It's time to announce the winner, drum roll please, and the winner is.... JOYE
Tell us a
little about yourself.
Dianna Torscher Benson is a 2014
Selah Award Finalist (winners not yet announced), a 2011 Genesis Winner, a 2011
Genesis double Semi-Finalist, a 2010 Daphne de Maurier Finalist, and a 2007
Golden Palm Finalist. In 2012, she signed a nine-book contract with Ellechor
Publishing House. She’s the author of The
Hidden Son, her debut novel. Final
Trimester is her second release. After majoring in
communications and a ten-year career as a travel agent, Dianna left the travel
industry to earn her EMS degree. An EMT and a Haz-Mat and FEMA Operative since
2005, she loves the adrenaline rush of responding to medical emergencies and
helping people in need.
Dianna lives in North Carolina with her husband and their three children.
Why do you
write the kind of books you do?
Suspense is my natural writing voice. An EMT for a decade, I implement my firsthand
medical and rescue knowledge and experience into my stories.
Inspirational is a thread I love writing
and it fits within my characterizations and plotlines like a key puzzle
piece. Besides writing, what are some of your favorite hobbies?
I’m
a life-long outdoor enthusiast and high-level athletic competitor. I love
spending time in any kind of nature doing something athletic and adventurous,
especially with my family and friends. I enjoy traveling, reading, watching all
kinds of movies, and watching Chicago
Fire, Chicago PD, The Walking Dead, Castle and The Big Bang Theory.
Have you
always wanted to be a writer?
What advice
would you give to a beginning writer?
What book
are you currently working on?
Persephone’s Fugitive, Book #2 in the Cayman Islands
Trilogy:
When
a routine 911 call turns deadly, Paramedic Reyann Cooper finds herself held
at gunpoint by injured prison inmate, Jason Keegan. The
situation rapidly spirals out of Reyann’s control when the confrontation
becomes a tense standoff between Keegan and the Royal Cayman Islands
Police Service.
As
her patient’s hostage, Reyann fights to save them both before Keegan blows
them up. She realizes his warning to the Cayman police is no empty threat
since he’d rather die than spend the rest of his life in a prison
cell. Reyann soon discovers Keegan is just as determined to survive as she
is - provided he can escape Grand Cayman and disappear forever.
As she struggles to trust in God’s protection, help from an
atheist turns her struggle into a lure away from her faith.
Please tell
us a little about your book.
Final
Trimester, Book
#1 in the Quigley Triplets Series:
Paramedic Jodi Duncan recognizes the work of a serial
killer before the Myrtle Beach PD even suspects a
connection between the deaths of two pregnant women. Despite the vast
differences in the two cases, Jodi urges Detective Nate Quigley to think
outside the box. After digging deep into the separate investigations, Nate
finds no evidence to support a serial killer theory, and he warns Jodi to back
off police business, which only fuels her passion for the cases.
When a third pregnant woman is murdered, Nate is named
lead detective on the case and works to link the deaths in order to unmask and
stop the serial murderer, a disturbed man who believes God and the devil battle
inside his head to bend him according to their wills. As he fights both voices,
his interest fixates on Jodi when he discovers her obsession with ending his
rampage.
How can someone find you on the internet? www.diannatbenson.com
How can someone find you on the internet? www.diannatbenson.com
Thanks, Dianna, for being a guest on my blog. Looking forward to reading, Final Trimester.
Drawing will be held May, 17
