Author Interview: Christie Craig

(Since PRELUDE TO A SUPER AIRPLANE is my first and (possibly) only book, I’ve decided to interview some writers, find out more about doing authoring, and see if they’d consider considering me as one of their peers.

The first such author is Christie Craig, who writes novels described as “sexy, suspenseful, and seriously funny”.

This is her website here. Her next book is called GOTCHA, and comes out in June.)

1) It looks by the epilogue of your last book, DIVORCED, DESPERATE AND DATING, that at least some of the story takes place on Christmas. My book does, too – except there are explosions, and a lot of hologram-powered technology.

Is it possible our two books take place in the same world?

Brian, actually, only the epilogue takes place on Christmas, but concerning the possibility of our books taking place in the same world, well…anything is possible. I don’t think I have any hologram-powered technology in my book, but I have a dishwasher.  I’ve seen a dishwasher explode with bubbles.  Believe me, it wasn’t pretty—bubbles everywhere. 

And I had a microwave in my book.  And just a couple months ago, my son put a whole egg in my microwave.  That was a pretty big explosion.  You should try that…or not.   Oh, oh, and in my last book, Divorced, Desperate and Delicious I had talking appliances and a singing fish.  So hey…anything…anything is possible.

2) You put out more books last year than I have in my whole life. Do you set specific “I’m writing x number of books this year” goals, or do you only write them when you feel the need? You may also be under contract, but I know nothing about the publishing business.

I write every day, so I guess you could say I feel the need every day. I love my job. I mean, people pay me to make up stuff. But yes, I am under contract. However, when I sold to Dorchester, I sold three books that were all completed. Then I sold three more and one of those was completed, and another was partially completed. I had been writing full time on my novels since 2000 and had a good stash of finished projects. I was very, very fortunate to find a publishing house that liked my writing voice and was willing to take chance on my quirky stories. I wrote for years, on blind faith, that some day I would sell and my novels would see the light of day and all my time “put in” would “pay off.”

3) Do you believe in boy ghosts and girl ghosts, or do you think ghosts are mostly asexual?

Brian, this question is insulting. Not to me. Not to you. Not to any gender or non-gender. But to the ghost. I mean think about it. Can’t you just hear the poor male ghosts screaming out, “I am a man. There’s no asexual to it! Please! Just because I died, I didn’t lose my “boys” in the transition! Death is bad, but it isn’t that bad!” You know how some men are about their boys. The other reason I believe that ghost maintain all their parts and identity, is because of all the romance novels with ghost heroes. I’ve read about some very masculine ghosts and they sure as heck were not asexual.

Thanks Christie. I will assume, since she didn’t explicitly say otherwise, that Christie considers me her authoring peer, and also great writer.