Welcome
to Mutt or Meow Monday!
Mutt or Meow Monday is where we interview the author’s
animal friends instead of interviewing the author. Let’s see what the animals
have to say!
Please introduce yourself!
Hi-HO, there! Bert’s the name. I’m a
Lurcher, a lover, a joker, a midnight toker. No, really. Playing ball, sleeping
and eating’s my game. I live with my very own Duchess of Delights, Cerise
DeLand. Have since a year ago August when I was young, homeless and hungry and
Cerise picked me up, hugged me to her (ample) bosom and took me home with her
hubbie.
What’s your favorite book by CERISE DELAND and why?
My fave??? OH. MY. DEAR. Cerise is
The Writer I Adore. I especially love the novels where we get to eat and
travel. MIA DOLCE is my sugar, permit
me to say. LAID BARE, CARRIED AWAY where we get to dine in Mexico and Venice.
Divine. I love to eat. Anything. (Except of course, I have learned to stay away
from eating my own bed. Or the rather tasty used tissues in the trash. Cerise
makes the air rather blue, I will say (and have no clue why) when I drink from
the terlet.)
Do you ever interrupt CERISE for attention when she’s trying to write?
Does she stop and give you attention, brush you off, or bribe you with treats?
Ah. Sigh. Cerise is a workaholic. I
want to play with my red balls. (I said, RED balls.) SHE wants to type. I shake
my head and ponder why she taps away on that flat board and when I appear, she
says something akin to, “Just a minute. Cookie?”
No, Cer, dahling. I want to play
ball. Football. Round ball. Blue ball. (Yes, I typed blue ball and I DO have
ONE, you naughty reader. One. And no, I never did have one on my body. That I
can rmember, that is.Thank you so much.
Does CERISE
ever read her writing to you? Do you like it?
OH, PLEASE. The naughtiness on that
bright white screen? I try to turn my eyes away. ALAS. (I lick my chops.) She
insists I listen as she reads to me. Afterward, I go to Doggie Confession,
dreaming of what might have been possible if I still had my… accoutrements, if
you know what I mean. I tell you, the woman has a red hot mind. I wonder her
fingers don’t burn that board she types on.
Has CERISE
ever based one of her characters on you? Which one?
Egads. Never. I would not permit it,
I tell you. In her last book? She KILLED a
German shepherd. Now, you know, her editor got after her. (I had emailed the
intelligent woman ahead of time to alert her to the massacre.) I shake my head.
It is so important to catch these errors of judgment, don’t you agree, before
they appear for the world to read? After
all, I earn my keep here. And the kibbles and treats are darn yummy. Cerise
tells me they are also expensive.
Hmmm.
Hence, my need to read her drafts on
the sly at night when they think I’m sleeping. I keep her on the up and up. One
must, you realize. Self-serving? Yes. I like my
vittles. Lots of them.
What does CERISE
do to celebrate when she finishes writing a book?
She drinks, my dear.
WINE. Lots of wine! I have persuaded
them (finally!) to give me a taste now and then. Jolly good stuff. I am into
the ’02 Cabernet Savignon, Napa, Eastern terroir. I especially like it with the
grated parmesan they drop on the floor. (Can I tell you, it is not enough?)
What do you wish CERISE would do with her writing time instead of
writing?
Cerise?
Oh, my. The woman would read or cook
if she weren’t twiddling her fingers over that flat board. Me, I’d prefer she
came outside and played ball.
What’s the best part about living
with an author?
The best part?
She’s calm.
She’s stable. (At least, she is most
of the time. If the electricity goes off in the middle of a sentence, she makes
the air BLUE. BLUE, I tell you, with anger. Yes, we have backups, but you know
these creative types can be temperamental. I sigh. Look for my inside red ball.
And gum it.)
What’s the worst part about living
with an author?
The worst part of living with an
author is that you have to PRY her off her BUTT. Oh, she’ll walk with me and
Hubbie in the a.m., but after that? She warms that chair in her office until
dinner time. Then? She wants wine. And,
yeah, so do I.
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Cerise DeLand and (Yes) Jane Austen
Genre/Subgenre: historical, Regency,
erotic romance!!!
Back cover blurb:
The Dashwood sisters love too passionately…and, it seems, without
reciprocal feelings from the men they choose. But lust can change a man…and a
woman.
If love is never sane, then lust certainly is all passion.
Elinor Dashwood cannot explain her affection for polite, reserved
Edward Ferrars. In contrast, her younger sister Marianne endlessly extols the
visage and virtues of dashing John Willoughby. Frustrated and lonely, Elinor
yearns for Edward’s touch and some declaration of his regard. Yet she loves
him.
Marianne eagerly
surrenders to rapture in Willoughby’s arms—and cannot even consider the
constancy of quiet, compassionate Colonel Brandon. Neither sister can escape
the draw of lust. But as they learn more about those men they adore, they learn
that love can be both sensible and sensational.
Author Bio:
What’s an East Coast gal to do to if she lives deep in the heart of
Texas, travels often everywhere, and adores Paris, Florence, London, Tokyo and
all points east and west?
Ah.
She becomes an author who can write about those romantic places. With
a passion for cowboys, spies, rakes, knights in shining armor and their gutsy
women, Cerise DeLand is an author who adores an alpha male with a tender heart
and a need for a smoldering erotic love affair with the right woman!
Cerise is a Top 20 Best Selling author on Amazon with more than three
dozen works published in erotic romance, and she is the award-winning author of
mystery, mainstream and romance with St. Martin’s Press, Pocket Books and
Kensington. Her books are on numerous book clubs, including Featured Selections
of The Mystery Guild, Doubleday and Rhapsody. And when she isn’t dreaming up
fiction or traveling? Cerise is a fabulous cook and an avid history buff.
Busy lady. Happy writer.
Find her books at Ellora’s Cave,
Resplendence
Publishing, Wild Rose Press
and Totally Bound!
Give
Cerise DeLand some Web Love!
http://www.cerisedeland.com
http://cerisedeland.blogspot.com
Twitter @CeriseDeLand
Buy Totally Bound!
