Wings ePress Interview Jayme Evans Eternity's Sweet Endeavor

Interview Jayme Evans

Stephen Gambuti

Jayme Evans currently has four books out that are published through Wings ePress Inc. If you check out her web site www.jayme.evans.net you can even read, for free, a short story she has written.

1). On your site, I noticed you have two other Eternity books published. Are they a series or different characters living in the same realm?

Yes, this is the third of the Eternity series, all of which take place in modern times, with back flashes to the heroes’ pasts and how they came to be where they are. The series introduces all the characters in the first book, Eternity’s Many Loves. Estevan deVaca, a sea merchant from 1600s Spain, is known as Ethan in book one. His child of blood, Blake Cortland, a street urchin from 1700s England and one time entranced servant to Ethan, is the hero of book two, Eternity’s Lonely Heart, and Ethan’s master, Demitri Lupino, who had sworn his sword to the Order of the Knights Templar, is the hero of book three, Eternity’s Sweet Endeavor. Each, of course, has a contemporary story of suspense and a historical background combination.

2.) This month brings with it the release of your newest title, Eternity Sweet Endeavor. Could you fill us in on this most recent Eternity story?

Demitri Lupino is old. He’s been around since the 1100s from Pisa Italy. He was once the lord of his own keep and favored child of his nobleman, father. When he was left a widower and childless, he pledged his sword to the Order of the Knights Templar, but his evil brother, Salvi, had other sinister plans to gain control of the family lands. Salvi enslaved his brother through the vampire entrancement and transformed his sister, who turned on Salvi and transformed Demitri. Together, Demitri and his sister retained the Castillo de Lupino and saved their younger sister from Salvi’s dire campaign. Demitri vowed to always do good to the human race, in spite of his new condition.

Willa Hays had met Demitri before (book one) as the reluctant participant in her brother’s overeager striving for a story on vampires. She didn’t remember then, because Demitri took away the memory. Now, she seeks for some slim remembrance of those days in Louisville and searches for vampires, against her brother’s warnings. However, she finds herself being sought after by an evil vampire, Salvi, and protected by the vampire’s brother, Demitri. The handsome vampire could fill in all the blank spots she had been searching for, but could he save her from death, or worse yet, from entrancement to a human killer?

3.) I also noticed you have written a time travel/historical fiction. Is this also a paranormal romance?

To Sail Through Time is a paranormal time-travel that I wrote when I first dabbled in the unknown elements of the supernatural. My heroine and her brother are whisked back through time to the era of swashbuckling pirates of the Caribbean. Bethany is a self-sufficient doctor, who endures a marriage of convenience to privateer Joshua Blackman, who is one of Jean Lafitte’s pirates in 1814 and the War of 1812, and who has decided to keep her around as his mistress or his wife.

4) Out of all the stories you have published, which is your favorite? I know that, even though you penned the Eternity titles, maybe one of your earlier works might be closer to your heart.

I guess my pirate time-travel, To Sail Through Time, was my favorite. I even got to go to New Orleans and Barataria to research my story and see the battleground of the battle for New Orleans and the signs of history surrounding that time. It has really hurt me what has happened there in the last weeks. The storm destroyed a beautiful city.

5) Was there any particular author that has inspired you growing up as a child or even through adulthood?

As I child, I read a lot of different things, but I don’t remember any one particular author who stood out. As an adult, I suppose that Lori Herter is my all-time favorite vampire author. She got me interested in the fanged hero with her series. Amanda Ashley became one of my Internet buddies and gave me courage to continue writing.

6) Where did you grow up? Did your childhood have any effect on your writing today?

I grew up in central Kentucky, around the towns of Harrodsburg, Danville, Lancaster and Nicholasville. I live outside Danville, now, where the deer and the raccoons eat up my garden. As an older teen, my mother and I shared interests in reading and romantic fiction. I wrote as a child, but I never thought to become an author. People usually write from life experiences, but I write from imagination. I’d rather escape the ‘normal’ into the realm of the supernatural.

7) When did you first realize you wanted to become a writer?

I guess I’ve always wanted to write, but my biggest jump came when my oldest son left for college back in 1992. I took a couple of Writer’s Digest novel classes and started out on my dreams.

8) When did you write your very first story? What was it about?

I began my first novel on paper, back in the eighties, but it took full book form in 1992 and was published in 2000. Sinister Knight is my only ‘normal’ book and is a romantic suspense. I took an abandoned airport that I saw often and made it into a story of suspense and intrigue.

9) Is your book available in eBook and paperback?

Eternity’s Sweet Endeavor will be in ebook and paperback, as are all my books, at Wings ePress.

10) With digital publishing on the rise, which direction do you feel the publishing industry will go within the next three years?

I can only see it on the rise. It has come a long way since I first entered the ebook realm and I’ve seen sales rise over the years. I’ll never be rich, but I can certainly say that I’ve seen my words on the printed or electronic page and people can buy it and read it.

11) Has your husband ever read any of your stories and if so how does he feel about your writing career?

Well, my loving husband of nearly 40 years isn’t much of a casual reader, unless it is a hunting or woodworking magazine. He has always been encouraging, though, and is proud of what I have done. Regretfully, like my sons, he thinks I’m weird, because of the bizarre stuff that I write. He isn’t alone, because I think I’m kind of peculiar too. (giggle) I have no idea why I like the ‘wyrd’ stuff!