Madison Johns interviews Eleanor Mason, a character from Armed and Outrageous
Armed
and Outrageous features Agnes Barton as lead amateur sleuth, but it’s her
partner in crime Eleanor Mason who steals the show.
1.
Thanks Eleanor for letting me interview you today.
You’re
welcome Madison.
2. Can you
state your age for the record?
Well
that’s one heck of a question to ask me. I happen to be a very young
eighty-two.
3.
What’s it like working alongside Agnes Barton solving crimes?
It’s
kinda like getting a tooth pulled, painful at times, but you know you have to
do it or everything will fall apart.
4. So
would you call yourself the glue that holds everything in place?
Of
course, Agnes needs all the help she can get and at least with me tagging along
she has protection.
5. Is it
true you pack a pistol in your purse?
We-Well
I don’t know if I should say. I don’t want to spend the weekend in the pokey.
6. Don’t
you have a concealed weapons permit?
Is that
a trick question?
7. Next
question. What makes Eleanor tick?
A good
glass of wine and a man of course. Mr. Wilson is okay but I’m hoping to meet
someone younger. I can so see myself as a cougar. Roar!
8. What
do you and Agnes have in common and where do you differ?
We do so
love to solve crimes and neither of us care for Sheriff Peterson. He’s Iosco
County’s excuse for a sheriff. Where we differ is my behavior. Agnes is a total
stick in the mud whereas I’m the life of the party. Sometimes she acts just
like she’s my mother. Sometimes she gets on my very last nerve, but if anyone
dared say so I’d give them a one and a two and a three, raising her fist
menacingly.
Thanks
Eleanor for allowing me to interview you today.
Thanks
Madison and I hope you write me in a younger man in the sequel.
Armed and Outrageous Synopsis
What does a murder that happened
forty-three years ago in Tadium, MI,
have to do with missing tourist Jennifer
Martin? Agnes Barton makes it her
personal mission to find out, and she's not letting the fact she's seventy-two
get in the way. Butting heads with Sheriff
Clem Peterson is something she's accustomed to, but lately Clem seems to be acting even more
strange, making Agnes wonder what he
may be hiding ala the Martin
disappearance.
Agnes’ partner in crime, Eleanor Mason tags along, Watson to her
Holmes.
Together,
they unearth clues. If only Eleanor
would behave, as although lovable, she has a knack for getting into trouble by
tangling with her rival, Dorothy Alton, or flirting with anyone—male or
female—and gossiping! She's incorrigible, but she does carry a Pink Lady
revolver in her purse, one that has proved useful at times.
Before
long, the lady sleuths have more on their hands to contend with as goons roll
into town and bullets begin to fly. Adult situations.
Madison Johns Bio:
As a child, Madison Johns preferred to distance herself from other
children her age, and had been described as a dreamer. Even as a small child,
she remembers staying awake many a night fighting dragons, whisked away to
foreign lands, or meeting the man of her dreams.
She was a voracious reader of historical romance in her teen years
and has always wished to one day journey to England, France, Ireland, and
Scotland.
The writing bug bit her at the age of 44 and she pounded out three
books since that time. As the publishing climate changed she took a risk and
decided to self publish, first a collection of two horror short stories geared
for YA, Coffin Tales Season of Death with her first cozy mystery novel to
follow in May 2012.
Contest:
I will be giving away a copy of Armed and Outrageous in ebook
format or a signed print edition, your choice. All you have to do is comment on
my blog posts during the Mystery We Write
blog tour.
What a fun interview, thank you, Madison.
Marilyn
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