Lisa Hendrix is represented by the interviewer's Pump Up Your Book Promotion, a public relations agency specializing in online book promotion.
After years of daydreaming complex stories for familiar characters from film, TV, and books — nearly always involving a romance that hadn’t been included by the original writer — Lisa Hendrix borrowed a page from motivational speaker and author Marsha Sinetar and decided that it was time to start doing what she loved and hope that the money really would follow. She began writing the medieval romance from hell, a manuscript that taught her a lot, but which is now safely locked away where it can do no harm.
In April 1992, she carried a dot-matrix printed synopsis into an appointment with a Genuine New York City Editor at a local conference and pitched an idea for a historical romance set in the American West. The editor was interested and requested a partial manuscript, along with assurances that Lisa would buy a better printer. Credit card in hand, Lisa set out to comply. She mailed the proposal a month later, and five months after that, received The Call. Hostage Heart and Drifter’s Moon were soon on the shelves, followed by contemporary romantic comedies Razzle Dazzle, To Marry an Irish Rogue, and her first single-title lead, Runaway Bay.
Now she’s gone back to her medieval roots with Immortal Warrior, Book I of The Immortal Brotherhood, a new series featuring a crew of Viking warriors cursed to be immortal were-creatures. Book II, Immortal Outlaw, will follow in 2009.
We interviewed Lisa to find out about her writing life and her new paranormal historical romance novel, Immortal Warriors.
Thank you for this interview, Lisa. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how long you’ve been writing?
Thank you for having me. I never know what to say when people ask me about myself. I don't see myself as that different from most writers, from the tendency toward shyness (e.g., answering questions about myself) to the fight with a spreading butt to the overactive imagination. I've been writing for nearly twenty years and published for about fifteen. There were a couple of breaks in there due to family issues, so Immortal Warrior is my sixth published book, and the first in my new series, The Immortal Brotherhood (more about that later)
Do you write full-time?
Well, as full-time as the mother of two active teenagers can. Unfortunately, I tend to go in fits and starts, with too much fun and research at the beginning of a book and insane, caffeine-laden hours near the end.
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