Please join me in welcoming Macy Beckett the author of the amazing Sultry Springs series.
Tina: Please tell our followers a little about yourself. What is a typical day in the life of ‘you’?:
Macy: I'm a former teacher who left the classroom to write hot and humorous romances for Sourcebooks and Penguin. I also write sci-fi romance for young adults (under the name Melissa Landers) for Disney-Hyperion.
Tina: Do you have a current work in progress? If so, can you tell us a little about it?:
Macy: Now that the Sultry Springs series is complete, I'm gearing up to launch Make You Mine, a hot, humorous romance that releases in May '14 from Penguin Random House. Macy: I'm a former teacher who left the classroom to write hot and humorous romances for Sourcebooks and Penguin. I also write sci-fi romance for young adults (under the name Melissa Landers) for Disney-Hyperion.
Tina: Do you have a current work in progress? If so, can you tell us a little about it?:
Tina: What was your inspiration for your current release?:
Macy: I listen to a lot of country music when writing a Southern romance, and Ronnie Milsap's "There's No Gettin' Over Me" was hugely inspiring for Surrender to Sultry. Much like the song, Colt and Leah couldn't move forward in their lives because they'd never gotten over one another.
Leah McMahon is back in Sultry Springs, Texas to help her dad recover from surgery. But there's a new sheriff in town and he's none other than Colton Bea, the wild-as-weeds boy who stole her heart a decade earlier. Colt's a changed man now, and the feelings between these high school sweethearts are stronger than ever. But Leah's got a secret so devastating that he may never forgive her. Can she find a way to earn absolution and build a future with the sultry man she's loved half her life?
Tina: Was there a character you enjoyed writing the most?:
Macy: That would be Cara Sweeney, the heroine in my Alienated series. She gets more than she bargains for when she agrees to host the nation's first intergalactic exchange student, the devilishly alluring Aelyx from planet L'eihr. Beam me up, hottie!
Tina: What are the best and worst aspects of being a writer?:
Macy:
The best: I can work in my bathrobe. And sometimes I do!
The worst: I go to bed each night feeling like I've given birth out of my head.
Tina: What can we look forward to from you in the future?:
Macy: I've been a very busy author!
Surrender to Sultry is the third (and perhaps final) novel in my Sultry Springs series, Alienated releases in Febrary and Make You Mine, the first book in the Dumont Bachelors series, launches next spring.
About the Author
Instead of a compulsive overeater, I call myself a compulsive over-reader, because my appetite for books is insatiable. While I enjoy all genres of fiction, I’m always drawn to romantic plots. There’s no substitute for a happy ending, and let’s face it: I’m in love with love! A former military brat, I like to say I grew up everywhere. I graduated from high school in Munich (Go Mustangs!) and went on to earn a BA in English from Texas State University and a teaching license from East Carolina University. I taught middle school for nine years before “retiring” to write romance, and after residing in eleven different states, I finally abandoned my nomadic lifestyle.
Now I live in the heart of Ohio with my very patient husband—who kindly tolerates my neglect while I’m penning a new book—and our three spirited children, who aren’t so easily placated. My work is represented by the fabulous Nicole Resciniti of the Seymour Agency.
AWARDS: My work has won first place in the Cleveland Rocks Contest and the Dixie First Chapter Contest.
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