Don’t write for reviewers, or publishers, or popularity. What is the best piece of advice you ever received from another author?Ĭourtney Summers told me that the moment I stop writing for myself was the moment I stop writing for everyone else. (I don’t think that’s what “school” had in mind, but that’s the most important thing I learned.) To do my own thing, and be my own person.

What was the greatest thing you learned at school? I’m always surprised what people find surprising about me! Maybe the fact that although I tend to write first-person narratives, and I identify with many of my characters emotionally, none of them are “like” me in real life.

What’s one thing that readers would be surprised to find out about you? Little did I know that he’d grow up to be a professional artist and I shouldn’t have ever compared myself to him, lol. My brother was such a better artist, even though he was younger. The illustrations gave me the most trouble. I do remember writing stories and making “books” as a child. There may have been, but I don’t remember it. Was there a defining moment during your youth when you realized you wanted to be a writer?

I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. I love shopping for earrings, because they always fit - even if I occasionally forget to work out. Also baby carrots, but not with coffee or frozen yogurt, because that would be disgusting. It was accidentally destroyed when I stuffed it into the shredder at work.Īddictions: coffee and Cherry Garcia frozen yogurt. I wrote sad romantic poetry in high school and penned my first half-novel when I was 19, for which I did lots of research on Vikings (the marauders, not the football team). My first book was about a lost bear, but my lack of ability as an illustrator convinced me to abandon that effort and concentrate on passing 3rd grade. Reading was one of my first and earliest loves, and writing soon followed. Available on: Amazon, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBookstore, IndieBound, and the Book Depository. BETWEEN THE LINES is my contemporary series. I write romantic Mature Young Adult / New Adult fiction.ĮASY is my newest contemporary stand-alone novel.

Easy by Tammara Webber