All this month on the Logical-Lust blog we will have interviews from the authors of The Cougar Book, edited by Jolie du Pre. Today is Julia Barrett, author of “You Just Might Get It.”

In her secret life, Julia Barrett writes in many genres, romance/suspense, science fiction, and contemporary romance. In her other working life, Julia writes nonfiction and poetry and is a registered nurse.

What made you decide to submit your work for inclusion in The Cougar Book?

When I read about the call for The Cougar Book, I realized I needed to move out of my comfort zone, which at the time was full-length Romance/Suspense. Writing a short work that needed to contain all the enticing elements of a longer work was a test, and I discovered it to be a great confidence builder. Writing this short work, and learning that I had succeeded and the story had been accepted for The Cougar Book gave me the courage to branch out into other genres and to loosen up a bit on length.

Could you see yourself being a cougar?

I actually was a cougar once…Before I married my husband, I dated a man five years my junior. We got together because we had many common interests and we had a great time together. We’ve actually remained good friends. I’ve also dated a guy twenty years my senior. That was interesting too!

Does your writing turn you on?

O.M.F.G. No comment!

The Cougar Book release is in print and ebook formats. With ebook readers becoming more and more popular, what are your views on ebooks and their effect on the publishing industry?

Well, one hopes there is room for both ebooks and traditional print books. To be honest, I love my print books – they are my most precious material possessions. However, I’m realistic enough to know that ebooks are the way of the future. My children and my grandchildren will probably do most of their reading electronically. Times change, we just happen to be living in a period of unusually rapid change and it’s a big adjustment for the reading public and the publishing industry.

Your birthday has been declared a national holiday. How do you want people to celebrate?

Go to Disneyland! That’s what I’m doing this year. I love Disneyland…I think I love going there more than my kids do! I ride Thunder Mountain over and over again and I think the Indiana Jones ride is a blast! Plus I gotta admit, Pirates of the Caribbean is very cool!

You’re stranded on a desert island and you can only have one book, one album/CD, and one person with you—what would they be?

Okay…let me think…one book – Shogun, by James Clavell, one album/CD – The Allman Brothers Live at the Filmore, one person – my smokin’ hot husband!

What are you working on now? Do you have a current release or a new release coming soon?

I’m currently working on the fourth book of a futuristic science fiction series, Daughters of Persephone. The entire series will be released in two books in July and August. The work follows a line of genetically enhanced females who are bred in a desperate attempt to save the human race. My most recent release is, Captured, with Siren-Bookstrand, another work of science fiction. The book tells the story of a woman who is captured by an interstellar trapper bound for a meat market – literally a butcher shop – on the other side of the galaxy.

Where can we find you on the Web? Do you have a website or blog(s)? Any social networks?

You can find me with Siren-Bookstrand, with Resplendence Publishing and with Cobblestone Press, and now with Logical-Lust! I have a website: http://juliarachelbarrett.com and I blog over at Seven Sexy Scribes.