Author Interviews

Author Interviews

Please enjoy this collection of interviews from authors in the romance genre. They have graciously shared with us tips and insight into their personal writing process. This is a wide range of authors with different backgrounds and stories to tell.

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Author Interview: Charlene Johnson

About the author:Charlene lives in Sacramento, California. She is married and has a son, a daughter and four grandchildren. She graduated cum laude from Waynesburg College with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts. She's spent 30 years in working at a defense contractor before embarking on her career as an author. Books have always been her passion. She started reading at an early age and progressed to full-length books by age nine. The first supernatural book series she read was Dark Shadows, and it sparked her interest in all things paranormal, with a spicy touch of romance mixed in for ...

Author Interview: Connie Ruth Vejar

About the author:Connie Ruth Vejar, writer of vampire romance,known as the Vampire Romance Writer. Born in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky on a cold snowy day, raised in the sun in Central Florida. Mother of three grown children. Works as a charge nurse by day and a writer of vampire romance by night. Lover of all things cold, dreary and spooky. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?I get a lot of inspiration from old horror movies and just spending time around old graveyards. I also get inspired by spending time alone in a cabin in the Eastern Kentucky mountains ...

Author Interview: Jessica Manson

About the author:Jessica Manson is an avid writer who writes dramatic, romance fiction. Born and raised in Mississippi, Manson now lives in Maine with her husband and three children. She started writing poetry when she was 10 years old and has been published in several Poetry Society books, as well as on the internet. She has won the Publisher’s Choice Award for her poem A Lost Soul. She also has a passion for reading, which is what lead her to become an author. Corruption of the Heart is her debut book. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?I have always ...

Author Interview: Shawna Hunter

About the author:I am a BDSM erotica writer with stories focused on strong, accepting communities and personal expression. My works feature many LGBT characters and are often well read in that sub genre. I live in Ontario Canada and am 31 years old. I live a rather quiet life outside of writing but enjoy hiking, photography and reading in what spare time I can find. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?I've tried my hand at many genres but to write something I have to feel it and I didn't enjoy feeling afraid for horror or angry for action. Romance ...

Author Interview: Kenzie Rose

About the author:I was raised in the Central Valley where I met her husband in Elementary School and lived right around the corner from him for years before he even noticed me, but I noticed him and realized what Love at First Sight was real. Now we live on the Central Coast of California with our grown children; where the inspiration for my books comes from. When not writing you will find me sitting on the deck reading romances and listening to the waves, I am a bibliophile and hopeless romantic. I also love to cook and throw parties for ...

Author Interview: Tonya Clark

About the author:I live in Southern California with my hot and amazing firefighter hubby and 2 beautiful daughters. I have been writing since high school, those will be kept locked up tight as to not be embarrassed, and started publishing about 3 years ago. Writing is a passion not a job, I have 3 of those, and it is a way for me to relax and let go of a very vivid imagiation. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?I write romance because I love a HEA with a little romance and steam added to it. There is nothing better ...

Author Interview: Tina Isabel Leung

About the author:Tina Isabel Leung was born in 1992 in Alabama, USA. She is a full time author. She writes gay romantic erotica and interracial romantic erotica. Her inspirations are Sloan Parker and Roe Horvat. She likes sunny days, sunflowers and fruits dipped in chocolate. Her favorite music genre is jazz & bossanova. She is a positive and bright person. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?I believe that self love is important, but it's not enough, and we all need that other special person. And if we haven't found them yet, we need to have hope that we'll meet ...

Author Interview: A. M. Kusi

About the author:A.M. Kusi is the pen name of a husband and wife team (Ashley and Marcus Kusi, authors of Our Bucket List Adventures and Questions for Couples). We enjoy writing romance novels that are inspired by our own experiences as an interracial/ intercultural couple, the things we see and face every day. Our novels focus on healthy relationships that involve a partnership between a strong female heroine and the hero, are emotionally satisfying and have a happy ending. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?The stories just come to Ashley, and then we brainstorm together and form a great ...

Author Interview: Shay Michaelson

About the author:A nurse by day and an erotic romance writer by night, I find time where I can to create books about hot steamy bikers and the women that love them. I love shaping their worlds and seeing where they end up. For as long as I can remember, I have loved to read books and romance has always been my favorite. The dynamic between two people has always fascinated me. Who are these people? How did they meet? What is it that made them decide this is the one for me? The possibilities are endless and that's what ...

Author Interview: Tori L. Wilson

About the author:Tori Wilson is a young author who began her writing career at only nineteen years old. She is now twenty two years old and has had four books published. Tori lives in a small town and is attending college, majoring in art education. In her free time, she enjoys singing, dancing, painting, modeling Japanese fashion at local anime conventions, and studying foreign languages. Tori's latest book, The Gifts of Christmas, is a cozy romance mystery, and is included in the Books To Go Now Christmas Mystery Anthology. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?Ellen Schreiber, Maggie Steifvater, and ...

Author Interview: Deana Birch

About the author:Contemporary romance and erotica writer Deana Birch was named after her father’s first love, who just so happened not to be her mother. Born and raised in the Midwest, she made stops in Los Angeles and New York before settling in Europe where she lives with her own blue-eyed Happily Ever After. Her days are spent teaching yoga, playing tennis, ruining her children’s French homework, cleaning up dog vomit, writing her next book, or reading someone else’s. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?I love the idea of taking modern day women and following their love stories while ...

Author Interview: Alex Bailey

About the author:Alex Bailey was a bored writer/editor of documents as humdrum as vacuum cleaner manuals. She left that life behind to create more exciting worlds than the one she lived in. The Future Memoir of Ann Jones was the first book under her (absolutely necessary) assumed identity (in order to hide Ann Jones’ identity). When she’s not dreaming of being swept away to the “happiest place on earth,” she’s tending to her organic garden while belting out Disney tunes. Some of her favorite hobbies include: telling her children that “Mother knows best”, attempting to convince woodland creatures to clean ...