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ERW: Thanks for sitting down with us, K.Z.! When did you discover you wanted to be a writer?
KZ: It must have been in fifth grade. (Yikes, I’m not sure I can remember that far back!)  I laboriously wrote out, in my best penmanship and on lined paper, a story for a teen magazine.  It was soundly rejected, because, frankly, it sucked. 

ERW: Did you choose the romance genre or did it choose you?
KZ: A former coworker chose it for me. She was addicted to category romances and said, “They can’t be that hard to write.  You should give it a try!”  I’d been churning out poetry up to that point.  As it turned out, romance wasn’t hard for me to write.  What was hard was getting it published.  (This was well before e-books came along, and I just couldn’t seem to tap into the formulas that prevailed at the time.)

ERW: I notice that you write in multiple genres. Why do you do that rather than concentrate on one?
KZ: A restless imagination. 

ERW: Is there a genre that you haven’t written but you’d like to try?
KZ: Historical, for starters.  I loved researching fourteenth-centruy England when I wrote Plagued for Ellora’s Cave.  Other periods fascinate me, as well.  My biggest secret passion, though, is horror fiction.  I just feel too intimidated to tackle it.  Spooking readers out is a very precise art that weaves together evocative atmosphere, plot pacing, and even prose rhythms.  I really admire authors who can pull it off.

ERW: Please tell us about your latest title.
KZ: The third book in my Galdeshian fantasy cycle, Prince of Glacier Glas, was recently released by Ellora’s Cave.  Although it can be read alone, it takes place in the same world and has some of the same characters as Wing and Tongue and Cauldron of Keridwen.  Aside from their pretty intense eroticism, these books are traditional otherworld fantasies complete with witches and sorcerers and dragons.  Very magical . . . and very romantic.

ERW: What are you working on now?
KZ: My biggest current project is a futuristic M/M urban fantasy series for Loose Id called “Utopia-X.”  The first book, Looking for Some Touch, is coming out in mid-November.  I just sent the second book, Seeking Something Wicked, to my editor.

ERW: Where do you see yourself five years from now?
KZ: In a newer chair, I hope, in front a newer computer.  Beyond that, given the nature of this business, who knows?

ERW: Where can our readers check out your work?
KZ: Just go to any of my publishers.  I also keep my blog more regularly updated than any other venue: http://kzsnow.blogspot.com.  And I’ve been posting full chapters from my books at LiveJournal, although I’ve fallen behind (be patient!): http://kz-snow.livejournal.com/