Welcome to our very first Author In the Spotlight! This is a new feature hosted by Rather barefoot than bookless. Each month we will introduce you to an author that we like and dedicate a whole month just for them!
We will start this month off with a post about the author duo Jessie
Lane who is the authors of "The Burning Star"
Introduction
To Jessie Lane
Jessie
Lane is the pseudo name for the writing team of Crystal Leo and
Melissa Pahl. This is a remarkably quick story on how ‘Jessie Lane’
came to be. The two were introduced when Crystal met Melissa’s
older brother Michael, and fell madly in love with him. Over time,
the two women realized that they had a scary amount of things in
common, such as hobbies involving creativity and books. However,
personality wise, they are quite different. Melissa is the kind of
person who walks into a room, owns it, and instantly becomes
everyone’s friend. Crystal would much rather find the quiet corner
of the room and start people watching everyone she doesn’t know.
Based on that alone, Crystal thinks that if the government ever let
them, the pair could be a kick ass spy team. Who’s ready to recruit
them?
Needless
to say, the two sister-in-laws became thick as thieves.
So
one night Crystal went to sleep and had one of her infamous crazy
dreams. It was such a vibrant and weird dream that she woke up, found
paper and pen and started to write it all down. Her husband Michael
then woke up, looked at her like she was nuts and went back to sleep
mumbling about nutty wives, straight jackets and padded rooms.
This began Crystal’s
long, frustrating journey of struggling to write a book on her own.
After
Crystal told her beloved in-laws that she was writing a book, her
much adored sister-in-law Melissa, and brother-in-law Matthew,
realized that they too should follow their dreams and began working
away at their own books. The three often chit chatted about how their
books were going. Or sometimes, how their books were NOT going.
Finally, after two
years of writing a book, declaring it was finished, to decide ten
minutes later she actually didn’t like a certain paragraph anymore,
Crystal broke down in desperation and called Melissa. She’d had
this little voice in the back of her head telling her that her
sister-in-law was the missing piece. Melissa picked up her phone on
the opposite side of the country, listened to Crystal rant and rave
for half an hour, before Crystal finally blurted out “I can’t do
this anymore. Would you please write with me?”
Melissa’s response
was “I was just waiting for you to ask”.
Crystal’s next
thought was relief, closely followed by a desperate need to strangle
the sister-in-law she loved so much for making her figure all of this
out on her own neurotic timetable instead of suggesting they write
together in the first place. (Just a side note, Melissa gets her sage
I-am-going-to-nod-my-head-and-listen-to-you-rant-till-you-figure-it-out-on-your-own
wisdom from her mother Patty who likes to torture Crystal with the
same sage tactics as well).
So anyways the next
day Melissa started to go over Crystal’s book fixing all of the
things that Crystal said drove her nuts but she couldn’t find the
right way to fix them. Along the way, she smoothed over the story in
a way that made Crystal think that Melissa was totally psychic
because she seemed to pick up on all the things that Crystal couldn’t
possibly find a way to explain in her chaotic thoughts. After two or
three weeks, Melissa sent the book back to Crystal and said, “Let
me know what you think.”
A few days later,
when Crystal was finally done rereading The
Burning Star,
she sat in her chair and cried happy tears of relief. After over two
years in progress, her book was finally done, and she knew that she
never wanted to write another book unless Melissa wrote it with her.
In a funny way, she decided that Melissa was like the other half of
her writing soul. Someone who thoroughly understood what she was
trying to say or do without her trying to explain in her awkwardness
what she was trying to write.
This is how ‘Jessie
Lane’ came to be.
Since Melissa is
hard at work, and Crystal is at home writing this by herself, rest
assured that as the politicians would say at election time: “This
is a Melissa approved message”.
Author
Bio:
Jessie
Lane is the writing team of Melissa Pahl and Crystal Leo. The two
sister-in-laws share a fanatical love of naughty romance, cliff
hanging suspense, and out-of-this-world characters that demand your
attention or threaten to slap you until you do pay attention to them.
Because really, it is ALL about the characters. (They’re kind of
megalomaniacs)
They often live half their lives with their heads in the clouds dreaming of military hunks, alpha werewolves, bad to the bone vampires, and kick ass heroines crazy enough to chase after things with weapons that they seriously should know better than to chase.
Their first novel, The Burning Star, was released on May 24, 2012. They have several projects underway ranging from teen to adult romance. Their next two novels, Big Bad Bite (December 2012) and Secret Maneuvers (February 2013), are scheduled to release soon.
They often live half their lives with their heads in the clouds dreaming of military hunks, alpha werewolves, bad to the bone vampires, and kick ass heroines crazy enough to chase after things with weapons that they seriously should know better than to chase.
Their first novel, The Burning Star, was released on May 24, 2012. They have several projects underway ranging from teen to adult romance. Their next two novels, Big Bad Bite (December 2012) and Secret Maneuvers (February 2013), are scheduled to release soon.
Social
Websites:
Website:
http://jessielanesite.blogspot.com/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JessieLaneBooks
1 comment:
It seems they've got the perfect arrangement!
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