The Nine Days of Nine Naughty Novelists Interviews: Meg Benjamin

About Meg Benjamin one of the Nine Naughty Novelists

Meg Benjamin has spent twenty-plus years teaching and writing and Web designing in South Texas before pulling roots and starting all over again on the Colorado Front range. 
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1. What was that day like when you, Meg Benjamin and the Nine Naughty Novelists came together?

It was a dark and stormy night? Well, no. I was a very new author (as were several of us) and read a email from a couple of other authors—Erin Nicholas and Kate Davies—asking if anyone else would like to join a blogging group. Being very new and knowing nothing about promo (I still don’t know much, sigh), I thought that sounded like fun. So did six other people. Nine novelists were a pretty large group, but we coped.

2. In your opinion how hard is it to co-write between all of you?

The books that we actually wrote together were tough just because you had to wait on others to get their chapters done before you could figure out what was going to happen in yours. The short story projects were easier because each story was independent.

The Nine Days of Nine Naughty Novelists Interviews: Erin Nicholas

About Erin Nicholas one of the Nine Naughty Novelists

Erin Nicholas has been reading and writing romantic fiction since her mother gave her a romance novel in high school and she discovered happily-ever-after went a little beyond glass slippers and fairy godmothers! For more information on Erin and her books, visit www.ErinNicholas.com. 

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1. What was it like writing before the Naughties and what started you on the path to join the group?

Skylar and I actually started the group a few months before I published my first book. I wanted a group of authors to do promo and have fun with :)

2. Erin for readers who haven't read any of the books by the Nine Naughty Novelists what would you say to get them to read them?

You don't know what you're missing! :) Great writers who know all about romance and heat and humor!

3. Do you guys happen to ever get together and hang out in real life or do you guys simply write separately online?

It's hard to get all 9 of us together-- the best we've ever done is 8 at once :) but yes, in various mixtures many of us have been together in person a few times-- various conferences and retreats. 

The Nine Days of Nine Naughty Novelists Interviews: Kate Davies

About Kate Davies one of the Nine Naughty Novelists

Kate Davies. From food to fiction, Kate likes things spicy. She writes award-winning contemporary romance for Samhain Publishing and has books available in both e-format and print. 

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1. Kate how old were you guys when you gathered to write the first book under the writing collective the Nine Naughty Novelists? What was it like then?

How old were we? Uh, lemme think. I can barely remember my own age, let alone the other Naughties. *counts on fingers and toes* We started the group six years ago, and wrote the books together a few years after that, so...early forties for me? As for what it was like, writing the books was incredibly fun. There was lots of laughter involved. And wine. Always wine.

2. A bit of a serious inquisitive question but who are the ones who usually come up with the most ideas for your story concepts for stuff written under the Nine Naughty Novelists?

We brainstorm really well as a group.

The Nine Days of Nine Naughty Novelists Interviews: Skylar Kade (+Giveaway)

About Skylar Kade one of the Nine Naughty Novelists

Skylar Kade, self-avowed hedonist and princess extraordinaire, started her writing career 

after throwing aside yet another romance she could not bring herself to finish. She can be found on her blog www.skylarkade.wordpress.com. 

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1. Skylar can you mention how it was like at that time to come together to create the writing group the Nine Naughty Novelists? What can you recall of then and when was that? 

My first book, Maison Domine, came out in 2009. As I was working on the promotion plans for it during the summer, I met some other awesome writers for Samhain Publishing and we decided to come together and create the Nine Naughty Novelists!

2. I noticed while reading, If You Give A Duke A Duchy, that you seem to have a sense of humor. It really comes through in writing. In your own words, what would you call your sense of humor? 

I have an odd sense of humor. If you ask my husband, I’m only funny about 25% of the time, but that’s the beauty of writing--I can throw out all the things that I thought were going to be clever and replace them with things that are actually funny! I love watching stand up comedy to learn more about timing, wordplay, and other comedic devices.

3. Do you know who came up with the name of If You Give A Duke A Duchy or Love's Savage Whiplash? What is it the main idea of someone and if so who? 

