Romy Sommer

Please come join in the Bachelor Auction on the Harper Impulse blog to let us know which of the secondary characters from my previous books you'd most like to see get his own book: The Bachelor Auction

The tentatively titled Book 3 of the Westerwald series ( Life in Technicolour ) has given me major headaches considering I started with such a clear idea of what and who the book would be about! The problems lay in the middle of the book, where I moved scenes around so often that I couldn't remember what was where any more. (and of course, every time I moved a scene, it and everything after it had to be re-written. Again. And again.) So how did I solve the problem? Like this: I cleared my pinboard of all those cute cat pictures and inspirational quotes, and created a note for each scene. Then I stuck the notes up on the board, in the order I'd slotted them into the book. Each time I moved a scene, or changed the chronology, all I had to do was shift little pieces of paper around. You know that maxim that it takes a lot of work to make something look easy? Now I understand! Never again will I under-estimate the work an author puts into a book that appears seamless ...