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| Why is this pig here? Read about Guest Author Kathy McIntosh below and you'll understand. Photo by J.Q. Rose |
Today humorist author Kathy McIntosh and I are swapping blogs. Kathy and I met online and have become cyber friends, just one of the perks of being an author nowadays with this new technology. She's divulging Five Fun Facts about me, hopefully five fun ones. I asked her to share why she wrote her humorous series with "non-stop plot surprises and humor." After reading Kathy's article and about her books, you'll see why I posted a pig, a handsome pig, at the top of the page.
Please hop on over to Kathy's blog after visiting here and say hi. Thanks.
Welcome, Kathy!!
Why I Wrote
the Havoc in Hancock Series by Kathy McIntosh
My parents
were lifelong campers and lovers of the wild and they instilled that love in
me. I must have passed it on to my daughter, because she became an
environmental activist.
Several
years ago, my daughter and I had breakfast with an activist friend of hers
whose “forest” name is Roadkill. Roadkill wore the skins of animals he’d found
beside the road and tanned himself. He was (and is still) truly a character.
That delightful
meal and introduction led to my first novel, Mustard's Last Stand, set in North Idaho. I love that
part of my former home state. The lakes are deep and the forests majestic and
the populace is sprinkled with plenty of loons. The human kind.
The premise
for my first novel is admittedly absurd: No one would think of establishing a
safari camp filled with African animals in chilly North Idaho. It made for a
lot of fun, however, and believe it or not, some folks have asked me if zebras
really live in Idaho. (They don’t.)
“Canned
hunts” for elk, deer and many kinds of wild birds do exist in Idaho and other
states, and in my book I try to point out, with a little humor, some of their
drawbacks.
Roadkill
played a smaller part in Foul Wind,
but he will be the protagonist in the third novel, that I’m setting in my new state
of Arizona.
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| Foul Wind by Kathy McIntosh |
Back of the Book: Foul Wind by Kathy McIntosh
A bad wind's blowing from the new energy project known as Windfall Works, carrying the stench of pig poop along with rumors of financial shenanigans, blackmail and murder. Feather Sullivan can't believe her prissy sister Roxanne is involved. But when Roxanne disappears, leaving behind her dead lover and several furious investors in the energy project, Feather and her mother, often at odds, endure hungry hogs, sinister strangers, and a PI with killer instincts and drop-dead looks, to sniff out the murderer.
A bad wind's blowing from the new energy project known as Windfall Works, carrying the stench of pig poop along with rumors of financial shenanigans, blackmail and murder. Feather Sullivan can't believe her prissy sister Roxanne is involved. But when Roxanne disappears, leaving behind her dead lover and several furious investors in the energy project, Feather and her mother, often at odds, endure hungry hogs, sinister strangers, and a PI with killer instincts and drop-dead looks, to sniff out the murderer.
From the award-winning author of Mustard's Last Stand, the debut novel called "an absolute charmer"
and "a totally fun read with non-stop plot surprises and humor."
BUY LINK: Foul Wind: http://amzn.to/1LJXzfx
Dogged Kat Press
ISBN-13: 978-0692525692
About Kathy McIntosh:
Kathy McIntosh grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California and spent 30 years in Idaho, so she’s familiar with urban and rural kookiness. She and her husband transplanted from Idaho to the Sonora desert in mid-2014, happy to swap snow
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| Author Kathy McIntosh Stories full of Humor and Surprise |
Foul Wind, the second in the Havoc in Hancock humorous suspense series, was released in October of 2015. Blackmail, wind mills and vicious pigs make for a stinky —and deadly — combination. Can a former activist stop her meddling mother from becoming the next victim?
Kathy’s books blend mad-cap humor, odd-ball characters, light romance and suspense to make readers laugh as they’re nudged to consider what we’re doing to our environment.
Interesting fact: The narrator for the audio version of Mustard’s Last Stand, JoBe Cerny, was once the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy! He created almost forty different voices for the narration and it rocks.
Connect Online with Kathy
Website and blog: www.KathyMcIntosh.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/
Facebook: Facebook author page: www.facebook.com/
Thank you, Kathy.
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Readers, look for me on Sunday, January 10--I'm looking forward to spending the day with my friend and talented author, Heather Fraser Brainerd. She and her brother David are a real trip, so I had to share some far-out post for their site, Driving Blind Productions. Come on over and have fun with us.
