Meet author Rachel Van Dyken – Giveaway

ANNOUNCEMENT:  The winner of Rachel’s giveaway is Desere

I’m very happy to welcome Rachel Van Dyken to MBB today. Rachel’s one of my fellow reviewers on ROMANCING THE BOOK and she’s also an author in her own right with a prolific output and an impressive backlist.  Her recent release THE BET hit number one in the Amazon (paid) charts recently and was there for a number of days. I had a few question up my sleeve to ask Rachel and she very graciously took time out of her busy schedule to answer them.

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What made you decide to write?
I was a school counselor right out of college and also worked for the state as a therapist. Things were stressful to say the least. As a way to de-stress I started writing–and I haven’t stopped since! I always have a story of some kind rolling around in my head. It doesn’t feel like work for me. If anything, Im angry that I actually need to sleep!

What are your preferred genres for writing and reading?
I really enjoy writing regency romance.  Lately I’ve been writing a lot more New Adult which is a newer genre that just popped up within the last year or so. Historical romance is an escape for me and New Adult is just fun. I don’t know if I could choose between the two. 

Could you possibly enlighten me as to what the New Adult genre is?  I don’t know it at all.

New Adult books deal with more mature themes, they are books based on characters that are just out of high school and starting college. It’s a more coming-of-age genre. Good examples of authors in this genre are: Jamie Mcguire (Beautiful Disaster), Abbi Glines (Twisted Perfection), Monica Murphy (Second Chance Boyfriend) etc. Most of these books come with warnings so 12 year olds know not to pick them up. They aren’t by any means bad, so I don’t want you to get that impression, they just deal, like I said with  more mature life altering topics. Hope that helps!

Do you write according to a daily target or do you go with the muse, when inspiration hits?
I do both. I like to have a goal of at least 4000 words a day, some days I’ll write 10,000 words, and some days I can only get half of my goal. But I always write something. If Im stuck I open a different manuscript and write some of that then come back to the one thats on deadline. 

Can you describe your book in a tweet sized sentence?
One brother is right for her, one wants to use her. Who will she choose?

What’s next on your agenda?

I’m currently working on the third book in the Seaside Series entitled, “Shatter.” It’s been kind of difficult because I also have another book releasing this month! Somehow it ended up working out that I had a book a month releasing until June….I have no idea why….clearly I need a vacation from my computer 😉 My newest release (this month) is entitled Elite and it’s about a private college with lots of history and dark secrets. I’m really excited about it!

THE BET

“I have a proposition for you…”

Kacey should have run the minute those words left Seattle millionaire Jake Titus’s mouth. Instead, she made a deal with the devil in hopes of putting her past behind her once and for all.

Four days.

She could do four days!

But she wasn’t counting on Jake’s older brother Travis being there to witness their farce of an engagement.

One thing is for certain.

One brother is right for her.

One wants a lifetime.

And one is in league with the devil.

She should have gotten Jake’s signature in blood.

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Rachel has very kindly agreed to give away a copy of the ebook to one lucky commenter.  Sp please leave a comment before you go.