Siobhan Muir

I’ve lived in Cheyenne for almost 9 years.

There are too many to name, but if I just stick with sci-fi/fantasy I’d say Elizabeth Moon, Elizabeth Kerner, Steven Brust, Robin McKinley, and Nicola Cameron to name a few.

I like the happily ever after. All the bad things in the world are fixed and that just makes the world a better place.

I usually just need inspiration to give me the who, the what, the where, and the why. Then the Muse takes over from there.

That was my second published novel and since I was so new to the industry, I had a tough time finishing. I knew how the story ended, but I couldn’t seem to get the motivation to write it out. It was a struggle to push through.

My first book came out in February 2012. At the time, ebooks were really becoming a thing so it wasn’t hard for me to find a small epublisher to take my first novel, Her Devoted Vampire. But before that, with all the traditional publishers calling the shots, I wasn’t sure I could get published without an agent. And it was hard to get stories in front of their eyes.

I don’t write poetry – I’m not very good at it. So I prefer to write romance books rather than short stories. My tales are too complicated to be short – I run out of word space too soon, lol.

The best compliment I received was from a beta reader and she said I’d kept her up to the wee hours of the morning from reading my book until the end. The book was THE NAVY’S GHOST.

I don’t think there’s an easy answer for that. What makes a novel “good”? For me, it’s a clear storyline with all the details tied up at the end, and since I write romantic suspense, the characters have to get together, like each other at the end, and solve the external conflicts along the way.

If I just worked on one at a time, it would take me about 4 months from start to finish. But I write several at once so they take longer (and all come out about the same time).

My writing is stronger, more mature, and tighter. Fewer “that’s” and “was’s”, stronger language with fewer filler words.

Currently I’m working on a new military romantic suspense series where the heroines are the military SpecOps members, and I’m also working on the second book in the Callowwood Pack series.

AllAuthor has done a great job tweeting about my books and getting the word out to their readers. I’ve liked having that support and a way to make cute promotional images.