Mimi Barbour

Okay, this is a true tale; I swear it on my goldfish Sammy’s life. Hey, he’s a nice goldfish!
So, I was driving somewhere?? and Elvis’ sexy sound came on the radio singing “She Not You”. I found myself enjoying singing along. Funny how I remembered those words from the 1960’s? In fact I remembered them so well that over the next week they wouldn’t get out of my head. "And it’s breaking my heart, cause she’s not you!" Near drove me crazy. Then I had this epiphany. Wouldn’t the song make a great story??! Just for fun, I sat down and wrote the first chapter and the book began. It turned into one of my favorite novels –could be because I made it my 2014 Christmas story and I love that season or maybe because I saw Elvis every time I wrote about Jesse, the hero. Let me tell you - having that dreamy man in my head for two months was certainly no hardship. I had planned to write a single book until I realized he had so many wonderful love songs that could made into stories and so I called “She’s Not You” book #1 of the Elvis Series and set up a contest on Fresh Fiction for readers to choose the next title. The winner was chosen and her favorite song was Love Me Tender. I’m plotting this new book as I write this interview. Check out my blog: http//:mimibarbour.blogspot.com for the follow up on where this series will go next.

My latest book is called Together Always and 36,000 words of that story have sat in a file on my desktop for over two years. You see, when I first started writing the Vicarage Bench Series, I was signed with Wild Rose Press and had contracted that series with them. In fact, the first five novels I wrote were their books. Then, I decided to go Indie with my next series, Angels with Attitudes, and the first book, My Cheeky Angel, sold a great deal better than what I had experienced with the publisher. So, not needing a kick in the petudie to wake up and smell the roses, I stopped writing Together Always because I knew they had first dibs while I was still under contract. I decided to wait until the end of my commitments before finishing the book. Now, as of November 2013, I have all my rights returned and am no longer obligated to them. So, while on holidays just recently, I decided to take a look at this story and I was shocked at how many words I’d actually written. After I began to read the work over, I was hooked. Laughing and weeping, I found myself so wrapped up in the plot, that I now can’t wait until I finish it and can offer it to my readers.