Unbeknownst to me, Cindy Hwang read my story ( Love’s Prisoner) in Secrets 6 and made a mental note of my name. I ended up selling quite a few books and novellas to small press: Hard Shell, and then later, Red Sage Publishing (the Secrets books). I passed out (luckily, my fall was cushioned by my rejection letters). They bought it (in fact, it’s still in print over there!). So I submitted a YA novel, Adventures of the Teen Furies, to Hard Shell Word Factory. So many ideas, so many snarky jokes…not enough time.Ībout then, e-publishing burst into the scene. Then, as now, I’d often write 2-3 books at a time. In fact, I’d rather write than just about anything else it doesn’t seem like work to me.
Undaunted (read: stubborn) I kept writing. Realized people could actually (ha!) make a living at it and started submitting when I was in my early twenties. Anyway, I’ve been writing since I was 13. Ha! It couldn’t be much more difficult than, you know, breaking through in American publishing these days. Then, at various publishing meetings, I would…okay, that’s a total lie, but I always wanted to pretend like I slept my way to the top. Please describe it throughout all its twists and turns. Your route to the “big time” in mainstream publishing is fairly unique. …although you’d been published in romance/romantica since 2000 and previously, going back into the late 1990s, with Young Adult fiction. You sort of “burst” onto the scene in 2004 w/your Betsy books… Davidson’s answers aren’t quite like Proust’s. Every month on the back page of Vanity Fair magazine, a celebrity is asked some of the same questions Marcel Proust answered on two separate occasions in his life – and that suck-up James Lipton uses them as well during his Inside the Actors Studio interviews.
It’s nearly impossible for this author to remove her tongue from her cheek – even in an interview – so sit back and enjoy a snappy ride, which intersperses the types of questions you’ve come to expect in an AAR interview with parts of the Proust Questionnaire. The third in her Betsy series, Undead and Unappreciated, will be released in a couple of months. It’s only March and we’ve already seen two single title releases and one anthology contribution from Ms. It also just won as Best Alternate Reality Romance and received honorable mention as a Favorite Funny in AAR’s annual Reader Poll. Undead and Unwed, the first of these single title releases, was a fresh, snarky, and incredibly fun amalgam of Chick Lit, Vampire and Romance that introduced most of us to her very unique voice. MaryJanice Davidson burst onto the mainstream publishing scene in 2004 with a multitude of releases (both books and short stories), three of which were single titles.
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