When did you start writing and what inspired you to start?
I’ve always been a reader, but I never attempted to write until I was in my late thirties. I started by writing fan fiction inspired by a television show, and in 2009 I wrote my first original fiction.
Talk about Nabbing Mr. November
This is the penultimate story in a twelve novella Hot Nights in St. Blaise series I wrote for Turquoise Morning Press.
Here’s the blurb:
The doctor becomes the patient when Luke Langston lands in St. Blaise’s overrun emergency room with a keister full of birdshot. Worse than the obvious Dick Cheney jokes, he has to endure the abject humiliation of having the one woman he wanted but never quite got round to calling pluck bits of shrapnel from his ass.
The minute Intern Elena Mendes pulls the last shard of shot from Luke Langston’s magnificent tuchas, she strips off her gloves and plants a big, wet kiss square on his assailant’s lips.
It was about time someone took Dr. Iceman down a notch. Or twenty.
Luke’s cockiness makes Elena crazy, but she can’t resist the sparks that fly each time she they butt heads. Every time he’s near, she’s compelled to turn it up a notch, curious to see how much heat it will take to melt the ice-man’s heart.
She doesn’t know Luke has been on a slow simmer since the day he first saw her. A tease, a taunt, a whispered confession and a heated kiss are all it takes to make their attraction boil over into something too hot to handle.
Looking one hundred years into the future, what do you hope people remember about you or your writing?
I want people to be happy and entertained by my stories, so I hope they remember laughing and perhaps crying just a little bit. I want to write stories that people can relate to in their own lives…but maybe a little hotter. 😉
List your favorite quotation or words you live by.
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon
Who is your favorite author and what is it that really strikes you about their work?
I have so many favorites, but one of the most recent is Sarah Addison Allen. She writes small town stories infused with whimsy. Her descriptions are perfection, her characters engaging, and the magic she weaves into her story lines is the kind of magic I want to believe exists in the world.
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Just keep writing. I always have a number of plot bunnies in the hopper. I try to move forward rather than get bogged down in past projects.
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