Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My first romance was written on hotel stationary when I was 14. It was awful but I loved doing it! Life is too full to write with college, marriage, kids, jobs etc., but when my baby went to kindergarten, I tried writing again. So fun, but I still didn’t know what I was doing. I joined Romance Writers of America and have now had 2 books published, Echoes of the Heart and Echoes In Time, with Boroughs publishing. This will be my first go with indie publishing!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
A Promise For Tomorrow was inspired by a single scene that kept coming to me while I walked the bayou. I could see a very large man calming a woman who had been sexually assaulted and promising not to get too close unless she was happy about it. They sealed the deal with a pinky promise which is featured in this book! I love characters who have been pushed by life to their limits and must take that final leap of faith to find love and happiness.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Hmmmm. I have writing accountability partners who I write with 4 days a week and a critique crew who I meet with once a week because I am a TERRIBLE procrastinator! I also write better if I have my one diet coke from Sonic in the morning…it’s a ritual kind of thing!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I started reading romance when I was quite young living in Malaysia. There was very little TV, so books were it! Barbara Cartland was my first, but my favorites were Victoria Holt and Kathleen Woodiwiss! Now, I adore Roxanne St. Claire and am lucky enough to call her a good friend, along with Christie Craig.
What are you working on now?
I’m working on the 3rd in my other series. This one will be called Echoes Out of The Dark and will feature a single mom with a child who is in remission from leukemia and a man who drank his way through his wife’s cancer, but has come back from the bottle to be a great coach and artist. Will he have the strength to stick around once the child’s leukemia returns……
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I love Facebook! I love my website!
https://www.facebook.com/staceyapurcell/
www.staceyapurcell.com
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Stick with it! It’s too easy to make excuses about why you can’t write. And take classes!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You can edit crap on the page, but if there’s nothing there…you are nowhere.
What are you reading now?
Roxanne St. Claire’s The Dogfather Series
What’s next for you as a writer?
I have 2 romantic suspense novels written and I want to clean them up and publish them to start The Wellington Foundation series!
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?
Kathleen Woodiwiss- Shanna
Roxanne St. Claire- Anyone of The Bullet Catcher series
Rebecca Zanetti- The Scorpius Syndrome
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