*~*Houston Author Event – Author Spotlight Day 7: Erin Noelle & TWO Giveaways*~*

I was super excited to be asked by Emily of Lalone Marketing to take part in an ‘Author Speed Dating’ event right before the signing. Basically, each blogger that participated would get 5 minutes to talk to all 10 authors – hello! Yes, please! I was so excited because I’ve done interviews before but never in person – this was both amazing and scary at the same time, but it was an absolutely wonderful experience.

So, each day for the next two weeks, I’ll be spotlighting one of the authors that I got to sit down and chat with last Saturday – in case you missed it, last week we had S.C. Stephens, J. Sterling, Amanda Bennett, Jillian Dodd and Rebecca Donovan.  Yesterday we had Carey Heywood and up next is Erin Noelle.  I love Erin – she’s so down to earth…plus she’s a Texan girl like me and knows how to smack a good ass (I speak from personal knowledge).

 

 

We asked last week on our Facebook page for some questions for the authors – so I tried to incorporate as many of them as I could into the interview…I added the name of whoever ‘asked’ the question! Now…let’s get to the interview… 🙂

 

Lisa:      I saw you in New York didn’t?

Erin:  You did.

Lisa:   You spanked me in New York!

Erin:  Uhh huh!

Lisa:   We asked our followers to give us some questions – so I’ll start with those, what are some of your favorite books you’ve read? (question from Kristen Kocher)

Erin:    The Sea of Tranquility…

Lisa:    That’s how we got our name!  Drew…True Story! 

Erin:   That’s one of my fav’s…The Boy Who Sneaks In My Bedroom Window…Slammed…there’s so many!  Okay recently I’ve read Unteachable by Leah Raeder, it was amazing.    If you move over to erotica…The Reluctant Dom.

Lisa:   Brooke’s read that – she said it’s amazing but it will make you CRY.

Erin:    Oh…you cry so hard, but it is amazing.  You know a really good erotica series that doesn’t get a lot of run is A Table for Three by Lainey Reese.

Lisa:   Yes!  I’ve read the first one!

Erin:   Yeah…and there’s three books in the series and they’re all like standalone/spin-off’s.  So it’s great – cause that’s my new thing, you can read a book and finish it and…ya know, the cliffhanger thing – I know everyone bitches about them, I wrote ‘em, I know!  Ya know?  But I really like that.  Because you’re already connected to the characters.

Lisa:      Is there anything in any of your books that you would change if you were given the chance? (question from Kristen Kocher)

Erin:   Other than the editing…because I never used an editor, for the whole Book Boyfriend Series, so yeah I know there are 6 typo’s at least in Meta (Metamorphosis) and probably more in the other ones.  As far as story line, I don’t think I would change anything, it happened the way I felt it at that time, despite the backlash that I received.

Lisa:   Good.  If you weren’t a writer what other profession would you be working in? (question from Deborah Favorito)

Erin:   Wait…we talked about this earlier – can I get paid to read books?

Lisa:  I know – I wish!  I would do that!

Erin:    Ya know…like work for an editor or a publisher or something…I don’t know other than, away from books…I don’t know, I like to travel, so I think like maybe like…and I’m a big planner, so maybe I can see me doing like event planning, like wedding coordinator that type of thing, I like that – I like lists and charts and stuff like that.

Lisa:    I do too.  How long from concept to completion of your first book? (question from Tanya Gaunt)

Erin:  Three months.

Lisa:    Wow.

Erin:  I started October 15^th 2012 that was the first day I wrote it and I released January 20^th…first? I mean 20^th 2013. 

Lisa:    Nice.

Erin:  It was my grandmother’s birthday.

Lisa:    What is your go-to snack food when writing? (question from Nicole Montgomery)

Erin:   Food, huh?  I don’t eat a lot whenever I’m writing, I drink a lot. 

Lisa:    What do you drink?  Coffee?

Erin:   Whiskey!  Wine…

Lisa:    That’s good!  That’s good inspiration!

Erin:   Yeah…food…let’s see, if I’m going to snack I like salty foods, like chips and beef jerky, I’m not a sweets eater at all. 

