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
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Today’s spotlight is TARA SIVEC! You
asked the questions, she answered them. Enjoy!
I think I was. Like in my mind I was
hilarious, but I was probably just annoying. Yeah, I think I was pretty
hilarious.
Is Gavin a REAL kid?
Yes, he’s my son. He’s seven now. He
was four when I started writing Seduction and Snacks. So he was the basis at
100% for Gavin. And my daughter a little bit because she has her own little
sneak attack humor of things that come into play. That one whole scene where Gavin
has the KY Jelly and he’s like ooooh it tingles, it’s warm, that was actually my
daughter that did that.
How do you come up with such
hilarious characters in your Chocolate Lovers series?
A lot of it is based on real life.
Things that have happened in real life. Mostly my brain is a real scary place
to live. Like the stuff that is not true, you don’t ever want to be in my
brain, weird things are happening in there.
How do you get any work done when you
write these hilarious books?
*laughs* See, I don’t think I’m
funny. My editor gets so mad at me because I’ll send her a chapter note saying
this is the stupidest thing, it’s not funny at all, I hate it, she’s like you
are a moron. I don’t think anything I write is funny. I always second guess what
I’m doing.
What inspired you to start writing?
Boredom with my job that I was doing
at the time. I just wasn’t happy with it. Things were changing and I was
miserable day in and day out. In my mind I’m figuring if I’m going to work this
many hours away from my family, I want to be doing something that I love. And
so at my full-time job I just started writing at my cubicle in a corner where
no one could see me. I wrote Seduction and Snacks and Futures and Frosting 100%
when I had a full-time job. All day during work, that’s what I did, all day.
Come back later, I’m busy. No, I can’t go to that meeting I have a lot of work
to do. I have a lot of editing, err I mean work.
From start to finish, how long did it
take you to complete your first book?
It didn’t take me long to complete
it, probably a couple of months. But, the tweaking and the editing and adding
things and changing things probably at least a few years.
That's all I had time for folks before the chimes dinged signaling my time with Tara was up. Yes, I said chimes! :) Make sure you pick up Tara Sivec's new release, Passion and Ponies, it's out now and will have you in fits of laughter.
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