Books-n-Kisses is pleased to welcome Kelly Gendron to the blog today.
Q1) Can you please share with us a little about yourself
Kelly: Something many people don’t know about me is that I’m a Snore Whisperer. Yes. In the wee hours of the night, when all is quiet and dark, I am able to silence one of the loudest Snorers known to mankind (my husband). My technique you ask? It starts with a sharp Shh… followed by a light tap, an elbow to the rib, and then in a stern whisper, I say, “Roll over!” I’m also a mom, a wife, and a nurse. Oh, and I’m an author too.
Q2) Have you always wanted to be an author?
Kelly: Sure did. It explains all the daydreaming and role-playing that went on in my head as a child. It wasn’t until I hit my thirties that I realized my stories needed to be told.
Q3) What is your most interesting writing quirk?
Kelly: As my story starts to flow, I tend to play a sort of musical chairs with my laptop. I pop it from the sofa, to my back room, to the dining room table, to outside, and yes, it’s even made an appearance in the bathroom a few times. I need change.
Q4) Can you please tell us about your latest book(s)?
Kelly: Satisfying the Curse is about a young woman, Juliana Pratt, who believes she’s cursed. Her entire life, her father’s warned her that she’s destined to be a wanton just like her adulteress mother. He’s hidden her away from his elite society because of it. When her father’s arrested for murder, he asks her to come into the spotlight to portray the doting daughter. Juliana agrees to the interviews and talk shows, but before she goes on the two-week tour of lies about her father, and with him behind bars and unable to stop her, she must first take care of her starving curse.
And Juliana picks the perfect man to get the job done. She secures him to a bed, but fails terribly at finishing the task. But later, Juliana discovers that the man she’d chosen to fulfill her every fantasy is also the agent assigned to protect her for the next two weeks!
NESA Agent T. Ryker prides himself on his discipline-that is, until his new assignment, the prim and proper Juliana Pratt, puts that discipline to the ultimate test! When Ryker finds out that Juliana was the masked woman who drugged and handcuffed him to the bed in his hotel room, he also discovers her true identity. Ryker agrees to satisfy Juliana’s ravenous curse, but he has his own reasons for doing it, and it’s not just to give Juliana’s body what it craves… for there is something else Agent T. Ryker wants from Juliana Pratt…
Q5) How did you come with the idea for this story?
Kelly: Satisfying The Curseis my second NESA (National Elite Security Agency) Book. I had so much fun with my first one, The Risqué Target, I just had to write another one. The Character’s are new, the story is different, but the agency remains the same. NESA will do whatever it takes to get the job done. No one, not even the agent assigned to the case, is safe.
Q6) Can you share with us your current work(s) in progress?
Kelly: I’ve been playing around with a couple of different paranormal romances. One is a series. I’m currently working on a new contemporary erotic romance. And as far as my NESA Books go, I really like Josie Deetz from Satisfying The Curse— I think she might be getting her own story.
Q7) Who is the one author that you would love to meet someday and why?
Kelly: JR Ward— I’d like to have a go at the files in her brain. She has great story lines, and I always fall in love with her characters.
Q8) What is the best piece of advice you would give to someone that wants to get into writing?
Kelly: Ah… the answer to this question reminds me of a quote from my latest release.
“Janie was a wise woman. She also said that while we might not always get what we deserve or want, we had better fight like hell for whatever it is that we truly need. She’d say, ‘To want is to desire, but a need? Well, that is a requirement, something you can’t live without.’ So I ask you… do you want her? Or do you need her?” (Satisfying The Curse)
I guess first, you’d have to decide whether you want or need to be a writer.
Q9) Can you share with us something off your bucket list.
Kelly: Bucket List? Hmm… Yeah know what— I really don’t have one. I’m the type of person who sets a goal and trucks along until it’s completed. I’m so neurotic about it that I usually give myself a target date. So, to say I want to accomplish, or do something before I “kick it” well that kind of deadline is too unreliable for my neurotic self. Besides, I find most things that really excite me come from those spur of the moment experiences.
Q10) What is in your To Read Pile that you are dying to start or upcoming release you can’t wait for?
Kelly: Right now, I’m trying to get through Fifty Shades of Grey… TBR? J.R. Ward, I love her books all the way to Jessica Bird. I marvel over her description and she can really pull me into the story. She has a couple of new ones coming out that I can’t wait to get my eyes on.
Q11) Is there anything else you would like to add?
Kelly: I have to say that you have one of the best blogs I’ve come across. It’s easy to maneuver around, it’s not too slow, and the blogs are interesting, fun, and easy to read. Thank you, Kelly, for having me here today!
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