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 Tara Devaney-Thompson Shares Their Story

About the Author Born in London, Uk to Irish parents I lived there until, at the age of ten, we moved to the North of the country. Then, in 1968, we emigrated to Australia where I have spent the last forty-eight years. Living on the east coast including Sydney, Townsville and now Melbourne. I have two grown children and the two most beautiful grand-daughters ever born on this earth. I am, for the most part, an average woman now in her sixties but I do have some slight differences to most. For one thing I am an unabashed and unashamed ...

Author Bibi Rizer Shares Their Story

About the Author Bibi Rizer is a mom, blogger, teacher and writer living in the Pacific Northwest. While she’s been writing professionally for many years, romance and erotica are relatively new pursuits. Bibi likes writing about strong kinky women and brave willing men living in realistic and imperfect worlds. In her spare time Bibi sings Karaoke and hangs around on film sets with child actors. Having the the firm belief that no one can be too weird or too funny, she happily admits that most of her favorite people and characters are both. What inspires you to write romance books? ...

Author Gem Edward Shares Their Story

About the Author Gem Edward has a fetish for the written word. She enjoys writing contemporary erotic-romance that is ‘tastefully smutty’, and very much entertaining. What inspires you to write romance books? I have been writing for as long as I can remember. My grandmother would read Historical Romance novels, and as a kid, I would see the ‘sexy’ covers, and make up my own love stories, and firmly believed in the ‘knight-in-shining-armor’ concept. After meeting my best friend (and now husband), my affinity for romance was rekindled; and as I matured, the spicier side of romance caught my attention ...

Author Madelin Brook Shares Their Story

About the Author Madelin Brook was born in Orlando, Florida and is the oldest of six children. She always loved to write, and she previously worked for several different magazine editors in New York City. However, Madelin became sick of working for someone else and left corporate America to pursue her own career as a fiction writer. She has a passion for writing romance books, especially those that will take readers to their deepest fantasies. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, shopping and spending time with loved ones. Two years ago, Madelin moved back to her hometown of Orlando, ...

Author Bonnie Edwards Shares Their Story

About the Author Bonnie Edwards lives with her husband and pets on the rainy coast of British Columbia. She believes life should be lived with joy. That joy shows up in her earthy, irreverent love stories. Bonnie uses long hikes to bounce ideas off her husband and her standard poodle, who almost always agrees with her. She has written novels, novellas and short stories for Carina Press, Harlequin, Kensington Books and Robinson (UK) although now she publishes her work herself. Sometimes her stories have a paranormal twist, likes curses and ghosts, other times not. But they’re always entertaining and guarantee ...

Author Palessa Shares Their Story

About the Author Palessa started reading her first romance novel, at the age of 11. Then she got introduced to V.C. Andrews, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Anne Rice and many more notable contemporary authors as well as some of the classics, A Tale of Two Cities, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Great Gatsby and others. It was during her teenage years that she dabbled in writing. First, it was in her diaries, then she started creating characters, stories about romance, the supernatural and much more. It would take almost 20 years, a radical move from the city she grew up ...

Author Suzi Milan Shares Their Story

About the Author I’m just like you, I have fantasies,. Only I like to write them down. I like to write them down and share them. Maybe they are just like your fantasies, maybe they’ll become your fantasies. Either way, coming along with me to explore them is an adventure you won’t regret. I would love to hear some of your fantasies…or what you think of mine. Drop me a line: [email protected] Suzi started writing erotica for her very own “Lucas”. She lives with him in a tropical paradise of their own. The only thing different is hers is a ...

Author Naomi Foxx Shares Their Story

About the Author Naomi Foxx is a budding author who has been pulled deep into the world of erotica. After writing short stories for fun and taking many creative writing classes, she decided to take her hobby seriously. Follow her as she begins her journey. When she’s not reading or writing erotica, she’s probably researching everything about sex, dancing or cooking. Smut writing is the game! I may be fairly new to this league but I am ready to take on this wonderful genre. I must write about my smutty characters to keep them from bogging down my mind! I ...

Author Arabella Sheen Shares Their Story

About the Author Arabella Sheen is a successfully published British author. Her novels – Blinded by Desire and Temporary Bride – have been well received and are acquiring excellent reviews from her loyal following of romance readers. Arabella likes nothing more than the challenge of a blank page. Starting a new novel, with new ideas and new plots, she aims to excite her readers, drawing them into the sparkling, elegant world of romance, love and passion. Her novels are for the true romantic. They’re places where readers are able to escape with jet-setting billionaires, be flown to exotic locations and ...

Author Vivian Winslow Shares Their Story

About the Author Vivian Winslow was born and raised in Southern California. Before becoming a writer, she made a career out of moving around the world every couple of years thanks to her husband’s job. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and two elementary school age children, and is grateful to finally have a place to call home for more than two years. New York is the perfect city to indulge her love of shopping, the arts and especially food. If she’s not at home writing or running around the city with her kids, you’ll most ...

Author N Kuhn Shares Their Story

About the Author N Kuhn grew up in a small town in Western New York. Having spent her afternoons outside or with a book, she grew up with a love of reading and writing. Her mother and grandmother fully encouraged this in her. Many years later, after a husband and children, she made a promise to her dying grandmother to fulfill her dream of being an author. Her grandmother lived to see N’s name in print. This was a turning moment for her. Driven by ambition and a promise made, she has since published several titles including the Mohawk Trilogy, ...

Author Tilly Andrews Shares Their Story

About the Author Tilly is based in the UK. Although born in the Lake District, Tilly now calls Yorkshire her home. Tilly has been writing erotica since 2004 and previously wrote for Sizzler. Her work has featured in various erotic magazines including Jade and Desire. This year Tilly has made the decision to go it alone as an independent. Tilly first became aware of the emotional and physical power of the written word as a child at the age of 12, she has never fully recovered from the pain of Ginger’s death in Black Beauty. An avid reader, Tilly likes ...