Welcome Tia. Tell us a little about yourself.

I began writing early on in life, as most writers do, but I took a very untraditional path to becoming an erotic romance author...>>

Believe it or not, I began exploring my passion for writing as a poet. I have always loved reading, especially tales involving some kind of romance (like fairytales), but it was not something I ever thought I would write.>>

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Poetry was my outlet. Not only did I want to tell a story, but I wanted it to be beautiful, lyrical, flow the way a whisper is carried on a moonlit breeze. I wanted my words to wrap around the reader and subtly caress their senses. I wanted to pull at that secret place deep inside a person where fond memories and distant dreams resided, and take them far away from the harsh realities of the world. (LOL!)>>

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While writing poetry, I continued to feed my other passion—reading. Everyone once in a while, I would stumble across an author that wrote stories the same way that I strove to write my poetry. Not only were these stories beautiful, romantic, stirring, but they were written in a way that made me feel what I always endeavored to make others feel with my own work.>>

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Because of this influence, my poetry slowly evolved into short stories. But as time went on, I grew older, wiser, and eventually moved into adulthood. I abandoned my childhood aspirations so that I might concentrate on other "grown-up" things. However, the more I lived life and learned what a cruel place the world could be, the more I grew bitter and jaded. (LOL!)>>

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Thankfully, though I gave up writing, I didn't give up reading romance.>>

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Years passed and as I matured physically, mentally, emotionally, and finally sexually, my reading tastes also matured. I found that I still wanted the romance, but I also wanted the passion to be a little hotter. Myth and fairytales gave way to sweet fantasy romances, which gave way to historical romances, and—confident and secure in myself and my sexuality—mainstream romances gave way erotic romances.>>

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One day I met a wonderful man, and like a storyline from one of the many books I read, we fell in love and got married. A little less bitter and jaded with life, I started writing again.>>

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Here I am.>>

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I believe that my work today is a blend of all I confessed above. I find that many of the stories I write, whether it be contemporary or paranormal, still have the element of fantasy and fairytale that I loved so much as a child. My stories promote the ideals of love at first sight, of extraordinary things happening to ordinary people, the concepts of fate, destiny and coincidence, and always have the perfect happily ever after.>>

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However, I also find that my characters (especially my heroines) tend to exhibit that bitter and jaded attitude toward life that we associate with the modern world. I think it makes story interesting when the heroine comes across with that honest "this is f*king unbelievable, but since my luck is so bad, I shouldn't be surprised that it happened to me" attitude. I like to think it allows readers the ability to relate to a character, and this makes the overall "fairytale" feel of the story believable—like it could happen to any of us at any moment.>>

To find out more about Tia and her adventures, befriend her on MySpace or visit her at Resplendence Publishing

Come back tomorrow and find out about Tia's current releases.

Lyn