Are you all getting excited about the cruise? It’s going to be fantastic. Don’t forget to bring a couple of items that hopefully you won’t need. Aloe Vera gel, Noxzema (do they still make that?) in case of sunburn. And yes, we do burn. Something for gastrointestinal issues (both ends) (Smile) and something in case you become seasick.
What a way to bring you three exciting interviews. Sorry, but I’m a mother and a worrier. I want you all to have the most fantastic vacation of your lives. Our first interview is with Kimberly Kaye Terry.
Dyanne: Kimberly, hello and thank you for talking to the RSJ family. First off I want to congratulate you on not only being up for an Emma, but for also being up for an award from RT. Good luck to you in both contests. Along with the sometimes crazy questions I ask authors I've decided that this would be a good place to also spotlight the books the authors in the family are putting out. So why don't you tell us what you're doing and especially tell us about the books you have coming out this year.
Kim: Hello Dyanne, thank you for the invitation to chat! I feel honored and blessed to have had The Sweet Spot nominated for both an Emma as well as the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice award; thank you so much for the congratulations!
What a way to bring you three exciting interviews. Sorry, but I’m a mother and a worrier. I want you all to have the most fantastic vacation of your lives. Our first interview is with Kimberly Kaye Terry.
Dyanne: Kimberly, hello and thank you for talking to the RSJ family. First off I want to congratulate you on not only being up for an Emma, but for also being up for an award from RT. Good luck to you in both contests. Along with the sometimes crazy questions I ask authors I've decided that this would be a good place to also spotlight the books the authors in the family are putting out. So why don't you tell us what you're doing and especially tell us about the books you have coming out this year.
Kim: Hello Dyanne, thank you for the invitation to chat! I feel honored and blessed to have had The Sweet Spot nominated for both an Emma as well as the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice award; thank you so much for the congratulations!
Okay, so what I’m doing this year is writing, writing and more writing, LOL. Last year I contracted with Harlequin Kimani and Arabesque to write four novels and one novella. My novella, titled Chocolate Truffles (featuring a Baptist girl who finds love with a Jewish hero) will appear in a holiday-themed anthology along with two amazing authors, Beverly Jenkins and Adrianne Byrd, in October of this year. My first Kimani, titled Hot To Touch, (which is an interracial story as well, a steamy romance featuring a journalist named Emma by the way, LOL, and the hero, Shane, who is a Smoke Jumper) releases December of this year. The following year my trilogy, titled Wyoming Wilde, will release in back-to-back months, February, March and April, of 2011 and I’m super excited about this awesome beginning for my family dynasty! The series is centered around three men who grew up as brothers, although they are all of different races, who own a ranch outside of Landers, Wyoming. Boy am I having fun writing each one of their stories! I’m currently finishing the first story, featuring Nate and Althea, and this one has a little bit of suspense thrown into the sexy…my favorite type of book to write :)
Dyanne: You’re certainly busy, but it’s heartening to know that you’re having fun. Kim, I know the RSJ family wants me to ask this question. I can hear their voices. For those hot steamy scenes, are there any G-rated tips you can give us for your inspiration?
Kim: Hmmmm. G-rated. From me?! Awww, come on Dyanne, that’s asking the impossible! Seriously, I will say that any author writing sexy scenes should feel comfortable in what she’s writing. If she doesn’t, it will come out forced and not natural sounding. I think if you are in-tuned with your characters, where they are emotionally in the scene, the love scenes like any other scene, will flow naturally. Throw on some Luther, kick back, have fun with it and just let your imagination take flight;)
Dyanne: LOL. You did a good job of giving me a G-rated answer. Guess what? I've been given the power (Seriously) to grant the wishes of those I find most deserving. I've already granted Michelle Monkou her wish. I'd love to grant yours also. Convince me you're deserving and then tell me your wish. And like I told Michelle, world peace has been taken.
