I’ve gathered some questions I’ve received from emails and interviews and listed them here…don’t hesitate to ask me if you have other questions.

1. I don’t own an ereading device; how do I read your books?

Funny you should ask, I just happen to have written a post about that. Go to this page to read about the various ways you can read my ebooks.

2. You’re a Canadian, but your stories are set in the States. Will you ever write a story set in Canada?

I’ve just written an erotic novella called The Art of Love that’s set right here in Ontario — in fact in the area where I grew up in Central Ontario, an area known as the Kawarthas (it’s cottage country). The heroine is a Mountie and there are lots of other Canadianisms in it. I loved writing it because I didn’t have to keep checking my dialogue and narrative the way I do when I write Americans. Of course I still had to make it friendly to those who aren’t used to the metric system, so there is still reference to feet and pounds where we use centimeters and grams. But you won’t be able to read it until December 2012 — it’s part of Carina Press’ Holiday Anthology.

I also have a freebie story Cherry Cottage that is set in Niagara Falls, but that’s it so far. I’d love to set another story somewhere in Canada one day, but perhaps because I live here I don’t find it as fascinating as “exotic” locations such as Texas.

If I do write a story set in Canada, it’ll probably be set out in the Rockies in Alberta, or perhaps up around Algonquin Park in central/northern Ontario. And I have an idea for a historical romance that’s been kicking around for nearly a decade that is set near Kingston during the war of 1812, but considering the people we were at war with make up my biggest audience I’m not sure they’d be too thrilled to see themselves portrayed as the bad guys.

3. I just read Texas Tangle and loved it…I took it there was more going on with Brett and Dillon than they both realized. Just wondering.

LOL, I left that completely up to the reader to decide.

4. Come on, that’s a cop out — what’s the real scoop about those two?

When you first meet Dillon, he comes across the confident one, the player. But as you get to see the two of them in action, and especially once the two of them begin interacting with Nikki, you’ll come to realize that Brett is the one who is more experienced, who has tried things Dillon never has despite all his talk. Okay, so I’m still not answering your question, am I? All right, admittedly, while I was writing Texas Tangle, I did toy with the idea that perhaps the fight they had when they were in their teens was out of jealousy, that perhaps Dillon wasn’t jealous that Brett kissed Nikki, but that Nikki kissed Brett. But when it came to writing them as having some latent feelings, it just wasn’t coming out properly so I decided to leave that to the readers’ imagination. It was one of those issues that might be addressed as they settle into the relationship, but that’s for the future, and one place where they shut the bedroom door on me.

5. In Texas Tangle Dillon asked Brett “You’re not gonna want to cross swords, are you?” What does that mean?

It’s a euphemism for two guys letting their dangly bits touch.

6. You self-published Perfect Proposal, as part of the Hauberk series. Does this mean you’ll be self-publishing the rest of the Hauberk series?

No, not at all. I first started toying with the idea of writing Sam proposing to Rosie in the spring of 2011. When I met my Samhain editor in NY in June 2011, I mentioned it to her, though at the time I envisioned it as being about the same length as First Night, and asked if she had any problems with me writing it and putting it out myself. She assured me she didn’t need to see it, that it would always be good for both the series and Samhain if I did short story/follow-ups. So I started writing it, and in my usual fashion it turned out to be three times longer than I’d planned it to be. Since I’ve had such a wonderful following of the Hauberk series, I wanted to make sure my readers got a professionally edited story so, in a strange twist of fate, I ended up hiring my Carina Press editor who also freelances. And since I wanted it to be easily found/downloaded by everyone, I ventured into the self-publishing arena and formatted it for the various ebook providers.

But self-publishing takes a tremendous amount of energy and time away from the actual writing process, and I love being able to hand in a manuscript and have other people design the covers and do the formatting and pay for the editing. So the main books in the Hauberk series will still be submitted to Samhain. (With fingers crossed that my editor will like each one and contract it.) That’s not to say I may not self-publish some more in-between short stories in the future.

7. Will I have to have read Perfect Proposal to understand Hidden Heat or any future books?

No. Perfect Proposal is a follow-up, an epilogue if you want to call it that, to Personal Protection. I loved Sam and Rosie so much I wanted them to finally have their HEA, but I didn’t want to divert attention from the heroes and heroines in the other books to revisit them. Which all means that you won’t have to have read Perfect Proposal to understand Hidden Heat or any future stories. But if you’ve read Personal Protection, you may want to read Perfect Proposal to see what happened to Sam and Rosie after they finally get together.

8. What is the chronological order of the Hauberk series, including the short stories?

• First Night — a short story you can download for free as a PDF or read online. It’s a single chapter snapshot into how Mark and Jodi’s affair began.
• Private Property (Mark and Jodi’s story, introduces Sam)
• Personal Protection (Sam and Rosie’s story)
• Deliberate Deceptions (Chad and Lauren’s story)
• Perfect Proposal (Sam proposes to Rosie–refers to events in Deliberate Deceptions)
• Hidden Heat (Troy and Sandy’s story)

9. How long will the Hauberk series be?

After Andy gets together with Jazz (who you meet in Hidden Heat), I plan on writing Scott’s story, which I am planning to be the last book in the series. So 6 books in total, and the two short stories.