Today we’re pleased to have paranormal author Adrianne Brennan visiting with us. She shares how she gets most of her inspiration and the latest on her recent releases.
Welcome to Happy Endings. Can you tell us a little about your latest release?
Certainly! I’ve had two recently plus a third coming VERY soon, so I’ll talk a bit about those:
Blood of the Dark Moon, a vampire/paranormal erotic romance/dark urban fantasy novel in the Dark Moon series, recently had a print release. It came out in ebook first back in ’07 with Aphrodite’s Apples. When the publisher closed the following year, Freya’s Bower accepted it and has since released it and other books in the series. You can read more about it here.
Dawn of the Seraphs, a m/m scifi/paranormal erotic romance, just had a print release in the Immortal Fire anthology in addition to its original release in ebook and Kindle. It’s published with Love You Divine and its information link is here.
My Big Fat Greek Pagan Lesbian Wedding, a f/f sweet romance in the To Love and To Cherish anthology of lesbian wedding stories, is about to be released by Love You Divine. You can read more about it here.
We love talking about muses around here … Do you have one? If so, introduce us to him, her or it. How does your muse help you?
I do indeed! He takes on many forms, including actual characters in my stories, and sometimes talks to me in dreams and argues over plot details with me. No joke! Most of my inspiration stems from my dreams, and on occasion I get entire novel concepts!
What inspired you to write romance? What romantic genre do you write?
Since I was ten and wrote my first story I’ve dreamed of writing! It has always been my passion. I’d have to say that I was inspired to write paranormal, scifi, and fantasy works first and romance last. 🙂 I didn’t intentionally start out in romance; I just sorta stumbled into it! LOL I love all forms of the speculative fiction genres including mainstream, erotica, romance, and erotic romance. They’re my favorite genres to read and hence are my favorites to write. The actual process of writing–especially and including finishing a manuscript! I love, love, love to write. Love it! I think it’s the concept of building worlds and all the unique people who go into them.
What is your biggest challenge as a writer?
TIME. As in, enough of it! I live a pretty full life and it can get in the way of my writing. My day job is software engineering and you can only imagine how that goes!
Imagine one of our readers is a writer who is inches away from giving up on her dreams. What would you say to convince her (or him) to keep working at it?
Remember what got you started and what drives you to write. Always, always live for whatever reaches into your chest, grabs a hold of your heart, and sets your soul on fire. All else is dust and smoke.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be and would you use it for good or evil (or totally selfish personal gain for at least 24 hours)?
I think I’d like to be like Hiro from Heroes and have the ability to teleport and manipulate time and space. I would most definitely use it for good!
I’m sending you on a date with the hero character from ANY romantic entertainment – book, movie, TV show. Who would you want to go on the date with and what would you do (err, PG rated)?
The Doctor from Doctor Who–the one played by David Tennant. As for what we’d do, anything that involves talking to him for hours on end and picking his brain about absolutely anything!
Describe your ideal, sexy hero (or heroine).
Smart, funny, intelligent, witty, clever, spirited, passionate. Someone who stands up for what he believes in.
If all the romance authors in the world were to work in one building, in cubicles (like a normal job) who would you want sitting on either side of you? (Because you know we can hear everything that goes on…)
I dunno about specifically romance, but as far as authors in general would go, I’d pick Neil Gaiman, Yasmine Galenorn, Alan Moore, and Charlaine Harris. 😀
If you could “party like it’s 1999” with a celebrity or personality (alive or dead) who would it and where would you party?
Jim Morrison, and anywhere where we could drink and talk philosophy for hours on end!
Because this IS Happy Endings, I have to ask: What is your favorite fictional romantic happy endings — either from a book, a movie or TV show. Why that one?
I’ll go with Practical Magic. The woman wished for the most impossible romantic partner she could think of as a child so she would never fall in love–and against all odds, the spell worked and she did. I gotta find that to be inspirational. 🙂
Visit Adrianne at her website: www.adriannebrennan.com
THIS WEEK ON HAPPY ENDINGS
Come back tomorrow (Tuesday) as we continue our Book Video workshop and dissect what goes into a script. Wednesday welcomes Katrina Stonoff, Thursday brings Nina Davies and your chance to win an Autocrit membership, and Friday we welcome Lavada Dee.
4 comments
Hi, Adrianne! Welcome to Happy Endings! I LOVED Practical Magic. What a great premise. I love the covers for Blood of the Dark Moon and the reviews are great. I’d imagine that the switch from the technical day job (software engineer) to the artisitic night job (author) is hard to make sometimes, isn’t it? You definitely encompass both ends of the spectrum, eh? 🙂
Wow did I hear you when you said TIME is your biggest challenge. I worked in the technical field for years. Even retired I need it, hence web development.
I’d want go back to work with you if you were sitting in a cubicle next to Yasmine Galenorn. She is one great interesting lady. She spoke at our chapter. I doubt if she remembers me but I sure remember her.
Great blog and I 2nd Laurie on loving the cover for Blood of Dark Moon.
Hi Adrianne! Nice to meet you, and VERY cool cover above. I love the movie Practical Magic–haven’t watched it in years–I’ll have to pull it out. That spell was great. 🙂
Hi Adrianne, nice interview! I can understand what you mean when you say that Time is your biggest challenge as a writer. I think it is for a lot of us.
Congrats on Blood of the Dark Moon!