Kim: I’m a naughty girl, Dyanne. I don’t know that I can convince you that I’m deserving of your supernatural abilities! But, if I were, my wish would be that everyone (myself included as I sometimes forget) ascribe to one of my favorite quotes. It was penned by Dr. Maya Angelou, “Be grateful for all things and present in all things.” Sometimes it’s easy to grateful. It’s not always easy to be present. This part of the quote took me much longer to grasp. Being present for me is enjoying every moment of this sometimes crazy, sometimes disappointing, but always awesome journey, we call writing.
Dyanne: Great answer and deserving of having a wish granted. We’ll talk after you fulfill your promise. (Shhh)Now back to the writing life. Where are you in the writing game? How many books do you have out now?
Kim: In the writing game I’ve had fourteen novels published, with a handful of those being novellas. My first book, which I call the book of my heart, Love’s Redemption, released January of 2006, with a small ebook publisher. I’ve since gotten the rights back.
Dyanne: How did you get started with your writing career?
Kim: I wrote my first book when my husband was deployed to Afghanistan. It was a very hard time in many ways. My daughter was a toddler, husband deployed, and I had recently suffered another miscarriage. I was blessed then and now because my daughter is my joy. As I wrote my first book (it took me about a year, as I was and still am, a full time mommy) she helped keep the sadness at bay for me. Fast forward a few years, and I still call myself a full time mommy first, and then I’m a full time author :)
Dyanne: Very well said. I love the being a full time mommy first. IMHO it’s our most important job, and the most rewarding. Kim, Give us a little peep into your non-writing life.
Kim: Peep into my what?!...why Dyanne, I didn’t know you were a voyeur! LOL. Just kiddin’. What kind of interview would this be with me, Dyanne, if I didn’t say inappropriate things once in a while? I gotta keep you on your toes, lady ;) Okay, okay, I’ll behave! Well, when not writing, I’m usually chauffeuring the bratlett, aka my daughter, to ballet, tap, hip-hop and piano lessons! I also volunteer, weekly, as a counselor for a battered women’s group. I’m a part-time herbalist and grow a lot of cool herbs (of the legal variety) in my garden. I’m particularly proud of my rosemary. It started as a small bush and now takes up a full corner of my garden! I also take tap dancing classes and just finished taking a class on pole dancing! The hubby really liked me taking the pole dancing class. *ggg*
Dyanne: You’re right, you’re keeping me on my toes and I’m laughing. I don’t dare ask a follow up question but I’ll email you later about the herbs. (the legal variety.) The last two or three years you've been so busy with your writing career that I was wondering if you've had an time to relax.
Kim: I have been busy, Dyanne, but to me writing is my passion, and really doesn’t feel like work at times. I simply enjoy sharing the stories clamoring around in my head, with the world. It’s a blessing to have such wonderful readers who enjoy my work. However there are times when I’m so tired from racing through deadlines that I force myself to take a small break, and step away from my office! Those times are few, but they always help me feel refreshed and ready to hit it hard and heavy when I return…and no, Dyanne, I’m not being naughty with the whole hitting it hard and heavy, thing, I swear! Okay. Maybe I am. A little.
Dyanne: Kim, You wouldn’t be you if you weren’t being naughty. But you did good. Thank you again for taking time out to talk with us. Can you give us links to where the RSJ family can reach you?
Kim: No problem, it was fun! My website is www.kimberlykayeterry.com I’m also on facebook, where I can be found procrastinating, posting pictures of naked men, and general ruckusing, under Kimberly Kaye Terry. Come on by and be my friend!
Dyanne: Thanks Kim
Kim: Thank you, Dyanne and the wonderful RSJ folks!
Dyanne: You’re certainly busy, but it’s heartening to know that you’re having fun. Kim, I know the RSJ family wants me to ask this question. I can hear their voices. For those hot steamy scenes, are there any G-rated tips you can give us for your inspiration?
Kim: Hmmmm. G-rated. From me?! Awww, come on Dyanne, that’s asking the impossible! Seriously, I will say that any author writing sexy scenes should feel comfortable in what she’s writing. If she doesn’t, it will come out forced and not natural sounding. I think if you are in-tuned with your characters, where they are emotionally in the scene, the love scenes like any other scene, will flow naturally. Throw on some Luther, kick back, have fun with it and just let your imagination take flight;)
Dyanne: LOL. You did a good job of giving me a G-rated answer. Guess what? I've been given the power (Seriously) to grant the wishes of those I find most deserving. I've already granted Michelle Monkou her wish. I'd love to grant yours also. Convince me you're deserving and then tell me your wish. And like I told Michelle, world peace has been taken.
