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Alyssa: I didn't start off wanting to write for a living. I wanted to be a nurse at first, but then it turned into being a mom. Being at home with four small children, I needed an outlet. I started out writing a YA book, but it took a bad turn, and that's when I found my genre with smoking hot sex scenes.
My loving husband and I now reside in the beautiful mountains of southern West Virginia with four wonderful children who put up with my writing craziness. They have been shushed more than once so I could write down something a character was saying.
As a stay at home mom and the family taxi driver, I can still find time to write about the alpha heroes and strong-willed heroines who keep my imagination running wild.
Caroline: Who are your favorite authors and favorite genres?
Alyssa: Nora Roberts, Maya Banks, Candace Havens, and Shayla Black are just to name a few. I read contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and erotic.
Caroline: All good choices. Candace and Shayla live in my area. Nora is one of the reasons I write romance. How many books do you read a month? What are you reading now?
Alyssa: 6-8 it depends. I’m reading "POSSESS ME AT MIDNIGHT,” by Shayla Black.
Caroline: When you’re not writing, what’s your favorite way to relax and recharge?
Alyssa: Reading would be the way I love to relax. Hobbies? I knit and crochet.
Caroline: I always intend to learn to knit and crochet. All I can crochet is a chain stitch a mile long. LOL Describe yourself in three or four words?
Alyssa: Caring, loyal, strong.
Caroline: Would you like to share any guilty pleasures that feed your muse?
Alyssa: It would have to be reading.
Caroline: Reading, yes, I love reading too. But authors must read to stay current with our craft, so that really shouldn't count as a "guilty" pleasure, should it? How long have you been writing?
Alyssa: I’ve always had stories running around in my head, but I’ve only been writing them down for the last year and a half.
Caroline: Can't get them out of our heads, can we? Where do you prefer to write? Do you need quiet, music, or solitude? PC or laptop?
Alyssa: Laptop, in my office. I have to have my playlist playing for the book I’m working on. Now I can write a first draft in the middle of the living room with the kids screaming, but when it comes to editing the only thing I can have on is the music.
Caroline: Mmm, I write with classical music. Are you a plotter or a panzer?
Alyssa: Plotter.
Caroline: Me, too. Do you use real events or persons in your stories or as an inspiration for stories?
Alyssa: Yes I do. Erin from ROAD TO RECOVERY is loosely based on my best friend.
Caroline: Do you do your research before you begin a new project, or as you go along?
Alyssa: I do my research before hand, but there are times I have to do it during as well.
Caroline: Tell us about your writing schedule. Do you set goals?
Alyssa: Yes I set goals.
Caroline: Do you write daily?
Alyssa: Yes unless the kids are out for summer vacation like now, then I write when I can.
Caroline: Do you write full time or do you have a day job.
Alyssa: I’m blessed to be an at home mom, so I get to write full time.
Caroline: Stay at home mom was my favorite job! What do you hope your writing brings to readers?
Alyssa: I hope they enjoy the books I write, as much as I enjoy writing them.
Caroline: Don't we all? What advice would you give to unpublished authors?
Alyssa: Don’t give up. It takes lots of hard work to make it to land a contract.
Caroline: Tell us about your latest release, ROAD TO RECOVERY.
Alyssa: Dr. Erin Miller and Dr. Kyle Reynolds are competing for a coveted mentoring position at Maple Forge Memorial Hospital, they plan on pulling out all the stops. But their careers and their desires collide, tangling their past with their future and giving them a chance for love.
Blurb: Dr. Erin Miller’s life was going great; for the most part, anyway. She was single, had a career she loved, and a cherished circle of friends, but something was missing. When a mentorship with the Chief Pediatric Surgeon becomes available, she couldn’t be more thrilled. Maybe this is just what the doctor ordered! That is, until the handsome and charismatic Dr. Kyle Reynolds decides he wants the mentorship as well.
Kyle Reynolds has lost everything including his wife and daughter. With nothing left in his life except for his job, he sets his sights on the new mentorship position with single-minded determination. The only obstacle he faces is the sexy Dr. Erin Miller
Caroline: Please give readers an excerpt.
Alyssa: Here's and excerpt from ROAD TO RECOVERY:
Erin leaned back in her chair. She sat surrounded by the tomes she’d pulled from the shelves. It made no sense to her. The tests she’d been waiting for had all come back fine. Those two hours she’d hoped it would take had turned to six. She was still waiting for an ultrasound report, which should be coming any moment. She placed the latest report on the table and reached her hand to her head, slowly rubbing her temples. It wasn't like her not to be able to figure out what was going on with a patient. She dreaded the look on the parents' faces when she had to tell them. Sometimes it seemed like days before reports came back, and that was the only part of her job she hated. Her stomach knotted as she glanced at the clock. Only twenty minutes before she had to give them an update.
