Morgan
Hawke
A (not so) brief history...
Who
doesn't love the tall, dark and handsome stranger,
wrapped in shadows? Who
doesn't love the danger of a supernatural encounter?
Writing is more
than my passion,
It's
an obsession.
The stories crowd into my head. I write them down
so I can get some peace.
According to my
mother, I was writing stories before I began Kindergarten
with any pencil, pen or crayon that I could get my
grubby little hands on. Any piece of paper with enough
blank space became a place to draw my little pictures
telling stories about mermaids with long beautiful
tails, witches who could fly and wild horses.
To this day my
mother likes to gleefully recite to all her friends,
the tale of how I cried over losing a particularly
good mermaid picture that I had drawn on the back
of the phone bill. The lady who took the bill had
thought it was wonderful too - but she couldn't bring
it back. The copier had yet to be invented at that
time.
I published my
first story during my sophomore year of High School.
I wrote a story
and entered it in a regional contest; a nice little
horror story about a ghost dog and revenge against
his murderer. Very lurid and very gory.
As a competitor
in the regional contest, I had several strikes against
me. I was an indifferent student competing against
all the public and private schools in the region -
against seniors.
I took the Grand
Prize, and was published in a magazine. I was thrilled,
my mother was stunned.
It was 1980, and
I was 16.
It was a very heady
experience to see my name in print. I wanted MORE.
True disappointment
came when I discovered that I could not re-enter the
contest. It had been my first try, my first finished,
printed story and I had won first place, disqualifying
me from ever entering again. I was crushed. For once,
I wanted second place. I already had a new idea and
thought my first story could use improvement.
I tried anyway
and discovered the horrors of the manual typewriter.
After struggling with the fact that I had to RETYPE
Every Single Page to correct one mistake,
I went back to notebooks and the erasable pen that
had just been invented.
Saved by the Computer!
I finally began
writing again in 2000 when I got my grubby little
paws on my own personal computer; a battered laptop
that barely supported windows 95 and Word 98. I began
to submit to Literotica.Com where I had access to
EDITORS!
Strangely enough,
my stories were well received. Even better, people
wanted me to write more. I discover that Fan mail
was a wonderful thing!
Then I discovered
the paying market of EBOOKS, and came home to the
genre of Women's Adult Adventure
Fiction - more commonly known as: Erotic
Romance.
I
am a voracious reader of Romance, Science-Fiction,
Fantasy, Horror and Erotica, so naturally my stories
follow along the lines of what I want to read.
Where do I get
my ideas from?
I play the game
of 'What If?' with everything I encounter.
Everything I do and everything I see, triggers a story
to be told:
What
if the waitress being hit-on by a pushy guy, is really
a Succubus?
'Night Waitress'
What if Satan
uses all those souls he collects for Demonic assignments?
'Demoness'
What if you
were seduced and discovered that you caught a rare
STD: Lycanthropy?
'Snow Moon'
I have lived
in seven states and spent two years in England. I
have been an auto mechanic, a security
guard, a waitress, a groom in a horse-stable, in the
military, a magazine editor, a bellydancer and a stripper.
Most recently,
I work as a publicist and copy editor for an adult
entertainment Internet company - where I learned to
'write to order'. As a publicist, I wrote Industry-related
articles and press releases that were published in
the internationally recognized Klixxx Magazine and
AVN Online magazine.
These days, I write
fiction for a living.
Why do I
write? To keep my sanity.
Morgan
Hawke
My Interviews:
EternalNight.co.uk
SheBitch.co.uk
Road
to Romance
Debbie's
Den
Reviewers
International Organization
Interview
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