Author Interview
Name: Annelise Reynolds
What first inspired you to write? I’ve loved reading and writing since I was a kid. I’d wrote poetry, journals, songs, and I started writing a novel my senior year of high school. I still have some of that manuscript in my head, though the file was lost long ago. Maybe one day I will revisit that story to make some of it, I’m not sure, but writing and seeing my words—my stories in print is a dream come true.
How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? Different things inspire me. It can be a picture, a song, a quote… Anything can speak and give inspiration for characters. I have a lot of premade covers waiting to be used because they inspired something in me. I had a short story in Sweet Treats, that inspired something more, so I pulled it out of the short story collection and it became Bidding on Santa and Stupid Cupid. I’m very much a panster when I write, so the stories can take on a life of their own and totally surprise even me.
What question do you hate the most about being a writer? I don’t really hate any questions. Please, ask me anything about my writing. What I do hate, is when words are dubbed “cringe worthy”. It’s a little discouraging to say the least that authors get flayed for using certain words, “Moist” for instance… You don’t like it, that’s ok—read on. But I’ve seen so many authors post asking what words readers hate, and every word used to describe sex ends up on that list (Cock ended up on a list). I see those posts, and I want to use it as a shopping list of words. One day, I want to publish a story that is packed full of those cringe worthy words because I just find it limits the author when everybody has one word or another they hate.
Are you indie or traditionally published? I’m a proud indie author.
Have you ever tried the other style of publishing? I have not, but I have been considering it.
What are you working on now? I currently have seven works that are at various stages. It’s an ongoing joke with me about when I get in the shower to wash my hair, I get brilliant ideas. Then, I have to write those ideas as long as the words are flowing. Sometimes it’s only 3k, other times it’s 30k. I go as long as those characters are talk. That’s why I have so many stories open at one time because I get ideas, and the characters scream at me until I write them down, then they will go quiet on me. Two of the main ones I’m writing right now are the next stories in my Holiday Heartthrobs Series. Christmas Calamity and Mary Christmas & Mr. Bane, I’m hoping to have both out this holiday season.
What is your most recent/upcoming release? I released Ridin’ Nerdy in May, right now all proceeds from that book are going to a friend of mine whose family lost everything from hurricane Harvey. My next release is Christmas Calamity—I’m shooting for the end of October or the beginning of November.
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Sunday, September 24, 2017
Author Interview with Annelise Reynolds
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