Interview with Author LeTeisha Newton, A Romance Addicts Best Friend

Between my Nook and the Kindle App on my phone I keep my romance addiction fed on a regular basis. One of the best features of e-readers and book apps is that they will make suggestions for you based on the books that you have purchased/read. After finishing up a read a few years ago, the book Theirs To Claim by LeTeisha Newton was suggested. I thought to myself, "Ok, why not, what could it hurt." After that, I had to do my utmost best to read everything that she had written to that point.

Now here I am with the great pleasure of bringing you an exclusive interview with romance author LeTeisha Newton. One of the few authors that I can say is worth burning the midnight oil over. Shifters, Greek gods, espionage, or just good'ol sexy fine hunk of man sweeps woman off her feet or in some cases it's the lady that sweeps that man off his feet *wink*.

Thank you Le'Teisha for hanging out for a bit with me on Foot Notes, (The Last Word) Book Reviews By Pandora Esperanza. 

PE - How did you decide that you wanted to focus your writing in the IR/Shifter/Paranormal romance area?

LN - To be honest, I’m not just an IR romance writer. I’m just a romance author. Fantasy and Paranormal romance were my first loves after reading books by Anne Rice and Christine Feehan. I loved vampires and werewolves. I loved the idea of forever with them being the forgone conclusion; you just had to survive long enough in their world to make it there. There wasn’t a question of if your man was right for you. You knew he was perfect for you. You just had to get over yourself and the situation. I loved that, and wanted to write that. IR came in later, because I tend to write the relationships I’m normally in. I wrote what I knew, and then realized it was a hot genre. A little bit of a shock, I assure you.

It's Even Better The Second Time Around - Grey by EL James

I'll never forget the day that Fifty Shades found me.

I say it found me because I had never heard of the books. They had been round for a few years by then. I had just finished a 6 year marathon of working on and obtaining both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees, and on top of that I was going through a divorce (See 46 and Starting Over - Finding Life After Divorce Re-Mix) No worries that was long ago in a land far away. Any way, I finally had some time on my hands, way too much time, so I hit the pleasure reading. I have always loved fantasy, some science fiction, even horror. But what I needed was some romance. Not just any romance, but the hot and steamy kind.

I had just finished a book and I was grieving, you know that period when you finish your book and you don't have another. Any way one of my older sons told me about a romance book that he heard about that was supposed to be pretty, good. That book was Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James