Author In The House - Welcome To DB Moon!

I'm delighted to welcome fellow author DB Moon over to talk about her debut novel, now marking the first anniversary of publishing and much more....thanks to her for stepping in to take over today and without further ado....here's DB Moon!

Hi! Thanks so much for stopping by for a chat. Grab your drink of choice and settle in. And a HUGE thank you to Lee Ann for allowing me to hijack her place to talk about my work.

My debut novel Summerland, is hitting its one year anniversary. YaY! I am uber excited and love talking about my “baby”. Ten years, five rewrites, uncountable edits, characters getting booted and begging to be brought back, it was a very long haul from original draft to publication.

Since its publication I have seen Summerland labeled as paranormal, sweet, sensual, eerie, fantasy-- but in the end it is a romance, a pure, simple, straight forward romance. Girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, girl loses boy, boy comes crawling back full of apologies.

What’s in a category anyway and why get slapped with vague labels like the ones above? Let’s take a minute to break down the story, maybe get to the bottom of the madness.

Paranormal—I suppose this word cropped up because Rhiann, my “heroine” visits a psychic and her dead boyfriend (Reed) comes through with a message. Later on in the story Rhiann and the deceased Reed have a major altercation… but should it be labeled paranormal based on two scenes?

Sweet? Uh, no! There might be elements of sweetness when Rhiann meets Jimmy and their growing attraction for each other. But I like to think there is a little spice in there too and things certainly do sizzle later on when Rhiann sheds her robe and... Oh wait, sorry, didn’t give the *Spoiler Alert* my bad. J

Eerie? Too be fair, Rhiann did spend a lot of time talking to Reed’s ashes. The urn sat on an end table next to her bed. Some people might consider that eerie. I found it a bit on the creepy side, but it really was her way of coping, after all they had known each other forever.

Fantasy? The only fantasy aspect of Summerland was Disco Night at the Wasabi nightclub. A sea of gay men writhing on the dance floor to Abba’s “Dancing Queen” might be considered fanciful, but it is an awful stretch.

And we come back to the romance. In actuality Summerland is Rhiann’s journey to rebuild her life after Reed died. The last thing she wanted, needed or expected was to fall in love again.

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Blurb:

After two years of mourning, Rhiann Taylor, a former paparazzi magnet, has found an appreciation for anonymity during her self-imposed exile. However, she finds it difficult to stay under the radar when launching a high profile, fashion design business. Especially when you add a smitten rock star, a self absorbed international playboy, an assistant who reads minds better than a psychic and a dead boyfriend who won’t leave her alone.

When the tabloid frenzy comes to a fevered pitch, family secrets come out of the closet and friendships are tested beyond everyone’s comfort zone. Rhiann will need to find the brazenness she once possessed, embrace the anger she has suppressed, and meet a vulnerability she has never known, to face the scariest prospect of all, falling in love again.

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Bio:

Desi Moon resides in sunny Boulder Colorado with her game designer husband, Eben, two incredibly active children who keep her on her toes, three entitled cats and one very high strung but loveable dog.

To date, Desi has two full length novels out. A contemporary romance, Summerland and a romantic suspense titled Accidental Intent. She has two short stories included in two anthologies. A romantic comedy, “My Humiliating Valentine” included in Rebel Ink Press’ anthology Tempting Cupid and a contemporary romance “For the Love of Mac” which appears in another Rebel Ink Press anthology The Dad Plan.

When not wrangling her off beat characters into a readable manuscript, Desi is a Project Runway junkie, an avid Muay Thai kickboxer and enjoys baking decadent desserts like her son’s favorite, an ultra-rich, super yummy Black Forest Cheesecake.