HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF author Molly Harper!

Today I would like to welcome to Book Junkie my Guest Author Molly Harper with a really fun interview. She is here to help celebrate the release of her latest book HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF .You may already be a fan of her  Nice Girls Don't series; NICE GIRLS DON'T HAVE FANGS, NICE GIRLS DON'T DATE DEAD MEN, and NICE GIRLS DON'T LIVE FOREVER. If you are you won't be dissapointed in this hilariously clever paranormal romance that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you want to run to the bookstore for book two in Molly's new werewolf series, THE ART OF SEDUCING A NAKED WEREWOLF.

I am a fly on your wall, what do I see as a day in the life of Molly Harper?

I wake up around 5:40 or whenever the two year old down the hall decides his pull-up is too wet to continue sleeping. I get the kids up and drive them to school. I get to work by 8. I work as editorial assistant at a medical society until 5, then pick up my son from preschool. By the time I get home, my husband, David, has picked our daughter from elementary school and started dinner. We do all the things that families do in the evening, dinner, bath time, homework, tricking the kids into bedtime. I spend a little time with David so he doesn’t feel totally abandoned. Then I sit on the couch and write from nine to midnight or so. I go to bed and start all over again the next morning.

What was the inspiration behind HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF?

I wrote a good bit of the initial notes for HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF during the January 2009 ice storm. Thousands of homes in Kentucky, including mine, lost power. And you have to understand that in my hometown, one flurry fluttering through the sky sends people into a “Must hoard milk and bread!” panic. With no light, heat or hot water, my family had to camp out at my inlaws’ house in front of their fireplace. David is a police captain and was working twelve-hour emergency shifts. This left me with our six-month-old and five-year-old. All day long. They were cold and fussy and bored. And my daughter seemed to think I was an idiot because I wouldn’t turn on the TV. It was either come up with a new book or just go crazy. By the time the power came on a week later, I had about 20 pages of notes for HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF.

If you could trade places with one of your characters, would you want to and who?

Probably Mo from HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF. I do some pretty awful things to my characters sometimes. In NICE GIRLS DON’T HAVE FANGS, Jane James was fired, mistaken for a deer and shot by the town drunk before a vampire turns her to keep her from dying. In AND ONE LAST THING, Lacey finds out her husband is cheating on her and the whole town knows. Plus there’s an incident involving accidental skinny-dipping. With Mo, the humiliations are fewer and she’s strong enough to hold up to the really bad stuff. She has friends, a job she’s good at and she’s happy. Sounds good to me!

What was your favorite scene to write in HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF?

The scene in which Mo helped Cooper recover from having the bear-trap on his ankle was hard to write because I was trying to balance this revelation that Cooper’s a werewolf with humor and Mo’s natural disbelief, not to mention the romantic chemistry. I remember I sent it to my agent and she wrote back, “Oh, my Gosh, you’ve made Cooper so hot!” And I’ve never had that reaction from her before, so I knew I had something good going.
But I think my favorite scene was their first love scene. I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s very intense and a lot of clothing gets destroyed. I’ve never written one of my heroes as behaving quite so predatory. (In a good way, not the Dateline with Chris Hansen way.) So it was new and exciting for me.

What is the most interesting thing you’ve done in the name of research?

I married a cop so I would know how to write retired police officer Monroe in AND ONE LAST THING.
Just teasing. Though a lot of Monroe’s characteristics are based on David.
I’m more of an academic researcher. I look up weather patterns at noaa.gov, read guide books on my settings’ flora and fauna, that sort of thing. Once, I was looking for a fast-acting poison that could be absorbed through the skin, to make one of my characters sick. We were at a bookstore and David found me looking through this reference book. I think it was called The Big Book of Deadly Poisons, or something like that. He looked at the cover, looked at me, and said, “Is this about me forgetting to take out the garbage? Because I think you’re over-reacting.”
Sometimes, I feel sort of bad that he has to put up with my shenanigans.

What do you consider as the most frustrating side of becoming a published author and what has been the most rewarding?

Finding enough hours in the day is frustrating. Between writing, work, raising two kids, being married and trying to keep the household going, I feel stretched pretty thin sometimes.
The most rewarding part is knowing that I’ve shared my characters with readers, that there are people out there who enjoy my work and laugh at my silliness.

What accent inspires you to do naughty things?

Scottish. Oh my Lord, a down-and-dirty Scottish accent makes my knees go weak. I think it’s why I’ve willingly sat through so many of Gerard Butler’s awful, awful movies.

Please share with us something that readers would be surprised to learn about you

I have coulrophobia, a terrible fear of clowns. I wasn’t allowed to see IT when I was a kid. I wasn’t traumatized at a circus. But for some reason, even a picture of a clown makes my blood run cold. The problem with being afraid of something funny, is that other people think it’s hilarious to confront you with that thing because “you’re just being silly!” The only person who truly understands is my friend, Erin, who is afraid of snowmen.

How can the readers stay in touch with you online?

My website: http://www.mollyharper.com/, My Blog: singleundeadfemale.blogspot.com, Twitter: www.twitter.com/mollyharperauth, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/molly.harper1

If you could ask the readers one question what would it be?

What is romance novel cliché that you would like to see die away completely?