Books-n-Kisses is excited to have Stephanie Queen on the blog today to chat about her newest book “The Hot Shots”

Stehpanie, can you please share with us a little about yourself

I’m just a girl with a crown living the romance novelist dream!

Also, I love chocolate, football, funny romances, sappy romances, action-adventure romances…(you get the picture).  Oh, and I like to kid around.

Have you always wanted to be an author?

As a child, my dream was to be a princess. I’ve graduated since then. To keep up my fantasy—err—Queendom, I write novels.

Can you share with us your typical writing day.  Is there anything you have to have while writing?

First things first – I wake up. Who needs an alarm. I have a cat.

Then words leap from my brain onto my computer. Sure.  Too bad I don’t write Sci-Fi.

If it’s before 10am there are no words in my brain to leap anywhere. The only thing in my pre-coffee brain is dust. Fuzzy dust.

So I have coffee. In my royal cup. It has a crown on it.

Meanwhile, I dress in my royal robe and slippers, wave hello to the subjects below as I pass by the balcony on my way to the royal dining table.

While I fill up on coffee and my brain begins to buzz to life, I watch the news. One must keep up with one’s current events. Plus, you never know what might catch your eye and inspire a novel. (Of course, this would work better if I was not tuned to the cooking channel).

Then I write.  While lounging on my pink velvet divan with my laptop on my lap and a box of chocolates nearby. Hey, it’s breakfast.

After a suitable number of syllables, I instruct  my chauffeur,  Myren (long story) to drive me to the gym where I work off the chocolates. Of course, in the interim, I’ve dressed into appropriate attire for the gym, with dark glasses to throw off the paparazzi. Although sometimes the crown is a give away.

Once I outrun my screaming subjects—they’re such fans—I arrive back home to the castle and take a nap.

Maybe I’ll dream up a plot.

Oh dear, look at the time!  I’ll have to cover my afternoons in another blog. Myren the Chauffeur is waiting.

Most challenging or rewarding part of writing?

Readers are the best part of writing! I’ve discovered I love hearing from my subjects—err, readers and chatting about books and soaking up their enthusiasm!

Can you please tell us about your latest book?

THE HOT SHOTS is available today on Amazon! It’s the second book in a romantic comedy suspense series, the Scotland Yard Exchange Program where blokes from the Yard mix it up with cops from Boston, solve crime, fall in love and make me laugh.

Here’s the snap on the story:

Would you jump off the USS Constitution into Boston Harbor with a perfect stranger?  You would if that stranger was hot shot Scotland Yard detective Chauncey Miller, the usual tall-dark-handsome type, especially since he has an assassin with a score to settle who just caught up with him…

Decorator Sophia Alano’s career gets side-tracked from the moment she meets hot shot  Chauncey. He’s on the run from a madman terrorist out for revenge when Sophia ends up targeted too.  Now he must protect this spitfire while they’re hunted wherever they go. They escape to London to outwit the madman. But once Chauncey catches their would-be killer, how do they go back to the lives they had before?

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How did you come with the idea for this story?

Remember about the brain fuzz from question #3? Well, apparently, this is magic fuzz, and some how when the fuzz clears, a story appears. This is as close as I can come to an explanation, although studies are being done…

What is an upcoming release you can’t wait for?

The next installment from Trish McCallan in her Forged series, anything by Gemma Halliday, Kristine Cayne, Alexa Grace, Sophia Knightly, E. Ayers, JM Griffin…I could go on.

Is there anything else you would like to add?

I’d love to offer a $10 Amazon Gift Certificate to one lucky commenter!

Thank you so much for hostessing me on your fab-blog!

Learn more about Stephanie here:

Twitter:  @StephanieQueen

Website:  www.StephanieQueen.com

Facebook:  Stephanie Queen

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