People always ask
this question and I always dither like an idiot. This time, I'm narrowing it
down to genre: my favorite erotic romance author. That's pretty narrow, right?
And still, it's too hard to answer. I'm a big fan of Michelle Pillow and Lora
Leigh. For m/m, Lee Brazil is at the top of my list. He always tugs at my
heartstrings.
2) When did you first consider yourself a writer?
It's funny, you
can be a writer your whole life but not think of yourself that way. It was like
that for me. Until I saw the contract clearly spelling out that someone wanted
to buy my book, I didn't think of myself as a writer. I still have to remind
myself sometimes.
3) Describe your writing space?
I live in a one
bedroom apartment, and I'm not the neatest person in the world—in fact, pretty
much the opposite. There's stuff piled everywhere. So my laptop and I usually
take up residence on the couch. That led to the Great Computer Crash of 2010,
when I stood up and tripped on the cord, sending my laptop to the floor and
destroying my hard drive. It was a very difficult time for me…
4) What are you reading now?
Jennifer Ashley's
Shifters Unbound series in paperback
and R. Ann Siracusa's All for a Dead
Man's Leg in ebook. It's just been re-released and I loooove it!
5) How many books have your written? Which is your favourite?
I've written
three: Inter-Office Relations,
available from The Wild Rose Press, One
Night in a Bar, due June 25th from Total-E-Bound, and Diving In Deep, due later in the summer
from TWRP. I also have the sequel to One
Night in a Bar half written.
You may have
noticed that I'm avoiding the "which is your favourite" part…
6) What comes first, plot or characters?
Usually plot,
although I say that loosely because I'm a total pantser. Mostly I have an idea,
or a sentence or scene will come to me, and I go from there. I have a general
idea of how a story's going to go, but I couldn't tell you exactly what the
ending will be until it's written.
7) Do you ever suffer from writer’s block?
Always. Although
I try to take the advice of the great Nora Roberts and pretend it doesn't exist
and write right through it, it can be really frustrating.
8) What do you like to do when you’re not writing?
Read. Read. Oh,
and read. I also enjoy cooking sweets, and I'm pretty good with sewing and
crafts.
9) Tell us about your latest book?
Inter-Office Relations is
loosely based on a crush I had on a colleague when I worked in the corporate
world. Unlike Jeannie, I never had the guts to proposition my crush the way she
does Tim. Her opening line? "Do you want to have sex in Conference Room
B?"
They have a
lovely time on the conference table, and then Jeannie backs right off. She's
afraid that an affair may jeopardize their work relationship. Tim's determined
to convince her otherwise…in the most interesting places.
10) What’s next for you?
One Night in a Bar is due
on June 25th. Karen loses her job when she maces her boss—after
finding him in bed with her boyfriend. Unemployed and depressed, she lets a
friend talk her into going to a bar she normally wouldn't go near. Enter dark,
sexy Daniel, who flirts with her, asks her to dance and bangs her in the alley
behind the bar.
The next morning,
swimming in regret, Karen resolves to put it behind her…until she gets a new
job and her biggest client is her one-hour stand.
Diving in Deep, also due
this summer, is part of the Boys of Summer series from The Wild Rose Press, and
is my first attempt at m/m/m. Geeky Cameron takes time out of his life to
escape to Australia and reinvent himself. He meets Troy and Jake, co-owners of
a reef diving company, and discovers things about himself that he never knew
before…
For blurbs and
excerpts, please visit my site, www.louisamasters.com
Great interview, Louisa! You should be immensely proud that every story you've written has been published, that's quite an achievement :)
Okay, over to you guys for your questions and comments...
