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SRR: Hello Cynthia. Thank you so much for letting me
interview you for Simply Romance Reviews. Please tell us a little bit
about yourself. |
Cynthia
Eden: Thank you for the welcome! Hmmm…a bit about myself,
huh? Well, I’m a southern girl, married to a Greek guy, and I have a son
named after a pirate. I love horror movies, romance novels, and happy
endings.
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SRR: Have you always wanted to be a writer? Is there any
particular thing that influenced/influences you? |
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Cynthia Eden:
Oh, yes, I’ve always wanted to write—for as long as I could
remember, anyway. In school, I particularly enjoyed reading tales from
Edgar Allan Poe. I’ve had a fascination with the paranormal for years, and
getting to write paranormal stories now—it’s a real dream come true for me.
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SRR: Tell us a little about your new
title Hotter after Midnight? |
Cynthia Eden: Certainly!
Hotter After Midnight is a paranormal romance, scheduled to be released by
Kensington Brava in May of 2008. The heroine, Dr. Emily Drake, is a
psychologist who only treats paranormal patients. She finds herself drawn
into a murder investigation, acting as a profiler. She is teamed up with
Detective Colin Gyth, a man with many secrets (including the fact that he is
a wolf shifter). The longer the two work together, the hotter the desire
burns between them. But, there is a killer stalking the streets of Atlanta,
and they have to stop him—no matter what the cost may be.
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SRR: How did you develop your plots and characters?
Do you outline? |
Cynthia Eden:
For this Hotter After Midnight, I just started writing. I had an idea for
my main character—I knew that I wanted Emily to be a psychologist—and a
psychic. I decided that she would be empathic, but that her empathic powers
would only work with the Other. From the heroine’s character, I was able to
create a hero that I thought would challenge her…and all of the other
characters appeared as I wrote.
I don’t generally outline in advance, so I let the beginning of this book
unravel, then, when I was about 100 pages into the tale, I stopped to plot
the rest of the story.
Honestly, though, this process changes for each book that I write.
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SRR: A famous writer once said
that writing is hard
work, and that you have to give up a great deal of your personal life to be
a writer. Do you believe in that
statement? And how do you go about fitting in time to write? |
Cynthia Eden:
Writing is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. After I’ve been
pounding out pages, I feel mentally beat. As for my personal life, I have
to set aside specific hours to write. So, yes, sometimes, I have to limit my
personal life to an extent, but I think I do manage to balance things pretty
well. Actually, by “balance” I mean that I generally stay up until midnight
or one a.m. writing so that I can have my personal time and get my writing
goals met, too.
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SRR: Can you share a little of your current work with us?
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Cynthia Eden:
I’m working on two stories right now—one is a full-length novel
and the other is a novella. In the novel, I’m writing about a demon with a
very dark side and the woman who storms into his life. And in the novella,
I’ve got a vampire hero who is coming face-to-face with a lover who thought
he was long dead (which the vampire is, of course—well, sort of, anyway!). |
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SRR: What advice would you give to writers just starting out? |
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Cynthia Eden:
Write what you love. Don’t try to fit a trend. Write the story
that whispers to you at odd moments of the day. Listen to the whispers and
don’t give in to any doubts.
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SRR: Are there any upcoming events you’d like to tell us about? |
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Cynthia Eden:
I will be attending the Silken Sands Writing Conference in
Pensacola, Florida from April 11-13th. At the conference, I’ll
present a workshop: “Keeping the Normal in Your Paranormal Story.”
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SRR: Thank you for stopping by Simply Romance Reviews. We
enjoyed having you here today! But before you leave, is there anything else
you’d like to tell the readers? |
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Cynthia Eden:
Thank you very much for the interview! I had a wonderful time
answering your questions! And for the readers…thanks for reading my
interview! If you check out Hotter After Midnight, please let me know what
you think—I love getting feedback. My email address is
info@cynthiaeden.com. For other stories, readers are welcome to visit
my website and read excerpts:
www.cynthiaeden.com.
Again, thank you! |
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| ~Cynthia
Eden was interviewed by Angela for Simply Romance Reviews |
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