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Charlotte "Charlee" Boyett-Compo is the author of the month for January at Erotic Escapades. I caught up with Charlee
one Saturday morning and this is the interview.
Miaka Chase: Hi Charlee (it's ok to call you Charlee right?) Thank you for taking some time out of your busy and hectic
holiday schedule to sit (or type) with me on behalf of Erotic Escapades.
Charlotte Boyett-Compo: Charlee is fine.
We exchange pleasantries and talk about Charlee's WindLegends Saga series and then get to her WindWorld and
WindVerse series' (those published with Ellora's Cave).
MC: The first book I read of yours was Longing's Levant and I was absolutely blown away. Then, much to my joy, I
found that you had other stories set in a similar universe so I began reading some of the others and found myself pulled in by
your stories, the universe you created and the people. Where do the ideas come from?
CBC: I have this sexy little muse who sits on my shoulder day in and day out. He never leaves. He likes to whisper ideas
when something strikes his fancy. It might be a snippet of an overheard conversation at the mall between a man and his lady. It
might be a particularly lilting refrain of music...right now I'm working on a book that came from listening to Cirque du Soleil
doing Allegria. He might kick me with his little boot and point out a particular scene in a movie that grabs our attention. I'll see
something he intends for me to see and from there the story sort of tells itself. He just sits back and lets me have fun. His
name is Sean, btw.
MC: LOL, Sean sounds like a great muse.
CBC: He can be except when we're in the shower and he insists I write dialogue.
MC: Hmm well where ever the inspiration strikes eh?
CBC: I have to tell you about a time when I was doing dialogue in the shower. Sean was the hero, of course. I'm merrily
bathing, doing dialogue when my hubby came into the bathroom. He asked who I was talking to and I said, Sean. The next
thing I know, he's pulling the shower curtain back with this strange look on his face. "Sean who?" he demanded, seeing no one
there. I told him about Sean and he just shook his head. Now he tells everyone that his wife never showers alone...he just
doesn't tell them who she is showering with. ;)
MC: How are the WindWorld and WindVerse series' related to your WindLegend Saga books? or are they?
CBC: Not really. There might be the same country and place names in the books...all my novels are interrelated in one
way or another...and sometimes the same family names although each book might take place in a totally different time frame. In
one you might meet the grandson of another character.
MC: Very very interesting and thanks for clearing that up. I thought the books were all the same series. Since you
mentioned your husband… I want to congratulate you on your long marriage. Goodness knows that's a feat in this day and
age.
CBC: We were talking about it just this morning. We'll have our 40th in July. It sure doesn't seem that long.
MC: That is wonderful! Congratulations again. Do you have any secrets to share with our readers on how to have a
happily ever after with your prince charming? You know the books never really discuss the how.
CBC: I was just reading a book by Andrew Greeley in which he states that a marriage isn't a sacrament until it undergoes
something that nearly destroys it. We had that one time and it really did strengthen our marriage. It makes you realize what you
have and you'll struggle harder to maintain and keep something that has value. He is the love of my life and even though I could
strangle him when he hogs the TV remote, I think I'll keep him.
MC: He indeed sounds like a keeper! It is a universal truth that you never know the value of something until you lose, or
come close to losing, it.
CBC: Very true. Marriages today tend to be throwaways. Young people don't like hard work and it's easier to just rid
yourself of something you don't enjoy that it is to wait it out and see what comes next. There is no allure anymore in the
waiting. We've become an instant gratification society so just toss out the baby along with the bathwater. I've always felt that
anything worth having is worth fighting for.
MC: Amen!
CBC: That's not to say that I don't yell at him while he's channel surfing. There should be a law enacted to keep TV
remotes out of the hands of men!
MC: That’s actually me in my relationship. The remote hog. Actually the channel surfing, remote hog.
CBC: But you're a woman. You SHOULD control the remote.
MC: I say AMEN again!
CBC: We should control the world, too, but that's for another chat.
MC: Well I think mostly women do...but you're right...we'll save that for the chat we have officially on E-E. But before we
get too far off the subject of your books…tell me.. about your featured book Prisoners of the Wind (it will be the featured
for January right?)
CBC: Well, it will be released on Dec. 28th and has already won a JERR Gold Award. The three reviews I've had for
it have been spectacular so I guess it is pretty good.
Prisoners of the Wind is about a young woman who...along with her friends...has been sentenced to community service at a
woman's prison for a protest they did. The ship upon which she is being transported is run by a sexy man who is furious to
have her on board since he has reason to hate her mother. He decides to make the young woman's life miserable but she has
more spunk that he would have imagined and finds himself falling in love with her. When he realizes that he is, he makes the
decision to keep her at all cost...going up against her powerful mother to make the girl his own.
