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Author Interview
Hi Jessica,
Thank you for taking part in this interview!
Could you tell us a little about yourself and what inspired you to start writing?
Thank you so much for asking me!
Well…. For starters it really sucks having to talk about yourself, you know? But… I’m 28 I live in a small town in southern Iowa. I grew up with a lot of horses and dogs. I even participated in the Iowa High School Rodeo Association.
I am single and have two amazing Australian Shepherds (Shay & Cooper) that I adore. I’m wild and like to think that I’m a planner, though I mostly just live day to day. I don’t have any specific interests or hobbies, but I will try almost anything.
I began writing about 18 months ago when Harper and Breccan’s story started to play out in my head. I’ve always had a pretty active imagination, like that part of childhood never really left me. I never had any intention on being a writer. I just loved to read. But when their story wouldn’t leave me alone I figured, why not just get it out of my head? I had become friends with a couple of independent authors and they read a bit of my work and told me that I was, indeed, a writer. It was like this huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders and everything kind of clicked into place. I was a writer!
As for the inspiration for the story…? I think it was the fact that I had been struggling for a few years with really bad depression. Like bad. I didn’t want to go get help, because I felt that I was just being a baby and that I would snap out of it. 3 years later I hadn’t snapped out of it…
All of these dark thoughts kept running through my head… like I would be better if something traumatic happened to me, because then I would have a reason to hate myself so much. I couldn’t journal about what I was feeling because I couldn’t explain it.
Then Harper came to me like a beacon from above and through her pain, I worked out my own.
With the story finally concluded, I feel like I am back to my old self and ready for some more light hearted work.
You have an upcoming release on Sept. 26th, My Coyote Ugly Life, Could you tell us a little about it??
Oh my God! I’m so glad you asked!!!
I have been working hard the last month on writing this book and it’s over halfway done. This story is loosely based on my personality mixed with four of my closest friends. We’re a wild bunch and our main goal is always synonymous: Have Fun.
So, Azaria ‘Ree’ Gable is not a believer in love. She had her heart broken once, and can we all agree it’s not fun at all? Ree is a realist and knows that she needs some emotional connection with people, so she gets it. She likes to refer to herself as a whore/slut sometimes, because she feels that she has been most of her adult life.
She has dated guys in the past but for never more than a month. If it goes longer than a month then plans start getting made and feelings become involved. She’s funny and quirky and I love her personality. She meets Grayson Cole, who hasn’t been a believer in much, but he knows a good woman when he meets one and he has no intention of letting Ree easily slip through his fingers.
This story has a lot of fun banter between them and some great chemistry. There are a lot of secondary characters and some of them will have their own stories. There will be NO CLIFFHANGERS! I PROMISE!! How about an excerpt…? You’ll get a better idea of what it’s really about and how they interact.
This is where Ree runs into Grayson after moving back home.
“Urmph,” I grunt out as I run smack into someone, face-planting in their chest because I was more worried about saving the rolls. “Sorr-,” I begin to say and cut myself off as my brain registers the police badge that is pinned to the chest of the individual I face-planted into.
F**k.
Sh*t, f**k, f**k, f**kity, sh*t-f**k!
My heart rate kicks up a notch and my skin turns electric as my body starts to freak out; knowing, this is when it’s time to run.
“Erm… sorry,” I raise my head slowly, dreading looking at the guy, “officer…” my words trail off, not because I’m speechless, but because I can’t breathe.
Did you hear me?
I.
Can’t.
Breathe!
Why can’t I breathe?
Because I know this guy!
Omigod, omigod, omigod!
“Azaria,” he says my name in a deep rumbly voice that washes over my skin, making me feel like fairies are dancing all over my body in jubilation, such is the epic-ness that is his voice.
He leans his head down (way down, because he is so much taller than me), I look up and notice a halo form around his face from the sun shining in the window, his caramel colored eyes flash with amusement as his perfect lips form a half smile. I suck in a breath. (Yep. I’m a fan of the half smile. Sign me up, for I would love to have that mouth smiling against some very intimate areas of my body.)
Oh, my God, he smells so good. My body, completely of its own accord (I swear!) moves closer to him, making it easier to get a better whiff of whatever body wash it is that makes me want to take a chunk out of him with my teeth. My ‘gina begins to quiver; the walls vibrating with fury at not having him the other night.
His head moves to the side of mine where he whispers, “I missed you the other morning.” Holy donkey nuts his voice is sexy.
Oh. My. God.
This can’t be happening. Nope. Not happening.
No way.
“O- officer,” I stumble over my words trying to think of something to say, and reminding myself that this, after all, is a cop.
Not just any cop, of course.
