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My guest romance author today is Robin Leigh Morgan, an author, blogger, and book reviewer who writes contemporary romance and middle grade/young adult fiction.

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Welcome Robin…

How did you choose the genre you write in?

Going back to my days as a child have I always loved to write. When I was in to public [grade] school I wrote all the time. But I stopped when I’d reached junior high [middle] school. While I’ve written articles [commentaries] for about eleven years, I didn’t really start writing fiction until I was past fifty. It took a bit until I finally decided to write romance, because I felt the most comfortable writing in this genre.

I’d originally wanted to write an adult contemporary romance, but I never felt satisfied with what I’ve written for a few years. Someone in the group of writers I went to occasionally suggested I write up for younger audience. But, I didn’t take this individual’s advice until I’d retired. It took a while before I’d finally completed my debut MG/YA paranormal entitled I Kissed a Ghost.

Now that I’ve become interested in writing romance as my career, I’ve been quite busy writing, and I’ve have several WIPs [Works in Progress] going on at this time. I have an adult contemporary romance I never finished, a MG/YA Urban Fantasy [with a romance backstory] that is a stand-alone sequel to my debut novel. I’ve also have two erotic GLBT/BDSM novellas, which I’m writing under a different pen name.

I love seeing how my writing has expanded into the various subgenres of the genre I’ve chosen to write in.

How did you come up with the titles for your books?

I simply keep on summarizing the book until I reach a point where I’ve got something I can use as the title, and my debut novel “I Kissed a Ghost” is a perfect example.

Do you ever experience writer’s block?

Have I ever experienced writer’s block? Of course, I have. What author hasn’t? And if they say they’ve never experienced it, I think they’re unwilling to admit to it. To get passed the episodes of this dreaded condition, I write Flash Fiction using prompts from a now defunct website. The rules for the stories is they have to consist only of five sentences.

I eventually took the ones I’d written for these prompts, added a few new ones, using prompts I hadn’t used before, and compiled an anthology of a hundred of them into my second book, Micro Fiction – An Anthology.

Do you have any advice to give to aspiring writers?

The best advice I can give any aspiring author is to not take criticism, especially from another author, as criticism. Take it as I do, as a form of guidance and support from one author to another.

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I Kissed a Ghost by Robin Leigh Morgan

In “I Kissed a Ghost”, Mary gets a new classmate named Jonathan who’s a great baseball player and to get on the team, he needs Mary’s help to improve his grades. Six months later when she learns she’s moving, she decides to give him something special–a first kiss.

Moving into her new home she soon discovers it has a ghost named George, her age, who takes her on numerous trips to the past of a hundred years ago. As she meets children her own age, everyone teases her about her house being haunted, but no one will go inside. Mary likes his help doing her math homework, writing her reports, and taking her back in time.

George and Mary’s interaction grows and she eventually gives him a quick peck on his lips while they’re in the past, which is the only place George is a real boy, for having done something special for her. Can Mary kiss George again at the special date and time he needs to be kissed? What happens afterwards if she does?

The answers are all in the book!

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Learn more about Robin Leigh Morgan

The best place to find out about me is on my social media sites. Click here for links to each of them and to unedited excerpts from my debut romance novel I Kissed a Ghost.

https://about.me/rlmorgan51

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