1. Your genre(s)? Dark paranormals, urban fantasy, contemporaries, futuristics and post apocalyptics – nearly almost always with a romantic plot.

2. How many books have you completed?
Oh my, let’s see: 18 full length novels and seven novellas. I’ve also got contracts for two more full length novels and a novella

3. How many books are you working on now? I’m writing a novella, revising a dual author novel and working on two proposals.

4. Are you a linear or chunk writer?
Linear. I cannot jump ahead although I can come back at the end and add new things.

5. The POV you’re most partial to?
Third but I do find myself drawn for first for just the right story.

6. The theme that keeps cropping up in your books?
Well this is a hard one. I suppose strength of conviction even in a challenge. Strength of character. Class and gender issues pop up frequently and well, I do love a big, bad alpha male and tend to write women who can hold their own with them.

7. How many days a week do you write?
Seven. Occasionally I take the day off, but most weeks I write every day.

8. What time of day do you get your best writing done? I have three kids and one of them is still home all day so I don’t get much done until after 8 when they’re in bed. So I write from about 8 – 11 nightly. It used to be 9 – 1 so I’m getting better and sleeping a tiny bit more.

9. Who are your inspirations? Authors who excite my imagination. Authors like William Gibson who can say in 3 words what it takes other authors 15 to say. Margaret Atwood whose writing has a sense of grace and beauty even when the subject is stark. Authors like Jenny Crusie and Nora Roberts who can create characters you can sink your teeth into but who aren’t one dimensional stereotypes. Nalini Singh and Eileen Wilks who can take a genre like paranormal romance and simply turn it upside down and breathe new life into it.

10. Who are your favorite authors to read? (different from mentors) William Gibson, Patricia Briggs, Frank Herbert, Kim Harrison, Margaret Atwood, Eileen Wilks, Nalini Singh, Liz Maverick, Marge Piercy, Sherri Tepper, Louise Marley, Richard Morgan, Linda Howard, Megan Hart, Anya Bast, Susan Elizabeth Phillips – the list goes on and on