Natasha asked Laura Kaye:

How did you start to write, to create these wonderful novels?

Laura Kaye Hi Natasha - My journey to publication started a little strangely - in July 2008, I had a traumatic brain injury. As I started to heal, I had a new and very strong creative urge. One of the things I did was start to write my first novel, which I finished 11 weeks later (the book that became Forever Freed). After that, being a writer became a permanent part of me and I just kept writing, even as I failed to land an agent with the first book. Finally, I sold Forever Freed to the Wild Rose Press, a small romance e-publisher, and quickly thereafter sold Hearts in Darkness to them, too. In the year it took to edit and release those two, I wrote four more books, and sold 3 of them pretty much all at once to different publishers (Just Gotta Say to Decadent, North of Need to Entangled, and In the Service of the King to Harlequin Nocturne). All five of those books released with a year of each other, which helped me build a readership quickly, especially because Hearts in Darkness took off pretty fast and had a lot of great word of mouth. North of Need and In the Service of the King became the first in series, so then I was busy writing those series plus I also sold the Heroes series to Entangled, too. So that was how I got started! :)

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