Across the Beer Bar with...Alexa Bourne!

Welcome to my beer bar Alexa! What can I pour you to start?A dark beer please!Got that:  Wolverine Dark Lager....my second best seller.
I see you are a newbie...how does it feel?It's overwhelming and awesome and frightening all at the same time! I'm like a kid on Christmas morning excited to see what Santa's left her. And honestly, I don't EVER want the feeling to go away! (It's kind of addictive.)
From the looks of your blog you are certainly busy coming up with new books and submitting. Have you collected a bunch of rejections already or was your path to first publication pretty smooth?I had 63 rejections on various manuscripts before Champion was picked up by Decadent. My path to publication has been LOOOOONG (12 years!), but it wasn't nearly as bad as it could've been.
Tell us about Her Highland Champion. A Decadent Honor Guard story….Heather Winchester leads a charming life. With good friends, a beautiful flat in one of the most amazing cities in the world, and a promising future once she finishes her Ph.D, she is finally pursing her own dreams instead of catering to everyone else’s…except she doesn’t remember any of it.Malcolm Fraser has returned to his Highland village to forget his failings as a professional bodyguard. Believing he could just lose himself in the mundane activities of running his bed & breakfast, he finds a woman’s lifeless body by the loch instead….Captivated by Heather as she regains her memory, Malcolm is thrown into the line of duty. As danger comes knocking on their door, will he be strong enough to love her and keep her safe?








Oh, look, empty glass--what can I pour for you next?Surprise me! (Just as long as it's a GOOD beer! LOL!)]*pats her hand*  Lovely answer...here, a Gulo Gulo, India Pale Lager. Hoppy, crisp, fabulous.
What's the online class about that you will be leading?Well, right now I'm teaching one called Killer Openings, which has the students examining books they love, revising some of my early crappy openings and then critiquing each others' opening pages. In the next couple of months I'm also teaching one on contests and one on what to do when you've finished your first manuscript. I'm very excited because I just got the okay to teach a new class in the fall, called Candid Confessions of a Newbie Author, in which I share the nitty-gritty details of my 1st year as a published author.
Sounds like you are on a good track, having had partial requests and what not. What are your goals for your writing career?Well, I'd like to keep writing now that I've had a taste of what it's like to be published. (Remember I said I was addicted!) I have some full-length manuscripts I hope will find a home soon, too. And I'd like to keep teaching classes to fiction writers. Other than that, I can't say. Lately it seems every plan I make for my writing career keeps getting switched around every other day!
What is your favorite type of "hero" in a book? In real life?I do like alpha heroes, but I think I'd be planning ways to kill him if I had one in real life. My own hero would be part alpha, part beta (only the best of each type). Although, that's a tall order. Huh...maybe that's why I'm still single!
Ok, nightcap time. what's your poisonDo you have any chocolate beer???? A girl can ALWAYS use some chocolate!  We did actually, back at Valentine's Day have a lovely Neapolitan Lager...hints of chocolate, vanilla and hibiscus. Alas, it lasted about a week---'twas delish.
Thanks so much for having me, and I'll definitely be back to sample more of your beers at some point!

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