Interview with Tess Oliver

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One on one with:

Tess Oliver * Scottie Barrett * C.J. Evans

(Whichever name you know her by)

As someone who is a fan and follows your career, first I have to say that you are one busy author.  You write under 3 different pen names and just under your Tess Oliver author name you have four Goodreads pages worth of novels you’ve written.

-What would you say the biggest struggle of being the mind behind 3 different pen names and balancing the work you do for each, is? 

• Well, the Scottie Barrett name is a coauthor team with my sister. We recently got the rights back to several of our books, historical erotica, and we're republishing them again.  It's been about seven years but now we are working on a contemporary erotic romance under our old pen name.  It's fun to be working with my sister again. I recently retired early from my long time career as a teacher to become a full time writer. And I love being able to spend my whole day creating stories. It gives me a lot more time to develop characters and plots.  The Scottie Barrett stuff has a different flavor than my Tess Oliver books because my sister and me combine our styles in the creation of those books.

That's really interesting and it must be great to be able to share an experience like this with someone you are so close with!

-Now that we’ve established how busy you already are, what new books do you have in the works for us and can you tell on anything about them? 

• I'm working on a project that I'm really in love with. It's a standalone contemporary new adult romance titled That Time with Sugar. It's something I've been working on between the Barringer Brothers books. It's coming out in March and we'll have some sample chapters up on my web site soon.  I hope readers enjoy it as much as I'm enjoying writing it.

I will definitely be checking out the new work, as I am sure most others will be. I can't wait for the sneak peaks!

-Who or what inspires your stories: other authors, people in your life, things that have happened to you in your life, etc.? 

• Tidbits of my life end up in a lot of my stories. People, conversations, events, places, they show up in my writing-- sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.

-If you had the ability to live in one of the book you have created, which one would you choose and why?