Talkshow Thursday: Welcome Back Z Peabody

Talkshow Thursday: 

Welcome Back, Z Peabody

I'm very pleased to welcome Z Peabody back to my blog so she can talk about her writing journey and her latest release. It sounds fantastic!

When did you know you wanted to be an author?

“I knew that I wanted to write a romance novel after I read my first romance novel, ‘Adora’, written by Beatrice Small. At that time, I had no idea what I was reading at 14 years-old, but I liked the cover and the historical time the story took place in.”

What is your favorite thing about being a writer?

“I enjoy everything about being an Indie-Writer. I have the final say-so over the design of my book covers. I set the release dates. I enjoy maintaining the website. I enjoy promoting and marketing my books, and it’s my publishing name that is on the copyrights.”

How many books have you written, and which is your favorite?

In total, I have written and published twenty books. The first nine are no longer out for sale. I enjoy writing historical romance as a favorite, because of the amount research I have to do for a historical romance and the knowledge I learn from that research.”

What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your books?

“That I really enjoy writing Scriptural Inspirational romance. I enjoy the entire process of Indie-publishing; from the writing, formatting, creating the cover, promoting, and even editing.”

Who is your favorite author and what is it that strikes you about their work?

“One of my favorite romance authors, is Beatrice Small. The first historical romance I read was her

book, Adora. I have read, re-read and enjoy Mrs. Small novels to this day. Back in the day, and coming from a small community, her novels seemed so imaginary to me. I enjoy the dialogue between her characters and her plots and scenery description. Her historical romances take place in places far from the southside of Chicago.”

How did publishing your first book change your writing?

“In the beginning of my writing career, in my mind, I was just writing a romance novel, because, that’s what I wanted to do, no big deal. After I became a published author, I felt that I have legitimately became a writer of romance. With that first book I got some good reviews with helpful criticism. After that first book, my writing became more descriptive and I began to write the main characters being more engaging with the secondary characters.”

If your book is part of a series: Did you set out to write a series? Why did you decide to write a series?

“Caleb’s Choice isn’t part of a series, and that is because I didn’t want that particular book to be a part of a series. When I start out writing a new manuscript, I look at the storyline outline, and then see how the next book in the series will pick up the ongoing plot or, spinoff the other books from that storyline. Also, I like to build up my secondary characters in the first book of a series, to help build up the series and the next book in the series. In Caleb’s Choice; my focus was mainly placed on the two main characters, and not so much on the rest of the characters.”
 
What draws you to the time period about which you write?

“I appreciate contemporary romance. I live in the time of here and now. I appreciate the happenings of what’s going on around me, so I write contemporary romance. I appreciate history too, so I write historical romance. I like to create my own worlds in a historical romance, and my worlds are always in a time and place believable to that time and place I’m writing about. For example, my seventh book, The Highlander’s Charity took place in Scotland and in my fictional world of Adebowale.”

What is your process for writing? (do you outline, have a special place or time of day you write, etc.) What is your favorite part of the process? 

“First I write out a description of the main characters. I actually have a binder filled with loose leaf, college ruled paper in it, which I write on using only a black pen. Then, I write out all the chapter outlines, with the storyline, and plot. After all of that, I sit down to write out three pages a day, which adds up to a full chapter at the end of my work week on Friday. Lastly, I sit down, Friday and Saturday to type out that chapter.”

What is your next project?

“My next project is a new series; Riding with the Bulls, MC’s. The first book from that series is titled, Ezekiel, and it is due out next year.”

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About Caleb's Choice

Caleb Jacobson, rancher, farmer, and a first-generation veterinarian, has always loved to care for animals. When he was given his choice to either stay in his small community; where he was raised, and become a full-time farmer or have his “way about,” Caleb chooses the university, and in doing so, experiences a whole other world outside of his small community. Wanting to start his own practice in his hometown, he returns to the very small community that now shuns him and to the father who hates him. It’s true—sometimes you should never return home.

When a college friend asks a favor, Caleb can’t refuse. But when Caleb walks out of his barn to meet the new employee, he quickly regrets the decision to hire the most beautiful woman he has ever laid eyes on.

Lola Charles loves to create delicious dishes that are tastebud sensations. Attending culinary school was her dream. One of Lola’s life greatest accomplishments was graduating from one of the most prestigious culinary schools in the country, only to end up working the evening shift at a one-and-a-half-star diner.

Lola, at the wrong place at the wrong hour, witnesses something she shouldn’t have. Now, she has to trade in the concrete streets for grass beneath her feet. Forced to hide out in the last place she thought she would ever be, in an Amish community with a not-so-Amish vet for a boss while running her own kitchen, she is unaware that the enemy is closing in. Some things that are done in the darkness don’t always come to light. Those things that are now trying to pull her into that darkness.

Together, both she and her new boss will learn, they both have evil lurking in the shadows.

Purchase Link: https://zpeabodypublishing.com/calebs-choice/  

Photo credits:

Beatrice Small: Courtesy New York Times

Three Ring Binder: Pixabay/warrenrandallcarr