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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Interview with Jennifer Kacey, One of the Authors of Elite Metal & A GC GIveaway


Today I'm pleased to welcome author Jennifer Kacey to the Nook. She has a story in the just released anthology. "Elite Metal" and answered a few questions for me.

Jennifer Kacey is a writer, mother, and business owner living with her family in Texas. She sings in the shower, plays piano in her dreams, and has to have a different color of nail polish every week. She’s the Amazon top seller and award winning author of the Members Only Series and the Surrender Series along with several standalone novels and novellas. The best advice she’s ever been given? Find the real you and never settle for anything less.

Find Jennifer Online:

Website - http://www.jenniferkacey.com/

Blog – http://www.thedecadentdivas.blogspot.com/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.kacey.7

Facebook Author Page - https://www.facebook.com/jenniferkaceyauthor

Twitter - https://twitter.com/JenniferKacey
Amazon Page - http://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-Kacey/e/B00GXHUB30/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d9_al1?_encoding=UTF8&refinementId=618073011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0G8ZPDQJVKJPKXNBRY10&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846

Goodreads – http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6941549.Jennifer_Kacey

Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/jenniferkacey/



Bea: What is your favorite part of writing? What is your least favorite part?

Jennifer: - Sharing something from your head that other people “get”. That’s so awesome. Seriously great when someone talks to you about your characters as if they’re real people.

- Least – hmmm – When things don’t go as planned. On the business side of things I mean. Writing is passion – publishing is business. And I’m a very organized person. Monkey wrenches getting thrown into things really mess with my joojoo.

Bea: Who are some of your influences? Some of your favorite writers?

Jennifer: - I’m going to say Heather Long, Anna Alexander, Saranna DeWylde, Rebecca Royce, Sabrina York and Roxie Rivera. The authors in this set. They have wowed and floored me on many MANY occasions during the writing process of this set. They are all immensely talented and I’m beyond excited to have a project out with them!

Bea: Do you think that social media is important for an author to be involved in?

Jennifer: - Absolutely 110% yes!!! This is the electronic age and authors I think have to embrace it or they will never reach their full potential or their full audience. I can speak with fans in Greece or New Zealand just as I’d speak with a friend down the block. That floors me and I’m so glad I write in this day and age.

Bea: Does your family read your books? What do they think?

Jennifer:- My mom does but not the kink stuff. Just not her cup of tea. And some of my cousins do too. My Dad tried to read my first book that came out in print. Ha! It didn’t go well. I’ve heard some of the other authors say their families read EVERYTHING they write. And one say her significant other doesn’t even know her pen name. What? WHAT?!?!

Bea: Do you prefer to read paper books or e-books? Why?

Jennifer: - Both for different reasons. Holding a paper book in your hand is just nice. Familiar. Personal. It’s especially incredible when your name is on the book. That feeling?!? Can’t describe it. But e-books are awesome because you can carry thousands of books on a tiny little reader. That’s incredible! Plus people don’t know what you’re reading which can really work in people’s favors.

Bea: Tell us what you’re reading at the moment and what you think of it.

Jennifer: - Larissa Ione’s Chained by Night – Awesome series! Boy that girl can write! Even got my mom hooked on it. MWAHAHA!!!  (hah I love it! ~ Bea)

Bea: What book on the market does yours compare to? How is your book different?

Jennifer: - I don’t know of any set that’s like this one. It’s one ginormous book even though the books can be read and enjoyed on their own. Hope everyone loves the set as much as we do!!!!

Jennifer, thank you for taking the time answer my questions. Now for some info about the book and a giveaway.








For decades the US Marines funded a top-secret unit known as Elite Recon. A deadly group of men and women sent to infiltrate dozens of countries completely undetected. Mission objectives so extreme casualties were not only probable, but expected.



The current batch of operatives had returned from hundreds of assignments unscathed…until one mission went horribly wrong. Several men lost their lives and the group disbanded. The remaining leathernecks were scattered in the wind with new identities. They were told to blend in. Be normal. Or face being forever silenced just like their fallen brothers.



