Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi,
I’m Stella. I’ve written six novels, and two are published. More are coming, not to worry.
Besides writing, I love Zumba, yoga, watercolor painting, and running along the ocean’s sand in bare feet.
I’ve always loved to make up stories. I mean it. As a kid, I made up names for the street lamps.
I go out to restaurants, and watch people. By the time my meal is done, I have a whole life story for everyone.
My careers have varied. In addition to all the jobs that come from being a Mom & wife. I’ve been a librarian, a classical clarinetist wanna-be, recording studio engineer, broadcast electronics repairman, and now I design software programs. I live in Bergen County, NJ with my life-long hero and our two cats. My two girls are grown but ever supportive. You go Mom!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is ‘How to Marry Your Wife’ and I would guess it was inspired by my first book, ‘How to Train Your Knight.’ Both books stand alone but one of the characters from the first book becomes the hero in the second.
What inspired both? I wanted to write a different kind of love story, before ‘romance’ was a well established ideology.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write in my pajamas from 5:30 AM until 8:00 AM every day.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Jayne Ann Krentz, Tolkien, Shakespeare, Grimms Brothers, and Robert Frost.
What are you working on now?
I am working on a third Medieval Romance while thinking about the next, which may be a contemporary.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I love sights like this one, I tweet, and I post on Facebook.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Every morning, the alarm goes off, and I state my mantra. “Writers write.” That is the most important thing. Then, go get feedback and learn. Oh yea, and bury your ego. It’s gotta go.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You become what you think about all day long. That is so profound. Our thoughts define us. I am very careful to think positive things all day long. It can be quite difficult.
What are you reading now?
Adri Sinclair’s latest. It was taken off the shelf, as she has a new publisher, but you should check out her work. http://www.adrisinclair.com/
What’s next for you as a writer?
I love the medieval genre, but I have a few contemporary “Chic Geek” ideas that I am dying to get back to. I want to move from Romance into mainstream thrillers with romantic elements. I have a friend who is a NYC police officer, and he is dying to help me.
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?
Complete works of Shakespeare, a bible, Tolkien anthology. Gah, that sounds odd, even to me.
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