Spooktacular Day 13: Spooky Interview & Giveaway with author Felicity Heaton

What kind of Halloween person are you? Dress up and party every year, give out candy maybe dressed up, or hide inside your house with the porch light?

Because I’m in the UK, we don’t really celebrate Halloween in the same way as people do in America.  My town in particular has a scheme in place where if you don’t have a pumpkin in the window you don’t get Trick or Treaters knocking on your door, not that we get many in the neighbourhood anyway.  My sister tends to host a party a Halloween, and I generally go in costume.  We’re not having a party this year but hopefully we will have one again next year.  Whenever we have a party I tend to dress up as something related to vampires.

Do you decorate outside for Halloween?

No, I don’t tend to decorate the outside the house for Halloween.  Because we usually go to my sister’s house, I leave all the decorating up to her boyfriend.  He has a thing for zombies, and likes to decorate the outside of his house with lots of fake blood.

Are you a master pumpkin carver?

I think I’ve carved a pumpkin once or twice in my lifetime.  I like to try and do the scariest face possible.  I haven’t carved a pumpkin in a while though, but I’m thinking about carving one this year.  Whenever I carve a pumpkin I tend to look online at lots of pictures for reference before I start to think of a design.  My biggest problem is that we don’t really grow large pumpkins over here, so I normally have to design something I can carve into a small pumpkin. I have included a couple of pictures of designs I would love to carry out, but think my limited skills as a pumpkin carver might hinder me… such as this awesome Death Star, or a pumpkin hell!

Name 3 costumes you’ve worn and at what age.

I’ve been a few things in my time, including super girl, a fallen angel, and a female vampire.  I’ve also been a witch.  As I said before, I tend to prefer being a vampire, but I don’t think that would surprise anyone.

Find a picture of a costume you love.

I would love to have this costume. A female Assassin’s Creed costume. Oh My God! I would love that. I would probably buy this just to wear around the house. I’m such a huge fan of the series. Even better would be getting my husband into an Assassin’s Creed costume… hello, handsome!

Tell us the scariest thing that has ever happened to you and it doesn’t have to be Halloween related.

I will have to admit now that I’m not a big risk taker.  I tend to err on the side of caution.  I think one of scariest things that has ever happened to me was when I was walking with a friend in the countryside in the dead of night along an old abandoned railway line.  It was the thick of winter and it was freezing and all around us were open fields and trees.  I remember hearing some strange noises, and because we both had hyperactive imaginations, we both began to think about werewolves, and then talk about werewolves stalking us.  I think we both freaked each other out.  We ended up walking rather swiftly towards the next exit and practically running across a field in the dark with only the moonlight to guide us.  When we made it to a country road, it was icy and I remember both of us saying we were going to slip over.  Of course, we were walking so fast that we did end up slipping over and had to spend the whole of Christmas hobbling around and avoiding explaining to our parents how we had injured ourselves.  I think that was the last time we decided to go walking without a light along the old abandoned railway line.

Do you like haunted houses or mazes?

I definitely prefer mazes, but that’s only because you tend to go around them in the daylight.  I’ve been around a few mazes in my time and I’m an annoyingly logical person, so I tend to take them very seriously.  I don’t think I’ve ever been to a haunted house.

Do you believe in ghosts?

I do believe in ghosts, but I don’t really want to ever meet one.  A friend of mine likes to go on ghost hunting tours all the time and I think she’s very brave.  The thing that scares me most in this world are poltergeists.  I really never want to meet one.

What is your favorite Halloween tradition?

Being British, I don’t really celebrate Halloween in the same way as Americans, but I really love it when my sister throws a party and we all get to dress up in a costumes and have fun with the kids. Of course, I can’t throw a party around Halloween now because it’s always reserved for her. I don’t think she would be pleased if I ever tried. She would probably think I hijacked her party!

What is your favorite Halloween movie to watch or are you a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown sort?

I’m definitely a Charlie Brown sort.  I might write paranormal romance, but I really don’t like horror films.  I think it’s because I have an active imagination and it means that whenever I watch a horror film I end up dreaming about it or thinking about it at times when I’m in the dark alone and it scares me.

Have you ever tricked instead of treated like toilet papering someone’s house or egging a person or house?

I’m not really the sort person to trick someone.  I prefer treats and I’m a strong believer in karma.  I like to treat people how I want to be treated myself, and I feel if I trick someone it will come back to haunt me.

Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees?

Neither.  Both of them scare me, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the films, or ever want to see them.

What’s your favorite Urban Legend?

I don’t think I really have one.  They’re not really a big thing over here in the UK so I don’t really know that many, if any at all. I could probably look one up, but I think that counts as cheating!

Covet
Felicity Heaton
They’ve burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible.

Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mortal female belongs to a powerful aristocrat patron of Vampirerotique, the theatre he runs with three other vampires. A single touch is all it would take to break the sacred law of his kind, sentencing himself to death, but his passion for her has become too fierce to ignore and he will risk everything to make Lilah his.

Lilah has fought her desire for Javier since arriving at his theatre as a servant but each glance he has stolen, his eyes promising pleasure that will satisfy her longing for him, has chipped away at her defences and she can no longer deny her need and her forbidden feelings for the powerful vampire male.

When they find themselves alone in a private box during one of the erotic performances, will they surrender to their passion and live out their wildest fantasies in a night of wicked pleasure or will the threat of Lilah’s master keep them apart forever?

http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebooks.php?title=Covet

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