This is Episode 10 of Write with Love.

Are you a fan of Lara Croft? How about Indiana Jones or Alien? Anna Hackett is putting the ‘act’ into action romance!

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Transcript:

Sarah Williams:            Good day! I’m Sarah Williams, romance author and independent publisher at Serenade Publishing. Today I’m talking to action/romance author, Anna Hackett. Thanks for joining me, Anna.

Anna Hackett:              Thanks, Sarah. It’s super fun to be here.

Sarah Williams:            Excellent. Can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and your journey to publication?

Anna Hackett:              Sure thing. I was never one of those kids that wanted to be a writer, you know? I’ve met so many writers since I’ve started who grew up wanting to be writers and writing stories since they could hold a pen, but that wasn’t me. I was a reader and a big romance reader, so I’ve always been reading. I’ve always got a book and now a Kindle with me. Yeah, so that’s where my passion for writing came from. Yeah, just one day I decided maybe I’d have a try at writing a story of my own. At the time I was working full time as a mining engineer. That was my first career. Yeah, so, I sort of did that on weekends and did my writing on weekends outside of work, and I ended up getting some stories published with Harlequin. I was writing paranormal romance and short stories at the time, so with their Nocturne line. That was a really experience working with an editor, cover artist, all that kind of stuff.

Anna Hackett:              I then switched to writing for Carina Press, which is another imprint of Harlequin, and that’s where I started writing my science fiction romance through there. Yeah, and then finally that’s when self publishing was really starting to explode, and I thought, “Oh, I might dip my toes in these waters and see what this was all about,” so I did self publish some novellas just to … and it was novellas writing what I really love to write and that was action romance, so for me, I finally got the chance to sit down and just write what I really wanted to write, rather than trying to fit in with guidelines for a particular imprint or particular line with a publisher. That was super fun and I loved it.

Anna Hackett:              By then, I was starting to get some readers reading my books, and I really wanted to get the books out to them faster. I think the last book with my publisher had taken over a year from when I sold it to it actually releasing and I thought, “I think I can do this a bit quicker and get some more of these stories that I wanted to write out.” Yeah, and that’s where it started and I’ve never looked back. Now I left my full time job as an engineer two years ago or just over two years ago. Yeah, like I said, not looking back, so full time author now and loving it.

Sarah Williams:            Excellent. Congratulations on being a full time author. I know that’s a big step a lot of people aspire to do, so yeah! You write science fiction and action.

Anna Hackett:              Yay! Yeah.

Sarah Williams:            Tell us what writing is, you know, science fiction and action, how is that?

Anna Hackett:              I guess I’ve always loved action movies, you know? I always joke that my husband is the luckiest husband in the world, because we never fight over what movie we’re going to go and see at the movies. We always want to see the same thing. I’ve always loved action movies, but I’ve always read romance. I used to read a lot of action adventure thrillers as well,