Ask the Author: LaQuette
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LaQuette
Hello! Thanks for posting your question.
That's just how the character of Michael Park presented himself to me. Because of Michael's protective nature over his sister and the people he loves, that kind of characterization blended very well with Korean culture. In Korean culture, a great deal of familial responsibility and expectation can be placed on the eldest son.
I am from East New York. A Brooklyn girl through and through. ;)
That's just how the character of Michael Park presented himself to me. Because of Michael's protective nature over his sister and the people he loves, that kind of characterization blended very well with Korean culture. In Korean culture, a great deal of familial responsibility and expectation can be placed on the eldest son.
I am from East New York. A Brooklyn girl through and through. ;)
LaQuette
Hi Adrienne!
My answer to the first question is that money talks. Romance sells. Whether people want to admit they actually read it is another matter, but romance novels are a billion dollar a year business. You can't throw shade at that kind of relevance.
As for the second part, I don't write erotica. I write erotic romance where sex is explicit, but the center of the story focuses on the romance/relationship between the protagonists. I only clarify because readers looking for books in the erotica genre are looking for books whose focus in on the sex and sexual development of the character. I work hard at what I do, so I have no shame in the product that I produce. If I'm ashamed of what I write I shouldn't be writing it.
My fans are very supportive, and I don't really listen to naysayers. I've always danced to my own drum, decided what was normal for me. My tagline is: Embracing my crazy...one character at a time. If I like it, it works for me. So, people that fail to appreciate my genre, they don't have much of an impact on my opinion of my genre, my work, nor my readership.
My answer to the first question is that money talks. Romance sells. Whether people want to admit they actually read it is another matter, but romance novels are a billion dollar a year business. You can't throw shade at that kind of relevance.
As for the second part, I don't write erotica. I write erotic romance where sex is explicit, but the center of the story focuses on the romance/relationship between the protagonists. I only clarify because readers looking for books in the erotica genre are looking for books whose focus in on the sex and sexual development of the character. I work hard at what I do, so I have no shame in the product that I produce. If I'm ashamed of what I write I shouldn't be writing it.
My fans are very supportive, and I don't really listen to naysayers. I've always danced to my own drum, decided what was normal for me. My tagline is: Embracing my crazy...one character at a time. If I like it, it works for me. So, people that fail to appreciate my genre, they don't have much of an impact on my opinion of my genre, my work, nor my readership.
LaQuette
Hello CCAR,
Please forgive my delay in responding. I did not receive notification of your question. I just happened it upon it tonight while checking my dashboard.
As you know black women come in all shades, in fact the woman that posed for the cover is in fact a woman of color. In reading the previous three books we know that the Tenetti family is mixed. Alexis-Jeovonni is a fairly complected black woman who comes from an interracial relationship herself. Her father is white, her mother is black, and her brother, John--one of Kenneth's best friends--is white (in appearance) and is married to a black woman.
I hope that clears this up for you.
Blessing,
LaQuette
Please forgive my delay in responding. I did not receive notification of your question. I just happened it upon it tonight while checking my dashboard.
As you know black women come in all shades, in fact the woman that posed for the cover is in fact a woman of color. In reading the previous three books we know that the Tenetti family is mixed. Alexis-Jeovonni is a fairly complected black woman who comes from an interracial relationship herself. Her father is white, her mother is black, and her brother, John--one of Kenneth's best friends--is white (in appearance) and is married to a black woman.
I hope that clears this up for you.
Blessing,
LaQuette
LaQuette
I wanted to look beyond the happily ever after with this couple. In the last book, they were all wrapped up in the bliss of new married love. I wanted to skip forward a couple of years and see how that love had evolved and if it could withstand new challenges, darker challenges.
LaQuette
Life inspires me. The simplest and most benign thing can sometimes evolve into a story idea.
LaQuette
Never stop working on your craft. No matter if everything you've created up to this moment stinks to high heaven, keep revising, keep drafting until you get better.
LaQuette
The best thing about my job is that I get to create and manipulate worlds. Things turn out, for the most part, exactly as I wish them to be. Who wouldn't love that?
LaQuette
Music. If ever I'm stuck, I put my Mp3 player on and the words start flowing again.
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