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S. L. Bynum Interview

12/20/2015

The guest author for today on Interviews with Dante is S. L. Bynum. She is a writer of Paranormal Romance. Her latest work is Grim Crush, book one in the Grimly Ever After series.

Please tell us a little about yourself.
I started writing when I was 12, and my first novel was supposed to be like a book in the “Goosebumps” series. It was awful. The books I have out now were written after a lot of practice. I’m 26, and besides books, I like desserts, playing games, and dancing to music (mostly when I’m alone). I live in the city of Greensboro, NC.

Tell us about your latest book.
Grim Crush is about seventeen-year-old Xia, who is a grim reaper and has three Rules of Reaping she has to follow. She’s not supposed to show herself to living humans, but one boy, a Native American named Shilah, can see her anyway. The two of them start to fall for each other, and that brings problems from Xia’s boss and father, the Angel of Death.

What do you have coming out in the future?
The sequel to Grim Crush, which is currently titled Grim Fate. And then the third and final book in the series.

Is your book a stand-alone or a series?
A series called Grimly Ever After.

Why romance and what makes your particular brand of romance special?
Usually a book or movie has to have a bit of romance for me to love it. I especially like when two characters first fall in love, when they get those butterflies and dreamy looks in their eyes. It makes me swoon. But I like romance more when it’s mixed with something else to make it even more exciting, so that’s why I chose to write a paranormal romance series.

Is romance the only genre that you write in or do you write in other genres? If so what other genres do you write in?
I definitely write in other genres, mostly fantasy and science fiction. I also write a bit of mystery and thrillers.

1. Do not interfere with someone's death.
2. Do not become emotionally involved.
3. Do not show yourself to the living.

As a grim reaper, seventeen-year-old Xia has to follow these Rules. But when she meets Shilah, a Native American boy who can see reapers, she figures the rules don't apply. To find out why he can see her, she pretends to be human, since carrying a scythe probably isn't the latest teen craze. Things become unnerving as she begins experiencing first-time affection with Shilah, but she's irreversibly drawn to him. Suddenly Xia finds herself breaking Rule Two, even while collecting dead souls behind Shilah's back. It isn't long before she is caught red-handed by the Angel of Death himself, and then not only is her relationship at risk, but also Shilah's soul. And this leaves Xia wondering: can love overcome Death?

GRIM CRUSH is a teen paranormal romance that shows how love can transcend the boundary between life and death.

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Do you ever base your characters on real people in your life?
Yes, sometimes. Mostly I try to put a bit of myself in my main characters, and if someone requests to have their name in one of my books, sometimes I do that too!

What authors inspire your writing?
J. K. Rowling, Christopher Paolini, and R. A. Salvatore

How have your real life experiences influenced your writing?
My experiences helped me learn what my characters would feel in certain situations. For example, I have gone through struggles with love, and I incorporated that in Grim Crush. I didn’t have any experience with affection from guys much in my teen years, so I know how my character, Xia, feels.

What do you like to do when you are not writing?
Watch TV shows like The Walking Dead, Supernatural, Game of Thrones, etc. I also like being outside, listening to music, playing games, and dancing sometimes.

What was your road to publishing like? Tell us about it.
It was a struggle every step of the way. I wrote a few novels and sent them out to hundreds of agents. I kept getting rejected, even though they said my writing was good. So I tried publishing Grim Crush with a small press, but eventually they released me from my contract. Finally I decided to skip the middleman and get my work straight to the readers by self-publishing. And I’m getting great feedback!

How did you come up with the title of your book?
Since the book is about a grim reaper, I wanted the word “grim” in the title. I went through several different words to go with it, and then I found one that made the book sound like the beginning of teenage love, which starts with a crush. Therefore, Grim Crush was born.

Do you read romance or do you prefer other genres?
Funny enough, I never read plain romance books. Fantasy is my favorite genre, but I LOVE books with a touch of romance in them. I read mostly YA.

Have you joined any writer’s groups?
I have online. There’s one I actively look at and participate in on Goodreads, called Support Indie Authors.

What is the hardest part of the writing process for you?
Getting stuck on a scene in my book and not knowing what should come next for my characters.

What is the easiest part of the writing process for you?
Writing action scenes! My hands just fly across the keyboard and my mind shuts out everything around me.