Nooo…
According to his nameplate he is ‘Chief Cole’. Are you kidding me!? Why couldn’t he just be a gentleman and ignore the whole situation like a normal American!? No, he goes straight for it. Don’t hold back.
Jerk.
Okay, now how do I play this? I obviously can’t use the whole ‘Do I know you?’ routine. My ‘gina quiver made sure of that. I can’t just walk out and ignore him… Can I? Hmm…
I don’t think, I’m capable of pulling off the whole ‘Show-respect-to-the-officer-because-I’ve-had-too-many-run-ins-with-the-law-and-I’m-a-bad-person’ routine either.
Okay. Well, that only leaves one option.
I step back, straighten my purse on my shoulder, get a better grip on my box of rolls and look him straight in the eye (with a polite, yet detached voice and face) and say, “Chief Cole. Nice to see you again.”
And, ever so elegantly, I step around him and head out the door.
Whew! Close one.
“Azaria, wait.”
Sh*t. He followed me outside! Now what do I do?
Keep walking.
Yep. Just… keep… walking.
“Ree,” he says as his fingers wrap around my upper arm, halting my awesome walking away skills.
He turns me around to look at him and I do a quick peripheral scan of the area to see how many onlookers we have to what is about to go down; not many. Yet.
“Did you really just walk away from me… again?” he asks astonished.
“Did it look like I walked away from you?” I ask, feeling a bit like a society snooty bitch and deciding to go with it.
I notice a few people start to come out onto the sidewalks to see what is going on. Great. Well, they were bound to learn that I moved back sometime. May as well give them the show they expect from me.
“Yeah. It did,” his voice and face are completely series.
“Oh, well. Then I guess I did,” I shrug my shoulders and smile at him, this time sounding more like a dingbat valley girl.
Someone call the shrink! Chief Cole is giving Ree Dissociative Identity Disorder!
So there you have it! Want more…? It will be out on the 26th of September and I hope you all will enjoy it as much as I am!
Where do you get your ideas for your books??
Okay, I’ve always given rather vague answers to this question, because the truth is, it’s a wee bit embarrassing. But obviously, I’m ready to let the cat out of the bag…
I’m a rather headstrong, independent woman that men have a hard time wanting… in that way. I’ve been told this numerous times by men. It’s okay. I’ve accepted it. So I tend to become better friends with men than getting to that next stage.
But, hey, I am a girl and I can’t help but think that maybe someone would have the balls to handle a woman like me.
So, when I lay my little noggin’ down at night, I like to fantasize about the type of man it would be.
This rarely goes as planned.
There are all of these amazing book boyfriends out there and now my standards are too high.
So my brain usually veers off to a couple. It just suddenly appears. And sometimes, I really like them, so the next night I will think about them again. Then it turns into a sickness and I can’t get them out of my head.
It’s when their story starts plaguing me during the day that I have an idea for a book.
So there you have it. My warped way of discovering characters!
What is the hardest /easiest part of writing a book?
Hardest: When I know where I want to go with a story, but I hit a bump in the road that prevents me from getting there. This is when I have to argue and yell at the characters and usually involves me screaming “What the f*ck do you want from me!?!?!”
Easiest: Coming up with the idea and developing the characters.
Are you currently working on any projects now?
My Coyote Ugly Life is what I am currently working on. It is book one in the My Life Series. I’m not sure how many books there will be, but they will be released about 4 months apart from each other.
After this one, it looks like (as of right now) I will be starting Kota and Ryder’s story.
If you could write with any other author who would it be and why?
Honestly, I don’t know if I could write with someone else. I just don’t know if my brain would be able to function that way. I suppose I would be willing to try with someone who has experience with it and has a strategy that makes sense to me as to how it would need to be done.
What do you do for fun?
Not much anymore. I’m so busy keeping myself locked away. Lol
But for the most part, I love anything that involves spending time with my friends. I’ve gone golfing with a friend of mine and her husband and his friends, though this basically consists of her and I getting drunk and driving the golf cart in circles and attempting to hit a ball, which I end up screaming obscenities at. Sometimes my friends and I will have a garage party where we just catch up, drink and dance our asses off to music from our Jr High and High School days.
When I’m alone and not writing I will read or check out Netflix.
Who is your favorite author?
Hands down, Kristen Ashley.
I think she has a lot of inspiration over me for this new series. The way her characters are fun and goofy, yet loveable and relatable, really appeals to me.
Favorite Color?
Pink or teal.
Favorite Dessert?
If I have to choose it would be the Black Tie Mousse Cake from Olive Garden. I will go crazy for that every damn time. Even if I can only eat half of it.
I try to stay away from it, because I like it so much. I haven’t had it in over a year.
That makes me sad now that I think about it…
Thank you so much for taking time to talk with us, We look forward to reading more from you! :)
Thank you so much for asking me!!!
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