It is time to meet another author from the paranormal romance anthology, A Guide to Claiming a Scaredy Cat anthology!
If you were to throw shyness and awesomeness into a blender you would get my co-coordinator of this anthology, one of my fave authors & my sista’ from another mista’- Author Josette Reuel!! ❤
Josette and I met through another analogy & we have been inseparable since then! No, seriously, if one of us goes quiet, the other one goes through separation anxiety/withdrawal! :p She is quite the friend, quite the author, and quite a woman. I am very happy to have crossed paths with her.
Okay, enough rambling about our friendship, let’s take a peek into her life and into what makes her-her…
Where are you from? Do you have children? Pet? Married?
I have spent 45 years (on February 26th) in Central Ohio. I live on 2 acres surrounded by farmland that has been in my husband’s family for over one hundred years. We have a daughter who is finishing her Baking and Pastry Arts Associates degree and a son who just turned eighteen and is stressing over having to become an adult. I love animals and we’ve always had pets. I have two black cats that are outside mousers (I’d have them inside if my husband would let me). My son and daughter both have a dog. My son has a rat and I guess his sister is giving him her hermit crabs – she also gave him the rat, by the way. And, we have six rabbits at the moment that my son is raising for his last year in 4-H.
Have you ever visited or lived abroad (overseas)? If so, where? Did you like it?
When I was eighteen my parents paid for me to travel to visit my boyfriend in Norway. I stayed with his family for three months before returning to attend college. I totally wanted to stay. It was so beautiful there. I met him while he was an exchange student in Ohio my Junior year of high school. It’s not “overseas” but I’ve been to Canada a few times and met some amazing authors and readers at the Ignite Your Soul Author Event. I’ll be returning for my third year in September.
Besides writing, what is your passion?
Anyone have time for anything other than writing? LOL Seriously, I love any sort of creative project. I was an art major when I first went to college and love crafts. I make my own book covers, graphics, and swag. I even have a site to sell my services for a reasonable price to other indie authors. One of the best things is to use my talents to make someone a gift, the joy that I can bring others just by using some of my own time is priceless.
Biggest pet peeve?
Being asked silly questions. Just kidding. My biggest pet peeve is to be talked over. Just because I’m quieter or I take time to put my thoughts together doesn’t mean I don’t want to have my say. It’s been ingrained in me to be polite and not interrupt others while they are talking. However, not everyone has learned that lesson.
What genre do you write in? Do you read mostly in this genre too?
I write Paranormal Romance. The majority of what I read falls within PNR. However, I’m open to any good story. Being a Sci Fi geek from way back, I love anything with a science fiction, fantasy, or paranormal twist. And, romance has definitely become my genre of choice.
What inspired you to write books?
I have enjoyed books and stories from the time I was very small. So, the written word has always been there. Unfortunately, life took me a different direction and I was forty years old before I seriously considered trying to publish. I’d recently began reading again (kids and work had stolen my reading time for many years) and met some online book lovers who encouraged me to try writing. My family were very supportive and in 2014 my husband told me to quit my full-time job and write full-time instead. My first novel was published in September, 2014.
If you could only have one book in your personal library, what would that book be? And why?
A Kindle because I could have all of my favorites LOL I seriously don’t have one book that is my all-time favorite. If I love a book, I read more by that author, but I read so many that one doesn’t stand out over another. They all have their place in my life. The moments that they helped me to escape reality and travel to another world.
With the paranormal romance anthology, A Guide to Claiming a Scaredy Cat, will your readers see a different writing style or do you always stick to the same writing style?
I will write the story the way I have written all of my others, I will allow it to guide me where it wants to go. I think each of my stories have a style of their own, but all of my writing does have a consistent voice. At least I think so. Might want to ask my beta crew and see if they’d agree.
Now for the fun stuff:
Are you a coffee or tea drinker (Which do you prefer)?
Chai tea
What is one food/beverage that you could never give up?
Cherry Coke (I’ve tried)
Unicorn or Dragons- Which team would you be on?
Dragons no contest.
If a zombie apocalypse happened and you had to choose two items from the following list of items, which one would you choose and why? Titanium baseball bat, running shoes, a shotgun with two cases of shells, a novel by your favorite author, Samurai sword, a Knight’s armor suits, semi-truck filled with chocolate, or a puppy/kitten?
Samurai sword for protection and it’s always ready and doesn’t run out of ammo. I’m torn between the semi of chocolate and the kitten. A girl always needs her chocolate, but a kitten could be your friend and help keep you warm at night.
What is one silly, fun, or nerdy fact about you?
I have a mutant heart LOL I always forget the term for it, but the trunk that branches out of the top of my heart, one branch goes to your right brain and one branch goes to your right arm. Well, the one for my arm actually comes out of the left side of my heart, wraps around the back and goes down my arm. The doctor was adamant that it was a “typical deviation from the normal anatomy,” but I prefer to just say I’m a mutant.
I found this on Google- Josette would NEVER post something like this!! LOL
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Well, ‘Ciao-Ciao’ for now!
Happy Reading & XoXo’s
S.E.Isaac
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