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URL:
www.savannakougar.com
ABOUT SAVANNA
Baby boomer and
redhead, I’ve always danced to the beat of a different drum.
I’m single and living on the tame cattle prairie of the
Midwest with my beloved doggies. My interests are eclectic,
and anything creative. And my imagination has always played
a huge role in my life. Once, I lost my shoes when I was
daydreaming ~ my second grade teacher decided I needed to
learn a valuable lesson.
When I write, my imagination dwells in the mysteries,
magic and mayhem of life and love. My romance stories also
travel into the far reaches of space, time and other
dimensions, where the past often meets the future. Think the
Renaissance meets Buck Rogers. Think Romancing the Stone
entwined with Stars Wars. Think extreme passion and the
enchantment of love, cut with a fine erotic edge, like the
finesse and fierceness of a blade during swordplay.
Most of all, as an author, I love my heroines and
heroes. I love writing their stories, the various worlds
they inhabit, and their adventures together.
Me as a blurb? Imagine a wild child of the sixties
dancing as one with a silver screen’ sex kitten. Imagine, if
you will, a woman with a strange other-worldly fondness for
words and pens, who is destined write paranormal romances
only for your personal pleasure.
Oh, by the way, I did graduate college with a B.A. in
History, Summa Cum Laude, and I was one of the ten finalists
in the American Title IV for my entry, Murder by Hair
Spray in Gardenia, New Atlantis.
INTERVIEW
Q: What are your favorite romance genres to write?
A: Anything and everything in paranormal, sci-fi, futuristic,
fantasy, and magic with pre-history thrown in, especially
Atlantis.
Q: How long have you been writing paranormal?
A: As I recall, it was about age sixteen, inspired by all the
romance novels I’d read (that was the era of sweet,
keep-the-bedroom-doors-closed romance). Also, inspired by War
and Peace, and of course, by Dr. Zhivago (Omar Shariff – oh be
still my beating heart!), I began writing about an alternative
timeline in Russia, where the hero rescues the heroine after she
escapes from her abductors. My heroine is in need of a bath, so the
secluded ice-cold pool it is, before he takes her back to his
grand estate, since he’s been in love with her for a long time.
Q: Did you continue writing paranormal fiction during your
college years?
A: I took the creative writing classes available. Since that
was ages ago, there was no actual degree, and the classes were
newly offered. But yes, I wrote a short story about the day
Atlantis was destroyed, sinking beneath the ocean waves. In an
advanced writing class, I wrote a short story about a white
witch who casts a spell for her ‘perfect man’. One of the media
students wanted to use my story as his final exam project, which
was to produce a cable TV video. Unfortunately, my story was
labeled as ‘having no socially redeeming value’ by the
supervising professor. Gee, come to think of it, there went my
promising script-writing career.
Q: Since you were writing paranormal romance stories before they
became a mainstream staple, when did you realize you might have
a chance to be published?
A: My sister gave me a book by one of her favorite romance
authors (and mine), Jayne Ann Krentz. It was Sweet Starfire,
published in 1986 under her pen name, Jayne Castle. Not only did
I thoroughly enjoy the story, I thought, My Gawd! I might
actually have a shot at getting something published now.
Q: Do you have a favorite paranormal subgenre you prefer to
write? Or is it a free for all?
A: With me, it’s a free for all, definitely. I love combining
various elements of all the paranormal subgenres, futuristic and
magical, shape-shifting and sci-fi, the goddesses and gods of
myth living in alternate timelines. If it’s out there, I want to
write it. Well, as long as it fits within the world I’m building
for my heroine and hero.
Q: As a published author now, how did your career begin?
A: It was two almost simultaneous opportunities. Becoming a
finalist in the American Title IV, the Romantic Times contest
sponsored by Dorchester, for my entry, Murder by Hair Spray in
Gardenia, New Atlantis. And! Signing my very first contract with
Siren Publishing for All Shades of Blue Paradise [World of the
Blue Pearl Moon, Book I].
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