Instant Attraction Month: Reader Questions

At the beginning of Instant Attraction Month, we asked you to send in your questions for Jill. Sometimes it’s hard for us to come up with fresh new interview questions, and I think that we have some great questions here. So thank you, readers, for playing with us!

Nancy B: I’d like to know where she gets her ideas from. She has unusual characters, wonderful but unusual.

Jill: Where do I get my ideas . . . Well, I’d like to say they come easily, but they really don’t. It’s a long, slow, tortuous process that’s almost worst than having a root canal but not quite. And then after agonizing over having NOTHING for what seems like forever, the idea’ll just show up in my brain, like “hi, been here all along waiting for ya …”

I Heart Book Gossip: What time do you write? Do you write with music?

Jill: I write from the moment I kick my people out the door for school and work until the moment they arrive back home again, taking time out for a daily hike in the woods with the dogs and the occasional plotting session on my couch with my eyes closed. Sometimes I don’t get enough done and have to go back at it at night but I hate to miss my shows so I try not to do that . . .

Anon: Are your characters based on people you know?

Jill: No. Never. Ever. Made up people are far more fun.

Willa: For anyone who has never read your books how would you describe them?

Jill: Fun and sexy. Maybe I’m not writing deep literature but I do think there’s something to be said for fun and sexy as a great escape.

Cassie: On your blog you chronicle events from your life living in the Sierras. Any chance your future books feature an appearance of Momma and Baby Bear, running into Luke Wilson while walking on a trail without a camera or that ‘special’ stump?

Jill: Oh most definitely. I just have to recover from the embarrassment of the Luke incident first. (Blushing all over again) As for the bears, be sure to stayed tuned. I have a special bear mention in my Christmas novella coming out in 10/09.

Seneca: What is the most common question you get asked? Not counting ‘where do you get your ideas’. That’s a given, I think. LOL

Jill: Definitely the most common question is always directed at my husband: “Do you help her research the sex scenes?” I’ve seen him answer in a variety of ways, and he’s always a good sport about it, but for some reason, it drives me crazy, lol! Please if we ever meet, don’t ask me that one.

Karin: Jill, do your daughters read your books? And, if they do, how old were they the first time they did?

Jill: I have always told my kids that my books are rated R, and so just like certain movies, certain books aren’t age appropriate. But now my oldest daughter is in college at UCLA and her friends read me. She’s still not ready, lol!

Allison(‘s) Reads: Jill, do you think the characters you come up with and/or the issues they face in your stories are affected by your family/people in your life? For example, the worries or hopes you have for them specifically translating into a story idea? If that makes any sense at all… whatsoever..

Jill: Sometimes, yes. I think it’s natural to have your work affected by what’s going on in your real life. But for the most part, I truly try to mostly make everything up. It’s far easier that way. And far more fun to write make-believe that real worries, real angsts. At least for me, because let’s face it, I like light-hearted. I like a happy ending.

ddurance: What genre would you like to write, but haven’t thus far?

Jill: A good old fashioned who-done-it mystery, complete with mapcap adventure and add in the sexy.

Joy: How much influence do you as the author have on the way your cover for your book looks?

Jill: Very little, lol. VERY little. (Read: none)

Susan: Jill, do you have a scene in your mind that you haven’t been able to fit into one of your stories yet? If so, can you give us a clue as to what it’s about?

Jill: I did, but then I just squeezed it into the story I’m writing now, which happens to be the third Wilder brother, so sorry. Can’t tell. But trust me, it’s . . .well, hawt. How’s that for a tease? 🙂

Gina: Can you tell us more about your next series, the one about the baseball player?

Jill: Double Play comes out in July of this year, and it’s the first of two sexy, alpha major league baseball players. Pace Martin n an ace pitcher on the Santa Barbara Heat, and he’s got it all. Or so he thinks. But this being me, and the book being a romance, of course it all falls down around his ears and he has to pick up the pieces one by one. Luckily, he has a little help from an unlikely source, and let’s just say he never expected love to play a part in the game or his life, but really, as it happens, it was the missing piece.

Blanche: Is there a story that you’re dying to write but haven’t had time to get it written yet…if so, can you tell us about that story?

Jill: I always feel this way about the book I’m writing now.

Nikol: Which of your own books is your favorite?

Jill: Oh boy. That’s like asking which kid is my favorite, but I have to say, it’s INSTANT ATTRACTION, and not just because it’s out RIGHT NOW SO PLEASE GO BUY IT. 🙂 It’s my favorite because it just came out of me like a song, and because it has a hot hero, a lot of fun and love and adventure, and it’s what I love to read, as well as write.

Theresa: It’s the start of a new year, did you make any writing resolutions this year? Care to share some of them?

Jill: No resolutions. I suck at keeping them.

Delene: Who’s your favorite Wilder brother?

Jill: I can’t do it. I can’t pick. How about this, when all three books are out, I’ll have a contest and you guys tell me which brother is your favorite? Deal?

Thanks again to everyone that sent in a question for Jill!

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