Charlotte Boyett-Compo
Charlotte "Charlee" Boyett-Compo is the author of over 60 novels, the first ten of which is her WindLegends Saga sword & sorcery series which begins with WindKeeper. She began her writing career as an entertainment editor for one of billionaire Warren Buffet's Sun newspapers and had her first mass market paperback released in 1996. She has been married to her high school sweetheart for 41 years, has two grown sons, two grandchildren and five cats. She writes in the speculative fiction genres of dark fantasy, mystery/thriller, SF/futuristic, dark romance, dark historical romance, horror, and post-apocalyptic western. Her signature Reapers...shapeshifting vampires...have gained her a world-wide audience of the Internet and over 600 book reviews.
Either out or releasing this year:
Ardor's Leveche
Blackwind: Sean And Bronwyn
Blackwind 2: Viraidan And Bronwyn
Bloodwind
Darkwind
Desert Wind
Desire's Sirocco
Dreams Of The Oasis 4: Sting Of The Wind
Evilwind
Fated Mates I: Secrets In The Wind
Ghost Wind
Hardwind
Her Reapers Arms
Hot, Georgia Winds
Hunger's Harmattan
In the Heart of the Wind
In the Teeth of the Wind
In The Wind's Eye
Journey of the Wind
Legendary Tails I: The Windsday Club
Longing's Levant
Lucien's Khamsin
NightWind
Passion's Mistral
Phantom Of The Wind
Pleasure's Foehn
Prime Reaper
Prisoners Of The Wind
Rapture's Etesian
Reaper's Revenge
Seasons of Seduction: Wendy's Summer Job
Seasonal Winds Anthology
Seasonal Winds: Autumn Wind
Seasonal Winds: Spring Wind
Seasonal Winds: Summer Wind
Seasonal Winds:Winter Wind
Shades Of The Wind
Shadowwind: The Shadowlord
Tailwind
Taken By The Wind
Tears of the Reaper
The Abyss: Memories of the Wind
The Prince Of The Wind
The Wyndmaster's Lady
The Wyndmaster's Son
Wayward Wind
Windbeliever
WindChance
Winddeceiver
Winddreamer
WindFall
Windhealer
Windkeeper
Windreaper
Windretriever
Windseeker
Windsleeper
WindStar
Windweeper
WolfWind
Wyndriver Sinner
Either out or releasing this year:
Ardor's Leveche
Blackwind: Sean And Bronwyn
Blackwind 2: Viraidan And Bronwyn
Bloodwind
Darkwind
Desert Wind
Desire's Sirocco
Dreams Of The Oasis 4: Sting Of The Wind
Evilwind
Fated Mates I: Secrets In The Wind
Ghost Wind
Hardwind
Her Reapers Arms
Hot, Georgia Winds
Hunger's Harmattan
In the Heart of the Wind
In the Teeth of the Wind
In The Wind's Eye
Journey of the Wind
Legendary Tails I: The Windsday Club
Longing's Levant
Lucien's Khamsin
NightWind
Passion's Mistral
Phantom Of The Wind
Pleasure's Foehn
Prime Reaper
Prisoners Of The Wind
Rapture's Etesian
Reaper's Revenge
Seasons of Seduction: Wendy's Summer Job
Seasonal Winds Anthology
Seasonal Winds: Autumn Wind
Seasonal Winds: Spring Wind
Seasonal Winds: Summer Wind
Seasonal Winds:Winter Wind
Shades Of The Wind
Shadowwind: The Shadowlord
Tailwind
Taken By The Wind
Tears of the Reaper
The Abyss: Memories of the Wind
The Prince Of The Wind
The Wyndmaster's Lady
The Wyndmaster's Son
Wayward Wind
Windbeliever
WindChance
Winddeceiver
Winddreamer
WindFall
Windhealer
Windkeeper
Windreaper
Windretriever
Windseeker
Windsleeper
WindStar
Windweeper
WolfWind
Wyndriver Sinner
LBRR: Hi Charlotte and thank you for taking the time to interview with us.
CBC: Thank you for asking. I am so pleased to be a part of your terrific website.
LBRR: Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Are there any fun facts you'd like your readers to know?
