Welcome, DV Stone

Being flexible, adaptable, and how to piece it together.

Hi, Jennifer. Thank you for having me today on your blog. I’d like to talk a little about having expectations and ideas of who I am as an author. The main character in Rock House Grill is Shay McDowell. As an EMT, she needs to be flexible and adaptable. This reflects me, D. V. Stone, as a writer. The same with Aden House, her love interest. He needs to do the same since he’s become injured.

I’m in the middle of my second Impact book titled Jazz House. I never really considered myself a suspense author, but when Rock House Grill came out—surprise—that’s what it is referred to as. Romantic Suspense. Some have even called it inspirational, though it’s not religious. All cool, right? Not when you live in my head. 

I began to overthink everything—question my ability to write suspense. The manuscript was a mess. This past month in isolation, I’ve spent ripping Jazz House to shreds. 

Previously, I tended to write linearly. Start at the beginning, get to the end, done. Today the timelines, villains, and central character relationships are all on the virtual cutting room floor as Chef Aden House might say, sliced and diced. 

I yanked most of the bad guy parts into a second document. Once I’m satisfied with the main characters’ relationship and world-building, I’ll seed these sections back in. This is a new way of writing for me. I’ve had to adapt to my new expectations of what and how I write. 

Also, before RHG, I considered myself a Fantasy with romantic elements. The past year I’ve had to wrap my head around being a multi-genre. Since reading across the genres, I now realize I can be flexible and write across them as well. 

These past weeks of 2020 have been difficult for everyone. You, too, have had to be flexible and adapt. We are still learning what’s important. I hope to become a better writer. I also hope to become a better person. I wonder in what ways you have had to adapt and overcome, how you’ve found a new flexibility. 

One of my favorite lines from a movie is Lily Tomlin’s in 9 to 5 I’m a tree. I can bend. 

One man’s choices—One woman’s impact

Rock House Grill

Aden House, successful but driven chef and TV personality, refuses to slow down. His life implodes one night, damaging him both physically and emotionally. He’s rescued by a woman he thinks of as his angel.

Shay McDowell has rebuilt her life after her divorce. She juggles volunteer EMT duties and her job, while dreaming of becoming a chef. She finds her way to Rock House Grill and back into the life of the man she helped save.

Can love be the ingredient needed to survive the many obstacles they face?

Excerpt

“Easy, you’re going to be okay.” A soft voice eased through the chaos around him. The owner of the voice grabbed his arms and held them in a firm but gentle grip. “I’m right here with you. You are not alone.” “Can hardly m-move.” His voice slurred. “C-can’t see anything.” “You’ve been in an accident. I’m an EMT with the ambulance squad,” the velvety voice calmly explained. “You can’t see well because we’re under a tarp. Hold still, okay?” “‘K.” A small light flickered at the edge of his vision. It shone into a bag next to him. Penlight. “You’re restrained to a board. It’s to keep your head from moving and causing more injury.” She continued to talk to him. The voice reached down somewhere inside him, calming and peaceful, so he focused on it. A glow from spotlights on the outside lit whatever covered them. The shadow gave the woman the appearance of a halo—like an angel.

Hi, my name is D. V. Stone. Rock House Grill, a contemporary romance, is available for purchase on April 6^th by Wild Rose Press. I host Welcome to the Campfire, a weekly blog. I am also a multi-genre author of two independently published books. Felice, Shield-Mates of Dar is a fantasy romance. Agent Sam Carter and the Mystery at Branch Lake is a mid-grade paranormal. Here’s a little more about me.

Born in Brooklyn, D.V. Stone has moved around a bit and even lived for a time on a dairy farm in Minnesota before moving back east. Throughout her wandering, she always considered herself a Jersey Girl. She met and married the love of her life, Pete—a lifelong Jersey Man, and moved this time to Sussex County.  They live with Hali, a mixed breed from the local shelter and their cat Baby.

D.V.’s career path varied from working with the disabled to become a volunteer EMT, which in turn led to working in hospital emergency rooms and then in a women’s state prison. After a few years, she took a break from medicine and became the owner of Heavenly Brew, a specialty coffee shop in Sparta NJ, and a small restaurant in Lafayette. Life handed some setbacks, and she ended up back in the medical field, but this time in a veterinary emergency hospital. 

During the poor economy, she was laid–off from a long-time position she cared about. Devastated, D.V. wondered what to do with her life. Finding comfort in her love of reading, she realized it was now time to follow her dream of writing. It’s been a long road but worth every minute of it. Now a published author, she also works in a people medical office again.

“Thank you for taking the time to read about me. Each time you open the pages to one of my books, I hope you’ll be swept away by the story and find encouragement in your own life, never to give up on hope.”

D.V. Stone

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