I like my stories with doses of angst and yet I feel that a little humor is almost always essential as well. I tend to favor heroes who are flawed and unconventional in some way. There are some elements present in nearly all of my work, regardless of the genre. I think jumping around a little helps keep my writing fresh. I especially love speculative fiction of all kinds (fantasy, sci fi, paranormal, horror….), but I also enjoy contemporary, historical, and other genres. KF: I write in pretty much all the genres, I think. JSC: How would you describe your writing style/genre? I’d grown tired of clichéd werewolves-you know, the buff biker dude types-so I wrote a book about a hipster architect who gets turned into a werewolf and, in the process of redoing an old farmhouse, falls for the snarky hick next door. My first novel that wasn’t self-published was Good Bones. The French translations recently got some beautiful new covers! Eventually, DSP Publications republished second editions of those books. They’re dark fantasy with romantic relationship between two men being vital to the plot. Those books were written during consecutive National Novel Writing Months. KF: I originally self-published an alternate world trilogy about a wizard and a slave, the Ennek series. JSC: What was your first published work? Tell me a little about it. Then she emailed me and urged me to submit future work to her publisher. The second confidence boost came when Amy Lane (who I hadn’t yet met) read my first novel, which I’d self-published. I made some great friends too, including one of my beloved editors. I received a lot of positive feedback, which showed me that people might actually enjoy my work.

I wrote a bunch of fanfic (mostly Spike slash from the Buffyverse, and yes, it’s all still available on AO3 look for whichclothes). But two things gave me the confidence to publish professionally. Some days I’m still not sure I’m good at writing. I thought I was writing words, although I don’t recall what I was trying to say! One of my earliest memories was me at preschool when I was two or three, and I was covering papers with rows of squiggles (think lots of cursive e’s).

Kim Fielding: I’ve wanted to write literally as long as I can remember. Scott Coatsworth: When did you know you wanted to write, and when did you discover that you were good at it? Like Kim herself, her work is eclectic, spanning genres such as contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, and historical. Today, Kim Fielding – the bestselling, award-winning author of numerous m/m romance novels, novellas, and short stories. Kim is giving away the first 2 books in the series, Love Can’t Conquer and Love Is Heartless. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work.

Love Can't Conquer by Kim Fielding