1. Hi Rachel, welcome to the blog :-)
I’ve been writing for publication since my youngest daughter started
school full-time in 2005 and my first book (Searching For Sophie) was published
by The Wild Rose Press in 2007. Since then I have written eleven more books,
all published or under contract. I am lucky enough to write full-time around my
husband, kids and mad black Lab in the beauty of South West England.
2.
What
number book is this? First? 100th? 200th?(Nora only!)
A Man Like Him is book number ten – books eleven and twelve will be out
in February and March 2014
3.
Everyone
who writes knows it's not easy - what methods do you use to keep at it on days when
it would be so much easier to go shoe shopping?
I treat my writing like a job – I think anyone who really wants to write
and succeed has to do this. It’s really hard sometimes, especially when there
are a million and one things vying for your attention, but I tell myself I
wouldn’t be able to do them if I was employed out of the home. I write the
entire time the kids are at school (from 8.30 til 3.30pm) and then do
everything else afterward.
4.
What
is your top promo tip for other authors?
I wish I had one! To this date, I am trying to figure out what works and
what doesn’t. Answers on a postcard please L
5.
How
does writing fit into your day? Or does your day fit in around your writing?
See my answer to question 3!
1.
Is
there a book you haven't written yet that you're dying to? What genre?
Always! My next book is always playing on my mind as I work through my
current project. I find myself dipping in and out of a file on my computer as
more and more scenes, lines of dialogue, character quirks and situations come
to mind. I’m contracted for another Superromance (romantic suspense) which will make five in
total and I cannot wait to get to that one…but also my next Victorian, which
will definitely be my next project, calls to me every darn day at that moment!
2.
What
was the most fun part of writing this book?
The opening three chapters – they are almost an hour-by-hour account of
what happened to my family and I when we were caught up in the 2010 French
floods. Just like the hero and heroine in A Man Like Him, we were rescued by
helicopter from a hotel roof. It was so easy to write those chapters with
emotion, lol!
3.
Which
of your characters would you like to be?
The characters I would most like to be seem to be from my Victorian
romances with Kensington. I relate to them so much – I think it’s because I
feel so passionate about women’s rights and the issues women had to face and
deal with in the 1800s. There is usually some form of liberation for my heroines
in these books.
4.
Have
you ever written a hero you'd be happy to run off with?
All of them! I don’t think as romance writers a hero would work for our
readers unless our passion for them oozed from the page. My characters are real
people to me and my heroes are as attractive, sexy and male as I can make them.
I literally fall in love with them…
5.
At
what point in your career did you actually start to feel like you were a
writer?
A Man Like Him
Changing her
life...again
After two years in
hiding, Angela Taylor knows her independence is worth it. As long as she can
escape her past, she has everything under control. Until a flash flood hits the
park where she works, and hot Chris Forrester shows up the exact moment she
needs a hero.
Chris proves he can
save lives-and weaken a girl's knees. But how can she make him understand that
she's off-limits, that getting close to her will endanger his life? Her happiness or his
safety: it shouldn't even be a choice.
Because when you
love someone, you protect them, no matter the cost. At least, that's what
Angela keeps telling herself....
Rachel lives
with her husband and two young daughters in a small town near Bath in the
UK. After having several novels
published by small US presses, she secured agent representation in 2011. In
2012, she sold two books to Harlequin Superromance and a further three in 2013.
She also writes Victorian romance for Kensington--her debut was released in
April 2013, with book two coming in Feb 2014.
Rachel is a member
of the Romantic Novelists Association and Romance Writers of America. When she
isn’t writing, you’ll find Rachel with her head in a book or walking the
beautiful English countryside with her family and beloved black Lab, Max. Her
dream place to live is Bourton-on-the-Water in South West England.
She likes
nothing more than connecting and chatting with her readers and fellow romance
writers. Rachel would love to hear from you!
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3 comments:
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Rachel, I absolutely adore the cover of your new book. I think it's so romantic! All the best with your super romance.
Hi Stella - not sure what the 50 Shades connection is to my post, but nice to see you here, lol!
Hi Kathleen - lovely to 'meet' you! I couldn't stop smiling when the cover dropped into my inbox. I was thrilled! The fact Harlequin came up with something so romantic from something so traumatic is fabulous :)
Rachel x
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