Hi everyone —

Below is an interview with author, Jianne Carlo. Jianne writes some of the best and most exotic erotic romances anywhere. Tomorrow, she’s going to be sharing an excerpt from her new book, Lucifer’s Choice, so be sure to check back. Take it away, Jianne:

How long have you been writing fiction? How many books have you published?
Three years ago my DH and I were invited to his colleague’s daughter’s wedding in Wales. We initially declined the invitation, but my husband changed his mind, and informed me two days before the event that we were flying to London. Normally, I’m organized, but not this time. I grabbed a book at the airport. It turned out to be Christina Dodd’s Once A Knight. I read through the night, mesmerized. The following morning, I told the DH “I’m going to write one of these.” As an FYI, Christina Dodd was the guest speaker for our RWA chapter conference a couple of years ago and I spent about twenty minutes having a drink with her. When I told her the story, she was tickled pink. It’s hard for me to believe, and I actually do pinch myself often, this week with the release of Lucifer’s Choice, I will have  eleven books in print. Go figure. I’m sure this is all a dream.
What inspired you to become a writer?
I’m still not sure. The stories get into my head and I have to set them down on paper.
You write about the collision of “east and west”. Why did you take this approach to your books?
I guess because I’m not one thing or the other. I’m not black, but I’m not white. My father   was the product of a plantation owner and his indentured Indian servant. My mom’ Portuguese. So what does that make me? The world is becoming so much smaller, people from every country are becoming Facebook friends…I love the idea of cultures mingling and I guess that became part of my writing.
You write about so many exotic places. Have you been to all of them? What is your favorite location? How do you research them?
I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to travel a lot, but I think when you grow up on a sixty by forty island, you just want to get off, go someplace else. For me the most beautiful spot I’ve ever been in is La Roque Gageau. It’s a little village off the Dordogne River in France,  the site of the hundred years war, the place  Jeanne of Arc called home. Fabulous. My research is mainly internet related, but I try to contact someone local where possible. I made friends with a few Healy natives doing research for A Paratrooper in a Pear Tree.

What do you like most about writing erotic fiction? What do you like least?

I’m not sure I am an erotic writer. Sure my books have sex. But I’m so plain vanilla compared to most other erotic writers. What I don’t like is having to have sex in the story right up front. I’d love to have more time to develop the relationship between the hero and heroine.
Who is your favorite heroine? And my personal favorite question, who is your favorite hero?
The Duchess of Devonshire, Georgian Cavendish, who had everything anyone could hope for; wealth, one of the highest titles in the land, political and social influence beyond that of almost any woman of her time. Yet she was stuck in a loveless marriage, lived with a man who openly invited her best friend, his mistress, into their home. She fell in love, had a baby she had to give up, and still managed to influence the course of history.
As for a hero, that one’s easy. Eric the Red, because he dared.
What do you think most sets you apart from other writers of erotic fiction?
I’m not sure. Maybe the multicultural aspect, maybe that I am so plain vanilla.
I know you’re going to tell us about it tomorrow in detail, but give us a hint about your new book coming out tomorrow from Loose Id. 
I loved writing A Paratrooper in a Pear Tree. What can you not like about a man who’s the middle kid in a family of eleven? Whose mother is a red-haired Irish vixen and whose father is a macho Jamaican? And then I gave him absolutely strange fellow Hades Squad members, like Sax Anders, aka Lucifer, a blond Viking to die for. Sax is based on my own personal Viking, my dh, who is Dutch born, and so gorgeous, I still get that low feeling in my belly when I look into his blue eyes.  Ah, yes, Lucifer is a hero close to my heart. And so is Nalini, my Hindu rebel heroine. I had such fun writing this book.