A. Salem, in the witches house dungeon where they held those convicted of witchcraft. The feel of the place made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
2. Q. What are some of the quirks you share with your characters?
A. Family that likes to interfere. Property of a Billionaire, Nanna in that book is my mother, always thinking she knew best.
Wanting someone strong to take care of me. I’d never let it happen, I’m too independent, but a part of me does.
Age gap romances, that’s me. The smallest age gap between me and my partner was seven years.
Q. Of all the characters you’ve written, which one do you like the least and why?
A. Luke, in Always More and The App Daddy Kink, he was never going to get a book, yet somehow I found this character talking to me who could only see himself with Luke.
Q. What was your most difficult character or story to write? Why?
A. Ferron’s Journey, because of what he suffers in the trilogy. It’s heartbreaking and it led to me writing Chozen, two books that broke me and writing for several months. They tore my heart out.
Q. If any of your books were to be made into a movie, which one would you like to see on the big screen and who would you like to see play your main characters?
A. Where it all Began, this is an easy choice. The book is set in the 12th century and involves Vikings. I always saw Jason Mamoa playing the part of King Olaf the black. He’d rock the part of a man who suffers for love.
Q. Describe your writing space? Is there anything you have to have when you write? A favorite type of pen, certain music, a stuffed critter that always keeps you company?
A. My office is small, but it has all my bookish things in there. Fairy Lights around the large board that sits in front of me. I’ve lots of crystals and energy wands to create a positive space. Music, I list to playlists for every book to get the feel of my characters. It really helps me focus on how I see them. I also have lots of rainbow items most given as gifts from readers. I love my space.
Q. What has been the biggest influence on your writing? Why?
A. As a small girl I suffered a huge loss and books became my escape from the chaotic world I was thrown into. I always wanted to be able to give back that gift to others. To have a place to escape too.
8. Q. Is there a particular genre that you have always wanted to dabble in but haven’t had the opportunity to explore yet?
A. Proper crime fiction, I
have sort of dabbled, but not like I want to.
9. Q. Is there a particular book that you’ve written that you wish more readers knew about? If so share a little about it here:
A. That’s a hard one, if I had to choose I’d say Headshot. A boy beaten and kicked out of home is found by the manager of a charity home that takes in young men who are gay and find themselves homeless. It’s a story of how the faith of one human can make all the difference to a persons life.
Q. If you were to write a spin-off book featuring one of your side characters, whom would you choose and why? Can you tell us a little about the story you’d like to feature them in?
A. See this is my issue all my characters want a book and my readers want them too. So in the end anyone who makes an appearance in my books will at some point get a story. This is how I have so many interconnecting series. The App series, connects to Flamingo Bar, La Trattoria Di Amore, The Playroom and Billionaire’s Playground. As you can see spin off’s galore.
Q. Do you celebrate when you finish writing a book? If so, how?”
A. Initially it was with a spa day, but then I got prolific and that became harder, as the place I go gets booked up months in advance. So I moved to going for Sundaes at this great ice cream shop.
Q. What are some of the things you wished you knew about becoming an author before you headed down that path?
A. The amount of admin. No one talks about the requirement to wear so many hats in the business and how that creates oodles of admin that can suck the life right out of you.
Q. We all know that there are myths of what a writer’s life is like and then there are the realities of it. Can you share the funniest myth you ever heard and how that differs from your own experiences.
A I don’t think I’ve actually heard any?? I know it’s hard work, that it requires dedication and that without a creative spark you are dead in the water!
14 Q. If you could have dinner with any author, living or dead, who would that be and what would you like to talk to them about?
A Easy, Patrica Cornwell. I love her books, crime after romance is my biggest love. I’d talk about what inspires them. How they keep the characters and arcs straight. She really mixes it up and you need to have a handle on everything, because it all counts in the end.
Q. If you were to interview one of your characters, what would you ask them and how do you think they’d respond. (Alternately, if you’d like to write out that interview, I’d be happy to add it and share it with the readers.
A. I’d interview Griff, he’s my only gay for you character. I’d ask how he copes with Charlie’s Nanna. What if anything he’d do to keep Charlie safe. What makes Charlie so different from other men?
Q. A lot of writers cut their teeth on fan fiction. Has there ever been a book, movie, or tv show that you’ve been so passionate about that you wanted to change certain parts in order to make the storyline go in the direction you’d hoped it would and if so, what changes would you make to it?