Kim: I’m a naughty girl, Dyanne. I don’t know that I can convince you that I’m deserving of your supernatural abilities! But, if I were, my wish would be that everyone (myself included as I sometimes forget) ascribe to one of my favorite quotes. It was penned by Dr. Maya Angelou, “Be grateful for all things and present in all things.” Sometimes it’s easy to grateful. It’s not always easy to be present. This part of the quote took me much longer to grasp. Being present for me is enjoying every moment of this sometimes crazy, sometimes disappointing, but always awesome journey, we call writing.
Dyanne: Great answer and deserving of having a wish granted. We’ll talk after you fulfill your promise. (Shhh)Now back to the writing life. Where are you in the writing game? How many books do you have out now?
Kim: In the writing game I’ve had fourteen novels published, with a handful of those being novellas. My first book, which I call the book of my heart, Love’s Redemption, released January of 2006, with a small ebook publisher. I’ve since gotten the rights back.
Dyanne: How did you get started with your writing career?
Kim: I wrote my first book when my husband was deployed to Afghanistan. It was a very hard time in many ways. My daughter was a toddler, husband deployed, and I had recently suffered another miscarriage. I was blessed then and now because my daughter is my joy. As I wrote my first book (it took me about a year, as I was and still am, a full time mommy) she helped keep the sadness at bay for me. Fast forward a few years, and I still call myself a full time mommy first, and then I’m a full time author :)
Dyanne: Very well said. I love the being a full time mommy first. IMHO it’s our most important job, and the most rewarding. Kim, Give us a little peep into your non-writing life.
Kim: Peep into my what?!...why Dyanne, I didn’t know you were a voyeur! LOL. Just kiddin’. What kind of interview would this be with me, Dyanne, if I didn’t say inappropriate things once in a while? I gotta keep you on your toes, lady ;) Okay, okay, I’ll behave! Well, when not writing, I’m usually chauffeuring the bratlett, aka my daughter, to ballet, tap, hip-hop and piano lessons! I also volunteer, weekly, as a counselor for a battered women’s group. I’m a part-time herbalist and grow a lot of cool herbs (of the legal variety) in my garden. I’m particularly proud of my rosemary. It started as a small bush and now takes up a full corner of my garden! I also take tap dancing classes and just finished taking a class on pole dancing! The hubby really liked me taking the pole dancing class. *ggg*
Dyanne: You’re right, you’re keeping me on my toes and I’m laughing. I don’t dare ask a follow up question but I’ll email you later about the herbs. (the legal variety.) The last two or three years you've been so busy with your writing career that I was wondering if you've had an time to relax.
Kim: I have been busy, Dyanne, but to me writing is my passion, and really doesn’t feel like work at times. I simply enjoy sharing the stories clamoring around in my head, with the world. It’s a blessing to have such wonderful readers who enjoy my work. However there are times when I’m so tired from racing through deadlines that I force myself to take a small break, and step away from my office! Those times are few, but they always help me feel refreshed and ready to hit it hard and heavy when I return…and no, Dyanne, I’m not being naughty with the whole hitting it hard and heavy, thing, I swear! Okay. Maybe I am. A little.
Dyanne: Kim, You wouldn’t be you if you weren’t being naughty. But you did good. Thank you again for taking time out to talk with us. Can you give us links to where the RSJ family can reach you?
Kim: No problem, it was fun! My website is www.kimberlykayeterry.com I’m also on facebook, where I can be found procrastinating, posting pictures of naked men, and general ruckusing, under Kimberly Kaye Terry. Come on by and be my friend!
Dyanne: Thanks Kim
Kim: Thank you, Dyanne and the wonderful RSJ folks!
1 comment:
I enjoyed the interview and look for forward to reading your upcoming books.
I really like the idea of your trilogy being published in three successive months.
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