• Contemporary

    The Thin Person Inside a new #contemporary romance by @RochelleWeber #RLFblog

    This quick interview includes info about the author, and
    introduces the story.

    About the Author

    Rochelle Weber is a Navy veteran
    with a BA in Writing from Columbia College in Chicago. Her novels Rock Bound
    and Rock Crazy are available in both e-book and print. Her third book, The Thin
    Person Inside, is available at MuseItUp Publishing, Inc. Ms. Weber edits for
    Jupiter Gardens Press, The Author’s Secret, and publishes the Marketing for
    Romance Writers Newsletter, winner of the 2013 Preditors and Editors Readers’
    Poll for Best Writers’ Resource. She also started Roses and Thorns Reviews
    and currently has two partners.
    Ms. Weber battles bi-polar
    disorder, quipping, “You haven’t lived until you’ve been the only woman on the
    locked ward at the VA.” Her song, “It’s Not My Fault,” won a gold medal in the
    National Veterans Creative Arts Competition. She has lost over a hundred pounds
    and kept it off for over three years. She lives in Round Lake Beach, Illinois.

    Interview with Rochelle Weber

    Why did you write this book?
    The Thin Person Inside: Kristen
    Jensen never expected to fall in love when she got help for her morbid
    obesity—let alone with a rock star. I started to write a book about a secretary
    who meets a rock star. Originally they met at an AA meeting, but I just
    couldn’t get the conflict there. First he relapsed. Then she did. Then I
    decided a story about a person in recovery relapsing was just too trite. Then I
    decided to put it in the future and have them meet in Rockton on the Moon. Maybe
    the conflict could be that he lived on Earth. Then they were going to honeymoon
    up there. Nothing worked.
    Then someone said, “You should
    write about your weight loss.” Bingo! I changed Kristen from an alcoholic to a
    food addict, described my experience in treatment, even copied my homework from
    treatment, and the whole thing just flowed. I decided Sean should lose his hand
    because I already had a hero with crushed legs in another book. I’m not a heavy
    metal fan, so I didn’t know there was a drummer out there who lost an arm and
    came back to the band. I met a veteran who lost his hand in a farm accident and
    played piano, and that’s where I got the idea Sean could manage keyboards with
    one hand.
    What is your favorite genre to read?
    Do I have to choose one? I love
    sci-fi, mystery/suspense/thriller, sweet romance, some paranormal—pretty much
    everything but erotica and BDSM. I find erotica boring and BDSM just isn’t my
    thing. I just don’t get the concept of deriving pleasure from pain. I’m a wimp.
    I don’t want to feel pain, and I’m empathetic so I don’t want to read about
    anyone feeling pain.
    Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
    Again, must I choose only one? I
    think I can narrow it down to three. 
    Professor McGonagle and Molly Weasley from the Harry Potter series, and
    Maureen Johnson Smith, mother of Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long, created
    by Robert A. Heinlein. All three are strong, independent women who protect the
    people they love and stand up for what they believe in.
    What are you working on at the moment, and what will see from you in
    coming months?
    My current WIP is languishing
    somewhat, as I’m busy with promoting my new release and various editing
    projects. It’s an historical book set during the Vietnam Era called Full Circle
    about a girl who dates a bad-boy biker wanna-be.  She thinks he’s dumped her when he stops
    showing up, not realizing he’s been arrested and gone into the Marines. She
    joins the Navy and becomes a Hospital Corpwave and meets him again when he’s
    admitted to her hospital after being injured in Vietnam. I guess I seem to be
    forming a pattern of injured heroes. I’m running out of body parts to maim. ;-/
    Please tell us about your latest book.
    Kristen Jensen, a Navy veteran,
    tips the scale at a crippling three hundred pounds. In desperation she asks her
    VA therapist if she can go into addictions treatment with the guys where she
    meets Sean. With black hair, blue eyes, and a perfect body she figures the
    reason he’s speaking to her is that she’s the only other person in the room.
    The Haystack told their lead
    singer, Sean Wesley, to get clean or get out. But none of the big-name clinics
    worked. Sean’s a Desert Storm vet, so they send him to a VA in the middle of
    nowhere. When he meets Kristen the first day, he thinks it’s tragic such a
    pretty girl’s trapped in a huge body. And her honesty, intelligence, and
    bravery are even more impressing. Sean’s drawn to Kristen, but she’s had
    decades to build layers of defense.

    About the Book

    Title The Thin Person Inside
    Genre Contemporary Romance
    Author Rochelle Weber
    Book heat level (based on movie
    ratings): R

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    Publisher MuseItUp Publishing,
    Inc. http://tinyurl.com/rwmusettpi
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