MC: What was the inspiration for Prisoners of the Wind?
CBC: All my stories have some basis in fact. Years ago when I was in high school, I got into mischief with some friends
for something silly we did. We wound up having to rake a neighbor’s yard for our 'community service'. It was a HUGE yard
filled with pine straw and it was hot and it was sticky and we were miserable. There had been a new family who had moved in
next door to this neighbor and they had a really scrumpdiliumptous college age boy and he was sitting on the porch watching
us. We were watching him back and loving every moment of raking!
MC: Great use of the word scrumpdiliumptous by the way!! He must have been something. But I digress… tell me, what's
your favorite book that you've written? Fave hero/heroine? Favorite of the erotic series too...
CBC: My favorite book is BloodWind and my fav character is the hero from that, Kamerone Cree. He was the first of
my Reapers and is one helluva hunk. I patterned him after a younger version of Adrian Paul (think the first years of
Highlander). He has the sexiness and charisma but he can be one mean S.O.B. if riled.
My favorite erotica is the one I'm working on now. It is a tentative full-length novel for the Tarot Series being released from
EC in 2007. If EC doesn't pick it up, I'll offer it elsewhere because it is really a sensual book. Of the ones already
released, though, I'd have to say Prisoners is my fav. I don't have a fav heroine but if I had to pick one, I'd say Liza from the
WindLegends saga series.
At this time, Charlee and I start discussing our likes and dislikes. Charlee divulges that she is a TV slut (her words exactly, I
swear!) We also discover a mutual fondness for Nip/Tuck, a general disgust for reality TV, etc. etc..
We now get to learn about Charlee the woman and her personal likes and dislikes…
MC: So what are Charlee's favorite movies? books? authors? and well anything else you want the readers to know about
you and your likes and dislikes.
CBC: My favorite movie of all time is The Magnificent Seven. I love westerns and wish they'd do more of them today. I
love that action and the thrill of a good outlaw love story. As for books, I never miss a book by John Sandford, John Saul,
Andrew Greeley, Robin Cook, John Grisham, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, David Wiltse, Dennis Lehane, Jude
Devereaux, Johanna Lindsey, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Christine Feehan. My bookshelves are groaning beneath the weight
of their books and I have all of them. As for music, I adore anything Celtic and I play Celtic music when I do love scenes and
fight scenes in my novels. Anything Celtic trips my trigger and flips my switch. I LOVE all things Celtic.
As for dislikes, I don't like people who hurt animals. It is the only time I get truly animalistic. I have five cats and I adore each
and every one of them. I don't like liver, either. Ugh!
MC: LOL. I agree with you on the animal thing. I have two cats and fish and a chinchilla. I love animals and hate cruelty to
them.
CBC: I have a male cat who thinks he's a female. He even comes into heat.
MC: LOL
CBC: You laugh but the next time he starts yowling at three in the morning, I'll send him over to your house!
MC: I have a pedigree Ragdoll named Julian...who must know he's pedigree and therefore looks down upon us as peasants
whose sole purpose is to serve him.
CBC: I had a Maine Coon and he was the same way. BTW: the latest contract I signed at EC is for a book about a
talking cat.
MC: Ohh nice segue into my next question...what do you have coming up?
CBC: Well, let's see: For EC, there is Wyndriver Sinner and its sequel Reaper's Revenge, HardWind, and a couple of
yet to be named. For Cerridwen Press, I have BlackWind: Viraidan and Bronwyn, In the Wind's Eye, Taken by the Wind,
and Desert Wind. I'm working on three novels at the same time right now: Journey of the Wind, Cemetery Wind, and Phantom
of the Wind.
MC: Wow, how do you find the time?
CBC: I write seven days a week and love every moment of it. I'm making enough money with EC so I don't have to have a day
job anymore. I put all my creative energies into my stories. I've got six others planned and in the partial stages of production.
MC: Congratulations on being able to write full time. I know that is a dream of a lot of authors.
CBC: It is a dream coming true. Last Christmas my DH gave me a new 16 X 20 building for an office out behind our
house. I was astounded when it was delivered. That's where I work.
MC: DH is a great man. I can see why you've been married so long. And so...in parting...what would you like the readers
to remember about Charlotte Boyett-Compo?
CBC: That she lives to write and entertain her readers and that every word she types is meant to be a thank you for all
those readers who have stuck with me over the years and wished me well. I love my fans and I am so honored they think my
work is good.
MC: I really want to thank you Charlee for taking the time this Saturday morning to interview with me.
CBC: It was my pleasure, Miaka. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Interview done by Miaka Chase for January 2006 Author Of The Month.
| Erotic-Escapades Author Of The Month Interview With... Charlotte Boyett-Compo |
