Author Interview with Ali Parker
Author Interview – Ali Parker
- Tell us a little about yourself!
I have the best
hubby in the world and we live in a house that fits us perfectly.
Small pool in the back and lots of woodworking tools in the garage
for him. We’re in our early 30’s and love life. I’m a lawyer
most days of the week, but my books give me a creative outlet.
I’m a free
spirit, helpful, loving and dream in violent colors. Life is a gift
and I’m the kind of person who lives it to the fullest.
- You just released two romance novels, back to back. Tell us what’s next or are you done for a little while?
Done? I’m just
getting started!! I plan on releasing Justified in May/June to
tell Marc and Lisa’s story. They are two of the characters you are
introduced to in my Jaded serials. After that I will move over
and work on the serial for the last couple, Sicily and Drake. I have
a million other projects underway, one with a good friend of mine,
Lexy Timms. We’ll be co-authoring something this year too, or
several things really. Now that Baited and Jaded are out and doing so
well, I’ll start pushing forward on these other things too.
Big project for me
will be to connect with my fans. I’m interested in knowing what
they love and want – that’s where I want to focus my time
honestly.
- Work on the street is that you write a Billionaire Series under a pen name. Tell us about this?
The hookers are
telling my secrets, I see? Yes. I write under Zoe Reid, a name I just
opened to really test out the truth of Billionaires and Step Brothers
being the latest craze in the world of romance. I can see why both
topics would be, so I figured I’d write something to see how people
reacted. My stories will be serials again, part I and II being on
Amazon now.
I’ll have another two parts out in the next few weeks and hope to
write up the eight part serial by the end of June. The stepbrother
part seems like it would hold incest at its core, but I’m not down
with that, so mine are new siblings later in life – no blood
relationship. Just the taboo of loving someone that society would
deem inappropriate.
- Why Romance for your genre? Tell us about how you ended up here verses another genre.
Well, my favorite
genre is paranormal romance, but I wanted to focus on starting my
writing career in a world I knew, exploring the various dreams and
fantasies in my own heart. Where I love the supernatural elements,
they leave something to be desired for those of us a little grounded
in the “what if” truly being a possibility. I’m not likely to
run into a vamp (oh please let it happen?), but a sexy guy at the
office? Absolutely.
I love the idea of
creating a story with a clear line to a happy ending too. Too many of
us don’t get the happy ending in life – I have it now, but it
hasn’t always been that way – and we should get to experience it
in one way or another. Love is beautiful and precious, the feelings
of it washing over us whether we’re living it or reading it. That’s
why I chose it.
- What’s the difference between Erotica and Romance? I feel like it crosses the line nowadays. Tell us your thoughts on the two. Any plans to cross over to erotica?
Great question. I
researched this not too long ago because Baited was my first
romance novel and I was UBER careful to have one small sex scene that
was hot (in my opinion), but not explicit. I was concerned with being
labeled as erotica when it really wasn’t. I watched my verbiage and
ensured that it was as “clean” as could be.
With Jaded,
my male character just wouldn’t corporate, his hormones giving way
to several sex scenes and a few more details. I’ll never write the
physical aspects really of love-making, but I can paint the emotion
well enough around it (again my own opinion) to push the feelings of
what’s happening. After finishing it, I was worried about crossing
the line again. So I researched it.
Basically, the
industry says that the verbiage and level of detail isn’t the
defining factor – the focus is. Is the story about love and
emotions with some sex? Romance novel. Is it about sexual fantasy and
finding yourself sexually with a little bit of relationship and
romance? Erotica.
Not sure if I’ll
ever cross over. I love telling a good story and in the world of
adults, that includes sex. To leave it out or overdo it would be a
travesty to me.
- What encouragement would you give to a new indie writer, or someone who’s just starting to get that famous writers itch, to pick up the proverbial pen and get busy creating?
I would simply say
that we’re all capable of doing anything we believe possible.
Nothing is out of your reach with enough “want-to” and work put
forth. Pick up that pen and write your heart out. You can worry about
the details later, but get the story out while your muse is pushing
it through you. The editing and next steps, the struggle with going
indie or with a publisher, the cover art – all details for later.
For now, create and breathe life into something new to share with us.
You can do ANYTHING you put your mind to.
So get to it…
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