Marie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance, including the indie-published Gansett Island Series and the Fatal Series from Harlequin Books.All together, her books have sold 6.5 million copies worldwide, have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list many times.

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Sarah Williams:             She’s a two-time nominee for the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award for Romance Fiction. It’s the very talented Marie Force.

Marie Force:                 Hi there. Thanks for having me Sarah.

Sarah Williams:             It’s an absolute privilege to speak to you today. I know we’ve got lots to cover, so we’ll just jump into it. Can you tell us about yourself and your amazing journey?

Marie Force:                 I started writing fiction in 2003, 2004 and the very first book I wrote was this one which is Treading Water, and actually this didn’t get actually published until the end of 2011, but that was the first book I ever wrote and I finished it in 2005, tried to sell it, tried to get an agent, tried to do all the things that we do and didn’t really have much luck.

I finally ended up selling the seventh book I wrote, which was Line of Scrimmage and that came out in September of 2008. As of September of this year, I’ll be published 10 years. I have gone over seven million books sold since you got your stats. I guess I need to update my website. And 70 books written and I’ve got samples of all my series here.

This is Fatal Affair, which is the first book in the fatal series with Harlequin and that came out in 2010. Then, All You Need is Love, is the first book in my Green Mountain series which was with Berkley and now I’m self-publishing the end of that series. This one came out in 2014, and then this is Virtuous, which is book one in my quantum series which is erotic romance. Then this is Made for Love, which is book one in my marquee series, which is Gansett Island. That’s the one that sold more than three million books on its own and it’s just been my number one best selling series is Gansett Island and I’m working on next book 20 in that series, with no end in sight.

It’s been kind of a crazy ride. I started indie publishing in 2010. I’ve been traditionally published all along from 2008 straight through to today. I’ve been under contract to one publisher or another and right now I’m under contract to Harlequin for the fatal series and to Kensington for my new historical gilded series, which I’ve got the cover of book one right here, actually. Let me grab that for you. This is Duchess by Deception, which is the first historical I’ve ever written.

Sarah Williams:             Yes! Oh, that is beautiful. Yeah, I love it. Looks gorgeous.

Marie Force:                 Neat cover, isn’t it? I love it.

Sarah Williams:             It is, and as you were showing all your covers, I was going, absolutely spot on. That’s perfect for contemporary, that’s perfect for erotica. Everything. That’s good.

Marie Force:                 [crosstalk 00:02:46] cover. Big fan of … I love making all those decisions myself and I like working with the publishers too on that.

Sarah Williams:             Yeah, absolutely.

Marie Force:                 Actually, Kensington recently released the first three Gansett Island books. So you saw book one, that’s Made for Love, and then these are new in mass market paper in the U.S. This is Fool for Love,