AUTHOR INTERVIEW: ANDREA MICHELLE
Today, we have the amazing author of Escape the Doubt for an interview with us. Read on to know more about her debut novel, what's she's currently working on, how she overcomes writer's block, and some advice shared with the rest of us.
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BWS: Hi Andrea, thank you for agreeing to this interview. What inspired you to write Escape the Doubt?
Andrea: Escape
the Doubt is actually inspired a lot from my own past. Although the story is
fictional, many of the emotions involved in the story were my own at the age.
In fact, the poems in the novel were written by me when I was sixteen and
seventeen years old.
BWS: Give us an insight into your main
character in Escape the Doubt. How
did you come up with Riley Shaw’s character?
Andrea: Riley
Shaw is a troubled seventeen year old. She struggles with relationships. She
knows she wants to love and she wants to be loved. But she doesn’t believe love
exist, not forever. She see’s love as being full of lies and secrets. Men cheat
and break hearts. She is full of doubt about love, life and everything in
between. I came up with Riley by tapping into what I felt like at that age. I
then added in what I could imagine it might feel like to have been through
everything she had been through. It’s not her fault she is so scared. She wants
to change, wants so badly to have things different. She just doesn’t know how
to let go of her past and move forward.
BWS: What are you working on at the minute?
Andrea: I
am working on the sequel in this series, Embrace the Moment. It is a
continuation to their story. I’m also working on a NA Romantic Suspense Novel
that I began before Escape the Doubt. Stories are funny like that. One spoke
louder than the other. I also have an Adult Contemporary Romance Novel in the
works, Abandoned Identity. Many stories are swirling in my mind and multiple
WIP’s sit on my laptop but they’re only so many hours in the day. LOL ;)
BWS: Do you ever get writer’s block? If so,
how do you overcome it?
Andrea: Yes,
for example with my sequel. I’m content with the ending in Escape the Doubt.
There is just so much more to tell to their story. However, I don’t want to
ugly up their beautiful just to create conflict. So I’m trying to stay true to
the story they want me to tell. As far as overcoming it... MUSIC. It is an
addiction and almost necessary for me to write to. It creates inspiration.
BWS: Where is your favorite place to
write?
Andrea: You
might find this funny, but lying in my bathtub when I’m relaxed.