Which of your characters is your favorite and why?
Xia, because I identify with her struggles of being devoid of love and affection, because I was too when I was a teen.

Do you have a careful plan when plotting your stories or do you just go with the flow?
Both. I have a vague outline in the beginning, but by the time I’m finished writing the story, it surprises me how different it is from the original outline.

With many publishing routes available today, which felt the most reliable to you when it came to the many choices?
Self-publishing. I have control of everything and I can choose when to get my books out to readers, instead of waiting years in-between books in my series.

When did you know you truly wanted to give writing a shot?
When I was sixteen, although I didn’t start working hard at making a career of it till I was eighteen. I thought if J. K. Rowling could become a billionaire writing books, I should at least be able to make a decent living from it!

Do you have any advice for other writers and what is it?
Follow your heart no matter what anyone else tells you. Do what you love, even if it’s a risk.

Wild Card Question.
As an author, what is the one question that you wish people would ask you, but no one ever has and what would your answer be to that question?

Have I ever had an experience like the one in my book?
I experienced what I think was first love, but I was too shy to let the guy into my life and heart. And I never knew that feeling of affection and closeness with my first love, but if I had, it would’ve been new, scary, and very exciting. That’s how Xia feels when she first discovers affection with Shilah in Grim Crush.

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Ellie Midwood Interview

12/15/2015

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The guest author for today on Interviews with Dante is Ellie Midwood. She is a writer of Historical Romance. Her latest work is The Girl From Berlin: Standartenfuhrer’s Wife. The first book in The Girl From Berlin series.

Please tell us a little about yourself.
Ellie Midwood is a New York based author who loves writing about her city and its people. She's a health obsessed yoga enthusiast, a neat freak, an adventurer, Nazi Germany history expert, polyglot, philosopher, a proud Jew and a doggie mama.
Ellie lives in Brooklyn with her Sicilian fiancé and their Chihuahua named Shark Bait.

Tell us about your latest book.
Basically it’s a historical romance and a spy thriller in one. This is a diary of Annalise Meissner, a young German Jew with long time ago falsified papers, living a carefree life in pre-war Berlin. A talented ballerina, she comes from a wealthy family and at first doesn’t want to concern herself with the changes her country starts undergoing under the new Nazi regime. However, when the oppressions against the Jewish population begin, she realizes that she can’t be a silent bystander and swears to help her people in any way possible.
She falls in love and gets married to her father's longtime friend, Standartenführer Heinrich Friedmann, who even though he works for SD – the Reich Secret Service – seems to share her views, and soon Annalise learns why. Her new husband turns out to be a counterintelligence agent working for the US government, and together they start a dangerous game against the sinister Gestapo, trying to save as many lives as they can and not to compromise themselves.
But it's not only the persecuted people Annalise wants to save; she meets the leader of the Austrian SS Gruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner who everyone seems to fear, but for some reason Annalise isn't intimidated by the Chief of the Austrian Gestapo and doesn't believe the rumors about his brutality. Gruppenführer Kaltenbrunner isn't hiding the fact that he would love to get this beautiful girl as his mistress, but Annalise, despite the mutual attraction, stays faithful to her beloved husband. However, the risky game she’s playing will soon change everything…

What do you have coming out in the future?
Currently I’m working on Book 3 in the series – War Criminal’s Widow, which will be the last one in the planned series, and after that I’ll have another story coming out, which will be set in pre-war Germany.

Is your book a stand-alone or a series?
It’s a series consisting of three books: Book One – Standartenfuhrer’s Wife, in which the action concentrates mainly on the character development of Annalise, my protagonist, and how she grows and changes after facing horrors that her country plunges into. Book Two – Gruppenfuhrer’s Mistress has a very different mood, it’s very provocative and erotic, since Annalise has to play a dangerous game of getting close to the infamous Chief of the RSHA (Nazi Germany Secret Service) and she’s not sure if she can fight their mutual attraction and stay loyal to her husband. Book Three – War Criminal’s Widow tells a very dramatic story of the two lovers during the last few months of war and later of the Nuremberg process, where Annalise’s beloved is being tried. It’s probably the most emotional part, which tells a story of love, loss and hope, which one can never lose. I didn’t want to concentrate on the same kind of feelings throughout the whole series, I wanted to show how they evolved and changed under certain circumstances, and how people sacrifice themselves for the ones they love.

