Question: What is the hardest part of writing for you? The easiest?
Answer: The hardest part of writing is the revisions. It’s painful. I think it’s because I have a set idea of how I want the story to unfold and now I have to look at it in a different way (and I usually [...]
One of the most common questions I get is about where I work. Do I have an office? What does it look like? Stuff like that. I’m like that, too. I’m always curious of people’s creative areas like a sewing room or art studio. Sometimes you can walk into their craft area and you get inspired. [...]
Whenever the heroine of a TV show or movie has two good friends, one of those friends is the plain or buttoned-down goody-two-shoes and the other is the trampy lush. Think of Rosie and Tanya from Mamma Mia. Or Dena and Andrea from the Samantha Who. Even Sex and the City plays with the friend [...]
Question: What do you eat or drink when you write?
I get a lot of questions about my writing process and this one cracks me up! One reason is because a couple of years ago a friend was in a panic when Coca-Cola discontinued her favorite flavor. She drank it whenever she wrote and she didn’t [...]
I received a few copies of the Russian translation for Red-Hot and Royal, and I tried using Bablefish to get an idea of what was said. Bablefish is not always correct and some of their word choices are ridiculous. And after reading Kate Hewitt’s near-disaster with the text translation page, I know it’s far from reliable!
Let me [...]
Sometimes when I’m trying to come up with a hero or heroine, I use movie stars as inspiration. I have a posterboard with pictures torn from magazines, and I’ll watch their movies. I pay close attention to their body language and any quirk or mannerism (like closing their eyes or tilting their head) that makes sense [...]
The Year of Living Shamelessly is excerpted in Complete Woman magazine! (See the cover of the book on the bottom right corner?) The magazine is also doing a giveaway.
It’s such a thrill to see my work in this publication. And I think it’s fantastic that The Year of Living Shamelessly was excerpted in a magazine [...]
Question: I know that Crystal Bend is a fictional town, but is it based on a real place?
Answer: Not really. When I wrote The Year of Living Shamelessly, I wanted to set it in a college town nestled in the mountains. I’m not sure why I wanted it in the mountains. Probably because I can [...]
For the second week in a row, The Year of Living Shamelessly hits the Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Bookscan bestseller list for romance trade paperback. Thanks to everyone who bought a copy. I hope you enjoy it!
A few years ago my Jenesi Ash stories were published in print anthologies. They are now out-of-print and hard-to-find, but I just found out that one of them has been reissued. Best Fetish Erotica is now available in stores and it contains my infamous erotic short story “Santa’s Little Helper.” I still hear from readers about [...]