A. Nope, never felt inclined to do fanfic, I like to make up new stuff I suppose.
Q. As a writer, what would you choose as your spirit animal or the animal that best reflects your writing style?
A. Elephant for sure is my spirit animal. It’s larger than life and that reflects how I write. I don’t curb myself ever. I run with my thoughts and keep on plodding. There might be pitfalls all around, but I’ll keep on going.
Q. If you couldn’t be an author, what do you think you’d be doing for a living?
A. I was a nurse manager, if that hadn’t sucked so badly in the end, I’d have stayed put and carried on. It did me a big favour for sure.
Q. Do you attend author events? If so, what’s the most amusing thing that ever took place at one that you attended, or your most amusing experience as an author attending one of these events?
A. I frequently attend events. Five this year was a killer! Amusing, my husbands reaction to when readers get enthusiastic about my characters. He doesn’t get that to us they are real. He looks utterly bewildered.
Q. What is a book you wished you had written and why?
A. Cruel and Unusual by Patrica Cornwell. The book is so intense and in depth with twists and turns, you are clueless as to what is going to happen next. It starts with an execution of a prisoner on death row. Which leads everyone on a journey no one expects!
Q. What projects do you have in the works and would you be willing to share a snippet of one of them here?
A. I’ve three projects I’m in the process of finishing. A Sucker for Christmas. It’s a tentacle’s book, which I love to write. A Little Christmas Matty’s Secret. This is Daddy kink, and Matty and Weston, god they are so adorable and hot together! And lastly if any one knows me then they know about my potato shifters, yep you read that right. I’ve a charity anthology I’m part of so I’m doing a Dinosaur and a potato shifter book. Yep crazy but I love it. Here’s an unedited snippet.
A Boy
Called Blu….
The
bartender turned his incredulous gaze to me. He took a step back, something I’d
gotten used to as his nose wrinkled, and he scoped out my size. “Where you
been? Living under a rock.”
At
seven feet tall and larger than a tank, with as many muscles, folks gave me a
wide berth. “Don’t have a TV,” I answered, keeping the natural growl in my
voice as low as possible, returning my attention to the screen as the tiny
blond explained about how he was a potato shifter and his mate was a wolf. That
the two babies he held were their pups.
My
dinosaur made a grumbling sound in my head and urged me to leave.
I’ll go
when I’m ready.
“Then
you don’t know ‘bout Potatoville and how there’s all these weird vegetable
shifters sproutin’ up everywhere?” Cautious was the only way to describe how
the dude eyed me when I returned my attention to him at his obvious pun.
“Nope.”
The guy
leaned on the bar and grinned like he was about to share a big secret, then his
lip curled up like he’d smelled something bad. “You ain’t one of those weird
and wacky shifters, are you? You smell kinda funny. What are you?”
His
voice was strident and drew attention from others in the bar. I sighed and
kicked myself for giving in and coming into town, which was full of wolf
shifters. Telling this dude I was a deinonychus dinosaur would get me accused
of lying, and then folks would want me to prove it. That never ended well for
them. My dinosaur wasn’t friendly and didn’t take too kindly to assholes.
They’re
all assholes. Let’s go find the potatoes.
Hearing
my dinosaur say the word ‘asshole’ never got old. It was a recent addition to
the words he learned from the books I read recently—in the last century.
Hearing him tell me to go find the potatoes, yeah that I wasn’t so amused
about.
Q. What is the worst piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
A. Write what you know! It’s a total croc. It should be write what you love to read. What makes you giddy with excitement and keeps you entertained.
Q. What is your favorite season to write in and why?
A. Winter time as I love summer and being out in the sunshine. It’s hard to resist going out even when I’ve deadlines.
Q. What’s the funniest typo you’ve ever written.
A. I actually have a great autocorrect, so there aren’t any that I really notice.
Q. If you could spend a week writing anywhere in the world, where would you want to go.
A. Any place that I can see the sea from. That’s my goal to own a place where I can see the sea from my office window.
Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope folks will turn in tomorrow for Lazy Sunday Cinema, where we will be deep diving into a family movie this time. Until tomorrow, have a happy rest of your day!
I can't wait for the next potato book! Sounds like a hoot.
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