Please welcome Juniper Bell to the blog, author of “Doll”. Thank you for agreeing to answer my nosy questions and share them with everyone visiting today.

Thank you for having me! I’m excited to be here.

Q: To begin, please share which genre(s) you write in…
A: I write contemporary erotic romance, for the most part, although I’m veering in some new directions. I’m working on a Regency ménage that’s a lot of fun.

Q: How long did you write before you received your first contract for publication?
A: I started writing erotic romance about two years before I got my first contract. The day before I got the news, it just so happened I’d crashed my car into a ravine, so I had whiplash and trauma and neck spasms. But I still managed to celebrate!

Q: Out of all the stories you’ve written, which is your favorite?
A: Ohh, what an impossible question! “Doll” is the most intensely emotional, “The Extremist” has a hot, mysterious hero, and my next book, “Training the Receptionist,” is the steamiest. I couldn’t possibly choose between them.

Q: Do you need to be in a specific place or atmosphere before the words flow?
A: If I had to do that, I’d never get anything done! I grab my writing time where and when I can. I’ve learned to tune everything else out so I can write. But I have to say I get my best writing done when I have no Internet access. The Internet is a wonderful thing, I love it for so many reasons, but it’s a huge distraction.

Q: What’s the strangest source of inspiration you’ve found for a story?
A: Well, this is going to sound … actually, I don’t know how it’s going to sound, but I get a lot of ideas during sex. Scenes and images pop into my head, and later on I write them down. Does that make me weird? I really hope I’m not the only one this happens to.

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Your date of conception was on or about 10 October 1980 which was a Friday.

You were born on a Friday
under the astrological sign Cancer.
Your Life path number is 11.

Your fortune cookie reads:
Be mischievous and you will not be lonesome.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 6.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 9.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2444788.5.
The golden number for 1981 is 6.
The epact number for 1981 is 24.
The year 1981 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/5/1981 and ending 1/24/1982.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Rooster.

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Here a couple more photos of the beasties.

Jasper at 7 1/2 weeks:

Here the beasts (Diva & Jasper) are plotting world domination:

♥ I’m a guest author at Viki Lyn’s blog, Romance With a Twist today. I’ll be sharing a little bit about me and my newest release, Reckless Passion, as well as offering a chance to win digital copy of Reckless Seduction for those who leave a comment. Pop by and check it out.

We have a new puppy friend. I just brought him home a couple of hours ago.

Jasper is a 7 week old dorkie (yorkie/dachshund mix). Isn’t he cute?

Forgive the gratuitous cleavage shot. He refuses to lay anywhere but on my chest tonight.

Please welcome Brenna Lyons to the blog, author of the Xxan, Kegin, Night Warriors, Renegades, and many more. Brenna has been published more than 80 times in the last seven years, more than two dozen of them novel-length. Thank you for agreeing to answer my nosy questions and share them with everyone visiting today.

A: Thanks for having me!

Q: To begin, please share which genre(s) you write in…
A: I write in many genres but mainly spec fic (fantasy, urban fantasy, science fiction, and horror), with or without romance or erotic content involved. My style is milieu-heavy and fairly dark.

Q: How long did you write before you received your first contract for publication?
A: I’ve been writing poetry seriously since I was 7 and competing in various writing contests since I was 11. I was first published in a local newspaper (journalism) when I was 13. I won a place in the Young Poet’s Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh at 15, won a four-year college scholarship with a timed essay when I was 17, did my first public reading of my poetry when I was 19, and wrote my first novel when I was 32 (actually a two-book serial novel titled PROPHECY). That novel was signed a little more than a year after I started writing it and nine months after I finished writing it. So, depending on how you want to count that…I signed my first contract either 26 years after I started writing seriously or nine months after I finished writing my first novel.

Q: Out of all the stories you’ve written, which is your favorite?
A: That depends on my mood. If you asked me today, I’d probably say my newest Wolkin story, another of my Kegin series spin-offs. But I’d only say that, because I’m working on it right now, so I’m particularly attached to the story right now. On other days, I might name one of my other worlds and books.

I re-read my work a lot, depending on my mood. When I’m in a down mood, it might be Night Warriors or my straight-genre horror stuff. In an up mood, it might be my Born Investigators, Grellan War, or Kegin and Kegin spin-offs (Kielan and Wolkin worlds). In an intense mood, it might be my Xxan or Renegades worlds. Since I write in 20 series worlds and stand-alones, I have too many choices to concrete it to just one favorite.

Q: Do you need to be in a specific place or atmosphere before the words flow?
A: The better question would be, “Do you have to be in a specific place to stop the flow?” Unless someone is hovering over me, trying to engage me in conversation and/or being loud and disruptive, the words are going to flow. My muse is something of a leather-clad, whip-wielding taskmaster. Or is that taskmistress? She reminds me a lot of a nun I had as a teacher in first grade. And she never sleeps. Is it any surprise I rarely sleep, either?

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I’m so excited to share my news with you all. Lethe Press has offered to release a new print edition of Pyromancer. I have no idea when this will occur (I only received the contract this morning), but I’ll let you all know the minute you can order the new version.

Unfortunately, this means the paperback edition I released through Createspace will no longer be available for purchase. If you had your heart set on buying one soon, you might want to race over to Amazon and snap up one of the last few they have in stock. Cause once those are gone, they’re gone.

I’ll be giving away a copy of my upcoming release, Daywalker Legacy, through my Yahoo group on Febuary 1st. All you have to do to enter is be a member. You can find my group here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmandaYoung/

Please welcome Roxanne Rhoads to the blog, author of Eternal Desire. Thank you for agreeing to answer my nosy questions and share them with everyone visiting today.

Q: To begin, please share which genre(s) you write in…
A: I write in a couple: erotic romance, erotica, and paranormal erotic romance and erotica, mostly paranormal but some contemporaries too.

Q: How long did you write before you received your first contract for publication?
A: I’ve been writing since I could hold a pencil or pen in my hand but I didn’t start doing it as work until 2005 and one of my first stories was accepted for publication in Playgirl Magazine then I received a contract for another story in ebook form through Midnight Showcase. Since then I’ve been published in magazines, anthologies both print and ebook, and in several of my own short ebook and print books.

Q: Out of all the stories you’ve written, which is your favorite?
A: Eternal Desire, a paranormal erotic vampire romance set in New Orleans during Halloween.

Q: Do you need to be in a specific place or atmosphere before the words flow?
A: Sometimes words and ideas will pop up anywhere at any time, but when I work I force them to come to at least get some words on the page. I have learned that once I get the words coming the story will usually take off on its own. Read the rest of this entry »

January 8th -

Daybreakers
Fresh off the success of their inventive take on the zombie genre, Undead masterminds Michael and Peter Spierig direct Ethan Hawke in an ambitious tale of a futuristic Earth populated entirely by vampires, and the efforts made by the creatures to ensure that their food supply doesn’t run out as humankind is faced with extinction. The year is 2017, and a vampire plague has turned most of the planet’s human population into bloodsucking ghouls. As the population of mortals fast begins to dwindle, a resourceful team of vampires sets out to capture and farm every remaining human while simultaneously researching a consumable blood substitute. Just when all hope seems lost, a secret is discovered that may provide the key to saving the human race

January 22nd -

Legion
A group of strangers in a desert diner must defend themselves against a legion of angels sent by God to bring on the Apocalypse.

Febuary 5th-

I Love You Phillip Morris
A family man is sent to prison and falls in love with his cellmate, Phillip Morris. When Morris is released from prison, his new love embarks on a series of escape attempts to reunite with Morris.