Lisa:    Oh okay.  Which of your characters will you always hold a certain soft spot in your heart?  (question from Andie Lea)

Erin:    Ash. (from The Book Boyfriend Series)

Lisa:    Which character can you relate to the most?    (question from Andie Lea)

Erin:   Oh…hmm…I don’t know because I try to really not write about anything in my life, I mean all of my characters I think are like…I honestly, I think Ash is probably closest to me in personality, than any of my characters even though it’s a guy.

Lisa:    Interesting

Erin:   Mason would probably be my choice of a book boyfriend, for me, but I think Ash is like a male version of me.

Lisa:    What do you think is the most difficult…beginning or ending a storyline?  (question from Andie Lea)

Erin:   Writing it…the beginning, I think the beginning is the most difficult.

Lisa:    How often are you thinking and jotting notes down about the characters and storyline that come into your head?  (question from Andie Lea)

Erin:    Every waking moment.  I look at people and I’m like ‘Oh, you could be a character in my book!’ or someone I don’t like, I’m like ‘What’s your name?  Cause I’m going to kill you off!’  Yeah no…all the time, I’m always thinking of something.

Lisa:    If you could sit down face to face with one of your characters, who would you choose and why?(question from Andie Lea)

Erin:    That’s hard!  I think Cat from my new book.  (When the Sun Goes Down)

Lisa:    Who decides who and what goes on your covers?  (question from Lorie Glowania)

Erin:    Umm…interesting story, okay – I think you may have heard this before…

Lisa:    I think I heard it in Vegas, about the boots!

Erin:    Yeah, so these are my sisters boots, on front of Meta, she got married in them…

Lisa:    Oh cute!

Erin:    This is me on the front of Meta (Metamorphosis), we took this picture in her in laws back yard because I really had no plans on publishing for real, so her sister in law took the picture in her in laws back yard.  MJ…or Hang Le, who does covers, she was a part of my book club and at the time she wasn’t doing anything with books, she designed like the band and the title and did the back cover for me, umm…then I met Toski Covey who was a photographer for children and babies, she was a fan of mine so I sent her a message and said hey would you be interested in doing a cover – she said I don’t do book covers, and I said well I didn’t ask if you did ‘em, I’m asking do you want to do them.  So she took the picture for Ambrosia of a friend of hers and she kind of went into business after that.  So she took these pictures, umm…Hang has done all of my graphics on all of them, and the design on all of them. 

Lisa:    Cool!

Erin:  So…I don’t know I’ve kind of taken some heat on this last one cause I was told it had no sex appeal.  And that people don’t buy it cause it looks like it’s very demure and like not an erotic book.

Lisa:    What?

Erin:   I know…so, on my next book I’m just going to put a big hard cock on it and call it ‘Sex Sells’!

Lisa:    There you go!

Erin:   I can’t wait for my mom to read this…

Lisa:    Where is your favorite place to write?  (question from Cynthia Mae)

Erin:   I write on my couch.

Lisa:    What was your original inspiration to start writing?  (question from Rachel Talavera)

Erin:   Reading…my first book is about girls who find their book boyfriends, so…

Lisa:    It inspired you!

Erin:   It did.

Lisa:    Nice!

 

 

Have you read any of Erin’s books?

 

The Book Boyfriend Series

Add Metamorphosis to your GoodReads ♦ Add Ambrosia to your GoodReads ♦ Add Euphoria to your GoodReads

Add When the Sun Goes Down to your GoodReads

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Erin Noelle is a Texas native, where she lives with her husband and two young daughters. While earning her degree in History, she rediscovered her love for reading that was first instilled by her grandmother when she was a young child. A lover of happily-ever-afters, both historical and current, Erin is an avid reader of all romance novels. She has recently self-published her first novel, Metamorphosis, which hit both USA Today and Amazon best-selling lists, and is currently working on the sequel, Ambrosia, to be released later in 2013. Most nights you can find her cuddled up in bed with her husband, her Kindle in hand and a sporting event of some sorts on television.