Featured Interview With Golden Angel
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Hello! I am Golden Angel and I am a born and raised Marylander. I've lived here all my life and I'm a fourth generation University of Maryland alumna (Fear the Turtle!). I'm a happy homebody and while I love to travel, I've never wanted to live anywhere else. Thankfully my husband, who is also a born and raised Marylander, agreed and now we're happily raising our two year old daughter here.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I became an avid reader at the age of eight when my teacher introduced me to The Boxcar Children. If you'd asked me before that, I would have told you that I hate reading. By the time I was thirteen I was obsessed with Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine and for my English class I wrote my very first chapter novel in their style. That was my first and last horror novel, though I wish I still had the manuscript because I remember it being very creative in some ways (I killed off one character by having them be devoured by a horde of rats) and I'm sure it would give me a good laugh.
By the time I got to high school I became obsessed with sci-fi and fantasy and that continues to this day, but I got side tracked in college by erotica websites. Like any eighteen year old in a dorm room, I was free to roam the internet without my parents looking over my shoulder and man did I roam. I quickly discovered that while porn held minimal interest for me, erotica websites could provide hours upon hours of entertainment.
Being a speed reader, after a couple of years I ran through all my favorite genres on my favorite erotica website, Literotica, and I thought to myself, 'I like writing. Maybe I should try to write what I want to read.' It was the best decision of my life. Eventually several readers asked me to self-publish one of my longer stories, which I did, and that eventually snowballed and now here I am eight years later and I have just become a full time author. It still feels a bit like a dream, to be honest.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Oh gosh I have so many authors I love to read! Right now I'd say my top favorites are probably Amanda M. Lee (cozy mysteries), Lexi Blake (contemporary BDSM), Erin Nicholas (small town contemporary romance), and Stephanie Laurens (Regency romance). They are my auto-buys, my 'pause everything there's a new book' authors. I still love fantasy and sci-fi, but I tend to read most of it within the romance genre now.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
A Season for Treason is the first book in my Deception and Discipline series, which is a spinoff of my Bridal Discipline series, which was a spinoff of my Domestic Discipline Quartet. Basically, I fell in love with the world I created and I haven't managed to leave it yet. The biggest difference from the previous series is that the Deception and Discipline series is going to have an overarching mystery / suspense plot instead of concentrating on just the relationships between the characters.
Like I said, I'm a big fan of Stephanie Laurens and I adore her Cynster series, which has a lot of suspense and mysteries in it, so I wanted to write something like that, but with my signature kink. I need my spankings (and so do my heroines!).
I introduced Mary and Rex as side characters in the Bridal Discipline series and even then I knew there was more to quiet Mary than met the eye. With her ability to blend into the background and go unnoticed by pretty much everyone, she makes an ideal spy. Young, quiet women are often overlooked and underestimated and she uses all of that to her advantage. Add in Rex, a character so dashing and bossy that readers were immediately asking me if he'd eventually get his own book, and I felt like it was a match made in heaven.
I am so excited to finally introduce this series to the world and I hope everyone loves Rex and Mary as much as I do.