Christine Pauls: Thank you. What tools do you use to do your research? Library,
internet, books, etc.?
Piper G Huguley: Oh everything. I use it all. Trust and believe, my husband would
love it if I had fewer books. He bought my first iPad a few years ago thinking that
would help, but no. LOL!
Christine Pauls: Nothing like books!
Piper G Huguley: Ok?? He just doesn’t get it!
Shannan Harper: Piper won Romance slam Jam cover of the year in 2016 with A
Virtuous Ruby. Even though I had been reading her books for a minute, that was the
first time I had a chance to meet her
Piper G Huguley: It was good to meet you there, Shannon!
Shannan Harper: You had two different seasoned women on the opposite ends of the
spectrum as it pertains to how they treat people. What was the inspiration for Miss
Irene and Mrs. Bates.
Piper G Huguley: I love your term, Shannan! Seasoned women, LOL. I have to consider
maybe getting them to meet one of the other Born to Win Men books. I think Miss
Irene would have a few things to tell Effie Bates! I tend to write seasoned women very
well, and one thing they usually have in common is they all have a capacity to shock
and surprise. Just because someone is older, doesn’t mean that their sexual selves die.
So I like to bring that out in them. Effie is based on some of these women who hold on
to their sons too tightly. I’m not going to say exactly where I have seen that, but yeah,
I think we all have seen that.
Shannan Harper: That’s exactly what I was thinking as I was reading the story. In my
mind, she was trying to keep Champion so close because her husband was no longer
there.
Piper G Huguley: Yes. And you know no woman would have been good enough for
him in her view.
Shannan Harper: Do you think you’ll ever branch out into other genres?
Piper G Huguley: Oh, I already have. I’m writing a contemporary now. The Born to
Win Men series will be my swan song to historical romance.
Shannan Harper: WOW. That’s good to know.