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Interview
questions for Calinda B.
Quick
round:
Coffee,
tea or…what’s your vice? Green Jasmine Tea, every time.
Favorite
Movie: Bram Stokers Dracula. It’s the only movie I’ve
watched over and over and over….
Favorite
Color: Red, like passion, and turquoise, like the sea
Favorite
book/author: Fever series by Karen Marie Moning (Mia adds in a squeal of delight at the mention of BARRONS!!!!!)
How
do you feel about bacon? Conflicted. I love the taste. But
also like pigs. That doesn’t seem to stop me from indulging now and then.
Hence, the conflict and inner turmoil.
(Mia adds...Okay, usually I do a bacon meme but since there is so much conflict in that statement, I'm going with a photo of what I think BARRONS looks like. Hot men should make almost everyone happy and forget the angst. I do not own the image. I wish I owned the man.)
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| Mia's mental image of Barrons from the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning. |
Now for the real questions...
Tell
us a little about yourself.
Wow. Have a couple weeks? I’ve lived a wild and
crazy life. I learned to say YES to life and life experience many years ago and
have a rich life as a result. Some of it painful. Some of it joyful. All of it
interesting. So many stories to tell that are real. A friend once told me he
thought I made them up. I told him, “You don’t make this kind of stuff up!”
Here’s an example: I once taught firewalking in Ukraine. Many high ranking fire
officials were there from Moscow, all uniformed and serious. I taught through
translation so have no idea what was actually said. The fire officials sat with
arms crossed through the whole lecture part, making me very nervous. When we
went out to the coals, they marched across. Then, they ran across. They picked
me up and whirled me around, asking me to make the fire hotter (or that’s what
the translator said; they could have been asking me out on a hot date). It was
one of my more memorable firewalks. I’ve walked safely hundreds of times, across
40’ of hot coals, walked 108 times around and around a bed of coals, bent rebar
with my throat, broke boards with my hand, almost tried bungee jumping (I dated
one of the big dude bungee jumpers years ago), was a rock climber, tried ice
climbing and came home being dragged out of the park on a makeshift stretcher
(fell off a cliff, connected by my crampon at the top, dangling off the edge),
currently scuba dive and kayak…oh, the fun times I have.
Stop by and say hi at...
What’s
under your bed?
Cat hair!
What
comes first, plot or characters?
Characters! I have to fall in love before I can
write about them.
Pantser,
plotter, or hybrid? Tell us about your writing process.
Hybrid. I started as a pantser, but have taken plot
courses so am learning to blend the best of both worlds.
Oddest
thing on your desk?
Safety whistle for scuba. It’s one of the “best
whistles made” (seriously) and could call the moose off a mountain.
What’s
your most interesting writing quirk?
Hmmm.
What’s
your favorite thing about the genre you write in?
Well, I started to say writing the sex, but that
seems too obvious. When I’m crafting sex scenes I stay in a constant state of
arousal. No joke. Other than that, I like making up scenes, seeing how the
characters respond. I told my editor the other day, when she pushed me to
change some scenes around, I felt like I was playing with Barbie and Ken, the
Erotic Version, putting them into different scenarios to see how they liked
each one. They liked each one. A lot.
What
is the hardest thing about being an author?
Generating sales, marketing, promoting. It can be
tiresome. Or, an up and down ride, like a really scary rollercoaster. On one
day you’re on cloud nine because readers loved your book. The next day you want
to shoot plastic doll heads because a reader loathed your work. Best thing is
to not look at reviews or sales on a daily basis.
What’s
the easiest thing about being an author?
Writing’s the easiest. When I’m immersed in a story
I’m truly happy.
Tell
us about your latest release!
I love, love, love,
my latest release, Looks like Trouble to Me. It’s about
a guy -- playboy, yacht builder, photographer, sexy Jace Savage. Like any
decent bad boy, he owns a motorcycle, a sweet little café racer called a
Grievous Angel. He’s lived a reckless life side by side with his trustifarian
prick of a friend, Billy O’Reilly. Has used his potent sexuality and his will
to get what he wants, his intelligence to get what he needs, but he’s only been
in love once - until he meets Zoé Dubois. Zoé’s a student, with one semester
left before she becomes a landscape designer. She’s smart, pretty, funny but
has a few trust issues. Jace will bring out the worst in her with his
unwillingness to let her in. He hides himself from her.
