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: Miguel D’Addario

About the author:Miguel D'Addario is a writer, coach and professor. Italian. He has published artistic books, poetry, stories, existentialist philosophy, academics, and educational technicians with different publishers. His books have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Greek. Degree in Journalism, Master in Social Education and Doctorate in Social Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has developed his experience in various fields of teaching, from Vocational Training to the University level, both in Latin America and Europe. His books are in different centers of studies and libraries of the world, such as the University San Pablo of ...

Author Interview: Jerilee Antic Java

About the author:Jerilee Kaye was born under the sign of Leo in the year 1979. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Legal Management from De La Salle University. She has post-graduate qualifications in the fields of Product Management, Project Management and Procurement. She is a Certified Senior Professional in Supply Management from NLPA, Pennsylvania and is currently working her way to an MCIPS certification from CIPS UK. She manages a global supplier portfolio for multi-national and government entities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. She is also an entrepreneur, managing a photography and printing company with her husband. She is ...

Author Interview: Jasmine Gold

About the author:Jasmine Gold writes because she can’t help it. She writes in stolen half hours, while waiting for appointments or taking a quick break from work or other responsibilities. On the rare days when she has an opportunity to sleep late, she bribes herself into getting out of bed with the promise of time to write. Writing helps her get through the bad times and makes the good times better. When Jasmine was fourteen she was sitting in her high school’s library before school, rereading a novel she loved, when a favorite character was introduced. She felt like she ...

Author Interview: John Satterlee

About the author:John Satterlee was born in Kodiak, AK, raised in a small town of Broadalbin, NY also currently living/working in Orlando, FL. After high school John went into the U.S. Air Force for 5 years then returned home to Orlando. John is also a family man with his wife Gloria and two sons Rykiel and Troy. John has worked in the hotel, apartment and pest services industries outside of writing books. Likes dining out, family time, nature, computers and just relaxing when time allows. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?Just want to have the type of love stories ...

Author Interview: Katherine Hawthorne

About the author:Katherine Hawthorne loves sexy alpha males and books that come with warnings, which is exactly what she writes. Throwing out the last vestiges of her oh-so-proper Ivy League education, she traded tedious academic writing, combined her favorite genres, and found her greatest joy in writing romantic suspense. When Katherine isn’t writing, you can find her racing down the ski slopes in the winter and relaxing on the beach in the summer, most likely lost in a book. Married with four children, three of which still live at home, life is a never-ending crazy thrill ride, one she quite ...

Author Interview: Rachel Ann Smith

About the author:Rachel Ann Smith writes steamy historical romances with a twist. Her debut series, Agents of the Home Office, features female protagonists that defy convention. When Rachel isn’t writing, she loves to read and spend time with her family. She is frequently found with her Kindle by the pool during the summer, on the side-lines of the soccer field in the spring and fall, or curled up on the couch during the winter months. She currently lives in Colorado with her extremely understanding husband and their two very supportive children. Tell us about how you write.I'm a panster – ...

Author Interview: Susan Antony

About the author:My name is Susan Antony and I write young adult fiction. Becoming a writer was a childhood dream I’d buried years ago. One day in the recent past while spring-cleaning, I came across a fifty-page novel I’d written as a ten-year-old and my long forgotten passion awoke again. I currently reside in South Carolina with my sixteen-year-old son and two naughty but adorable Cairn Terriers. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?Who doesn't love to fall in love? Especially for the first time. I love writing YA Romance. Young adults love, hate, and play hard in an arena ...

Author Interview: Rob Shackleford

About the author:An English-born Australian, Rob Shackleford has lived in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and has travelled extensively internationally. His varied careers have included Customs Officer, SCUBA instructor, college teacher, and management roles in too many places. With degrees in the Arts and Business, he is mad keen on travel, SCUBA diving, family history, astronomy and playing the djembe and congas. Rob is father of two and lives with his partner on Queensland’s Gold Coast. What inspires you to write romantic fiction?Why do I write? Traveller Inceptio is not solely romantic fiction, but is a story where, like life, ...

Author Interview: Annelies George

About the author:Annelies George was born on 4 August, 1964 in Bussum, the Netherlands, the second daughter of Levie George and Greet van Weerdenburg. At the age of ten she was given a postcard collection of landscapes and city settings from countries all over the globe, tickling her imagination. Soon she found herself writing fiction stories together with her two year older sister, Marianne, during the school holidays, using the postcards and other pictures she found in magazines as the source of inspiration. After the gymnasium, she followed a one-year course as an international secretary in Amsterdam. Immediately afterward she ...

Author Interview: Karen S. Bell

About the author:All my work is inspired by social issues to which we all can relate. Issues such as, work/family stresses, the loss of a spouse and how marriage can sometimes swallow a woman’s identity, and the prevalence of greed in modern society. Walking with Elephants was my first novel, although I was not new to writing. I was a theater critic and celebrity interviewer for a weekly tabloid in Jacksonville, Fl and I earned a Master’s in Mass Communication from Oklahoma State University. For 15 years I worked in Corporate America as a technical editor/editor/writer. I experienced first hand ...

Author Interview: Beldon Butterfield

About the author:I was born and raised in Argentina, educated in the U.S, and came to Mexico in 1962 with Time/Life International. I have been a regular lecturer to newly arrived foreign residents titled: Mexico – History, Legend and Cross Border Culture. I have published two novels in Mexico, The Crystal Bull and The Line/La Línea (presently being rewritten under the new title The Long Way Home). In 2012 my first nonfiction book, Mexico Behind The Mask was published by Potomac Books in Washington, D.C. and by The Univ. of Nebraska Press. My latest book, in the form of a ...

Author Interview: Garriema Shah

About the author:Myself Garriema Shah, a typical Taurus girl, strong headed, now developed a habit of straight-talking without any diversions. Born & brought up in Northern part of India, which is considered to be a very conservative sort of region in India especially for females, which actually drove me to be more descriptive in my writing! What inspires you to write romantic fiction?Since Romance is the most beautiful part of everyone's life, so it gives me more leverage to be more present in fantasy world and I can imagine and write to any extent which actually inspires me to write ...