Question Sunday
Feb
24
2013

Ask em if you’ve got em!

Christine asks: Can you tell us anything about your new book Cake? Is it part of a series? Cake is a novella I wrote for the Cosmo’s Red Hot Reads by Harlequin line that should be starting up in May or June. It’s contemporary, hot romance featuring a Russian artist with lots of ink and piercings named Gregori and Wren, an artist paying her way through art school by working as a messenger. It’s set in Seattle. It’s not actually part of a series but I’d love to go back and revisit some of the characters later on.

Angela asks: Hi Lauren, will Mary and Cal’s brother Ryan get his own story? At some point most likely, yes. Right now though Lush will be the last Delicious novel until at least 2015. I’ve got a new series starting with Berkley Heat next summer called Ink and Chrome, set in a custom build motorcycle and hot rod shop in Seattle. Those books will come out in mid 2014 into 2015. I don’t know what I’ll do after that yet.

Diana asks: How long does it take you to write a book and be satiated with it? It depends on the book. Some are faster to write and finish edits on than others. I usually write 3,000 words a day and most of my novels are roughly 90K words.

Moran asks: Will you write stories about all the single Murphy’s? I don’t know. The next book will be about Royal, who isn’t a Murphy at all, but a friend of the family. With the Petal series, my plan is to write however many books I want as long as I have good ideas for stories. I would like to give Anne a book, and the twins most likely. But the great thing is, setting the series in the town instead of on a single family, I have lots of different options.

Maryam asks: When do you think you might get back to writing a story in the Federation Verse??? Right now, my schedule with Heat is full into 2015 so not until then at the earliest. I do want to return to the Federation and write Wil his book though. It’s just a matter of writing the other books I’m contracted for first.

9 comments to “Question Sunday”

  1. Maryam Salim
    February 24th, 2013 at 7:40 am · Link

    When do you think you might get back to writing a story in the Federation Verse???



  2. Moran
    February 24th, 2013 at 7:51 am · Link

    Will you write stories about all the single Murphy’s?



  3. Diana mcdanell
    February 24th, 2013 at 7:51 am · Link

    How long does it take you to write a book and be satiated with it?



  4. angela
    February 24th, 2013 at 7:56 am · Link

    Hi Lauren, will Mary and Cal’s brother Ryan get his own story? I can’t wait to read Lush – going to re read all the books in the Brown and Delicious series before release date 🙂



  5. Christine
    February 24th, 2013 at 11:39 am · Link

    Can you tell us anything about your new book Cake? Is it part of a series?



  6. Moni
    February 24th, 2013 at 1:40 pm · Link

    Hi Lauren,

    Would you ever write an erotic historical? I wonder how you would pull that off, especially with the depth of your writing.



  7. azteclady
    February 24th, 2013 at 4:44 pm · Link

    I’m totally dying for Will’s book…



  8. Sarah
    February 24th, 2013 at 5:43 pm · Link

    It’s my birthday today. Just wondering how do you celebrate yours? Is it a big deal or just another day?



  9. Tessa
    February 24th, 2013 at 6:54 pm · Link

    Do you have any plans to write a book in the MM genre? I know you’ve sampled that genre in some of your previous books such as Laid Open and Tart.