Author Spotlight: Melissa Blue
April 9, 2018
Hi Folks,
Happy Monday! Hope everyone is doing well this week. Whew, last week was B-A-N-A-N-A-S! I hoped things would be calmer this week, but sweet baby Jeebus I had to log onto Twitter this AM. It’s a good thing I don’t have high blood pressure because MY GOODNESS, THE FUCKERY IS OVERWHELMING! *fingers crossed* Here’s to hoping things are a bit calmer the next couple of days. Like last week’s featured author, Holley Trent, I first crossed paths with Melissa Blue back in 2013. Hard to believe so much time has passed! Melissa has always been witty and brutally honest. Did I mention I adore her writing?
Get to know a little bit about this fun lady! Take it away Melissa…
I always find author interviews kind of boring. We only get to see one side of an author, the polite side. If you had an evil doppelganger, what detail would they enjoy revealing about you to the public that people would find surprising and possibly questionable?
But I am the evil doppelganger already. There’s some nice Melissa out there in another universe who doesn’t curse or collect baes and goes to church.
The dark, embarrassing secret though? After two kids, sometimes I pee a little when I sneeze.
How is writer Melissa from 2013 different than writer Melissa in 2018?
Oooh. This is a tough one. She was a lot more focused on making it. She wanted the accolades and the money. She also worked her butt off to try and attain it. Me, right now. I feel like the queen of the world if I write more than a paragraph.
Would you rather go to jail for four years for something you didn’t do or get away with something horrible you did but always live in fear of being caught?
I’m not made for jail. I have always known this about myself. I’ll do something horrible and get a therapist to deal with any possible sleepless nights.
If someone narrated your life, who would you want to be the narrator?
Before this year I would have said Samuel L. Jackson, but now I am one-hundred percent sure Tiffany Haddish is the only choice. She has zero chill but is more than capable to show some vulnerability. And can laugh at herself. I do that so very often.
To piggyback off question 4, what movie genre does your life story fall into?
Good gawd. It would be one of those horrible navel-gazing with no true goal and likely a lackluster ending books, with a touch of romance in it. I am going to die at the end after all. So…a Nicholas Sparks novel.
What book protagonist would make the worst roommate?
From one of my books? Even though I love Wade with all of my heart, I could not live with him. He’d leave the toilet seat up then give a five-hour lecture on why it’s fair. And I’d have to kill him.
What fad have you held on to, even though it isn’t popular anymore?
Ballerina styled-flats. You will have to pry them from my cold dead fingers. Or ya know. They’ll stop making them and I’ll be so screwed.
Do you have any irrational fears?
Absolutely. Dead people and vomit. I would abandon my children, my mother, and friends if I come across either. I refuse to go to a cemetery. Ever. I am convinced the day I do, a hand is going to come out of the grass to grab me. NOPE.
If you had the power to fix one thing in Romancelandia with the snap of your fingers, what problem would you solve?
Just one thing? I would fix the problem Romancelandia has with publishing anything other than white cishet and able-bodied. I believe if we can combat that then we’d have a better shot of rooting out misogyny too.
How to go about that? I don’t know. The first step though, is everyone actually believing WOC when we tell them inequality exists in every level of publishing.
What’s the title of your future memoir?
Fuck Yo Ancestors.
**Bonus Question**
Ever tried BDSM? If not, would you?
Most definitely would love to try it one day. I’ve been on Fetlife to see if there was a club or dungeon nearby, alas. Also, I would be a Domme. The very thought of submitting makes me want to fight.
Bio:
Melissa Blue’s writing career started on a typewriter one month after her son was born. This would have been an idyllic situation for a writer if it had been 1985, not 2004. She penned that first contemporary romance, upgraded to a computer and hasn’t looked back since.
Outside of writing, Blue works as a mail clerk for the federal government, has a paralegal certificate (that she has more use for as a dust pan) and is a mother of two rambunctious children. She lives in California where the wine is good and, despite popular belief, is not always sunny.
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