CAITLYN O'LEARY GIVES US ANSWERS!
DID YOU ALWAYS WANT TO BE
A WRITER?
The idea of being an author has
always been a something too out of reach. I focused on climbing the corporate
ladder instead. When I got this job doing project management where I could
telecommute….Well, why not take that time I would normally be in the car and
see if I had what it takes to actually be a writer. After all, reading 500
books a year costs quite a pretty penny!!! LOL
WHY WRITE A SERIES? WHY
WRITE FATE HARBOR?
Out of all the books that I read, I
love it when an author will give me a series. When a really good book ends, but
then I realize I will have an opportunity to dip back into that world, I am SO
happy. So that’s what made me decide to write a series. As to why I wanted to
base my series in Fate Harbor, Washington, well I LOVE the Pacific Northwest.
The people and landscape are so diverse and welcoming. I grew up there, and I’m
always so happy to be welcomed home when I go for visits. The only two things I
might not accurately portray in my books is just how many MFM relationships
there are, and how often it DOESN’T rain. LOL (People, to be as green and
pretty as it is, it rains….A LOT!)
WHICH HAS BEEN YOUR
FAVORITE BOOK TO WRITE?
I love them all. Claiming Kara has a
lot of my family in it. I’m the oldest of five children, and we meddle in one
another’s lives a lot. So it is definitely near and dear to my heart. Trusting
Chance is nearest and dearest because it is the first book I have ever written.
Part of the reason I wrote Trusting Chance was to show that you could build a
family even if it isn’t through blood. That people care for one another, that
they really can support and love one another. Also, I wanted to show that even
if bad things happen in childhood, that you can heal and grow from it, and
become a strong person because of it.
WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN TO
WRITE EROTICA?
Erotica is sensuality. It is
something that makes me squirm in my seat and get hot and bothered. It revs me
up so that when I see my husband I’m ready to grab him and rip his clothes off.
My readers often tell me the same thing. They definitely enjoy my stories and
they relate to the characters. When they think about the characters, they
agonize over the situations that they go through and in some cases readers have
actually been moved to tears on their behalf. But when it comes to the sex
scenes, many claim that that a good “hot flash” would provide them with blessed
relief from the steam generated by my characters channeling their passions.
I used to read the old style
romances. You remember—the ones where the sex scenes were done behind closed
doors, and the reader was not privy to them. But to tell you the truth, I
wasn’t satisfied with them. I’m a caring, empathetic person, so I wanted to
know that the heroine was sexually satisfied. After all, she’d usually gone
through hell and back to be with her lover. Was he worth it? Inquiring minds want
to know!!!
As a writer, however, one of the
things I want to do is show my readers how my characters could learn and grow
to overcome personal obstacles and become better people. I wanted to show real
life situations in which people solved their problems to claim real life
rewards. Why wouldn’t I want to discuss how a woman could bring pleasure to a
man performing oral sex? Why wouldn’t I want to I want to say it was healthy
and right for a woman to expect a man to return the favor? Sex is a wonderful
part of life and should be celebrated. I want to show that to women. That
said,it also wouldn’t hurt if the men in our lives read these books.
