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mollyringle
What was I thinking? Writing from a male, British, 18-year-old point of view, when I'm completely not any of those things?
Well, in my defense, I was once 18, and that's when I dreamed up Daniel Revelstoke and began writing about him. I stole his last name from the swashbuckling-sounding name of a small town in British Columbia, which we drove through once on a family vacation. I made him English, because then his accent and tousled Cambridge-student-ish hair would make him instantly hot. I gave him a zeal (and a talent) for attracting and seducing girls. And, of course, I made him fall in love and change his ways--while dealing him some payback for those broken hearts and white lies in the past.
Nearly all women, young and old, are soft on the Don Juan character--or the Casanova, or ladies' man, or whichever label you prefer. Why? Because they're good at charming us females, of course! Naturally we can't hate them altogether when they're so good at buttering us up. But we also want to be the one who changes the Casanova, the exception to his rule. It's a common romance trope, actually. But, darn it, it's huge fun to write and read, if you ask me.
I've lived with Daniel, and his co-stars Julie and Sinter, for half my life now, so the publication of this novel at long last is a momentous personal occasion, even if the book itself is still mostly a lightweight, if twisted, romantic comedy. Oh, it's not the same manuscript I scrawled when I was 18, not by any means. I weeded out the pointless, meandering scenes and the excessive girliness, and gave Daniel's voice a chance to sound at least halfway masculine. Upon the advice of actual English people, I upgraded his dialect so he sounded modern and not like a character from a 1940s movie. (I used "bloody" instead of "damned," for example.) I cranked up the tension throughout, as well as the comedy, and toned down the soppiness. And I ended up loving my Don Juan more than ever in the process. I hope you do too. (And his roommate Sinter--oh, some days I love Sinter even more. He'll get his own novel before long. I just have to go in and revise *that* one from basement to ceiling.)
RELATIVELY HONEST is due out as an ebook on September 15--one more week. Comment here and you'll be entered to win a signed ebook, your choice of format. I'll be giving away three of them. Good luck!
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:38 pm (UTC)Pick me! Pick me!
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Date: 2011-09-08 01:48 am (UTC)New book
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Date: 2011-09-08 04:51 pm (UTC)Nice
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Date: 2011-09-08 08:10 pm (UTC)Congrats!
Date: 2011-09-09 11:50 pm (UTC)Cyndi Tefft
Congrats!
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Date: 2011-09-10 04:46 pm (UTC)Something for free?
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Date: 2011-09-10 06:04 pm (UTC)Enter me please :)
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Date: 2011-09-12 11:00 am (UTC)p.s. I want to let you know that I have a blog award for you on my blog.
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Date: 2011-09-13 09:06 pm (UTC)I hopped over here from another blog only to find out that you're releasing another book. Well done!