Please
tell the readers a little about yourself:
I live in the Texas Hill Country where I find all my
sexy, hunky cowboys and ranches that have provided the setting for many of my
stories. I live waaay back in the hills with my three cats and a herd of deer.
I love to read and I’m an obsessed football nut. I love to read and I’m
addicted to romantic suspense novels. I love the process of writing because I’m
a story teller at heat. I drive a big, big pickup which I use in a lot of my
stories along with my handy dandy 9mm that I carry. I’ve had a variety of
careers and they all provide background for my stories.
How
about your latest release?
I loved writing He
Came Upon a Midnight Clear, part of the Madam Eve’s 1 Night Stand Christmas Anthology from
Decadent Publishing.
Cody Alvarez needed to find a wife by
Christmas or he would lose the ranch his uncle left to him. Libby Morris just
needed, for once in her life, to feel desired. Sensual. Appealing. Especially
after an intense reshaping at a high-end spa. Invited to Christmas Week at the
Castillo Lodge in Alaska by Madame Eve of 1Night Stand, Cody and Libby were not
given the names of the partners chosen for them. As they were forced to wait
until they learned who their one-night stands were, they discovered an
incredible spark of chemistry and a connection stronger than either had
experienced before. Would spending a very erotic night together ruin their
arrangements or give them another option?
What
was your primary inspiration for this book?
Think of all the women (me included) who wish they
could find a man who loved a woman with lush curves instead of a stick figure.
Then think of a cowboy so intent on running his ranch that he hasn’t had time
to get a life. We all know people like that, right? The story sort of rolled
out of me one day and there it was.
Do
you have any muses?
Well…I write best to reruns of Walker, Texas
Ranger> I guess you could call Chuck Norris my muse!
Do
you control your characters or do they flog you into shape?
OMG. They flog me badly. My stories are all
character-drive, and I’ll start out with my main protagonists firmly in my
brain until they start unfolding in my computer. Then they just never behave,
no matter how I struggle. I’m having that problem right now. I can’t put my
hero in the mold I created for him. Sigh! I guess I’ll just have to let him
have his way with me.
When
you write, is there a special routine you follow?
Not really, except I do get my promo out of the way
in the morning and answer my emails. When I start writing for the day I don’t
interrupt myself. I’m not really a plotter but I now work on more than one
project at a time, so I’ve had to create outlines and brief character sketches
to keep my plots and characters in order. I don’t write at night. That’s when I
read, watch television and make notes on ideas that come to me about what I
wrote that day.
If
you could be one animal, person, or at a place for a day what/who/where would
it be?
Wolf, definitely, I write a lot of shapeshifter
stories and they always shift into wolf form. I think the wolf is a
romantically savage beast, one of the most magnificent animals on earth.
Five
random facts about you:
I’d sell my soul for a slice of pepperoni pizza
I have a tattoo of my late husband’s Stetson on my
leg
My favorite alcoholic drink is Jack Daniel’s Black
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Are
you working on any new releases later this year?
Already schedule are Stark Naked and He Came Upon
a Midnight Clear. In January Boots
and Buckskins will release. I just contracted a three-novella series, Erector set and a four-novella series, Attack Force. Plus I am working on Book
Four in the Night Seekers series,
Book 5 in The Phoenix Agency, a
western novella and the sequel to Joy
Ride. And I have a very, very gritty erotic romantic suspense, Out of Control, currently in final
edits.
Anything
else you’d like to say?
I love my readers and hope they’ll email me and
follow me on Facebook, Twitter and my blog. And to all aspiring authors out
there, never, ever give up.
Contact
info (Facebook, Twitter, website, blog):
Twitter:
@desireeholt
Facebook:
/desireeholt
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