This week we're featuring Eden Winters, author of the newly released The Wish.

Eden Winters

Tell us about The Wish. What inspired you to write it? How long did it take you to write it?

It all started about two years ago. A friend and I were discussing a m/m book when she said, “We could do this, you know.” My first novel, which I decided not to sell, is the tale of a young man returning from the war and was really grueling to write. After it was finished I needed a break from the darker material, so decided to write a “light, fluffy romance.” Well, that was my intention until the opening scene of The Wish took place at a funeral parlor. From start to finish it took nearly a year.

Tell us one thing about yourself that your readers would be surprised to know.

I don’t watch television. In fact, I don’t even own one. My time is spent reading, writing, or listening to music.

Do you have a favorite genre to read? To write? Is there any one genre you find it easier to write in than the others?

There are so many to read! Fantasy, paranormal, the occasional romance… I can really get into cops and intrigue. To write? Well, I’m trying my hand at different genres, usually mixing two or three in. I’ll let you know my favorite in, say, another ten books or so.

What’s the best thing about writing? How about the worst thing?

The best thing? It’s the one time in your life that you can totally and completely be yourself. Yes, I worry how the readers and critics might take my ideas, but when my fingers are flying over the keyboard I feel free. The worst thing? That so many people in my life wouldn’t understand this genre or why I need to write it. Yes, I need to. There is something inside that must come out or I’ll go crazy and take anyone in the immediate vicinity with me.

Character or plot, which comes first?

Both have happened, and then changed until they were hardly recognizable. The Wish was originally entitled The Bet until the characters took form and evolved, making it a very different story.

What is your favorite way to spend a rainy day?

Is there any other way to spend one besides writing and drinking coffee?

What’s the best writing advice you ever received/found?

Write every day. If not writing, I’m editing or researching, but every single day of my life I do something to advance one of my stories.

What are you working on now?

I’m putting the finishing touches on a paranormal/historical that I hope will be ready for submission by the end of February at the latest. I have five other novels in various stages of a first draft. My current favorite may turn out to be the m/m version of My Fair Lady.