Welcome to another week of Author Chat with me.

This week we have another duo author team. I’ve been a fan of RJ and V.L. for a while so this is a treat for me. I’m also a big fan of V.L. Facebook profile – she posts such cool pictures of her area of the world (Pennsylvania, USA). Together and apart they are both brilliant writers and if you’re not a fan, that means you’ve never read one of their books. (So get to it 😉 )

So, let’s chat with these awesome authors!

ACwA Guests: RJ Scott & V.L. Locey

How did the first story you ever wrote influence your career as an author and how do you feel about that story now?

RJ: I’m assuming that you don’t mean the princess with very long hair trapped in a tower that i *wrote* when I was seven… LOL… My first writing was in long hand and was MF ( :O ) and it was called Sanctuary… ten years later I found fan fiction and I was lost! Not only that but it was MM fan-fiction. The first story I wrote as fan fiction was called… Sanctuary! Same premise as all those ideas I had in my twenties, but very different. Action adventure, bodyguards, on the run, forced proximity, it’s all there. I still love the story now, and it influenced my career by being a gateway book into my other stories for readers. It’s still one of my best selling series – so that is awesome 🙂

VL: Oh gosh, well, the first story I wrote was something starring Scooby-Doo and I think I was eight or so. My mother was quite impressed. The first story that I wrote that anyone other than Mom read was a Marvel fan-fiction that I was inspired to pen after seeing the first X-Men movie. I’m a HUGE Marvel comics fan and wasn’t really thrilled with how the movie went. So I sat down and wrote a romance for Wolverine that was pretty homoerotic. This was back in the days of the old Marvel message boards and people read it. Bless them. That encouraged me to try my hand at writing mainstream romance which was MF for the most part. I happened across a submission call for a small pub looking for MM sports romances and I wrote my first gay hockey romance. The rest is history as they say. Now when people ask I tell them that I owe my writing career to Bryan Singer.  😉

Which of your characters is most like you (or someone close to you.)

RJ: I genuinely can’t answer this, because I don’t think I’ve ever used familiar parts of a real life person in my stories… not as the heroes anyway… BUT… I used to publish with a company called Silver who stole my money (boo hiss) and in my paranormal ‘Kingdom’ series of six novellas, I made him the bad guy and ended up killing him off in a gruesome way LOL… does that count?

VL: *whistles innocently* Deep down I suspect that I am Victor Kalinski. That man is just too easy for me to pen for him not to be a large part of Vicki. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad to be honest!  =D

What is your favorite trope and why?

RJ: It’s a toss up between Family Found & Hurt/Comfort. Family and Family Found are themes in ALL my books, whatever one you read there will be family involved, or a team, or a group of friends. However there is something beautiful about hurt/comfort and protection stories. I love that through adversity my guys lean on each other and find love.

VL: Age gap. No one is surprised by that as probably 60% of my books are age gaps. There’s something incredibly appealing to me about that older man/younger man dynamic and how they both can teach the other things. I’m also really fond of opposites attract and family found tales

How many half-written stories are on your hard-drive and what do you plan to do with them?

RJ: ​ I don’t do half written stories. I literally don’t. LOL. I have a ton of ideas in my head, and one line reminders, but the thought of leaving a story half way through makes me way too sad. I have to finish the project and see my heroes right through to their HEA

VL: I’m a lot like RJ in that I really don’t do half-written stories. I generally know before I start if the story idea is sound. And once I start I work straight through. I don’t write scenes out of order or copy and paste things in here and there. I’m ridiculously linear and a super pantser so I run in a straight line I just never know where it will end up! =D

What are you working on next?

RJ: Currently I’m writing on two projects. I’m writing SNOWED with Vicky – book 3 in our Boston series, which is releasing 3 December. I’m also writing LISTEN (SIngle Dads 5) which is releasing at the end of October (Tight  turnaround on that one LOL).

VL: At the moment I’m writing SNOWED with RJ as well as working on a free serial for my newsletter subscribers called OFF THE RACK Overtime #5, which is a spin-off of my Overtime trilogy. Next month I’ll be diving into THE BACHELOR AND THE CHERRY, Campo Royale #2 which is a new series set in a drag club that stars several magnificent drag queens and the men who win their hearts.

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RJ Scott & VL Locey’s Newest Release

BLURB

#SingleDad #SingleUncle #Hockey #ForcedProximity #MMHockeyRomance #BabyDaddy #ChildhoodIllness #HEA

Meeting Joachim could save his daughter’s life, but it may well cost Isaac his heart.

It’s been one hell of a year for Joachim Löfgren. After a long summer in rehab, he’s been moved to a new town, one far away from the warm Florida sun he so adores, to bolster a struggling Boston defense since the departure of their beloved team captain. He hasn’t even unpacked his skates properly when fate lands another blow, and he’s told that he is dad to a gravely ill child he never knew existed. It’s an easy decision for the burly defenseman to help and he opens up his new home to his child and her guardian Isaac. He’s instantly enchanted with the preschooler as well as her uncle and decides that his life will only be complete if his daughter is part of it. Filing for custody is the only option he feels he has, but this throws his budding relationship with Isaac into utter chaos. The two men soon find themselves on opposite sides of the courtroom as they both fight for the life they feel is best for Sophia.

Despite grieving for the loss of his sister, Isaac doesn’t hesitate to take on the responsibility for his newborn niece Sophia, creating a brand new family of two built on love and laughter. He has a steady income painting pet portraits during the day, but it’s the subversive and satirical cartoons he draws at night that silence his thoughts in the dark. They don’t have much as a family, but he is Sophia’s dad now, and nothing and no one will ever come between them. When a routine pediatric checkup shows that Sophia is ill, it forces Isaac to confront every one of his fears. Finding a matching donor is her only hope, and Isaac begins the journey to find Sophia’s mysterious father. There are no names or dates in his sister’s battered journal, and all Isaac knows is that he’s looking for a hockey player who was nothing more than a one-night stand. Little does he know that finding Joachim could destroy everything.

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Changing Lines (Railers 1) – MM Hockey Romance, Best Friends Brother

When hockey wunderkind Tennant Rowe meets his new coach, he knows he’s in trouble. Jared Madsen is nine years older than Tennant, impossibly attractive, and — worst of all — his brother’s off-limits best friend. Is their chemistry worth the risk?

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About RJ Scott & V.L. Locey

USA Today Bestselling Author V.L. Locey – penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful pleasures.

V.L. loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, reading, walking, writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a flock of assorted domestic fowl, and two Jersey steers.

When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand. She can also be found online on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and GoodReads.

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Where to Find RJ & V.L.

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