Hi Maya, welcome back to Books-n-Kisses.
Maya: Thanks for having me!
For those who don’t know you can you please share with us a little about yourself
Maya: I live in southeast Texas with my husband, three children and an assortment of pets. When I’m not writing (which is never!) I enjoy hunting and fishing with my family and we love to travel whenever we get the opportunity.
Can you please tell us about a little about Theirs to Keep?
Maya: The Tangled Hearts trilogy originally started out as ONE book. But I never could get it to come together in a way that made me happy. Because I was starting it too late in the storyline. And when I realized that, it all came together. I needed to go back and tell what was originally all backstory in that first and only planned book. So I went back in time to tell readers HOW Elle meets Cade and Merrick and show readers them falling in love so I could then progress with the rest of the story. So one book became a trilogy and I’m much happier with it now!
Can you share with us your current work(s) in progress?
Maya: I’m currently working on the SURRENDER trilogy, book 2 and after that I’ll begin work on KGI #9. I haven’t announced a title yet (or who the story is about) but I’ll be doing that soon!
Have you always wanted to be an author?
Maya: Yep!
What is your most interesting writing quirk?
Maya: I wouldn’t call it “interesting” but I’m frighteningly linear in my work. I can’t multitask and I can NOT work on more than one story at a time. Each story gets my absolute time, energy and brain power and I have to do them in order. No jumping ahead. I take it one book at a time and do the absolute best I can before starting the process all over again with the next book.
Who is the one author that you would love to meet someday and why?
Maya: I’ve already met the one author I would have loved to meet (Julie Garwood) so I’m good!
What is the best piece of advice you would give to someone that wants to get into writing?
Maya: Keep true to yourself and your vision of your story and don’t let others change it or interfere in your voice. Stick to your guns and your instincts and don’t give up.
What is in your To Read Pile that you are dying to start or upcoming release you can’t wait for?
Maya: I have no idea!
Who is your Celebrity crush? And what would you do if you ever meet them?
Maya: Either the Rock or Oded Fehr. I’d just grin. lol
Learn more about Maya here: Website | Facebook | Twitter
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Theirs to Keep
When Cade Winslow and Merrick Sullivan find Elle hiding in the cabinet of a gun store, they know they can’t just walk away from the fragile woman with no memory of who she is or who tried to kill her. Merrick is training for the title shot in the heavyweight division as a mixed martial artist and can’t afford distractions, but neither can he turn his back on the woman who tugs at his heartstrings.
Elle feels safe with her two protectors, and the longer she spends with them, the more she realizes that she has no desire to remember her past. Not when it could compromise her future with Cade and Merrick.
Cade has his own set of concerns when it comes to Elle, and it quickly becomes clear to the two men that for the first time in their friendship, a woman is coming between them. But what if they just kept her there? Between them. Where she belongs.
Really nice interview! I LOVE everything Maya writes and Theirs to Keep (that I’m currently reading) is wonderful! Sweet, lovely, touching, suspenseful and sensual! I can’t wait for more!