http://stephaniedraven.com Modern Mythology with a Sexy Edge Wed, 23 May 2012 15:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://stephaniedraven.com/2011/08/17/revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-hot/ http://stephaniedraven.com/2011/08/17/revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-hot/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:21:13 +0000 Stephanie Draven http://stephaniedraven.com/?p=2339 http://stephaniedraven.com/2011/08/17/revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-hot/feed/ 4 http://stephaniedraven.com/2010/08/18/military-lives-real-love-stories-interview-with-gail-chianese/ http://stephaniedraven.com/2010/08/18/military-lives-real-love-stories-interview-with-gail-chianese/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:42:22 +0000 Stephanie Draven http://stephaniedraven.com/?p=1768 I met Gail while standing in line for a banquet at the Romance Writers of America Convention in Orlando, FL. Now I'm excited to introduce her to all of you in this latest installment of my long-running series on military spouses and their true life love stories.

Q: How did you meet your husband? I was a single mom working two jobs - daytime as a travel agent and at night as a cocktail waitress. He started coming in with his buddies and would always be in my section. He used to tell me he loved me when I handed him his rum & coke - little did I know he was serious.]]> http://stephaniedraven.com/2010/08/18/military-lives-real-love-stories-interview-with-gail-chianese/feed/ 3 http://stephaniedraven.com/2010/02/17/military-lives-real-love-stories-interview-with-navy-wife-lauren-gueret/ http://stephaniedraven.com/2010/02/17/military-lives-real-love-stories-interview-with-navy-wife-lauren-gueret/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:48:25 +0000 Stephanie Draven http://stephaniedraven.com/?p=1311 Today I'm happy to continue my blog series, Military Lives, Real Love Stories. My guest is Lauren Gueret, a Navy wife and aspiring author. Me: First, tell me a little bit about yourself and your writing. Lauren: My mother had a son who died in 1998 and my father wrote and published a novella (Twenty Minutes in Eternity) about the experience. I was only 8 at the time, but I was so proud of my father doing that and wanted to do the same. I have been writing faithfully since I was twelve, trying to follow in my father's footsteps. I focus primarily in the paranormal romance genre, my favorite authors being Christine Feehan, Keri Arthur, and Kresley Cole, among numerous others. I am, however, currently putting a compilation together of military short-stories inspired by my own situations, friends', and injured war veterans' at the VA hospital here in Hampton Roads. Me: How long have you been married and how did you meet your husband? Lauren: My husband, Jonathan, and I will be married for a year as of March 20. We actually met online while I was at UVA, through a dating site called True. I had a profile as a past-time away from school work. I was not looking for anybody, just to have fun looking at the guys who tried to contact me. My husband-to-be contacted me, and I thought, "What the heck" and wrote him back. We became friends, though I didn't want a relationship because I was interested in another guy. Despite everything, Jonathan would not stop pursuing me, and helped me through a very traumatic experience. We obviously ended up together after that. =) Me: The old adage is that opposites attract, but in my novels, my heroes and heroines are usually drawn together because they find that they share some common experience of loss. For example, in my forthcoming novel POISONED KISSES, my hero and heroine both lost their mothers to mental illness. What pain or loss or maybe even joyful past experiences did you and your husband have in common?]]> http://stephaniedraven.com/2010/02/17/military-lives-real-love-stories-interview-with-navy-wife-lauren-gueret/feed/ 0 http://stephaniedraven.com/2009/08/12/military-lives-real-love-stories-making-your-own-happy-ending/ http://stephaniedraven.com/2009/08/12/military-lives-real-love-stories-making-your-own-happy-ending/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:05:22 +0000 Stephanie Draven http://stephaniedraven.com/?p=380 Military Wives. Meggon lives in California and her husband is a Marine sergeant. She generously made time to talk with me about the pressure that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder puts on military families. I also got her to dish about her life as a young mom and her own real life love story.]]> http://stephaniedraven.com/2009/08/12/military-lives-real-love-stories-making-your-own-happy-ending/feed/ 1