Betty Hanawa and Cassie Ryan Chat Monday
Romance writers Betty Hanawa and Cassie Ryan join Lizzie T Leaf in the romance author chats at Realms of Love Monday June 11 at 9 PM EDT/6 PM PDT.
Betty will tell us about More Than She Asked. Here’s a little bit about her:
Betty Hanawa had two highly rated, lovely, sensual contemporaries published with Triskelion Publishing when her publisher and her editor kicked her out of her comfort zone. To her surprise, she discovered they were right. She now writes paranormal erotic romances, filled with snarky humor that frequently slips into the ironic. Her books are receiving high praise with new books being eagerly anticipated. Her aunts are delighted with her success. Her children are embarrassed to discover their mother knows about sex. She really enjoys being the scandal of her small town.
Cassie has Ceremony of Seduction coming from Kensington soon. Let’s learn a little about Cassie:
Cassie Ryan tried her hand at erotic romance after critiquing so many for Brit Blaise and devouring favorite erotic romance authors like Cheyenne McCray and Jordan Summers. It became almost a ‘see if I can do it’ type of challenge for her. Never one to turn down a challenge, she jumped in with both feet. She created a world where an ugly duckling finds out she’s the future queen for a race of otherworldly witches who thrive on sexual energy. It takes the Prince of her erotic dreams to show her how to save a planet she never knew existed. The partial story was requested by several different houses, and after attending RWA Nationals in 2005, Cassie sent off a query to Audrey LaFehr at Kensington who was just starting the new Aphrodisia line. Fast forward to March 2006, Cassie had been busy writing books as her alter ego and hadn’t gotten around to finishing the book with the working title Seduction of the Klatch, and had figured her submission had been lost in the bowels of the Kensington slush pile. Then suddenly, she was contacted by Kensington and asked if she could turn her world of Klatch witches into a three book series. The correct answer, of course, was YES!
Lizzie will update us on Twice a Virgin (maybe she’ll even explain it). Lizzie says:
I’ve loved books since I opened the first one. My dream was to write them myself. Of course life has a way of throwing us a curve ball, and the writing became a distant memory, lost in the hectic day to day world of family, job, laundry and housework. When the twinkling ember did spark, it was usually doused by someone demanding their share of my time, and me allowing it to happen.
But life does seem to go full circle. The desire to put the stories that continued to play in my head on paper emerged stronger than ever, and at a time in my life when there was someone encouraging me to do it. Now I’m living my dream; creating stories to share with others. I hope you enjoy them.
My other hobbies, gardening and baking, are now taking a back seat, and as for housework…what’s that?
There will be give-aways! Join us Monday for some fun chat with some writers of hot erotic romance.