crazy cat lady
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Penelope Douglas:
What made you decide to become an author/writer? How did you find an editor and agent?
Penelope Douglas
Hi, Lisa!
I decided to start writing when I had a story that I couldn't stop thinking about. I was reading a lot, and I was feeling stuck in a rut with my teaching career, so my brain started dreaming again, probably as an escape--and something I realized I'd stopped doing as I grew up. I never intended to make a career out of it, but life unfolds in strange ways. Bully took off, and I couldn't stop dreaming up new stories, so I went with it.
My editor is my best friend. Luckily for me, she was a professional with lots of experience writing herself and taking part in peer writing groups. She pretty much threw the first two drafts of Bully back in my face. She taught me how to write.
As for my agent, she found me. It was a few months after I'd published Bully, and I hadn't gotten around to the daunting task of sending out queries when she emailed me. I researched her and found out she represented some big authors, so I trusted that she knew what she was doing. I was very lucky. Not many authors have agents fall into their lap.
Thanks for the questions!
I decided to start writing when I had a story that I couldn't stop thinking about. I was reading a lot, and I was feeling stuck in a rut with my teaching career, so my brain started dreaming again, probably as an escape--and something I realized I'd stopped doing as I grew up. I never intended to make a career out of it, but life unfolds in strange ways. Bully took off, and I couldn't stop dreaming up new stories, so I went with it.
My editor is my best friend. Luckily for me, she was a professional with lots of experience writing herself and taking part in peer writing groups. She pretty much threw the first two drafts of Bully back in my face. She taught me how to write.
As for my agent, she found me. It was a few months after I'd published Bully, and I hadn't gotten around to the daunting task of sending out queries when she emailed me. I researched her and found out she represented some big authors, so I trusted that she knew what she was doing. I was very lucky. Not many authors have agents fall into their lap.
Thanks for the questions!
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Rhea
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Penelope Douglas:
Hey Pen! How to you keep the sex scenes so steamy? Where do you get your inspiration from? (Fantasies, porn ;)..or reading other stories?) Also, I know you created Jax, Kai and Shane WHICH IS AWESOME!! Thanks so much! As a biracial woman, it's nice to read about diversity in romance novels. Sooo will you write more stories with characters with different ethnicities? (specifically, a heroine?) Thank you <3
Roberta
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Penelope Douglas:
hi there when will corrupt be released ? ... just finished bully series ... loved them!! :)
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