When I wrote my first book about Scotland, Kilt by
Love, I hadn’t traveled to Europe. Now, I’ve been back twice in three years.
It’s amazing to actually be at the places to do research. Travel adds incredible
depth to your stories.
In my Regimental Heroes series, I was able to travel
to the museums to read about the Crimean War and the men who fought.
With one of my new series, The Empress of Ireland,
we traveled, kind of on a whim, to a town called Kinsale. I loved it so much, I
wrote a story around it. Bright colored buildings, winding streets, fish stew
and soda bread. A winner all the way around.
Kinsale is a small, seaside town in Ireland steeped
in crazy history. The Spanish Armada sailed in to try and take over England and
there are Roman walls still there. It was beautiful and needed a story placed there.
A pub owner trying to keep his family’s place open when everything is going
wrong.
With the Places to See series, each author picks a
different location for their girls to travel to after making a pack to a friend
who dies that they will see the world.
Mine is Ireland, we have New Zealand, Colorado, on a
cruise ship, and San Francisco.
You never know where you’ll find love and you never
know the adventures you’ll have when you travel!
Bio: Jennifer Conner is a best-selling Northwest author who has forty short stories and books in print. She writes in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance, and Erotica.
She has hit Amazon's top fifty authors ranking and her
books have been #1 in sales.
Her novel Shot in the Dark was a finalist in the
Emerald City Opener, Cleveland, and Toronto RWA contests.
Jennifer is an Associate Publisher for the indie e-book
publisher, Books to Go Now who resides in the Seattle area. They pride
themselves in helping new authors get their foot in the door with well-edited
manuscripts, professional covers, and platforms uploads.
She lives in a hundred year old house that she grew up
in. Her semi-small town holds an interesting mix of resident hillbillies,
yuppies and Navy Seals. And of course Seattle, only a few miles away, is the
birthplace of Starbucks so coffee is always on the check list. She blows glass
beads with a blow torch, (which relieves a lot of stress and people don't
bother you) and is a huge fan of musicals.
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Books to Go Now's Mission: Support our Authors. Promote their Works. Help them to Achieve Success.
Our staff works one-on-one with our authors to help them to create wonderful works of fiction. Upon publication we use a successful multi-platform strategy to promote and market their work. Our staff has helped many authors become International and Domestic Bestsellers.
Books to Go Now offers professional editing, cover design, multiple book format file creation, and most important—publicity. Our staff works to help make our author books a success one book at a time.
Great article Jennifer.
ReplyDeleteOh I'm so jealous of you Jennifer. Something I've never had a chance to do is travel. You've managed to combine my two loves! Great post! !
ReplyDeleteI'm with Taylor. Would love to go to Scotland. So envious of you. But you go girl!!! ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the article. I have a feeling the travel bug bit you. I'm sure we'll be reading more stories set in places you've visited. Lucky you, and lucky us!
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