Jennifer Greene
The next book I have coming out is for Avon--next January. (Can't wait!)
But initially the gang--editor/publisher/agent/me--all talked about wanting a Christmas or winter book. A soft heart book. An easy read, with humor. Characters who are real and yet fun.
So that was the frame on the picture, but not the picture itself.
I see--and know--so many great women who are stretched thin. They have serious, wonderful jobs--a family to care for--a house to take care of--friends and family who need their time. They wake up exhausted and they go to bed exhausted. They don't want to give any of this up--they love their lives, their work, their families. But they're so tired they're close to breaking.
That's my heroine. Who doesn't know how to fix herself or her life, but is painfully aware she simply has to change her life as it is, or she's not going to make it.
Sharing: that's not the story they asked me for. But trying to share a key to writing. You find out what the trends are, what's selling, why it's selling. And use that for the frame--but you create the picture inside the frame, something personal to you, to your readers, something that matters to you--and hopefully that readers your readers as well.
I loved writing this one. For just those reasons. But I also because I could put spaghetti ice cream and an Irish Wolfhound in it. :) :)
But initially the gang--editor/publisher/agent/me--all talked about wanting a Christmas or winter book. A soft heart book. An easy read, with humor. Characters who are real and yet fun.
So that was the frame on the picture, but not the picture itself.
I see--and know--so many great women who are stretched thin. They have serious, wonderful jobs--a family to care for--a house to take care of--friends and family who need their time. They wake up exhausted and they go to bed exhausted. They don't want to give any of this up--they love their lives, their work, their families. But they're so tired they're close to breaking.
That's my heroine. Who doesn't know how to fix herself or her life, but is painfully aware she simply has to change her life as it is, or she's not going to make it.
Sharing: that's not the story they asked me for. But trying to share a key to writing. You find out what the trends are, what's selling, why it's selling. And use that for the frame--but you create the picture inside the frame, something personal to you, to your readers, something that matters to you--and hopefully that readers your readers as well.
I loved writing this one. For just those reasons. But I also because I could put spaghetti ice cream and an Irish Wolfhound in it. :) :)
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