All Up In Author's Business!

After reading Gwyneth Bolton’s answers to I think this blog should have a title. All up in the authors business. LOL. What do you, the readers think? As you guessed, we’re about to be all up in Gwyneth Bolton’s business.

Dyanne: Gwyneth, thanks for playing along with this interview. There is a method to my madness other than just being plain insane. I’m hoping the readers will play along and enjoy this. I’m also hoping to show them writers have a fun and approachable side. Ready for the first question? Here it is: If you were granted the power to end either world hunger or have world peace, which would it be? And no, you can’t try to answer so that you can do both.

Gwyneth: That’s a hard one. But I’m going to go with end world hunger. Because honestly, if things were equitable and fair and folks around the world had the basic necessities like food, clothes and shelter, we’d get peace as a by-product. If not, then at least those currently disproportionately affected by poverty and hunger would be able to live and fight on the side of right until we get peace. The cynic in me believes that wicked people are always going to find reasons to war. So, we need more folks who are strong, ready, willing and able to fight for righteous causes. So feed them; end world hunger.

Dyanne: I like your answer and knew you’d find a way to have your choice affect both (smile). Now you’ve been given a chance to rewrite one scene in your personal life. What scene would that be?

Gwyneth: Dang, Dyanne, you all up in my personal business. Sorry, I can’t share the one I would really change ‘cause I don’t know you like that. LOL. But there are a few boyfriends in the past that—knowing what I know now—I would have walked on by. So, that summer night before my senior year of high school when I was walking around with my best friend Lily and we thought we were too hot to trot and that boy I’d seen and secretly liked finally said hello and asked for my phone number… Instead of telling him yes and spending that night on the phone until I couldn’t keep my eyes open and the next six years of my life in that mess of a relationship… I would have said I don’t have a phone and kept it moving. LOL. What I didn’t know then is that there was a much better guy for me waiting a few years down the road, and I had plenty of things to keep me busy until our destinies linked up.

Dyanne: That was a really great answer. I love it especially the end. To bad we can’t see into the future. Now, for the serious stuff. Tell us what you’ve been up to and what books you have coming out this year and any future works that you’re at liberty to talk about.

Gwyneth: This year is a busy year for me. It’s the release year for the first three books in my new series, Hightower Honors: four brothers on a mission to protect, serve and love. Hightower Honors chronicles the lives and loves of four very hot and sexy brothers from a strong upper-middle class Paterson, New Jersey family with a rich legacy of public service. The Hightower men are all tall, dark and handsome alpha males. Their upbringing dictates that when push comes to shove, they should always do the right thing. The only catch is that sometimes the right thing in their minds has to be done the right way, their way. Raised by two loving parents, James and Celia Hightower, the brothers know what real love looks like and they want it for themselves. Eventually. On their own terms.

The first book in the series, PROTECT AND SERVE was released in July 2008. The next books in the series are MAKE IT HOT, THE LAW OF DESIRE and SIZZLING SEDUCTION. In MAKE IT HOT, September 2008, Joel Hightower is a fireman injured on the job and forced to think about a career outside of his dream job. Too bad he can’t think around the spunky physical therapist helping him recover. In THE LAW OF DESIRE, December 2008, the woman Lawrence Hightower finds himself falling in love with could very well be a criminal. He needs to figure out who she really is before the criminals looking for her find her. In SIZZLING SEDUCTION, October 2009, Patrick Hightower is used to putting out fires, but a sweet and sexy kindergarten teacher breaks through his protective shield and gets him thinking it might be more fun starting one.

Dyanne: Thanks Gwyneth. Where can readers reach you?

Gwyneth: Readers can e-mail me gwynethbolton@prodigy.net. They can visit me and contact me via my website http://www.gwynethbolton.com or they can look me up on MySpace http://www.myspace.com/gwynethbolton or look for me on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/people/Gwyneth_Bolton/1039714933. Readers can also reach me via snail mail by writing me at PO Box 9388 Carousel Ctr. Syracuse, New York 13290-9381.