Why romance and what makes your particular brand of romance special?
The Girl from Berlin is not purely historical romance, it’s also a spy thriller and a historical fiction as well, because all the historical events in the book are real, just like some of the characters who are also based on real people living in that period of time. That’s what makes it unique, the credibility and the possibility of everything described in the book – even the fictional events – could really happen.

Is romance the only genre that you write in or do you write in other genres? If so what other genres do you write in?
I do write in different genres, even though historical romance would be my favorite, for example my book The Brooklyn Boys Club tells a story of a young Italian-American boy living in Bensonhurst Brooklyn and trying to escape the fate of the rest of the youth who are being pulled into the dangerous world of the underground rulers of the neighborhood – the Italian mafia. So it’s kind of a Godfather type of story, but with a very light side to it, it’s very humorous and not your typical bloody type of mafia book.

The Girl from Berlin is a beautiful love story of two brave people who weren't afraid to fight against the Nazi regime. A Jewish girl and an SS officer working for the Reich Main Security Office, they weren't meant to be together, yet they fall in love and start a dangerous game against the sinister Gestapo, the bets in which are people's lives...

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From where do you draw your inspiration?
Mostly from documentaries I watch and biographies I read; it’s very helpful in building a story and makes it much easier to create realistic characters.

What do you like to do when you are not writing?
I love my yoga classes, exercise and meditation help me to relax and to refresh my vision, I always come back home very motivated and with new ideas that didn’t occur to me before. I also love reading a lot and enjoy finding new material on the subject I’m currently working on. To me it’s like treasure hunting, discovering new materials and documents, and I love putting those unknown to the general public facts in my books.

How did you come up with the title of your book?
I wanted it to be something simple and something authentic at the same time, that’s why the series is called The Girl from Berlin (since the story is told from the point of view of my protagonist, a Berlin girl), and subtitles are so German-sounding - Standartenfuhrer’s Wife and Gruppenfuhrer’s Mistress. I didn’t translate the military ranks in English on purpose, just like most of the notions and organizations, to make it more authentic.

What is your absolute favorite book or books and why is it special to you?
Probably right now it would be The Kommandant’s Mistress by Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, it is an extremely provocative novel which tells a story of a young Jewish girl who was chosen to give sexual favors to the Kommandant of one of the concentration camps. I love re-reading this book, there’s just something into it that makes you want to come back to it again and again.

Have you joined any writer’s groups?
As soon as I started writing I joined Goodreads and keep communicating with other authors through it, I love that platform, it gives countless opportunities both to the authors and readers to discover each other and to promote their work.

What is the hardest part of the writing process for you?
Definitely editing. It’s just my problem I think because it’s very hard to start re-writing something when your story is already finished in your eyes. But I’m very lucky to have an amazing editor, Alexandra, who’s been more than helpful and always knows how to guide me and motivate me to make some scenes stronger or better. She makes this hardest part very easy for me.

Which of your characters is your favorite and why?
Besides my protagonist, Annalise, my favorite character would definitely be her chief and lover – the Chief of the RSHA Ernst Kaltenbrunner. He’s a very complex character and changes greatly throughout the whole series and it’s fascinating to discover his true personality under all the layers of arrogance and sarcasm. He was a very controversial political figure of his time and I love the edge his eccentric attitude adds to the whole story.

Who or what are your inspirations/influences?
While writing The Girl from Berlin series my inspirations were the real people living in that period of time. I studied a lot of memoirs and biographies to create the closest to life characters. Many heroic things were done even in such a horrifying environment as Nazi Germany was, and I wanted to transfer it into my story.

What is your preferred writing environment?
I always say that I need three things to write: home, silence, night. This way I’m fully immersed into my story without anything distracting me (and you can only imagine how distractive a city like New York can be!)

Do you have a careful plan when plotting your stories or do you just go with the flow?
Normally I have the basic story in my head before I start writing a new book, but every new chapter sometimes unravels in some unexpected way; all my stories are character-driven and I love letting them lead the way and make the story.

When did you know you truly wanted to give writing a shot?
I’ve been writing my whole life, whether short stories or little essays, but you know that you really have to write something, when you have this story burning a hole in your head, which just has to be told. Then I sit down and write, because I know that later I’ll be re-reading that story many times.

