Fallen Angel Reviews would like to welcome multi-published author Isabella Jordan. Thank you so much for taking the time to sit down and chat with us.

Thanks for having me here. I really appreciate it. =)

First of all, RT, oh my GOD. How totally fun was it? I heard rumors about Dakota and Coke?

If I had my way, I'd ask all about RT and make you tell me every minute detail, (You can get your RT fix here. Isabella, Michelle, and Dakota have contributed) but let's talk about your books, shall we?

RT was great! I'd like to point out that I totally behaved whereas Dakota and Michelle, well... LOL Dakota got into a tiara incident with the equally talented Shelly Laurenston. Michelle worked behind the scenes to create trouble. LOL I love them both!

When did you first pick up your 'pen' and write with the intent to publish?

Oh, wow. Right to the hard question. I guess back in 1995. I joined a fabulous chapter of RWA for folks like me who live too far out to attend a regular chapter meetings. I started my first book that year. It was finally published in 2004 after taking 4 years to write it, and five years for it to be lost by the publisher and then resubmit and have it published. That's under another name... It was a much tamer romance than what I write now.

Can you tell us about that first acceptance contact and what you did when you found out?

Hmm, how about the first one as Isabella? I was ecstatic! I'd won in the first Amber Heat Wave Contest held by Amber Quill Press with both stories I'd submitted. I was thrilled! I went out to dinner with my husband and celebrated. Boring I know! LOL

Do you find that you are more of an outliner, or seat-of-the-pantser?

I'm somewhere in the middle. I always know what the story is in my head, who my characters are, and how it ends. But how they get from point a to point b? Pantser, all the way! LOL

Character-driven vs. plot-driven?

I always try to stay with character driven. If I don't, I find myself trying to make my characters do things that don't seem natural for them. It's a safer choice for me. =)

How do you decide what to name your characters and books?

I'm really good (well, I think I'm really good LOL) at picking out character names. That's easy for me. I struggle over titles. I agonize. I pick my editor's brain. I agonize more. It's ugly. LOL

You write quite the gamut of subgenres, from horror to historical, do you have one favorite?

While I've enjoyed writing a little of everything, I really like Urban Fantasy. Mostly paranormal stories that take place here and now and the most amazing things happen in this reality. That's where I am happiest. I think about my life and my routine and what if I found out my next door neighbor was a werewolf? What if I weren't happily married (thank goodness I am) and it was a really nice looking next-door-neighbor-werewolf? LOL That's what I like.

Not only do you have the Egyptian Lovers series, but also the Eyes of the Leopard series. Do you find it easier to write a series vs. a stand alone book?

I find it easier and I don't. It's easy in that you already have your story established to a degree. In the leopards, I have the rules of this particular group of feline shifters established. I know to work within those rules I created. I also usually have characters that I have introduced in some tiny way in a previous book so that's somewhat of a jumping off point.

On the con side, sometimes you'd really like to do something else. LOL By the time I got Eyes of the Leopard 4 and 5, I HAD to do something to keep the series fresh for ME - not to mention the wonderful readers who have followed this series. Superstitious was the first interracial romance I wrote and I had the most wonderful time writing it that I wrote more interracial romance with Werewolves of London (the heroine was Chinese-American) and then Legion 2: Adult Education (the heroine is African-American as is the heroine of Superstitious).

When I got to Eyes 5, I went back to menage (the first story in the series, Discovery, was also a menage) and made the heroine a captive of two very dominant males. I also had fun writing this story - thank goodness. The series ends with 5 but I AM happy to report that very soon, the series will go into print from Changeling Press. I was SO excited about that!

Speaking of your series, you have a new Egyptian Lover book coming out May 24th and another Eyes of the Leopard book coming out in June. Can you tell us a little about these series and their upcoming books?

Thanks for asking. On May 24th, actually Legion 2: Adult Education came out and is the second in a series about a dangerous cult that seeks to gain control of the world in a most alarming way. My heroine in the story lost her husband the year under mysterious circumstances. Another man dies the same way as her husband and that brings the very handsome detective who investigated her husband's death back into her life. The sparks really fly between those two. =)

But Ada is already the pawn in a mad man's game and the real question is this: Can Eric save Ada from being consumed by this dark force?

The first story in this series was horror. This one, while scary, is more of a thriller. I hope readers like it.

In June, Eyes of the Leopard 5: Captive comes out. The hero has been a captive of the scientists who created him all of his life. He escapes with another creature like himself and plans to warn the sister who doesn't know he exists that the men are after her. That and to start a new life in the human world. The problems start when the mating lust comes on for both men and they must find a way to deal with it. That and a reporter shows up to see Alex in his sister's place. Alex makes an explosive bargain with this reporter. He will give her the story she seeks on the men who are after him, if she will be bed slave to himself and Joey, who escaped with him.

You also have another book up on your coming soon page, Accidentally Yours is listed. Can you tell us about this book?

Accidentally Yours is for Amber Quill Press and it will appear in an AmberPax collection about magic potions coming this fall. The heroine is a hair stylist is working on a movie set with her sister who is driving her crazy. Her sister and her sister's boyfriend are on the outs and Claire will do anything to get them back together and her sister out of her apartment. That was all she wanted...

So she goes to a magic shoppe in the small town where they are filming and buys what turns out to be a very powerful potion. She hopes that it will help her reunite her sister with her beau. She doesn't count on accidentally using it on herself and drawing the powerful attention of the film's leading man...

Do you have anything else in the works at this time?

Hmmm, too much! LOL I am also in an upcoming AmberPax called Torn which will feature some sizzling menage stories. There are more projects for Amber Quill but I can't tip my hand about those just yet. =)

At Changeling Press, there are plans for Egyptian Lover 3: Ardeth and Amenhotep, Midnight Hour (the sequel to Werewolves of London), and Legion 3: Future Lost. Future Lost will be the final story in the Legion series and very dark. The Midnight Hour will be a very fun menage/werewolf story. There is a fourth story in the Egyptian Lover series planned.

I'm tired now. LOL

I have to mention your gorgeous site. Can you tell us about the ideas behind it?

Oh gosh. Thank you! I wanted something that wasn't black or too dark because my first site was black and it got old for me quickly. I also wanted something that I felt told a little about me. I tend to do a lot of soul searching and that was one of the ideas on my list when the site was being planned. When I first saw this I was wowed. I knew it was for me. =)

You are quite active online, you contribute to your blog, the SEx blog (Silver Expressions) affiliated with Liquid Silver, as well as the blog I mentioned above, The Babes RT Report. Did I miss any?

Isn't that sad? One day I'd love to be a Liquid Silver author but to date I'm not and still that doesn't stop me from going over there and bugging people. LOL I have my own blog and my group with Dakota and Michelle - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttabbb. It's a group about nothing. We love to talk to readers. That's it. LOL So come talk to us. We'd love to see you there!

Is there anything that you'd like to add?

Yes, besides thanking you for this lovely interview, I'd like to thank all the readers out there who have given me a chance over the last couple of years. You mean the world to me. Thank you for your emails, your encouragement, your jokes. Thank you!

Thanks again for letting us peek into your busy day. If you'd like to learn more you can take a look at Isabella's gorgeous website website.

Thank you!

Interviewed by: Serena