Violet writes erotic
romance and erotica in a variety of genres including contemporary, sci fi,
paranormal, and historical.
Silvia Violet can
often be found haunting coffee shops looking for the darkest, strongest cup of
coffee she can find. Once equipped with the needed fuel, she can happily sit
for hours pounding away at her laptop. Silvia typically leaves home disguised
as a suburban stay-at-home-mom, and other coffee shop patrons tend to ask her
hilarious questions like "Do you write children's books?" She loves
watching the looks on their faces when they learn what she's actually up to.
When not writing, Silvia enjoys baking sinful chocolate treats, exploring new
styles of cooking, and reading children's books to her wickedly smart
offspring.
Jodi: Thank
you, Silvia for taking the time to answer some questions for our readers. Tell
us a little about yourself and how you decided to write exclusively in the m/m
genre.
Silvia: Thank you for having me here. I’ve been a romance reader since I
was in high school. My favorite books at the time I started writing were m/f urban
fantasy romance and Regencies, so those were the first things I wrote. Very
early in my writing career, I began writing m/m/f but it wasn’t until I became
a rabid reader of m/m that I started thinking about writing an m/m story
myself. Once I did, the inspirations started coming, and I enjoyed it so much,
that’s where I’ve been since. I wouldn’t rule out writing some more m/f or
m/m/f eventually though.
Jodi: You
write both standalone books as well as series. Do you have a preference? Do you
feel that series give you more leeway for character development?
Silvia: Most of my series have started when a secondary characters in a
book calls to me and I want to write a story for him. I guess that means I prefer
series since I usually end up writing them whether I mean to or not. I do enjoy
getting to revisit characters.
Jodi: Your
books span a variety of genres: science fiction, paranormal, historical and
contemporary. Is there a specific genre that you prefer?
Silvia: I enjoy writing a variety, because if I had to write just one,
I’d get burned out. I’m not sure I have a favorite, though recently most of my
books have been shifter stories or contemporary.
Jodi: Is it difficult to switch
back and forth to writing in different genres?
Silvia: Occasionally, I wish my non-magical characters had the abilities
of my shifters, but otherwise, no, I find it refreshing.
Jodi: If
someone is not familiar with your books, which book would you recommend they
read first?
Silvia: Depending
on whether they preferred paranormal or contemporary, I’d recommend Wild R Farm
Book 1:
Finding Release
or Unexpected
Rescue.
Jodi: The Unexpected books are
intriguing. What was your inspiration for the plot?
Silvia: I
originally started Unexpected Rescue after seeing a submission call for a
military anthology. I began planning the story while I was at the beach and the
opening scene when Jackson rescues a kayaker came to me while watching the
ocean. The rest just developed as I wrote. I don’t do a lot of story planning
after the first few scenes.
Jodi: Did
you have to do special research about PTSD, the military, or law enforcement
for this series?
Silvia: Yes, I did research on the FBI: training, structure, casework,
etc. I also researched SEALs and military personnel who suffer from PTSD. I
thoroughly enjoyed the research.
Jodi: In
the first book of the series, Unexpected Rescue,
readers meet Jackson and Sport. Both men are broken and suffering from PTSD. We
don’t realize how broken Sport is until we learn more about him in Unexpected Trust. What was your
inspiration for these men?
Silvia: I don’t
have a single moment of inspiration that I can pinpoint. Both men popped into
my head as characters and I learned about them as I wrote their stories. I love
when I feel like I’m watching the story unfold in my mind like that. These two
men had so many layers to slowly revealed.
Jodi: Is “The Incident” based on
an actual evident?
Silvia: No, while
it’s something that could happen to a SEAL team, it’s completely fictional.
Jodi: Danny
O’Sullivan is a strong character: a special operative, a trained killer. Yet,
he is surprisingly vulnerable when it comes to Sport. What was your inspiration
for this character?
Silvia: A picture that I saw on Facebook inspired the idea of Danny.
When I saw it, I knew the man I was looking at was saucy and a pain in the ass
but also far more complex than he seemed on the surface.
Jodi: Will there be more books in this series?
Will Simon and Edgar get their HEA?
Silvia: Yes, there will be at least two more books. The next one will
focus on Simon and Edgar. Simon is very impatient for me to get started.
Jodi: Switching
gears a little, I enjoyed reading If Wishes Were
Horses. This was an interesting plot with great characters. What was
your inspiration for that book?
Silvia: Thank
you. The story was inspired by the song “As If” by Sarah Evans. When I heard
that song, I imagined a hot ranch owner singing it about one of the hands he
wanted badly but knew he shouldn’t touch.
Jodi: Do you have any plans to
expand that book to a series?
