Author Fan Chat with Katie Ashley

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

9:30 – 10:30 PM EST

LoverMichelle: Author Katie Ashley joins us tonight ~ chat begins in 20 minutes and will end
PROMPTLY at 10:30 PM EST as Katie has another commitment immediately following our
chat!

LoverMichelle: Yea, you made it just in time! Did you get your Coke Zero?

LoverMichelle: Welcome everyone!

lalamrcds: *waves* Hi all! :)

Kristina: Hi!!! :-)

Yesi: Hello!!! :)

Maria D: Hi!! :)

Denise: Hi!

LoverKaren: Hola

LoverMichelle: We'll have people trickle in at different times. But this is an open forum. And
I'm just here to moderate and keep it semi-clean! Feel free to ask Katie any questions you want
to ask her. However, we simply ask that you keep this forum spoiler free.

LoverMichelle: Feel free to discuss any of her books ~ not just Music of the Heart!

Katie Ashley: Hey ladies!

Katie Ashley: sorry

Katie Ashley: it took me forever to get logged in

Katie Ashley: lol, yes, I got my Coke Zero...never again will I try to go out "real quick'

lalamrcds: Hi Katie! I was wondering what you are working on right now and when will it be
out?

LoverMichelle: Why forever? It's easy, breezy! Let's see ~ computer?

Kristina: Hi Katie...will we hear more from Emma & Aidan?...deleted scene you didn't put in
the book maybe?
Katie Ashley: Hi Lala, I'm currently working on revisions for Don't Hate the Player--a book I
wrote four years ago this summer

Katie Ashley: it was the first book that landed me an agent, and I almost sold to Penguin. It was
inspired by the death of my first student...and the loss of two friends from when I was in HS

Yesi: Spoiler free means I can't ask about Heather in the Prop Michelle! X-(

Katie Ashley: Hi Kristina! yes, we'll hear more from Aidan and Emma. Pesh's story, The Pairing,
which will be out in late summer/early fall, has him dating Aidan's niece Megan. We'll see Aidan
and Em's second child born in that book as well as the whole Fitzgerald family

Katie Ashley: hahahha, omg, Yesi

Katie Ashley: lol

Katie Ashley: you could call her the bitch, tramp, ho?

Yesi: Yay! More Aidan and Emma!

Yesi: Haha!!!

Kristina: Yay!! :-X

Katie Ashley: and I did the Easter story, Kristina...I don't know if you saw it. Aidan in a bunny
suit

Katie Ashley: lo

Kristina: yes...I read the Easter story....loved it...very cute!

Katie Ashley: those characters mean so much to me; I doubt I'll ever be able to let them go

Katie Ashley: lol, I think people would be happy if I did every major holiday story...Memorial
Day cookout at the Fitzgerald's, lol. Fireworks at the Fourth of July!! IT means so much that the
ones I loved are so appreciated

LoverMichelle: We'll have people trickle in at different times. But this is an open forum. And
I'm just here to moderate and keep it semi-clean! Feel free to ask Katie any questions you want
to ask her. However, we simply ask that you keep this forum spoiler free.

Maria D: Can never have enough Aidan and Emma!

Katie Ashley: thanks Maria!! Muah

Yesi: Just write a Holidays with the Fitzgeralds book! :):):)

Katie Ashley: hahaha

Maria D: <3

Katie Ashley: I could...a novella!

LoverMichelle: Agree Maria! Aidan is....no words.

Yesi: yes!

Kristina: lol....yes we would love all the major holidays w/ the Fitzgeralds!!

Katie Ashley: I'll most def do one at Christmas

Yesi: Absolutely!

Katie Ashley: *waves to everyone joining* So glad to have you guys here!

Maria D: Love him!!!!

Yesi: Katie of all the hotties you have written about...which one is your favorite?

Katie Ashley: it's hard not to play favorites with characters, but I do love Aidan

Katie Ashley: haha, you anticipated me, Yesi!!

LoverKaren: Open forum, just jump in and ask question.

Katie Ashley: they're like children in a way

Yesi: :D

Katie Ashley: I love Jake in his own way....Will from Nets and Lies is the ultimate dreamboat,
kind, caring, compassionate...nick is the diamond in the rough....Aidan is....well, he's just damn
swoonworthy!!

Yesi: LOVE Aidan!!!! <3

Katie Ashley: and AJ...I can't wait to write his story

Katie Ashley: so fun

Maria D: OMG!!! I can't wait for AJ's story!!

