Featured Interview With Stella Wilkinson
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Stella Wilkinson is a full time author with eight books currently available, plus three anthologies that she collated and edited for a children’s hospital charity. The anthologies contain nearly 100 short stories donated by authors (including Stella) from all over the world. Look out for the Omnibus Edition in November 2014.
Stella loves writing about young adults and she devours paranormal romances, so it was inevitable that they would come together at some point. She is best known for her hugely successful Flirting Games Series, but has also recently started her Magic & Mayhem Series, soon to be followed by her ESP Series.
Stella lives in Pembrokeshire in Wales. Widely known as The Land of Dragons. She is lucky enough to live by the beach, and when she isn’t writing she is generally either tipping sand out of her shoes or cleaning mud off her wellies (it also rains a lot in Wales). Stella is an enthusiastic (if dreadful) cook, and loves to bake chocolate brownies by the dozen. She also collects antique books and first editions of any genre at all, so her walls are filled with dusty smelly old books on various boring subjects that she treasures and her family hates 🙂
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
As an only child I started turning to books for company at a very young age. I grew up with the Famous Five as my best friends and to this day I still tell people “you’re never alone if you have a book.” But I think I was about eleven when I decided I wanted to be Lois Lane and write dazzling journalism, and marry Superman of course. Which led to me starting our school newspaper and I’ve been writing ever since.
Getting published was the stumbling block. People think that just because something is good then it will be published, and that if it isn’t traditionally published then it must be crap. It just isn’t true. I read a huge mix of traditional and Indie books and for the most part one is no better than the other.
The digital book revolution changed everything, for which I am eternally grateful!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I mainly write teen romance, so these days I also mainly read teen romance. There are so many fabulous authors in the genre, Kelly Oram, Melanie Marks, Shel Delisle and Cassie Mae, to name just a few of my favorites. I’m not into serious trauma and anxiety, I like good fun laugh out loud books.
The writers who inspire me are all the Indie Authors on Kindle Boards. They keep me going every day with their pragmatic approach to a difficult job.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My last release was actually Book four in The Flirting Games series. All the books are set around a British boarding school The series is light hearted and full of funny one liners, flirting, and some great characters who unwittingly end up playing the game of love. Of course people always get together in the end, but not necessarily with who they thought they would…
Book One, The Flirting Games, is actually free to download, so hopefully people will try it and then discover the whole series.
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