Her mind wandered back to the meeting six hours ago, and the way her body had warmed under Kyle's gaze. It had only been for a brief moment. Girl, you seriously need to get laid, that's all it is. There's nothing to the way he looked at you. You're imagining things.
“Good afternoon, Erin,” She jumped at the deep voice coming from her left. A glance over her shoulder confirmed what she already knew.
Kyle.
“Afternoon.” She fumbled to grab the chart in front of her, hoping he'd leave. He sat down next to her. His gaze singed her cheeks, but she couldn't look up; instead, she concentrated on the chart in front of her.
The memory of their first week working together came to her mind again. When she walked into the office, she'd been drawn to Kyle, who had sat in a chair across the small room, so arrogant and sure of himself. Kyle wasn't her type at all; she normally stuck with the safe, boring guys. Everything about him had screamed he was more. Just once, she wanted to take a chance and not do what everyone else expected. It had been time to let go and have some fun. Well, that's what she had wanted to do, and based on his flirting he’d seemed to be into her too.
For a moment, her mind drifted back to the dance they’d shared at the Christmas party three years ago. Against her best judgment, she’d said yes to Kyle's offer to dance. Really, what could one little dance do? Boy was that ever wrong, from the moment he’d taken her in his arms. She could feel the chemistry between them. The smoldering heat took over, and she couldn't think of anything but him, as fire raced down her spine, consuming her. Her mind told her to break the dance, that it had been a mistake, and yet she couldn't. The pull between them was greater than her need to move away.
Her gaze had traveled upward. His eyes had darkened, her knees had weakened, and it had taken everything in her to fight the strong attraction she felt toward him. She saw the unspoken question in his eyes. The song ended. "I'm sorry...I just can't," she had whispered and left him on the dance floor.
Instead of taking a chance on Kyle, she’d gone the safe route and starting dating Dr. Lopez. Someone she had thought was ready to settle down and start a family like she had been. Too bad the safe route had turned into the biggest mistake of her life. It had caused her to re-examine her plans. To wait until she was more established in her career before she seriously started dating again.
She continued pointedly ignoring Kyle, and relief washed over her when Jenny, one of her interns, walked up and said, "Here's the CAT scan report."
“Thanks,” she said, taking the report. She studied it. Erin closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead. This keeps getting crazier. She opened her eyes slowly to skim over the report again. Nothing had changed. “This makes no sense,” she whispered, more to herself than to anyone else.
“What's doesn't make sense?” Kyle asked.
Setting down the piece of paper, she turned to look at him. “I've got a three year old patient, and it shows he has no appendix, yet he has all the classic symptoms of having appendicitis. I don't get it; I've run every test I can think of.”
“Here, let me take a look at his chart.”
Erin handed him the chart and watched him as he read it. His eyebrows drew together as he concentrated. Her fingers itched to trace the scar above his right eye, and she wondered how he'd gotten the injury. He cleared his throat, jarring her back to reality.
“This doesn't make sense. Come on, I want to check him out myself.” Kyle stood.
Although she wasn’t crazy about his taking over like that, she was so relieved to have another brain working on the problem that she let it slide. Her bruised ego was nothing compared to the well-being of her young patient.
Kyle’s hand brushed against the small of her back as he let her precede him into the room. Shivers of pleasure raced down her spine so quickly they were gone in an instant.
Caroline: Where can readers find your books?
Alyssa: Pink Petal Books, http://pinkpetalbooks.com/Road-to-Recovery-by-Alyssa-Fox.html
Kindle, http://www.amazon.com/Road-To-Recovery-ebook/dp/B0051HF0LG/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2
Barnes&Noble http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Road-To-Recovery/Alyssa-Fox/e/2940012445360/?itm=1&USRI=road+to+recovery
Caroline: How can readers learn more about you?
Alyssa: Website, http://www.alyssafox.com/
Blog, http://alyssafoxauthor.blogspot.com/
Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Alyssa-Fox/149547855112826
Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/AlyssaFox99
Thank you for visiting us, Alyssa. Best of luck with your career.
1 comment:
Hi Alyssa! I've read this book! Congrats again and many sales wishes to you.
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