CBC: Well, as my husband Tom...affectionately known as Buddha Belly among my readers...says: I'm 5'6" of green-eyed mischief. I have salt and pepper hair and the ravages of the years is spreading my girth and my hips. I love gardenia scented perfume and pomegranate/mango body wash. I am addicted to Subway BMT sandwiches with everything on it except cucumbers...extra jalapeño peppers, please...which I take home and heat up in the microwave until the pepperjack cheese melts. My secret treat is to lay in bed with a spoon and a container of frozen strawberries and happily crunch away while watching tv. I get really annoyed by stupid drivers and people who love to give your their opinions whether you ask for them or not. I was born in Florida and adopted, raised a Freewill Baptist in Georgia but converted to Catholicism before I met my husband..who is a NY Yankee. When I get angry or sad, I cook. When I get bored, I clean. When I'm happy, I cry.
LBRR: What are some of the most memorable and most forgettable moments you’ve encountered on the writing path?
LBRR: What are some of the most memorable and most forgettable moments you’ve encountered on the writing path?
CBC: Memorable -- When I held my first print book in my hand in 1996. I cried like a baby and stroked that sucker as though it were my child...which is a way it was.
Forgettable -- I was in Orlando at the Romantic Times Booklovers convention a few years back and we were all lined up to go into a medieval dinner theater. I was standing there with my husband and one of the NY authors turned to me with a sweet, ingratiating smile and asked if I was an author or a fan. I told her I was an author. She asked for whom I wrote. I told her I wrote for Amber Quill Press and Hard Shell Word Factory. She looked blank for a moment then a woman standing beside her whispered something in her ear. I swear I heard the one speaking to me hiss and she got this haughty, nasty look on her face. "Ebook?" she stated. "Yes," I agreed. Her upper lip cocked and in a voice dripping with sarcasm said: "Well, maybe you'll get published by a real publisher one day, dear." Whereupon she turned her back on me and shared a contemptuous giggle with the trio of women standing with her. One thing is for sure: I'll never buy another of her books. If she couldn't support a fellow author--no matter how or with whom that author is pubbed--she sure doesn't need my support. I feel the same way now about romance authors who look down on those of us who write erotica. You'd think we were perverts by the way some of them treat us at conventions. You know what I believe it is? Jealousy and fear that we're taking readership away from them and money out of their pockets.
Forgettable -- I was in Orlando at the Romantic Times Booklovers convention a few years back and we were all lined up to go into a medieval dinner theater. I was standing there with my husband and one of the NY authors turned to me with a sweet, ingratiating smile and asked if I was an author or a fan. I told her I was an author. She asked for whom I wrote. I told her I wrote for Amber Quill Press and Hard Shell Word Factory. She looked blank for a moment then a woman standing beside her whispered something in her ear. I swear I heard the one speaking to me hiss and she got this haughty, nasty look on her face. "Ebook?" she stated. "Yes," I agreed. Her upper lip cocked and in a voice dripping with sarcasm said: "Well, maybe you'll get published by a real publisher one day, dear." Whereupon she turned her back on me and shared a contemptuous giggle with the trio of women standing with her. One thing is for sure: I'll never buy another of her books. If she couldn't support a fellow author--no matter how or with whom that author is pubbed--she sure doesn't need my support. I feel the same way now about romance authors who look down on those of us who write erotica. You'd think we were perverts by the way some of them treat us at conventions. You know what I believe it is? Jealousy and fear that we're taking readership away from them and money out of their pockets.
LBRR: What other jobs did you have before becoming a writer?
CBC: I was a waitress, a shoe clerk, a long-distance operator for Southern Bell, took tickets and sold concessions at a movie theater, worked in an office supply store, receptionist, manager of a dry goods store, stocked groceries in an Air Force commissary, was a licensed dental assistant and finally a parish secretary. All those jobs have worked into my novels over the years.
LBRR: Do you have a favorite quote?
CBC: May the Wind be always at your back is on my webpage and email signatures but my favorite quote comes from Scottish actor Gerard Butler: "There's nothing like a badass to make a girl's heart beat faster".
LBRR: What was your first published story?
CBC: My movie, book and play reviews when I was an entertainment editor...along with a few columns I wrote...were the first paying publications. The Keeper of the Wind, which was the mass market paperback of what is now Windkeeper, was the first book published. It was with a publisher who is no longer in business. I did my first book tour--three weeks, twenty-one cities---with that novel.
