Welcome fellow Wild Rose Press author, Michelle C. Reilly, with her new release, Savage Winds. 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 Michelle C. Reilly and her time travel romance, Savage Winds. Michelle, tell us what inspired this particular story. I actually started this story back in 1990. My mom, who’s passed away, was a huge fan of the Outlander series, and passed her (first edition!) copy of Outlander down to me to read. A few years later, I was reading a history book about the Battle of New Orleans and how the British offered Jean Lafitte a full pardon if he’d assist them against the United States. He passed that letter onto the officials in New Orleans. Word of it was passed to then General Andrew Jackson. He sent a spy to find out if it was true. And immediately the story sprung to life in my mind. That spy became my hero, and I knew it had to have time travel in it. What secret do you use to blast through writer’s block? I am a firm believer in allowing the characters drive the story. I’ve only experienced writer’s block once. My character wanted something to happen that wasn’t supposed to happen until further in the story. She wouldn’t let me past it. So, I gave in. I wrote it the way she wanted it, Continue Reading →