Author Stella Price
A Conversation with Author Stella Price
September 07
Hello Stella!
You are the obvious choice for Studio 3B's first author to be featured in the Author Spotlight. You are, after all, the person who helped get Books in the Spotlight started! Hey, it just happened that we had the same idea at the same time. LOL. Im happy to do it, athough it's your candles... they call to me.
Please share with us how you started writing and how you and your sister actually managed to become such a super-charged writing team that spans two continents! See that's a really normal story. Audra and I wanted to do something together, and it was seemingly impossible because she lives over the pond so to speak. So, we decided to start writing together. It worked out to our benefit.
You and Audra have seemed to break barriers in the Romance Genre, bringing Romance and Paranormal together in an exciting and cutting edge way. I'm sure it hasn't been an easy road, what challenges have you faced and overcome? I think our biggest one has been finding a stable and credible publisher. With so many rejecting us and the Eververse Series, it was really hard to keep our chin up. But it all worked out and we have done fantastic with the book. Almost every publisher told us it wasn't anything special and would never sell.
Any advice you'd like to share with aspiring authors who want to break away from tradition and get their work noticed? Don't let any publisher change what you write! Stand by your work, and keep plugging. Your work is the only validation you have as an author to put you ahead of the pack.
On a more personal note, what makes Stella tick? What drives you to write your stories ~ your inspiration? The Characters. I really have NO SAY on anything we write. They tell me, we write it. It's that simple. I have no idea where most of it comes from either.
You are such a dynamo and I really do not know how you find the time to do all that you do - What do you like to do for fun? Fun? LOL Fun.. I read, and I go to concerts. OOh and I bake. Baking is fun.
I know that you have a beloved and comical pet ~ tell us a bit! Ah the Moo. Self serving little bastard. Moo is our Chihuahua, and he's got a personality you couldn't write. But he is pure evil... LOL.
What is the most surprising fact about you that your fans would love to know?? Hmm... OOH I think it would be that all our stories, ALL of them, are related in some way. Each series has characters from other series' involved in them, and the only way to really get the full scope of the Eververse is to read it.
You are such a force to be reckoned with when it comes to promoting your work ~ Any promos in the near future? Booksignings or appearances? Lord the next 8 weeks is a flurry of them. NY, NJ, PA, MA... its wild. I can't wait for it all actually, and 2008 is going to have several more amazing signings and events set up. OOh and hopefully some new opportunities on the horizon as well.
What about new projects you may be working on? Aud and I are hard at work on two series we are going to submit out next year. I'm going to keep them both a surprise though. But right now we are almost finished with Eververse book 3. Thats due out in January.
Of all of your work, which book or series is your favorite (to date)? The Eververse series, because it was our first, and the one that has really exceeded our expectations and shown the world that it really was a viable series.
Thank you Stella for your talent and endless energy, and your constant support of Books in the Spotlight. It is an honor to know you and I've enjoyed our conversation today!
Hey thanks for having me Jfay!
Be sure to visit Stella and Audra online at www.stellaandaudra.com and add them to your myspace friends, www.myspace.com/eververse to keep up with all of their exciting news and latest books!
The following are Books in the Spotlight features for Stella and Audra Price as well as Tease Publishing with which Stella is a founding member:
Astrid's Candle for Sugar And Sin
