Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written 24 contemporary romance and romantic suspense. But for quite some time I’ve had a 1920s era book itching at the back of my brain and this year I finally wrote it.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
It Had To Be You is my newest book. It’s set in 1926 Seattle and I can’t claim a concrete inspiration. But the darn thing kept scratching and scratching at the back of my mind until I finally wrote it. I’ve always been fascinated by the 1920s–the way women were coming into their own post WWI, the fashion, the cars, the speakeasies.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Good books inspire me, not necessarily specific authors, although I many favorites among those! There is just something about good writing that ups my own. It is rarely anywhere in the neighborhood of what I am currently writing, but there’s an energy to good writing that kind of pays it forward and makes me writ better as well. Hard to explain, which is probably not what a writer who makes words her life should say. But there you have it. ;->
What are you working on now?
I just now finished a book, so I am recuperating and trying to regenerate a few brain cells as I’m pretty sure I used all mine up on the last project.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Usually Facebook, but I’m broadening my horizons.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Preserver. There are all kinds of land mines to screw us up, but when you step on them pick yourself up and plant your butt back in the chair. If you can quit, quit. If you can’t…you’re a writer.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The late Pablo Casals was a famous cellist and composer and conductor from Catalonia, Spain. When he was 94, he was still practicing 3 hours a day, when someone asked him why? He said, “I’m beginning to notice some improvement.” Love that.
What are you reading now?
I just picked up Julie Anne Long’s Dirty Dancing at Devil’s Leap. Haven’t cracked it yet, but I raring to as soon as I finish up some promo stuff.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m not sure. I’m going to take a short break to refill the well, then start giving that my undivided attention.
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?
Oh, that’s a hard one, since I have soooo many favorites. I can’t even narrow it down. My wish would be a solar powered Kindle, because mine is packed with favorites.
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