Featured Interview With Colleen S. Myers
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Colleen S. Myers was raised in a large catholic family in the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she grew up on Harlequin teen romances and stories from her mother’s days as a paramedic. She went on to attend Allegheny College majoring in Biology and English.
After college, Colleen spent a year in service in the Americorp giving back to the community at a local Pittsburgh Women Infants and Children Clinic (WICC) before attending Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine on a military scholarship.
Upon completing medical school, Colleen attended residency at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and was on base in Washington, DC during 9/11. She earned three meritorious service awards from the military. After serving seven years of active duty, she promptly landed a position at the VA to provide fellow veterans with optimum medical care. Still an avid fan of romances into adulthood, her love of the genre inspired her to hone her craft as a writer, focusing on contemporary romance and science fiction. Her background in medicine and the military provides an inspiring layer of creative realism to her stories and characters.
Her first book, Must Remember, the first book in the Solum series, is published by Champagne Press. The sequel, Can’t Forget, coming in June 2016, is the recipient of the 2015 RWA New England Readers Award.
Colleen currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband and son, and spends her spare time writing. She is also working on a new contemporary romance.
Look for her at Three Rivers Romance Writers, at Facebook
Colleen Myers, and at @ColleenSMyers.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Since I was a little girl, I loved curling up with books and imagining myself in the new worlds. I didn’t start writing until after i accomplished my goals in life and realized I wanted to accomplish more.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite genres are Science Fiction/Fantasy and Romance of course! My favorite authors are ilona Andrews, Nora Roberts, Nicholas Sparks, Jim Butcher, Nalini Singh, Meljean Brooks. sooo many.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth ‘Beta’ Camden is a survivor.
When the E’mani—those pale alien freaks—destroy Earth with a plague of madness and scoop up the remains, Beta is one of the ‘lucky’ ones. For years, she endures their tortures, experiments and games. Then one day, she manages to escape their ship with her life, and no memory of her time with them.
Stranded on their world, Beta wanders the mountains, looking for a way home. She stumbles onto the Fost—the E’mani’s ancient enemy. Their war with the E’mani is old and rooted in magic that the Fost once had and the E’mani crave. Magic Beta soon discovers she’s developing along with strange tattoos and disturbing glimpses of her past. The Fost take her in and train her in their ways. As she spends more time with them, she falls in love with their culture and with Marin—he of the hot hands and slit eyes.
But the E’mani took her for a reason and they want her back—dead or alive. If Beta doesn’t remember that reason soon, they’re all going to die.
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Thanks so much for the Feature!
You are very welcome! Thanks for taking time with us.
Your book sounds great! Where did you come up with the idea?
i am colleens dad, so a little biased i may be but i am never surprised at her achievements . literally my roll as her father was to be a guide and offer suggestions. colleen had her plans set in stone early in life, left home at 15 yrs of age for exchange student studies in new Zealand for one year. But her zest for life was truthfully garnered from a reader mother winnie , who passed away in 2008