A True Cosmopolitan ~ Interview with Sloane Taylor
Sloane Taylor is my next vic…er I mean guest on my interview blog today. Sloane is a well-traveled soul who sets her stories in European cities. Sloane seems especially fond of France and Germany. Please welcome Ms. Sloane Taylor!
1) What is your writing name and where are you from? Sloane Taylor. I’m originally from Chicago, and now live in Highland, Indiana.
2) How long have you been seriously writing?
It still amazes me, but it’s only four short years.
3) How many hours a day do you spend working on your stories?
I strive for 6 hours a day 5 days a week at the keyboard. Tough to maintain that schedule when the doggone things continue to leap around in my brain at the oddest times and demand to be written out.
4) What is your self-editing process?
I developed a really bad habit from day one. I edit as I go. Bad because I can get hung up on an incorrect word and can’t move on until it’s right.
5) What was the best piece of advice you were given in regards to your writing?
Writing is a business and treat it as such. There’s no room for thin skin and never will be.
6) What’s your favorite genre to write in? Why?
Hands down, erotica. I love it. Erotica allows my imagination to put on paper all those things I’d really like to do.:)
7) How do you avoid interruptions?
I can’t!!!!
What piece of advice would You give to aspiring writers?
The exact same as what was given to me - Writing is a business and treat it as such. There’s no room for thin skin and never will be.
9) What do you do to refill your creative well?
This isn’t good, but I go for long drives. I finally invested in a small tape recorder after I almost creamed a truck on the expressway while writing the thoughts zipping through my brain.
10) Who do you model your heroes after?
Too many people to count. It can be as simple as a man walking on the street who catches my eye or a lifelong friend that has a quality I need for that particular hero. And if I need obstinate, I can always look at Studs.:)
11) And just for fun, what or who is your favorite:
Drink: Stoli’s on ice with two big, fat olives.
Movie : Swing Kids because I love the 30s and 40s. The music is terrific.
Book: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It’s about the Russian gulag. Solzhenitsyn was a brilliant author.
Color: Green in all its glorious shades.
Holiday: Christmas Eve
Season: Spring when the earth comes alive
Saying: You can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her think by Dorothy Parker
August 31st, 2009 at 7:16 pm
YAY SLOANE!
I READ MOST OF YOUR BOOKS AS YOU KNOW, FRENCH TWIST WAS VERA VERA GOOD!
August 31st, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Great interview!! Learned about Sloane!! Photo Op!! looks like a great read and love the colors of the cover!!
August 31st, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I loved getting to know you a little bit better. Have you seriously only been writing for four years? I love reading your stuff!
August 31st, 2009 at 8:23 pm
BACK! I RACKED MY BRAIN FOR OTHERS I READ OF SLOANE’S AND HAD TO GO TO HER SITE. TEDDI TURNS ON AND WERE WISHES? I THINK
August 31st, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I’ve not read any of your books as yet, but would like too.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Were wishes is a story by Melissa Glisan…But Sloane did write Teddi.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Hi Sloane…I love erotica as well…along with almost all genres. From some of your comments I’m guessing we’re close in age…already points in your favor;) I’ll check out your book excerpts.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Teddi Turns On is one of my favorites, great interview!
August 31st, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Sloane, I am so glad you got a tape recorder for when you go driving. Would hate to loose you in a accident when I know you have so many more stories to tell us, your faithful readers. Keep up the great writing.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:24 am
Hi LInda,
Thanks for the wonderful compliments! I’m happy you liked Teddi Turns On and you’ll LOVE Isabella Ignites when it’s released.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:42 am
Hey, my favourite colour is green too! I have both Teddi Turns On and Lonnie Heats Up in the Men of Munich series. Great stories!
September 1st, 2009 at 7:52 am
Photo Op sounds so good. Definitely on my to buy list.
I loved Swing Kids. My youngest is a dancer and we hunt for any dance movies to acquire. It really was fantastic choreography.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Great interview!
Oh man Sloane I haven’t seen swingkids in forever…a young Christian Bale is definitely a great person to model one of your heros after
~Afshan
September 1st, 2009 at 8:16 pm
This is an insightful interview; interesting. Your self-edting proceedure actually seems useful, but probably quite time-consuming.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:51 am
Hi, I don’t know why but my comment yesterday didn’t seem to show up here. Just wanted to say that I also have Teddi Turns On and Lonnie Heats Up. Lovely books. And my favourite colour is green too! :o) Tamsyn
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
THERE I GO WITH NOT WRITING TITLES DOWN! LOL NOT SURE NOW IF IT WAS WERE FIRST OR WISHES FIRST! LOL I WANT THAT GOODIE BAG!