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Meredith Wild lives on Florida's Gulf Coast with her husband and three children. She refers to herself as a techie, whiskey-appreciator and hopeless romantic. The fifth and final novel in her Hacker Series, Hard Love, was released on September 15, 2015, by Forever Romance/Grand Central Publishing.
On your nightstand now:
I'm devouring the first four novellas of Audrey Carlan's Calendar Girl series right now. I've never had book hangover from a novella, but January gave me a big one, so I'm anxious to catch up on Mia's adventures before the next month's installment is released.
Favorite book when you were a child:
I still remember my elementary school library vividly, and I'll never forget the shelf of Dr. Seuss books that I read through, one after the next, until I'd consumed them all. I couldn't get enough of them, and I now I have the opportunity to do it all over again with my kids, which is so much fun.
Your top five authors:
My favorite authors are still the ones I read in college. I guess you could say they were my first loves when it came to authors: Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Jeanette Winterson and John Donne. I still revisit my old textbooks on the bookshelf when I have time!
Book you've faked reading:
I fully admit to fake reading Paradise Lost by John Milton. At the time I was a sophomore in college with a new boyfriend (soon to be husband) who was monopolizing a lot of the time I could have been spending on my reading and coursework. Priorities!
Book you're an evangelist for:
Ella Frank's Temptation Series--Try, Take and Trust--is a really beautiful story about two young men, Logan and Tate, going way outside of their comfort zone to find love. If someone who enjoys erotic romance is looking for a new read, I always try to convert them to "try" m/m. I think the genre really opens people's minds, and Ella is a really wonderful storyteller.
Book you've bought for the cover:
I bought Cathy Yardley's Enslave for the cover, which follows the very dark and minimalist theme of the others in the series. Not only were the covers great, all the stories delivered with the right amount of steam and fairytale, so it ended up being a great buy. I read each of them in a day.
Book that changed your life:
If You Have to Cry, Go Outside by Kelly Cutrone is one of my very favorite books, and one that I can reread over and over. She offers an earthy kind of wisdom in this memoir, and I connected to her philosophies about life more than I'd expected to when I first picked it up. Whatever I'm dealing with in my life, I can relate parts of her journey to my own and take some lessons with me.
Favorite line from a book:
"The very essence of romance is uncertainty," from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. One of the things that makes Wilde such a brilliant writer to me is the layer of truth that one finds under his wonderful humor. This one of course struck home with me as a writer and lover of romance.
Which character you most relate to:
No surprise really, but I think I most relate to Erica in the Hacker Series. I drew from my own experiences so much when penning her and Blake's story, it's hard to imagine relating to a character more than her!
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
I'd love to read Wild by Cheryl Strayed for the first time again. I loved traveling that intense emotional and physical journey with her, not knowing how it would end. Definitely worth a re-read, but of course there's nothing like the first time!