Interview with Eileen Putman

Published 2024-02-28.
What motivated you to become an indie author?
I really like being able to control my content and cover! Indie authors have more flexibility and more choices for format and distribution. I was traditionally published for years, but now I'm my own boss!
What are you working on next?
Book 4 of my Maitland's Rogues series! And "Lord Difficult," Book 3, is making its way to the publisher now. Very excited about that! A brief summary:

A failed matchmaker who doesn’t believe in love faces her greatest test in Robert Tavish—an intimidating beast of a man who refuses to comply with even basic requirements for a prospective husband. He won’t dance. He won’t learn manners. He won’t even try to please a woman. Robert, a reluctant earl whose only noticeable passion is studying fossils, is pretending to seek a bride at his uncle’s behest to learn whether Emmaline Stanhope is betraying her country and linked to a murder. Although Emmaline doesn’t believe in fairy tales, Robert awakens a disturbing desire to believe in the very fantasies they conjure. But with only one decent frock and her feet planted firmly on the ground, she knows she’s not the Beauty to claim this Beast. Oh, but then he saves her life. Whisks her off to Scotland. Reveals dark secrets. Can she turn away from the spark lurking in those stone-gray eyes?
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
I'm gonna go with coffee! But seriously, it's simply the joy of a new day with new challenges and opportunities! You never know for sure where them muse will take you.
When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
I love hiking. I'm also making a quilt for my daughter. Hope to get that done before she hits 30, but that's coming up fast!
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Books by This Author

Lord Shallow (Maitland's Rogues Book 2)
Series: Maitland's Rogues. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 97,970. Language: English. Published: May 20, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Historical » General, Fiction » Romance » Regency
To all of London, Sebastian Traherne is a pretentious fop who prizes his tailor over his dukedom. In truth, he’s an obsessively rational fellow protecting a secret marriage. When a prickly Welsh miss arrives at his crumbling castle one gloomy night, she upends his world—and every principle he holds dear. Worse, she believes in a silly fairy tale known as True Love.
King of Hearts (Maitland'sRogues Book1)
Series: Maitland's Rogues. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 107,840. Language: English. Published: September 26, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Historical » General, Fiction » Romance » Regency
No woman has ever refused him...until now. When a charming, rootless rake is forced to help an embittered widow who tolerates no man’s touch, their devil’s bargain sparks a fire neither wants. Can she protect herself from that wild, reckless fire in his eyes? Can he care for anyone but himself?
Reforming Harriet
Series: Love in Disguise. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 83,470. Language: English. Published: June 6, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
Lady Harriet Worthington's passions are strictly culinary. Her business partner, Lord Elias Westwood, adds romantic spice to her life as he plots to gain her share of his company. But Elias' extraordinary gifts of smell and taste -- so useful in the spice trade -- prove his Achilles' heel. He can't resist her food or her feminine charms -- especially when she asks him to masquerade as his fiance.
A Passionate Performance
Series: Love in Disguise. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 86,730. Language: English. Published: November 1, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
Lord Linton, a master of illusion as cunning as he is handsome, aims to capture his father's killer. Taking a page from the bard, he decides the play is the thing to catch the villain. But when he hires an impoverished actress to masquerade as his mistress, even Linton cannot envision the extraordinary performance that awaits. A little magic and a lot of sparks catch this Regency couple unawares.
The Perfect Bride
Series: Love in Disguise. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 75,280. Language: English. Published: October 22, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
Amanda Fitzhugh is too level-headed to fall for any man's seductive promises. She's content to chaperon her young cousin's come-out and betrothal to war hero Simon Hannibal Thornton, now Lord Sommersby. But when the iron-willed earl with a haunted castle turns his soldierly skills from winning a bride to conquering her companion, Amanda finds her heart in mortal danger amid the ghosts of passion.
The Dastardly Duke
Series: Love in Disguise. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 79,950. Language: English. Published: August 17, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
Tormented by a dark secret, Julian LeFevre, Duke of Claridge, is a notorious rake. He wagers a friend that he can mold a street wench into a lady. But Hannah Gregory is no biddable lump of clay. She has solemn gray eyes, a rebellious streak, and is deaf. The charade might heal her, but it also might break her heart - if she forgets that this dark duke is well past the point of redemption.