1.) What
genre do you typically read? Why?
Her
books are about women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
occupations and their struggles of being taken seriously. And in the process,
they tend to find love.
2.) Share a favourite childhood memory.
When I was still pre-teen, I bugged my mother purchase
a series of books: The Happy Hollisters. Each month, one book in the
series were mailed to our home. I read these so fast.
They were about a family with about five children that
travelled the globe and solved mysteries. The books included line illustrations.
After I read the book, I’d try to recreate the illustrations. It was at that
moment, I realized I wanted to write books when I grew up. I also thought I
wanted to illustrate them, but we’re all lucky that I don’t.
3.) Do you have any shameless addictions? ie. Tea,
Books, Shoes, Clothes?
Coffee! Anyone who knows me knows I have a coffee
addiction. And I give all my characters the same addiction. But here’s a
secret. Fewer people realize I’m hopelessly addicted to popcorn, too. It’s
true. I make popcorn (and not the microwaved bagged type) several times a week.
4.) What do you think
is the biggest challenge of writing a new book?
The first sentence.
The first paragraph. I always question myself about where I should start in the
story. I typically write several paragraphs—sometimes even an entire chapter—at
the beginning that are for my eyes only. After I get the concepts solidified in
my mind, then I get a clear idea for my first line or paragraph.
The key in your
initial few sentences is that you draw the reader in and tease them about
what’s to come. In the manuscript I’m currently writing, Hearts on the Rocks,
I threw out the entire first chapter and created a new one that had the reader sit
along in the middle of a blind date. Then got the reader caught up on my main
character found herself her, as I’m narrating the story.
5.) Do you aim for a set amount of words/pages a
day?
I never used to, but
the last several months I’ve set a goal of a word count per day in both my
fiction writing and my nonfiction. I discovered when I set a goal or an
intention, I’m much more likely to meet the word count.
My current word count
intention is pretty steep: 2,000 words. That will change, though, depending on
what stage of writing I am in the story. It’s not difficult to write this many
words when you’re just beginning. It’s almost as if the story writes itself. As
I get deeper into the timeline, I sometimes find myself slowing down, weighing
my ideas a bit more carefully.
6.) What are your
thoughts on writing a book series?
I would like to write
a series someday. And perhaps with my current work in progress, I’m writing the
second in a series. My Hearts on the Rocks story, a fake-dating trope,
brings back Alex Zurich and Blake Teesdale from Rewrites of the Heart.
Writing a series
isn’t as easy as it seems. You need to provide just enough information about
your returning characters. Those who have read your previous book will already
be familiar with them. But you’ll also have readers who didn’t read the first
book, and you want to give them a complete description as possible.
That goes for other
areas of the book as well, cities, eateries and coffeeshops, and returning
secondary characters. You don’t want to bore your returning readers with too
much information or lose your new ones by not giving enough details.
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Blurb
JJ
Spritely, romance author, writes characters that jump off the page.
Figuratively, that is. She never expects them to make a literal leap off the
page and smack dab into her world. But Alex Zurich and Blake Teesdale do just
that. And they’re on a mission to help JJ write her own personal love story
with a man she recently met, Kennedy King Cooper.
A
history professor, Cooper doesn’t see the value of romance novels and he has
even less regard for those who write them. Until he meets a woman who haunts
his thoughts.
There’s
only one small snag in Alex’s and Blake’s plan…okay…two rather large snags. JJ
wants nothing to do with Cooper. The other snag? Alex and Blake aren’t able to
return to the pages of their own book.
Will
JJ ever write her own love story? And will it be with Cooper? Will Alex and
Blake return to the pages of their own book?
Buy links
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rewrites-of-the-heart-terry-newman/1142841043?ean=9781509246533
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rewrites-of-the-heart
Google Play Books: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Terry_Newman_Rewrites_of_the_Heart?id=9FmqEAAAQBAJ&hl=en_US&gl=US
Bio
Two things you should know about me: I have an offbeat sense
of humor and characters are constantly talking to me, trying to get me to tell
their stories. Other than that, I’m a normal person.
I’ve spent most of my adult life writing in some fashion,
from small-town reporter, to editor-in-chief and ghostwriter for a national
natural health publishing firm. The last decade and a half I’ve worked as a
freelance writer, penning ebooks that range from starting a doula services
business to Native American herbs.
I’ve finally took the plunge to fiction after pushing, oh,
so many doubts aside. My first novel with The Wild Rose Press, Heartquake, won
a 4.5 crowned heart review with Ind’tale Magazine.
All my books are set in fictional towns in northeast Ohio,
where I grew up, and I write about things I love—like coffee.
I
have a daughter, a son-in-law, and a grandpuppy and live in North Lima, a real
town in northeast Ohio with all my characters. Yes, it does get crowded.
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