LBRR: Do you have a writing routine that you follow?
CBC: Not really. My husband gave me a 12 X 24 cedar building which he had put right off our back deck. The building is soundproofed and has everything I need in it. I go out usually first thing in the morning to answer emails, work on my webpage if I need to then I settle in to write as the Muse...whose name is Sean...leads me. I am usually out there until around 5 pm, seven days a week. I'm not necessarily working all that time. I usually take a break to watch General Hospital around 2 pm and eat my lunch while I lay on the sofa seat and ogle Greg Vaughan, Tyler Christopher, and Jason Thompson from that show. They are the inspiration for three of my Western Wind reapers. If I get bored writing or just plain don't feel like doing it, I'll pick up a novel, a Pepsi, a bag of Scoops and a jar of salsa and immerse myself in some other author's words.
LBRR: What do you do when you aren‘t writing?
CBC: I read or watch tv. I never miss Rome, NCIS, Lost, The Closer, Nip/Tuck, Craig Ferguson, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, and Vegas. Those are my favs. I have such a large TBR stack of books I doubt I'll ever live to read them all. I devour movies and tv shows in which Scottish actor Gerard Butler has worked. I've been a fan of his since 1999 when I saw him in Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married. The man is just now hitting his stride with the release of 300 that came out this week. I've always known he was destined to be a huge star. My DemonWind series which began with BloodWind was written for him and he is the Prime Reaper in my Western Wind series.
LBRR: Please share some information about your most recent release.
CBC: I had three come out within a few days of one another from three different publishers. The WyndMaster's Lady is a dark romance from Samhain Publishing. You can read a synopsis, excerpt and reviews of it at www.windlegends.org/wyndmaster.htm . EvilWind from New Concepts Publishing is the third novel in the DemonWind series of SF/futurisics. Read about it at www.windlegends.org/evilwind.htm . The third novel was Hunger's Harmattan, a dark fantasy sword & sorcery novel and one of my signature Reaper books from Ellora's Cave. Learn all about it at www.windlegends.org/harmattan.htm.
LBRR: What are you working on now?
CBC: I am about 20k into My Reaper's Daughter, the sixth novel in the Western Wind series. I am just now getting into the groove that far into the novel and doing research on an esoteric religion I'll be incorporating into the storyline. This book is being written for actor Eddie Cibrian so I've been watching his movies to get the force of his personality to use as the basis for my character.
LBRR: How may readers contact you?
CBC: I would like to invite them to visit my webpage at www.windlegends.org or at MySpace at www.myspace.com/windlegends . They can write me at charleecompo@hotmail.com . If they'd like a signed bookplate or an autographed postcard of the cover art of any of my novels, they can write me. The snail mail addy is on my webpage.
LBRR: Thank you for interviewing with Love Bites.
CBC: Thank you for the interview. I am honored to have been asked.
Isabelle Rose
Isabelle Rose is a novelist and a poet. She is the author of NAUGHTY FAIRY TALES VOLUME 1. She currently resides in Elsmere, Delaware with her husband Kurt. She loves reading fairy tales and finding new ways to twist them. She has always enjoyed reading erotic fiction and fantasy novels.
When she's not writing, she can be found drinking large amounts of coffee and staring off into space daydreaming about what to write next.
She's currently at work on a new novel and another collection of erotic fiction.
When she's not writing, she can be found drinking large amounts of coffee and staring off into space daydreaming about what to write next.
She's currently at work on a new novel and another collection of erotic fiction.
LBRR: Hi Isabelle and thank you for taking the time to interview with us.
IR: Hi! Thanks for asking me.
LBRR: Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Are there any fun facts you'd like your readers to know?
IR: I've been writing since I can hold a pen. My favorite colors are purple and red. And I love dark chocolate.
I think people would be interested to know that before I started writing erotica I was a bit shy when it came to my sexuality. It took me a while to open up and realize that it is okay to be sexually aware and comfortable in your own skin.
I started writing erotica about three years ago. It began with an idea of what I thought really happened to Red Riding Hood with the wolf in the woods. That story is actually going to be in NAUGHTY FAIRY TALES VOLUME 2.
LBRR: What are some of the most memorable and most forgettable moments you’ve encountered on the writing path?
