Beverly and Tamara: Victoria, welcome to SSLY. Thanks so much for joining us today. So first why don’t you tell us a little about yourself.

Though works of fiction are a departure for me, I have had this series simmering on the back burner of my mind for years, but time is at a premium. In addition to authoring and illustrating Seasons of the Witch and writing course work for Seasons in Avalon, I play Classic Rock music and manage Houston’s premier variety and R&B band.

I write unapologetic romances with uniquely fresh perspectives on paranormal creatures, characters, and themes. Add a dash of scifi and a flourish of fantasy to enough humor to make you laugh out loud and enough steam to make you squirm in your chair. My heroines are independent femmes with flaws and minds of their own whether they are aliens, witches, demonologists, psychics, or past life therapists. My heroes are hot and hunky, but they also have brains, character, and good manners – usually – whether they be elves, demons, berserkers, werewolves, or vampires.

My first book, My Familiar Stranger, was nominated for Best Paranormal Romance of 2012 by the Reviewers’ Choice Awards. It was nominated for Best Indie Paranormal Romance and Best Indie Fantasy Romance by Readers’ Choice Awards. Each of my books has remained on the Amazon best seller list in category every day since release. All three also earned the Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK award.

Tamara: What do you HAVE to have when you are writing?

a PC and quiet

Beverly: When did you start to write?

8 years or so

Tamara: What do you think are the qualities that make up a “hero”?

For me, heroes are not defined by qualities at all. What makes a hero is an action that involves personal risk without personal gain. It is a potential sacrifice for another person or principle or for a perceived greater good.

Beverly: Can you describe your favorite character? And which of your books is he/she in? How do you come up with your characters?

I’ve made it no secret that Sir Rammer Hawking is my fav. He’s in every book and probably always will be. I can’t answer the second part of this question because it never feels to me like I create these characters. It feels more like I’m reporting or chronicling the lives of this particular group of people who live in another dimension similar to our own.

Tamara: What are the hardest scenes for you to write? Suspense? Sex? Dialogue? And why?

Sex scenes are hard for me. I’d love to skip them, but they serve the story so steamy writing and I are stuck with each other. It’s hard because there are only so many different ways to describe acts that are mechanically simple without much variety unless you’re venturing away from a healthy view of sex that is psychologically and emotionally sustainable. I hate reviewers who make comments like, “the sex was boring and repetitive”. Although this hasn’t been said about me yet, to my knowledge, I resent it for other authors. I mean, it’s hard to find completely original ways to describe fitting tabs and slots together.

Beverly: LOL! What writer, if any, influenced how you write?

Not sure about influences regarding the “how”. If I was then it was probably Stephen King.

Tamara: Who would you choose as your “book boyfriend”? From what book? Author?

Kellan, Thoughtless trilogy, S.C.Stephens. Kellan is a unicorn. He cannot exist in reality for a whole list of reasons. The author hit every single tone on the xylophone that pushes women’s buttons and created a to-die-for fantasy.

Beverly: What is the kinkiest thing you’ve ever done? Or would like to? What? We are all about the love!

I was invited to a lecture by a friend almost twenty years ago. I thought it was a talk on yoga. It turned out to be a lecture on Tantra. When the speaker was encouraged by the lesbian contingent to demonstrate tantric orgasm, she got down in the floor and showed us how to get a very long, hard come.

Tamara: What are your favorite types of heroines? Do you like the damsel in distress who needs saving or the kick-ass variety? Why?

I don’t relate to D.I.D. – at all – on any level – and get very impatient with a portrayal of woman as child-like. I appreciate kick-ass when there is an explicable reason why she can take punches like Mike Tyson and wipe the floor with brutes. My favorite, however, is somewhere in the middle – just your ordinary femme who faces the world every day with the vulnerability of lesser strength and a vagina. It takes courage to do that without a berka.

Beverly: What was your worst date ever?

I married really young and divorced at twenty-five. I thought I wanted to have a one night stand experience. I did. It was awful. I never did it again. I need respect and emotional connection with my sex.

Tamara: If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you want to have with you? (you have food, water, shelter, all the necessities, so nothing mundane)

1. An iPad with uninterrupted WIFI and a perpetually replenishing iTunes account for purchasing books, music, TV, movies.
2. A lifetime supply of toiletries including hair and tooth brushes, shampoo, soap, nail files, etc.
3. Rammel Hawking.

Beverly: What is your “guilty pleasure”?

Offbeat movies like Six String Samurai, Alien from L.A.

Tamara: What dream or goal have you yet to realize?

Karen Marie Moning’s recognition and money.

Beverly: What was your most embarrassing moment?

Too many to list. I wish I could be like my friend, Jeff, who, when I asked him that question said, “I’ve never been embarrassed.”

Tamara: If you were a color what would you be and why?

Green. Affinity with flora.

Beverly: Who has influenced how you perceive love? Why?

People who write about love from Shakespeare to Jane Austen to Olivia Cunning.

Tamara and Beverly: Okay. We are SSLY so I have to ask. Who loves you?

When I was a teenager I heard that the Greek language has at least seven words to describe relationships and ways of loving as opposed to our one, totally inadequate, little word. Going with English, I’m loved by a few people who have already passed and a few who are living. Of the living I’d say I’m loved by my spouse, children, a few friends, two cousins, and a very smart, very black German Shepherd dog.

Now for some quick fun questions:

Boxers or briefs? Depends what’s under.
Coffee or Tea? Depends on time of day. Coffee morning. Tea afternoon. Coffee late night.
Tall, dark and handsome or Blond and buff? Blond and buff.
Hairy chest or smooth? Smooth.
Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate
Kinky or Sweet? Sometimes sweet.
Fast or slow? Yes. Please.
Public or private? PRIVATE. VERY.
Top or bottom? Oh yeah…

Victoria Danann

Black Swan 4- Moonlight
READING THIS SERIAL SAGA IN ORDER HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

What would you do for love?

1. Sol taps Storm to replace him as Jefferson Unit Sovreign.

2. B Team learns the shocking truth about the origin of the vampire virus.

3. Monq races to develop a defense system to repel interdimensional terrorists/assassins.

4. Litha volunteers her father to help to Black Swan.

5. Desperation drives Stalkson Grey to embark on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams in a bid to save the Loti werewolves from extinction. In the process he learns that true love can find you in the strangest places, even when you’re far, far from home.

The first book, My Familiar Stranger, is FREE everywhere.

Victoria Danann

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Award-winning, Best-selling Sensuous Romance with Sci-Fi, Paranormal, and Fantasy Flair.