Author Interview: Berni Stevens

For my second interview of the weekend I have another talented Choc Lit author, Berni Stevens whose novel Dance until Dawn is out tomorrow as a paperback, eBook already available.

You’re obviously a very creative & busy lady as I’ve read that you are a freelance book cover designer as well as a writer, what does a typical working/writing day look like for you? 
I’m not sure any day is exactly a typical working day. Apart from me being behind my Mac every day from 9am – and still being there at 8pm

Generally I will work on my cover designs during the day, and then start writing after 5.30pm. But of course, it doesn’t always work like that. Some covers take longer to design and be approved, so on days like that I won’t get any writing done at all. Sometimes the writing doesn’t flow either, so I have to stop for the day, and other times I’m writing like a lunatic for hours.

Can you tell us a little bit about your latest book Dance until Dawn?
Dance Until Dawn is a paranormal romance between Ellie, a very new vampire and Will, a three-hundred-year-old vampire. It tells the story of how the heroine comes to terms with what she’s become, and how she learns to adjust, whilst coping with a new romance that Will wants to last for eternity. When his old flame turns up in London, it all gets a lot more complicated.

All your novels to date have been paranormal/fantasy based, what is it about this genre that appeals to you most? And would you ever consider writing a different genre?
Fantasy is a genre I’ve loved ever since first reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula when I was at school. I think there’s more scope in writing for this genre, because the possibilities are endless. But I would never discount writing something different sometime soon. 

Coming soon from Choc Lit

This afternoon as part of the Choc Lit feature week I've decided to take a look ahead to some of the fab books they are publishing in the next 3 months.  And with a wide selection of genres covering historical, regency, paranormal and contemporary, there's surely something for everyone. 

The Maid of Milan by Beverley Eikli (published 7th March) 

How much would you pay for a clear conscience? 

Adelaide Leeson wants to prove herself worthy of her husband, a man of noble aspirations who married her when she was at her lowest ebb. Lord Tristan Leeson is a model of diplomacy and self-control, even curbing the fiery impulses of his youth to maintain the calm relations deemed essential by his mother-in-law to preserve his wife’s health.

A visit from his boyhood friend, feted poet Lord James Dewhurst, author of the sensational Maid of Milan, persuades Tristan that leaving the countryside behind for the London Season will be in everyone’s interests.

But as Tristan’s political career rises and Adelaide revels in society’s adulation, the secrets of the past are uncovered. And there’s a high price to pay for a life of deception.

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