{Character Interview} Rick Sheridan of Morgan Malone's Taking Control: Rick's Story
We’re thrilled to be talking to Rick Sheridan from Morgan
Malone’s Taking Control: Rick’s Story.
It is a pleasure to have Rick with us today at Pimp That Character!
Thank you for your interview, Rick. How old are you and what do you do for a
living?
I just turned 51 on the Fourth of
July. I am former Marine and I write screenplays and consult on the military
aspects of movies and television shows.
What would I love the most about you?
I can be trusted.
What would I hate the most about you?
That I can’t trust you…or pretty
much anyone.
Where do you go when you are angry?
I leave. Into the ocean, into my
MG, into the wind sometimes. I don’t like to lose control of my temper so the
best thing I’ve found, when I can avoid a fight, is to remove myself from the
situation.
What makes you laugh out loud?
The antics of the huge yellow
Labrador Retriever that’s living next door to me right now. Alex is part fish,
part Major League outfielder and part warrior, with a heart as big as the Atlantic
Ocean.
What is your greatest fear?
Losing control. People get hurt
when you lose control of a situation.
Do you think the author portrayed you accurately?
She did. I gave her a run for the
money. I don’t let people get inside my head. Or my heart. But Morgan’s damn persistent
and doesn’t take too much crap. Then she put the perfect woman for me in my
path. I danced and dodged but in the end, Morgan saw through me and all my
bullshit and brought me to the place I needed – wanted- to be.
Who is your best friend?
My best friend is Michael
Mullarney. Mick and I entered the Marine Corps together in 1989, we served
together through some pretty hairy times in Africa, Bosnia
and Iraq. Now,
we live a few blocks from each other in Surf City,
New Jersey. I’d give my life for him and he
would do the same for me.
Someone is secretly in love with you. Who is it and how do you feel about that?
Britt, a wonderful woman and former
Army Captain who is recuperating in her aunt and uncle’s beach cottage next
door to me, is attracted to me…I’m not sure she’s in love with me. I’m not
comfortable with that word. I’m in lust with her but I don’t know that I’m
capable of loving a woman in the “happy ever after” sense of the word. I do
know that I want to get to know her better, in every way, and I want to protect
her. She’s had a rough time, it might be better right now to just be her friend
and not her lover. But there was a particularly steamy kiss the other day when
I pulled her out of some rough surf…so I’d love to take that a little…a
lot…further. She has an over-protective, muscular yellow Labrador Retriever who
is always by her side, so that kiss might have been the beginning and the end.
What is your most treasured possession?
Of the things that I own, I’d say
my old MG, Nellie, is my most prized possession. I’ve had her for years,
re-built her with Mick’s help and keep her at my place in Surf
City. There’s nothing like driving
Nellie along the coast in the early morning with the top down-that’s freedom.
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you
do today?
I can’t answer that. I’ve almost
died too many times. There have been too many days when I knew I would be,
should be, dead before the next morning’s sunrise. I was responsible for too
many other lives that could be, would be, lost the next day, to worry about
myself and what meal I would like or place I might visit or woman I might hold.
If I knew for sure I was going to die tomorrow, I’d do everything I could today
to protect everyone I cared about, everyone I under my command…anything else
would be dumb, stupid, selfish…. Like I said, I can’t answer that question.
About the Author
Morgan Malone is the pen name of a retired lawyer who turned
in her judicial robes to write romantic memoir and sexy contemporary romance,
which always features silver foxes and the independent women who tame them.
Morgan fell in love with romantic heroes after reading her mother’s first edition of “Gone with the Wind” when she was 12 years old. Rhett Butler became the standard by which she measured all men. Some have met the mark, most have failed to even come close and one or two surpassed even Rhett’s dark and dangerous allure.
Morgan lives near Saratoga Springs, NY with her beloved chocolate Lab. She can be found on occasion drinking margaritas and dancing at local hostelries, but look for her most often in independent book stores and the library, searching for her next great love in tales of romance, history, adventure and lust. When she can’t find the perfect man, she retreats to her upstairs office and creates him, body and soul, for her pleasure and for yours. Remember: love, like wine, gets better with age.
Her recent novel is the contemporary romance, Taking
Control: Rick’s Story.
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About the Book:
Summer on the Jersey
Shore and all Rick Sheridan wants
is some solitude at his beach house. Then he spots a lean, leggy blonde coming
out of the surf and his plans are shot to hell. And the dangerous looking knife
strapped to her arm tells him this is no damsel in distress. As a not-so
retired Marine, at 51, Rick’s learned that nothing is for certain, plans can
spin out of control and shit happens.
Rick and Britt are immediately attracted to one another, but after years in combat, they are wary of letting down their guard, of giving up control. The summer heats up and fireworks are flying between them even after the Fourth of July. But, ghosts from their pasts haunt them and finally bring them face to face with some dark secrets that may destroy the fragile trust they’ve built.
Can Britt trust Rick with her dangerous past? Will Rick be able to let go of the rigid control he needs to keep Britt and himself safe from more heartbreak? These two brave souls fight against surrendering their hearts and finally finding love. Who will win?
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