Ask the Author: Selene Grace Silver
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Selene Grace Silver
Sometimes I love a book for its heroine, sometimes for its hero, but when an author makes me love both--that's story magic. Honestly, I could probably list a hundred couples I've loved over the years (I read a lot). So, limited to just one? No way. Here are ten of the best, off the top of my head.
1. Elizabeth and Darcy (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen) Classic. Perfect couple. No explanation needed.
2. Georgina and Harry (The Leopard Prince, Elizabeth Hoyt) A quirky lady with her head in the clouds and her taciturn land manager determined to keep his hands off the woman born above his class? Annual reread for me.
3. Chaz and Gabriel (Gabriel’s Ghost, Linnea Sinclair) The rebel with a poet's soul rescues the female military officer who has never been able to capture him...and they join forces against evil. One of the best SFRs.
4. Rebecca and Logan (Master of the Mountain, Cherise Sinclair) A damaged, dominating hero gets healed by an artist's sweet, submissive nature. Sigh.
5. Emmaline and Lachlan (A Hunger Like No Other, Kresley Cole) A mating call so powerful, a man rips off his leg to escape his chained state in order to reach his intended, only to discover that she's a creature he despises? And they're both immortal so this is forever. What a meet cute!
6. Marie and Horse (Reaper’s Property, Joanna Wylde) A feisty heroine tames a giant hulking biker who pushes all her boundaries. Hotter than hot.
7. Annie and Eric (Hard Time, Cara McKenna) Prim librarian flirts with violent inmate in prison, then he gets released early. Oops.
8. Lillian and Marcus (It Happened One Autumn, Lisa Kleypas) Headstrong, tomboyish, rich American turns the head of an arrogant, proper and wealthy Duke, driving him crazy, and seducing him into love.
9. Suzanne and John (Midnight Man, Lisa Marie Rice) Stylish, elegant designer needs protection, and she gets it from one dangerous, ex-military and super masculine guy.
10. Serena and Lucky (Lucky’s Lady, Tami Hoag) The Louisiana bayou adds a sultry sensuality to this couple's love story--a haunted artist living outside civil society and the beautiful psychologist who soothes his tormented soul.
1. Elizabeth and Darcy (Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen) Classic. Perfect couple. No explanation needed.
2. Georgina and Harry (The Leopard Prince, Elizabeth Hoyt) A quirky lady with her head in the clouds and her taciturn land manager determined to keep his hands off the woman born above his class? Annual reread for me.
3. Chaz and Gabriel (Gabriel’s Ghost, Linnea Sinclair) The rebel with a poet's soul rescues the female military officer who has never been able to capture him...and they join forces against evil. One of the best SFRs.
4. Rebecca and Logan (Master of the Mountain, Cherise Sinclair) A damaged, dominating hero gets healed by an artist's sweet, submissive nature. Sigh.
5. Emmaline and Lachlan (A Hunger Like No Other, Kresley Cole) A mating call so powerful, a man rips off his leg to escape his chained state in order to reach his intended, only to discover that she's a creature he despises? And they're both immortal so this is forever. What a meet cute!
6. Marie and Horse (Reaper’s Property, Joanna Wylde) A feisty heroine tames a giant hulking biker who pushes all her boundaries. Hotter than hot.
7. Annie and Eric (Hard Time, Cara McKenna) Prim librarian flirts with violent inmate in prison, then he gets released early. Oops.
8. Lillian and Marcus (It Happened One Autumn, Lisa Kleypas) Headstrong, tomboyish, rich American turns the head of an arrogant, proper and wealthy Duke, driving him crazy, and seducing him into love.
9. Suzanne and John (Midnight Man, Lisa Marie Rice) Stylish, elegant designer needs protection, and she gets it from one dangerous, ex-military and super masculine guy.
10. Serena and Lucky (Lucky’s Lady, Tami Hoag) The Louisiana bayou adds a sultry sensuality to this couple's love story--a haunted artist living outside civil society and the beautiful psychologist who soothes his tormented soul.
Selene Grace Silver
I don't have writer's block often--but it's usually triggered by fear of failure. The best cure I've found is to read a book I love. I think about the courage the writer had to put those words and sentences down on paper and then share them with readers. After all, it's easy to find fault with someone's work because writing well is difficult, even for practiced, experienced writers. They had to have suffered fear of failure too, but they persevered.
Language is messy, unruly. It's like trying to line up a bunch of writhing, wiggly snakes and keep them in place. It's impossible to do it perfectly. I think about Jean Giraudoux's quote: "Only the mediocre are always at their best." So I try to be brave. Fear that one is writing a disaster-in-the-making is an inevitable aspect of the process. I try to remember that and just keep writing.
Language is messy, unruly. It's like trying to line up a bunch of writhing, wiggly snakes and keep them in place. It's impossible to do it perfectly. I think about Jean Giraudoux's quote: "Only the mediocre are always at their best." So I try to be brave. Fear that one is writing a disaster-in-the-making is an inevitable aspect of the process. I try to remember that and just keep writing.
Selene Grace Silver
Traveling the world (and through time) from the safety of a chair in your home office. Experiencing human life from the point of view of individuals living in another country, another era, another body. It's like getting to be reincarnated over and over into the life experiences you'd love to have if you weren't restricted to one body for a limited time.
Selene Grace Silver
Read everything. Read all the time. Read. Read. Read. Why aspire to write if one is not a reader? It's like: someone wanting to be a chef who doesn't like to eat; someone wanting to be a ballerina who doesn't love to dance; someone wanting to be an athlete who hates to exercise. I can't think of a worse course bound for failure than being a writer who doesn't absolutely love to read.
Selene Grace Silver
I am working on several projects. Some I am drafting, some I am revising, and some I am editing. My immediate focus though is on a sexy Scottish Gothic romance with a geeky crime investigator, an American photographer, a ruined castle, a ghost and a dangerous murderer on the loose. I'm trying to have that out by Christmas.
Selene Grace Silver
Inspiration can come in many different forms. Usually though, for me, it comes from reading. I studied creative writing at university, and one of my professors taught us that writing proceeds first and foremost from language. When I finish reading one great book, I want to continue that process...sometimes it means more reading by moving on to another book, sometimes it means writing. Whether I am submitting to yet another storyteller's tale or generating one of my own, I am still submerged in a sea of wonderful words.
Selene Grace Silver
The Binding of Adara began when a striking image of a young woman, naked and bound for a ritualistic ceremony, flashed into my mind. I wondered who she was and how she ended up there.
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