Hi Lynne! Great to welcome you my blog today - I'm looking forward to learning more about you and your work. Wishing you much success and sales with your latest release, FRENCH KISSING! Let's start with my questions...
1.)
What
did you want to be when you grew up?
I always wanted to be a writer. I
sent off my first manuscript to a publisher when I was fourteen – they didn’t
publish it, but they did send me a kind letter telling me they thought I had
talent and to keep on writing – I’m so glad I took their advice!
2.)
Coffee,
tea or hot chocolate?
Tea throughout the day - I’m a chain
tea-drinker.
3.)
What
genre do you typically read? Why?
I read books of every genre and
mainstream novels, but mostly I read romantic novels, because they focus on
characters and relationships. Even when I read hard SF or a crime thriller, I
prefer a story that has the relationships between the characters at its centre.
4.)
Share
a favourite childhood memory.
My first riding lesson when I was
seven – I’d wanted to learn to ride for ages, and I can still remember how
amazing it was to be actually riding a horse.
5.)
Do
you have any shameless addictions? ie. Tea, Books, Shoes, Clothes?
Books – my tbr pile is on the verge of
tottering over, but I can’t resist adding to it.
6.)
What
do you think is the biggest challenge of writing a new book?
For me, it’s knowing the right place
to start my story so that it begins in the middle of the action. When I read
through the first draft of my WIP, I realised that I needed to cut the first
two chapters, as they were only telling my heroine’s backstory. While the
events they described are important to explain why my heroine acts as she does,
they work better dropped into later chapters – at the beginning they just held
up the plot!
7.)
Do
you aim for a set amount of words/pages a day?
I aim for 1,000 words a day, and
usually manage between 800 and 1,000 – but I sometimes edit
them down to 500 words!
8.)
What
are your thoughts on writing a book series?
My current WIP is the first in a
series (although it can be read as a standalone too), but rather than continue
the story of the main characters, the next book will feature two of the minor
characters from the first book as the hero and heroine. I like the idea of
different characters wandering in and out of books in a series.
Blurb
French
Kissing by Lynne Shelby
Anna
Mitchel has been writing letters to her French penfriend, Alexandre Tourville,
for fifteen years, but hasn’t seen him since they met as children on a school
exchange trip. When Paris-based Alex, now a successful professional
photographer, comes to work in London, Anna fails to recognise him. Instead of
the small, geeky boy she remembers, he is tall, broad-shouldered and gorgeous. Anna’s
female friends are soon swooning over Alex’s Gallic charm, and Anna’s
boyfriend, Nick, is becoming increasingly jealous of their friendship. When
Alex has to return to Paris to oversee the hanging of his photographs in an
exhibition, he invites Anna to accompany him so that he can show her the city
he adores …
French
Kissing is available in paperback and e-book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783758139?keywords=lynne%20shelby%20french%20kissing&qid=1441625611&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1
Bio
Lynne Shelby can’t remember a time
when she wasn’t writing, and her ambition was always to be a published author.
She writes contemporary romance, because that's what she likes reading the
most. In 2015, she was thrilled to win the Accent Press & Woman Magazine
Writing Competition with her debut novel 'French Kissing.' She loves travelling
and is inspired to write by the many wonderful foreign cities that she has visited
and explored, with a camera and writer's notebook in hand - Rome, Milan,
Barcelona, Madrid, Venice, New York, Copenhagen, Berlin and of course Paris,
the city which inspired her to write 'French Kissing'.
Twitter:
@LynneB1
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