{"id":2505,"date":"2014-09-04T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookmaven623.wordpress.com\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2014-09-04T08:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T13:37:43","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackiepaxsonauthor.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/04\/surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have a fantastic surprise for you all. I had a unique chance to be the guest reviewer on Loveahappyending Lifestyle Magazine.\u00a0 With this I was able to do a one question interview with an author of my choice.\u00a0 I have been so lucky to interview author Tara Sivec.\u00a0 Here books make you laugh out loud and crush on her hunky heroes.\u00a0 Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveahappyending.com\/bookshelf-reviews-with-jackie-jackson\/\">link<\/a> to my review spot.\u00a0 Below you can read my interview and get to know the fantastic Tara Sivec and her newest book, Burned.\u00a0 Enjoy my surprise to all of my fantastic readers.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where do you get your inspiration for your books and characters?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>My inspiration comes from so many different places that it\u2019s sometimes hard to shut down my brain! So many things can be the basis for a new story idea like music, real life events, etc.\u00a0 A lot of my ideas come from dreams. I make sure to keep the notepad app on my iPad open and next to my bed at all times!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ts_burned_cover_final_jwendorsment_800x1200_revised-200x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2507\" src=\"http:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ts_burned_cover_final_jwendorsment_800x1200_revised-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"TS_Burned_Cover_Final_JWEndorsment_800x1200_Revised-200x300\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Book Blurb:<\/h2>\n<div>Seventeen years old when he broke my heart.<br \/>\nSeventeen days later when another picked up the pieces.<br \/>\nSeventeen years together.<br \/>\nSeventeen thousand problems.<br \/>\nSeventeen days of reliving my past and finding a new future.<br \/>\nSeventeen minutes until it all went up in flames.<br \/>\nSeventeen breaths until I took my last.<br \/>\nThis is my story\u2026and it\u2019s going to burn.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Book 2 in the Ignite series &#8211; Branded is expected to release in September 2014<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/tara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2506\" src=\"http:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/tara.jpg\" alt=\"Tara\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>Bio:<\/h2>\n<div>\nTara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when they all three of them become adults and move out.<br \/>\nAfter working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She is the author of the Playing with Fire series and the Chocolate Lovers series. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader\u2019s Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book.<br \/>\nIn her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she\u2019ll do and naps she\u2019ll take when she ever gets spare time.<br \/>\nTara also writes under the pen name T.E. Sivec.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><b>Tara Sivec<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TaraSivec.authorpage?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaraSivec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6422281.Tara_Sivec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarasivec.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>I&#8217;d like to thank the wonderful Tara Sivec for stopping by and giving us some insight into her inspiration.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t checked out her books I highly recommend any of her books.\u00a0 Her talent crosses genres and continues to grow with each of her new books.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I have a fantastic surprise for you all. 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