And our Sue's Clues Mystery Author is:

Our Mystery Author this round is Georgia Evans. You may know her better as Rosemary Laurey, an author of vampire/paranormal and contemporary novels. Join us below as she shares more about herself and the books she is writing as both Georgia and Rosemary.

Then venture over to her websites: http://www.brytewood.co.uk/ (site for Georgia Evan's new paranormal series set during WWII)

http://www.rosemarylaurey.com/ (site for Rosemary Laurey's paranormal novels)

1. You publish books under two different names: Rosemary Laurey and Georgia Evans. What prompted you to do this? Which, if either, is your real name??

Rosemary Laurey is my real name. I've been writing under it for some time now. I have a vampire romance series under that name, along with a variety of paranormal and contemporary books, and even a couple of Chicken Soup stories. (See www.rosemary.laurey.com) When Kensington decided to market the 'Bloody' books as Fantasy, they asked me to pick a pseudonym. Between the two of us, my editor and I came up with Georgia Evans. Since my dh's given names are George and Evans, he was rather chuffed with my 'new' name.

2. You are originally from the UK and now live in the US. How old were you when you moved to the States? What brought you here?

I was 24 and teaching my way around the world (or at least, that was the plan) when I met this rather yummy Southern Gentleman from South Carolina. Met him in Turkey (yes, Turkey—that's usually a conversation stopper <g>) So that put paid to the my travel plans; we started married life in NC and slowly, over the years, worked our way up into Yankeeland (Ohio) liked it here, and stayed after the dh retired.

3. What do you find to be the biggest difference living here and in the UK?

It's a totally different culture and outlook on life. I could write a book on it <g>

...Is there anything in particular you miss about living there?

Marmite, pork pies, English bacon and good public transport-trains in particular. What would I miss if I moved back home? Jeni's ice cream, hash browns and fresh peaches in season. (Sounds as if I'm obsessed with food, doesn't it? LOL!)

4. Your Brytewood Trilogy is set during WW2 in England. What a great new perspective for paranormals, especially with so many books out there these days featuring vamps, witches etc. What gave you the idea to do this?

My editor at Kensington asked me if I'd like to write a WW2 set book. I jumped at the opportunity. It took three tries to come up with a premise we both liked, but we finally managed it. The unsold ideas? Well, they're not dead yet. Just hibernating on my hard drive.

5. Tell us about Mole Valley, where you grew up in England. I understand it was the inspiration for Brytewood?

The Mole is a river—a tributary of the Thames and the Mole Valley is the area that it flows through. Actually, it's called the Mole as it goes underground several times along its course. It's the area of Surrey that I grew up in, and apart from being part of Operation Sea Lion—the German invasion plan—it was also greatly affected by the blitz, since it is pretty near London and was on the route home for the Lufftwaffe; so often, unused bombs were dropped randomly to lighten the load home. When I was a child, there was still a lot of visible damage: a bomb crater at the end of the road, gaps along the street where bombed out houses had been razed, and even some still uncleared ruins. It took years to get it all tidied up. Even at school we had a vast open space across the hockey pitch that had been the original school building. It got a direct hit. Luckily, everyone was in the shelters at the time. The only casualty was one of the nuns. She, poor soul, got knocked out when the door of the air raid shelter fell in from the blast. No one realised it at the time, and when the all clear came, everyone climbed out over the downed door and the unconscious teacher. She did recover, though. She used to teach us Science.

6. Would a reader living in Mole Valley today recognize their village in your books?

Brytewood is actually fictitious, an amalgam of several villages in that region. I pulled bits from all over the place, but the photos used in the book videos are actual houses and schools, etc. Two years ago, I spent a fun day driving around my old haunts and taking pictures. Then my web designer got busy taking out modern cars, recent utility poles etc. You can see some of the photos on my web site: www.brytewood.co.uk

7. Here's a question my daughter asked me when I was telling her about what kind of author you are: Is there a difference between British and American vampires?

First, do bear in mind this (and every other vamp book) is fiction, so it's all made up.

In my vampire world(s), vampires adopt the characteristics of the vamp that created them. Most of mine (like Dracula) can go out in daylight, but the German ones are much stronger by night and are destroyed by wood and magic. IMO,every vamp must have some vulnerability or weakness. I have (in other books) written vampires of a bloodline that does sleep by day.

8. What is next? Are there any "Works in Progress," either as Rosemary or Georgia?

I'm working on another WW2 set book (two, actually, but one is still at the synopsis stage); one set in France, just after the capitulation—that one includes vampires and an American heroine who ends up smuggling three children out of France—and another idea is set in South Hams in Devon, where an area of 30K acres—most of it prime farm land—was evacuated; farms, stock, villages, businesses, the lot. All moved off, and the area handed over to the US military to practice lands for for D-Day (the UK and commonwealth troops were doing the same in Angelsey, both areas picked for similarity in beaches and tides to Normandy). However, the people and livestock might have gone, but the Pixies remained. Still haven't quite decided what's going to happen there, though. It will come. Stories always sort themselves out in the end.