Tampa Bay area writer Riley Murphy has not so much swept romance readers off their feet as she has dominated them into delightful submission. The success she expected to take three years has taken nine months. She recently won the Ellora's Cave 2012 SuperStar Award and her first book, Reclaimed Surrender, is a 2013 Epic eBook Award finalist. The holiday romance novel she co-wrote, Full of Possibilities, is set to be released this November and the third book in her "Surrender" series, Required Surrender, is expected to come out on the first of the year. While I've only corresponded with Riley through email, this interview was enough for her to make me blush — and to start searching for photos of her online. It's safe to say she knows a thing or two about the art of seducing with words alone.
This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2012.