Ask the Author: Mary K. Savarese
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Mary K. Savarese
Both my parents were in German Labor Camps during World War 2. They were Polish & Ukrainian and were Christians.
Mary K. Savarese
Sounds just like the question I answered before! As a writer, working your tail off on what you think is a fab manuscript and being rejected time and time again!
Mary K. Savarese
I would go to the fictional world of the YA manuscript I am currently working on. However, it is one of those places once you go there you may never come back! What would I do there? Save the world with my other characters!
Mary K. Savarese
I love Political Trillers!
Mary K. Savarese
Great question, thank you. Several years ago I visited a big cat reserve in Florida. I watched in awe a siberian tiger jump into a bubble bath and be sprayed with obsession perfume. What a great title and I worked my story around that along with a wish poster I saw and a friend's betrayal by her cheating husband. Thus, Tigers Love Bubble Baths & Obsession Perfume (who knew) was born!
Mary K. Savarese
Thank you for your question. I collect sayings, interesting characters and names, things that have awed me and write them in a little notebook where they wait to come together in a novel. I love quirky titles and that's how I start with a quirky title and those interesting ideas I collected. I begin with a general idea, beginning, an end and develop my characters. I usually only have three chapter outlines at a time as I find once I start writing the story can move in so many different ways than I could have initially imagined. Everything feeds on itself. The joy comes from creativity.
Mary K. Savarese
Thank you for your question. I am working on editing my third manuscript, a YA I wrote several years ago and resubmitting it to publishers. One of the best and hardest things I learned was working with a fabulous editor on Tigers Love Bubble Baths & Obsession Perfume (who knew!) They really know their business and now I can appreciate how hard the editor was on my work because I learned so much that I thought I already knew. It was a very humbling process.
Mary K. Savarese
Thank you, Love this question. If you wake up everyday with a passion in your heart and soul to write, to create, that has to sustain you because it's not easy. It's a long process. It took me over ten years to get my first manuscript Tigers Love Bubble Baths & Obsession Perfume(who knew!) to be published. It was the 4th manuscript I wrote with many rejections before it and there will be more to come. I'm sure.
Keep writing, submit, pray, stay strong, believe in yourself. If you write one page a day in a year you'll have a manuscript. Have it edited if you can. Never, ever give up if you have the passion! It will happen.
Keep writing, submit, pray, stay strong, believe in yourself. If you write one page a day in a year you'll have a manuscript. Have it edited if you can. Never, ever give up if you have the passion! It will happen.
Mary K. Savarese
Great question. When a fabulous idea comes to you and you bring it to fruition, create something new, by completing a manuscript. It brings a lot of joy and It can take anywhere for a year to three for me. Then it's a journey of hope, staying strong and always having faith in myself and moving forward.
Mary K. Savarese
Thank you for your question. I find that when I do, the best thing is to sit at my laptop and write one word. Then another. My sentence soon becomes a paragraph, many on a page... It gets the juices flowing and more creative ideas develop from it. I don't have the whole book nor a detailed outline in my head when I start, just the general idea, the quirky title, the characters, an idea for an ending. As I write, all the details develop and sometimes change from the direction I initially thought.
Hope you read Tigers Love Bubble Baths & Obsession Perfume (who knew!) Please visit my website, www.maryksavarese.com
Have a great summer and relax with a good book....
Take care,
Mary K. Savarese
Hope you read Tigers Love Bubble Baths & Obsession Perfume (who knew!) Please visit my website, www.maryksavarese.com
Have a great summer and relax with a good book....
Take care,
Mary K. Savarese
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