Devon
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Kasie West:
How do you come up with the idea for companion novels? Like which characters will be in the novel and what it'll be about?
Kasie West
I guess the same way I come up with most of my ideas. I have a character and I think about what conflict in that character's life would make an interesting story. For Fame, Fate and the First Kiss it was easy to pick the character because to me Lacey was a very big voice in Love, Life and the List. She was easy to imagine and I thought it would be fun to tell her story as an aspiring actress. The third book in the companion novel series was a little bit harder for me to figure out who it was going to be about. So that's why I took a minor character from Love, Life and the List and made her a side character in the book. Then we still get to see and hear about our favorite characters from book one and two but I didn't have to try to invent a story for a more prominent character in either book 1 or 2. I don't know if that makes any sense, but that was my thinking.
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Jerry Joanis
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Kasie West:
Not so much a question?... I grew up in the eighties and all of your books remind me of an 80s movie, minus the "hijinks". No gratuitous sex, no suicide, no vampires, just young love.... it's very refreshing and takes me back to my teen years. Just wanted to say thanks for that. Loved them all & I am actually eagerly awaiting "Lucky in Love". - Jerry Joanis
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Kasie West:
So you've mentioned that a big part of your editing process is cutting out the boring parts/sections. I'm just wondering if you could elucidate a bit on that. What exactly do to the boring parts/sections look like to you? How many of them do you typically remove in an average re-write?
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