Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a tech geek and new mom with an avid love of video games, chocolate, and new technological advancements. A few months ago a close family relative was diagnosed with stage four cancer and a few days ago she died. Throughout the process of her transition, I realized that I didn’t want to be on my deathbed with a google drive filled with unpublished work, so I went full YOLO.
In the last three weeks I’ve written and published six salacious novelettes as Deiri Di and have been getting my less adult science fiction novels up under a different pen name.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Communilingus.
Communication is so essential to us as a species. It is the driving force behind our evolutionary success as well as our own personal failures. We succeed when we communicate well. For a healthy and robust romantic life, we need good communication as well as… other skills.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to launch a video game on my additional monitor that essentially plays itself while I write. Occasionally I’ll switch over and make slight adjustments, but it make me giggle to have the little characters running around playing themselves while I work on creating new worlds. I usually create new characters for each of the books hero/heroines and have them running around as I write about them.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
My writing influences are drastically different than the racy content that I write.
Issac Asimov was one of my early reads as a child and his I,Robot series of stories left a strong mark on my brain. Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is another. Mercedes Lacky with her Mage series made me cry and gave me my first exposure to love outside of the gender normative structure. Anne McCaffrey’s Pern, Ship, and Rowan series were more favorites.
What are you working on now?
I’m working on two things.
As Deiri Di I am working on the next novelette in the Cryo Crisis romance series. It’s called Raptimax (Rapture+Climax) and is about a competitive gymnast who in a moment of adrenaline fueled passion, finds herself entangled with an alien in a drop suit closet. The character Sierra has made an appearance in the other books as an antagonist and I wanted to provide her perspective and give her a chance to show herself for who she truly is.
Under my other less naughty pen name, Siobhan Shiva, I’ve just published my first dystopian science fiction novel. It is called Every Nowhere and should be out on amazon in a few days. With that pen name I’m also working on a new LitRPG, but that will take a lot longer than any of the works in my Cryo Crisis universe. It requires a lot more math and a lot less quick and steamy fun.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Keywords!
I’ve barely done anything to promote my work so far other than careful use of keywords. Readers who are looking for steamy work are finding my stuff. This author interview is one of the first actual promotion efforts I’ve done.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do your research.
Look at your genre before you publish and take the time to research keywords that will bring the readers that you’re looking for. Never stop learning.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
YOLO.
Stop thinking about it and do it. If you fail you learn. If you succeed, you also learn.
Do it.
What are you reading now?
A LitRPG about a soldier that is put into a monster’s body.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m going to keep writing.
A lot.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
An army survival manual, a book on boat building, and a book on edible plants and animals for that area. I read far too quickly to be satiated without wifi.
Being stranded on a desert island by yourself sounds miserable. Now, throw in a marooned hottie who is determined to woo me while working with me to save us both – yes please, more please.
Author Websites and Profiles
Deiri Di Website
Deiri Di Amazon Profile