You live in the Central Valley of California (just like me!). What was it like moving from Mobile, Alabama, to San Francisco, and then to the Central Valley?
There was definitely a bit of
culture shock involved in moving to the Bay Area, however, it really wasn’t
that bad. I know most people think of Alabama as a backwoods kind of a state,
but I’m from a city with a population of about 500,000 people, so it wasn’t as
overwhelming as I thought it would be. Moving to the Central Valley was a
little harder. Although Mobile was hot and humid, the valley is almost
unbearably hot! It makes me long for rainy afternoons and shade trees.
How did you being your writing journey?
In 2009, I fell ill and was out of
work for nearly a month. During that time, I bought a Kindle and read everything
I could get my hands on. One of the first authors I read was PC Cast. Her
Goddess books are amazing. I wrote her an email to that effect, and she
immediately returned the correspondence. In her email, she mentioned how
eloquently worded my email was and thanked me for writing. After my shock, I
started thinking about her words and decided that if she thought I was a good
writer, then maybe others would, too. Three years later, I published Night
Aberrations.
I’ve published four books but have
written many more. The finished novels are lined up to be published every three
or four months until 2017.
If someone were to ask you what the secret to writing a
great romance novel is, what would you tell them?
I think to make a romance great, you
have to have a bit of experience in romance. It’s sort of like how a doctor has
to go to medical school. You have to know what you’re doing to write those
steamy scenes!
You own Chaste Moon Publishing. Tell us a little about that.
Chaste Moon started out as a name to
put on self-published books that wasn’t my own. I thought it sounded more
professional than just my name or having Amazon or Barnes, Smashwords, or
Noble as the publisher.
Noble as the publisher.
But that was so three years ago! Things have changed quite a bit over the past
year. In August, we hired a professional
editor to start doing edits and proofreading for aspiring authors and will soon
start publishing their books. Hopefully, this is will be an exciting new
chapter (no pun intended) in expanding our business!
Just for fun, please tell us about your four cats who think
they're dogs!
I have three boys and one girl, all
rescue animals. Checkers, our oldest, is a big fat love bug. He turned fourteen
in June. Sadie Mae is next oldest at thirteen and a half. She’s very ill, but
still a sassy thing that loves to be loved. Coonie is five and probably the
craftiest cat I’ve ever seen. He’s smart, clever, and a little bit evil. Cat
Sajak is our newest addition. He turns one next month and is only interested in
one thing—playing! They drive us crazy, but I don’t know what we’d do without
them meeting us at the door when we come in to demand our immediate attention.
Fun! It was great to see all the
costumes and meet interesting, like-minded people. I think my favorite part of
the whole conference was the impromptu dance party the last thirty minutes
before closing. Seeing Spiderman break it down to Uptown Funk has a way of
sticking with you!
Any upcoming releases scheduled or appearances?
The second book in the Wicked Ways
Series will be releasing on November 15th, but my next appearance
isn’t until April at the Roanoke Author Invasion in Roanoke, Virginia. After
that, I’m hoping to attend ModestoCon in July.
Where can we connect with you online?
JD Nelson's Official Website -
www.authorjdnelson.com (You can find all the buy links here)
JD Nelson's Goodreads Page - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6060770.J_D_Nelson
JD Nelson's Facebook - www.facebook.com/NightAberrations
JD Nelson's Facebook Fan Page - www.facebook.com/JDNelsonsNightAberrations
JD Nelson's Super Secret Fan Club - http://www.facebook.com/groups/269730583130725/
JD Nelson's Blog - www.nightaberrations.blogspot.com/
JD Nelson's BookLikes - http://booklikes.com/j-d-nelson/author,2824672
JD Nelson's tsū - https://www.tsu.co/JDNelson
JD Nelson's Twitter - https://twitter.com/authorjdnelson
JD Nelson's Ello - https://ello.co/authorjdnelson
JD Nelson's Goodreads Page - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6060770.J_D_Nelson
JD Nelson's Facebook - www.facebook.com/NightAberrations
JD Nelson's Facebook Fan Page - www.facebook.com/JDNelsonsNightAberrations
JD Nelson's Super Secret Fan Club - http://www.facebook.com/groups/269730583130725/
JD Nelson's Blog - www.nightaberrations.blogspot.com/
JD Nelson's BookLikes - http://booklikes.com/j-d-nelson/author,2824672
JD Nelson's tsū - https://www.tsu.co/JDNelson
JD Nelson's Twitter - https://twitter.com/authorjdnelson
JD Nelson's Ello - https://ello.co/authorjdnelson
Thank you so much for visiting with us! Happy writing!
About the Author
JD Nelson is a Bestselling Author of Fantasy Romance and Erotic Paranormal Romance. She is also the owner of Chaste Moon Publishing, an independent publishing house. A transplant from Mobile, Alabama, she gave up Mardi Gras and frequent hurricanes to move to the earthquake capital of the United States, the San Francisco Bay Area. She now lives in Central Valley, California with her amazingly supportive husband and four cats who think they're dogs.
Always short on time, JD has long ago mastered the art of procrastination and was recently crowned Procrastinator of the Year by her editor, which is only slightly better than her being voted Most Likely to Waste Time by Watching Vampire Movies by her readers last year. All jokes aside, JD is a boringly normal person who thinks that coffee pretty much fixes everything ... as long as it's before 6:30AM and the planet Mars is in retrograde. When she's not spending time with her sexy Swedish husband, you can find her writing, reading, or on her commute to her day job where she wrangles paint onto canvas for the entertainment industry.
JD loves to hear from her readers. You can contact her through her website, AuthorJDNelson.com, or on Facebook, where she spends an alarming amount of time chatting to her many author and reader friends, much to the dismay of her continually neglected manuscripts.
About the Author
JD Nelson is a Bestselling Author of Fantasy Romance and Erotic Paranormal Romance. She is also the owner of Chaste Moon Publishing, an independent publishing house. A transplant from Mobile, Alabama, she gave up Mardi Gras and frequent hurricanes to move to the earthquake capital of the United States, the San Francisco Bay Area. She now lives in Central Valley, California with her amazingly supportive husband and four cats who think they're dogs.
Always short on time, JD has long ago mastered the art of procrastination and was recently crowned Procrastinator of the Year by her editor, which is only slightly better than her being voted Most Likely to Waste Time by Watching Vampire Movies by her readers last year. All jokes aside, JD is a boringly normal person who thinks that coffee pretty much fixes everything ... as long as it's before 6:30AM and the planet Mars is in retrograde. When she's not spending time with her sexy Swedish husband, you can find her writing, reading, or on her commute to her day job where she wrangles paint onto canvas for the entertainment industry.
JD loves to hear from her readers. You can contact her through her website, AuthorJDNelson.com, or on Facebook, where she spends an alarming amount of time chatting to her many author and reader friends, much to the dismay of her continually neglected manuscripts.
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