I was given the incredible opportunity
to sit down and have some one-on-one face time with the attending authors at
the recent Houston event. It was a blast! I got to pick their brains for five
minutes each. Thanks to all of you who submitted questions, I was armed and
prepared. ~Nadine
We’ll be featuring a different author
and their interview here for the next several days. Make sure you scroll to the
bottom and enter the AMAZING Rafflecopter for your chance to win a SIGNED
paperback from each attending author and keep scrolling for another chance to
win various swag from the event. If you submitted a question on either My
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extra entry points.
Today’s spotlight is Erin Noelle! You asked the questions,
she answered them. Enjoy!
What
inspired you to start writing?
Reading. I’m just, I’ve always been a
huge reader. My first book, Metamorphosis,
is about two girls who, they’re huge readers, and they go out to try to find
their book boyfriend in real life. That was like the premise of the book. I
just kind of wrote it for fun. I was in a book club and kind of wrote it for my
book club people and they were like ‘hey you should publish this’ so I did and
that’s where it went.
What
are you planning to do next?
I’m writing two books right now. I’m
actually writing the fourth book to the Book Boyfriends series, which is a
novella called Timeless. It takes
place at the end of Euphoria but
before the epilogue in Euphoria.
There’s a six year span between the end of Euphoria
and the epilogue, so I’m covering those six years in a novella. I’m also writing
a follow up novel to When the Sun Goes
Down. It’s called As the Dawn Breaks.
It’s a spin-off. This is a standalone (When
the Sun Goes Down) it has an end, but it is open for a continuation of one
of the character’s story, so I’m working on that now.
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If
you could turn one of your books into a TV series or a movie, which one would
you choose?
When
the Sun Goes Down. Yeah, I love that
book. It’s my latest that I put out and I love the story to it. It’s really
different from most anything that people have read. It’s told from the two
points of view from two females instead of a male and female. They are polar
opposites. Trina is a very shy, elementary school music teacher. She has no
social life whatsoever. She’s not interested in being a part of any social
life, not making friends. She wants to go to work, go home and that be it. Kat,
she witnessed her dad kill her mom when she was fourteen and from that point on
she’s had this plan of revenge that she works towards and she’s just a man
hater. She actually goes out at night and seduces men and then basically lives
them tied up in hotel rooms or whatever. She likes to belittle men and she’s
kind of a dominatrix. Without giving the story away, it’s about what happens
when their lives collide.
What
inspired your characters?
With Meta (Metamorphosis) the main characters are college students. When I was
reading, I was just reading a lot of New Adult when New Adult really became big
in 2012. I actually mention a lot of other books in there and talk about actual
characters in other books. So, they were really inspired just by the whole New
Adult genre, what I was reading.
What
inspired this one (When the Sun Goes Down)
cause this is just the complete opposite?
Actually, okay my husband always tries
to give me book ideas and most the things he comes up with are just ridiculous.
But, God love him, he said ‘hey what if you wrote this book about these two
like polar opposite females and make their’, so he came up with this character
and once it got in my head the whole story just started playing out in my head.
And whereas this series I had no idea what was going to happen until I wrote
it. Honestly, it was like if I had a bad day, my characters had a bad day. If I
had a good day, it was a happy life for my characters. I made it up as I went
along.
What
is the time frame from start to finish for your first book?
Three months is how long it took me to
write my first one. I stopped reading. I was still working when I wrote it. I
just stopped reading at night. I use to spend, from when my kids went to bed,
like 9:30/10 until about 12/12:30 reading. So I stopped reading and just wrote
during that time instead. I started in October of 2012 and I published it in
January of 2013.
If
you weren’t a writer, what would you be?
I did work in bookkeeping or accounting.
I can really do anything. Hmm…that’s tough. Probably a Beta reader. Can I get
paid to read books?
The chimes! The chimes were dinging
signaling my time was up once again.
About
Erin
Erin Noelle is a Texas native, where she lives with her husband and two
young daughters. While earning her degree in History, she rediscovered her love
for reading that was first instilled by her grandmother when she was a young
child. A lover of happily-ever-afters, both historical and current, Erin is an
avid reader of all romance novels.
Most nights you can find her cuddled up in bed with her husband, her
Kindle in hand and a sporting event of some sorts on television.
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