Boys of Fall by K.D. Wood
Series: Seasons Erotic Novellas #1
Genre: Contemporary erotic romance
Publication Date: January 12, 2016
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After local college football star, Jerry Mathews, stumbles into secretly watching Autumn Landry pleasure herself, he can’t wait another day to tell the girl of his dreams how he really feels. Tonight’s annual bonfire to celebrate the upcoming game against their biggest rival will be the perfect setting to show her how he’s loved her since 8th grade.
When the opposing team crashes the party with a plan to bench Jerry, with Autumn as the only witness, she must bring him out of the friend zone to save him. But will she be able to steer him away from hidden danger and safely into her arms in time?
**BOYS OF FALL is the first of the Seasons Erotic Novellas available from K.D. Wood Books
K.D. Wood
K.D. Wood lives in north Mississippi with her family and a very spoiled White Waug. When not in her office pounding the keys she can be found under a snuggly blanket, cup of donut shop close by with her nose in a book. Follow her on Twitter at @KDWoodauthor, like her on Facebook, you’ll find her neglecting her blog at K.D.Woodauthor.blogspot.com, or email her at K.D.Woodauthor@gmail.com
Interview:
1. When did you first
realize you wanted to be a writer? I've always written in diaries and
such. It wasn't until the characters for Unwilling came to me fully formed and
individual that I knew I needed to tell their story A to Z.
2. How long does it take
you to write a book? An 100K word PNR novel in the vein of the Unwilling series
will take me six months to rough draft due to the level of world building
involved. It's different for every type of story. Boys of Fall took me around 4
weeks to draft.
3. What is your work
schedule like when you're writing? I'm in my office 7 to 3 Monday - Friday. Weekend work
depends on what I have going on or if I have a pressing deadline.
4. What would you say
is your interesting writing quirk? Something I call "descending into a draft". When
it's a brand new story, I tend to sink deeper and deeper into the story with
every page. So much so that there have been times that I will finish and find
I've been mentally absent from my life for the last whatever months it took to
write the draft. It's a lot like rising out of a deep pool to just under the
surface. I function, I get the kids to school, help with homework, get dinner
cooked, etc etc. But my brain is still under the surface of that world.
Waiting, churning over bits and pieces and planning. Always planning. Lot of
times I don't even know it's happening until I finish and break the surface of
that world with "the end". It's a lot like walking into a party where
everyone laughing way too loud, over-dressed, and drunk. I'm left blinking and
stumbling, senses assaulted, until I catch my reality balance again.
5. How do books get
published? That really depends on who is doing the publishing and such to get
specific. But the broad idea is like this: A writer has a inspired idea, sits
in front of their computer drinking too much coffee or tea and alternating
between crying and euphoria. Somewhere in all that crazy, a manuscript becomes
a rough draft of the writer's idea, A to Z. Then the writer spends a certain amount
of time (read A LOT) repeating the crying/rage/cheering between typing however
many revisions it takes to get the story tight enough to send to their first
revision readers. The manuscript then goes through, beta readers, content
edits, line edits, and finally polish edits by a professional at your publisher
or a paid contractor by the author. By then the ugly duckling manuscript is
starting to look more like just an unwashed swan. One more spit shine on it and
it's ready to go into ARCs (Advanced Read Copy) to be sent out the first people
to generate reviews. Unusually that's bloggers. A release date is set. Then the
big day comes in with a very anticlimactic POOF there it is on Amazon! After
which you eat ice cream and go to bed :)
6. Where do you get
your information or ideas for your books? All my stories start with the
characters. They just start talking and I listen. Everything develops from
those conversations
7. When did you write
your first book and how old were you? First short story, almost novelette, was
in high school, around 17. I was 35 when I finished Unwilling in 2010.
8. What do you like
to do when you're not writing?I love to read, of course, go to the movies with
my kids, veg out with the Netflix, and visit my family in south Mississippi.
9. What does your
family think of your writing? The readers of my family are super supportive and
excited. I think the non-readers are convinced I have a screw loose.
10. What
was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your books? That I
could work this hard, literally become a husk of broken feels and exhaustion,
grit-eyed and sobbing at my desk. And happily drag myself to that chair again
the very next day because there's NOTHING I'd rather be doing.
11. How many books have you written? Which
is your favorite? Eleven since 2010. I don't have a "favorite" in that
sense of the word, but I do love Unloved with a passion unlike any other. It's
been the book that broke me open and glued me back together several times by
the time I finished it.
12. Do
you have any suggestions to help me become a better writer? If so, what are
they?Go stand in front of your mirror with the door locked. Look yourself in
the face and decide what you really want. Do I want to write until my heart's
content and never share my worlds with anyone else? You can do that. And get
great joy from only the writing.
If you want to publish though, that's a whole other animal
and lots of potential authors bite the dust from confusing the two things as
"same". The very much are not.
Writing is JOY. Writing is like breathing in a piece of the
beginning of the world and letting it soak into your cells. Only to have it
change into your story, your version of creation, and then burst free at the
tips of your fingers on the keys.
Publishing. The industry. The world of the business. Is
exactly that, it's a business. And it will eat you alive unless you have YOUR
personal goals and decisions nailed down. Worst of all, it will get you if you
haven't been straight with yourself. The bottom line is that the business of
publishing will steal your JOY of writing if you aren't honest with yourself.
So the best advice I might could pass along is this: Protect
that bit of yourself. That silent, personal, locked away place where your joy
lives. Treat it like a safe full of gold bars and don't let another person,
place, or thing touch it.
Protect your joy at all costs and everything else will get
in line.
13. Do
you hear from your readers much? What kinds of things do they say?All the time
and it still blows my mind. Mostly they share things about the books they liked
or didn't, then they tell me to hurry up and write the next book. LOL!
14. Do
you like to create books for adults? Yes, I have BOYS OF FALL which is a
contemporary erotic romance, novella. And FROST which is part of a PNR holiday
collection. Those are both 18+ and not intended for younger readers.
The Unwilling books: Unwilling, Unloved, and Unboundless are
all New Adult PNR. Teens are safe to read those.
15. What
do you think makes a good story? When the author does their job of creating so
well, you get completely lost in the story and can't put it down. That's a job
well done.
16. As a
child, what did you want to do when you grew up?So many things. And I was lucky
to have parents who always told me I could be anything I picked if I worked
hard enough.
17. What
Would you like my readers to know? That I hope you find something in one of my
books, no matter which one, that gives you that awesome moment of escape that
only comes from reading an awesome book.
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