{"id":20440,"date":"2018-03-21T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=20440"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:47:34","slug":"wotr18-authorspotlight-attending-author-ad-ellis-adellisauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=20440","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR18 #AuthorSpotlight &#8211; Attending Author AD Ellis   @ADEllisAuthor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wotr-attending-author.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wotr-attending-author.png?resize=300%2C204\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wotr-attending-author.png?resize=300%2C204 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wotr-attending-author.png?resize=768%2C522 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wotr-attending-author.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wotr-attending-author.png?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/authors\/1427674723p5\/8068864.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A.D.  Ellis\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;A.D. Ellis I'm a mom, wife, inner city teacher, and author. I enjoy reading, writing, napping, and teaching myself to crochet. I love spending time with my friends, laughing, eating, tasting new sweet red wines. I'm pretty much addicted to chocolate and hot tea.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">A.D. Ellis I&#8217;m a mom, wife, inner city teacher, and author. I enjoy reading, writing, napping, and teaching myself to crochet. I love spending time with my friends, laughing, eating, tasting new sweet red wines. I&#8217;m pretty much addicted to chocolate and hot tea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>When and Why did you start to write?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;I started a story in October of 2013 while on Fall Break at my parents' house. I had been thinking of the story for a while and just decided to see if I could do it. That story (For Nicky) was published in April of 2014 and, nineteen books later, I guess you could say I was bitten by the writing bug.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">I started a story in October of 2013 while on Fall Break at my parents&#8217; house. I had been thinking of the story for a while and just decided to see if I could do it. That story (For Nicky) was published in April of 2014 and, nineteen books later, I guess you could say I was bitten by the writing bug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What authors do you always read or suggest to others?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;My local writer peeps: TC Winters, Jillian Jacobs, Anya Breton, Ava Cuvay, Lori Wood, Cheryl Brooks, Donya Lynne, Lisa Caviness, Roxy Mews, Aly Grady, Melanie Jayne, Aleatha Romig....the list goes on and is a LONG one, but I have very talented writer friends right here in Indiana!\\nIn my male\/male genre, I love Kaje Harper, Missy Welsh, Finn Marlowe, Keira Andrews, Kay Simone, Ella Frank, Riley Hart, Felice Stevens...seriously, I could fill this entire page with my friends and fellow male\/male romance genre writers.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">My local writer peeps: TC Winters, Jillian Jacobs, Anya Breton, Ava Cuvay, Lori Wood, Cheryl Brooks, Donya Lynne, Lisa Caviness, Roxy Mews, Aly Grady, Melanie Jayne, Aleatha Romig&#8230;.the list goes on and is a LONG one, but I have very talented writer friends right here in Indiana!<br \/>\nIn my male\/male genre, I love Kaje Harper, Missy Welsh, Finn Marlowe, Keira Andrews, Kay Simone, Ella Frank, Riley Hart, Felice Stevens&#8230;seriously, I could fill this entire page with my friends and fellow male\/male romance genre writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the most surprising thing you have found out with the writing process?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;It's not concrete. Some days things work, some days they don't. Words will flow one day and refuse to come the next. The process I used for one book may not be the same as I use for another. Ideas pop into my head at the weirdest times. Sometimes I go back to those ideas and they become great stories, other times they sit and marinate, or maybe they never go anywhere at all.\\nFor me, the writing process is very fluid.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">It&#8217;s not concrete. Some days things work, some days they don&#8217;t. Words will flow one day and refuse to come the next. The process I used for one book may not be the same as I use for another. Ideas pop into my head at the weirdest times. Sometimes I go back to those ideas and they become great stories, other times they sit and marinate, or maybe they never go anywhere at all.<br \/>\nFor me, the writing process is very fluid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you working on now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;At the moment of writing this interview, I'm working on the third (last) book in my Blueridge Junction Boys (The BJ Boys) series titled Bound to Fight.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">At the moment of writing this interview, I&#8217;m working on the third (last) book in my Blueridge Junction Boys (The BJ Boys) series titled Bound to Fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>When writing are you a pantser or plotter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;I am a pantser who likes to have a bit of a plan. Or a plotter who enjoys when pantsing happens. Really, I can't start a book without SOME sort of plan, but most of my stories unfold during the actual writing.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">I am a pantser who likes to have a bit of a plan. Or a plotter who enjoys when pantsing happens. Really, I can&#8217;t start a book without SOME sort of plan, but most of my stories unfold during the actual writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your social links?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adellisauthor\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adellisauthor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ADEllisAuthor\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ADEllisAuthor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adellisauthor.com\">http:\/\/www.adellisauthor.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your buy links? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/author.to\/ADEllisAmazon\\nSome of my books are also on iBooks, Kobo, and Nook&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\"><a href=\"http:\/\/author.to\/ADEllisAmazon\">http:\/\/author.to\/ADEllisAmazon<\/a><br \/>\nSome of my books are also on iBooks, Kobo, and Nook<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Review.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6163\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Review.png?resize=116%2C51\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Angie&#8217;s Review of Bryan and Jase, Something About Him series &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1607614800?book_show_action=false&amp;from_review_page=1\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Angie&#8217;s review of Zach,\u00a0 Torey Hope the Later Years &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1461235228?book_show_action=false&amp;from_review_page=1\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself. A.D. Ellis I&#8217;m a mom, wife, inner city teacher, and author. I enjoy reading, writing, napping, and teaching myself to crochet. I love spending time with my friends, laughing, eating, tasting new sweet red wines. I&#8217;m pretty much addicted to chocolate and hot tea. When &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=20440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#WOTR18 #AuthorSpotlight &#8211; Attending Author AD Ellis   @ADEllisAuthor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[611,590],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-20440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-spotlight","category-writers-on-the-river-attending-author","tag-ad-ellis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-5jG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20441,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions\/20441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}