What were you in your
life before you became a writer? Did this influence your writing? I think I
wanted to call myself a writer since I won a short story competition while in
primary school. As an adult, my
writing has struggled alongside seven different paying occupations, some of
which have been worked concurrently and all of which from time to time have had
to take priority over crafting prose. To date, I’ve used two of these jobs as
backgrounds for novels, but, other than that, I don’t think they’ve influenced
what or how I write.
Are you genre specific
or general? Why? I don’t mean genres like romance, mystery, fantasy, etc. There
are many subgenres of this above. Specific—I write sweet contemporary
romances showcasing sparkling protagonists, with a fairly low heat level but
with sexual and sensual tension. Why? Hard! Maybe because
I’m comfortable with characters who are not really larger than life and exist
in believable circumstances and locations. Perhaps I should emerge from my
comfort zone!
Did your reading choices
have anything to do with your choice of genre or genres? Not
initially, possibly the other way round. Some years ago, as the Australian
correspondent for UK Writers News, I
attended a Romance Writers of Australia conference. Impressed, I decided I
could write in this genre, and added romances to my already eclectic reading
choices. I made the switch from short stories and articles to book-length
romances.
What’s your latest
release?
Hot Ticket, December 2016
What are you working on
now?
A series of three stories, all contemporary romances, in which each has reunion
as its theme.
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