What is your favorite quote?
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” (Ernest Miller Hemingway)
I always try my best to follow this quote while writing my books, that’s why my characters make mistakes, they do things they’re not supposed to, they turn from good to bad and back to good again just like in real life. But they’re always very honest about their choices.

Do you have any advice for other writers and what is it?
Never give up and don’t take anything negative said about your work personally. Ten people might not like your work, but one will find it fascinating and will become your most loyal fan. And of course never keep still and work on your writing, improve yourself, do the research, attend seminars, read articles on the topic… Always keep in mind that writing is work and a lot of effort needs to be put into a really good book.

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Isabel Curtis Interview

12/10/2015

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The guest author for today on Interviews with Dante is Isabel Curtis. She is a writer of New Adult Contemporary Romance. Her latest work is Unexpected Love, book one in the Unexpected series.

Please tell us a little about yourself.
Hello everyone! I’m Isabel Curtis, and I’m a 25 year old indie author. I started my writing career as a YA writer, but now I also write New Adult/Contemporary Romance books. I’ve spent my life mostly traveling, and reading, and during the past few years I’ve turned my passion for writing into an almost full-time job.

Tell us about your latest book.
My latest book is called “Unexpected Love” and it’s the first installment in the “Unexpected” series. It’s a contemporary romance which features Olly, a college student, and Daniel, a lawyer: they fall (unexpectedly) in love but at some point life gets in the way and… you have to read the book to learn how it ends.

What do you have coming out in the future?
I have a few YA novels I plan on publishing in late 2016, yet right now I’m more focused on the new adult genre, so I’m writing a prequel and a sequel to the “Unexpected Love” book I published in September 2015. I also have a stand alone novel I plan on publishing in a year or so.

Is your book a stand-alone or a series?
The new adult contemporary romance book “Unexpected Love” is part of a series, called “Unexpected”, and I plan on having at least other four books in the series publishing within the next few months.

Why romance and what makes your particular brand of romance special?
I started reading lots of contemporary romances a while ago and I’ve been intrigued by this genre and style ever since. I began thinking of a story line which fit perfectly in this genre and I thought I’d give it a try. I like to take on new adventures and challenges. I already have the whole “Unexpected” series sort of outlined (there will seven books in total) and a new series called “The Interpreter” which I hope to get started in 2016. Both series feature very interesting characters that I try develop in a clear and sincere way throughout the whole narration, and the readers can truly relate to some big life choices they make, and even though the good guy might sometimes, in the end, turn out to be not so good it’s pretty easy for the reader to identify himself/herself with the character… which makes it harder to hate him. My books are not just romantic stories, I try to given them a more meaningful message that can be passed on.

Is romance the only genre that you write in or do you write in other genres? If so what other genres do you write in?
No, I began my writing career as a young adult author and I have published a YA coming-of-age book called “Before Life Happened” which is part of the “Before” series. I plan on writing both genres for a very long time, since I have lots of stories ready to be written both in the YA and NA romance genre.

A SEXY CONTEMPORARY LOVE STORY

Olly Biel decided long ago that love was just not in her plans, College was her only priority and nothing (and no one) was going to change that. There was no time for a relationship. That is, until Daniel Kingston came along and unexpectedly made her question everything she knew. But Daniel has a past, and it's about to catch up. Will he break her heart in the end?

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From where do you draw your inspiration?
Actually, anything can sort of trigger my imagination and lead me to create characters/stories in my head: a movie, a song, a poem, a book, an image…. As soon as the slightest plot idea is growing in my mind I let my inspiration take over and before I know it the whole book is coming to life.

How have your real life experiences influenced your writing?
Sometimes I find myself writing about “personal” experiences (in terms of dialogues or scenarios or places) I’ve actually lived or that have really taken place, but that’s a very minor part that influences my writing. In most cases it’s just pure imagination.

What do you like to do when you are not writing?
I translate, I run a blog, I read, I market my books, I travel, I take my dog out for a walk, I do lots of things. But no matter what I do, I’m always thinking about writing.

What was your road to publishing like? Tell us about it.
I decided to self-publish right away: I’ve never wasted my time looking for an agent or a publisher, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try that in the future. But I like the idea of self-publishing, doing your own marketing/promotion, choosing your own cover, having a closer relationship with the readers… It’s a pretty interesting world and I like it, plus it’s not that hard nowadays to self-publish (there are many platforms out there that make the process pretty smooth and easy). It’s all just a matter of marketing and promotion.

