Author Interview-Skye Taylor
What inspired you to be a writer?
Fred Keyes was one of the strictest English teachers in my high school and I had him for both my junior and senior year. He challenged me to think outside the box and to write beyond anything I’d thought myself capable of. I knew the basics of grammar, but he taught me how words can transform and create stories that capture the imagination.
Who are your favorite
romance characters (besides your own?)
Jamie Fraser
is my all-time favorite hero in any book, series or movie. Long before the STARZ
series on TV – I read Outlander when it first came out, even
before it was a best seller.
Nils
Sorenson, from a trilogy by Elizabeth Ogilvie – High Tide at Noon, The Storm Tide & The Ebbing Tide. I read these
books when I was a teenager and loved the setting and the hero. The heroine, not so much, Joanna was too much
like me. Perhaps I saw the things I liked least about myself in her? But Nils
was everything I pictured myself wanting in a lover or a husband.
Jessie Best,
from Pam Morsi’s Simple Jess.
Something about Jess caught my heart and I’ve never forgotten him. My favorite
heroines have all come from Cheryl Reavis: Gillian Warner from The
First Boy I loved and Grace James from The Marine. Although I
thoroughly enjoyed all of Georgette Heyer’s heroines as well and there are way
too many to mention by name.
Iain’s Plaid was inspired one day when I sailed out
to explore an abandoned island off the coast of Maine with an intriguing and
lengthy history. As I stood at the brink of an ancient old foundation gazing
down at the bright blue water of the harbor, trying to imagine that island and
the men and women that called it home hundreds of years earlier, the slab of
granite wobbled. I jumped back alarmed, not wanting to fall into the grassy old
hole. Then the crazy thought leapt into my head, “What if I did fall in? What
if I hit my head and was knocked unconscious. And what if I woke up in a
different century with a sturdy floor above my head? So, that’s exactly how Dani
Amico’s adventure begins, and how she comes to meet Iain MacKail, a patriot and
hero she’d read about in a book.
BLURB for
Iain’s Plaid:
When Dani Amico falls into an abandoned cellar hole and
wakes up in another century, she has to decide whether to stay and save Iain
MacKail from the fate she knows is coming or run away before she falls in love
in love with him and gets hurt trying to change history.
Iain MacKail has already put his liberty on the line for a
cause, now he has to decide how much more he’s willing to sacrifice, and the
arrival of this bewitching woman from the future is making his life even more
complicated. Falling in love with her is easy, understanding her is impossible.
And what if she disappears as mysteriously as she came?
Here’s a link to an excerpt from Iain’s Plaid: http://www.skye-writer.com/iain_s_plaid_excerpt
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What is one of your favorite romantic locales?
A moonlit
beach is one of my favorite places to have a romantic scene. I live at the
beach and I love walking on a moonlit night, bare feet in the still warm sand
with moonlight glittering across the ocean in a beautiful twinkling carpet of
silver. It just seems like one of God’s prettiest sights.
Is there anything else you’d like to share
with our readers?
I’m currently working on several projects. One is another historical
romance set in early America. I’m also working on books 5 and 6 in my
contemporary Romance series- The Camerons of Tide’s Way. The Camerons are a
big, close-knit family. Descendants of hard-working folk who came from Scotland
with little more than the clothes on their back and a steadfast faith in God,
the Camerons are a patriotic, enterprising clan more apt to spend their spare
time volunteering in the service of others than playing golf or checking their
investment accounts. They’ve settled in Tide’s Way, a fictional little town
that grew up around the old Jolee Plantation in Coastal North Carolina.
Available now: Falling for Zoe, Loving Meg, Trusting Will and Healing a Hero. Still to come: Keeping His Promise and Believing
in Love.
And if you’re looking for something with a hint of romance but a whole
lot more, check out my mainstream political intrigue, The Candidate. “The Photo
caught Matt Steele off guard jerking him back to a time he’d done everything to
forget, to emotions he never wanted to relive. In the midst of a hotly
contested race for the White House, the photo and the man who brought it will
challenge everything Matt thought he knew about himself. The choice he faces to
put honor on the line could impact the outcome of the election and change the
fate of a nation.”
I love to hear from my readers and
they can reach me at all the places below:
Email: Skye@Skye-writer.com
My Blog: http://www.Skye-writer.com/blogging_by_the_sea
FB: skyewriter2
