Todays Interview is with Pamela Aares author of the new series the Heart of the Game including Love Bats Last, Thrown by Love and Fielder’s Choice. Lets start the interview with a very personal question- What book do you consider your “guilty pleasure read”?
Almost anything by Nora Roberts or Katharine Ashe. The one book I won’t loan out from my library is Nora’s Enchanted. I love her Donovan’s! I also love Joanna Bourne. She has a gift for language and story.
-What book was most influential in your decision to become a writer yourself?
Back when I was producing films I was in an airport bookstore, looking for a book to while away a four hour flight delay. Catherine Coulter’s Midsummer Magic literally fell off the shelf onto my feet. I stayed up all night reading it. And I realized that many of the documentary films I’d directed would be great as romances. I was hooked.
-If you could only read one sub-genre for the rest of your life, which genre would you choose and why?
Oh. Not fair! I couldn’t possibly choose between contemporary romance and historicals, as you can see from my website. They both meet me at different levels of soul.
Let us turn the focus back to your writing- what is your favourite part of writing?
I love listening to the voices of my characters. They come alive, sometimes so much so that my husband isn’t sure who I’m talking about at breakfast, they seem so real. The Characters become part of our family while I’m writing a book. And call me crazy, but I love revisions! I have great editors and love the creative give and take and the enriching and deepening of my stories.
-Has writing affected the way you read or the types of books you read?
I had never read much suspense before I started writing. When I judged for the Romance Writer’s of America RITA awards, I was introduced to the work of some excellent suspense writers. That was fun.
I still read loads of natural history– the world of nature fascinates me and I love to bring it alive, like a living breathing character in my books. I’ll never forget when a reader wrote to me after reading Thrown by Love and said that she’d never look at the world or the universe the same (this, after she’d read about Chloe, the heroine’s, take on observing the stars).
– Can you tell us about the funniest thing that has happened to you (or one of your characters) on a date?
In Fielder’s Choice, Alana and Matt go with some of his All-Star teammates to a carnival. The guys are top of their game baseball players and are paid to aim. He wins a rope toss and tells her to pick out a prize. She picks a life sized stuffed bear and insists he carry it around the carnival for her. He jokes that bear-toting might become his career after baseball Image may be NSFW.
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-Finally tell me about your latest/upcoming book.
In FIELDER’S CHOICE, I continue the Heart of the Game series–get ready for All-Star alpha males and the strong women they come to love!
When love’s the game, you can’t play it safe…
In Fielder’s Choice, All-Star shortstop Matt Darrington has more than a problem. His wife died, and now he’s juggling a too-smart-for-her-britches six-year-old and the grueling pace of professional baseball. Worse, his daughter is mom shopping. When they explore a local ranch, she decides the beautiful, free-spirited tour guide is premium mom material. Matt thinks the sexy guide looks like Grade-A trouble.
Alana Tavonesi loves her cosmopolitan life in Paris. But when she inherits the renowned Tavonesi Olive Ranch, she has to return to California and face obligations she never wanted. Selling the place is her first instinct, but life at the ranch begins to crack her open, exposing the dreams hidden inside her heart.
On a lark she leads a ranch tour, where she meets Matt Darrington. His physical power and a captivating sensual appeal fire her in a way no man ever has, but he has a kid—and being a stepmom is a responsibility Alana will never be ready for. Still…she can’t keep her mind or her hands off him.
When Matt’s daughter goes missing from a kid’s camp at the ranch, Alana organizes the search effort, knowing from experience the areas a bright child would be drawn to explore. As she and Matt work together to search for the little girl, Alana discovers that father and daughter have won her heart. Yet it may be too late for love…
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