TA Ford has a growing online community of authors who share multicultural soap-fandom stories with hundreds of readers. Recently the author Ellendare from divasnluv.com sat down and interviewed TA Ford on her writings and future stories to come.
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Every author I enjoy or have had the pleasure of meeting does it. Most readers searching to learn more about you as a writer, expect it. And I’m told my site, and it’s webs presence and placement depends on my commitment to it.
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Most know my online persona ‘the-diva’ and her infamy in fanfiction writing. While musing over my next blog update, I came across one from my Diva site, and decided to share. It explains a lot as to where my writing session began, and why it continues….
10. Looking for a historical romance featuring BW/WM.
9. Love to read period pieces with gritty characters and unexpected ending.
8. You know the ’secret’ of Forbidden Fruit.
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10. You aren’t a lover of the unexplored, the untold, the taboo, the thing that makes Zoe’ so remarkable - forbidden love.
9. You’re not comfortable with historical romances told of black women post and during uncivilized times.
8. You judge a book by the cover and not the treasures or rewards you can find inside.
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Working the nine to five grind, is bad enough, but trying to maintain the corporate shuffle while juggling your own dreams is damn near exhausting. Though I wonder about the abilities of many to lead dual lives, there are times when I want to scream enough already!! Then I look around at the same deadpan faces of my coworkers and realize I’m not alone.
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A question that studio Execs feel they’ve answered. Is it the new influx of viewers of ‘baby-boomers’ that are retiring early and returning to long forgotten soaps? According to the networks - NO! Is it the multi-cultural melting pot that are working shorter days, or longer nights - giving themselves the option to turn on their sets? According to ABC daytime, and other’s the answer is NO! Its the 12 - to 24 market that sits in front of their sets everyday.
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It’s much harder to keep up lately! Working full-time and writing full-time sounded like an awesome plan for the summer. With the release of Zoe, and the next book already cued and ready to go - I have little choice. But I just recently learned that the madness is in the details. Keeping meetings, scheduling follow-up discussion with clients, maintaining employee issues, then coming home to a 1 year-old and 5 year-old visiting for the summer is more than this writer bargained for.
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From the day I set down my manuscript amongst all the others I’ve constantly debated, and pondered the question: who will buy Zoe, who will care?
I freely admit that out of my wealth of stories, and the allegiance of readers to many of my fanfiction tales, Zoe, is nothing like anything I’ve written before or since. Yet, from the moment I penned it I believed in it’s beauty, its simplicity, its love story. So while many encouraged me to publish my gangster romance - or my contemporary tale of a dancer and her Irishman, Zoe was it for me.
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When is a story erotica or just romance? What do the readers prefer? A love story with hot sex, or hot sex with a love story? In my online blog stories I’ve walked a thin line on this issue. Crossing back and forth, justifying the flip-flopping as what my readers want, unsure if I’ve gone too far or not enough. Worried that my readers would see my indecision and read my uncertainty. Then finally giving up and just deciding to tell to the story.
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"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."by Ernest Hemingway
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