Can you please share with us a little about yourself?

I’m a single mom to nine-year-old boy/girl twins. Most of my morning is spent writing while the kids are in school. The nights my ex-hubs have the twinks, I work at a gym and watch other people’s kids so they can work-out. When I don’t have on the mom/writer hat, I’m catching up with friends over a glass of spiced rum and coke. No wine for this chickie, gives me a roaring headache 😉

Have you always wanted to be an author?

No, actually, I didn’t even keep a diary as a kid. Reading had always been my escape. After I had the twins, the exhaustion kept me from getting lost in a book. I started picking plots apart, characters apart etc. And my escape was gone. One day I got this idea and started writing. I was able to escape into the (very bad) book I was writing and I found I enjoyed using my imagination. So I decided to get some critique partners and quickly learned how bad I was at writing. At that point, it became a challenge, and I started taking workshops. The more I learned, the more I feel in love. Here I am today, almost ten years later, and I can’t imagine not writing.

What is your most interesting writing quirk?

I talk while I write. I just did it. I verbally answered this questions before I typed it. LOL. I also gesticulate, which most people do, but I also do it while I’m writing. It usually happens when I’m deep in an emotional scene. I might slash my hand through the air in anger because my heroine just did. It won’t be shocking when I say, I don’t write in public.

Can you please tell us about your latest book(s)?

FIGHTING LOVE is a friends-to-lovers story. Tommy “Lightning” Sparks has lost his belt and his career. A fire takes care of the rest. Left with nothing, he has to move in with his best friend, Julie. While he expects his short stay with her to be drama-free, the way their relationship has always been, all kinds of drama explodes after an incident forces him to see the woman she is and not the sister he’s always considered her. Tommy isn’t a one woman sort of man, so the fact his player radar is pointing to the most important person in his life, freaks him out to no end. When she starts spending time with another fighter, jealousy gets thrown into the mix and he struggles between fear of losing her to another man and doing what he knows is right by her because he will end up hurting her and then he’ll lose her completely.

Julie is on the other side of the spectrum. She has always been in love with Tommy and she doesn’t want to be. Deep down, she knows that she and Tommy would never really work in a relationship because they are so different. She tries to move on, but can’t seem to find that guy who will help erase the unwanted love she has for her best friend from her heart. After Tommy moves in, she meets Brody and all the sudden her best friend is doing things she’s spent years fantasizing about. And their relationship is taken to a whole new level and the close bond they’ve shared is tested.

How did you come up with the idea for this story?

I love friends-to-lovers stories. When I wrote the proposal for the Love to the Extreme series, I knew I wanted to have a book centered on two friends, but I wanted their relationship to be deeper than a couple who have only been friends for a few years. Those types of relationships are already difficult enough when transitioning from friends to lovers, but when it’s a childhood friendship that has continued on into adulthood it’s a whole different realm of difficult. That is Tommy and Julie. Two people who already have a unique bond, who do love each other, share memories and a dark past. Two people who have always been there for the other no matter what. I wanted to take an established relationship like that and explore how terrifying it would be to start having feeling for a person you already can’t imagine your life without. Then explores the fears that if you screwed up, like you have a reputation of doing, you wouldn’t just lose a romantic partner, but you would lose a friendship that has meant everything to you.

Can you share with us your current work(s) in progress?

I’m currently working on WINNING LOVE, which is the third book of the Love to the Extreme series. Sorry girls, this is not Brody’s book. LOL. That is in response to some earlier reviews. I DO plan to write his book though. I fell in love with Brody, too. I get the draw. WINNING LOVE is Mac’s story. We will be going out of Atlanta, Georgia and taking things to Kansas, where Mac is helping a longtime friend with some training for an upcoming fight and while he is there, he will face the terrors of his past. He also meets Gayle Andrews, his infuriatingly, will-not-take-no-for-an-answer new neighbor, whose passion for life and contagious smile starts to burrow into the darkness that has laid heavy inside him since wife’s death. I absolutely love this book. I’m almost completed with the first draft and I can’t wait to share the blurb for this one.

Who is the one author that you would love to meet someday and why?

Karen Marie Moning. Why? Because she created Jericho Barrons. LOL. No, seriously. Karen Marie Moning is one my favorite authors. I feel in love with her writing and Grimm Roderick when I read To Tame a Highland Warrior years ago and I’ve been a huge fan ever since.

What is the best piece of advice you would give to someone that wants to get into writing?

Grow thick skin. If you don’t, you won’t make it past the first critique. And you sure won’t make it once you get published. Trust me, no critique partner will ever massacre your written baby like your editor will J

Can you share with us something off your bucket list?

After my kids are grown, I’d really like to spend a summer exploring Scotland and Ireland. Two places I’ve always wanted to go.

What is in your To Read Pile that you are dying to start or upcoming release you can’t wait for?

My to-read pile is out of control right now. I’ve put out five books this year and I have had NO time to read. I’ve bought, lol, but…yeah, reading just hasn’t been in the cards. So I have a LONG list of books waiting on my Kindle that just seems to grow. At this point, I don’t even know which story to start with because there are sooo many good ones. Things should settle down for me within the next couple of months, so my plan is to pick one and go.

Is there anything else you would like to add?

Thank you so much for having me today!!!

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Fighting Love

Abby Niles

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Talk about kicking a fighter while he’s down. 

Former Middleweight champion and confirmed bachelor Tommy “Lightning” Sparks has lost it all: his belt, his career, and now his home. After the devastating fire, he moves in with his drama-free best friend, Julie. One encounter changes everything and Julie is no longer the girl he’s spent his life protecting but a desirable woman he wants to take to his bed. Knowing his reputation, he’s determined to protect Julie more than ever—from himself.

Veterinarian Julie Rogers has been in love with Tommy since she was ten, but would love to get over the man. She’s quiet nights at home and a glass of wine. He’s clubbing all night and shots of tequila. As friends they work great. As a couple? No way in hell. She just can’t get her heart to agree. When she starts spending time with another fighter, the man who’s always treated her like a sister is suddenly not being very brotherly and enflames her body like never before.

Can two childhood friends make a relationship work, or will they lose everything because they stopped FIGHTING LOVE.

A little about Abby: 

Abby Niles has always loved to read. After having twins and becoming a stay-at-home mom, she started doodling stories to keep her sanity. She didn’t plan for writing to become an obsession, but it did. Today, she juggles work, home life, and writing. It’s not always easy, but hey, who said life was easy? When Abby’s not writing, you can find her playing ‘Just Dance’ with her kids or trying to catch up on her never-ending to-be-read list.

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