It’s Wow ‘Em Wednesdays! This week we have the awesome Avril Ashton with us. Please read on for her interview, a little about her newest release, and a buy link, because you don’t want to miss out on this!
Enjoy!
When did you learn that stories have power, and how did that affect you?
I was maybe 10 or 11 years old and I wrote something in school. It was a short story for a fair, where we used construction paper for the book cover and stapled the actual story inside. My teacher at the time—Mr. Forrester— took me aside and told me basically that my imagination was wonderful and that I was really good at creating stories. He was actually emotional while complimenting me on my attention to detail. I will never forget the way it made me feel, so proud and happy. I wanted to always feel that way and I wanted to always elicit the reaction I got from Mr. Forrester.
If you write erotic/explicit scenes, what is the most difficult part of that process?
The most difficult part of writing explicit scenes, for me, is the actual writing of it. I like writing it and I love reading it, so no complaints there. But my readers have come to expect a certain thing from me and so I struggle every time in delivering that, but also making it new and fresh and not a repetitive, regurgitated mess.
Are you a pantser or a plotter?
I have always been a pantser, but lately I’ve been toying with the notion of shifting more to the plotser mindset. The rigidity of plotting stifles my creativity, I discovered that when I first started writing, but even though I’ve managed 10 years writing and publishing as a pantser, I do admit that it has major drawbacks where at times I find myself at a loss as to where the story should go next. Oftentimes when I reach the middle. That then stalls me and it takes a while before I get back into the grove. In shifting to a hybrid plotter/pantser (plotser) method, I’m hoping that I’ll have the freedom to go wherever the characters want to take me while still having a loose outline of what the story is.
Do you write alone or in public?
I write alone. Usually. With the pandemic, my husband is home as is our daughter, and they’re a needy pair so they always interrupt. But I write alone. Writing is an intimate thing for me and it makes me feel exposed in a way that I can’t explain. So doing it anywhere else but in my home is out of the question.
WANT IT blurb:
It takes a tragedy to bring German back to town. A lot has changed since he ducked out in the middle of the night three years ago, leaving behind an ailing grandmother and a confused younger brother. He doesn’t expect forgiveness. He damn sure doesn’t plan to stick around long enough to acknowledge the unresolved feelings that sent him running in the first place.
That’s the lie he tells himself.
Serch is a good boy. The woman who raised him demanded nothing less and he refused to break her heart the way German did. But she’s gone now and German is at his doorstep, apology on his lips, pain and yearning bleeding from his fingertips. Nothing is the same, not even the forbidden connection they’ve always fought. Serch doesn’t know if he can trust his heart to the man who betrayed him with a smile on his face and love in his eyes, but it doesn’t matter.
This time, he’s taking everything that should have been his.
BUY LINK: http://readerlinks.com/l/1273970
AUTHOR BIO:
A Grenadian transplant, Avril now lives in Tucker, GA, with a madly tolerant husband. Together they raise an eccentric daughter who’s pretty meh about reading and school. Avril’s earliest memories of reading revolve around discussing the plot points of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys with an equally book-minded mother.
Always in love with the written word, Avril finally decided to do the writing in August of ’09 and never looked back. She’s been nominated for numerous awards, including Best Author, Best series (Brooklyn Sinners), and Favorite All-Time Author. In 2013 Avril won Evernight Publishing’s Reader’s Choice Award for the LGBT (Male/Male) category. Recently she took home the Golden Ankh award for best Male/Male romance for her bestselling novel, Sinner’s Fall.
Addicted to cake, the ID Channel and the UFC, Avril writes Gay and Erotic Romance with happy endings; she remains a believer of love in all its forms.
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