Sharon Kleve was born and raised in
Washington and currently lives on the Olympic Peninsula with her husband.
She loves romance. She loves reading
romance, living romance, and especially loves writing about romance. She gets
no greater feeling than watching her characters come alive in each other's
arms. Most of all, she loves giving her characters the happily ever after they
deserve—with a few bumps and bruises along the way.
One of her favorite things to do is
picking up a new book and sinking into the story, immersing herself in the
emotions between the characters. She hopes to inspire her readers the same way
her favorite authors have inspired her.
When not writing, she can usually be
found either curled up in her recliner with her cat and a good book, or in the
kitchen baking sourdough bread or bagels; which led her to send in one of her
favorite recipes to All Romance. "Lip Smacking Pork
Roulade" was chosen to be in Free Recipes from the Hottest Romance Authors
Passionate Cooks.
The cookbook is now offered for FREE on All Romance
sites including AllRomance.com,
OmniLit.com, and AReCafe.com beginning in October. Her
recipe is on page 110; check it out along with many other best-selling authors
recipes.
Do
you like to listen to music while you write?
Yes, I absolutely have to have music on while
I write. I still have a day job and even there I have a small radio that I keep
on low while I work. I have very eclectic taste in music. I like to write to
Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Madonna, and Taylor Swift. I love pop music from the
60's, and 70's like Atlanta Rhythm Section 'So In To You' and Bobby Bloom
'Montego Bay'.
Tell
us a little bit about your newest release.
Klutzy Love is a Paranormal Romance and
the third book in the Corny Myers Series. It takes you back to when Corny and
Steve first meet.
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Corny is a hot chick with a
great job that she loves. All that changed in the blink of an eye when her boss
had an accident involving an oversized rubber band. She’s still a hot chick,
but her boss is dead.
Steve Spears is a seasoned
narcotics cop who ends up wanting to strangle Corny on a regular basis. After
finding out Corny’s dream of opening a pet detective business, he decides he
doesn’t want a girlfriend who routinely puts herself in danger. That’s his job!
Corny misses Steve, but
she’s getting on with her life. She decides to get a month’s worth of dating
out of the way in a single night, by combining her three favorite things—men,
food, and alcohol.
Steve’s big gun and cop’s
intuition saves Corny’s life, but not from another trip to the emergency room.
He makes Corny promise never to get hurt again—she agreed, but has her fingers
crossed behind her back.
Klutzy Love Excerpt:
I raised my salty-rimmed margarita, "Let's make
a toast to Mr. Langfield; he was kind, kooky, and had poor taste in
women."
"Here, here. God bless the silly romantic
fool," Kitty cheered and twirled her hair around her finger.
"I second that," Brenda clinked her glass
to ours and munched on chips and salsa.
After a sip from my drink my sexy-guy radar started
to beep. I did a quick scan of the restaurant and spotted my target. I
discreetly waved my hand above my head and said, "Target acquired...
target acquired."
We laughed until we about peed our pants and then I
leaned forward and quietly asked, "Do you think he heard me?" then
giggled more. "I've seen my share of gorgeous men, but that guy is smok’n
hot."
"Oh boy, is he ever," Kitty and Brenda
said in unison and fanned their faces dramatically.
"He's been looking my way. I'm giving him my,
'you can buy me a drink' look."
All of a sudden Kitty rolled her eyes toward the bar
and whispered, "Holy moly, he's coming this way."
Sure enough he made his way through the crowd on the
dance floor towards our table. Before I hyperventilated from excitement, Kitty
kicked me in the shin. "Thanks, I needed that." Kitty could be pretty
levelheaded in stressful situations.
Where
can readers find your newest release?
If
you could be the hero/heroine in any novel, who would it be and why?
I'd love to be Janet Evanovich's
Stephanie Plum. To have two sexy, dangerous men like Joe Morelli and Ranger
fighting over me would a girls dream.
My heroine in The Corny Myer Series is
similar to Stephanie Plum, but with a psychic twist. She speaks to animals.
What
do you like more? Coffee or tea?
I'm a Starbucks snob,
through and through. (Double, tall, soy, latte)
What
inspired you to start writing?
Well, because the little voices in my
head tell me to—seriously, I’ve always talked to myself—now I put the voices on
paper.
I was a late bloomer and didn’t start my
love of reading until I was in my twenties and then I couldn’t get enough of
the wonderfully, smutty Harlequin books with really sexy hot guys on the cover.
I’ve worked in the government sector for fifteen
years and always dreamed of having a job that I could work from home. This
crazy idea came to me one night, after reading a particularly sizzling romance.
Why not try my hand at writing one? So, out of the blue I told my husband I was
going to write a Harlequin novel. He said, “Okay.”
I figured I’d read enough of them, I could write
one—no problem. Eight thousand words later; I realized it was harder than I
thought. I also realized, I wasn’t writing what I was most comfortable
with—animals.
I put my Harlequin attempt on the back burner and
started writing “The Boss from Hell”. My boss, who I adored, had been fired and
his replacement was a living-terror. It was really easy to come up with
material to write about and of course I threw in a bunch of romance and of
course animals. Ninety thousand words later I was still optimistic that I could
write for a living, but I’d need a lot of support, my cat couldn’t give me. The
support came in the form of Romance Writers of America and all the people
involved in the local chapter.
Several of the members of my local chapter read my
book and made numerous suggestions, one of them came from an independent
publisher—Books to Go Now. She told me to put the novel aside for now and try
my hand at a short story. That’s where I incorporated the paranormal aspect to
my writing and it really clicked for me.
I submitted ‘Flamingo Blues’, as a Christmas short
story to Books to Go Now and I was offered my first contract. ‘Be Mine’, a
Valentine short story, is book two of ‘The Corny Meyers Series’ and in addition
to a contract, I won the holiday contest too. Woo hoo! Klutzy Love is book
three of ‘The Corny Myers Series’, which came out in August 2012.
That's why I started writing…
Tell
us about your upcoming writing projects.
I submitted the fourth book in The Corny Myers
Series, to my publisher and I'm putting the finishing touches on a Christmas
story.
Where
can others connect with you?
Author of "The Corny Myers
Series"
Book One, Flamingo Blues, Published
December 2011
Book Two, Be Mine, Published February
2012
Book Three, Klutzy Love, Published
August 2012
8 comments:
Hi Nicole,
Thank you for having me on Wanton Wednesday!
Sharon, thank YOU so very much for joining us today on Four Seduced Muses! Your book sounds fantastic, but truthfully I cannot wait to try that Lip Smacking recipe! ;)
It is so good. I serve it with 'to die for' home made blackberry margaritas. Yum!
Wonderful interview/post! I'm with Nicole about that recipe. I love to cook and bake year round but this time of year is when my kitchen literally explodes with activity and powdered sugar...my cats love to "help." LOL
Tammy, Cats love to do everything underfoot...
Your making me hungry thinking about powdered sugar.
I go through a lot of it making my Harvey Wallbanger cakes. Hmmmmm...just realized that is a very kinky name for a drink and a cake! BONUS!!
Tammy,
You are so right!
Thank you Nicole for hosting me, it's been great!
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