A year after the official release of "Storms of Passion" from Wild Rose Press, this debut novel has recently received a Readers Favorite, five-star review and has entered Amazon's Author's Data Base "Top 10 Booklist"
To update reader's with what's been going on with the characters, here is a recent interview with Tucker MacLean, rescue swimmer, from "Storms of Passion".
What interests you?
A slight chuckle, while he rubs a palm along his jean clad knee. “A lot of things interest me and they change rather frequently,” Tuck replies and casts his gaze towards the sky. “I work with computers all day long and when I emerge from my cave, as it were, I am interested by the clouds.
The versatility of the sky is like a picture in motion.” Here Tuck pauses and he points to some wispy Sirius formations. “Just there, a couple of thousand of feet above us, winds blow hundreds of miles an hour and yet those clouds look so close and seem to be simply swaying in the breeze. That their formations can be used to predict weather, current and a host of other natural occurrences, is to me, fascinating.”
You say you work with computers, but our readers know you as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer?
He nods his head. “Yes, after that big storm, which basically paralyzed the area, I can see how they would.
I’m a volunteer rescue swimmer and when those storms came through, we needed every able body we could find to see the town through safely...not to mention those poor souls out on the ocean when it hit. The ocean is a part of me, been a part of the MacLean family for generations, but it is not a calling like it is for many others, including my dad and brother. I do what I can when I can, but at the end of the day, I’m just the geek in the basement creating websites and marketing the business.”
I don’t know that I’d refer to you as a ‘geek’. What brought you into working for the family business? I understand at one time, you were quite the name in high tech.
“Seems like a lifetime ago now,” he starts and then reaches for his bottle of water. “I guess at one time I played with the high rollers. But sometimes you loose.” Tuck shrugs his shoulders and sets the bottle back on the table. The moisture runs in rivulets down the side of the bottle to form a mote around the base.
“At the time, I guess it was my own trio of storms, which all hit at once. First the tech bubble blew, I found out my business partnership was not what I had envisioned and with those items gone, a marriage initiated on less than a solid foundation crumbled with the on-slough of the tide.”
Sounds rough, but you pulled through and are married again?
“Yes, another storm—real, violent and without mercy brought Vivian into my life. But with Vivian by my side,” he turns to take Vivian's hand in his and she smiles warmly. “I have been able to set not only a firm foundation surrounded by family, but lay the very roots I didn’t even know I craved.
It’s funny what you find when you’re not even looking.”
To update reader's with what's been going on with the characters, here is a recent interview with Tucker MacLean, rescue swimmer, from "Storms of Passion".
What interests you?
A slight chuckle, while he rubs a palm along his jean clad knee. “A lot of things interest me and they change rather frequently,” Tuck replies and casts his gaze towards the sky. “I work with computers all day long and when I emerge from my cave, as it were, I am interested by the clouds.
The versatility of the sky is like a picture in motion.” Here Tuck pauses and he points to some wispy Sirius formations. “Just there, a couple of thousand of feet above us, winds blow hundreds of miles an hour and yet those clouds look so close and seem to be simply swaying in the breeze. That their formations can be used to predict weather, current and a host of other natural occurrences, is to me, fascinating.”
You say you work with computers, but our readers know you as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer?
He nods his head. “Yes, after that big storm, which basically paralyzed the area, I can see how they would.
I’m a volunteer rescue swimmer and when those storms came through, we needed every able body we could find to see the town through safely...not to mention those poor souls out on the ocean when it hit. The ocean is a part of me, been a part of the MacLean family for generations, but it is not a calling like it is for many others, including my dad and brother. I do what I can when I can, but at the end of the day, I’m just the geek in the basement creating websites and marketing the business.”
I don’t know that I’d refer to you as a ‘geek’. What brought you into working for the family business? I understand at one time, you were quite the name in high tech.
“Seems like a lifetime ago now,” he starts and then reaches for his bottle of water. “I guess at one time I played with the high rollers. But sometimes you loose.” Tuck shrugs his shoulders and sets the bottle back on the table. The moisture runs in rivulets down the side of the bottle to form a mote around the base.
“At the time, I guess it was my own trio of storms, which all hit at once. First the tech bubble blew, I found out my business partnership was not what I had envisioned and with those items gone, a marriage initiated on less than a solid foundation crumbled with the on-slough of the tide.”
Sounds rough, but you pulled through and are married again?
“Yes, another storm—real, violent and without mercy brought Vivian into my life. But with Vivian by my side,” he turns to take Vivian's hand in his and she smiles warmly. “I have been able to set not only a firm foundation surrounded by family, but lay the very roots I didn’t even know I craved.
It’s funny what you find when you’re not even looking.”