Author Interview: Mechele Armstrong
Mechele Armstrong is quickly becoming known as one of the new and seductive voices in erotic romance thanks to her Bloodlines series from Loose-Id. She took time out from writing about her devilishly sexy vampires to chat with us this month.
Mechele, thanks so much for stopping by the boudoir to spend some time with us!
Thanks so much for having me!
Your Bloodlines series is a fantastic vampire series, that not only has had 
fantastic reader comments, it has been cleaning up in the reviews department also. Can you tell us a bit about the books that have been released?
Thank you for the fantastic comment. I have a lot of fun writing them and have been so thrilled at the response to Blood Kiss and also, Conduit. Blood Kiss was released in October. It’s about Sarah, who finds her roommate murdered, drained of all blood. Sarah takes on a psychic connection to the killer, Marcus, who’s an insane vampire. She also meets Nick Mancuso, who’s trying to stop Marcus. It’s a bit of a thriller with lots of hot romance between Nick and Sarah. Conduit is next and was released in March. Copper’s looking for her missing twin when she meets sexy vampire, Bastian. They will have to rescue her sister from a vampiress out for revenge while coming to terms with their own feelings for each other. And Copper is a Conduit, who’s blood magnifies a vampire’s powers.
Conduit is the newest release from the series. How did you come up with the idea of a human conduit for vampires?
The idea came out of thinking about a story and playing “what if…” What if a woman goes in search of her twin? What if the twin was involved with vampires? What if the woman searching’s blood is more powerful than a normal 
human’s? And the idea for Conduit came alive. LOL I love the tag line. Think all blood is the same? Think again.
I LOVE THAT!!
The next book in the series is Crimson Rose. Can you tell us a little bit about that and what you have in store for us for that one?
Crimson’s Rose, which will be out very soon, is about Copper’s twin. Another vampire decides Crimson must be a Conduit like her sister. So he’s out to secure her for his own. Only he hires a mercenary, R
ojo Rose, to collect her, and Rojo winds up becoming fascinated with her. While writing Conduit, Crimson began speaking for her own story to be told so I listened. There are a lot of thrills and surprises in this book. Crimson and Rojo are both fascinating characters.
I was reading your bio, great website by the way, and I was struck how similar our stories about how we became romance authors are. Both of us, after trying other genres discovered romance through reading them. Can you give us a few of your favorite romance authors and do you have any autobuys?
My webmistress rocks!
One autobuy is Sherrilyn Kenyon (aka Kinley MacGregor). When I started back reading romances after a long break, hers were some of the first I discovered. I wound up looking to see if her Dark-Hunters website were real and finding some of my best online friends, including critique partners and a writing partner (which we write under a different pseudonym, Melany Logen (http://www.melanylogen.com , we write erotic romance). Another autobuy is Robin Schone. Some of my favorites include, Karen Marie Moning, Sahara Kelly and S.L. Carpenter, Jaid Black, Lynn Kurland, and Dara Joy.
WOW, we share really similiar tastes. KMM is one of my favs. I noticed you have a Fling from Loose Id coming soon, Solstice Spell. Is this for the Summer Solstice?
Nope, this is for Winter Solstice so the soon is stretched out a bit. LOL it is such a fun book. It involves curses, a hot tub, lovers, and a white deer *grins*.
It sounds fantastic. I can't wait!
I noticed a couple other books you have in the works, but they seem to be a little different than your Bloodlines series. Are you going to start taking on more genres and have other series?
I’m playing around a bit. Solstice Spell is very different than the Blood Lines’ books. I’m also tackling a ménage, which has been very interesting to try and write. I seem to like paranormal or suspense and I LOVE combining the two so we’ll see where the forays into different writing take me. I’ve gotten a little written on the next Blood Lines, which will be a prequel of sorts about two characters who have been in all three Blood Lines’ books. It will be a historical paranormal, so a little different.
Mechele, thanks again for stopping by. Can you let my readers know where they can find more info on you? Your website and any yahoo groups?
Thank you so much for having me.
My website, http://www.mechelearmstrong.com has information about all the books and also some short free reads.
My newsletter group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mechele_armstrong/ . I put out a newsletter called The Crayon Chronicles every month, run contests, and share excerpts and free reads there first.
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