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BOOK REVIEWS/MEDIASeeing Blind Receives 4.5 Stars from TheRomanceStudio.comJuly 18, 2008"I loved this story. Ty and Cassie have a sizzling chemistry that practically scorches the pages of this book. Their love scenes are edgy and very erotic. This story has a bit for everyone, a love story, a murder, a little psychic phenomena, and more than a little humor." Click here to read the rest of the review. Seeing Blind Receives Strong Marks from Alternative-Read.comMay 6, 2008"I enjoyed this enormously. The characters were great and truly "small town" (I know this as I grew up in one), while murder, mayhem, humor, and an unwilling psychic blended with it, make make this story very entertaining." Click here to read the rest of the review. Seeing Blind Receives 4 Stars from Night Owl RomanceApril 2008"Seeing Blind is a scorching read with well-rounded characters and a captivating plot that grabs the reader right from the beginning. Cassie and Ty's growing emotional ties and erotic lovemaking will have you burning through the pages anxiously to see what happens next." Click here to read the rest of the review. Seeing Blind Receives 4.5 Stars from Sensual Erotic Romance & Erotica 24/7March 2008"Katie Allen’s Seeing Blind is a definite “must have” for any reader’s “to be read” list. This is a fabulous book with lots to offer. The hot and steamy romance is everything that it should be and the mystery is truly well conceived and delivered. This is definitely a great book with a great ending." Click here to read the rest of the review. Interview from LadyJaded.com2/29/2008Tell us about your upcoming release and what you hope readers will enjoy about it. Katie: SEEING BLIND is a contemporary paranormal thriller (something for everyone!) about Cassie, who has moved to a farm outside the small, Midwestern town of Napping in order to escape from her psychic abilities and the unwanted attention that they brought. For two years, Cassie has lived a lonely but blissfully vision-free existence with her horses, quirky neighbors and steamy daydreams featuring the hot, local sheriff, Ty. Her peaceful life is shattered, however, when she is struck by a vision of a local woman's murder. Guilt forces her into her own investigation, drawing the sheriff's close-very close-attention. As their relationship heats up, Cassie struggles to expose a murderer without revealing her psychic abilities to Ty, which she fears would drive him away and destroy her last chance at happiness. I hope that readers of SEEING BLIND will enjoy their escape to the small town of Napping and into the lives of Cassie, Ty and all the other residents. Writing these characters, I was amazed at how they took on a life of their own, as if they were reading the computer screen over my shoulder, giving me a poke in the arm once in a while and complaining, "What are you doing? I wouldn't say that-here, just give me the keyboard." It's a nerve-wracking experience, putting these characters out in the world, hoping that everyone will love them as much I do. If you could have one special super or magical power, what would it be? Katie: Now this is a stay-up-all-night-to-debate sort of question! I'm always tempted by invisibility, but I have to go with mind-reading. A handy skill! What's your favorite smell? Katie: Cookies. Yum. I like candles, body lotions, lip balms, etc. that smell like food (sweet things, not meatloaf)-vanilla, pumpkin, cinnamon, raspberry-mmm-now I'm getting hungry. What do you like to do when you're not working? Katie: Ride horses (dressage and eventing, mostly), do gymnastics (yes, I do realize that I'm 34 and way too old to be doing that. I don't care-it's fun to do flips), dance, read, knit, box, travel, stare into space and think about new book plots, walk past the local fire station and wave at the firemen, hike, sled, scuba dive, paint (pictures, not houses), hang out with my family and friends, eat jellybeans and watch "guy" movies (my taste in movies is sadly adolescent). What makes a man sexy? Katie: For me, there is nothing sexier than a man who can dance. It doesn't matter what his age, body type, amount of hair left, what style of dance he's doing-ballroom, modern, just shaking it at the club-if he can move, he's hot. What's the most interesting thing you've ever done? Katie: This is a hard question. Accidentally walk in on a showering professional football player (actually, I did that twice-two different players. At what point does that stop being an accident?), hold a sea cucumber in my hand, hang out backstage at Red Rocks during a Roots/311 concert, swim on a horse in the Jamaican surf... I have to say, though, that the most interesting thing I've done is write this book. Boxers or briefs? Katie: Not to be contrary, but boxer briefs. Bad boy or perfect gentleman? Katie: My initial instinct is to say definitely bad boy. Then I started thinking about Ty, the hero in SEEING BLIND, and how he leaned more toward the perfect gentleman side (bossy gentleman, but still). I think the perfect guy is a blend of the two, since, although bad boys can be so much fun, they can also be tough to live with. That's the great thing about writing books-you can be Dr. Frankenstein and create the ideal blend of the two-bad boy and gentleman smooshed together into the perfect man. Vin Diesel or George Clooney? Katie: Vin Diesel. I like my guys big, strong and macho. I'm not very evolved that way-I still look at guys in the "Can he chase down dinner and then beat up the Neanderthal next door who's been bugging me?" way. Well, that and "Wow, he looks hot in that wooly mammoth loincloth." What else would you like readers to know about you or your work? Katie: I'd just like everyone to know how excited and grateful I am that people are reading my book and enjoying the story that I created. It's such an amazing feeling, like talking with a stranger in line at the grocery store and finding out you know the same people. Pretty soon, you're clutching each other's hands, jumping up and down and squealing, "I know! I love them, too!" Anyway, you are taking very good care of my precious characters, and I wanted to thank you for that.
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