I would love to see “smart bodice rippers”. Are there any trends you hope to see in romance in the next few years? I must read this book because there’s nothing else like it.Ħ. I can’t get this feeling of being in this time and place any other way. I can’t get this from watching TV or from reading any other author. The X-factor is that feeling that I can’t get this anywhere else. I can follow great characters through a bland plot. I think the key elements are character and the X-factor. W hat do you consider key elements of a great story? Sure, I could polish, but I was polishing crap. By cycling around the same chapters, I wasn’t growing as a writer. When I finally finished the first book two years later, I understood why. My mentor kept on telling me to write forward. I kept trying to apply things I’d learned and rewrite the opening over and over. My biggest mistake was rewriting the first chapters. There’s a reason you shouldn’t be allowed to have an eraser until the second grade. What was the biggest mistake you made when you first began writing? There was a reason for characters to be doing things and adventures to be happening.Ĥ. Magically, everything started coming together. That’s what I wanted in my writing so I tried it. The books that made me feel the most for the characters were romances. I realized that I didn’t have characters anyone would care about.
I had tried writing stories-usually science fiction or fantasy ones with either some little twist or some big adventure. What drew you to writing romance in particular? If I daydream in a historical setting, the ideas could become a little bit bigger than me and what I had experienced firsthand.ģ. If I’m daydreaming about the contemporary world, my thoughts stray back to my job, my commute, my life. I loved historicals for the feeling of being transported. She gravitated toward the westerns while I adored Johanna Lindsey. We would borrow books from her mother’s shelves. My best friend introduced me to historical romance. How did you become interested in writing historical novels? I think because of her, I always thought of writing as a dream job.Ģ. She told us stories of how her dream was to teach during the school year and write during the summers. Walk down memory lane aside, my mother always wanted to be a writer. The one without an eraser and boy did I need an eraser. Ha! The fat blue pencil is actually something I remember fondly. How did you start writing? Were you making up stories in kindergarten with a pencil clutched in one chubby fist, or did you come to the trade later? Her short story, The Taming of Mei Lin from Harlequin Historical Undone was released September 1. She’s a 2009 Golden-heart finalist, a high school teacher with a love of legends, epic fantasy, and martial art fiction.
It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Jeannie Lin, whose historical romantic adventures set in Tang Dynasty China have readers, reviewers, and writers all abuzz.
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