Interview with Dani Collins—and giveaway!

Dani Collins HeadshotToday I’m really excited to have Dani Collins here to talk about the third book of the Bachelor Auction series, The Bachelor’s Baby. Welcome, Dani, and congrats on your latest release!

Hi Kat. Thanks for having me here today. I’m excited to meet all your readers. *Waving*

1. Tell us a little about the hero and heroine in The Bachelor’s Baby.

Meg is the sister of my hero, Blake, from Blame The Mistletoe. They’re both adopted, but have different back stories. While he knew his grandparents and had ties to the community of Marietta, her biological parents are a mystery. That’s always left her with questions and a deep sense of rejection. This need to know why takes her into investigative journalism and even a spot on the evening news in Chicago, using her birth name, but she’s never found her birth parents.

Linc lost his dad when he was too young to help his mother keep the ranch they loved. She sold it and worked hard as a single mom to provide for him. Once he was old enough to work the oil rigs, he did it for the money, to support her, but he’s always wanted to go back to ranching and finally buys a foreclosed ranch near Marietta, Meg’s hometown.

2. How does Meg end up buying Linc?

Well. Meg is home to clean out her old bedroom because Blake is marrying and needs her room for his new step-daughter. It makes Meg realize that she’s saying goodbye to her hometown and she’s quite melancholy and winds up ditching her truck in a snow bank, she’s so distracted. Linc stops to help her and, being a bachelor with certain desires, kind of propositions her.

She declines, but it starts a bit of a thing between them. When Lily, Sarah Mayberry’s heroine from Bound to the Bachelor, approaches Meg to ask if Blake would like to be a bachelor, she suggests Linc would make a perfect addition to the line up. He gets mad and she feels bad and winds up bidding on him. That doesn’t go well either.

3. What makes their relationship complicated?

First off, Meg is heading back to Chicago. They only have the one night and it’s kind of a surprise to both of them that it happens (but, as Linc reminisces later, they ‘nearly set the bed on fire.) Then, as you can guess by the title, Meg winds up pregnant. Linc never wanted a family—he made that clear to Meg that night. For Meg, having an unexpected pregnancy is her worst nightmare. She was going to be better than her birth mother, but here she is and Linc’s initial resistance is super hard on her, but he mans up very quickly and they start to work out how to proceed.

4. Is The Bachelor’s Baby related to any of your other books?

You betcha! My first Montana Born book was Hometown Hero, or, as one reviewer called it, The Ballplayer & The Secretary. Chase Goodwin comes back to town to help his half-brother and falls for an old crush, Skye Wolcott.

Blame The Mistletoe opens at a Christmas party hosted by Skye and Chase and features Liz, a California girl housesitting for the holidays and Blake Canon, who I mentioned above is Meg’s brother. They have an awkward connection in that their exes are brother and sister and things get pretty complicated when their children and ex-inlaws find out what they’re up to.

Finally, I’ll have a fourth book in this series out in May of this year called His Blushing Bride. I’m super excited about it because I adore the hero, Bastian. He’s Liz’s brother and is a total hottie who gets his heart handed to him by Piper, the high school music teacher.

5. If you could buy any celebrity for a date, who would you buy and what kind of date would he take you on?

Ooh, great question! George Clooney is obviously a contender, but I have a terrible crush on John Hamm (especially as Don Draper. *swoon*) Robert Downey Jr. is adorable, as is Benedict Cumberbatch, but if we go much younger than that (Chris Pine) it starts to get weird.

As for what kind of date… Hmm. I’ve been married for nearly 25 years. We went to dinner and a movie last weekend and it was Subway and The Duff. Going to a real restaurant with cloth napkins would pretty much knock my socks off.

Speed-dating round

When you were a kid, what was your dream job?

Writing romance (seriously, I started dreaming of doing this when I was in high school.)

If you won the lottery, what’s the most expensive thing you would buy?

Round the world travel, possibly on a cruise but I wouldn’t want to be stuck on a ship. I just like the idea of unpacking once.

Name a place you’ve never been to but would love to visit.

I have a million of them! Iceland, Spain, Ireland, St. Petersburg, cruise The Black Sea, every natural wonder, Caribbean beaches, the Great Wall of China…  and on and on….

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Just the other day I thought my husband might actually go for living in Ireland and I could definitely get into trying that for a year, but I’d love any sort of wine country – which is ridiculous because I’m two hours from wine country here. I just need to either make the drive more often or plant some grapes.

What’s one food you hate?

Mushrooms.

Giveaway!

