My next author interview subject is very classy lady–and a wonderful writer.  Dara Edmondson, welcome to my blog!!!  Dara recently answered my author interview questions, and I wanted to share her responses with my blog visitors.  So here you go.  🙂

1.    Please tell us a bit about yourself and the genre (or genres) that you write.

Thanks for having me, Cynthia!  I live in Florida and have worked in tourism, Real Estate and the salon industry.  I have two nearly grown kids and a very supportive husband.  Now I’m a full time writer and I love it!  I’ve written many genres, mainly contemporary romance, erotica and Young Adult.  I’ve had lots of wide-eyed stares when I say I write both erotica and YA since the two couldn’t be further apart, but that keeps it fresh and interesting!

2.    Describe your current (or upcoming) release in 15 words or less.

Captured is about a woman taken to be the courtesan for a prince.  Yummy!

3.    Now use as many words as you’d like to describe your story.

Whew!  Much easier than 15 words.  When Audrey Brookstone meets a handsome foreigner at a Broadway show, she’s instantly taken with his good looks and charming demeanor.  After an evening of passion in his limousine, he whisks her away to be his courtesan in Cazbekistan, where he is a crown prince.  Prince Milo agrees not to force himself on her, but rather to make her fall in love with him in only eight weeks, or he must set her free with a king’s ransom.  Can Audrey resist his charms or will she give in to his lavish seduction?  (A reviewer accused me of peeking into her fantasies!)

4.    Which character do you like better from CAPTURED—the hero or the heroine?  Why?

I’ll have to say my hero, Milo.  First of all, he’s totally yummy.  He’s forced to change his opinions and the way he looks at his world.  I love pulling my characters out of their comfort zone.  Although I pull my heroine out of hers as well since she’s kidnapped and taken to a whole new reality, Milo is the one who learns the most from the experience.

5.    What is the most challenging part of being a writer?

For me it’s having patience, something that does not come naturally;-)  You must have patience to revise and revise and revise before you submit a manuscript to publishers, you must find even more while waiting for their response.  The process can take years and it’s not for the faint-hearted!

6.    In a fight, who would win…Dracula or the wolf-man?  What? This question seems odd? Please, folks are dying to know this answer.

I’ll say Dracula because he’s no doubt hotter!  Plus, he can turn himself into a bat to escape, then come back when the wolf-man least expects him.

7.    What’s your favorite scary movie?  Come on, spill.  No explanations—just name it.  Let everyone else guess why.

Blair Witch Project.

8.    Tell me the one thing you wish you’d known about being a writer, um, before you became a writer.

I wish I knew all the patience and perseverance required.  When I completed my first novel I thought it was so great.  Publishers would enter a bidding war to get their hands on it.  I found out real quick how wrong I was!  That book is still under my bed.

9.    What is your writing schedule like?

I don’t have a hard and fast schedule because with two kids, a husband and two cats, stuff happens.  Every day.  Most days of the week, I start writing as soon as I come home from the gym, carpool and errands.  I often write on and off all day and into the evening.  Since I have a critique partner, I try to get to her chapter early in the week.  I am pretty rigid in my weekly word count goal and if that means I’m writing after dinner, so be it.  I also write on the weekend.

10.    Tell me anything you’d like to tell me.

One of my favorite things to do is attend writers’ conferences.  You can learn so much and meet so many wonderful people, like Cynthia Eden;-) and Angela Knight and Heather Graham.  The best thing is how encouraging and supportive most of those folks are.  I always go home incredibly inspired and ready to write the great American novel!  Well, maybe someday.

Thanks for answering my questions, Dara!!!

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