Maria D: really liked him! ;)

Katie Ashley: I’m still struggling with who will be his perfect girl, lol

Kristina: AJ's story... :sigh:

Yesi: Yes AJ!!!! My favorite Latin lover! ;)

Maria D: umm I volunteer!!

Katie Ashley: hahahhah

Katie Ashley: I’m sure a lot of gals will

Katie Ashley: I would, lol

Katie Ashley: but no matter what, he'll be dancing, lol

Kristina: lol

Katie Ashley: with whomever he ends up with

Maria D: gotta love a man who can dance, speak Spanish and is in a rock band!!

Katie Ashley: haha, I know, right?

Yesi: Totally agree Maria!

Maria D: :)

Katie Ashley: With his last name, I paid homage to two of my former students---brothers,
Douglas and Devin Resendiz. I taught Devin twice, and then Douglas is in the Marines now, I
went to his wedding, and he teases me about modeling

Katie Ashley: so I told him the best he would get is to be a character's name

Katie Ashley: ol

Yesi: Katie how did you come up with the idea for The Proposition?

Shelly: When will AJ 's book be released?

Katie Ashley: The Proposition is a lot of my own personal story and struggle....I've lost my
parents like Em, I want a child, etc. So after my former agent

Katie Ashley: told me to write what I knew, I scoffed. I wrote to escape, not hone in on my sad
parts, lol
Katie Ashley: but then Kelli Maine and Michelle Valentine and I challenged each other to write a
sex scene after 50 Shades exploded---we were all in YA

Katie Ashley: so the first thing I ever wrote of the Proposition was the office baby making scene

Yesi: Well it is a phenomenal story. Thank you for giving us Aidan and Emma! <a3

Katie Ashley: scene, lol

Katie Ashley: it still blows me away that people fell in love with it so much

Kristina: I love that! lol

Katie Ashley: especially people all over the world

Katie Ashley: I just sold in Indonesia....my GA characters, my manwhore, etc, lol in Indonesia

Katie Ashley: it's wild

Yesi: Awesome! Congrats!

Katie Ashley: thank you!! That makes Brazil, Hungary, Turkey, and Indonesia

Katie Ashley: my bff from Brazil was very excited for the Brazilian one, lol

Kristina: Katie that’s awesome!!!

Katie Ashley: I'm still just in shock...after most of 2012, I never imagined I could be blessed like
this

Maria D: Congrats!! It's such an awesome story!!

Yesi: You deserve it!!!

Katie Ashley: thanks guys

Katie Ashley: It's been a long struggle in the trenches for writing, so to have this success...it
gives me hope that whoever "Mr. Ashley" is will be phenomenal!!! LOL JK

Yesi: Favorite scene in The Proposition?

Katie Ashley: being a romance writer verses teaching is going to make dating interesting

Katie Ashley: oh man...that's a tough one

Katie Ashley: on the favorite scene

Yesi: :)

Katie Ashley: I love their first OMalley's meeting

Katie Ashley: from the convo to the parking lot

LoverMichelle: Yes, parking lot!

Yesi: Love the parking lot scene!

LoverMichelle: I have to say, if y'all get a chance, be sure and purchase the audio version of The
Proposition and The Proposal. Never have I blushed so much in my life! :)

Katie Ashley: I found out it should be on iTunes soon. Its official release was the 8th

Katie Ashley: Tantor, the audio people, bought Proposition, Proposal, and Music. I can't wait to
hear both voices/narration with Music

Yesi: Yay!

Katie Ashley: and OMG, yes, it's mortifying

Katie Ashley: let's just say the actress really gets in to the sex scenes

Katie Ashley: snort

Maria D: LOL!! That's great!

Yesi: Lol

Nancy: lol

Katie Ashley: it's so weird hearing your words coming out of someone else!! Especially the sex
stuff. You really go, "OMG, I wrote that?!!!"

Kristina: lol

LoverMichelle: http://www.tantorlibrary.com/BookDetail....

Katie Ashley: thanks, Michelle

Yesi: That Aidan sure did have some serious moves! :">

LoverMichelle: Over on the right hand side, you can listen to a sample! :)

Katie Ashley: hahha

Katie Ashley: speaking of moves, what's something you guys haven't seen in my books that
you'd like to see...smexy wise? LOL

Maria D: agree, Yesi!! Aidan is fantastic!