The two fall into a tempestuous, passionate love
affair. They can’t stay away from one another. Sometimes, it seems like they’d
be better off forgetting they ever met.
My editor pushed hard to make sure I upped the
tension on every page. Even I don’t know what will happen to the pair in book
2! I hope you read and enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Blurb for Looks Like Trouble to Me
"Last
name's Savage -- it means wild and uncontrolled," Jace, a party boy, yacht
builder and skilled photographer with a quicksilver temper, tells the pretty
waitress at Chica Rios. He's desperate to get laid, but there's something in
the way of his driving, overactive libido and the girl standing before him -
trouble...big trouble, and a whole lot of it, from the trustifarian prick who
works by his side, to his messed up twin sister, to the secret hiding at his
house.
He sets out to woo Zoé Dubois, keeping her away from his trouble at home,
encouraging her to let go of her inhibitions and live "Savage style,"
riding with him on the back of his motorcycle, exploring the great outdoors in
a variety of oh, so delectable and naughty ways.
He ends up with way more than he bargained for. Turns out she's the kind of
woman who demands the truth...and that's just not the way he rolls. He uses his
sexual experience to teach Zoé how to surrender and his strong will to get his
way with her. She leverages his love for her to get him to let her into his
troubled world and tender heart - something he's stubbornly determined to
protect. Their passionate, erotic, romantic connection keeps them bound
together while the trouble he brings threatens to tear them apart at every
turn.
For mature audiences 18+
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An excerpt from Looks Like Trouble to Me...
“Tell you what.”
Her head whipped back to face him. “What?”
“You get one question. I’ll answer one more
question. I need to be inside you, baby. After that, you get another.”
“That’s not fair.” She seemed to squirm, conflicted.
She wanted him, too, he knew it. “What’s not fair is
you being so far from me.”
Her nostrils flared slightly. She huffed out a rush
of breath. “What did you do on Billy’s yacht?”
“We partied. A lot. I’d gone through a horrible,
painful breakup and I needed to get her out of my head.”
“That doesn’t sound so bad,” she said, frowning.
“Who was she?”
“That’s two. I told you I’d only answer one.” He got
to his feet, watching her lean back slightly, legs parting ever so
slightly. Good, he thought.
“Come on, Jace, who was she?”
“What does it matter who she was? She’s no longer in
my life.” He took a step toward Zoé.
“What made it a horrible breakup?”
He took another step. “For someone who’s already
used up her one question, you’re awfully persistent.” He crouched before her,
spreading her legs wide, placing his hands on her hips. “Mmm, you smell good,”
he said, inhaling her lovely scent.
“Stop, Jace, I need more answers,” she said,
threading her fingers into his hair.
“And I need to get these pants off you.” His hands
reached for the zipper.
She fell back on the couch. “Not fair.”
“It’s totally fair. We made a deal, baby.” He tugged
the pants from her beautiful legs. “Love the sexy lingerie, babe. You have
incredible taste.” His fingers pushed under the elastic, skimming along her
hips.
“Jace,” she said in a breathy voice. “What are you
doing?”
“I’m making you feel fantastic. That’s my guess.
Lift those hips so I can slip these off.”
She complied, without protest. “You said you wanted
me to tell you something.”
He paused. “I did, yeah. But now we’re doing this.”
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About the Author...
An award-winning web designer
and certified SEO specialist, Calinda B has worked in the Internet industry as
a web page designer/developer since the early 1990's. She has also explored
crazy adventure including rock climbing, bending rebar with her throat,
breaking boards with her hand, and firewalking. In addition to writing, Calinda
B creates fine art and music, and enjoys scuba diving, kayaking, and havoc
wreaking. Calinda B makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with the love of
her life and her two red-headed cats.
Her secret mission is to
inspire the planet to be chock full of loving passion and she's doing her part
by working on the fourth book in The Wicked Series, tentatively entitled A
Wicked Ending, or the third book in The Beckoning Series, The Beckoning
of Badass Things, or maybe those are done and she's working on.... She
loves to write sexy books and does it daily.
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