Today I am delighted to have a slice of cake with author Melissa Leedom.
What kind of books do you write?
To Forgive, Divine is a story about modern people with modern problems: single parenting, divorce, re-entering the dating scene after 10 or more years of marriage.
Add to the mix: nosy neighbors, controlling parents (of adult children!), and rising crime in a usually peaceful small town, and you’ve got a story that defies genre classification. BUT there is a budding romance…if those two could just get together!
Can you describe your writing why?
A now-famous writer (Lisa Wingate) once told me that fiction writers are adults who still like to play with their imaginary friends. In my case. I play “What if?”
For instance, with To Forgive, Divine, I said, “What if two single people suddenly found themselves alone together at a restaurant? And what is some OTHER people saw them and ASSUMED they were on a date? Wouldn’t THAT make for a juicy story?”
And as it turned out, it did!
And I think, if I get excited writing about it, surely readers will have fun reading it. It keeps me banging away at the keyboard.
Share with us your favourite passage from the book you enjoyed writing the most
When Bonnie woke up on Wednesday morning, it had been raining since the wee hours and showed no signs of stopping. Rather than forgo her daily run, she donned her running shorts and shoes and drove to the gym after dropping Ben and Josh off at school.…Just as she rounded the curve in front of the plate glass windows fronting the racquetball courts, the lights went on and she saw Jack Summers and Jeff Wells entering, dressed for their racquetball match.
Jack saw her first and, though she couldn’t hear him through the glass, she could see that he was yelling, “Hey, Bonnie!” and waving. She could see Jeff’s unpleasantly surprised reaction to Jack’s greeting and watched as he turned to see her pass. He waved at her somewhat automatically, as if his hand had gone up before he remembered that they weren’t really speaking to each other, but there was no smile on his face.
Great, thought Bonnie, maybe I should have taken the day off after all. She took a deep breath and forged ahead. Her ponytail bounced as she ran; her face glowed with exertion.
After Jeff’s fourth straight miss resulting from Bonnie’s passing by the window, Jack said, “Are you going to play, or are you going to watch her run?”
Jeff swiped at his forehead with his wristband and said, “Very funny.”
Tell us about your latest project
I am on Ch. 15 of the sequel to To Forgive, Divine, so it will still be a while before its release.
And I am having a devil of a time thinking of a working title. Offsides in the Friend Zone occurs to
me, but I don’t think it quite captures the whole story. Stay tuned! And in the meantime...
What is your favourite cake?
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