Lisa Carter’s Writing Dance (Episode 39)

On this episode of “The Romantic Side of Suspense,” my guest is multi-published author Lisa Carter, who likes to describe her romantic suspense novels as “Sweet Tea with a Slice of Murder.” The Stronghold won a 2017 Daphne du Maurier. Under a Turquoise Sky won the 2015 Carol Award. Beyond the Cherokee Trail was a Romantic Times Top Pick. She also writes contemporary romance with Love Inspired, the popular Matchmaker series, set in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Lisa enjoys traveling and researching her next fictional adventure. A native North Carolinian, she has strong opinions on barbecue and ACC basketball. “When you write romantic suspense, there are three story threads that you’ve got to weave together,” Lisa says. “There’s the romantic tension between your characters in which they’ve got to overcome certain obstacles that threaten their relationship. Then you’ve also got the thread of suspense where the characters are trying to either find a killer or escape, a killer or someone will die. And because I write from a Christian worldview, there’s also the spiritual thread that is running through my novels, where the characters are coming to grips with God’s invitation for a relationship. I’m weaving together these three story tension threads between the spiritual and the romantic and the suspense and it’s kind of a little dance to get them all, to come out together in the end.” Listen to the podcast for more from our interview, plus an excerpt from Lisa’s The Sound of Falling Leaves. Connect w/Lisa Website: http://www.lisacarterauthor.com/ BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lisa-carter Newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/g0y9n5 Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Carter/e/B00BF1FGPC?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_4&qid=1617370912&sr=8-4