Hi Merry! Welcome to my site - this is the first time we've met so I'm looking forward to hearing more about you and your work. Wishing you a fabulous Christmas and New Year!!
1.
What do you wish men understood about women?
I wish men understood that women
actually aren’t as complicated as the media likes to make us out to be. Most of us are happy with simple
things—a good book, a friend to talk to (which can be them), good food.
2.
Do you only work on one book at a time? Sort of. I’m usually only writing the first
draft of one book at a time. But
since it’s important to let a draft rest for a few weeks or months before
diving into revisions, I usually start working on the next one while waiting
for the first one to percolate. So
in that way my books overlap each other.
3.
Who is your favorite fictional couple? Of my own making? Michael and Charlotte West from Our Little Secrets, the first book in my
Montana Romance series. Those two
just crack me up with their banter.
As far as couples other people have created…well, I’ve been rewatching Frasier lately and remembering just how
much I LOVE Niles and Daphne! What
a fantastic couple (not to mention great acting)!
4. Do you have a favorite quote
that sums up how you feel about life? I’ve always loved this quote from the
movie Sliding Doors: “I’m a woman, Jerry! We don’t say what we want, but we
reserve the right to be pissed off if we don’t get it! That’s what makes us so fascinating…and
not a little bit scary.” … I realize this kind of contradicts my
answer to the question what do I wish men knew about women. LOL!
5. Do you set daily writing goals?
Word count? Number of chapters? Do you get a chance to write every day? I make a point to write every day. You have to. The only way to keep yourself moving forward when you really
don’t feel like writing or when you get stuck is to have a set time and place
to write every day and to be disciplined about doing it. I get up at 5:30am every morning (well,
7:00 on the weekends) and write for about an hour before the day job. When I’m writing a first draft I set
myself a 2,000 word a day goal, but when I get into revisions I work more on a
time-basis, at least an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. I find that unless I’m in one of those
phases where the book is writing itself, if I try to force it for more than an
hour at a time I get even more stuck.
Then I’ll take a 15-30 minute break and go back at it for another hour.
6.
What do you like better, Twitter or Facebook? Why? I find myself much
more drawn to Facebook than to Twitter.
I’ve gotten into a good rhythm with my Facebook page and have a lot of
fun with it. I like Twitter too,
but I have a harder time keeping up with it for one simple reason: my day
job. I have to “do social media”
from my iPhone while I’m at the day job and the Facebook app is much more
nimble than the Twitter app. It’s
all about technology.
7.
What are you working on now? I’m just finishing
up the second novella and fifth overall story in my Montana Romance series, The
Indomitable Eve. It’s been a bit
of a surprise to work on too. I
intended it to be a fun Christmas story, but the characters, Eve deLaurent and
her sister, Amelia Quinlan (who was the heroine of the second novel in the
series, Fool for Love) had a lot more painful issues to work out between each
other as a result of their tragic childhood than I thought. It’s going to be a lot darker than
anything else I’ve written. After
this I’ll be working on the third and final novella in the series, Seeks For
Her, and the final full-length novel, Somebody to Love, which should be
released in late April 2014.
8.
Tell us about your latest release and where we can find it:
Latest release: In Your Arms (Montana
Romance #3)
Blurb:
Lily Singer
has never belonged. Taken from her tribe as a child and raised in a white man’s
school, she no longer has a place in either world. Teaching has become her
life. When that life is threatened by rumors and prejudice after a string of
robberies, she must turn for help to the one man who spells disaster for her
carefully ordered existence. Will he save her or steal her heart?
Christian Avery, Justice of the
Peace, is used to having things his way. Cold Springs is his responsibility,
and when its citizens blame the local Indian population for the mysterious
robberies, it’s up to him to restore order and maintain calm. The one person
who refuses to follow his lead is the beautiful, native-born Lily. Her defiance
turns his life upside down.
But when town gossip shifts
from robberies to romance after a foolish indiscretion, Lily’s job and
reputation are on the line. She must choose between the only life she has ever
known and the only place she has ever felt at home, in Christian’s arms.
Buy
links:
Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GP1A24C
Amazon UK – http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GP1A24C
Smashwords – https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/371399
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Author Bio:
Merry Farmer is an award-winning
author of Historical Romance and what she likes to call “Sci-Fi for
Women”. She lives in suburban
Philadelphia with her two cats and enough story ideas to keep her writing until
she’s 132. Her second novel, The
Faithful Heart, was a 2102 RONE Award finalist and her unpublished futuristic
novel A Man’s World won first place in the Novel: Character category at the
2013 Philadelphia Writer’s Conference.
She is out to prove that you can make a living as a self-published
author and to help others to do the same.
Social Networking
links:
Website: http://merryfarmer.net
Twitter: @merryfarmer20
Facebook: www.facebook.com/merryfarmerauthor
Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/Merry-Farmer/e/B006RATLFC/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1366067537&sr=8-2-ent
Merry is waiting to chat! Comments? Questions?
Thanks so much for having me over, Rachel! =D
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