There’s a spaceship leaving Earth and you’re allowed to take
a suitcase of essentials and five other items, what do you take?
I’d have to take my fave cover model, Jimmy Thomas, J.D.
Hart, my awesome narrator, and my husband. I can’t live without the great guys
in my life that love me, get me, help advertise me. As an author, that is so
important. I’d also take my computer and my Dr. Dre headsets.
As far as a suitcase of essentials – enough “tiny” cookies
to keep me looking like a Size 2, sexy as hell and about 30 years old. Some
great red lipstick, some silky underthings (I count them as ONE), a cappuccino
maker, and maybe some flower seeds I hope some day to grow on another planet,
or on board.
Who is your favourite author?
How did you start your writing career?
Our house burned down in 2008. Left alone in an apartment
the insurance got us, my husband had to stay up at the property, and I was
bored with TV and books. So, I sat down. 30 days later, I had my first 90,000
novel written (which has been redone 57 times)
Which character was the hardest to write and why?
The two wounded heroes, Nick Dunn and Luke (new one in the
anthology for Valentine’s day), because they were so tortured, were hard. They
acted in inappropriate ways sometimes that broke my heart and I cried so much
when they broke up with good girls because they were so damaged. Of course, I
heal them in the end, or point toward their healing, anyway. I knew that, but
it still was hard to write.
Why did you choose to write romance? Favourite style to
write?
I like frank language, sex, and funny sex sometimes. People
in funny situations, like in Justified (written by Elmore Leonard). I like the
couple resolving their pain and differences to come to a happily ever after. I
like fixing people because I sure can’t do them in real life!!
If you weren’t an author, what would you have ended up doing?
I was a very successful Realtor for 28 years, #1 in our
region. I am competitive, driven and am not afraid to work hard. But romance
fills a need for me to work with my artistic, creative side. That’s something I
wasn’t doing in Real Estate. I’m good with people, and often difficult people I
enjoyed the best in my career. I guess I get to use those emotions and
“situations” since I don’t write my characters based on anyone, really, to make
a deeper book people will care about. Being an older writer, it isn’t all
La-La-La and OMG dumb stuff like that. That’s how a 20 year old writes. I write
like a woman who as lived hard, loved fully, experienced all the pain of loving
and losing, living and dying and raising a family. It is the natural outcome to
the life I’ve been leading, and the people I’ve been fortunate to meet.
Do you have any rituals/habits when you write?
I nearly always write in the early AM or late at night. I
always listen to music, especially during sex scenes and breakup scenes. I have
favourite candles, nice shower gel so I can get a refresher and love the way I
smell afterward (as opposed to 3 days of pajama eau-de-writer). I wear headsets
when I write outside the house.
What would be the weirdest one?
If you write under an alias/Nome de plume, how does it feel
to have emails etc. addressed to your other name?
I don’t maintain much of a presence under my erotica name,
Angela Love. Partly because there’s a good author by that name, and a porn star
by that name. But my short, The Stimulus Package, for awhile, was selling more
than the Congressional Stimulus package 2 years ago when I released it under
Angela Love. I mean, one day I sold 600 copies without promoting it. I have a
feeling it went viral in D.C. for a day. And whew! No one found me afterwards.
What is on your current and upcoming release schedule?
SEALed With A Kiss
Valentine’s Day
Cruisin’
For A SEAL 2/20 on pre-order now
Audio
Honeymoon Bite 2/14/14
Will be finishing our SEAL My Destiny into a full length
book in the summer
Book 3 in the Golden Vampires of Tuscany out this summer
Another SEAL book in the winter.
Where are your books available?
Accidental
SEAL is available everywhere, plus print and audio.
Honeymoon
Bite is available everywhere in eReader
Heavenly
Lover is available everywhere in eReader
SEAL
Under Covers all available Amazon/Kindle and audio as well
as print.
SEAL Encounter all
available on Amazon/Kindle
Contact – FB, Twitter, website etc.
Sharon Hamilton
Life is one fool thing after another.
Love is two fool things after each other.
Thanks, Amanda, for such a great opportunity to tell people about my stories and a little (maybe too much - I'm always doing that) about me. I have a feeling I'm just like every writer out there who can't believe her good fortune to be able to spend so much time connecting with people who love to read. I love making them cry and laugh and just want to stay inside that story for as long as they can stand it. Love the comments: Damned you. I stayed up all night to finish..." Those are golden. I didn't like anything I wrote (except some poetry) in my 20's and 30's. This is my prime. So, thank you!
ReplyDeleteHe He enjoy your showers Sharon love your sensual love scenes and all your marvellous heroes. J D Harts seductive voice brings the SEALS to life. All the best the the new SEAL releases and the audios
ReplyDeleteLOL Julie. Yes indeed.
DeleteLove bringing these heroes to life. We have a good time. Life is good!
Can't wait for the next amazing release, "Crusin' for a SEAL" I know it will be as wonderful as all the rest in this great series, Sharon.
ReplyDeleteHave to agree with Julie... JD's narration definitely brings even more life to these stories.
No complaints from me, Gayle. He's the best I've listened to. I'm very lucky to have him in my corner. Thanks!
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