Featured Interview With Michele de Winton
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in New Zealand, and after traveling around the world a bunch, ended up back in the land of Hobbits. Well, not really hobbits. Everyone I know is tall. Go figure.
I started writing romance just before I became pregnant with my first little boy. When I sold that book, three months after he was born, I suddenly found myself on a romance train and didnt want to get off. With five books out now I’m looking forward to my two little ones starting pre school and giving me a bit more time to write. I love my boys – beyond anything – but I love words too! Gotta somehow fit the two together! 😉
We used to have a puppy called Valour – we were raising him for the Foundation of the Blind, so he could become a seeing-eye-dog. Unfortunately he failed on a technicality. He was a big wimp. However he was a lovely dog and so ended up being a mobility dog and the first working dog to partner with someone with Parkinson’s Disease. A pretty cool puppy that one!
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Apparently I won a writing competition when I was seven. I dont remember, but my mom does. And I’ve always written one way or another. I published my first book in my thirties – a literary fiction novel with Penguin – but now it seems to be all romance all the time!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Oh my. I love to read very broadly. From thriller to historical, literary to category romance. I love a broad and varied range of writers too, from Sarah Mayberry and Ruthie Knox, to Nalini Singh and Larua Kaye, to Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie!
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Put a hot tempered cook on a cruise ship, add chilli sauce, shake and step back so you don’t lose an eye…
Working in a floating tin can was never on Charlotte Atkinson’s list of dream jobs, but if she’s ever going to open her own restaurant again, she needs to make nice with her Pop, and working on his cruise ship is her last option. Even the Captain’s little girl needs to let her wild red hair down though. And who better for a no-strings night of fun, than the ship’s hot security officer who also carries the player badge?
Since leaving the family firm and the pressure that was sucking his soul, Jeremy Turner has made chasing tail his top priority. No commitments, no mess. Stands to reason then that having a hot one-nighter with the Captain’s daughter was always going to be a bad idea. Letting it turn into anything more? Lunacy. But Jeremy hadn’t counted on Charlotte burning up his sheets and getting under his skin quite so easily.
When Charlotte goes missing, nothing will stop Jeremy seeking out his forbidden temptress. And as the search goes on, Jeremy realizes he might have left it too late to discover that he doesn’t want to be a player forever.
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