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BBB: Can you please share with us how old you were when you wrote your first story?

JC: Unlike a lot of writers, I didn’t start out at the tender age of five. Yeah, sure, I scribbled a few little stories when I was a kid but, frankly, I never considered that real writing. What I do remember doing daily most of my entire life is telling stories in my head. I didn’t try to set them down on paper until I was in my mid-twenties and I only did it then because it was a way to get the stories out of my head. For all the good it did me. The problem is that as soon as one story is down on paper, another one starts taking shape in my head.
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“Someone—or something—is killing Seattle’s gay men.

A creature moves through the darkest night, lit only by the full moon, taking them, one by one, from the rainy city’s gay gathering areas.

Someone—or something—is falling in love with Thad Matthews.
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BBB: Can you please share with us how old you were when you wrote your first story?

TLC: I can’t remember exactly, but around third grade I wrote a short (and unfinished) story about a little boy whose toy soldiers come to life at night. I wrote my first (still unpublished) book when I was twenty-six.
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Hi everybody!

We are very excited to offer up the entire set pf Marjorie M. Liu’s Hunters Kiss Series to one lucky winner this week! Not only that Marjorie has shared an awesome excerpt from latest release A Wild Light so we can get a sampling of just how awesome this series really is and celebrate it’s release. The winner gets a copy of the following:
Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls
The Iron Hunt
Darkness Calls
Armor of Roses Novella in Inked
A Wild Light

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Seattle’s favorite succubus returns in another heart-breaking chapter of her story. Georgina Kincaid has been a succubus for what feels like forever. She has seen many friends come and go, but she still falls for the lives and troubles of humans. In particular, she fell for one talented writer, Seth Mortensen. But, it is an ill-fated love that cannot be, and Seth has tried to move on with his life.
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BBB: What do you find are the most rewarding and most challenging aspects of writing?

M-CB: Getting the story down and finishing the first draft. It’s the hardest but once I know the story is there, I feel much better. It’s very rewarding to have told a whole story from beginning to end.

BBB: At what moment in your life did you realize you wanted to be an author?
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BBB: What do you find are the most rewarding and most challenging aspects of writing?

DEB: Writing is the most rewarding and challenging aspect of writing for me: that and coming up with snarky non-answers to thoughtful questions. Writing is like getting paid to fall in love, where most of the time you spend agonizing just waiting for it to happen, and then it does like once or twice if you’re lucky. OK, that’s a terrible analogy. It’s really more like holding a baby sparrow, where you have to hold it firmly yet not too hard, (more…)

A big welcome to our readers today! Be sure to read to the end of the interview to find out how to WIN the fabulous prize being offered up.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a fixed time event, the post just goes live at 12:00 pm Central. You can stop by any time during the day or evening and leave your questions and chat.

PLEASE KEEP SPOILERS TO A MINIMUM. Not all of the readers today have read Gayle’s book.

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Hi everybody!

Remember last month where we let everybody have the opportunity to interview Patricia Briggs? Well we have all of the answers back from Patty and are going to share them with you here today. We also have some prizes to give away! Also, a big congratulations to her for her release of Silver Borne today book FIVE in her amazing Mercy Thompson series!
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Lina, a nurse, accidentally kills a hospital patient by giving the wrong medication, and even though “forgiven” by the hospital, decides to leave her position and find another job with less risk. As soon as she sees Drake House, a former sorority house turned into fancy retirement home, Lina knows she wants the job as resident nurse. The new job provides living quarters, a bonus that will get Lina out of the apartment formerly shared with her ex-boyfriend. (more…)