Hi Naughty and Spicers… I’m Linda Thomas-Sundstrom, paranormal romance writer,  waving to you from the wild, wild west. Hello! How the heck are ya?

I’m very happy to be back today as guest blogger  for two reasons. To tell you a bit about my new Nocturne series – Wolf Moons … and this month’s release of Red Wolf -  but  also because I’m hoping you can help me out with something.

I’ve been asked to gather a list of questions for a romance writer’s group on what readers really want to know about the authors and books. This seemed like a great experience to understand the minds and hearts of readers, so that in author chats and book signings, authors can cover some of these items.

If you were in the audience at a book signing, where the author was taking questions, what things would you ask? You know, the things you’d really want to know. Would it be about the book being signed, or the author herself? The author’s background, or something about the world created in the book?

Can you help by supplying a few questions, pretty please?

So – here’s a wee bit about me, in brief:

I love the supernatural. I’m hot for sexy werewolves.

I’m a paranormal writer through and through, and loving every minute of it. Every book I write drives home the fact that I am very luck to have so any stories to tell, and readers who love to read them.

I fall in love with most of my characters in the books I write, and have withdrawals from their world when I type The end. This, for a writer, is known as writing bliss. Or in my case right now = Werewolf bliss.

This month my new Nocturne series, Wolf Moons, is on bookstore shelves. Red Wolf this month, followed by Wolf Trap in March. Both books contain bonus material, in the form of  novellas previously released in this series in 09 as Nocturne Bites (e-books) So, all four stories are together in print.. Two full books … four stories… four couples fighting to deal with rogue werewolf bites in sizzling,  sultry Miami. Hot stuff in the city. Werewolves to the max!

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And then there’s this January’s Nocturne Bite – Moon Marked, about the secret war between humans and werewolves, and two… um… people (term used loosely)… who find themselves caught in the middle. Romeo and Juliet on the wild side.

Now that the stories are done, and published, I have quite a few promotional book signings set up for Red Wolf and Wolf Trap. Hence the question I’ve posed to you.

If you’re a reader who loves to really get involved, immersed, in the world of the books you’re reading, please do tell us what you’d like to know about them.  Hey, maybe it’s nothing. But if you’re like me, I always want to know how the mind comes up with things like they do.

I once found out that Michael Crichton (Jurrasic Park, etc) wore the same shirt and pants every day when he wrote (yes, I’m sure he had a washer and dryer) ha. And that he was said to have to write in the same place, with everything exactly the same around him. Some sort of luck thing. Or maybe (my idea running rampant)… his Muse only recognized him I that one outfit?

Well, you see what I mean? The answer to questions can be quite fascinating.

So….. go to it, if you will. Leave those questions for the list.

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Check out RED WOLF February Nocturne book… please. I think you’ll feel my enthusiasm for what I write, and hopefully connect with me. I exert a lot of energy into my books, so there’s lots of action and … sexual tension. YUM.

Check out my web site, too. You can always leave a question there – for me!

I’m here listening!

Thanks for joining me today. Hope you win a book!

xo

Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

www.lindathomas-sundstrom.com

Yeah, yeah I’ve blogged about it already but nothing much else is going on this week so I’m proclaiming it to the world:

TODAY IS MY 40TH BIRTHDAY!!

Yes, I came into the world forty years ago today. All I can say is DUDE. I can’t believe I’ve already been on this earth for forty years! Where did the time go? Seriously, it feels like yesterday I was still in high school. Now I have a kid in high school who is learning how to drive. Aaackkk….

It’s a milestone birthday but I’m not having a big celebration. My husband and I will go out for a nice lunch (sans kids – yay!). If we can fit it in we might go to a movie (Dear John so I can drool over Channing Tatum – yay!). But first, we have to pick up our truck which has been in the shop. There’s my birthday present – a decent vehicle that runs! (If you saw what I’ve been driving for the last week, you’d say yay too…)

I’m just happy to have been around for the last forty years. Overall, they’ve been good. Oh, some were kinda bad (like last year) and some were really awful (a few dark ones in the 90s) but I can’t complain.

So yeah…happy birthday to me!

So, I really didn’t have a topic, but I had this picture and I wanted to post it (how fun is that? my kid’s Barbie Bella and Edward going at it on my dining room table?). So I came up with the compromising position topic.

Have you ever been caught in a, er, compromising position?

Got one to share? Your ’shoot we’ve been caught!’ moment?

I have, though not as often as I’d like .  I think one of mine was in a college parking lot, got caught by security. Another was in a coat closet at a party, got caught by my roommate (poor gal was scarred for life). And really…that might be it. But coat closet was the most humiliating one and yet at the same time I didn’t even care. Yes, I was that far gone. These were all waaay long ago pre-kid. I’m entirely too boring now!

First of all, thanks to Shell for letting me hang out with you guys today. I really appreciate it.

I had a hard time deciding if I wanted to be naughty here. I don’t see why not. So I’m going to talk about hookups. Have you ever had a one night stand? I haven’t. And I’ve been married for 25 years, so the prospects don’t look that promising in the very near future.  (My husband just walked by and gave me the eye.) I need more of an emotional connection when it comes to sex.

But I can certainly imagine what happens. I mean, I do have friends who have triple digit one night stands. (No, I’m not talking about Rosemary and Shannon.) I’ve heard stories that would curl your toes. I’ve heard stories that will make you wonder just how stupid chicks can get when they are drunk. Luckily, they all survived these encounters, and some of them made for very sexy stories.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against the instant hookup, just haven’t had a lot of experience with it. But of course, through my fiction I can explore these kinds of relationships. Mariska and Jackson, the stars of my new novel TAKE ME IF YOU DARE don’t exactly have a one night stand, but the get together pretty fast. I like that there is a sense of danger and urgency. They can’t keep their hands off each other. There is an instant connection and they both want each other.

That I have felt. That heat you feel when you meet someone for the first time and you know they are into you, and you are most assuredly into them. That first kiss that takes your breath away, or they touch you and you get chills. The good kind. That’s one of the things I like most about writing romance. I get to re-live those moments time and again. It’s not a bad way to make a living.

For Mariska and Jackson the hookup happens fast but it comes about rather naturally. They both want each other, and even though they know they shouldn’t for a variety of reasons, they do. I think that’s something we can all relate to in some way. Haven’t we all been in relationships that were exciting and maybe a little dangerous, but we jumped in anyway?

Do you have some favorite fictional hookups? Those book that made you feel the heat too? Gena Showalter’s Lord of the Underworld series and Nalini Singhs Angel series come to mind. Hot, sexy reads with to-die-for heroes. That’s important part for me. A strong hero. So share some of your favorites.

Comment here and a random poster will win a copy of TAKE ME IF YOU DARE.

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