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My guest today is the prolific romance author and former lawyer and journalist Seelie Kaye. She shares the things that have affected her as a writer and tells us about her newest book – The President’s Wife.

Welcome Seelie,

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

I am a recovering attorney and former journalist who decided to try her hand at erotic romance last year. Nine books later, I think I am finally get the hang of it! I also ghostwrite books for others, primarily doctors and lawyers. I live in Wisconsin with my son, and while I complain about the cold and the heat, I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else!

Is there an event in your life that affected you as a writer?

Actually, it’s an event that affected many others: 9/11. Despite all the nuclear attack drills as a child, threats from outside never quite felt real. I felt safe. After days of watching and rewatching the attacks, my sense of safety was destroyed. For the first time I was afraid and felt vulnerable, knowing that quite possibly, I couldn’t protect my toddler son. It forced me to see that as Americans, we take so much for granted. That’s why one of the couples I feature in my short stories are international law attorneys—one a Sheikh, the other from Wisconsin—who sue terrorists organizations and their supporters to compensate the victims of terrorism. I feel the need to remind people what’s at stake.

It’s also why I wrote, “The President’s Wife,” my latest release. I wanted to write something that celebrated freedom, but also provide a bit of a cautionary tale, mainly that freedom is not free—you must be ever vigilant to protect and nurture it.

Is writing something that comes easy to you or not?

It has always been easier for me to write rather than speak. Even as a child, when I was upset, I would write my parents letters because otherwise, I knew I couldn’t get the words I needed to say out.

What do you do when you are not writing?

My son is a musician and has converted our basement into a practice space/venue for emerging bands. Even when I am not writing, my house is filled with music. So, when my house isn’t filled with musicians or kids stopping by to listen, I like to cook or bake, garden, read, or play Scrabble with my siblings and friends.

Where do you get your ideas?

I write about lawyers in love, with a dash of kink, so obviously many ideas come from my more than 25 years in the legal world. However, I also get ideas from news stories, conversations, observing other people interacting, and sometimes, my dreams. I have always had a very vivid imagination, so it doesn’t take much for my mind to take flight.

Do you ever experience writer’s block?

Writer’s block has always been one of my biggest fears, but thankfully in my more than 25 years as a professional writer, it has never happened. I think that’s because I alternate between my own writing and writing I do for others. I also take time to clear my mind, doing other activities I enjoy.

Can you tell us about any other upcoming books, series, or writing plans?

I just finished my 2018 Stocking Stuffer, a story about the meaning of family, natural and adoptive. I am also working on a new book about four former law school classmates who lose at love and go through traumatic divorces. They band together to get their revenge. Then I will start working on another collection of short stories in my Kinky Briefs series.

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The President’s Wife by Seelie Kay

BECAUSE FREEDOM ISN’T ALWAYS FREE

MILWAUKEE, WI—A newly free nation. An imprisoned first lady. A malicious imposter. An international conspiracy.

What happens when one of your best friends, the First Lady of the newly democratic Republic of Lodatia, appears to be an imposter? If you’re criminal defense attorney Julianna Constant, you pursue the truth like a rabid dog, then wage a battle to save your friend’s life.

When criminal defense attorney Julianna Constant travels to Washington, D.C. to join her former college roommate, Marella de la Aerelli, in celebrating her husband’s election as the first president of the newly democratic Republic of Lodatia, she is met with an unpleasant surprise. Her friend of almost 30 years not only looks unwell, she is cold and distant. After Julianna becomes convinced the woman is really an imposter, she attempts to expose the faux Marella by using a secret only she, Marella, and the sitting U.S. President share. In the process, Julianna helps to uncover an international conspiracy to seize control of the new country, using the president’s wife as a pawn in a dangerous and potentially deadly game. Will Marella be rescued before a coup takes place? Or will she become collateral damage in one tiny nation’s fight to be free?

              That about sums up the story behind The President’s Wife, author and lawyer Seelie Kay’s latest release from eXtasy Books.

Says Kay, “All the news stories about Russia’s alleged interference in America’s presidential elections brought me back to a time in the not so distant past, when other countries fought hard for freedom, trying to break out from under the iron fist of communism. My relatives—who lived in Eastern Europe—were among them. That lead to a whole lot of speculation about how a newly free nation might be compromised and forced to surrender that freedom.

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Excerpt from The President’s Wife by Seelie Kay

The state dinner at the White House was in full swing. Waiters were busy delivering food and pouring wine, as guests ate and chatted with others seated at their tables.

Julianna picked at her dinner, some sort of beef dish with quirky vegetables, and continued to study Lodatian President Georges and Mrs. Marella de la Aerelli, as they chatted quietly with the U.S. president and his wife. Marella barely looked up from her plate, and conversation with her hosts appeared to be minimal. God, that is so not the Marella I know. She hasn’t even acknowledged me and I sent her an email informing her that I would be here.

Julianna set her fork down on her plate and nudged her husband, Little River, Wisconsin Police Chief David Manders. “Something’s wrong.” Julianna whispered. “Marella looks wrong. Maybe she’s just tired after the campaign, but she looks sick. Too thin and too pale. And she isn’t smiling. Marella is always smiling, even when she feels like shit. And she hasn’t even looked at me. Why is she ignoring me? Something is not right. I can feel it.”

David looked at his wife and tried to hide his smile. “Jules, you find a conspiracy behind every door these days,” he said quietly. He looked around to ensure that the other four couples seated at their table were otherwise engaged. “I vote for tired, no, make that exhausted. My God, five months ago, she was a farm wife in Lodatia, now she’s been thrust into the international spotlight as the wife of the President. That would exhaust anyone. I know if you ran for president, it would have a negative impact on me.”

Julianna smirked. “If I became President, sir, it would have a negative impact on both of us.”

David sighed and ran a hand through his short, silver hair. His piercing blue eyes gazed at his wife, his fondness apparent. “Well, instead of jumping to conclusions, let’s wait until the reception at the Lodatian Embassy. There are a lot of rules and protocols for visiting dignitaries. Maybe it just isn’t appropriate to buddy up to an old friend at a state dinner. Once you get up close and personal with Marella, you can get a better fix on things. That woman has been through the wringer, what with that opposition group trying to assassinate her husband not once, but twice. I imagine the stress of clinging to Lodatia’s newly formed democratic government is a kind of like hanging on to a cliff, knowing that if you fall, there will be no net to catch you. Cut her some slack and do not tell her she looks awful.”

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About Seelie Kay

 Seelie Kay writes about lawyers in love, with a dash of kink.

Writing under a nom de plume, the former lawyer and journalist draws her stories from more than 30 years in the legal world. Seelie’s wicked pen has resulted in nine works of fiction, including the Kinky Briefs series, The Garage Dweller, A Touchdown to Remember, and The President’s Wife, as well as the romance anthology, Pieces of Us.

When not spinning her kinky tales, Seelie ghostwrites nonfiction for lawyers and other professionals. Currently she resides in a bucolic exurb outside Milwaukee, WI, where she shares a home with her son and enjoys opera, the Green Bay Packers, gourmet cooking, organic gardening, and an occasional bottle of red wine.

Seelie is an MS warrior and ruthlessly battles the disease on a daily basis. Her message to those diagnosed with MS: Never give up. You define MS, it does not define you!

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Find Seelie Kaye here

Website : www.seeliekay.com

Blog: www.seeliekay.blogspot.com

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SeelieKay

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/seelie.kay.77

Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Seelie-Kay/e/B074RDRWNZ

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