Welcome, Author Charlotte O’Shay
Give a warm welcome to Charlotte, author of The Marriage Ultimatum, just released on June 24, 2016!
Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Charlotte.
Charlotte O’Shay was born in New York City into big family and then married into another big family all of which provided her with enough drama, noise and inspiration for a lifetime of stories.
Negotiating skills honed at the dinner table led her to a career in the law. After four beautiful children joined the crowded family tree, Charlotte gladly traded her legal career to write about happily ever afters in the City of Dreams.
Why do you write what you write?
I write contemporary, sometimes spicy, stories because for the most part that is what I’ve always liked to read. But I enjoy historicals, especially a good Highlander romance. And I like anything set during the U.S. Revolutionary War period although I haven’t read too many of those. Maybe some day I’ll write a romance set in that era.
What inspired you to write?
Stories have transported me to a happy place since I was old enough to read. I always read everything I could get my hands on and words have always fascinated me. I want to tell the kind of story that always brought me to that special place where character and story linger in my head long after I close the book or turn off e-reader.
And your settings?
For the most part my stories are set in New York City. They say write what you know and I know the city well but the real reason I choose to write romance set in NYC is the energy and sense of possibility here. I want to tell a page turning story about the men and women who migrate here to make their dreams come true. When I walk in the city I feel like I can hear all 8 million stories just waiting to be told.
Where do your story ideas come from?
Some story ideas have come to me in the middle of the night and I do have a scribble pad on my night table. I also have fallen asleep with a story problem at the forefront of my mind and have sometimes worked through the answer by morning. I wish this happened more often! As with most authors, I think, ideas come at the strangest times and questions about my characters are answered sometimes as part of an unrelated non-book conversation. I think answers that come that way are the most true and organic. That being said I follow the news and I often hear or read something that starts a chain of what ifs in my head and the story takes off from there.
And if you had a time machine, a cloak of invisibility and one hour? Where would you go and what eavesdropping would you do?
This is such a great question. Can I change what happens if I go back in time? If so, I would go back to push Aaron Burr’s hand up to the sky and deflect the gun shot that killed Alexander Hamilton. I read the Ron Chernow book Hamilton and I’ve been in awe Hamilton’s brilliance and the story of his improbable rise since school days. Hamilton is the quintessential New York immigrant who ‘made good’ and I wonder what more he could have done if he lived.
Tell us a little about The Marriage Ultimatum.
Dead-end job? Dreary apartment? Disastrous love life? Check, check, and check. Toddler who makes it all worthwhile? Absolutely. Juggling work, college, and the care of young Alex was never Sabrina’s plan.
But Sabrina’s dreams are bigger than any curve ball life can throw at her. Her top priority is keeping her small family together, no matter what the cost.
Vladimir Grigory doesn’t believe in dreams. He earned his position at the top of New York’s corporate ladder with his own sweat. His empire is his baby, and he’ll destroy anyone who threatens it. Even the sexy employee who challenges him on every level.
When the New York tabloids and the world call him the baby daddy of Sabrina’s son, Vlad believes Sabrina is part of a plot to expose the secrets of his past. He threatens to destroy her future. But since Sabrina has secrets of her own, she has no choice but to agree to Vlad’s marriage ultimatum.
Do you happen to have an Excerpt?
“What’re you doing creeping up on me like that? Who are you?” Her gaze narrowed in on him even as she took a step back.
He stared right back, sinking into eyes so mercurially gray then green, then gray again, it was like he’d fallen into the turbulent depths of the Atlantic. With her wild eyes, untamed hair, and skintight clothes, she was a mermaid and absolutely the answer to this sailor’s prayers.
She shoved an unruly swath of hair back over her shoulder, all attitude. One hand was on her hip and the other fiddled with the hem of her sweater. His gaze tracked her every move.
Her chin angled up. “Seen enough? You know what they say: Take a picture, it’ll last longer.”
The Marriage Ultimatum Buy Links:
Please visit Charlotte on the links below:
Website: (wordpress) http://charlotteoshayauthor.com
Facebook: Charlotte O’Shay http://facebook.com/charlotteoshayauthor
Twitter: @charlotte_oshay http://twitter.com/charlotte_oshay
Instagram: charlotte_oshay_author
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime.
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