Dreams of a Fierce Heart Interview Author Danube Adele
Give a warm welcome to Danube Adele, author of Dreams of a Fierce Heart, Dreamwalkers Book Four.
Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Danube Adele and her Dreams ofa Fierce Heart!
Who is your favorite character of all of the books you’ve written and Why?
All of my characters whisper in my ear, desiring their happy ever after, and after getting to know them, and know their struggles, I love them all. I work closely with them to understand who they are and what they need, so they all hold a special place in my heart. However, there is one character who sticks out for me, and that is Taylor Lane. She was my first wholly imagined character from my first ever book, Quicksilver Dreams, Book 1 of the Dreamwalkers series. She was a force to be reckoned with, the reason why this entire series was possible. She had just enough “in your face” bravado mixed with sweet vulnerability, and I knew I needed to help her find her way home. She was also the realization that I could sustain a compelling story and maybe dare to call myself a writer.
How long have you been writing?
There’s hardly been a time that I can’t remember having a love of writing. I think of all the ways and means that I tried to get someone to read my work and cringe inwardly because I was relentless. I was that girl who sat in class with my spiral-bound notebook neatly tucked within my binder, writing out my teenage fantasies, and it was great because it looked to the rest of the world like I was taking great notes on the lesson, you know? I was writing so diligently during the teacher’s instruction that anyone might have thought I was a star pupil. Of course, little did anyone know I was daydreaming on paper. Once, I wrote this long, seven or eight page outline and asked a teacher to look at it for me. She was very sweet. On top of her own workload, she took the time to read and give me good advice about not making a plot too obvious. Definitely, my mother was my first editor. I often took my stories to her. She was one of the first people to help me learn that I could edit a sentence to make it more exciting.
Do you see yourself in your characters?
Some of my characters share my values, and some have character traits I wish I could take on. For instance, there is a character in one of my new books that has no filter. She is outlandish in what she says, without remorse, because she has no filter. There are times I wish I were more like that.
What do you like to do when you are not writing?
I’ve always enjoyed going camping and hiking with my boys and my husband. Some of our regular stomping grounds are Joshua Tree, Carpinteria, and Mammoth Mountain. We’ve had the waves knock us around at Hermosa Beach when the surf was rough. Additionally, road trips have been a thing that led us not only to hiking and river rafting in Colorado and New Mexico, but it also led us clear up to Glacier National Park in Montana where we gamboled with mountain goats. The common denominator here is that we all spend time together attacking each new adventure. That’s what I like to do when I’m not writing.
A sneak peek between the pages of Dreams of a Fierce Heart.
“I’m not your problem. I’m not forcing you to stay. I didn’t ask you to do anything. You’re welcome to go finish your playdate with Ryder as far as I’m concerned. I didn’t invite you to sit at my table.” My own heart, acting like an innocent bystander, stuttered with dismay at my harsh words. It ached, squeezing painfully against my chest, but I needed to desensitize it. My heart was not in charge. It hadn’t been for years. If I was really going to move on, this had to be part of my therapy.
Nick stared at me in silence for a few moments, his gray eyes roaming my face briefly, searching for something. Whatever he saw prompted him to say in an undertone, “You need a keeper.”
“And if I did, it wouldn’t be you, Papa Bear.”
“Stop calling me that,” he snapped. “I’m not trying to father you.”
“The hell you aren’t. I’m having a perfectly nice time with a good guy, and you come stomping over and puff out your chest. You don’t have the right to tell anyone else whether I have plans for the night, and you sure as hell don’t have the right to threaten a guy with violence because he’s into me.”
“What does it matter? It’s not like you can date him. You don’t live near him.” He didn’t deny any of it. Wasn’t the least bit repentant.
I gave him my best, wicked smile, knowing this would thoroughly piss him off. “Maybe I just wanted to have sex with him. Sometimes, a girl needs a little skin-on-skin. Some body heat.”
His blue eyes turned glacial, flicking over the bodice of my dress where I’d grown more cleavage since my seventeenth year; his nostrils flared, and anger put a snarl to his words. “And we all know you aren’t shy about propositioning yourself.”
My smile never faltered when his poisonous dart hit the bullseye, but I had no control over the long-ago humiliation that washed my skin in violent, crimson shades, which he noted with a sudden frown, like he was about to take it back, but screw him. Throwing that in my face after all this time made my heart clench with a sense of betrayal. I kept my voice as light as I could, trying to brush it off. “That’s right. I did offer up panties to you long ago. I’d forgotten about that. How embarrassing, right? Because I’m like your sister.” I almost pulled it off but for the last word. My voice cracked, and the feeling of utter foolishness, something I was all too familiar with in relation to him, left me exposed.
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