Shameless Romance Reviews: Interview with Megan Hart

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First things first, I have to say I was eternally grateful and completely awe struck for having been given the opportunity to pick apart Megan Hart brains ? I?m still jittery in my seat like a school girl at a rock concert ? This woman is a sensual genius and I hope you enjoy reading the interview as much I loved giving it ~ ?

Sam- In your newest book, Collide ? what inspired you to write about a relationship between a younger woman and an older man, and also Fugues where unheard of for me, did you have to do a lot of research into this disorder?

Megan - Collide was entirely inspired by some late-night viewing of movies on Netflix streaming. A friend and I liked to pick out movies to watch on our computers at the same time as we chat about them. I suggested we watch one movie that had been a favorite of mine for years, and then we moved on to watching a bunch of other movies starring the same actor. And then the talk turned to ?if you could go back in time and have a romantic liaison with anyone, who would it be?? So it?s not so much that I wanted to write a story about a younger woman and an older man, (though heaven knows, there are loads of super hot older men that inspire me!) as it was about having the chance to go back in time and meet up with someone ?back in the day.? Technically, Collide is as much a story about a younger man/older woman as it is younger woman/older man. I did some research into brain injuries and seizure disorders, but the thing about brain disorders is that the brain behaves in such strange ways that really, anything goes when it comes to how symptoms will manifest themselves or how treatments can cure or not cure a brain disorder. I didn?t make up fugues, but I did toy with the concept of someone who blanks out and experiences extremely vivid hallucinations during those blank spaces.

Sam - You as an author have an amazing ability to make even the most mundane task sensual and erotic for us readers. Where does your talent for such eroticism stem from?

Megan - Why thank you! I wish I had an answer for that, but I just don?t...maybe too much early exposure to Prince when I was an impressionable young woman?

Sam - What I appreciate about your style of writing is that you touch on subjects that could be considered risqu? ? younger woman and older man ? racial differences ? disabled etc... What gives you the courage to write such honest and touching stories and still be able to pull it off all like a master?

Megan - I write stories I?d like to read. That?s the simple answer. I like to read about flawed, messed up, people with normal problems, facing issues normal people face and reacting the way normal people do (and nobody?s normal, so nobody ever reacts or behaves the same way!) I just try to figure out why someone would possibly react or behave in a certain way, even if I wouldn?t (or even if I would!) and write the story that way.

Sam- In a lot of your books there isn?t always the fairy tale ending ? is it your intentions to leave us diehard fans speculating and pondering the, what if?s at the end of your books?

Megan - Well. Is there such a thing as a fairy tale ending? Nothing ends. I guess if all the characters died at the end of the book, that would end. I write the endings that need to be at the end of the book. Sometimes that?s a more definite ?yep, they?re getting marrrried? and other times a different ending fits. I mean, you can have a happily ever after without a wedding. Or you can have a wedding that ends in a messy divorce. But the end of the book isn?t usually the end of the ?story.? Stuff happens after, or a least in real life it would.

Sam- Out of all your published novels, which is your favourite and why?

Megan - Previously I?d have said Tempted, but Collide is really up there. Tempted is a very personal book and was also the first book I wrote start to finish in about three weeks (due to deadlines.) I got up in the morning and wrote all day and that book just...happened. Collide also just happened, but unlike Tempted, which was personally difficult to write, emotionally, Collide was entirely gratifying and a fun ride.

Sam - What made you become an author was it some life altering event or is it something that you always strived to be?

Megan - I?ve always wanted to be a writer.

Sam - And finally, can we hear about anything that is in the works for the rest of the year?

Megan - Virtue and Vice, a new Order of Solace novel, comes out in the fall from Berkley Sensation. After that in 2012 I?ll have All Fall Down, another mainstream fiction from MIRA and a Spice book called The Space Between Us. Oh, and a short story with the working title The Story in His Eyes out from a new Harlequin line called Cravings. I think it?s coming out in August 2011. Erotic paranormal! Had a blast writing it. And then beyond that...I can?t remember! Lots of other stuff coming.

Collide is released on the 21st June ? you can see my review here at Shameless. It was an incredible novel, so much so that I had a hard time trying to give the review the justice it deserved. A round of applause to Megan Hart, my reading world would be darker without your books in it.

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