Now, two years later, each living member of the group is kidnapped and given a chance to make things right. But this time they’re no longer under the thumb of Uncle Sam. A mysterious private backer who knows about their past has brought them back together. No longer are they forced to turn a blind eye to the lost and forsaken.



A new life. A new future…Elite Metal.



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Bound By Steele

By Anna Alexander and Jennifer Kacey



To save his Marine brothers and sister he must accept the past isn’t dead and buried. Reuniting survivors means he is forced to first forgive…the enemy.



Steele, the man he was, died. A civilian with a new name stands in his place in the wake of death. Everything he had, lost when his undercover contact, Venus, disappeared when it counted most. In the shadow of regret, Steele is reborn from the flames of a Phoenix. To right the wrongs that destroyed his military family, he must put his trust in the hands of a mysterious backer, and the woman who led his team to the slaughter.



Not knowing who sold her out at the final hour, Alayna Devlin, spent the last two years on the run. Then the mastermind behind Elite Metal tracked her down, and offered her the chance to atone for past mistakes. To cleanse her conscience requires a baptism by fire and submission to the man who will either put the final nail in her coffin or set her heart free.



The past. The future. Truth. Lies. Nothing is as it seems when two shattered hearts are finally given the chance to heal.



Chrome’s Salvation

By Jennifer Kacey



A former leader of Elite Recon, reduced to nothing more than an apathetic existence.



Until his girl’s life hangs in the balance…now nothing will stand in the way of him coming back to life.



Chrome had it all. Exactly what he wanted. A career in the Marines he loved, fighting alongside his brothers and sisters to protect the US from everything set out to destroy it. Then on their last mission as Elite Recon they were double-crossed…and everything went horribly wrong.



Cammie needs help rescuing her siblings from the clutches of a man determined to crush everything she holds dear.  But she has no one to turn to. No one to lean on when she’s trapped in a world she never knew existed. Lost in a world of pseudo-normalcy Chrome’s reduced to nothing more than existing. Day in. Day out. Nothing to live for.



Until his girl’s life hangs in the balance. Now nothing will stand in his way of coming back to life.



Love at first sight is a myth. Or so Chrome thought. Everything he thinks is true disappears in the presence…of his salvation.



Adamantium’s Roar

By Anna Alexander



Adamantium left Beth to what he thought was a better life, only to find she had been living in hell. Now he’ll do anything, break any vow, to claim her as his for all time.



Adamantium feels right at home being back to what he does best with his Elite Metal buddies, especially if it keeps his mind off her.  Beth Bradshaw. His best friend’s girl. But when their paths cross again, he discovers Beth is in the hands of a dangerous man. Vow or now vow to his Elite Metal family, Ant will do anything to claim the woman he loves.



Pure Copper

By Heather Long



Copper will do whatever it takes to get the job done, even if it means seducing and betraying the one man who really sees her.



Former Marine special forces, Sachi “Copper” James is a chameleon. She thrives on being someone else. Her mission? Identify the rat who sold her team bad intel. Gabriel Danvers, ex-CIA analyst, is a master of disseminating the details. He wants to enjoy a normal life, retired from the game. His mission? Teach classes.



 When Gabriel becomes the target of Copper’s investigation, he re-enters a world of danger and deception--all to claim the passion of the one woman who’s haunted him for years.



Sterling’s Seduction

By Sabrina York



When a snoopy reporter threatens the Elite Metal, Sterling will do whatever it takes to kill her story about the team. Even if it means he has to tie her to his bed.



When Sterling spots a reporter masquerading as a waitress in a dingy bar in Deep Ellum, he suspects she’s investigating the team. And that’s something he just cannot allow to happen. Too many lives are at stake. He will do everything in his power to learn the truth—even seduce her. And to stop her story from coming out? He might even tie her to the bed.



