia Brasch
Virginia Brasch, author of Retribution, the first book in the Artemis Series is making her writing debut. The married Pennsylvania native has an inherited love of books. Virginia was tired of reading stories about helpless damsels in distress and started writing about her own kind of heroine.
She snorts when she laughs, has an unfortunate fondness for karaoke, a growing collection of books, and is drawn always to the sea. She was also once hit in the head by a small sailboat’s boom and tossed overboard. This taught her the importance of expecting the unexpected. She enjoys dirty jokes and swears like a sailor though claims to be “****ing working on it.”
Virginia is an adventurer who lives a wildly exciting life. Afraid to fly, she travels infrequently. She gets excited to spend a night in reading or snuggle up watching a movie with her husband. She likes hanging out with her mom or tentatively venturing out with girlfriends, lured by promises of wine and laughing until it hurts.
She writes suspense with a romantic kick and fully believes heroines should be a bit brash. For more romantic suspense fun, or just for a chat, you can find Virginia on twitter (@Virginia_Brasch), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/VBrasch), and her website (http://virginiabrasch.wordpress.com/). She encourages readers to go ahead and be a little bit Brasch.
Retribution is LIVE and available to buy from amazon.co.uk (here)
To learn more about Retribution and Virginia check out the other stops on the blog tour (here). Alternativley Virginia is active on Facebook (here) and on Twitter (here).
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