Ask the Author: Em Taylor
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Em Taylor
Thanks for the question. The first book in the Contrary Fairy Tales Series - Sleeping Lord Beattie is available for pre-order now on Amazon and will be released on November 1st. Book 2, The Ciner Earl's Christmas Deception can be pre-0rdered too, for release on Dec 1st.
I also have a story coming out in the anthology Seven Rogues for Christmas. It's also available for Pre-order on Amazon and will release on Nov 21st. St Nicholas Day Wager is my story in that.
I also have a story coming out in the anthology Seven Rogues for Christmas. It's also available for Pre-order on Amazon and will release on Nov 21st. St Nicholas Day Wager is my story in that.
Em Taylor
I'd definitely travel into Lynsay Sands Argeneau world, get married and turned by one of the immortals,fix all my health issues through that and then I'd become a rogue hunter. Would love to go toe to toe in a battle of wits and sarcasm with Lucien Argeneau.
Em Taylor
Sorry it's taken a while to answer this, Michelle. And thanks for asking it. Goodreads seemed to be hiding it. It said I had a pending question but I could never see it. Just seen it now. That's a hard question. I have a lot of authors I love.
To be honest, my favourite author changes with my mood. I may have to give a favourite per sub genre.
I love Lyndsay Sands and her Argeneau Series. I think it's a very clever take on vampires. She's now onto about the 25th book in that series and they never grow old. I fall in love with all her heros.
In Regency I love Mary Balogh. She's Welsh but lives in Canada. She has the Regency voice just right and her books are a little bit naughty but not too naughty. just the right mix. Her characters are so believable and her descriptions are just perfect.
I'm currently into funny contemporary and I'm loving Vi Keeland. She's very quick and funny. She often writes with Penelope Ward. I've only read one of their collaborations but loved it. I think I'm going to be a big fan.
I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. The world building done by JK Rowling is amazing. The woman can do no wrong in my eyes. Love her characters, her writing style and her imagination.
Am also a big fan of Molly Harper in Paranormal. She actually started me writing rom coms because I wanted to write funny stuff but from a Scottish angle. She writes from a Kentucky perspective so we'll always be very different. Hers were the first books I really got into from a first person point of view.
I have loads of other authors I'm a total fan girl about but those are the main ones. Though I bet as soon as I finish I'll think of about 20 I wish I had put in.
To be honest, my favourite author changes with my mood. I may have to give a favourite per sub genre.
I love Lyndsay Sands and her Argeneau Series. I think it's a very clever take on vampires. She's now onto about the 25th book in that series and they never grow old. I fall in love with all her heros.
In Regency I love Mary Balogh. She's Welsh but lives in Canada. She has the Regency voice just right and her books are a little bit naughty but not too naughty. just the right mix. Her characters are so believable and her descriptions are just perfect.
I'm currently into funny contemporary and I'm loving Vi Keeland. She's very quick and funny. She often writes with Penelope Ward. I've only read one of their collaborations but loved it. I think I'm going to be a big fan.
I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. The world building done by JK Rowling is amazing. The woman can do no wrong in my eyes. Love her characters, her writing style and her imagination.
Am also a big fan of Molly Harper in Paranormal. She actually started me writing rom coms because I wanted to write funny stuff but from a Scottish angle. She writes from a Kentucky perspective so we'll always be very different. Hers were the first books I really got into from a first person point of view.
I have loads of other authors I'm a total fan girl about but those are the main ones. Though I bet as soon as I finish I'll think of about 20 I wish I had put in.
Em Taylor
I can't say one thing inspires me. Usually conversations inspire me. TV shows and other books do. The Forsaken Blood series came out of me fangirling about the Argeneau Series by Lynsey Sands and me wanting to be like her and do vampires differently but obviously not steal her ideas and her world which is unique to her and, quite frankly, inspired. But a long discussion with a friend helped me come up with a different way Vampires could exist who weren't the undead kind and it went from there. The Kilrigh Series harks back to me being a teen and loving the Rhanna series by Christine Marion Fraser and wanting to write a story about people on an island in the Western Isles. Mine is much more Smutty than the Rhanna series which is more of a saga.
Em Taylor
Ooh, that's a hard one. So many to choose from. I'm a huge fan of Lynsey Sands so I'm going to pick Lucien and Lea Argeneau. I love that he's a mean, tough nasty S.O.B. and yet a complete pussy cat when it comes to Lea. I reckon at time Lucien would be hard to love, even with the whole Lifemates thing going on so good on Lea for putting up with the crotchety millennia old fellow.
