Today we sit
down for a chat with romantic suspense author Michelle Fernandez. Learn more
about Michelle and her books at her website.
When did
you realize you wanted to write novels?
I’ve always wanted to write
ever since I got my first diary from my aunt when I was seven. I wrote in it as
if I was writing a story about my life and now as an adult, I’ve got a world of
people dying to get out of my head and introduce themselves.
How long
did it take you to realize your dream of publication?
I am a person that has
always struggled with self-confidence. Growing up, I’ve had people judge me for
the wrong reasons, put me down and there was a point in my life I believed I
could never be anything…until I met my husband. We met at work and immediately
became office Best Buddies. He encouraged me, told me I can do and be anything
if I truly believe in myself and ignore all the negativity.
Are you
traditionally published, indie published, or a hybrid author?
Indie-published
Where do
you write?
I write on my dining table,
in bed or on the couch.
Is silence
golden, or do you need music to write by? What kind?
Silence is Golden! I don’t
like music or any background noise.
How much of
your plots and characters are drawn from real life? From your life in
particular?
My characters are bits and
pieces of people I surround myself with. As for the plot…my mind is a crazy
circus (my husband says) and I plot ideas from everything I interact with. My
heroines are a part of me or maybe an alter-ego that I wish I could be. As for
my heroes, my husband is a big part of them.
Describe
your process for naming your character?
When naming my main
characters, I make an inspiration board of their face and their
characteristics. Then I start to throw names and see what sticks. And there are
other characters that I will use my friends and family’s names (store clerk,
little girl across the hall, receptionist) only because I know I can and they
love to see their names in my book.
Real
settings or fictional towns?
In my debut novel, it takes
place in a real setting. However, there will be fictional places within the
setting. For example, in the City of San Francisco, there is a pub that is
fictional, The Tipsy Turtle or in the Bahamas there is a fictional club, The
Atlas.
What’s the
quirkiest quirk one of your characters has?
Chloe Channing, rambles and
blurts out words when she’s nervous, like “Jimminy Christmas” when she was
startled.
What’s your
quirkiest quirk?
I can fall asleep very
quickly, less than two minutes. Give me a pillow, a comfy couch, when I’m a
passenger in a car, there is no doubt I will go to sleep. My husband says that
I fall asleep in mid-sentence.
Everyone at
some point wishes for a do-over. What’s yours?
I wish I could do high
school again. I was so naïve, made friends and enemies. I had a blast just
being a kid.
What’s your
biggest pet peeve?
A dirty kitchen and
bathroom! Yuck!
You’re
stranded on a deserted island. What are your three must-haves?
A flint stone, a machete/large
knife and a pot
What was
the worst job you’ve ever held?
A receptionist at a textile
warehouse. My boss was a meanie!
What’s the
best book you’ve ever read?
This is a hard one to answer…I
guess the only way I can answer this, what book tugged at my heart strings? It
was the duet, Consolation and Continuation by Corrine Michaels. I’ve
read many books, emotional ones and that duet made me cry.
Ocean or
mountains?
I love the ocean and the
beach scene
City
girl/guy or country girl/guy?
I grew up near a city and
love it (sometimes). But I would like to be a country girl
What’s on
the horizon for you?
My debut novel, Till I
found You releases September 3rd and I am currently working on
book 2, Till I Tempt You in this series and my projected date of release
for Book 2 is Spring 2020. Then there is Book 3, Till I Claim You (Fall
2020) and Book 4, Till I Return to You (Winter 2020), then the final I
Found You (early 2021). Then I have plans to work on another series that
I’ve planted seeds throughout this series.
Anything
else you’d like to tell us about yourself and/or your books?
I hope that my books give readers
the ‘feels’; pulls at their heart strings, makes them laugh and angry at my
characters all the same time, because if it does, I’ve done my job. And when
the reader has finally read the HEA, I’d like them to drop me a note via FB, IG
or my email and let me know their thoughts…and if they truly liked it, a review
on GR and Amazon is greatly appreciated.
I was recently announced
the finalist for the 2019 Best Blurb Contest in The Emerald City / Greatly
Seattle RWA. It’s such an honor and an exciting place to be even if I don’t win
the grand prize. Just this accomplishment alone proves a new author like me is
capable of anything. All they need to do is just believe in themselves, see the
vision and go after it. If I can do this, so can anyone else.
Till I
Found You
The Broken
Hero Series, Book 1
Julian “Booker” Cruz, former Navy SEAL, joined an elite
security ops agency with one goal in mind: to forget his past. With the
overload of work, there’s no time for romance, nor does he want it. His
rule—don’t mix business with pleasure. Until one assignment puts that rule to
the test. Chloe Channing is not to discover his undercover role as her
protective detail from an unknown psychopath. But as their days pass together
in tropical paradise, it becomes difficult to keep his desire from compromising
everything. Including her safety.
All Chloe wants is to remember, but so much of her memory was lost after her assailant left her unconscious. On a summer trip with friends at her family’s estate in the Bahamas, she yearns for the quiet respite from a previous heartbreak and her tortured nightmares. She never expects a man like Julian to help her find emotional peace and physical healing. But as she falls deeper, her flashbacks slowly come together, and they include glimpses of one handsome, mysterious, yet all-too-familiar face: Julian’s.
Is Chloe’s mind playing tricks on her again… or has she met this man before?
Even if Julian could let go and risk it all, could he ever forgive himself enough to fall in love again?
All Chloe wants is to remember, but so much of her memory was lost after her assailant left her unconscious. On a summer trip with friends at her family’s estate in the Bahamas, she yearns for the quiet respite from a previous heartbreak and her tortured nightmares. She never expects a man like Julian to help her find emotional peace and physical healing. But as she falls deeper, her flashbacks slowly come together, and they include glimpses of one handsome, mysterious, yet all-too-familiar face: Julian’s.
Is Chloe’s mind playing tricks on her again… or has she met this man before?
Even if Julian could let go and risk it all, could he ever forgive himself enough to fall in love again?
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