CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS with the Naughty Ninjas: Roz Groves

What is your background with regard to writing?
I’ve written here and there since I was a child. My childhood was littered with little stories and made-up people.

When did you first begin writing with a view of embarking on a career as a published author?
I am yet to be published, however what has put me back on the path to wanting to be published is becoming a reviewer. After I started my blog in late 2012 and began reading all these amazing books, it really hit home for me that this is something that I want to do as well.

What is your writing routine?
Currently, my writing time is limited to lunch times at work, children’s bath-time and when my girl is asleep. I am an inveterate planner at heart, however I tend to throw the words out on to the page and edit on the fly.

Favourite snack whilst writing?
I’m partial to cheese Twisties…oh! and Maltesers (why do they put a reseal label on those packets? It’s not as if they are going to get closed.)

If you weren’t writing, what would you be doing?
What I do now – inhabiting a grey cubicle of doom in corporate land, as an Executive Assistant. That, child-wrangling and running my review blog.

What do you find easiest to write? And, the hardest?
I breeze through the descriptive stuff usually, but I find it harder to write dialogue sometimes. I like reading dialogue that sounds like real people talking, but for some reason, find it a little difficult to write myself.

Tell us about the first book you wrote:
I think the first thing I ever wrote was a gory murder story when I was maybe 9 or 10. I watched a lot of true crime shows – I was a little ghoulish in my younger days.

One thing you’d like readers to know about the romance genre…
From contemporary to paranormal, from the depths of a Viking winter to the heady heights of Regency England, there is something there for everyone to enjoy – no two books are the same.

Ten quickies:

Milk or dark chocolate? Both, in large quantities. But I can’t do the dark chocolate that tastes like dust.

Red, white, bubbly? Give me a nice glass of Sauv Blanc any day! I won’t turn down any wine really.

Salty or sweet? I prefer savoury over sweet, but I could happily ease off the salt – except for chicken salt. Pack that stuff on like a champ.

Beach or mountains? I love the beach, but the whole snow on the mountains thing is a big thing for me – I am pretty good at après-skiing.

Give or receive? It’s lovely to do a little of both, but it’s always nice to see someone appreciate something you’ve given them (oh dear, I’m beginning to sound like a self-help book).

Facebook or Twitter? Twitter. It forces me to be more creative with my words.

Romance or erotica (for reading and/or writing)? Both for reading, romance for writing

Dog or cat? I love both, but I am a cat person at heart.

Summer or winter? Summer. I live in Melbourne, winter here is not my favourite time.

Star-gazing or storm-watching? Storm-watching.

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