Q. Why and how did you develop the Storm MC?
A. The original concept for Storm was a story based around Madison. She was the daughter of an MC President and had left town, however she wasn’t originally involved with J. He was simply supposed to be a friend of hers sent by the MC to bring her home. It was never going to be a biker book as such and she was not going to return home with him. However, when J turned up, he took over the whole damn book. I’m sure you can imagine! He truly is a dominant man. So, I reworked the story and Storm was the result. Also, I always intended to write about alpha men and bikers just fit the bill and add that dirty to it that we all love..
Q. Will you write a book about Serena?
A. Hell yes!!! I love that chick. I aim to have her book out in 2015.
Q. What books do you plan to write next?
A. Next up I am working on a secret project that I aim to release very, very soon. However, I am not going to tell you what it is in case I don’t manage to pull it off. After that is part two to Destined Havoc, Inevitable Havoc. Then I will write part two to All Your Reasons (yes, finally more Jett!). After that is Illusive, which is Griff’s book, and Command, Scott & Harlow’s next book, which is also the last book in the Storm MC series. In amongst that, I have another secret project that I know you are all going to LOVE! Once Storm MC is finished (sob, we will miss these men!), I will write the first book in a new series – The Stone Brother Series. The first book will be Serena’s book. Her guy is HOT and oh, so alpha – to the extreme!! I get freaking excited just thinking about writing that book! Her guy is Zane Stone and his brother is Blake Stone who you might recall is Madison’s friend. Blake will also get his own book. I will also be writing more of Roxie and releasing it as I go. I am also considering writing a serial of some sort but hell, I am not sure when!
Q. Are you scared to read the reviews about your books?
A. LMAO, not anymore! My first book received so many negative reviews and I spent a lot of time reading them and working out where I needed to improve. One day, I will rewrite that book, but I am thankful to those reviews because they showed me what work I needed to put in to write better books. Slay is the first book I’ve written that I LOVED while writing. Mind you, it took me many attempts to get it right. I went through three different versions of characters for Layla to find the right Layla. I had deleted so many words and grown so sick of looking at the computer every day, and then one afternoon I sat down and just let my mind take over and the first scene where you meet Layla in the alley with the drunks flowed onto the page. I’d stopped plotting and planning her character and just let her evolve. After that, it was a mad rush to get the book finished to meet deadlines. So, in the end the majority of Slay was written in about two weeks. They were some long ass days! At least fifteen hours every single day. But, I got sidetracked on the question there... no, I am not scared to read reviews anymore. The way I look at it now is that I compare books to music. I LOVE Macklemore but a friend of mine doesn’t. Does that make him a bad artist? No, it simply shows we all have different tastes. Same with books. We all take something different from what we read. And I think a lot of that also comes from your experiences in life.
Q. Best line ever written?
A. Okay, so it may not be my best line ever written, but it has a lot of personal meaning to me so I love it hard.. “I smiled as I tasted freedom.” Velvet says this in Revive. She is a strong woman but there’s that one person in her life who still makes her shrink – her ex. And then there’s the day she stops shrinking and can move out from under his shadow. She tastes freedom.
Q. Do you write on schedule?
A. The last twelve months has been a whirlwind of trying to catch my breath and catch up. I was working full time up until just before Revive was released so my schedule was pretty much work five days a week at my job and then write all night into the early hours. I also wrote pretty much all weekend, too. Now that I write full time, I am trying to establish a routine of Monday to Friday during the day. I’d love to have nights and weekends off again. However, I struggle to take time off. I’m kinda addicted to it all. But, Slay is my last book I have a deadline for and I won’t be setting release dates anymore until closer to when I’ve finished writing the book. Hopefully, I will get myself into some sort of balance between work and life. The hard thing is trying to juggle writing with marketing. I love both, but I do need to cut back on some of it. When I am writing a book, I usually have a word count I try to hit everyday. I do know how many words I am aiming for for each book so I break it down. I tend to fall behind though so towards the end of the book, it’s not uncommon for me to be writing 10k words a day.