Today I am speaking with Sapphire Phelan.

Good Morning Sapphire, thank you for taking time to talk to Fallen Angels Review today.

Sapphire, I notice on your website that you have a long list of credits, very impressive and you have different publishers, along with being an animal lover, sounds wonderful.

Would you like to tell us something about your upcoming releases?

The most exciting ones are the stories coming in the issues of Forbidden Love, published by Under the Moon. The first issue is now up for preorder at their webstore: Forbidden Love: Bad Boys. I have an erotic urban fantasy romance, “Soul Seduction” in it. If anyone is a ‘bad boy’ it’s my fairy, Branigan Darkman. But my fave is “Being a Predator is a Bitch” in the Wicked Women issue. Sasha Anderson, the Lupo (we would call her a werewolf) is the ultimate wicked woman, who will never be redeemed. I don’ write her, she tells me to write her the way she wants to be. Another one coming in a future issue of Forbidden Love is “Ain’t Nothin’ Like Succubus Lovin’” where my heroine is a succubus called up by a man tired of the dating scene nowadays.

By Lady Aibell Press in 2007 I will have an erotic science fiction romance, Iridescent Invasion. An Earth woman joins forces with one of the aliens to save her world from an alien invasion. And I just got accepted an erotic vampire romance, His Girl, by Twilight Fantasies Publications, for when they open in 2007. That story came to me when the song, My Girl played one day on my car radio, one about lost love.

Do you have to do much research in your writing?

Sometimes. It depends. In one upcoming M/M dark erotic romance, “The Dark Man”, I have coming in future issue of Forbidden Love: Sacred Bands, I was researching on Selkies for a horror story when I discovered the Dark Man, or Finmen myth of Orkney. Everything in there is true to the myth, except the lover is a human male, not a woman as is more true to the myth. Since I’ve read or own books on many supernatural or fantasy creatures it’s not hard for me to do stories on them. But I had to do research and yes, lots of interviews for a nonfiction book by my pseudonym, Pamela K. Kinney, that I have coming out next fall 2007. Since you have to almost do three, no four times double-checking on nonfiction, compared to fiction, that I had to do my research. But even so, I research when it has to do with something I don’t know a thing about, like medical terms, or medication, etc…

How much of your personality and life experiences are in your writing?

There is some in some of my stories. Mainly the fiction by Pamela K. Kinney, though I may base a character here or there in my paranormal romances on me or even my husband, who’s my ‘real’ hero. Even other characters could be based off friends. And yes, some experiences in my life, though most of what I write just comes out of my imagination and the ideas that just suddenly form.

Do you get much contact from your readers?

I will get an email from one or someone posts to one of my blogs, or from chats I might do, and it is nice to hear that they enjoyed my stories. I even met many at signings at conventions locally.

Do your fans' comments and letters influence you in any way?

If they say they enjoyed the story I write that validates to me that I am on the right track, that what I enjoy writing is enjoyable for them. It keeps me writing and submitting.

Do you have a favorite comment or question from a reader?

Since any comment or question from a reader is good, they’re all my favorites. I think the comments that my story was great are always treasured by me. It shows me I am making my readers happy.

When did you first think about writing and what prompted you to submit your first ms? Generally, how long does it take you to write a book?

For most of the short stories or longer ones, not long. I have a novel I’m writing that couple characters from it will be coming in Forbidden Love: Wicked Women that took me initially to write a few months, but that’s first draft. I try to force myself to write everyday if I have a time table.

Do you have a set schedule for writing or do you just go with the flow?

I like to write during the day, during the week, when my husband is at work. Though when I have a schedule to make and want something done can write at night or even earlier than I normally do, and even on Saturday and Sunday.

For Fun: Name the best appliance ever created?

Hey, the coffee pot that only needs you to press your cup against it to pour coffee into the cup! Plus the computer—made writing easier.

And for fun, hot showers or soothing bubble baths?

Soothing bubble baths, natch! J

What is your favorite comfort food?

Chicken and dumplings

Do you have another website than http://FantasticDreams.50megs.com that you would like to share with your readers, like a blog or links to your books?

Http://SapphirePhelansPassioncorner.blogspot.com and http://www.myspace.com/PamelaKKinney (I promote both Sapphire Phelan and Pamela K. Kinney stuff there)

Sapphire, I have enjoyed our talk and thank you for taking time to share some insight with us about your books. I wish you the best in your writing endeavor with all your fantastic books.





Interviewed by: Linda L.