Em Taylor
I counted it up. I have 15 things on my to do list. Some of them full series. On my current open word document I have the second book in the Stetsons and Kilts Series - the follow up to An American Cowboy in Scotland book. It's called A Cowboy Wedding in Scotland and should be out in September. Hopefully around the second or third week.
My editor is currently editing the rewrite of A Love Remembered. I wrote this as a short story for an anthology a few years back and didn't develop the story. the book got some bad reviews complaining I just filled in with sex scenes to finish it off. A fair enough criticism. Be warned. There's still a lot of sex in it. I like sex scenes and I'm not ashamed I write them. i have however developed the story too. The book has gone from 11,000 words to 30,000 words.
I have the third book of the Stetsons and Kilts series to write before I go to the Winterland book signing at the beginning of December in Glasgow. I'm also working on Revealed the sequel to Discovered and a new series about Paranormal teachers in a Paranormal boarding school in the Cairngorms in Scotland. Look out for some new Regency coming down the line soon,
My editor is currently editing the rewrite of A Love Remembered. I wrote this as a short story for an anthology a few years back and didn't develop the story. the book got some bad reviews complaining I just filled in with sex scenes to finish it off. A fair enough criticism. Be warned. There's still a lot of sex in it. I like sex scenes and I'm not ashamed I write them. i have however developed the story too. The book has gone from 11,000 words to 30,000 words.
I have the third book of the Stetsons and Kilts series to write before I go to the Winterland book signing at the beginning of December in Glasgow. I'm also working on Revealed the sequel to Discovered and a new series about Paranormal teachers in a Paranormal boarding school in the Cairngorms in Scotland. Look out for some new Regency coming down the line soon,
Em Taylor
Just keep writing and learn to discern what criticism will help you hone your craft and what criticism is just mean. Ignore the mean stuff and use the good stuff to become a better writer. Star ratings mean nothing. One person's 3 star is another person's 5 star. Have a posse of friends who will encourage you because most of your friends won't. It's not that they don't love you but it's just that you don't cheerlead their work life either.
Em Taylor
Sitting in my pyjamas all day beheading jelly babies with my teeth. Actually, I jest though that idea does have its merits. I get to use my imagination. It's something I was scolded for regularly. I had an over active imagination and apparently that was a bad thing. Now I get to put it to excellent use and imagine very hot men in compromising situations while I'm at it.
Em Taylor
I am a huge fan of Lynsay Sands Argeneau Series and I loved her take on vampires. I was fascinated how she had taken this common idea and changed it and made it her own and I wanted to do that too. But obviously, just taking Lynsay's idea was plagiarism, so I had to have vampires but make them different. Now I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up with the idea of Vampires being an alien species, but I worked through an idea. Originally they came from a planet that had a fruit with juice that was like blood. then that had to be honed and changed. Lots of different aspects of this species changed through time.
I set it in the future so they could go into space and I set it in Edinburgh were I lived in my teens. Edinburgh is pretty spooky. They history is fascinating. I loved it. Book two will be in the Highlands and London mainly but I'd like them to return to Edinburgh if we can.
I set it in the future so they could go into space and I set it in Edinburgh were I lived in my teens. Edinburgh is pretty spooky. They history is fascinating. I loved it. Book two will be in the Highlands and London mainly but I'd like them to return to Edinburgh if we can.
Em Taylor
I try to write through it. And if that doesn't work, I chat to people. I find talking helps. People may give you an idea and it may be completely wrong but knowing where you don't want to go helps you understand where you do want to go.
Em Taylor
Hi Elaine,
Thanks for getting in touch. I have been struggling a bit to get into historical mode so I,ve been concentrating on a couple of contemporary books and a mixed genre vampyr novel more recently. I'm hoping I've turned a corner though and today I went back to work on a book that I started in November but gave up on. I think it has real potential and is once again set in the Regency period. Watch out for The Cinder Earl's Deception coming soon. The title may yet change but it should have Cinder Earl on the title.
Many thanks
Em x
Thanks for getting in touch. I have been struggling a bit to get into historical mode so I,ve been concentrating on a couple of contemporary books and a mixed genre vampyr novel more recently. I'm hoping I've turned a corner though and today I went back to work on a book that I started in November but gave up on. I think it has real potential and is once again set in the Regency period. Watch out for The Cinder Earl's Deception coming soon. The title may yet change but it should have Cinder Earl on the title.
Many thanks
Em x
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Oct 27, 2017 01:44AM · flag