Vamps, Scamps and Bad Boys

[click the question to see answer] We will start easy, what is your latest or upcoming Brava Bad Boy title? {Erin McCarthy:} Bad Boys of Summer, out in June 2006, with Lori Foster and Amy Garvey. It has a great cover, some kites, guy lounging, a little chest hair… very nice. :) I am not familiar with how anthologies get put together. Did you write the story to fit the 'bad boy' title or did your story get submitted and just happen to work into the 'bad boy' book? {Erin McCarthy:} For me, it’s been both. With Bad Boys Online, the story “Hard Drive” came first, then the title was created to fit it. In Bad Boys In Black Tie, the title came first, than all three authors worked the concept of a tuxedo into the story. Others, like When Good Things Happen To Bad Boys, were written way ahead of the title and were just placed where they fit in the schedule. Do you read the finished book and is it hard to go back and read your own work after it is published? What bad boy tale would you recommend? {Erin McCarthy:} I don’t read my stuff right away, but a year later I might pick it up and flip through it. I don’t think I ever sit down and read it start to finish in print form after I proof the galleys. Bad Boys recommendations… I loved Lori Foster’s stories about the 3 girlfriends (I think in I Brake For Bad Boys and Bad Boys On Board), loved Lucy Monroe’s 3 Brides for 3 Bad Boys. If you could write/sell anything... any genre, any setting, any plot, what would it be? Have you already written it? {Erin McCarthy:} Right now, I’m pretty content… I’m writing humorous romance, dark paranormal romance, and YA. I spent the last year branching out into the darker stories and the YA stuff and it’s been a blast. Didn’t know I had such a dark side. What's Next? We are book whores give us names, dates and summaries! {Erin McCarthy:} HIGH STAKES - August 2006 OUT NOW! (1st in Las Vegas Vampires trilogy) YOU DON’T KNOW JACK- October 2006 Jamie Peters no longer believes in true love. True idiots, true scumbags, true moochers—these she believes in wholeheartedly, and she’s got the checkered dating history to prove it. So she’s more than a little skeptical when her cross-dressing psychic tells her she’s about to meet her soulmate—during an accident. Yeah, sounds about right. And then it happens. A knight in shining armor steps between her and a mugger on a subway platform. Just a regular, honest, upright Jack. The kind they don’t make anymore… Jonathon Davidson doesn’t believe in destiny—or lying to beautiful women, as a rule. But now that Jamie thinks he’s just an ordinary guy, how can he possibly tell her that he’s really A) her roommate’s brother B) a millionaire to boot and C) the jerk who’s investigating her application to his grandfather’s charitable trust because she may be involved in something illegal? Yeah, rhetorical question. He can’t. Not until he knows what’s going on. Besides, it would require being able to resist Jamie’s luscious curves long enough to say, “Hi, my name is Big Liar. Let’s get naked.” Sometimes, destiny sucks… Somewhere between truth and flat-out-let’s-talk-about-this-waaay-later fiction, between fate and delicious accidental insanity, lies a whole lot of mind-blowing sex, delirious passion, unfortunate sundresses, fighting, deception, big mistakes and small hopes, and two people are about to discover that everything happens for a reason… BIT THE JACKPOT - December 2006 (2nd in Las Vegas Vampires trilogy) Politics makes strange coffinfellows. Vampire Seamus Fox is supposed to be the campaign manager for a vampire nation presidential candidate. But instead, he finds himself running around cover detail - batVegas, keeping tabs on the candidate’s wife and female entourage. Seamus has had his fill of women. A disastrous—and deadly—love affair has haunted him for over two centuries. Talk about baggage. But suddenly he finds himself obsessed by a mysterious stripper who dances behind a screen. The sultry—yet shy—Cara Kim whets his appetite for more. But leave it to Seamus to fall fangs over feet for that rarest of Vegas attractions: a good girl… You can find interviews here, here and here. Or do you have a question? Ask away...