Roxanna Mitchell

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Shah Fazli
11 hrs · Düsseldorf, Germany


Roxanna Mitchell, Welcome, thanks for agreeing to do this interview, how would you like to start with this interview, what do you want to say at the start, maybe saying something interesting about The Perfect Score, or it can be anything, please? — with Roxanna Mitchell.

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Roxanna Mitchell Hi, Shah! Thanks for having me on! You aren't with me but I'm jumping out of my skin with excitement. I'm usually very vivacious and outgoing. Doing this kind of thing makes my other side come out - shy. I'm excited to be sharing my debut novel, Perfect Score, a contemporary romance set here in Southern California.
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Roxanna Mitchell I'm new to this kind of thing so bear with me, ok? I can be quite talkative.
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Shah Fazli
11 hrs · Düsseldorf, Germany


Oh, wow, interesting, thanks, so what is The Perfect Score about? — withRoxanna Mitchell.

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Roxanna Mitchell PS is about a high-powered attorney/sports agent (James McDowell) who specializes in NBA players and a beautiful history writer (Nichola Bradford). They are both at turning points in their lives when they meet each other, changing their entire milieus upside down. Set here in the beach area, it's got a lot of laughs, real life locations and...well...there is some sex in it...mmm...lots of it actually and I don't mince words...EVER. *blushing*
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Roxanna Mitchell I take much of my inspiration from where I live...the beach in Southern California
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Roxanna Mitchell By the way, I'm classed as a contemporary romance author if that helps at all.
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Shah Fazli
11 hrs · Düsseldorf, Germany


Can you make us laugh with a scene from the book, who is there and what happens, the scene that makes you laugh quite often, even when you are not there reading it. — with Roxanna Mitchell.

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Roxanna Mitchell OMG. Well, Shah...it makes me laugh only because I can't really believe I wrote it and I can never think of this road again without visualizing the scene. Ahem...it involves a sexual encounter in a Mercedes between Nikki and Jamie on their way home from seeing the Lakers play. It is their first encounter and a rather steamy one in which Jamie nearly crashes the car. Without going into TOO much detail, I think you get the drift. I'd like to leave the rest to my readers' imagination and let them see for themselves. lol.



Ellen Ring Where do you get your inspiration from?
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Shah Fazli pls ask in a separate post, so Roxana can see.
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Roxanna Mitchell I see it, Shah. Want me to answer anyway?
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Shah Fazli Yeah, if you do, please.
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Roxanna Mitchell Right...where do I get my inspiration from? I'm a very sensual person in real life. I have to be able to visualize things before I can write. Consequently, I take pictures of landscapes, views, people. I LOVE human dynamics and surreptitiously photograph encounters I see along the beach, using them with my characters. I even take pictures of clothes. Music is also very big in my writing...I listen to it ALL the time. I will eventually have a playlist for Perfect Score as well as a recipe book. You see, Nikki LOVES to cook much like an author I know. So...my inspiration comes from many arenas of life. I'm a people person first...and I, of course, use my own experiences as well as some of my friends', to bring my stories to life. My editor would probably agree...she looks at me and can tell when I have a story in my head that needs to come out. I must have it written on my face already. I recently had a colleague post a picture on FB of his recent vacation - upon seeing the picture, I had a new story ready to go. I have since been given the use of the picture and it will become the cover for that book in the Perfect series. Does that answer your question, Ellen?
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Roxanna Mitchell Told you I can be quite talkative.
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Dara Rochlin
10 hrs · Redondo Beach, CA, United States


Why do you write? How long have you been writing?

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Roxanna Mitchell Let's try the second question first. I started writing in high school (oh, so long ago). A friend of mine and I used to write really funny stuff - if we had kept it up we would have been the Mike Meyer of our generation. I went on to a legal type career and left writing behind until my muse poked me two years ago...well, he pushed me out of bed. Why do I write? It is a passion of mine. I'm getting emotional right now. It is something I HAVE to do. I don't feel complete until I get my stories out and then I'm incomplete because the next story is there. I write for ME - it is therapeutic and cathartic. If people like what I create, then I'm even happier.











Ofisa NelIna
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Rox, I love how you are explicit with your emotions and how you portray "love".... for young readers as myself, what is your take on "love at first sight" versus "lust"?

By the way, your awesome!

