Michele Stegman stopped by to answer some intimate details about her life and her book. Take it away, Michele!
Michele- Mr. Right’s
Baby, is a contemporary romance and was released in 2007 as an ebook, and in
2016 as a paperback from Mythical Press.
Nancy- Describe the genre of this particular title, and
is it the only genre you write in?
Michele- Mr. Right’s Baby is a contemporary romance and it
is the only contemporary novel I have written. All my other romances are
historical. I never had any interest in writing a contemporary. But I was
driving down the road one day and the whole plot for this book just popped into
my head and I didn’t have any choice. I just had to write it. Mr. Right’s Baby
has more of me in it than any of my other books, maybe because it is based on
so many real life things that happened to me.
Nancy- Did you have several manuscripts finished before
you sold? If so, did you send them out yourself?
Michele- Fortune’s Mistress is the first book I wrote that
sold, but it was the fifth book I wrote. The other four are still in a desk
drawer. I had so many nice rejections on those first four books, with personal
notes from editors encouraging me and asking me to send them something else. At
a conference, I inadvertently insulted an agent, but we cleared things up and
she took me on and sold this book for me.
Nancy- Why have you become a published author?
Michele- I have always loved stories and reading. When I
realized, at a very young age, that books were actually written by people, I
wanted to be one of those people. I couldn’t imagine anything better than to
have a book I had written on a library shelf and in bookstores. That is still
the most rewarding thing about being an author. My books are in some libraries.
Nancy- Do you have any rejection stories to share?
Michele- When I was first starting to try to get published,
I was sending out science fiction short stories. One rejection was a check off
sheet. The space checked for the reason the story was rejected said, “This is
not right for our magazine, but it is well written.” Whoever rejected the story
had crossed out “but it is well written.” I thought how petty! Reject my story
if it isn’t right for you, but do you have to add insult to injury? Were you
having a bad day?
Nancy- Will you share some encouraging words for
authors still struggling for that first contract?
Michele- Read, read,
read. When someone critiques your story, listen without arguing or trying to
defend what you have written. Take the parts that seem right to you and
disregard the rest—unless people keep telling you the same thing. Then you
might want to take a harder look at your story. If you still don’t feel that
criticism is right, go with your gut.
Nancy- Please Share
three fun facts about you that most people don’t know.
1) I have
a lot of interests. Besides writing, I am an artist and a member of a local art
guild. I also spin and weave and am a member of a local fiber group. And I love
music. I play piano for church.
2) I have
always loved math and numbers.
3)
Science classes were my favorite classes in high school and college. I started
out writing science fiction but switched to romance when I took a writing class
from a romance writer.
Michele, what’s next
for you?
Michele- I am
currently working on a historical western romance. It has been slow going, but
my sister has agreed to help with research, so maybe I’ll get this thing
written in 2017!
BOOK
BLURB
He wants to marry her for
all the wrong reasons. If she finds out what they are, she just might walk away
forever...
He wants to find his
child. Carly was put up for adoption without his knowledge or consent, and
Adrian Wright is determined to get her back. What he doesn't count on is an
unexpected attraction for her now widowed, adoptive mother, Katie Simmons. But
Adrian worries that the attraction he feels is more for his daughter than for
Katie. Even more worrisome is how Katie will react when she finds out that the
man who has been courting her is her daughter's natural father. Will she think
he only wants to marry her to get his daughter without a lengthy court battle?
Read an Excerpt HERE
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MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michele Stegman has loved history all her
life. When she was studying history in graduate school, one of her professors
quipped that she put too much romance in her research papers. She decided to
put in more romance and write historical romances. She lives her history every
day in an 1840's log cabin where she spins, weaves, paints, and writes.Her Fortune series is following the adventures of the Fortune family through piracy and war in the 1700's.
Conquest of the Heart takes place in England in 1067, just after the Norman Conquest. The heroine is a Norman and her people conquered his country. How can they find trust and love?
Michele was never interested in writing contemporary novels. But one day she was driving along, thinking of nothing in particular, when the entire plot for Mr. Right's Baby popped into her head. She couldn't stop thinking about it and finally decided it was a book that had to be written. Connect with Michele Stegman here:
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