It's a boy! Today on Pens and Peonies, we're welcoming our first male author, Jim Cangany. Jim has agreed to let us interview him, and he's one of the small percentage of men writing contemporary romance, so we were quite interested in his answers. :) Hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did.
Jim's also hosting a fabulous giveaway ($25 Amazon gift card to one lucky winner), so check it out and good luck!
Tell us a
little about yourself and your writing career.
My wife
Nancy and I have been married for twenty-two years. We have two sons. Ryan is sixteen and Aidan
is twelve. After dabbling with writing on and off for years, if not decades, I
got serious with it in the fall of 2011. It wasn't a conscious decision to
write romance. For whatever reason, contemporary romance stories are the ones
in my head. What was the hardest part of writing your book?
That's easy--learning to portray a woman realistically. I'll never forget my wife's reaction when she was reading my first draft of Fallen Star. At one point, she looked at me, shook her head and said, "Dude, you need to learn to think like a woman." I had the heroine doing some things I thought were completely innocuous that Nancy said a woman in real life would never do. Hopefully, I'm getting a little better every day in my attempts to think like a woman.
Do you
have an agent?
Not yet.
One of my career goals is to find an agent who loves and believes in my work as
much as I do.
What do
you do when you're not writing?
I have a
full-time job in the legal field, so that consumes much of my time. I follow
professional cycling and love riding my bike. I'm a voracious reader, too.
Coffee or
tea?
Tea.
Nothing beats a good cup of Earl Gray or an Irish Breakfast tea.
White
wine or red?
White.
I'm a huge fan of Rieslings and Moscatos.
Summer or
winter?
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| Debut releases June 14, 2013 |
Totally
summer. I complain all winter long about the frigid temps, so give me the heat.
Motorcycle
or bicycle?
Bicycle--pedal
power, baby!
Twitter - @jimcangany
Facebook - Jim Cangany Author
*** GIVEAWAY ***
As always, thanks for stopping by!
xoxo ~Marisa
