Angela Knight
Interviewed by: Lauretta Pierce
A. Damned if I know. No, seriously -- I live in
South Carolina with my husband, who has been a cop for 17 years. Our
son,
Anthony, is 20. I've written 20 or so novels, novellas and short
stories
which have been published by Berkley, Red Sage, Ellora's Cave,
Changeling
Press, and Loose Id. Though I was first published in romance in 1996
in
Secrets Volume 2, my first novel appeared in June, 2004. In September,
2004
I made the USA Today list with my second novel. In May, 2005, I hit
the
list again with MASTER OF THE MOON, the second of the Mageverse novels.
(The
Mageverse is a parallel universe where magic is a law of physics, and
King
Arthur and his knights are vampires.) I also won the Borders Group
Award
for Bestselling Anthology for HOT BLOODED, sharing the award with
Christine
Feehan, Maggie Shayne and Emma Holly.
A. I'd written my first vampire novella for Secrets in 1996
--
BLOOD AND KISSES. TO my surprise, it was hugely popular. I love
writing
vampires anyway, so I wrote four more vamp novellas, all of which did
very
well. Finally I decided to try a novel. This was in 2000, and nobody
was
buying vamp novels then. But my fans liked them, so I decided to take
a
chance. It turned out to be a great move, because the book won the
Critics
Choice award from Romantic Times Bookclub for Best Erotic Romance.
A. I started thinking, "Okay, what is a version of
vampires nobody has ever done?" Cowboys. So, I decided on a Texas
Ranger
who becomes a vamp. But this was a contemporary, so I gave him a
heroine
who was a reporter -- something I was familiar with, being a reporter
myself
at the time. To heighten the conflict, I decided that her parents had
been
the victims of a vampire attack when she was a child. Cade, whose
master
was the vamp who led the attack, saved Val and her baby sister. But
she
hates vampires, and she's not thrilled when Cade kidnaps her in an
effort to
save her from his master.
A. Abigail was created in
a later draft of the book. I needed a reason for Cade's staying with
his
monstrous sire all those years when he could have left. The ghostly
little
sister made a great hostage.
A. I loved Ridgemont. He
was based on a comic book villain I created years ago -- an immortal
badass
who is sexually menacing. He and Cade have a relationship which is
almost
sexual in its intensity.
A. All my Secrets vampire stuff
has
"Kiss" in the title -- BLOOD AND KISSES, KISSING THE HUNTER, Etc. So I
knew
I wanted to do another Kiss title. Forever Kiss seemed to suit it.
A. I realized I wanted to be a writer
when I was nine years old.
A. Five novels and a bunch of
novellas and short stories -- twenty in all.
A. Futuristic erotic romance. I'm
thinking about doing some romantic suspense too.
A. I'm not all that much into messages.
They
take from it what they take from it. What I really want is for them to
have
a VERY good time.
By the way, the sequel to The Forever Kiss is coming out in December
from
Red Sage. It's called "SOUL KISSES", and you'll find it in Secrets
Vol. 14.
SOUL KISSES stars Val's little sister, Beth. She finds herself
becoming
reluctant partners with not one but TWO vampire heroes. I wanted to
see if
it would be possible to have a stable romantic ménage with two alpha
males.
I think I pulled it off!
For more information, stop by my website at www.angelasknights.com.
You'll
find my art and excerpts from my books. Check out my gallery, where
you'll
discover lots of desktop wallpaper.
THE FOREVER KISS
November 5, 2005
Q. How did you come about the idea to write THE
FOREVER KISS?
Q. How did you come about Valerie Chase and Cade
McKinnon characters?
Q. How did you come about Abigail’s character?
Q. How did you come about Ridgemont character?
Q. How did you come about the title?
Q. How long have you been writing?
Q. How many books have you writing?
Q. Do you write in any other genre?
Q. What message would you like readers to receive
from reading THE FOREVER KISS?