{"id":496,"date":"2015-09-07T01:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T05:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2015-09-07T08:29:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:29:26","slug":"interview-with-becca-simone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2015\/09\/07\/interview-with-becca-simone\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Becca Simone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bsi-cl-deepblue.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"482\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2015\/09\/07\/interview-with-thaddeus-ryker-from-deep-blue\/bsi-cl-deepblue\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bsi-cl-deepblue.jpg?fit=212%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"212,318\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bsi-cl-deepblue\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bsi-cl-deepblue.jpg?fit=212%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-482\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bsi-cl-deepblue-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"bsi-cl-deepblue\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bsi-cl-deepblue.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bsi-cl-deepblue.jpg?w=212&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Tell us a bit about yourself:<\/strong> I write contemporary erotic romance from my home in the beautiful but rainy Pacific Northwest, where I live with my husband, two kids and a menagerie of pets. When I\u2019m not writing, I\u2019m either working out, reading or training my dog. What I\u2019m <em>not<\/em> doing is cleaning my house (yuck), working in my yard (yuck) or training my dog very well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Deep Blue<\/em> is my most recent erotica story (although I write non-erotic romance under a different name). You\u2019ll notice on the cover that it\u2019s number one in the series. I\u2019d started writing Book 2, but it somehow morphed into a comedy, and the Cursed Love series is supposed to be dark. So\u2026 One of these days I\u2019ll write Book 2.<\/p>\n<p>I absolutely love my hero in this story\u2014he\u2019s sad, haunted and just achingly romantic. <strong>Here\u2019s the blurb:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Under the light of a full moon and lurking in the restless waves of the deep blue sea, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>someone or something watches a ship cutting through the dark waters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Insurance fraud investigator Kate Hargrove is looking into the disappearances of women from a cruise line. She soon \u201cdisappears\u201d herself when pulled undersea by a giant sea creature. Now, this beauty is trapped beneath the sea with a desperate beast.<\/p>\n<p>100 years ago, Thaddeus Ryker was cursed and banished to the ocean depths. He has only three more days to find someone to love him in his monstrous half man\/half sea creature state or he\u2019ll spend eternity as a monster of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>When her terror subsides, Kate realizes she\u2019s both attracted to and repulsed by Thaddeus. As she gets to know him, she discovers a sexy, haunted man. Can she learn to love him \u2013 a monster \u2013 in just three days?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"beccasimone.com\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/becca.simone.9\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"compbeastsblog\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell us a bit about yourself: I write contemporary erotic romance from my home in the beautiful but rainy Pacific Northwest, where I live with my husband, two kids and a menagerie of pets. When I\u2019m not writing, I\u2019m either working out, reading or training my dog. 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