Ask the Author: Heather McCoubrey
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Heather McCoubrey
I think my answer has to be: Harry Potter. And I'd do ALL the things!
Heather McCoubrey
The battle with my ex-husband over every single aspect of our children's lives - he's such a control freak. Why is he like that?
Heather McCoubrey
Honestly, I can't remember...I originally wrote Emily's Choice 20-ish years ago and I don't remember what inspired the story...it has gone through many rewrites over the years, but the story is essentially the same.
Heather McCoubrey
Everything inspires me. I could be driving down the road and see a quaint farmhouse, with a picket fence and my mind will start building a story around that house.
Making time to write, that's my issue...I have two small littles and one on the way - it's hard to make myself write when I want to spend as much time with them as I can.
Making time to write, that's my issue...I have two small littles and one on the way - it's hard to make myself write when I want to spend as much time with them as I can.
Heather McCoubrey
The best advice I can offer is first and foremost, write. Secondly, learn all you can about publishing and marketing. Make connections, make friends - especially friends in your chosen genre.
Heather McCoubrey
In working on a novel titled Emily's Choice. It's about a woman who left home when she found her fiancé in the arms of another woman the night before their wedding. When she returns 2 years later, with a daughter in tow, for her stepmother's funeral, she can't avoid Jason or the love that still lingers between them.
Heather McCoubrey
The best thing about being a writer for me is the ability to work from home, watch my littles grow up and do something that I love. I have all these characters and stories running laps in my head and it's a passion if mine to get them written down and to share them with my readers.
Heather McCoubrey
Writer's block is a funny thing. Some writers don't believe it exists, others swear by it. For me, I prefer to think of it as a corner I've written myself into. A place where the story or my characters don't want to be.
I deal with it by stepping back, letting the story simmer in my mind. Sometimes I'll skip ahead a write a different section and by doing that the answer will come for how to get myself out if the corner. Sometimes I'll exercise or work on a different kind of creative project.
I deal with it by stepping back, letting the story simmer in my mind. Sometimes I'll skip ahead a write a different section and by doing that the answer will come for how to get myself out if the corner. Sometimes I'll exercise or work on a different kind of creative project.
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