So once my first book was finished, I hired a professional proofreader and editor. In the mean time I created the book cover, I put online my author website, built a Facebook page and my twitter account along with some other social media networks to promote my books (ie. Goodreads) and within a month the book was available on most online stores. The initial promotion came from a Goodreads giveaway I started to promote the launch of my book, and the feedbacks were great!

How did you come up with the title of your book?
Strangely enough, titles come pretty easy to me. The fil rouge of the “Unexpected” series is - as you can imagine - having to face unexpected events. So in each book the protagonists find themselves experiencing surprising and unforeseen situations that lead to certain outcomes that they had not anticipated. “Unexpected Love” is all about Olly (the main character) who falls in love when she least expects it… but nothing ever goes the way we plan, after all. I’m enjoying writing this series because I get to create interesting plot twists which leave the reader always wondering what will happen next.

Do you read romance or do you prefer other genres?
I’ve started reading lots of romance at the beginning of last year, and I really enjoy it. Although I am also a big fan of coming-of-age YA novels and the dystopian genre.

What is the hardest part of the writing process for you?
Writer’s Block, for sure. Sometimes I know what I want to write, I just seem to lack the words. I know where I want to go, but I don’t know how to get there and it gets frustrating. I find myself wasting so much time just staring at the blank page, writing then deleting, writing some more and then deleting again. It can go on for days.

What is the easiest part of the writing process for you?
I guess the easy part for me, for now, has been never running out of ideas for a new story. I’ve heard about writers who at some point in their career are stuck because they don’t know what they are going to write next, or what they want to work on because they have no inspiration. Fortunately, I’m never out of inspiration and ideas so that makes it easier to start a new project right away as soon as I’m finished with one. I think it’s very important for a writer to write, write, and write. Either if it’s just a blog post or a short random chapter. As long as if you have your inspiration by your side, you’re doing well.

Do you have a careful plan when plotting your stories or do you just go with the flow?
I don’t do the chapter-by-chapter outline strategy that some writers seem to love. I’ve tried that but it just isn’t for me. I usually just sit at my computer and let the words flow on their own. I might start a dialogue between two characters not having the slightest idea of where that’s going to take me, and I like it.

When did you know you truly wanted to give writing a shot?
It all began a few years ago, when I started have serious plot ideas for a book and I felt the need to start writing some scenes down. Then at some point I realized that my “ideas” could really turn into a full-length novel, so I said “why not?”. I started writing the whole book during my free evenings, and whenever I could take a break from my freelancing job (I used to be a full time translator). I felt like I had so much to say, and I decided that I didn’t want to keep it all to myself anymore.

What is your favorite quote?
Oh, there are so many I’m having a hard time choosing just one. It depends I guess on my mood, but right now there’s a quote by Sophocles that’s popping into mind:

“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect."— Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Do you have any advice for other writers and what is it?
First of all, I’d say: read a lot. Read books from authors who write the same genre as you, books like the one you plan on writing, and even other types of books. Just read.
Get a website, a Goodreads page, a Twitter account and a Tumblr blog.
Then, DO hire a professional proofreader/editor to help you with any typos or grammar errors you might have missed, readers hate that kind of stuff and might influence their reviews.
But in the end the best advice I feel like giving is just this one: write, and do it for yourself. If you feel that’s your vocation, don’t give up.

Wild Card Question.
As an author, what is the one question that you wish people would ask you, but no one ever has and what would your answer be to that question?

Why did you decide to publish under a pen name?
This is a pretty interesting question, I would sort of have to psychoanalyze myself and try to figure out why I don’t want people to know who is the real person behind the books I write. I’m about to give you a pretty complicated and messed up answer, so I apologize from the beginning if you won’t be able to follow my train of thought. Just know that it makes total sense to me.

Truth is, no one in my family knows about this passion of mine and when I started writing I never told anyone that this was what I really wanted to do. I guess time passed and it became harder to let them know about my “parallel life”. They just think I sit at my computer all day working… they just don’t really know what I work on. Creativity never really blossomed in my house, so I grew up believing that writing could never be regarded as a “job”.