Silvia: I do plan to write a series. I want to write a book about Rusty
and another one about Ken and Andy. I might eventually do a crosser over with
Unexpected since both Lt. Gomez from If
Wishes Were Horses and Sport are in the FBI.
Jodi: Was
it difficult to mingle the mystery, violence and romance in that book as well
as in the Unexpected books?
Silvia: Yes, keeping the plot threads going and sorting them out in my
mind was very challenging. I ended up doing a lot of non-linear writing and
moving scenes around to help the story flow.
Jodi: What was your inspiration
for the Wild R Farm series?
Silvia: Someone challenged me to write a story about a cowboy and his
horse (shifter). So I started thinking how that would work and how much more
fun it would be if the cowboy were a werewolf. The idea of a werewolf running a
horse farm was too amusing not to develop.
Jodi: What is your next project?
Silvia: I’ve got a short story, Say
Yes, coming out in August. It features the owner of a grass fed beef
business and an event planner. I’m also working on Wild R Farm 6, Zach and
Brandon’s story. I hope to have t ready to publish in the late fall.
Unexpected Trust
Special Agent Hugh Cranford, better known as Sport, is
conducting an off-the-record investigation. He’s after Danny O’Sullivan, a spy
rumored to have assisted in the ambush of Sport’s former SEAL team. Danny
claims he and Sport are on the same side, and the real traitor is the man Sport
is working for. But Danny is a master manipulator. He’s also the most seductive
man Sport has ever met. Sport can’t help being attracted to him, but that
doesn’t mean he’s willing to trust him.
In his quest to bring down a few highly-placed traitors in the
US government, Danny O’Sullivan has been keeping tabs on Sport. When Sport
comes looking for him, Danny decides to bring Sport in on his secret mission
and into his bed. Sport may not trust Danny, but he wants him. As the two men
risk their lives to complete Danny’s mission, they discover neither is as strong
as they like to pretend.
Before you read Unexpected Trust, make
sure you know where it all began: Check out Book 1 in the Unexpected series, Unexpected Rescue.
Excerpt:
He closed the box and reached for another.
Then he heard the whoosh of a door opening. No footsteps followed. Someone was
trying to be silent. O’Sullivan? A security guard? It might be nothing more
than a routine check, but his instincts told him he was about to be discovered.
He flattened himself again the wall next to the shelves.
Several seconds of silence. The hall
door opened and closed again. Sport started to put his gun away.
Suddenly, the office door swung open
and Danny was there, aiming a Glock at his chest. Fuck. He hadn’t heard a
thing.
Why hadn’t he waited to come back
here? Based on what he’d seen of the security, he could have gotten in easily
after hours. He could hear his instructor at Quantico berating him for his
impatience. Mr. Invincible. Mr. I’m-Better-Than-Any-Fucking-Spook. Look where
that got you.
“Hello there,” O’Sullivan said.
"Waiting for me?”
The Irish lilt went straight to
Sport’s cock. Damn the man. "Just leaving actually,” Sport said, pushing
away from the wall.
Danny shook his head. “Not yet. Get
rid of your gun and then we’re going to get to know each other better.”
“I don’t think that’s a good idea,
O’Sullivan,” Sport said as he dropped his gun on the floor. Danny kicked it
away from him.
“Call me Danny. You’ve obviously been
getting to know me already.”
“Can’t say that I have. Not much here
to learn from.”
Danny walked to the desk and jerked
open the drawer where Sport had seen the bug. Danny ripped it loose, dropped it
on the floor, and smashed it with his foot, apparently no longer caring if
whoever placed it realized Danny was on to them. “That’s better, now we can
have some privacy. So tell me this, why did you bother poking around in this
dusty old place when what you really want is right here?” Danny swept his hand
down his body, letting it graze over his cock.
“It looked like you’d already found
some company,” Sport said, keeping his face neutral. “I don’t do secondhand.”
Danny moved closer. "You’d do me.
Any way you could get me."
Sport fucking hated him, and he hated
that he wanted the man under him, begging for mercy. That would be a mistake
though; he couldn’t trust a word a man like O’Sullivan said. “Cut the games.
Either shoot me or step out of the way so I can get back to my evening.”
Danny took another few steps toward
him. Sport could have reached out and touched him, made a grab for Danny’s
weapon or.... something else.
Danny reached out and drew a line down
Sport’s chest with the tip of his gun. Sport didn’t flinch. Danny wasn’t going
to shoot him, not that night anyway. After a while you learned to tell who was
likely to pull the trigger and who wasn't. Danny had no intention of ending
things yet. He was the type who enjoyed the game far more than the outcome. He
liked pitting himself against other operatives and coming out on top.
Sport could make sure he enjoyed
coming on the bottom too.
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