Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a romance and fantasy author. My first series is titled Sisters Of The Curse, and it’s based on the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses. I always wondered why they behaved the way they did in the original story (I wondered that about a lot of the Grimm Brothers tales) and this was my way of answering that question. There are three books available right now, with the final book in the series coming out in May.
I just released the first book in my latest series, The Heart Of The Djinn, which is about a free-lancing djinn and the people he chooses to help and grant wishes to. The first book, Three Wishes, is about a woman looking back on choices made and wishing she chose differently. Enter the djinn. But like most djinn, he gives nothing for free.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
As I mentioned, Three Wishes. This is slightly autobiographical, in that I was thinking over the past and the choices I’d made. It led to wondering what like would have been like had I made different choices. Unlike Tibby, the main character, I am in a wonderful place, and don’t want to go back and do things differently, but it made me think.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Keep writing. Write every day. Make it part of your daily schedule. Those are also some of the hardest pieces of advice to follow.
What are you reading now?
Sonya Bateman’s Fields Of Blood, which is the second book in her series The Deathspeaker Codex. It’s a wonderful urban fantasy, and I love her characters.
What’s next for you as a writer?
More series! I have a running list of the things I want to write, and since I enjoy reading series, that’s what I write. I have a stand-alone Jane Austen book planned, a romance series based in Colorado, and another paranormal trilogy in the planning stages as well.
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?
Can I bring all of Jane Austen’s works? I read and re-read all of her novels, and her unfinished work even now, and enjoy them every time.
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