IR: Memorable moment...I would have to say when Raine Richards from StarDust Press sent me an email saying that she was interested in reading the rest of my book. And then a few weeks later she sent me a contract. That was the best day ever!
Forgettable moment...I would have to say an email I got from a man who asked for me to send him pictures of me. That just puts a damper on my fun.
LBRR: What other jobs did you have before becoming a writer?
IR: I worked at Borders Books for a while, that was loads of fun. I worked hard but I got to be surrounded by what I love most...books. I love books. My house is in danger of turning into a library.
LBRR: Do you have a favorite quote?
IR: Well my personal quote is...Always wonder. Always dream. Always ask. Always dare.
LBRR: What was your first published story?
IR: Red and Wolf got published online through a website that no longer exists. I got so many hits on that one story that it gave me the boost I needed to continue writing more erotic fairy tales.
NAUGHTY FAIRY TALES V1 is my first erotic book. Volume 2 will be out sometime at the end of March.
LBRR: Do you have a writing routine that you follow?
IR: On most mornings, I have a cup of tea, turn on my computer and start transfering all of my notes that I've jotted down on my notebook (I like to write things out with pen and paper before I put it in the computer). I just keep going things over and over until I get it as close to perfect as possible.
Then I let my friend Shannon read it. She's my best critic. She'll tell me if something works or if I should change something. My husband Kurt also helps me out when I have to write something from a man's point of view.
And then I rewrite some more. There's no such thing as a finished story, only abandoned projects, there's always something you can add to a story to make it better.
LBRR: What do you do when you aren‘t writing?
IR: Read. I read as though the world is going to end. I'm obsessed with books. It's kinda scary actually.
LBRR: Please share some information about your most recent release.
IR: Here's a blurb for NAUGHTY FAIRY TALES V1:
Have you ever wondered...
...what happened to Alice after she came out of the rabbit hole? Ten years have gone by since that innocent, accidental venture. But Alice couldn't resist meeting old friends again. Will she finally catch the White Rabbit this time around? What of her friendship with the Cheshire Cat? As for Queen Scarlett of Hearts, she is after Alice as well and will stop at nothing until Alice is hers. Alice seems to be in more trouble than she ever was.
...what would happen should Snow White find shelter in a house with seven handsome men, after running away from a stepmother intent on killing her? She strikes a deal with them, in exchange for their silence. Seven men, seven days a week, a girl couldn't find herself in more delicious situations than this!
...what happened to Emma after she was gifted with the ability to produce a flower or precious jewel every time she speaks? When her mother drove her out of the house because of it, was the gift still a thing to be treasured or has it turned into a curse?
Bedtime just got more exciting!
...what happened to Alice after she came out of the rabbit hole? Ten years have gone by since that innocent, accidental venture. But Alice couldn't resist meeting old friends again. Will she finally catch the White Rabbit this time around? What of her friendship with the Cheshire Cat? As for Queen Scarlett of Hearts, she is after Alice as well and will stop at nothing until Alice is hers. Alice seems to be in more trouble than she ever was.
...what would happen should Snow White find shelter in a house with seven handsome men, after running away from a stepmother intent on killing her? She strikes a deal with them, in exchange for their silence. Seven men, seven days a week, a girl couldn't find herself in more delicious situations than this!
...what happened to Emma after she was gifted with the ability to produce a flower or precious jewel every time she speaks? When her mother drove her out of the house because of it, was the gift still a thing to be treasured or has it turned into a curse?
Bedtime just got more exciting!
LBRR: What are you working on now?
IR: I just put the finishing touches on Volume 2 which will include rewritten versions of Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. I have a few notes and ideas for Volume 3, I'm thinking Blue Beard, Rapunzel and an old English fairy tale titled The Three Heads of the Well. I'm also working on a fantasy novel, but I'm only a third of the way into the story.
LBRR: How may readers contact you?
IR: There are so many ways people can get a hold of me.
Readers may contact me via email at isabelle_rose@stardustpress.com or isabellerose23@yahoo.com
They may also leave me comments on my blog at http://isabellerose23.livejournal.com or http://www.myspace.com/isabellerose23
There are excerpts and updates posted regularly so you have to check it frequently.
LBRR: Thank you for interviewing with Love Bites.
IR: This was fun. These were really good questions.
