Wednesday, October 2, 2019

* INTERVIEW The Carousel The Wild Geese Book 7 by Cynthia Owens Genre: Historical Romance

Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?
I’ve been writing since I was about six years old. When I was in first grade, my teacher asked us to write a sentence about Dick, Jane and their dog, Spot. I wrote a paragraph, and she scolded me for writing too much! But I had the last laugh when my first novel, In Sunshine or in Shadow, was released and she actually congratulated me!
I studied journalism at university—which stood me in good stead when I began researching my stories—but historical fiction was always my first love. I wrote several “practice” stories) the books that will remain “under the bed”) until, in 2003 when, during a Romance Writers of America conference, the germ of an idea came to me. I went home fired with enthusiasm and began feverishly creating characters and setting and plot. That story would eventually become Sunshine.

What are some of your pet peeves?
Perhaps it stems from being a writer, but I absolutely cannot abide poor grammar!
When my daughter was younger, I used to correct her grammar—not that often, just when it was really necessary. Well, I guess she thought it was too often, because she began calling me “grammarific,” a nickname that stuck!
The most irritating grammar mistakes in speech are “should/would of” instead of ““should/would have,” using “of” when it’s not necessary (“It was too big OF a job,” and lay vs. lie. But it’s written grammar errors that really irritate me, like using apostrophes for plurals, mixing up its and it’s, there, their and they’re, and you and your. My kids always pointed out that there’s grammar check on their computers, but grammar doesn’t always catch these mistakes. I made sure they knew the proper spelling of absolutely everything!




The Carousel
The Wild Geese Book 7
by Cynthia Owens
Genre: Historical Romance

Like the Wild Geese of Old Ireland, five boys grew to manhood despite hunger, war, and the mean 

streets of New York




The War had left him blind to beauty…

Kieran Donnelly is a gifted artist who has sworn never to paint again. He saw and did too many things during the war to extinguish the ugliness that lies in his heart. But a chance to work with some of the most magnificent paintings brings him close to the world he still loves…and an extraordinary woman who sees his true heart.

Darkness couldn’t extinguish the light in her heart.

Blind from the age of four, Emily Lawrence yearns to experience the outside world. When she hires Kieran Donnelly to catalogue her father’s paintings, he offers her a glimpse at life outside her exquisite home…and a chance for a future.

Can Kieran and Emily emerge from the darkness to find happiness and love?


**easily read as a standalone!**



I believe I was destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26 years before Jacques Cartier's 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17thCentury "King's Girl," one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now the province of Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there. My passion for reading made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII.
A former journalist and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and sometimes all three!
I am a member of the Romance Writers of America, Hearts Through History Romance Writers, and Celtic Hearts Romance Writers. A lifelong resident of Montreal, Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero and our two teenaged children.







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