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About Rie McGaha
As a dreamer of dreams and being born with a a gypsy soul, Rie has lived all over the United States. Settling in SE Oklahoma in 1989, she enjoys a quiet life in the Kiamichi Wilderness where she takes in abused and neglected animals, nurses them back to health and tries to find them new homes. The ones that don’t find new homes remain with Rie and she currently has 7 dogs and 3 cats.
When not caring for the animals, Rie tries to find a few moments to write.
Backlist
Blood Line
Deadly Dreams
Grounded
Two For Hire
Calen-My Soul To Keep
Cocked & Fully Loaded
Coming soon
Check out Rie's videos
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An Interview with Rie McGaha
By Holly Hewson for The Romance Studio
HH: Rie, thank you for talking with us at TRS. Please tell us about your featured book, Ghosts Of Valentines Past.RM: This is actually an experiment. Noble Romance is known for their erotic books, but the editor, Jill, is trying out a Sweetheart line and in Dec. published a holiday anthology and for Valentine's Day she put out 2 sweet romances. I guess I'm getting old because the submissions call was for sweet Valentine stories or milk chocolate stories and for M/M anything goes, or dark chocolate stories, and I chose to write a milk chocolate story. I just can't think of anymore positions for the sex scenes in the erotic line!
HH: A woman scorned on the eve of her wedding. Now it's Valentine's Day but there are a few surprises waiting for Twyla. Where did you get the idea for this sexy and creative story? RM: It's a total rip off from the Scrooge story "A Christmas Carol", but I saw the movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and thought, hey, this could work for Valentine's day!
HH: What do you like best about Twyla and how do you relate to her? RM: I like Twyla because she has a tough exterior but she's not as tough as people think, or as tough as she'd like them to think. And I have a reputation for being a tough guy, but I'm soooo not!
HH: What else do you have in store for lucky readers? RM: I have a few things coming up this year that I'm excited about. Comes An Outlaw is soon to be released from XOXO Publishing and this is one of my personal favs. It's a western, it's a romance, it's adventure, it's epic, and I love writing those type of stories. I also have the sequel to Blood Line coming out. Ancient Blood will be out with Noble Romance Publishing later this year. And from Champagne Books my serial killer thriller/romance Closure is coming in September.
HH: How do you celebrate a good writing day? RM: Well, at my age every day above ground is reason to celebrate! But a good writing day for me is when I shut down my computer and I think, wow, I got that done! Then I get to watch a girl movie while cuddled up with my doggies and kitties with a glass of wine.
HH: What's it like to write "the end" on a given work? RM: Depending on the book, it can be kind of sad because the story is over. On the other hand, it's like Whew, I did it!
HH: Tell us about your work with abused and neglected animals.
RM: I've been dragging home pathetic looking creatures all of my life, although my parents' always made me get rid of them. When I had kids at home they would drag home flea bitten, bedraggled, half-starved animals and I just couldn't refuse them food and water, as well as a little love and medical attention. In 2004 I met my best friend Candi Duncan who is a nurse, but after work she dropped by the animal shelter to feed and love on the dogs there. The shelter only kept the animals for seven days before destroying them and Candi used her own money to place ads in the paper to find them homes. One ad was for a huge Shepherd/St. Bernard mix who was due to be destroyed in a couple of days and I adopted him. Then I began taking each animal a day before they were to be put down if they weren't adopted first. Candi and I worked with the community to find permanent homes for them, and we worked with other agencies to provide mobile spay/neuter clinics to promote animal de-population. Since that time we have found homes for hundreds of animals who would otherwise have been put down.
HH: That's wonderful of you. <g> What would you most like to accomplish this year?
RM: As a writer I want to finish all the WIP's I have, continue editing and working with other authors and industry professionals. In my personal life I want to resolve some health issues, get the work finished on my house, and have all my children within driving distance so I can see all those grandbabies on a regular basis.
HH: What are you reading these days? RG: My reading has been limited lately, but recently I read a few short stories that were excellent and didn't take a lot of time. The Killer Within by Jason Kahn, The Gingerbread Tryst by Nichelle Gregory, and I never miss James Patterson's latest installment of the Alex Cross series.
HH: Any exciting plans for the summer? RG: Absolutely. I'm going to northern California to round up three of my grandsons, Mathew 17, Julilan 12, and Hunter 10, and bring them home with me. We'll be doing the amusement park scene, a few water parks, and some traveling. Mathew will be graduating high school and going off to college, so this is probably the last summer I'll be able to spend with him while he still thinks I'm cool!
HH: Thank you!
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