1.
What do you wish men understood about women?
This is a
loaded and locked question, but I love it. I think most men get it, but
sometimes I get upset with the way women are portrayed. I wish men understood
that we need to be a partner and not a possession. There is something
incredibly attractive about a men who values the woman in his life. I guess
that’s one of the reasons I love to write romance. I get to create that man,
and more importantly, the journey he goes through to come to that epiphany.
2.
Do you only work on one book at a time?
Usually,
yes, but I get distracted easily. When a new shiny idea hits me, I might pause
progress on one book to start another.
3.
Who is your favorite fictional couple?
This is
difficult since there are so many. I’ll go old school here.
4.
Favorite TV show? I like funny, heartwarming and
dramatic. Currently, my faves include Scandal, The Newsroom, Modern Family, and
The Mindi Project.
5.
Do you set daily writing goals? Word count? Number of
chapters? Do you get a chance to write every day?
I
wish I could write every day, but life gets in the way. I make a point to set
long-term goals like finishing a book by this date, or finishing edits. Usually
they are monthly goals.
6.
Who was the last person you hugged?
What
a sweet question. My daughter -
I’m grateful she still likes to be hugged.
7.
What are you working on now?
I just finished another multicultural romance with some deep
themes. I’m working on a new adult road trip suspense right now.
Variables of Love
by MK Schiller
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BLURB:
Meena Kapoor knows what life has in store for her. She's in
her senior year at Stanford where she'll graduate summa cum laude, and then
she'll begin her interviews...her marriage interviews. Meena is Indian, and
she's never questioned that she'll have an arranged marriage like all the
generations before her. Not until she meets gorgeous math major Ethan Callahan.
Ethan's sense of humor and free spirit stir feelings in Meena she didn't know
were possible outside of Bollywood movies. It doesn't hurt that he's charming
and has the uncanny ability to make math sound like poetry, but Meena knows
their equation makes no sense in the real world.
Ethan finds himself intrigued by the mysterious, beautiful girl,
whose big, brown eyes reflect great pain. His goals are small at first - to
make her smile and then to laugh. But he soon wants more, and though Meena is
adamant they have no future, he convinces her to share the present. Ethan
believes every problem has a solution, but with cultural expectations and
family duty among the variables, they will struggle to solve the ultimate
equation to find happiness.
EXCERPT
“Goodbye, girl-who-bumps-into-strangers.
I only call you that because I don’t know your name.” Yes, and I won’t give it
because hearing it said out loud by your deep, sexy voice will make me loose
whatever dignity I have left.
I smiled at his description,
feeling more myself as each step carried me farther away from his beautiful
face, sculpted muscles, and boyish grin.
“See you later,
gorgeous-boy-who-picks-up-and-arranges-clumsy-girls’-essays,” I uttered under
my breath when I was out of earshot.
Of course, I knew who he was.
Ethan Callahan, the boy who sat in the back row of Advanced Statistics. The
same boy who made frequent cameos in my daydreams. I hated that he sat in the
back of the lecture hall. I only saw him enter and exit the classroom. I wanted
to see him enter and exit other things…like me.
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
I am a hopeless romantic in a hopelessly pragmatic world. I have a full
time life and two busy teenagers, but in the dark of night, I sit by the warm
glow of my computer monitor, reading or writing, usually with some tasty
Italian…the food that is!
I started imagining stories in my head at a very young age. In fact, I
got so good at it that friends asked me to create plots featuring them as the
heroine and the object of their affection as the hero. You've heard of fan
fiction... this was friend fiction.
I hope you enjoy my stories and always find The Happily Ever After in
every endeavor.
love hearing from readers so please write to me!
Author sites
Website – http://www.mkschillerauthor.com/
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Amazon Author page - http://www.amazon.com/MK-Schiller/e/B00FE0FGDM/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1407492789&sr=8-1
Twitter – @MKSchiller
Goodreads author page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7223625.M_K_Schiller
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