Ask the Author: C.S. Smith
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C.S. Smith
Getting the stories down on paper and looking back at a novel you wrote and thinking, "I wrote that?!" Meeting other writers and sharing the journey. Meeting readers and sharing the journey (because writers also are avid readers). Having a career that I can work on anywhere, at any time. I literally bring my laptop everywhere when I travel, even on vacation.
C.S. Smith
I'm going to steal from Nike: "Just do it!" Find a tribe of fellow aspiring writers, join a writer's organization, submit to writing contests--whatever feeds your soul. There is no one way, no "best" age to begin, and no right path for this journey.
C.S. Smith
I've been an avid romance reader since my late teens/early twenties, and they honestly got me through raising three children (they were my "Calgon Take Me Away" salvation. I've always liked to write, although I didn't really make time for it until my youngest child was old enough to fend for herself. I like to call this career my "second act."
C.S. Smith
I can procrastinate with the best of them! Sometimes it helps to go back and look at the story from a plotting/scene structure level. If I'm stuck, it usually means it's because I don't know where I'm going with the story, which is a plotting problem.
C.S. Smith
I have about 120 books in my Kindle TBR folder. So many books and too little time! I try to prioritize reading books by authors I know and am trying to support, but Cynthia Eden, JR Ward, Nalini Singh, Brittney Sahin, Patricia Eddy, and so many others are always at the top of my list.
C.S. Smith
There's a story here, and someday I'll write it, probably as a women's fiction book only loosely based upon real details. Someday...
Of course, I did meet my husband in terrorism class in the Pentagon, so that could be a great hook for a romantic suspense novel!
Of course, I did meet my husband in terrorism class in the Pentagon, so that could be a great hook for a romantic suspense novel!
C.S. Smith
Well, Lachlan Mackay was the first character that came to me when I decided to write romance novels. I knew he'd be a warrior of some kind and an emotionally wounded character. I thought he'd be a vampire killed and turned at the battle of Culloden, but he rebelled at the idea in my head. So, he became a modern-day special forces hero (British SAS) instead.
C.S. Smith
Currently, I'm working on the final touches to books two and three in my Dìleas Security Agency series, Missing in Action and Missed Opportunity. I hope to begin writing book four soon, tentatively titled Fatal Misstep (see a theme here?), as well as start on book one of a paranormal romantic suspense series featuring current special operations soldiers...with a couple of twists!
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