12 Things You Didn't Know About Come Undone
Come Undone was my debut novel, written in 2013, and is book one in The Cityscape Series. (That's not one of the things. Hopefully you already knew that.) Below are 12 tidbits that might make you smile!
I started the original draft (which was only 3 or 4 scenes) in 2007, and it, David & Olivia were called Christian & Anna. Those names were chosen before Fifty Shades of Grey came out, and they were inspired by Christian Troy from Nip/Tuck and Anna Karenina from Tolstoy’s novel.It has some version of the word fuck 31 times.Some other possible titles for Come Undone included, What Happens, The Opposite of Us and Straight Lines.It was halfway finished when inspiration for book two struck. I wrote the opening scene of Come Alive on an iPod while on a bus in Croatia.It originally had a different cover: a close-up photo of gold glitter that I took myself. Sadly, it can still be found on Goodreads.It advanced to the 2nd round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novelist Award in January 2014. 2,000 were chosen from 10,000.It has 70,832 words.You can read its very first ever review on I Love Romantic Fiction. Originally, Olivia had Lucy’s job as a personal stylist and that’s how the bow tie scene came to be.Half was written in New York City, and the other half in California.The opening scene was an art gallery instead of the ballet, until I went to see Swan Lake at Lincoln Center in NYC. The setting was so romantic that I went home and rewrote it.I inadvertently share a character name with Sons of Anarchy: Marcus Alvarez (SOA) and Mark Alvarez (Come Undone). Not intentional, though they have some similarities!
I started the original draft (which was only 3 or 4 scenes) in 2007, and it, David & Olivia were called Christian & Anna. Those names were chosen before Fifty Shades of Grey came out, and they were inspired by Christian Troy from Nip/Tuck and Anna Karenina from Tolstoy’s novel.It has some version of the word fuck 31 times.Some other possible titles for Come Undone included, What Happens, The Opposite of Us and Straight Lines.It was halfway finished when inspiration for book two struck. I wrote the opening scene of Come Alive on an iPod while on a bus in Croatia.It originally had a different cover: a close-up photo of gold glitter that I took myself. Sadly, it can still be found on Goodreads.It advanced to the 2nd round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novelist Award in January 2014. 2,000 were chosen from 10,000.It has 70,832 words.You can read its very first ever review on I Love Romantic Fiction. Originally, Olivia had Lucy’s job as a personal stylist and that’s how the bow tie scene came to be.Half was written in New York City, and the other half in California.The opening scene was an art gallery instead of the ballet, until I went to see Swan Lake at Lincoln Center in NYC. The setting was so romantic that I went home and rewrote it.I inadvertently share a character name with Sons of Anarchy: Marcus Alvarez (SOA) and Mark Alvarez (Come Undone). Not intentional, though they have some similarities!
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Jul 28, 2015 01:29PM
So glad you called him David, Makes him more solid and grounded! I wish I had the books to read all over again for the first time, I so enjoyed them.
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