Katie Ashley: it's funny because someone suggested I make Pesh into S&M...I'm like no, no, he's
all about the seduction scene and making love. I can't imagine the good doctor have whips and
chains

Yesi: Noooooooo!!!

Katie Ashley: haha, I know, right?

Maria D: I don't see that either

Yesi: That would be so out of character!

Kristina: i don't see it either.....

Katie Ashley: Well, the book is about how she hasn't had sex in 18months since Mason arrived
and she's ready to get that over with....she and Pesh are Noah's godparents and then she ends up
doing her clinicals under him at the hospital. She'd like to do more under him, but he's all about
making her fall in love. SO it's kinda a fight to the finish to see who will cave first

Maria D: he wasn't Dom like

Nancy: No way Pesh was way too sweet to be into S&M.. :)

Yesi: So I assume Aidan is going to be ok with Pesh putting the moves on Megan? Or no?

Katie Ashley: haha, yes, he wants to make sure Pesh has moved on from Emma, lol. And he
comes to realize that neither Pesh nor Emma were really in love....it was more about being
confused about their feelings

Yesi: Good!!!!

Yesi: Yes, that confusion...not to fond of that time period. ;)

Katie Ashley: hahah, oh lord...people give poor Em more grief

Katie Ashley: hey forgive Mr. Manwhore ASAP because he's being sweet

Kristina: me neither Yesi....I was not a fan of Pesh....

Yesi: Haha! Just had to throw in for old times sake!

Maria D: and he's hot lol

Christine: Hi girls!!!

Katie Ashley: Hi Christine!!

Kristina: lol Katie - oh I was mad at Aidan but he had already stolen my heart!! lol

Yesi: Yep! Reformed man-whore thank you...of course forgive him!!!

Katie Ashley: I can see why peeps hated him in that book, but hopefully they'll grow to love him
in The Pairing

Yesi: Yeah, Aidan needed a good ass kicking!

Kristina: I'm sure we will....since he isn't after Emma :-)

LoverMichelle: Hi Christine.

Yesi: Hi Christine!

Christine: Hi Michelle!! Sorry I'm late I was reading!!!

LoverMichelle: I never found Pesh to be a threat.

Maria D: hi Christine!

Christine: Hi Yesi!!

Christine: I didn't like Pesh at all.

LoverMichelle: Please, no worries. Although we are wrapping up promptly at 10:30 PM EST.

Katie Ashley: people really wanted him to die...it was funny and scary

Katie Ashley: lol

Yesi: Christine he did good in the end...

Maria D: I just didn't want him getting in Aidan's way

Christine: I felt like he was taking advantage of her b/c she was pregnant. Yes he did good at the
end but still don't like him

Yesi: Lol
Katie Ashley: oh man, I never wanted him to come off as taking advantage of her...he was just so
confused himself about trying to get back in the dating game

Katie Ashley: and grief will totally screw with your head....been there, done that, lol

Katie Ashley: well, then I have my work cut out for me, Christine, so you will become TEAM
PESH 4-EVAH

Katie Ashley: ol

Katie Ashley: jk

Kristina: Katie - what was your favorite scene to write in Music of the Heart?

Yesi: I don't think he was taking advantage of her but he did use it to his benefit with the whole
ultrasound thing and home visit. Not cool in Aidan's house. Just sayin' :)

Christine: I'll be TEAM PESH now no problem Katie!!

Katie Ashley: oh, I caught hell for the home ultrasound

Katie Ashley: lol

Maria D: not a fan of that scene either lol

Katie Ashley: Kristina...hmm, that's another good one. the hardest scene was Jake's mother
dying. I rarely cry in my own books...but that one...damn

Katie Ashley: every time

Yesi: Haha

Christine: So not cool Yesi!!!

Katie Ashley: I cry at Noah's birth too

Katie Ashley: I loved Jake and Abby's duet and their first meeting

Katie Ashley: his side and hers

Katie Ashley: and then the guys are so hilarious

Katie Ashley: when Michelle was reading she said they were like the 7 Dwarfs when Abby was
passed out

Katie Ashley: nort

Katie Ashley: i mean, snort

Katie Ashley: ugh

Christine: His mom dying yes was a killer for me :(

Kristina: omg! Jake's mother dying KILLED me!!! I was hysterical crying...

Maria D: ugly cried during that scene :(

Yesi: :(

Kristina: LOL omg - you are so right about the guys...they didn't know what to do w/ Abby!
HAHA

Christine: I thought it was so sweet when Jake had the techs give him a live feed of her
performance

Shelly: Loved the scene when Jake fell in the fountain.

