Authorsday: Kelly Jameson

1. When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I’ve always known. I think sometimes people are born with callings and dreams; they just need to figure out how to use the calling or the dream to fulfill themselves. 2. How did you pick the genre you write in? I write in different genres to keep from getting bored. As an author, I’ve never understood why this is a problem fo

r an agent or an editor. I believe an author can be successful in different genres. I write mostly dark suspense. But I recently published a historical romance I wrote 9 years ago. It sat in a drawer. Now it’s outselling my other books. 3. Do you plot or do you write by the seat of your pants? I write by the seat of my pants, or my pajamas, whatever I’m wearing. I start with a main character and a “what if” situation and plot flows from there. That’s what works for me. It may not work for other more linear writers, who prefer to work from outlines. I don’t like to know everything that’s going to happen before I write a book. I mean, why write the book then? 4. What was the name of the first novel you wrote? Did you try to publish it? My first suspense novel is called DEAD ON. It’s about a medical examiner being stalked through time by the same killer. I got a few early rejections and published it in 2005 independently because I didn’t want to wait until I was 80 to ‘get published’. I don’t write books so they can sit in drawers. I actually got a film option on the book for 2 years from Gold Circle Films. It’s set in Doylestown, PA, with real landmarks and fictional characters, and it’s quite a ride. 5. How many rejections have you received? I don’t think it’s a productive use of time to count rejections.  6. What was the best writing advice someone gave you? To rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. Back off your draft for a little while, come back, and things will smack you in the face that you didn’t see the last time you looked it over. 7. What was the worst? Did you know it at the time? An agent told me that zombies weren’t popular and that humor doesn’t sell. 8. Tell me one thing about yourself that very few people know? Some people may not know that I have short stories published in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica volumes 8 and 9, and also in Sex in the City, Paris. 9. Describe your book. Kat Martin, New York Times Best-selling author with over 11 million books in print, says this about Kelly Jameson's To Tame a Rogue: "Sizzling with sexual tension, filled with passion, an old-fashioned romance. Fast-paced and fun to read." TO TAME A ROGUE is currently my most popular book. It’s set in Louisiana in 1816. The dying wish of a cruel father tricks Nicholas Branton into marrying a woman he's never met to ensure his inheritance. But Nicholas vows that it will always be a marriage in name only. __________ Camille Hardison dreams of escaping the life she's living as a lowly tavern maid in a gambling establishment in New Orleans but mostly she dreams of true love. When she's foisted off in marriage to a wealthy, arrogant, handsome rogue and womanizer to settle a mysterious gambling debt, she disguises herself as a street urchin' in the hopes that Nicholas will call off the betrothal. In fact, they are wed that very eve in a heartless, loveless ceremony. What they don't bet on is the raw, awakening passion they both feel for each other...or the sensual touches and aching love that will bind their hearts and souls forever in To Tame a Rogue. 10. What do you consider your strengths in terms of your writing? I don’t pull any punches. I like to read raw writing with sensitivity and that’s what I try to write. Author Bio

Kelly Jameson is the author of DEAD ON, which Kat Martin, NYT best-selling author, calls "Brilliant." It's the story of a medical examiner being chased through time by the same killer. Kat Martin also has this to say about Kelly Jameson's historical romance TO TAME A ROGUE: "Sizzling with sexual tension, filled with passion, an old-fashioned romance. Fast-paced and fun to read." Best-selling crime noir author Ken Bruen calls Kelly Jameson's psychological suspense SHARDS OF SUMMER, "The Great Gatsby for the beach generation." WHAT REMAINED OF KATRINA: A NOVEL OF NEW ORLEANS, Kelly Jameson's novella, was a Leapfrog Press Honorable Mention in fiction. "What Remained of Katrina becomes a powerful story of the city's underclass, the one seldom reported by the media, the one seldom visited by tourists. This is Jameson's third novel, and may be the best one yet." Walter Brasch, Journalist/Author Z=mc2: TIME-TRAVELIN' ZOMBIES VS THE GARDEN STATE. "Z=mc2 is a wacky and hilarious slice of zombie goodness. Wicked and deranged, it's TIME BANDITS meets SHAUN OF THE DEAD with a big dose of just-plain-nuts. Highly recommended" - Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD OF NIGHT and PATIENT ZERO. Horrorphilia reviewer Gabino Iglesias says: "'Z=mc2: Time-Travellin' Zombies vs. the Garden State'" starts weird and finishes strong. The prose is packed with humor and there's an underlying message about what it means to be human that readers should discover by themselves. Pick up a copy today." Her published short stories are collected in an anthology called DESPERATE, DISTURBED, DERANGED, AND DOUBLE-LATTED. MY BOOKS CAN BE ORDERED AT: http://www.amazon.com/To-Tame-a-Rogue-ebook/dp/B006BI1IME/ref=la_B002BLQBTK_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1338058524&sr=1-9 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/to-tame-a-rogue-kelly-jameson/1107587397?ean=2940013535985&itm=1&usri=kelly+jameson Book Blurb: The dying wish of a cruel father tricks Nicholas Branton into marrying a woman he's never met to ensure his inheritance. But Nicholas vows that it will always be a marriage in name only. Camille Hardison dreams of escaping the life she's living as a lowly tavern maid in a gambling establishment in New Orleans but mostly she dreams of true love. When she's foisted off in marriage to a wealthy, arrogant, handsome rogue and womanizer to settle a mysterious gambling debt, she disguises herself as a street urchin' in the hopes that Nicholas will call off the betrothal. In fact, they are wed that very eve in a heartless, loveless ceremony. What they don't bet on is the raw, awakening passion they both feel for each other...or the sensual touches and aching love that will bind their hearts and souls forever in To Tame a Rogue.