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Roxanna Mitchell Thanks, Nele! Love at first sight versus lust...well, I think I have experienced both. It feels different to me. Love at first sight...there's that pull, that chemistry, that comfortable feeling like wearing a worn in slipper. Lust is different...it's let's get it over with because we can't wait. And then afterwards, it's gone. At least that's my experience. Lust is instant attraction. Love at first sight is...ongoing attraction from my perspective. Does that make sense?
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Roxanna Mitchell Nikki and Jamie have that pull...they don't want the one night stand...the drive by...they want the WHOLE package...but they do have the love at first sight chemistry. HOWEVER...they are quite lusty, too...a different kind of lust since they do in fact love each other.
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Roxanna Mitchell And, oh, how I do love Jamie and Nikki. My editor wants a sequel...and I hae to admit I miss them tremendously...cried when I finished the book...their love is real. Ah, if we could all find that true love.
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Roxanna Mitchell *have* I'm a Grammar Nazi, too. Sorry.















Kathy Garrigues
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Will your books ever be available in stores ??

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Roxanna Mitchell Any book store can purchase then now on Amazon. At present they are not in stores but sold exclusively through that avenue. I will be involved in a Meet the Local Authors event here in Redondo Beach at Mysterious Galaxy on 3 May. You will be able to purchase them there.
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Roxanna Mitchell Thanks for asking, Kathy.
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Roxanna Mitchell Perfect Score, by the way, is now available on Kindle as of Tuesday night. So if you have a reader...you can pick it up there and it is signed.
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Kathy Garrigues Thanks for the info

















Shah Fazli
11 hrs · Düsseldorf, Germany


Thanks, can you tell us a little more about your main characters, who are they, what kind of personalities they have, etc, are they beautiful people, or just ordinary people, for instance? — with Roxanna Mitchell.

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Shah Fazli Roxanna Mitchell
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Roxanna Mitchell Well...I have to say that I am in LOVE with Jamie. He is the tall, dark, handsome, smart guy who seems to have everything at his fingertips. He's fun, charming, caring, sexy...wow...so sexy...yes, he is standing in front of me now. But he is also a very shrewd negotiator...and it helps Nikki play into his hand. She, on the other hand, is just as shrewd, having studied military strategies and tactics (something you learn later in the tetralogy). She starts out as a mopey chick, not really taking care of herself and how she looks. Then she is spurned by a friend of hers to do something with herself of end up a spinster with a bunch of cats (if you knew me you would know I HATE cats -- sorry, feline lovers). Once she fixes herself up, well, in comes Jamie. He is very rich and she is somewhat comfortable. Both live at the beach, engaging in healthy living and activities...much as I do.
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Roxanna Mitchell Neither are ordinary but extraordinary in their own ways.
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Roxanna Mitchell Btw, Nikki is a pistol. She doesn't take any crap off of anyone but around Jamie she is...well..gone. She's lost in him and he in her. You might say that she is somewhat like me in personality...
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Roxanna Mitchell Nikki is a subject matter expert on French Resistance, Special Operations Executive, MI6 in WW2...she's writing a compendium, if you will, that will be used by colleges.
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Roxanna Mitchell Sounds boring but...the rest of the story explains why she got into it and what it means to her. Remember what I currently like to read...it's a clue.












Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black
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What is your newest project?

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Roxanna Mitchell Thanks, Kerry, for asking. My latest foray into the world of publishing is in an anthology now on Amazon - Shades of Fear - all proceeds go to pediatric cancer research and patient care. My late husband died four years ago of cancer so it is a hot button with me. My piece is called "Perfect Connection" and it is a personal story. Next...I'm finishing my second in the "Perfect" series entitled Perfect Fit - set 1/2 in SoCal and 1/2 in Biloxi, Mississippi. I'm listening to modern country music and DIGGING it. Got any shitkickers? lol. Seriously...the music inspired me as well as a personal story.
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Roxanna Mitchell BTW, my editor will be working on Part 2 of Perfect Score - Half Time Show - hopefully it will be ready for publication by the end of June, a year from Part 1's publication.
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Dara Rochlin Kerry is one of your co-authors in the shades of fear anthology, Roxanna.
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Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black I liked your story in the anthology very much, Roxanna.
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Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black It is interesting to know a bit of the background story, because it makes it even more touching, more personal.
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Angel Potter Cox Getting healthy.















Simona Robotti
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What's the subject of Your book? Where do you catch Your inspiration?

