Please
tell the readers a little about yourself:
Hi, my name is Clarissa. I write
contemporary romance and I’m a cupcake addict. I will love anyone who will
bribe me with sweets and make me laugh.
How
about your latest release?
My latest release is Silent
Night’s Seduction, a part of Madame Eve’s 1Night Stand Holiday
Anthology. I’m very honored to be pubbed with the other awesome authors. Silent
Night’s Seduction is Lily’s story. She’s kidnapped, thrown on a plane,
and set up on a one-night stand…with her hot District Attorney ex-husband, Rafe
Martinez. Oh the possibilities!
What
was your primary inspiration for this book?
Lily is actually the one that started it
all in Tempting a Cowboy. She’d enlisted Madame Eve to set up her
brother Shane, who is a total geek, with Mia, the librarian, so as a chance to
get back at Lily, Shane actually does the setting up this time…by helping to
kidnap her!
Do
you have any muses?
Ohhhhhh, my muse is evil! She comes and
goes whenever she pleases. She’s sassy and annoying and totally controlling!
And I would call her the Procrastination Queen. When I want to write, she
decides to go on vacation. When I’m ready for a break, she decides it’s time to
write. What are the chances?
Do
you control your characters or do they flog you into shape?
Hmm…Actually, I’m very controlling.
Usually I spend 2-3 days just plotting and getting to know them before I
actually start to write. And sometimes I think I have everything ready and
planned, only to have them throw me under the bus and tell me they want to do
something else. It’s frustrating.
When
you write, is there a special routine you follow?
Not specifically. I usually like to do
some plotting first. Usually, I think I’m ready to initiate the plan, but end
up pantsing everything. I always come to a wall in the middle of the story
which means I have to do something that would ply my muse out of her nap. I
think every book is different so no matter what I do, it depends. Even my music
choice is different depending on what I’m writing.
If
you could be one animal, person, or at a place for a day what/who/where would
it be?
If I could be an animal, I think I want
to be a panda. They look cute but they can bite and they just sit around and
eat bamboo all day. I don’t think I’d want to hangout in a zoo or anything.
Maybe a bamboo forest where it’s close to a river that I can go frolic in.
Five
random facts about you:
I love cupcakes. I scrapbook. I love
video games. I won’t eat wet bread. I can speak almost five languages.
Are
you working on any new releases later this year?
I am! I have one more book in my
Tempting Series for 1Night Stand at Decadent Publishing, and I’m also working
on a few series projects for Entangled Publishing. I can’t wait to see them
completed, but of course that would mean cooperation from my evil muse…
Anything
else you’d like to say?
Thanks for joining me at Lindsay’s
Scribblings! I had a wonderful time here. Please check out my website at http://clarissayip.com. I have LOTS going on!
Prizes everywhere! I also run Romance Author Hotspot and we’re having a huge
holiday bash with publishers, awesome authors, and romance vendors at http://romanceauthorhotspot.com
coming soon!
Contact
info (Facebook, Twitter, website, blog):
Website:
http://clarissayip.com
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/clarissayip
Hangout:
http://romanceauthorhotspot.com
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