Interview with Laurelin Paige, Author of Brutal Billionaire

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to write down Brutal Billionaire?

Brutal Billionaire is a bit of a flip on Indecent Proposal, a film that has all the time intrigued me, however that wasn’t the preliminary inspiration. Originally, I used to be watching the present The Great on Hulu, which is a comedic tackle Peter the Great, and Peter, since he’s the tzar and might do no matter he desires, sleeps with his greatest good friend’s spouse at any time when he desires to. I discovered that state of affairs intriguing and that led to writing a guide a few man who principally offers his spouse to a different man for his or her monetary/profession achieve.

If you needed to choose theme songs for the primary characters of Brutal Billionaire, what would they be?

I don’t have particular songs for the primary characters, however a pair of songs that I feel actually match the guide are Illicit Affairs and High Infidelity, each by Taylor Swift.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to write down?

I actually solely write romance, however I’ve a large style in studying. I like literary fiction and girls’s fiction in addition to nonfiction and thrillers and even younger grownup and center grade books in addition to some fantasy.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

Oh my goodness, so many! I’m at present studying EL James The Mister, and wish to learn Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin after that, adopted by A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan. And then I hope to learn one thing by Elsie Silver. I’ve downloaded a pair of her books.

What scene in your guide was your favourite to write down?

I actually like writing the heavy banter scenes. I can’t determine a selected one as a favourite, however each time I used to be capable of let Brystin give Holt sass (which was typically) after which have Holt come again with out batting an eye fixed was enjoyable.

Do you have got any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and so on.)

I like to drag a Tarot card to concentrate on earlier than I begin writing, simply to get my ideas zoned in. Then I’ll rub a crystal or stone, no matter has the type of mojo I want for the day. That’s just about my routine to get into writing.

Do you have got a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

If you might be humble, neither reward nor criticism will contact you as a result of you understand who you might be. Mother Theresa stated it, and I’ll have blended it up a bit, however that’s the gist. It helps me keep in mind that unhealthy opinions don’t must get to me and neither does an excessive amount of reward. I do know my abilities and my limitations and different folks’s concepts about what they’re don’t have to matter.

If you could possibly select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your guide, what would it not be?

Well, Brutal Billionaire is an escapism romance with poisonous relationships and a purple flag hero, so I suppose the factor I need readers to recollect is that these qualities are titillating in fiction however are a catastrophe in actual life. But romance readers already know the distinction between fiction and fantasy in order that doesn’t really have to be stated.