Goodreads asked Hannah Fielding:

How do you get inspired to write?

Hannah Fielding Of all the things inspire me, views top the list! I was lucky enough to grow up in a house with a view of the Mediterranean, and even as a young child I remember staring out at the sparkling blue and dreaming up romantic fairytales. Then, as a young woman, I began travelling, and a whole world of romance opened up to me. First Kenya – wild, colourful, exotic – which would become the setting of my debut romance novel, Burning Embers. Then Italy, setting for The Echoes of Love. Time spent in Spain and Greece informed my next novels, and then there was Switzerland, France, England, Egypt. With all this wonderful fodder for the imagination, I could just write and write…

And I do – every day, I sit down and write. But exactly where I write is of paramount importance to my getting into the right mindset to write evocative, vivid, passionate romance. I can’t write it in a cold, dark, soulless office. I can’t write it with a view of a brick wall. I CAN write when my surroundings are in themselves romantic.

My husband and I split our time between two homes, one in Kent, England, and the other on the Côte d’Azur, France. Both homes were carefully chosen for their inspirational and beautiful architecture, the lands that surround them and their views – views that make one dream.

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