Featured Interview With Suz deMello
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Best-selling, award-winning author Suz deMello, a.k.a Sue Swift, has written nineteen books in several genres, including nonfiction, romance, erotica, comedy, historical, paranormal, mystery and suspense, plus a number of short stories and non-fiction articles on writing. Her books have been favorably reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist, won a contest or two, attained the finals of the RITA and hit several bestseller lists.
A former trial attorney, her passion is world travel. She’s left the US over a dozen times, including lengthy stints working overseas. She’s now writing a vampire tale and planning her next trip.
That’s the public Suz. The private Suz is nearing 60 years in this lifetime and happy about it–she feels great and thinks she looks pretty damn good, too.
The private Suz is planning a trip to Cuba (CUBA!!!) for her 60th birthday and is totally excited!
She’ll also spend a few days relaxzixng in the Cancun area and is excited about that too.
The private Suz lives with her 85 year-old mom and her yappy little ankle biter in northern California, which, when the rest of the nation was in the grip of vicious winter storms, was enjoying temperatures of 70 degrees. She would be happy about this but instead, she knows that drought is not good.
She’s written 19 books, would like to make it 20. She writes all over the map. It’s all good stuff, but not consistent in regard to genre, subgenre, setting, characters or much else. There’s usually a warm-hearted love story and rockin’ good sex, though.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Suz says:
My mom tells me that I started reading when I was three. As a child, I went to the library every week, got out the maximum number of ten books, read them all the same day, then spent the rest of the week rereading.
I didn’t start to write until 1996, though–got sidetracked by other creative and business pursuits.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love Regency romance, so one of my fave authors is Georgette Heyer. I never tire of rereading her books! I also love young adult paranormal fiction–stuff like Harry Potter and the Hunger Games. I also read a lot of history–I often write historicals, so I read to get a feel and background of the time I’m visiting in my books.
Right now it’s Victorian London that’s holding my attention. What a wild place! Big, raucous–building projects everywhere–London was struggling to burst into the modern era. Everything was changing, most notably the infrastructure. And that level of change wasn’t easy.
So history often inspires my writing, And because quite a lot of my writing is steamy sex, intimate encounters are inspirational 😉
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book was definitely inspired by sex–BDSM sex.
Perilous Play: The Real Fifty Shades is the true story of the kinkier aspects of my life. I did have to fictionalize names and fabricate one scene to tie the story up in a tidy bow (and it’s a pretty hot M/f/M menage) but otherwise–it’s all true.
So if you’ve read Fifty Shades or seen the movie and wondered…what’s BDSM really like?? read Perilous Play.
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