What is the best and worse
thing you have learned from an editor/agent?
I’d say the best piece of
advice I received from an editor I learned from an editor was the following:
Concentrate on writing the best book you can. The readers will only come back
if the books are good.
I
think this is especially pertinent now when so many writers are on Twitter,
Facebook, Pinterest, and whatever hot new social media is making a buzz in an
attempt to build their audience. It can become a huge distraction to what’s
really important: writing stories.
What is your typical day?
I wake up at six a.m.,
drink lots of coffee, walk my dog, come home, make some more coffee, and start
to write--trying not to waste too many precious minutes online and often
failing. Just because I recognize the good advice dispensed by my editor
doesn’t mean I always follow it! At two p.m. I take a break and walk the dog
again and when I return I try and get another hour or two in before I stop for
the day to exercise, get the groceries, cook dinner, and engage with the world.
If I’m getting close to my deadline, I’ll write in the evening, too. That’s
when things get ugly.
What do you read while in
the midst of a project? Or don’t you?
What do you do with a
paperback once you’ve read it?
If the book is good, it finds a place
in my home (I can’t promise it a bookshelf because ours are already crammed). I
may also lend it out to friends I’m trying to convert to romance or introduce
to a new author or subgenre. If the book is so-so, I’ll donate it to a
neighborhood bookstore that sells used books for a dollar and donates the
proceeds to a literacy charity.
Are you nervous about
friends reading your book?
I used to be but I’ve been writing
for more than a decade now. At this point in my life I’m actually far less
concerned about peoples’ attitudes and opinions than I used to be--there’s got
to be some perk to aging, right? And my friends are in general pretty cool
people. They’re not at all like some of the know-nothings one meets whose noses
shoot into the air when they hear the words “Romance writer.” Those people are
just too funny, aren’t they?
What things inspire you to
write? Location, music, film or even in a book?
I often get inspired by a location
when I’m writing. A lot of my stories involve people who work out of doors take
place (ranchers, vets, builders, professional riders) and so I think a lot
about the settings they’re in. Sometimes an article I’ve read in the paper or
magazine will grab my imagination and all of a sudden I’ll have an idea for a
story or details about a new character I want to create.
My new book is called Once Tasted. It’s the second book in my
Silver Creek series and here’s the blurb for it:
Three siblings, an
extraordinary family, a lasting heritage—in the irresistible Silver Creek Ranch
trilogy, they’ll fight for the land and the people they love.
Everything has come easily to
Reid Knowles, the middle son of a California ranching family. But his charmed
life is suddenly complicated when his neighbor, Thomas Bodell, persuades him to
help with the business management of his winery, which he is leaving to his
niece, Mia.
In a life marked by loss,
nothing has ever come easily to Mia Bodell. Love included. In high school her
heart was crushed by Reid. The hurt lingers. When Mia learns of her uncle’s
plan, she makes it clear that she’d rather be roped to a steer than to Reid
Knowles.
A night of unbridled passion
changes things. One taste of Mia awakens an unfamiliar yearning in Reid, and he
vows to find a way to win her trust.
Mia
is achingly aware that her teenage heartthrob has matured into a devastatingly
handsome man. But can the budding winemaker trust her heart to a playboy with
no interest in settling down? From Reid’s first intoxicating kiss to his unexpectedly
tender seduction, Mia is swept into a passionate affair that could leave her
heart in pieces . . . or give her everything she has ever wanted.
I’m working on the next
book in the Silver Creek series, Once
Touched. It’s Quinn Knowles’s story--she’s Reid’s younger sister and a
cowgirl and animal lover. Were
Quinn to be handed a frog with the promise that her kiss could transform the
amphibian into a prince, she’d open her fingers and let it hop away unbussed to
the nearest lily pad. She’d much rather the frog remain a frog. What would she
possibly want with a human male--prince or commoner--hanging around? I had to
come up with a pretty amazing man to make Quinn rethink her position.
You
can find Laura here:
Website:
www.lauramoorebooks.com
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/LauraMooreBooks
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/LauraMooreBooks
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links for Once Tasted:
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