 Nothing is off the table when it comes to keeping his brothers safe. Nothing. It’s a damn shame she’s everything he’s ever wanted. It’s a damn shame her touch warms his cold, dead heart.



Platinum’s Choice

By Rebecca Royce



Platinum left the life he had with Rose in New York to rejoin his team and silence the nightmares from Operation Phoenix.   But when Rose is forced to go on the run with Platinum’s hidden son, he will have no choice but to return to his old life and reclaim what he has ached for every day since. Red Wolf’s sniper wants to nudge Plat’s underbelly and they’re going to find out quickly how deadly he can be.



Platinum was a man of few words before he changed his name and had his sniper rifle taken away. But as Elijah, he could start over, maybe even fall in love with his hidden son's Kindergarten teacher, Rose. But Platinum is reborn when Elijah is kidnapped, so he's left with no choice but to vanish, leaving Rose to wonder about his fate, broken-hearted.



Rose has spent the last year getting over the disappearance of the man she knew as Eli. Now, alone and terrified, she finds herself on the run from a sniper while trying to hide a scared little boy from certain death.



Red Wolf's crew isn't done with Plat, and his soft underbelly is just the place to nudge. Sniper vs. sniper, Platinum will reclaim what is his. That is, if she'll even have him back...





Mercury’s Poison

By Saranna DeWylde



A scarred, mad genius more monster than man must protect the beauty he's become obsessed with from a beast more terrible than himself.



Serum 17 took his face, took his kindness and took his empathy. It took, in essence, all of John Thrace leaving only the Elite Metal operative "Mercury" in his place. A man marked with a biohazard tattoo because he knows he's incompatible with other living things. Until he becomes obsessed with the seemingly innocent doctor Hazel Brewer and a chance encounter changes everything.



Hazel knows the giant scarred man won't hurt her even though she's in the business of saving lives and he'd rather take them. In fact, she's never felt safer or more alive than when she's with him. Even when a terrible biological weapon forces her into his arms for a night of hot passion she won't soon forget.



Their love could be the redemption he never thought he wanted, or something even more toxic: Mercury's poison.



Forged in Silver

By Roxie Rivera



Rebel. Nomad. Troublemaker.



After surviving the double-cross during Operation Phoenix, Former Elite Recon Marine Silver embraces the underworld and builds a new life as one of the world's most renowned thieves. Jewels, paintings, corporate espionage--there's no job he won't take for the right price.



Until Poppy Jones orders her ghosts to snatch him up in Budapest and haul him back to Texas to face her brand of justice...



Forced to decide between a prison cell and signing on to Elite Metal, Silver chooses the latter. Quietly operating in the background of a team that no longer trusts or wants him, he completes all the dirty little jobs that keep the team alive and flush with new intel.



But when he learns Poppy plans to infiltrate a terrorist gathering, he refuses to hide in the shadows a moment longer. In a world of secrets and lies, Poppy Jones is his bright light of truth and trust.



And he'll brave the fires of hell--and the disdain of Steele and Chrome--to protect her.



Publisher: Never Settle Publishing
Format: ebook, paperback
Release Date: February 10, 2015
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14 comments:

  1. I loved this anthology. Each book could be a stand alone but having them one like this was clever and I could not put it down. Are we going to get another one for the remaining members? I really want to read Titanium's story?

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  2. Thanks for having us!!!

    RoseRaven - we have two more books planned for the series!! I might possibly be writing Titanium's story in the next one. Maybe.... :)

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  3. It's a great interview!

    Trix, vitajex(at)aol(Dot)com

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  4. Enjoyed reading the author interview.

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  5. Thank you so much for sharing the hotness! Jenn is awesome!

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  6. My favorite part is the author interview.

    Juana Esparza

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  7. Great interview. Thank you for sharing and hosting this!

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  8. I enjoyed the interview as well thank you.

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  9. LOVED the interview! Thanks for sharing!

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  10. I just bought this anthology and I'm so excited to dive in :) I love all of the posts here! thanks for sharing!

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