Author BIO
Rhonda Plumhoff a native Californian is married and a mother of 4. Rhonda worked as a full time trained Optician for many years, but knew in her heart something was missing. Reading romance novels and creating new recipes were her passions in life, and the one thing that made her soul come to life. One day she realized book characters spoke to her through food and related everything she read as a potential new recipe. Erotic stories were missing one key element, food and not just food, but sexy food that would set the mood for those special moments. After meeting a few authors and discussing her ideas, she asked if she could create recipes for their characters. The response from the writing community was overwhelming. What was once a dream has now become a reality and a full time job. Every story and every literary character live through Rhonda as food.
With two new books of mouthwatering and sexy recipes, Rhonda Plumhoff's two newest books Literary Chocolate a Second helping and her Erotic Treats cookbook, I decided to give you all another dish on Rhonda Plumhoff. Rhonda truly is making leaps and bounds with her decadent recipes and this combination of scrumptious dishes with sensual stories.
Q: We see you put out
a new sexy cookbook titled Erotic Treats. How did this idea transpire?
Rhonda: I have a
couple of friends who write Erotic Romance who kept pushing me in this
direction. No matter how frustrating the process was they would not stop until
the project was completed. Food inspires romance, and they convinced me the two
were a natural fit.
Q: I know you have
lots of things in the fire. I would like
to discuss your new Facebook page men read romance. What are your hopes for
this page? How did this page come to light?
Rhonda: I’m not
quite sure where this page will end up. I was actually tired of never having
anything to discuss with my husband, I wanted him to read something he
considered a girls book. He was pleasantly surprise by what he read. My
original intention was to pull your typical male reader out of his comfort zone
and introduce him to books that are generally labeled women’s books; either by
getting them to read books that had some romance but not pushing it down their
throats or introducing new Genres of Romance. I hope to one day have a small
panel of men that female writers can go to as a resource for ideas and
communication.
Q: The cover for erotic treats is so different from the
others you have. Who designed your cover
for this book?
Rhonda: I have used the same designer and Illustrator for
all of my books, the amazing Tabitha Quintana. The only big difference was the
photograph and photographer. Tabitha has always shot the covers as well as
designed them for me. For Erotic Treats I bought the image from a stock image
company and put Tabitha to work on the vision that was in my head for the
cover. She did an amazing job.
Q: You intertwine
short erotic stories with enticing recipes. Where did the idea come to entangle
the two?
Rhonda: Food,
romance, sex kind of all go hand in hand. Certain foods are considered sexy foods;
they arouse sexual feelings or just generally make you feel sexy. I took those
foods and created the recipes, and then with the help of some amazing friends
they wrote short stories around the recipes.
Q: There are some
very um clears throat very evocative titles for your recipes. Where did the titles come from?
Rhonda: That’s very
funny, naming recipes has always been my down fall. A few recipes were inspired
by sexy male characters in books that I happen to be reading at the time I was
developing recipes. Others were puns off the ingredients. Best part was a chat
forum I was in one night, I put them all to work throwing out random words and
name to finish the titles. We had so much fun naming some of the recipes.
Q: I notice the last
few recipes have vaguely familiar names attached. How did you choose those particular names and
why?
Rhonda: Those
particular guys really fire up my imagination, when I was stuck for idea’s I
would read their stories again and the creative flow would start again. So as a
tribute to them I felt they needed to be included in some way.
Q: Now let’s discuss
literary chocolate 2. Will we see the
same beloved characters or new ones in this new cookbook?
Rhonda: I had so
much fun writing this book, there are all new characters in this book. I
believe there are 5 returning authors but with different characters. 18 authors
in all and 35 character recipes.
Q: How did the idea
come about to write a literary chocolate cookbook 2?
Rhonda: I had so
much response to book one, that I had left over characters (no pun intended)
from book one. I had authors asking me to create recipes for their own books,
for their characters to prepare. Before I knew it I had a stack of characters
that needed recipes and a home to put them in. So we started book 2.
Q: What is the
process it takes for you to write a cookbook especially the ones like literary
chocolate which includes characters from your favorite books?
Rhonda: It’s an odd
process well for me. I begin with a general outline, theme or ingredient.
Everything I do, everywhere I go and everything I read will trigger some sort
of idea. I carry note pads with me everywhere because I never know when an idea
will hit me and what ingredients I will need. You will find notes everywhere in
my house and I mean everywhere. The hardest part for me and I see it happen to
others as well, I want to work on chocolate recipes today but my brain is
shooting out pumpkin recipes and vice versa. So I’m usually always writing
recipes down, I may have no idea what I’m going to do with them but their
there. I have stacks of recipes that I
have no idea what to do with.
Q: Do you have any
more cookbooks in the fire so to speak?
Rhonda: I’m going to
take some time away from the cookbooks, after 9 in 16 months my brain is fried.
I’ll focus on other areas of my life. Eventually I want to write a 3rd pumpkin
book, the recipes are already created I just need to pull it together. I’ve
started a girl’s night in, kind of recipe and party idea book. I have a few
recipes that I want to work into a book about kicking up old school recipes
with today’s ingredients. The books are all there so eventually they’ll want to
come out and play.
Q: Out of all the
cookbooks do you have a favorite recipe that you like to prepare for your
family?
Rhonda: YES!!! In
the new Literary Chocolate, a second helping there are 2 recipes that my family
and friends fell in love with and constantly ask me to make. One is a steak
with a wine and mushroom sauce, girlfriends love it and request it for girls
nights. Then a Norwegian chocolate cake that my daughters fell in love with and
both requested as their birthday cakes last year.
Q: Would you ever
consider writing other books besides cookbooks?
Rhonda: I wish I had
that kind of talent; I love to read and think if my books were taken away I
would lose my mind. But I also know where my talents lie and it’s not in
writing. My oldest daughter shows promise in that area but I think I will stick
to the kitchen. I don’t consider what I do as writing as much as creating and
to me you need to be able to do both to write a character the world will love.
PLEASE PICK UP YOUR COPIES AT THE FOLLOWING:

EROTIC TREATS AT AMAZON
EROTIC TREATS AT BARNES AND NOBLE
LITERART CHOCOLATE, A SECOND HELPING AT AMAZON
LITERART CHOCOLATE, A SECOND HELPING AT BARNES AND NOBLE
VISIT RHONDA ON HER FACEBOOK PAGES
JUST PLUMMY FACEBOOK
REAL MEN READ ROMANCE FACEBOOK PAGE
Wooo!!! Rhonda has fantastic recipes!!! :D
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