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 Tara S. Nichols, author of “Labeled.”
Ever since Tara Nichols was a little girl she has had an affinity for romantic adventures. With crushes on the likes of Tarzan and Hans Solo she grew up looking for the perfect gentleman rogue. When she is not writing about romance, erotica or paranormal fiction she can be found tending her garden, keeping bees or reading a spy novel. Tara roams free on the flat prairie land in Manitoba Canada where she lives with her young son and husband.
Could you see yourself being a cougar?
Oh sure. If going by my dating record is any indicator, my trend is to go for a younger man. Either they are naturally attracted to me, or I’m naturally attracted to them, I’m not certain. I think out of all the guys I’ve dated only one was older than me. That said, I’ve been with my husband (who is only a year younger than me) for seventeen years.
I don’t have anything against older men, and I wouldn’t seek out a guy just because he was younger, it is just the way things tended to go for me.
Does your writing turn you on?
Yes. I don’t know which comes first, the sex or the plot, but sometimes the two meet in the middle. One often leads to the other, so to speak. I’m just lucky to have a husband who doesn’t mind talking out loud, or, as we call it, plotting. 
What do you find difficult about writing? What comes easy for you?
The hardest thing about writing for me is finding the time. I have a young son whom we home school, which doesn’t leave much time for me to get any work done. It used to be that my mother-in-law would take him once a week but that has dropped off significantly as of late. I often work hard and fast late into the night but my son wakes early and that doesn’t always make for a sharp, active mind.
As for what comes easy… I don’t really know. For me writing is involuntary. It sort of just happens. I get a chunk of a story all at once and I scramble like mad to write it all down. If I get enough parts of a story I can weave them together, work the plot so it fits and makes sense. It feels easy when an idea comes like that, but then I often have to wait for more of it to come, and that’s bloody hard.
Your birthday has been declared a national holiday. How do you want people to celebrate?
I’d like it if they’d plant a tree, or maybe go for a hike and appreciate their surroundings. If they brought a dirty book along on the hike and partook in a little nookie in the grass, that’s cool too.
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?
One book! Oh, that’s not easy. I could be a pain in the arse and say a survival guide of my choice, but I’m going to go with Jane Austen’s complete works. I haven’t read them all, but they are well written, long, and would entertain me for quite sometime. As for what music, a mixed CD would be ideal, but again, that feels like cheating, so… I’ll go with Corb Lund, Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer. I don’t usually go for country music but there isn’t one song on that album that I would get sick of. It’s blues, it has a great beat, and he’s just awesome. (my runner up would be , Homogenic by Bjork.) And as for what person? That’s a no brainer, my husband. He’s hunky, he’s sweet, and he’s very clever, (we’d have an all weather shelter built in no time,) but he’d better have our four-year-old son tucked under one arm.
What are you working on now? Do you have a current release or a new release coming soon?
Currently I am working on a joint paranormal project, titled Black Phoenix Rising, with an amazing writer, Keta Diablo. This is my first attempt at writing with another author and I have to say I am pleasantly surprised. I’m a bit of a loner, both in my writing and my everyday life, but working with Keta is fun. I am also putting the finishing touches on a ménage amour novella titled Island of Three. I had intended to submit this story a year ago but the plot continued to grow, the characters continued to strengthen and deepen, so I took the time the story required and hopefully it will be all the better for it.
Where can we find you on the Web? Do you have a website or blog(s)? Any social networks?
My author homepage is www.tarasnichols.webs.com, my blog is http://tarasnichols.blogspot.com, my GoodReads is http://www.goodreads.com/tarasnichols and I can be found on many erotic, romance, and paranormal Nings, as well as http://www.romancewiki.com/Tara_S_Nichols. My myspace page is www.myspace.com/tarasnichols and my twitter account is http://twitter.com/TaraSNichols. I am a member of the Romance Divas, Coffee Time Romance, The Romance Studio, and a rather long list of Yahoo groups. I’m also available far too often at my facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1478861395 where I’ve recently started a fan page.
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