(no cover yet, so enjoy the covers of the first two books in the series)
[set up: Crystal is Stephanie's mother]
“You’re not happy.” Crystal was making a statement of fact–as she saw
it. Stephanie bristled. They’d almost made it through lunch without an
argument.
Crystal waved for the check. The Gotham Grill waiter nodded in acknowledgement.
“Things have never been better,” Stephanie replied a little too quickly.
Coming this summer from
Siren-Bookstrand
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FUN FIRST FACTS ABOUT SIMONE
1. What was the first romance you ever read?
I read a lot from the age of about seven - but up
until about 13 it was all Enid Blyton, Chalet Girls and Gymkhana books. At
school I know I did Jane Eyre which is after all a romance, but probably before
that was Mary Stewart's The Ivy Tree. I still have it and occasionally
re-read it. It's wonderfully written, a nice background mystery and twist, but
ahhh (sigh) the romance. Mary Grey and Adam, I am pretty sure, and that's from
someone not great on names! When she see his scarred hands and starts to cry...
well it's very touching!
2. Tell me about the first novel you ever wrote? What
ever happened to it?
I wrote it when I was 13 (by hand) and I still have
it. OMG it is bad!!! My attempts at romance (I hadn't had a boyfriend) were
well... execrable!
3. Tell me about your very first kiss.
Must I? Not long after the attempt at my first
novel, when I had turned 14, I was asked out by a boy from dancing class (I was
at a girls' school and this was the only way to meet boys when you didn’t have
a brother). He was 18! I felt very grown up – until the first kiss, which was soooo not like it looked like when Rhett
Butler kissed Scarlett O’Hara. Yuck! Way too much slobber and tongue thrusting.
Put me off boys for a year! And didn’t improve my second ‘novel’ attempt
either- romance is just as bad as in the first!
More about Simone: Simone Sinna is the other side of an established nonfiction writer. After an epiphany on the 2038km road to Santiago de Compostela (which inspired her second novel, just out) she changed her name and now writes mostly erotic fiction. Her husband is delighted, her mother and two children less so…
She has three erotic romance suspense novels published with Siren: Embedded, Exposé, Exclusive (due July 2012) and two erotic short stories in Stringybark anthologies, Brushstrokes published in Heat Wave of ’76 (shortlisted for the prize) in 2011 and Night Game in 2012 in Between the Sheets.
You can find out more about Simone on her website, Twitter (@SimoneSinna), and her Bookstrand author page.
Thanks for coming on today, Simone! I wrote my first novel, long-hand, when I was 14. I stopped when I was about 1/2 finished because I realized I'd never been in love, so how could I honestly write about being in love?
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