Exquisite Quills Welcomes Skye Michaels
EQ: Welcome to EQ! Tell us a little bit about yourself!
Skye: I started writing after I lost my 17 year job as a commercial
real estate paralegal in Fort Lauderdale after the economic downturn in 2010. I
had been commuting to Miami for a temp job (45 minutes on the express bus), and
my daughter bought me a Kindle. Sad to say, if it weren’t for my techie
daughter, I wouldn’t have a Kindle or iPhone. I have always loved books and
didn’t think I would like an e-reader, but I was surprised to find I love it. I
can carry 1500 books with me to the country for the weekend, or download
something new in seconds. It took some getting used to, but now I am a firm fan
of e-books. I have always loved romance, and I downloaded a couple of the Very
Spicy Erotic Romances and found I loved them. Who knew what was out there? I
had always wanted to try my hand at writing a romance novel, and after 30 years
of legal writing (contracts, leases, notes, mortgages – YUCK), I knew I could
do it—so I did. I have now finished thirteen romance novels.
EQ:Tell us a little bit about your most recent release.
Skye: My newest book out is Pandora’s Box, Book 5 of the Golden
Dolphin Series. The book is set on a very luxurious three hundred foot mega
yacht that hosts very exclusive, secret BDSM cruises around the world. I am no
longer restricted on where my stories take place. Anything that floats my boat
is a go.
The crew members
remain the same and provide interesting secondary characters and an ongoing
story line, but each book centers on the romance of a new couple with occasional
visits by characters from previous books. It’s fun to see them again.
In Pandora’s Box,
three couples from my original series, the Le Club Series, are aboard for a
cruise to Alaska. They have invited their friend and fellow Dom, John Grayson (Gray
to his friends), a neurosurgeon from New York, to come along. On the trip, he
meets Pandora Wescott, a wildlife photographer, who is aboard under false
pretenses. A romance blossoms between them, and he introduces her to the BDSM
lifestyle. Pandora says she is onboard to complete a magazine photo assignment
and to take the “new sub training course,” but she is really trying to find out
the name of her sister’s Dom. Her sister, Petra, had killed herself after a
breakup with her Dom. Pandora had not known that Petra was involved in BDSM,
and was trying to figure out what had happened to her very accomplished and
successful sister that caused her to take her own life. Needless to say,
problems arise. When do they not? Not to give anything away, the story builds
from there.
I’ve just started a new series set in South Florida, my home ground, called The Black Iris Club series. The first heroine is Kaylin Gallagher, a Broward Sheriff’s Office Homicide Detective, and the stories will have a legal/police background for the strong romance of each couple as we go along. I’m having a lot of fun visiting all the places I love to go around town. Living here, we South Floridians take this beautiful area for granted while people freezing out there in the north or west would love to have a few weeks in our winter sunshine.
I’ve just started a new series set in South Florida, my home ground, called The Black Iris Club series. The first heroine is Kaylin Gallagher, a Broward Sheriff’s Office Homicide Detective, and the stories will have a legal/police background for the strong romance of each couple as we go along. I’m having a lot of fun visiting all the places I love to go around town. Living here, we South Floridians take this beautiful area for granted while people freezing out there in the north or west would love to have a few weeks in our winter sunshine.
EQ: Which of your characters do you connect with the most and why?
Skye: I would have to say Anne Sutton in Anne’s Courage, Book 3 of
the Le Club Series. Anne, although a beautiful woman, had serious body image
problems due to scars from breast cancer surgery and the defection of her
fiancé when she was most vulnerable. The hero, Jamie Devereau, bad boy
investment banker, had a tough road to break through her barriers and get her
to accept both herself and him. Not only was he brash and tough, he was
extremely handsome, outrageously wealthy, and five years younger than Anne. Since
I have had breast cancer myself, this heroine really means a lot to me.
EQ: What kinds of female characters do you prefer to write?
Skye: I like to write about attractive, successful women who are
strong but have issues to overcome like Anne. They are not all twenty years old
or Victoria’s Secret models with perfect bodies and perfect lives. They have
issues as we all do. But, this is romance, however, and we all want to get away
from everyday life.
EQ: What kinds of male characters do you prefer to write?
Skye: I like handsome, successful, strong men who have a vulnerable
center and may have some issues of their own to overcome. I also like them to
have an edge and a sense of humor. As I said above, this is romance, and we all
want some fantasy. The average guy we all know and love may be a great husband
and father, but we don’t necessarily want to read about his sex life. We all
want to get away from everyday life, and try something new and different. We
might not want to actually live the stories, but they are fun to read and
fantasize about. Of course, I’m in love with all of my heroes. I have thirteen
of the best looking, most wonderful men the in the world, and they all live in
my head. If God said, “Here they all are, alive, standing in front of you, but
you can have only one” I don’t know what I would do. How would I pick?
EQ: Share a funny or ironic anecdote.
Skye: I went to my daughter’s house for dinner one night after I
had had several books published. My older grandson (7 at the time) came tearing
to the door and said, “Grammy is it true you wrote FOUR books?” I said, “Yes,
it is.” He said, “Can I read them?” I said, “No, they are for grown up ladies.”
He said, “Can I give one to my teacher Miss Mary at (Catholic) school?” I
really didn’t know what to say to that. Miss Mary might have loved them, but I
didn’t want to be the reason he got tossed out of Catholic school. The best
part was that after that both grandsons started writing their own little books
and drawing illustrations. It was thrilled to have been the catalyst for that
creativity.
Find SKYE MICHAELS at these places:
Please visit WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SKYEMICHAELSBOOKS Fan Page for covers and first chapters
Contact Skye on E-MAIL: SKYEMICHAELSBOOKS@YAHOO.COM
Read these titles by SKYE MICHAELS:
The LeClub Series:
Calleigh’ Collar, Kelly’s Challenge, Anne’s Courage, Paula’s Commitment,
Madison’s Choice and Belinda’s Crown
The Golden Dolphin
Series: Ivorie’s Surprise, Harper’s Submission, Violette’s Vibrato,
Cassandra’s Revenge and Pandora’s Box. Coming soon: Hannalore’s Treasure
The Horsemen Series:
The Appearance of Impropriety
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