Feature on Dani Collins, Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband

Our feature on author is on Dani Collins this week. She has a new book out this month, Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband. 

Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling author Dani Collins thrives on giving readers emotional, compelling, heart-soaring romance with some laughter and heat thrown in, just like real life. Mostly she writes contemporary romance for Harlequin Presents and Tule’s Montana Born, but her backlist of fifty books also includes self-published erotic romance, romantic comedy, and even an epic medieval fantasy. When she’s not writing—just kidding, she’s always writing. Look for Dani’s latest Presents, Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband, out now!

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1) Do you think someone can be a writer even if they don't feel emotions strongly?

 

I believe anyone can be a writer. However, I also believe that passion of some kind is needed in order to pursue writing. If you’re not driven by strong feelings or strong opinions, you’ll probably struggle to even sit down and try to write, let alone do the long, hard work of editing and polishing.

Of course, it depends on the type of writing, too. If the author is writing a more dispassionate story, perhaps a spy thriller where the main character has a very disassociated personality, then a lack of strong emotions on the writer's part might not be as much of a drawback as it would when writing romance.

2) Who are some of your author friends and how do they help you become a better writer?

Great question! I've been lucky enough to meet several of the Harlequin Presents authors at conference and I’ve written multi-author trilogies and quartets with Jennifer Hayward, Maya Blake, Tara Pammi, Rachel Thomas and Caitlin Crews, to name a few.

Jennifer Hayward happens to be Canadian, so we often check in with each other on uniquely Canadian publishing questions like taxes or public lending rights. We live on opposite ends of the country, however, and I live so rural that I don’t see other writers in person much at all.

As for how they help me write better, all of my author friends, especially the ones writing for Harlequin presents, are incredibly good. Reading their work can be a daunting, actually. I wind up worrying that my own work doesn’t measure up. They set a very high bar and that's how they provoke me into striving to write better.

They’re also incredibly generous with advice. I don't personally like to work with a critique partner so I don't often ask for advice with a plot problem or character arc, but I will ask career-related questions, like where to get a good website designer, or what to do when author copies go astray. (Or where to find a good VA who will help with scheduling blog posts! Hi Nas! I want to say we first met through Melanie Milburne in Sydney?)

Nas: Yes, Melanie Milburne introduced us back in 2015 at the Romance Writer's of Australia Conference! At the time I was already working with Melanie for three years. I met Melanie in Anaheim, California at the National Conference in 2012. I love working with romance authors and have enjoyed working with you.Thank you so much for having faith in me.

3) Do you want each book to stand on its own? Or are you building a body of work with connections between each book?

Short answer--both. As a reader I like to check in with characters I've read about and know that they're living their happily ever after. As an author, I often find myself doing the same thing. After I've spent weeks and months with the character, building their world, I love checking back in with them.

Having said that, there is a delightful simplicity in writing a standalone story. My June book, Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband, does not link with any of my other books. The upside is not having to work within the constraints of a world I’ve already created.

My August book, however, The Maid's Spanish Secret, connects to one of my earlier books. Cesar from The Consequence He Must Claim, had a brother, Rico. Readers asked me if Rico would get his own book and I was finally able to make that happen with this one. Then, because I had mentioned they had a sister, I felt compelled to give Pia her own story which comes out in November of this year, Bound By Their Nine-Month Scandal.

Linked books are a lot of work, however, and there is a lot of room for error. A reader caught a mistake in my recent duet where the sex of a baby changed between the two epilogues. So, yeah, that’s where a standalones has an advantage.

4) Tell us a bit about your book…

Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband is a fresh theme from Harlequin Presents / Mills & Boon Modern that takes the escapist fantasy of luxury touches to the next level.

My hero, Gabriel, is a multi-billionaire who becomes the world’s first trillionaire when he inherits his Singaporean grandmother’s fortune. What he doesn’t expect is to inherit her PA, Luli.

While Luli’s employer treated her as a daughter, she also left her without a penny to her name. Fearing she’ll be deported back to Venezuela, Luli uses her knowledge with computer programming to hold Gabriel’s inheritance hostage to persuade him to help her.

His answer? The marriage his grandmother planned for them.

Untouched Until Her Ultra-Rich Husband

The only woman to challenge him…

…is the only woman he’ll marry!

Multibillionaire Gabriel Dean is so outrageously wealthy that when computer genius Luli Cruz uses her skills to hold his inheritance to ransom, her audacity simply amuses him! Innocent Luli needs Gabriel’s help to avoid destitution. Gabriel’s solution? He’ll secure both their futures by marrying her! But sweeping wide-eyed Luli into his luxurious world, Gabriel discovers the chemistry with his untouched wife is priceless…

Welcome to the exclusive world of the ultra-rich…

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