Lise wing
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Gena Showalter:
Your books are so wonderfully imaginative. where does your inspiration come from? How do you come up with so many different story lines?
Gena Showalter
I’ve been inspired in different ways for different books. Dreams, conversations, something I've seen, even had a book idea hit me after listening to a church sermon. Alice in Zombieland came about from passages of scripture: (paraphrasing) our battle is not against flesh and blood but against evil spirits. A grain of an idea gets me excited, and then I play connect the dots (asking myself why and how) and the story grows from there!
The Original Heartbreakers series came about because I wanted to write about bad boys with traumatic pasts who have the same brotherly bond found in my Lords of the Underworld series -- and yet, I wanted these men to be ones I could truly meet. I wanted to write sassy Southern belles (kinda like the girls in my life) and a quirky small town I wished I lived. I wanted dark and gritty but also sexy and witty. I hope I delivered!
The Original Heartbreakers series came about because I wanted to write about bad boys with traumatic pasts who have the same brotherly bond found in my Lords of the Underworld series -- and yet, I wanted these men to be ones I could truly meet. I wanted to write sassy Southern belles (kinda like the girls in my life) and a quirky small town I wished I lived. I wanted dark and gritty but also sexy and witty. I hope I delivered!
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Madison
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Gena Showalter:
Okay last Question post so i checked out your page and i saw something called Zombie party (something like that) (white rabbit chronicles #4) are you making a 4th book!? if so plz tell me! and can you maybe give me like a gist of the story? is it after the 3rd book? maybe a prequel? okay bye! :D <3
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