One signed copy of Montana Homecoming. It includes my novella, Hometown Hero and four other Montana Born novellas, plus bookmarks, a pad of sticky notes and a pen.

About THE BACHELOR’S BABY

Your date with Bachelor #3 includes champagne and chocolate in the limo that collects you, a helicopter tour or Marietta and the surrounding mountains and valleys, and dinner at a five star restaurant in Great Falls. While oil baron Linc Brady wines and dines you, a maid service will completely clean your home.

COLLINS-TheBachelorsBaby-MEDIUMWho could resist this tempting offer? Meg Canon plans to do just that. She’s only home to clean out her childhood bedroom for her brother’s new step-daughter, then she’s outta her childhood small town and back to her life in Chicago. Then she meets the sexy, renegade millionaire while she’s stuck in the snow. Sparks fly and Meg is tempted to stay a little longer.

Linc Brady is new in town and happy to help a kid in need, but a bachelor auction? Technically he doesn’t owe Meg a damned thing after she sets him up for the auction, then bids on him, but her high-class city polish is his fatal weakness and makes her impossible to forget. When she agrees to come home with him, he makes it clear he’s a confirmed bachelor. This is a one-night thing.

One night that turns into nine months and maybe…a lifetime?

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About the author

Award winning author Dani Collins wrote for 25 years before selling to Harlequin Mills & Boon in London in May of 2012. Since then, she’s turned in more than a dozen titles to Harlequin Presents and HarlequinE plus four small town contemporary novellas to Montana Born. She has even found homes for some of her previously rejected manuscripts, including indie-publishing her single title romantic comedy, Hustled To The Altar and signing with a small press for her medieval fantasy, The Healer.

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By Kat

Kat Latham writes sexy contemporary romance, including the London Legends rugby series. With degrees in English lit and human rights, she loves stories that reflect the depth, humor and emotion of real life. She's a California girl living in the Netherlands with her baby girl and British husband.

29 comments

  1. i hate mushrooms as well^^

    i don’t know this series and Dani is a new author to me but after the interview and the blurb i really hope to discover this series one day

    thank your for teh giveaway

  2. Looking forward to reading this entire series! Do you think it may come out as a bundle at some point? Thanks for the interview and the giveaway.

  3. Only unpacking once is a real plus about the cruises. You’re welcome to come to the Midwest and tour our wine trails. You’d be amazed at the number of wineries in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan… but then again, you should also broaden your perspective by doing the Kentucky Bourbon Trail… That’s a lot of fun!

  4. Hi everyone!
    Suz_Glo – the decision still has to be made about whether it will come out as a bundle.
    Kate – a bourbon trail sounds awesome!!
    Thank you Tina!! 🙂
    I’ll drop by again later. Happy Friday everyone!

  5. I can’t wait to read this book! I so enjoyed the interview and getting to know Dani a bit. Thanks for sharing!

  6. Mushrooms aren’t for everyone–I love them. Grew up near the Mushroom Capital–Kennett Square, PA.

  7. Got my reviews on Amazon and Goodreads today Dani I hope you like them. I love mushrooms, I once said I could be thin if I could just afford enough mushrooms to fill up on.

  8. Hi Dani, I liked finding out how the books are connected. It will make my reading experience richer. 😉

  9. Beautiful and my husband is Irish…he would love to see Ireland…..we would both love it <3
    Heard it is luscious and green….and gorgeous!~! My mother in lw visited it in 2004. She loved
    it so much. It was her life dream <3. So happy she got to go!~!~!

  10. Thank you for the interview. I loved your last book Dani & can’t wait to read this one. BTW, I dislike mushrooms too!!

  11. Ha! I’m not alone in dissing mushrooms, apparently!
    Bonnie, thanks for reviewing! Actually, a huge thank you for all reviewers for taking time to put down some honest comments.
    Good luck everyone!
    d

  12. Great interview ladies, I love to find new authors to add to my reading list. I love Dani’s list of places to visit, that looks a lot like my wish list too! Thanks for the chance to win!

  13. I’m jumping on that same bandwagon: I dislike mushrooms too, LOL! I’ll still buy a deluxe pizza, but I’ll spend time picking off the mushrooms (and onions).

  14. Hi, Dani! You are a new author for me. Congrats on your release. I really enjoyed your interview. Will have to check out your books. Thanks for the giveaway!

  15. I am always looking for new authors to read. You write the kinds of books I enjoy reading. I have added your name to my TBR list.

  16. Thanks for a great interview! I really like the way Tule publishing has these connected series.

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