Katie Ashley: haha, I adore the fountain scene too

Kristina: @Christine - yes....that was the sweet side of Jake we all fell in love with!

Katie Ashley: at first I debated having Jake fly in for the show and do a "I'm right behind you.."

Christine: very romantic I think

Denise: I'm glad the live feed won

Katie Ashley: haha, thanks Denise. Yeah, I felt that would be better since she had just left

Yesi: The live feed scene was great!

Maria D: I thought the Like a Virgin scene was too funny

LoverMichelle: Who or what was the inspiration behind Abby's character and have you received
much criticism about her losing her virginity to someone like Jake when she had held on to it for
so long?

Yesi: That was was hilarious Maria!

Katie Ashley: There's a lot of me in Abby or vice versa...I mean, my parents weren't missionaries
but I was someone who believed in waiting til in love and all. Yes, I've gotten shizz for the oral
sex scene, lol. I worried a lot that they were doing it too son
Katie Ashley: YES, love the karaoke

Katie Ashley: there's karaoke Don't Hate the Player too

Katie Ashley: the best review I saw of late was an atheist who defended the religious aspects in
the book. Because I've gotten flack for that

LoverKaren: You got flack for religion?.

Katie Ashley: but who I am bleeds into my writing a lot....so it's hard to totally turn that side of
me off. However, it was necessary in this story to portray who Abby was...also as FORGIVING
as she was, lol

Katie Ashley: yep, a review on amazon gave me a two and said it should have been flagged for
God

Katie Ashley: lol

LoverMichelle: WTH? Seriously?

Yesi: A little too forgiving maybe but she was sweet. :)

Katie Ashley: Yeah, I was impressed that the atheist was on my side that it needed to be
portrayed like that

Yesi: What?!?!?

Maria D: flagged for God?? Really??

Kristina: Abby was a little too fast to forgive Jake but it also showed who she was and what
type of person she is.....

LoverKaren: Flagged for God, how religion was never really talked about except her parents’
occupation

Yesi: I think the fact that you openly include faith in your books makes that much more special.

Katie Ashley: haha, yep, that's what the review said

Katie Ashley: I need to try to find it

Kristina: flagged for God....??? that's crazy!

Katie Ashley: I knew it would happen

Katie Ashley: and it's probably going to happen in DHtP because Maddie's (sorry she was
originally Katie four years ago...hard to get used to the new name, lol) is a minister and she's the
typical good preacher's daughter

Shelly: I was upset with some blogs criticizing Abby and her nursing knowledge of avoiding sex
With a rocker with multiple partners. This is fiction and a romance novel; some readers think it’s
like TV reality

Katie Ashley: hahhaha

Katie Ashley: omg

Katie Ashley: lol

LoverKaren: But religion comes up in several books, Gabriel Inferno and Rapture have heavy
religious themes. Have never seen flack on that

Katie Ashley: well, even in 50 Shades, when Christian is almost killed, Ana says that she wants
to go to church the next day

LoverKaren: Well Shelly I would be one of those bloggers.

Katie Ashley: so if they can leave the Red Room, ya know

Katie Ashley: YES, I should have had Jake mention that he had been tested

Katie Ashley: before they had sex, even with the condom

Katie Ashley: it was probably a bad message for her to put her mouth there where so many others
had been

Katie Ashley: lol

Yesi: Lol

Kristina: lol...

Maria D: lol!!

Yesi: Keep that in mind for the future reformed man-whores of our book world! Lol

Katie Ashley: hahahha

Katie Ashley: I will

Yesi: :)
Katie Ashley: it was addressed with Aidan and Emma because they had blood tests an all

Yesi: Yes you did!

Katie Ashley: and I probably should have had Jake make Billie Jean used one

Katie Ashley: to blow him with....oh lord, that sounded terrible

Katie Ashley: ol

LoverKaren: Testing saves lives, and young adults are the highest statistic for STD in this
country. Some get knowledge from books, not real people which is a shame. BTW, you know I
love you, so all good.

LoverMichelle: Personally, I do look for those things in book, and I think it's important because
a recent book had a girl having sex with a player. And it was completely out of character for this
girl not to unprotected sex.

LoverMichelle: So her act of having unprotected sex did not fix her character.

Denise: Will Abby's brothers get their own books or series

LoverMichelle: And I'm not talking about Music of the Heart. So as a reader, I do look at those
things too.

