The Next Big Thing

I got tagged by Ms. Kwana "K.M." Jackson to answer this set of questions that's making the blog rounds with authors. What's my "next big thing"? Hopefully the sequel to Spice and Smoke, Spice and Secrets, which comes out from Samhain Publishing this November!

What is the working title of your book?

Spice and Secrets.

Where did the idea come from for the book?

Well, it kind of naturally fed from the previous one. But, besides that, I've always been fascinated by Hindi-language cinema and the whole splashy world of Bollywood. I'm also a huge episodic television — soaps in particular — fan. So, I kind of put it all in a blender and poured it into a pepper-rimmed glass!

What genre does your book fall under?

Contemporary Romance and Multicultural/Interracial Romance.

Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?

If this were a film, I'd cast Indian soap star Barun Sobti as Rahul Anand and Bollywood actresses Anushka Sharma and Shenaz Treasuryvala as Priya Roy and Sunny Khanna. Philip Winchester (Strikeback, Camelot) would play Shaw.

Spicy Saturday: Vincent Irizarry

I'm breaking from my habit of looking east for manly masala to laud Vincent Irizarry, who was probably about 70 percent of my inspiration for Dr. Vince (see?!) McHenry in Heart Murmurs. Native New Yorker Irizarry got his daytime TV start playing hunky bad boy Lujack Luvonaczek on Guiding Light in 1983 and is perhaps most well known for playing dastardly but devastatingly charming Dr. David Hayward on All My Children, which he did off and on from 1997 to the show's 2011 finale. Vincent also played Gino in the TV movie adaptation of Jackie Collins' Lucky and Chances. He has four kids, one Daytime Emmy award and a whole lotta talent!

Cover reveal: SPICE AND SECRETS

The sequel to my April novella, Spice and Smoke is due out from Samhain Publishing on November 20, and it now has a gorgeous cover! Here's the first tease of Bollywood Confidential book two, Spice and Secrets, the story of producer Rahul Anand and ingenue turned icy "item girl" Priya Roy:

                                When fear writes the past, only love can direct the future.

HEART MURMURS release day!

What do you write while you're obsessed with All My Children, General Hospital, Grey's Anatomy and a certain Dr. David Hayward in particular? If you're me, you end up with medical romance. Very, very short medical romance! Heart Murmurs is out today, from The Wild Rose Press:

Despite her best efforts to stay professional, distant, and unmoved, cardio-thoracic resident Anushka Gupta can't get brilliant—and gorgeous—neurologist Vince McHenry out of her head. So what if she presents all the symptoms of a woman in love, Anu is determined to fight off the disease. She’s not going to compromise her career for a fling with a professional playboy.

Hospital heartthrob Vince has never met someone so untouchable or so prickly, and he’s immediately consumed by her case. He even has a course of treatment in mind: a night of passion.

But when Anu's defensive push comes to Vince's passionate shove, he finds himself suddenly specializing in matters of the heart.

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For less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks, you get a little taste of contemporary interracial romance!