In the simple, Love or Lust is a girl-meets-girl story of love at first sight.

In more detail it’s a story of two teen girls, Lauren and Sally.  Lauren is the studious, sweet Good Girl with boy trouble.  Praying for guidance she looks up into the eyes of the exotic and alluring new addition to the little Washington town, Salencia. 

The story moves on as they try to sort out just how they feel about one another – as the title suggests, is it love or is it lust?

What genre is it?
Young adult, slice-of-life romantic-comedy.

What kind of readers will it appeal to?
Hopefully? Everyone.  Honestly, when I wrote it I tried to make the characters and situations understandable and approachable for anyone.  Male or female, old or young, any sexuality. 

What’s likely to be the case?  I assume I’m going to sell to a lot of teenage lesbians.

Tell us more about Lauren and Sally.
Ah, what can one say about our little heroines?

On the whole they’re, as are many people you’ll meet in day-to-day, both very simple and very complex.

On one hand you could just call Lauren the sweet, pious, sweet, tiny ballerina.  Sally is the cynical, whimsical, irreverent cowgirl. 

But the story shows you their hopes, dreams, thoughts, and feelings.
They’ve each their little quirks. 

Lauren is a fastidious one – with her things should always be Just So.  She’s a perfectionist and something of an overachiever; she’s the sort of girl to take honours this and AP that when her dream is to go to a college whose admissions requirements centre wholly on an essay, interview, and audition rather than GPAs and SATs.  She’s polite, old fashioned in many ways and quite forward and modern in others.

Sally is … she’s someone who, on the surface, is far more modern and normal, but in other ways she’s more old fashioned than Lauren.
She’s the worldly one, somewhat literally – she comes from a somewhat multinational and multiracial family. 

Really … they’re people.  That’s the point.  They can’t, exactly, be summed up any more than I could sum up myself or you could sum up yourself.  You can, until you think about it too hard, then you start adding “And …” this, or “Except …” that.

How would you like the reader to feel as they read the last word of your book?
The book?  Entertained, mostly.  And a bit inspired, maybe thoughtful.  The series?  heartwarmed, very definitely inspired, perhaps even a touch enlightened, but always – first and foremost, I always want my reader to close the back cover and feel that I’ve entertained them.  So long as I’ve done that, mission accomplished.

[The title] is a poke at the larger philosophy with regards to some people, religious and atheist alike, saying that homosexuals cannot really be experiencing love and romantic feelings.  It’s showing that homosexuality is no more about sex than is heterosexuality, that two people can feel a deep affection for one another regardless of the sexuality.  It shows stable, strong mother-father parents of the two lesbian young women.  It has a very strong and committed relationship between a young lady and a rather effeminate young man.  It makes people think about how much age, sexuality, and all the other factors have any direct and real bearing on if two (or more) people can be in love.

Well said. Tell us a bit about yourself.
What is there to know?  I work in a call centre; I live in my least favourite parts of one of my least favourite states in the US.  I’m an avid fan of classic SF and not, oddly enough, of many romances … at least not in the traditional sense.

There’s not a lot to say, really.  I’m shy; I’m quirky; I write.  I play with my dog and get played with by my cats.  The most exciting thing in any given day or week usually involves not strangling someone at work, or a lunatic driver.

Do you have a website where we can keep up with your work?
http://jayeedgecliff.com.

How can we follow you on Twitter and/or Facebook?
@JayeEdgecliff
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jaye-Em-Edgecliff/267668333374216.

What’s next?
Besides finishing the Now & Forever series?  I’m thinking of starting an urban fantasy series called Færie Patrol.  It’s about a motley crew of freaks and mythological beings saving our reality from alien invasions, evil sorcerers, and rampaging Things from Færie.