The Next Big Thing
Freda Lightfoot , bestselling author of family sagas and historical romances, invited me to take part in a blog event entitled THE NEXT BIG THING - a series of questions and answers about what’s happening next in my writing life. The Next Big Thing What is the title of your book? An Innocent Abroad , which went on sale yesterday! How did you come by the idea? This novella started life as a single scene: a young woman standing at a window, looking out through a curtain of rain at an Italian landscape. The scene is still in there, though the landscape became a seascape. What genre does your book fall under? Historical Romance Which actors would you choose to play your characters if it were a movie? Ooh, this is a hard one, and I don't really know. Isobel is blonde and blue-eyed, and very young, sweet and innocent. Stefano is a little older, rugged, typically Italian and swoon-worthy. Perhaps my blog readers could offer up suggestions? W...