Mimi Barbour lives on the beautiful east
coast of Vancouver Island and writes her paranormal romances with
tongue-in-cheek and a mad glint in her eye. Asked why she prefers paranormal,
she answers – chuckling. “Because it’s
fun! Imagination can be a lot more interesting than what happens in real life
to so-called normal people. I love my characters, and my goal is to make the
readers love them also. To care about what happens to them while the tale
unfolds. If I can steal my booklover’s attention away from their every-day
grind, absorb them into a fantasy world, and make them care about the ending,
then I’ve done my job.”
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I’ll explain.
When I started the first book, I was trying
to get my work added into an anthology with some wonderful Amazon, best-selling
suspense authors whose influence I knew would help my budding career. I was
told to submit a tale with around 5,000 words and it had to be done like - yesterday!!!
So, I got myself to work and wrote what I thought was a good story, with a
blockbuster opening and fascinating characters. I sent it in praying they’d
accept the work.
To my utmost shock and heart-stopping glee,
Carolyn McCray, the organiser and my promoter, explained to me that I had sent
in the beginnings of a full-length novel. What she now wanted me to do was to
write the short story to introduce those same characters who would appear in the
book. And then, of course, write… You guessed it! The book.
Whaa???

Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth,
I got my chubby little butt into my office and worked harder than I’d ever done
before. I did come up with the short
story she wanted and it was added
into the anthology. I called it “Partners”
and the following full-length book was called “Roll
the Dice”.
Well once I started the series, I got
caught up in the lives of my hero and heroine. They had to suffer and overcome
huge conflicts just to make it worth my time and effort to care about their
lives. Right?? I mean these books are suspense? And to me, that means the
reader must never know exactly what is in store for them. As their creator, it
was up to me to keep everyone guessing.
Except I never thought I’d be the one
guessing also.
So after I finished “Roll the Dice”, I had
to write a follow-up book to set things right. I mean, I don’t want to do a spoiler
here but, trust me, it was imperative to continue. Unfortunately, I had
released “Roll the Dice” in Sept. Christmas was closing in and I had a deadline
to get a holiday book written and released by November. I had to stop writing
on the Vegas series. Feeling suspended and itching to get back to it, my
promoter urged me to write a bridge book to keep the series alive.
Huh?? What’s a bridge book I asked shyly,
blushing like a sixty-year-old virgin? Should
I have known what she meant??
It’s a short story giving the readers a
peek into the lives of your characters while they wait for the next full-length
blockbuster. Okay! I could do that and I did. I released “Vegas
Shuffle” a few weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed writing this
portion, because, to tell you the truth, it rather cemented all the stuff going
on in my characters’ lives in my own head also. Made everything clear for me to
know exactly what I needed to do for the follow up story called “High
Stakes Gamble”. This will be Book
#4, which I’m madly writing now to be released in the beginning of April.

Wanna know something else I just found out
myself? There will have to be two more books before I can even begin to think
of stopping. Oh yeah…!!
Note from Mimi: My contact information is as follows: I do love to hear from you so please drop me a line.
Blog- Believe!: http://mimibarbour.blogspot. com
Website: http://www.mimibarbour.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ MimiBarbour @MimiBarbour
Amazon page: http://amzn.to/Qy67qM
LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/TCa7cL
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Hi Rachelle,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for having me visit your site. It's a pleasure to talk about the Vegas series and share my experiences with everyone.
Mimi
Love reading what you are up to!
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