Hello and welcome to Fallen Angel Reviews. Today I have the privilege of interviewing Jennifer Mueller.

Jennifer, I am so glad to be able to interview you again. It has been awhile since our last get together and I've noticed you have really added another list of great books to your page. I want to mention that I still have your magnets on my refrigerator. They were great gifts. I love how you put your 'about me' also in German and French, on your website.

Why don't we begin by telling us what's new with Jennifer?

I just have to gush that I have my first print contract. It's for a regency called A Ruined Season with Robert Hale LTD, a British publisher.

In my other life, I just finished working with the state on a burn crew burning prairie. Oh and I'm heading to Mexico in July, my first trip out of the country since I came back from the Peace Corps.

Is there a particular book you would like to discuss today?

My last one out is Ancient Walls at Red Rose Publishing, it's a contemporary treasure hunt that started out of a failed story I had put aside. That turned into the historical beginning with the treasure being hidden and then I just had to figure out how to find it like Maya does in the story.

Maya Montgomery just wants a vacation with her son, that's it, but with her ex giving her trouble to the point of needing a restraining order, even relaxing involves a fight. At least until everyone in the hotel is kept inside with days of rain. After the way her ex has been all it will take is someone being nice to her and Carson is nothing but nice. Nice to look at, nice to talk to, nice to go to bed with.

For once in her life, things are looking up, until her son is kidnapped and the note orders her to find a hidden treasure. Treasure not everyone is even convinced exists and her son's life depends on it. So much for a peaceful vacation.

When is your next book due?

Oh, I have them coming out all the time it seems. An Arrangement among Gentlemen will be out with Phaze in June. It's set in Canada during WW1. Far from home will be out with Dark Castle Lords in June as well it's a Byzantine tale. I have three others that will be out with Red Rose Publishing soon, Samburu Hills, set in Kenya where I served in the Peace Corps, The Angel of Bally Ferriter a contemporary Irish story, and The Mountaintop set in Ancient Greece.

Do you see yourself ever not writing?

Writing for me has been a hobby for some 15 years, so published or not I've pretty much been doing it and I'm sure will continue to do so for sometime. So that would be No.

What books do you have planned in the near future?

I have a story called Ghosts in the Night that is set in Ceylon in the 1920's looking for a home, it's about a WW1 veteran who inherits a plantation there only to find out that things weren't what they seemed when it came to his life. The one I'm currently writing, Breath of the Desert, is set in Morocco in the late 1700's and is about a woman caught by pirates. Even though she finds out her master isn't the monster she imagines she finds herself on the run across the Sahara for insulting the Sultan's brother.

In what order do you write? For example starting beginning to end, combining parts, in random order or in development cycle?

I just write, I start with a situation or character and see where it goes from there. Even a mystery I'll go along as clueless as the character until the solution presents itself.

What do you think about the e-publications since we last spoke? I know some houses have closed, but do you still feel it is a thriving industry?

Of course, it's a business like any others though. Some fail and others thrive, how many restaurants close after all?

Do you 'lose' your track of thought, story thread or whatever emotional pitch you happen to be at when you do leave your story for a bit?

Not so much, in fact often if I put it aside I'll come back to it and find that all sorts of new ideas have come to me. I'll loose momentum though when I've come to the end of the main ideas I had when I started, the Moroccan one I'm working on now is doing that to me right now.

What would you say is important to you, characters, plot, or intimacy?

That's a hard one, but I usually start with characters and find a plot to fit them so characters would probably be my main one. Then if those are going well the intimacy just grows as the characters do.

Is there anything in life that really catches your interest?

Travel, I love to travel. I don't care where; just the thrill of getting there is enough, wandering around a market seeing what treasures are to be found.

How important is the beginning chapter - the opening - the first few lines?

Pretty important, if I'm not hooked by the end of the first chapter I really have to struggle to keep going. The first few lines might intrigue me, but if what follows doesn't deliver in the first chapter, it won't keep me. I have a hard time reading things that don't get to the point so I try to make every scene count as write my own stories.

Jennifer why not share with the readers your website, blog, or myspace where you can be reached?

Sure, I have a website at www.jennifermuellerbooks.com, it has links to all the rest.

You are at a picnic enjoying the quiet day until you are bothered by stirring ants, and pesky flies. Which of the two really irritates you the worse?

It would have to be the flies. They just get everywhere.

Is there anything in your closet that you hold onto forever and hate throwing out?

A dress I made from clothes I brought back from Kenya, and another skirt and shirt I bought in Kenya, neither fit anymore, but they still hang there.

If you had the chance to go on the Food Network show and have a food throwdown with anyone, would you go against Bobby Flay or another chef, and who would the chef be? What would be the dish for your throwdown?

I have a kick a$$ carrot cake recipe or maybe some Kenyan food.

Jennifer, thanks so much today for the lovely chat. I have had fun and wish you continued success in all you do. Everyone be sure to check out Jennifer's website and all her books that do indeed carry the reader into a journey one will never forget.

Interviewed by: Linda L.