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Roxanna Mitchell Perfect Score is about two people who find each other and embark on a love story that makes them whole. It's perfect. See my answer to Ellen Ring's question regarding inspiration.
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Roxanna Mitchell Forgot to say that I do have a muse...he's the one who pokes me in the back at 3am...with a Sharpie, folks! Heads out of the gutter. He yells at me to get up and write. I obey him because without him I wouldn't be writing. You can't see him but I see him very clearly. He's in the corner now, looking quite smug...yeah, yeah, later he and I will have a conversation...a quiet one.
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Simona Robotti What's the name of your muse!
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Roxanna Mitchell Ahahaha...I call him muse or for Perfect Fit, Captain America as he comes to me in the persona of a serviceman in Bates boots.
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Dara Rochlin
10 hrs · Redondo Beach, CA, United States


When you're not writing, what do you like to do?

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Roxanna Mitchell My family and friends are my life. They are my rocks. I love getting geeky with my teenage son - ComicCon rocks. Having coffee, long power walks with my friends. I love my beach -- that's where I find my God and am made whole. Oh, and my 5Ks. MUSIC!!! Live concerts. Well written anything. Drinking good beer, having great hot curry. I love life.
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Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black Have you always lived in CA?
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Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black And what is your definition of "good beer?" hahaah!
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Roxanna Mitchell I am a native Californian, having spent much of my years at the beach. Now you know why it is in my blood. Considered moving once...but to ANOTHER beach...Hawaii. lol.
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Roxanna Mitchell Stella Artois, Guinness (a stout, yes, and only in Dublin, Ireland)
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Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black Do you think that the sunny climate and Californian experience has shaped your outlook? (I could see how it might.) Good beer choices, by the way! haha!
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Roxanna Mitchell I was fortunate to have a very strong mother as a role model. She always had a sunny disposition and taught me to be positive. That has carried me through many troubling times and it is something that I have tried to impart to my son ad stepchildren.
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Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black How do you juggle family, other responsibilities, and writing?
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Roxanna Mitchell It can be difficult at times but I have a very understanding son. He's old enough now to take care of himself but still needs mom's upper hand sometimes. I work full time, take care of the house (along with my stepdaughter) and write ALL the time. Yes, I keep a pad of paper with me always. You never know when that pesky muse will poke you.












Simona Robotti
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Why did you invite so many v.i.p. To Your interview?

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Roxanna Mitchell Networking, my dear, networking...
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Simona Robotti how do you know they are not fake?






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Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black
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Who are your favorite writers? books?

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Roxanna Mitchell Hemingway by far. Coelho, Garcia Marquez, Allende (there's a pattern here -- Latin American writers are passionate). Jane Austen (ah, the prim and proper me). I have MANY favorite books. Too many to list. Again I read a lot of non-fic - military stuff - heavy military stuff
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Kerry Elizabeth Blickenderfer Black Most writers have too many favorites to chose. That is probably why we write!
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Steven Blowney Tolkein: LOTR; Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, Burmese Days.
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Dara Rochlin
11 hrs · Redondo Beach, CA, United States


What's your opinion on ebooks versus paperbacks. Are you a physical book reader ? What are you reading right now ?

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Roxanna Mitchell I love both actually but I think I prefer paperbacks/hard covers. I'm a sensory type person as I think my writing attests. I love the feel, smell, look of a book in my hands plus I'm anal and make notes. What am I reading now? Not much of anything -- I'm firmly enmeshed in finishing the next novel, Perfect Fit. But...I do love military history of all things - anything to do with SEALs at the moment.
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Roxanna Mitchell I do have an e-reader and love it for the ease of carrying it around. When traveling, I would take at least 3 books with me (yes, reading all 3 simultaneously). Don't have to have the weight any more.
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Diana Hurwitz Still prefer paper over plastic.
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Ian Lipner physical, prefer reading real books over electronic. Just doesn't feel the same.
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Kara Kortright real books! right NOW I'm reading Fb, lol, but the current book is Spider Robinson's Stardance.
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Joseph Meyerson Hard to mulch an e-book for garden usage.
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Roxanna Mitchell Never mulch a book PERIOD.
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Rhea Rochlin Every book I read now is on my e reader. Most convenient!






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Shah Fazli
10 hrs · Düsseldorf, Germany


What is your tips to new writers, what have you learned from your writing so far that you want to share, please? — with Roxanna Mitchell.

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Roxanna Mitchell I encourage EVERYONE who feels they have a story in their head to write. Write every day if even just a couple of lines. Practice makes PERFECT -- see? my word. I can write til the early morning hours and get up again within a few hours to start all over. WRITE, WRITE, WRITE What have I learned? A lot about myself. A lot about people. A lot about things, life in general. Much of writing is research if you want it to be believable and, ask my editor, I'm anal about that. I even drug my girlfriends out to a cowboy bar one night just to get the feel of it for my writing.