Yesi: I do too.

Katie Ashley: yes, I know the book you're talking about. I was appalled by that

Katie Ashley: Denise, I would love to give Gabe and Eli their own books....Micah is kinda out
for the count since he's leaving the band to get married

LoverKaren: Micah fiancé ??

Katie Ashley: lol, Karen, it's funny because in the other scenes I was so careful for him to always
go for a condom...even when he was banging her against the barn wall

Katie Ashley: lol

LoverKaren: New story?

Shelly: Will you include updates on Abby and Jake in those books?

Katie Ashley: we'll see. I'm overwhelmed right now, both good and bad, at the thoughts of
getting to write AJ and Rhys's books. ]
LoverKaren: I could say something about barn walls but TMI

LoverMichelle: As a reminder, we only have 10 minutes left as Katie has a previous

commitment, so be sure to ask your questions.

Katie Ashley: Originality is Huge to me, so I'm so afraid of it being the same story

Katie Ashley: hahahhah

Katie Ashley: omg

Katie Ashley: barn walls TMI

Katie Ashley: don't tell me they're bad for infectious diseases? OR you have your own story

LoverKaren: Tell you in Vegas!

LoverKaren: Married far boy.

LoverKaren: Far boy

LoverKaren: Farm Boy damned spell correct

Katie Ashley: hahhahah

Katie Ashley: LOVE IT

Kristina: lol

Katie Ashley: I will own a farm one day...I love the backwoods. I guess that's obvious from my
books

Katie Ashley: or at least a lot of land out in the boonies

Katie Ashley: then I can build a barn for me and Mr. Ashley to reenact scenes in

Katie Ashley: HAHA JK

Nancy: Can anyone say splinters.. ;)

Yesi: Now you have to write a book about a HOT farm boy!!!

Maria D: lol!

Maria D: that's a great idea Yesi

Katie Ashley: lol, I just added a line about splinters in DHtP because they went at it on a dock

Katie Ashley: lol

LoverKaren: In reality Hay is pokey and itchy.

Yesi: :)

Yesi: Haha

Katie Ashley: well Noah's previous girlfriend and him...not Maddie.

Katie Ashley: I will note that about hay

Katie Ashley: lo

LoverKaren: Young Farm boys really nice abs.

Yesi: Yes! Yummy...

LoverKaren: Now I need a story to go with it Katie!

Maria D: and the V...don't forget the V ;)

LoverMichelle: So next book out is Don't Hate the Player? Then what?

Nancy: Yes!

Katie Ashley: Search Me will be June 30th and then between all the traveling I've got coming up,
it's going to be late summer/early fall for The pairing

Katie Ashley: oh yes, the V

Katie Ashley: swoons

Maria D: and then AJ?

Katie Ashley: haha, yes, then AJ

Maria D: :D

Denise: Can't wait for AJ

LoverKaren: Everyone loves AJ

Yesi: Maria wants an AJ book NOW! Get to it Katie! :)

Kristina: :D

Denise: How can you not love AJ

Maria D: LOL!!! I really do!!!!

Yesi: :D

LoverKaren: Latin swoon worthy Yummy

Katie Ashley: YESSSSS

Katie Ashley: haha, I know, I know

Katie Ashley: Search Me and DHtP just needed revisions

Katie Ashley: nada done on Pesh and AJ's story

Kristina: AJ = yummy!!

Katie Ashley: besides some plotting

Yesi: Plotting is good...writing is better! ;)

LoverMichelle: Okay, ladies, I want to wrap this up so Katie can move on to her next
"appointment." Thank you all for coming and supporting Katie! And Katie, thank you once again
for joining us for a live fan chat.

Heather Mize: thank u!!!!!

LoverKaren: Night Katie MWAH

Kristina: Thank you Katie!!!

Kristina: >:D<

Katie Ashley: THANKS GUYS!!! Yes, I get to Skype with a book club

Katie Ashley: just put on makeup at 10 this evening

Denise: Thanks Katie

Yesi: Thank you Katie!!!

Katie Ashley: LOVE YOU GUYS

Yesi: Thank you Katie!!!

Katie Ashley: LOVE YOU GUYS

Maria D: Good night!! <3

Katie Ashley: Thanks for the support!!! MUAH

Katie Ashley: !

Nancy: Thank you Katie..

Maria D: thank you Katie

Kristina: MUAH! Thank you for sharing all these characters w/ us that I wish I could go on
vacation with!

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