Author Spotlight - M J Rutter

Hi all.

Please welcome Melissa J Rutter. This lovely lady is my first (of many) interviews, and I hope you’ll welcome her warmly.

Here she answers some pretty standard questions, but I think you’ll agree, they’re informative, and will hopefully inspire you to look up some of her work.

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Jane ♥

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Author spotlight

Q1. What’s your author name, and is this a pen name?

M. J. Rutter

Q2. Which demographic are your books aimed at?

Well, I write a little YA, so teens and young adults for those books, but mostly romance, so anyone who loves romance/suspense books.

Q3. What genre(s) do you write?

Romance, Paranormal, YA, Fantasy, Gangster, Mystery and Thrillers.

Q4. What made you start writing?

I loved the book The Outsiders when I was sixteen, although I had always made stories up to tell my brothers, there was something about this story that made me put pen to paper. I didn’t take the plunge to publish until my 40^th birthday year though.

Q5. How long ago did you publish your first book?

I can tell you the exact date, July 3^rd 2012. I hit publish on my first self-published book but had also sent a book to a publisher’s in the States, they loved it and offered me a contract on the 6^th July, busy week. 

Q6. What is the title of the first book you published, and how did you come up with the story?

I, Immortal. It came to me as a dream, literally, a girl tied to a tree in some woods at night. She was surrounded by wolves who wouldn’t touch her, and she didn’t know why. I developed it from that.

Q7. Name one of your favourite characters, from which book, and why are they your favourite?

I’d have to say Jez – Jeremy Buxton from the Season Series. He is a tryer, he tried to woo the love of his life in Summer Rain and no matter what he did, he always got it wrong.  When he finally got her, he never stopped trying. I wrote four books with him and currently working on a fifth – Oops, that was meant to be a secret!!!

Q8. If you could recommend one of your books to a new reader, which one would you choose and why?

Just one?? Not easy - I would have to say Summer Rain, the first Season book. It’s set around Dorset, where I live, and I try to include its beauty as well as these damaged souls meeting by chance and developing their relationship.

Q9. Tell us about your newest release or WIP.

I have the fourth book in the Lunar Ryce, Sheol Legacies Series coming out on 30^th June 2018. It’s a YA Fantasy series. Lunar Ryce is a soul collector, she has been on one heck of a journey, fighting for love, for those she cares about and now for her freedom. I am pretty excited and plan to release the finally in December.

Q10. Which author do you admire, and why?

There are so many to choose from, but at a push, my heart will always belong to Anne Rice, losing her daughter must have been one of the most difficult things she could ever endure. Writing Interview With The Vampire shows how she dealt with her loss by making a little girl immortal, it meant that she’d never have to say goodbye. Not a natural good-bye anyway. It just touched me and stayed with me. I have read so many books recently, I have met so many incredible authors and each have their own story to tell. I admire them all, for putting up with all that happens in the publishing world, for taking the flack, the scammers, the pirates, for not having someone to stick up for them, for all of that together with low sales, fighting for a ranking and pushing to get heard through social media restrictions, they are all amazing. Sorry, for rambling on, but the Indie world is pretty cut-throat right now and that is scary. I still love it though.