Interview with Kaily Hart

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Kaily Hart on

tour with her debut short erotic romance Picture This.

Hi Jacqueline, so glad to be with you today!

1. Who is Kaily Hart?

I’m a wife, mother, chauffeur, referee, ex-corporate 

executive, type A, slightly OCD personality who is just 

unable to stifle the urge to write any longer. 

Now, I can add author to all of that!

2. What genres do you choose to write? Why?

Actually, I read across all the genres, but I started off 

writing steamy contemporaries. Why? I love reading 

a good contemporary romance and it didn’t require 

extensive research (such as an historical would involve) 

or complicated world building (of a paranormal). LOL. 

While I love historical, I don’t think I have the voice for it, 

but I do think I’ll head to paranormal at some stage. 

I have too many ideas not to!

3. What is the hardest part of writing for you?

I find it’s the actual writing part! I love to start a new 

book. It’s all shiny and new and exciting.  It remains that 

way, but after the first chapter or two? Then it really is 

hard work to adequately develop characters that the reader

 can invest in, evolve those characters and thread through a 

compelling enough plot with deep emotional undertones for 

a satisfying story. Whew! By the time that’s all done, 

I’m really ready for the next one!

4. What is the easiest part of writing for you?

Ideas! Ideas! Ideas! Ideas are the easiest for me. My 

mind is constantly birthing ideas for stories, scenes, 

characters and dialogue. I literally have an ideas file 

that has about 35 books in differing stages of 

development. Some of those I might never get around 

to writing, but it’s fun to explore different scenarios and 

try to come up with a premise that’s unique.

5. What do you do when you’re not writing/editing 

or thinking about writing/editing?

Uh, sleep? LOL. Even then, my mind’s at work. I once 

dreamt an entire story. I got up the next morning, wrote it 

down and I have an outline for a book I’d love to write 

one day. Seriously though, I have kids that are still young, 

so anything outside of actual writing or writing related is 

usually spent on some family activity. I also love interior 

decorating and design. I’m one of those people who have 

reams of designer magazines lying around. My house 

needed a lot of work when we bought it and I’ve remodeled 

it entirely both inside and out since 2005. It never seems like 

it’s completely done, though. I’m always coming up with 

some idea or another that I just have to try. 

Hubby just rolls his eyes.

6. When did you realize you wanted to write?

This is actually a really difficult question to answer. 

If you’d asked me two years ago, I’d probably have 

looked at you funny and asked what you were smoking. 

Seriously! I was heavily entrenched in the corporate IT 

world. But things happen and stuff changes. Yeah, I 

know very technical. It’s certainly been a journey of 

realization. Today, I’d say it was at the end of 2008 

when I sat down and decided I was going to write, 

but I’ve since come to the conclusion that I’ve 

suppressed it for awhile. I was always a voracious 

reader, but I’m not really sure when the writing spark started.

7. While working on a story, do you write directly 

onto the computer or are there notebooks and plot 

ideas jotted down in various places?

I write directly on my laptop. Well, for the most part! 

I carry a notebook around with me everywhere I go and 

I’ve been known to jot an idea or some dialogue down 

on a receipt, a kids school note, an appointment card, 

whatever is available.

My desk sometimes looks like a patchwork quilt of sticky 

notes where I jot things down as I’m working on the laptop. 

I don’t want to lose my place in the story to put a note 

directly in the manuscript or distract myself by typing it 

into another document, so I’ll quickly put it on a sticky note. 

Sometimes it’s just a reminder for the story I’m working on. 

Sometimes, it’s a line of dialogue for another story entirely. 

Sometimes, it’s a whole new story idea all together. 

I often come up with the best ideas when I’m working on 

something totally unrelated!

8. From your own writing, do you have a favourite 

story or character? Why?

It would be really difficult to pick, but generally my 

favourite is whatever I’m currently working on. I have to 

be in love with it for it to be the best story I can write.

9. What’s one thing about you that your readers 

may not know?

Well, at this point, they probably don’t know a whole 

heck of a lot. I LOVE to travel. I love to explore new 

places and get immersed in the character or culture they 

have to offer. One of the best trips I ever did was a 

driving tour my husband and I did of Scotland several 

years ago. We had no accommodation booked and 

just drove around. Absolutely beautiful!

10.  What other books do you have out and in what 

formats are they available?

I wish my answer for you here was very long and 

detailed, but Picture This is my first published book. 

It was released on June 29 from Ellora’s Cave and I’m 

still celebrating! I’m hard at work to ensure it doesn’t stay 

by it’s lonesome out on my author page! I’m currently 

working on 2 more novellas in the same vein as Picture This 

(short, sexy with ‘rough around the edges’ heroes), I have 

a full length contemporary novel simmering and I’ve 

outlined a couple of short paranormal series I’d love to 

sink my teeth into in the not too distant future.

Jacqueline, thanks so much for having me here today! 

The questions were really interesting and fun. 

Hopefully, my answers were too!

Great answers Kaily!!  Thanks so much.

Here's a bit about Picture This

Desperate and young, Jillian Moore did something 

she knew would one day come back to bite her 

in the ass. She’d posed nude. For money. 

Years later, and on the fast track to a successful 

career, she’s still haunted by her mistake. 

She can’t help but wonder when her past will 

catch up with her.

Samuel Steele is not short on female attention, 

but the women who warm his bed pale in 

comparison to the fantasy he’s created of 

the seductive temptress in the painting 

hanging prominently in his bedroom. 

A fantasy that has ruined his once satisfying 

sex life. When he discovers that her exact 

likeness works in his building—for him—

things get…interesting.

Book buy link - http://www.jasminejade.com/p-8437-picture-this.aspx

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