UFI welcomes Author Molly Harper. Thanks for Joining us!!
What can you tell my readers about yourself that they might not know from
looking on your bio or reading in another interview?
I’m married to my high
school sweetheart, David. We started dating when I was 14 and he was 16. My
parents wouldn’t let me go out at night, so we did lunch dates and matinee
movies for two years. For
two years. I think my parents thought he would
eventually get annoyed, give up and go away. But twenty years and two kids
later, we’re still together.
I like remixed music, but hate remade movies.
It took me two years before I’d agree to join Facebook. I'm the opposite of
a hipster.
I like The Walking Dead, but I’m so frightened by the zombies, I
can only watch The Talking Dead recap shows.
People who grunt and moan while
lifting weights at the gym make me laugh hysterically.
What do you enjoy
doing on your down time?
I started Brazilian jiu jitsu classes last year.
It’s a great “equalizing” style of martial arts because it’s not about who hits
harder, it’s about who’s faster and smarter. The downside is I can’t watch
action scenes in movies or TV anymore because I’ve become THAT person who says,
“Ugh, they’re doing it wrong.”
What is your Favorite part of writing?
When I find a way to connect all the random, quirky weird plot points I’ve
come up with along the way. There’s this point when you’re writing when all of
the tumblers inside your head seem to fall into place and you see how everything
is related in a way your conscious brain didn’t necessarily see. Or you’ve just
insane from sleep depravation. Either way, it’s a lot of fun.
Do you have
any certain routines you must follow as you write?
It makes me sound so
compulsive, but I have to have a bottle of Perrier (or some other bubbly water)
plus a lip balm handy. Apparently, writing really dehydrates me.
Also, I
listen to playlists for each book to help me set the mood. I put these on my web
site under Fun Stuff.
www.mollyharper.com/fun-stuff/
What
are some of your Favorite books or Authors in the Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal
Genres?
I just started Nicole Peeler’s Jane True series and I’m really
loving it.
How would you pitch the Naked Werewolf series to someone who has
not heard of it before?
If you like hot naked guys who occasionally turn
into werewolves, ladies who kick butt without super-powers, and wacky family
hijinks, this is the series for you.
Can you tell us a little bit about the
world that the Naked Werewolf series is set in?
Grundy, Alaska is based on
my experiences while living in my inlaws living room, sleeping on a mattress in
front of their fireplace for two weeks, when an ice storm knocked out power for
thousands of homes in January 2009. My family was cold, hungry and cranky. I
felt so claustrophobic that writing notes for a werewolf story was the only way
to keep from going crazy. By the time the lights came on, I had twenty pages of
notes which became HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF.
Can the books in the
Naked Werewolf series be read as stand-alone books or would the readers be lost?
I would read them in order, just to avoid having the mystery elements
spoiled.
Do you have a favorite scene in How to Run With A Naked Werewolf?
I really liked writing the scene where Anna has a fistfight with an exotic
dancer and then has to save said dancer from a severe allergic reaction. It
appealed my violent side and my inner medical nerd.
Which character was your
favorite to write about? What about the hardest to write about?
Maggie is
always my favorite werewolf to write because she’s the voice of the side of
personality that is really angry and defensive and cranky. She says the things I
wish I could say, but know that I should and could not.
Well, HOW TO RUN is
different from my other books in that it involves an abusive ex. It was very
difficult to write that painful history for Anna and to do it in a way that was
believable.
What Other Projects can we look forward to reading from
you?
My first ever haunted house story, BETTER HOMES AND HAUNTINGS, comes out
in June 2014. I am very excited about it, because it’s my first “dual romance,”
involving two different couples in one book.
I am also finishing a full
length book based on the story started in my Half-Moon Hollow novella, I’M
DREAMING OF AN UNDEAD CHRISTMAS. Gigi finally gets the name of her blond mystery
vampire!
Find Molly and her books
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How To Run With A Naked Werewolf
Naked Werewolf #3
Down, Boy
Anna Moder
has just witnessed a shooting, seen her car pulverized, and rescued a
wounded stranger only to discover he's really a werewolf. And by her
recent standards, things are actually looking up. Lycanthropes don't
faze Anna. Doctoring a wolf pack outside Grundy, Alaska, is the closest
thing to home life she's known in years. But hitching a ride to
Anchorage with long-absent pack member Caleb Graham that's a risk. Part
of her itches to whack his nose with a newspaper. The rest is trying
unsuccessfully to keep her own paws off every delicious inch of him.
The
problem is, Caleb employs his lupine tracking abilities as a
notquite-legal bounty hunter, and Anna is suspicious of both him and his
profession. On the run from her past, with old problems closing in,
she'd like to stay far, far away from anybody with connections to the
law. Caleb, however, seems determined to keep her close. Are his
intentions noble, or is he working a more predatory angle?
Anna's
been dreaming of returning to a semi-normal life, but now she's
experiencing a strange new urge . . . to join Caleb in running with the
wolves.
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