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How can I
contact you?
You can
always email
me at
jillmyles AT
gmail.com.
If you need
my agent,
please
contact
Rachel Vater
at Folio
Literary
Management.
Are you
published?
Where can I
buy your
books?
Both Sex
Starved
and Sex
Drive
will be
released in
2009 by
Pocket
Books, an
imprint of
Simon &
Schuster. Since
we're a year
away from
publication,
a lot of
things are
still not
assigned yet
- like an
ISBN. As
soon as I
get more
information,
I promise to
post it.
What are a
few of your
favorite
books?
I confess,
I'm not one
of those
people that
says "Oh, I
read
EVERYTHING!"
I'm horribly
picky, and I
tend to glom
onto certain
genres for
weeks/months/years
without
switching.
That being
said, there
are probably
a few books
that I'd
love to take
to a desert
island with
me and be
happy to
re-read over
and over
again. These
are:
Sara Donati,
Into the
Wilderness
Julie
Garwood,
Saving Grace
Judith
McNaught,
A Kingdom of
Dreams
Jude
Deveraux,
The Taming
Piers
Anthony,
With a
Tangled
Skein
Anne
McCaffrey,
Dragonsdawn
The entire
ELFQUEST
comic-book
run.
Anything
Kelley
Armstrong.
Anything
Charlaine
Harris.
Anything
Ilona
Andrews.
Anything
Meljean
Brook.
D'aulaires'
Norse
Myths
and Greek
Myths
Gustav
Davidson's
A
Dictionary
of Angels
Andrew
Lang's Fairy
Books (Blue,
Green, etc)
How much
time do you
spend
writing in a
typical
week?
Too much and
not enough.
When I'm
working on a
project, I
usually
spend about
20 hours a
week
writing,
rewriting,
or
obsessing.
That doesn't
include
editing on
my lunch
hour,
hashing
through plot
on the drive
home, or
endless
whining on
my blog.
Some nights
I'll be able
to get 1 or
2k in before
bedtime, but
most of the
time I do my
heavy-duty
writing on
the weekend
- 5k each
day Saturday
and Sunday.
Exhausting,
but worth
it.
That being
said, every
book is
different.
If it only
comes out
one page at
a time,
well, one
page is all
you get. The
important
thing is to
keep working
on it.
Which novel
of yours was
the hardest
to write,
and why?
They're all
hard in
their own
special way.
The first
novel I
wrote really
bogged me
down -- I
stopped it
about
halfway
through
because I
couldn't
find the
historical
equivalent
of what kind
of soap the
character
would be
using to
wash
herself. It
stopped me
for six
months
before I was
able to just
write "She
washed
herself."
Another book
was a rough
one to edit
because the
beginning
was terribly
slow. I
ended up
re-writing
it about 5
times and
hacked out
the first
150 pages or
so.
SEX STARVED
was the most
difficult
rough draft,
and I'm not
sure why. I
think part
of it lies
with the
fact that I
was heading
into
religious
territory
(always a
no-no) and I
was afraid
someone
would get
offended.
Then, I
realized
that I was
writing a
book about a
sex vampire,
and if NO
ONE got
offended,
then I was
obviously
doing
something
wrong.
How
many novels
did you
finish
before Sex
Starved?
First
drafts?
Four. Really
honest-to-goodness
completed
novels? One,
and I'd even
argue that
point. You
grow a lot
as you
continue to
write, and
what seems
superlative
and perfect
at the time
is actually
pretty darn
crappy.
So,
like, what
kind of
research did
you have to
do for
Sex Starved?
Um. Very,
very
difficult
research.
Yeah. Very
time
consuming,
labor-intensive
research.
Yep.
I have
an idea for
a book. Can
you write it
and we can
split the
profits
50/50?
I'm afraid
not. Your
ideas suck.
Hahaha! Just
kidding.
Seriously
though, the
answer is
still no.
What are
three things
you want to
do before
you die?
I'd like to
own more
cats (ha,
just kidding
honey.
really.) I'd
like to lose
weight
(wouldn't we
all). And
I'd love to
visit the
places that
I can
currently
only write
about: I
want to see
the lochs of
Scotland,
the castles
of England,
the Louvre,
walk the
streets of
Rome, see
the Great
Pyramids,
the
Parthenon.
Your version
of angels
and demons
and fallen
angels are
completely
wrong!
Angels don't
act like
that!
See, I've
always
considered
myself a bit
of a fantasy
writer, and
I treated
Sex Starved
and the
mythos there
the same
way. The
'angels'
listed in
Sex Starved
aren't
angels like
in the
Bible. Just
like the
vampires
aren't in
the Bible
either.
It's
fiction.
And after
you die? I'm
sure most of
us don't
turn into
succubi porn
queens.
Again,
fantasy.
Seriously.
It's all
make-believe,
folks. It's
about 5%
actual
research and
95% of my
brain
shooting out
weird stuff.
Just read it
and enjoy.
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