{"id":14264,"date":"2015-01-05T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2015-01-05T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:35:14","slug":"an-interview-with-debbie-heaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/an-interview-with-debbie-heaton\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Debbie Heaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author and BookBuzzr subscriber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/users\/26879\/debbie-heaton\" target=\"_blank\">Debbie Heaton<\/a>\u2019s book &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007UM8FQC\/&amp;tag=freado0c-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Haunting of Wolfe Haven<\/a> &#8211; has been garnering a number of positive reviews from on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\" target=\"_blank\">Freado<\/a> &#8211; our sister site dedicated to book bloggers and reviewers.<\/p>\n<p>One blogger who reviewed the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/book\/9231\/the-haunting-of-wolfe-haven#Freado\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>, <em>\u00a0\u201cThe Haunting of Wolfe Haven is a gothic story with great atmosphere.\u201d<\/em> Another reviewer who received a review copy of the book wrote in to say, <em>\u201cI enjoyed your book it was hard to put down thank you\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We reached out to Debbie to understand why her book has been striking a chord with readers &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get the idea for this novel?<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Debbie-Heaton.jpg\" title=\"Debbie Heaton\" alt=\"Debbie Heaton\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in New Mexico.\u00a0 The area is rich with tales of the supernatural and the landscape is riddled with century old houses complete with tales of their own.\u00a0 Those stories always fascinated me and it was from these childhood memories that inspiration for the story sprang forth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the story about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007UM8FQC\/&#038;tag=freado0c-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Haunting of Wolfe Haven<\/a> <\/em>is a riveting story set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the last vestige of the spirit of the Old West, where lives collide and coalesce in a backdrop of unfulfilled love, unrequited romance, the ravages of betrayal, murder, the mystery of unknown, and the devastation of arson.\u00a0 Intrigue and high drama unfold in a rare show of humanity alongside the dark side of human nature and second chances.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/secure.freado.com\/player\/iframe-widget.php?content_id=9231&#038;widgetwidth=450&#038;widgetheight=338&#038;widgetbgColor=27c0bf\" width=\"450\" height=\"384\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<strong>What genre do you consider your books to be in and what attracts you to this genre?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Definitely Gothic.\u00a0 While I enjoy reading mysteries, thrillers and romances, I most enjoy stories that tap into the paranormal.\u00a0 The unexplained has always intrigued me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the most challenging part about writing and publishing your book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most writers, like myself, must work a day job to pay the bills and then struggle to find time to write.\u00a0 I\u2019m a full time behavior modification therapist and I put in long hours at my day job. \u00a0Finding time to write is important to me but not always easy to accomplish.\u00a0 So I think finding and making the time is always a major challenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the most challenging part about marketing and promoting your book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marketing is tough if you don\u2019t have a background in marketing.\u00a0 The greatest challenge I faced in marketing my book was finding the most effective places to market my book that would reach the widest audience and keep the book out in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you think that BookBuzzr is helping you with your book marketing efforts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BookBuzzr<\/a> has kept my book out in the public eye and for any writer, that is something we strive to achieve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can we expect from you next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For many years, I\u2019ve been approached by agencies and professionals alike, wanting me to write them an anger management program that works.\u00a0 I finally decided to write my own anger management self-help book.\u00a0 I\u2019m pleased to be able to say that I\u2019ve completed the rough draft on it and hope to publish it in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>On the fiction side, I\u2019m currently writing another gothic romance.\u00a0 This story will be set in the Hill Country of Texas\u2014one of my favorite places in the world\u2014and it will center around an old theater reportedly haunted by the actress it was built for. \u00a0It will be linked to <em>The Haunting of Wolfe Haven <\/em>through the main female characters who met while in boarding school.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note to reviewers and book bloggers:<\/em> You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/auction\/3809\/6490\/the-haunting-of-wolfe-haven\" target=\"_blank\">get a free review copy <\/a>of Debbie\u2019s book on our sister site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freado.com<\/a>. To get the book you simply need to participate in some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/games.php\" target=\"_blank\">simple contests<\/a>, get points and bid for Debbie\u2019s book with those points. It\u2019s fun and it makes sure that only the readers who really want the book actually get it. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And Finally\u2026 A Ghost Quiz by Debbie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Debbie also has a penchant for all things ghostly and has created a number of quizzes and word-games around ghostly themes. Check out this fun quiz created by Debbie using BookBuzzr\u2019s quiz builder:<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" name=\"frmNanoq\" id=\"frmNanoq\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/QuickQuiz\/game\/307\/top-5-famous-real-ghosts\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: 0px solid;\">Sorry, your browser does not support iframes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freado.com\/QuickQuiz\/game\/307\/top-5-famous-real-ghosts\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue<\/a><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and BookBuzzr subscriber Debbie Heaton\u2019s book &#8211; The Haunting of Wolfe Haven &#8211; has been garnering a number of positive reviews from on Freado &#8211; our sister site dedicated to book bloggers and reviewers. One blogger who reviewed the book wrote, \u00a0\u201cThe Haunting of Wolfe Haven is a gothic story with great atmosphere.\u201d Another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,716],"tags":[850,851],"class_list":["post-14264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-interviews","category-useful-interviews","tag-debbie-heaton","tag-the-haunting-of-wolfe-haven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbuzzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}