Our group is a collaborative bunch. When we write together, we have this great synergy where one person throws out an idea, and the rest of us build on it. I can’t remember who came up with the final title, but I can see traces of our collaboration in it--it’s so wild and fun!

4. Do you think you guys will team up again for more books under the Nine Naughty Novelists? [Crosses fingers you do] 

I hope we do! It’s hard when you have nine writing schedules you need to sync across, but we had such fun brainstorming and writing our two books together I’d love to see us do it again.

The Nine Days of Nine Naughty Novelists Interviews: PG Forte (+Giveaway)

About PG Forte one of the Nine Naughty Novelists

PG Forte inhabits a world only slightly less strange than the ones she creates. 

Filled with serendipity, coincidence, love at first sight and dreams come true.

She wrote her first serialized story when she was still in her teens. The sexy, ongoing adventure tales were very popular at her oh-so-proper, all girls, Catholic High School, where they helped to liven up otherwise dull classes...even if her teachers didn't always think so.

Originally a Jersey girl, PG now resides with her family on the extreme left coast where she writes contemporary and paranormal romance in a variety of sub-genres.

PG can be reached directly at: pgforte@pgforte.com  She can also be found on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AuthorPGForte/) and Twitter: (https://twitter.com/PGForte)

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1. PG what can you remember of then when you and the other Naughty Novelists decided to come together to create the writing collective?

I remember it as being an insanely fun time. We’d been blogging together as a group for awhile by then, and we'd been talking about doing a joint project forever, but we weren’t sure what it should be. Then we started chatting about it online and, over the course of a couple of very long sessions, everything came together. If you haven’t read our blog posts where we first introduced The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy’s Secret Werewolf Babies I strongly suggest you do. They’re almost as zany as the book itself—and the trailers Kelly Jamieson made are killer!  I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard in my life.

Nine Naughty Novelists blog-SooperSekritProject....Revealed! (September 1, 2010)

Nine Naughty Novelists blog-Who's Who in Bloodsuck, Part 1 (September 2, 2010)

Nine Naughty Novelists blog-Who's Who in Bloodsuck, Part 2 (September 3, 2010)

Nine Naughty Novelists blog-Welcome to Bloodsuck (September 5, 2010)

Later, of course, we gave If You Give a Duke A Duchy (which was originally titled, Love’s Savage Whiplash) the same treatment, although the intro to that one wasn’t as elaborate (just the one blog post instead of four!) because, by then, people knew what to expect from us.

The Nine Days of Nine Naughty Novelists Interviews: Kelly Jamieson (+Giveaway)

About Kelly Jamieson one of the Nine Naughty Novelists

Kelly Jamieson is a best-selling author of over thirty-five romance novels and novellas. Her writing has been described as "emotionally complex", "sweet and satisfying" and "blisteringly sexy". She likes coffee (black), wine (mostly white), shoes (high), and watching hockey!

You can find her and her books:

Goodreads.com

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1. Kelly, when did you guys all decide to create the writing collective the Nine Naughty Novelists? And what can you recall from that time?

Erin and Kate had the idea to start a group blog where we would help promote each other's books. They put out a call on our publisher's loop for others who were interested. We were all published with Samhain Publishing. It ended up being a group of nine. We brainstormed for days over the name of the blog, then the look of the blog and how things would work. It was so much fun to be part of a group of authors like that and ended up being so much more than just a group blog. 

2. My first real question Kelly is what was it like writing the first more intimate scenes between Rock and Buffi in The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's Secret Werewolf Babies?


Gosh, it's hard to remember back then! I remember it was so fun to use all the clichés I would normally try to avoid, like the woman who’s had a baby self-conscious about her changed body, and the purple prose euphemisms like “throbbing manroot”, “dewy nectar”, “bower of bliss” and some crazy ones like “tallywacker” and “love spuds”. It’s making me smile all over again! 

3. Do you usually write more of the sexy scenes in books by the Nine Naughty Novelists or is it evenly distributed by all of you?

I think I did write most of them, if not all of them. [Symbol] Probably because I like writing hot sex scenes! It was fun writing sex scenes that were in some ways similar to what I write (as in, very hot!) but different because I could use words I normally wouldn’t.  

4. Could we seeing more books under the name the Nine Naughty Novelists?