Real Story Behind A Leap In Time
The most pressing question I got after revealing that I wrote a time travel romance is, what inspired it?
Right after college, I started working in entertainment PR. I loved all aspects of it from the deadline driven late nights leading up to a red carpet event to the actual event of flashing cameras, celebrities clad in their best, the screaming fans to the natural high of witnessing all the hard work come to life in the most glamorous way possible.
Don't get me wrong, working in the entertainment industry comes with its own brand of crazy, but I loved it anyway.
I continued to work my tail off and casually date. Some dates turned into relationships and others didn't but ultimately, I felt heartbroken more than once, disappointed way too many times. For a bright eyed bushy tailed hopeless romantic like me, a "failed" relationship felt devastating. Ah young naive love, right?
From the heartbreak, Lexi Carter was created in my mind although during the early drafts, her name was Bronte. I began to wonder, what would it be like to date the same man a 1000 years earlier? Would he still be commitment phobe then? Or would he follow his heart and give in to love? And from there the story came to life in my mind as a time travel book. The final piece of the puzzle was the actual time travel portal and that almost fell into my lap while shopping at a random furniture store in Sherman Oaks with a girlfriend. I saw a portrait of a beautiful cottage with a creek and ducks swimming in it. I loved it immediately and knew instantly that the portal that Lexi uses to travel between modern day Los Angeles and ancient Pompeii is a painting.
The story was originally set in Jane Austin era England but after seeing Pompeii during our honeymoon, I came back and changed the story completely.
Cheers,
Engy
Right after college, I started working in entertainment PR. I loved all aspects of it from the deadline driven late nights leading up to a red carpet event to the actual event of flashing cameras, celebrities clad in their best, the screaming fans to the natural high of witnessing all the hard work come to life in the most glamorous way possible.
Don't get me wrong, working in the entertainment industry comes with its own brand of crazy, but I loved it anyway.
I continued to work my tail off and casually date. Some dates turned into relationships and others didn't but ultimately, I felt heartbroken more than once, disappointed way too many times. For a bright eyed bushy tailed hopeless romantic like me, a "failed" relationship felt devastating. Ah young naive love, right?
From the heartbreak, Lexi Carter was created in my mind although during the early drafts, her name was Bronte. I began to wonder, what would it be like to date the same man a 1000 years earlier? Would he still be commitment phobe then? Or would he follow his heart and give in to love? And from there the story came to life in my mind as a time travel book. The final piece of the puzzle was the actual time travel portal and that almost fell into my lap while shopping at a random furniture store in Sherman Oaks with a girlfriend. I saw a portrait of a beautiful cottage with a creek and ducks swimming in it. I loved it immediately and knew instantly that the portal that Lexi uses to travel between modern day Los Angeles and ancient Pompeii is a painting.
The story was originally set in Jane Austin era England but after seeing Pompeii during our honeymoon, I came back and changed the story completely.
Cheers,
Engy
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