The up and coming author, Cyan Bell, is the subject of our interview today. Cyan is an aussie who writes urban fantasy erotic romances for several publishers. April 4th she had TWO releases in one day: Raven’s Keeper at Cobblestone Press and White Lightning at Changeling Press.

Currently, she is running a contest on her website for a free copy of her books! It’s posted on her homepage, so make sure to check that out and enter.

Let’s get to the questions, shall we?

Q. Your release with Cobblestone Press - Raven’s Keeper - I see it’s part of a series. What can you tell us about your plans for the series?

A. I plan to have at least two more books in the series. Each one concentrates on the three realms introduced in the first book-Earth, Mera, and Hades. The hero and heroine from the second book are in the first book and I’ve already got a tentative title of Keeping the Light.

 

Q. What is your favorite part about Raven’s Keeper?

A. I love the play between the hero and heroine. They are both very strong people, so that leads to some fairly steamy chemistry. They both have to learn to give a little, but at the same time it’s what they gain more than what they lose.

 

Q. Do you only write urban fantasies? What else can we expect from Cyan Bell?

A. I love urban fantasy! I like taking the world we live in a intermingling it with fantasy. However, I have written a sci-fi/vampire story that was published with the Dark Castle Lords called Arianna’s Leap - part of Once Upon A Dark Castle Lord, which was an anthology. Also Once Bitten…which is part of Behind The Masque-at Cobblestone, was a shape shifter. I’ve also got plans for some paranormal stuff.

 

Q. You’re an aussie. Do you think that brings anything unique to your writing?

A. I think there has to be a different flavor to every authors writing, and being that I live in Australia gives me the opportunity to inject that into my stories. My release at Changeling, White Lightning, is set in the sunshine coast hinterland - a little place called Montville. It’s just a really beautiful place to be at any time of the year and hopefully I shared that with my American readers.

 

Q. How do you spend your free time when you’re not writing?

A. What the heck is this free time you speak of? LOL! I have a family, so they keep me busy. I’m also a blue belt in Taekwondo and looking at competing at form in the near future, so I don’t really have the time to relax.

 

Q. When did you start seriously writing?

A. I started writing a couple of years ago, just two hours a day and then I asked a popular author how I could get into publishing. That story hasn’t been published, I’m hoping to pull it out of the moth balls some time, but the next story after that-Arianna’s Leap-was published. That was a huge feeling of accomplishment.

 

Q. Tell us a little bit more about White Lightning, your release with Changeling Press.

A. Like I said earlier, it’s set in Queensland during summer. The weather here at that time is humid, and sticky and hot. The perfect remedy is to take a swim at night. The story opens with the heroine, Taylor, skinny dipping and being found by an old flame. It’s been many years since they saw one another and they both have secrets, but the one Ryan is keeping puts Taylor in harms way at the hands of a dangerous vampire.

 

Q. What are you working on now?

A. I’ve just had one other manuscript contracted by Changeling titled Ruling Lacey. I’m really excited about that because I absolutely loved writing the book.It’s also set in Brisbane, and about a woman who works in the dead letters department. She gains psychic abilities which enable her to see things about the letters she finds that are undeliverable.
I’m in the process of writing the second Blood Bonded book - Keeping the Light, and I have a couple other manuscripts I want to get done in the next few months.

 

Q. If you could be anything else besides a writer, what would you be?

A. I honestly can’t answer that, lol. I’ve been a lot of things to other people for so many years, and not really sure of what I was to myself. With writing I can be passionate about what I do and it only takes a bit of commitment in between the day to day stuff.

 

Q. What is the one place in the world you would visit if money and time weren’t an option?

A. That’s easy! The U.S. I have become friends with so many lovely people there, I would want to spend a couple of months traveling around and getting to know them in person.

Hope you all enjoyed the interview. Make sure to visit Cyan’s website today and enter her contest.

Kris