Writing shows so much about the author: his/her most deepest thoughts, fears, ideas, personality… writers put so much meaning into their words that it makes them so raw and open, and vulnerable… and this scares me. If strangers read my thoughts, that’s okay because to them I’m just a writer, someone they do not know. When I read, I barely take into consideration the author, I care more about the characters and their story - and I guess my readers do the same with my books. But letting your friends and relatives read your mind through your writing gives them so much more insight on who you really are, and it gives them some kind of power over you that I do want them to have. I guess we could say that I don’t care what a stranger thinks about me, but I do care what those close to me think.
To my readers, I’m a writer.
To my family, I’m a person.

Plus, I like having a double life.
It makes my days so much more interesting.

Writing is my private world, and only those who do not know they are accessing it are welcome.

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Faye Hall Interview

12/5/2015

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The guest author for today on Interviews with Dante is Faye Hall. She is a writer of Historical Erotic Romance. Her latest work is Mistress of Purity.

Please tell us a little about yourself.
I’m an Australian author of Historical erotic romances set in outback towns of Northern Australia between 1850 and 1898.

Tell us about your latest book.
Mistress of Purity was released in August 2015. The plot of the story tells about when Gareth obeyed his father’s widow’s request for him to return to Sarina to collect his inheritance. Never could he have imagined he’d find her to be the same woman he’d loved so passionately a few weeks before. The secrets that Gareth unveils upon returning to his late father’s estate become a near obsession to him, revealing to him not only the truth about Prue, but also the man his father had truly been.

What do you have coming out in the future?
Passions in the Dust will be out in March 2016. It’s about a wealthy station owner who orders a mail order bride only to find her to be the lover he had left back in England. Together they are faced with cattle rustlers, scrub fires, poisoned cattle and a fiancé out for revenge.

Is your book a stand-alone or a series?
Stand alone

Why romance and what makes your particular brand of romance special?
I write romances because I love a happy ending! My own particular brand of romance is uniquely Australian, using actual historical place names and some of my own personal family history. The romance is driven by suspense and mystery, as well as scandals and the occasional mention of remedies or legends belonging to the Australian Aboriginals.

Is romance the only genre that you write in or do you write in other genres? If so what other genres do you write in?
So far I only write romance

Prue had seen something the night her father was murdered – something that would forever change her life…

…She had seen something that would continue to haunt her and follow her wherever she went.

When she had married the Earl of Malloy, Prue had hoped to be able to hide under his name and at his out of town estate.

What she had not thought was to become his son’s MISTRESS OF PURITY.

Gareth had sworn never to return to his father’s estate, not to the life he had once thought to have there.

He had hoped that the man he had grown in to was no longer hoping to find the love of a woman he knew could not possibly exist.

What Gareth had not wanted was to find his comfort in the arms of his father’s young wife…a woman he knew was hiding far more than just one secret from him.

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From where do you draw your inspiration?
Mostly the history of mine or my husband’s ancestors.

Do you ever base your characters on real people in your life?
Yes quite a few have been based on people I have known or am related to.

What do you like to do when you are not writing?
Usually just relaxing and spending time with my family.

What was your road to publishing like? Tell us about it.
I was first published way back in 1996 just after I graduated High School, but the company went bankrupt. I was then again offered a contract in 2008 but that company also went bust. Red Sage Publishing contracted me in 2012 and I’ve been with them ever since, having just been offered a fifth contract.

Have you joined any writer’s groups?
I am currently a member of both the Romance Writers of America and Australia.

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Forthcoming
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2016

What is the hardest part of the writing process for you?
Writing a synopsis – it’s like pulling teeth for me.

What is the easiest part of the writing process for you?
Usually the basic plot outline.

What is your preferred writing environment?
I would say quiet but having a combined family of nine children doesn’t always allow for that.

Do you have a careful plan when plotting your stories or do you just go with the flow?
I usually have a list of ideas and a few written paragraphs involving certain dialogue but it’s all subject to change with me. Plots change constantly until I think it’s finally right.

What is your favorite quote?
“Was it hard?" I ask. “Letting go?"

“Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
― Lisa Schroeder

Wild Card Question.
As an author, what is the one question that you wish people would ask you, but no one ever has and what would your answer be to that question?

If you could have been the original author of any book, what would it have been and why?
To Kill a Mockingbird because it has never been out of print.

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