Book Goodies

Find great books, bargains and freebies!

  • Home
  • Authors: Tell Readers About Your Book
  • Advertising
    • Buy Home Page Features
    • Advertise Your Bargain Book
    • List Your Free eBook
    • Feature Your PermaFree Book
    • BookGoodies Multi-site Landing Pages And Book Buyer’s Guides
    • Author Advertising PrePay and Save!
  • Deals Newsletter
  • Featured Books
    • Buyer’s Guides
  • Book and Kindle Sleeves
  • Free Printable Bookmarks
  • Sites in the BookGoodies Network
  • Inspirational Thoughts and Affirmations
  • Free Books
  • PermaFree Books
  • Featured Free and Bargain Books
  • Bargain Books Under $3
  • Buyer’s Guides
  • Interviews With Authors
    • Podcasts with Authors
  • Authors Start Here
    • Authors: Tell Readers About Your Book
    • BookGoodies MEGA Submit Book Buyers Guide
    • Submit Your Interview
    • Feature Your Free Books
    • Feature Your Bargain Books
  • Giveaways from BookGoodies
You are here: Home / Interviews With Authors / Interview with Author – Roxanne Smith

Interview with Author – Roxanne Smith

By Book Goodies Leave a Comment

AuthorPic-RoxanneSmith
About Roxanne Smith:
A Florida native, Roxanne Smith has called everywhere from Houston to Cheyenne home. Currently residing in Asheville, NC, she’s an avid reader of every genre, a cat lover, pit bull advocate, and semi-geek. She loves video games, Doctor Who, and her dashing husband, who provides ample material for her writing.

What inspires you to write?
I love reading character-driven stories, and I love coming up with interesting characters. Any given plot point will change the game depending on what kind of person the character is and how they react…anxious or laidback, happy or morose. They dictate a story more than plot, and I think that’s pretty fascinating.

Tell us about your writing process.
To get the motor going, I write out a few chapter outlines, about a paragraph each. I don’t bother worrying about the whole book, because I never keep with the outline. If my gut moves a scene away from what I had in mind, I go with the flow. It always works out in the end, and has even led to a few surprises for me. I’m a pantser, but I do keep detailed, handwritten logs for everything from the cast of characters and their attributes to how many words I write daily.

For Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?
I don’t talk to my characters so much as I talk at them. I take care to ensure their actions coincide with their personalities. So, there’s a lot of, “Nah, you wouldn’t do that, you’d do THIS.” And yes, it feels as ridiculous as it sounds.

What advice would you give other writers?
Don’t ever, ever give up. The time I decided I wanted to write to the time I signed a publishing contract was a span of ten years. It took me nearly two just to edit my first completed manuscript to industry standard, and that was after I had signed with an agent. The number of rejections I received…we’ll just say staggering. So, don’t give up. Period.

How did you decide how to publish your books?
I didn’t know self-publishing was really a thing when I started out. It was never a question. I wanted to be traditionally published. It was like a personal challenge, to be good enough for an agent, good enough for a publisher. I’m extremely tenacious, so once I had a goal, that was it. Self-publishing isn’t for me, but I wouldn’t knock it, either.

What do you think about the future of book publishing?
With self-publishing and the digital market, the future is gray matter. There’s just no telling. All I know is I want to be a part of it. I love real books with paper pages, so of course it’s my dream to have a print contract. I can only hope that’s still a thing in the future!

What genres do you write?: Contemporary Romance

What formats are your books in?: eBook

Website(s)
Roxanne Smith Home Page Link
Link To Roxanne Smith Page On Amazon

Your Social Media Links
Goodreads
Facebook
Twitter

All information in this post is presented “as is” supplied by the author. We don’t edit, to allow you, the reader, to hear the author in their own voice.

Filed Under: Interviews With Authors Tagged With: contemporary romance, romance, Roxanne Smith


Free and Bargain Books delivered to your email daily, subscribe now to find great new books every day.

Are you looking for ebook deals? We have them! We also have free ebooks - check them out!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Sign up for our Featured and Bargain Books Newsletter

Fiction

  • Fiction
  • Action & Adventure
  • Drama
  • Fantasy
  • Historical
  • Horror
  • Mystery/Suspense
  • Paranormal
  • Romance
  • Romance – Erotica
  • Science Fiction
  • Women’s Fiction
  • Fiction Audio Books

Nonfiction

  • Art/Photography/Coffee Table
  • Biographies & Memoirs
  • Body/Mind/Spirit
  • Business Books
  • Cooking and Food Books
  • Crafts and Hobbies
  • Educational/How-to
  • Essays
  • Faith and Religion
  • Gardening Books
  • Health & Fitness
  • Humor
  • Inspiration and Photography Books
  • Pet and Animal Books
  • Science and Math
  • Travel
  • Nonfiction Audio Books

More Good Stuff

  • Featured Books
  • Children and Young Adult Books
  • *Reading Room
    • Interviews With Authors
    • Audio Books
      • Nonfiction Audio Books
      • Fiction Audio Books
  • Spanish
  • Giveaways from BookGoodies
  • Readers: What Podcasts Do You Listen To?
  • Readers: What Devices do You Use to Read eBooks?
  • Readers: What Do You Like on an Author’s Website?

For Authors

  • Authors: Tell Readers About Your Book
  • Author Interview – Tell Us About Yourself
  • BookGoodies MEGA Submit Book Buyers Guide
  • Advertise Your Bargain Books
  • Advertise Your Free eBook
  • Advertise Your PermaFree Book
  • Universal Link Tool for Amazon Books
  • Subscribe to Our Newsletter
  • BookGoodies News

 

Click here to have your book featured

 



Are you looking for ebook deals? We have them! We also have free ebooks - check them out!

Copyright © 2023 BookGoodies Network