Ask the Author: Tammara Webber
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Tammara Webber
Thanks so much - I would love to be able to visit the Philippines someday! I'm working on a Contours of the Heart spinoff (from Easy) which I hope to release in 2016. :)
Tammara Webber
Hi Melinda - thank you and I'm so happy you enjoyed Lucas and Jacqueline's story. <3 You hit the nail on the head with your recognition of the necessity of conflict - and that's exactly the reason I have no plans to take their story forward. I want to leave them to their happily ever after without throwing any roadblocks in their path. (That said, L&J do have small cameos in Sweet and will show up in the background of any future CotH stories - just enough for readers to keep up with their HEA.)
Tammara Webber
Thank you! :) I think his loyalty is my favorite quality about Lucas. He doesn't let many people in, but when he does, he sticks by them. That's a great quality in a friend, family member or partner.
Tammara Webber
Hi April - thank you so much! :) I've been working on three possible stories in the CotH series - doing research and a little in-character writing. All are spinoffs of female characters from Easy/Breakable. I don't have a release date yet. (Thank you for your continued patience! <3 <3 <3)
Tammara Webber
Thank you so much, Laura! <3 <3 <3 The short answer to your question is yes, but it's a consideration rather than a plan at this point. A story (and associated conflict) would have to force to me do it. ;)
Tammara Webber
Since I write romantic stories, my guess would be the promise of an HEA comes first with my readers. I'm most happy with my stories when I write them honestly, with no thought of what anyone will think about them (or as close as I can get to that ideal). I can't write someone else's truth - I must write my own, and accept that it will resonate with readers or it won't. In the beginning (Between the Lines) I had to push past worrying what my family or friends would think. By Easy, I was suppressing terror of what my reader base would think, too. But Easy taught me to write from my heart and pay no attention to what anyone thinks after the fact. So I suppose I am most proud when I refuse to second-guess myself. I'm still working on that. <3
Tammara Webber
Hi Edlira - thank you so much. <3 I'm so grateful for your encouraging words and appreciative of you taking time to read my stories. I'm inspired by many things - from real life experiences (my own and others, including news reports and overheard stories) to songs I hear, art that moves me, dreams, and thorny mental puzzles that I let characters work out to see what they discover. There is inspiration for possible stories in everything. I decide to write what (or who) won't leave me alone. :)
Tammara Webber
I'm so happy you loved Sweet! <3 Boyce won me over while I was writing Breakable. He was so different from Lucas and such a small-town Texas boy - comfortable there in a way Lucas never was. I could not stop thinking about him after I left Breakable, but I knew he wouldn't be part of any story that didn't include Pearl. ;) She was my favorite girl to write so far, probably because she reminds me of my daughter, who is currently working on her PhD in biomedical research. :)
Once they showed up in Sweet, I loved Randy and Brittney almost immediately. No matter what life has thrown at them, they continued to find the positive and just keep going. I enjoyed giving Boyce and Pearl kind-hearted, loyal friends they might never have foreseen taking into adulthood.
I'm not sure if Randy will get a story of his own. Choosing what to write depends on which stories begin speaking to me (and then won't shut up, lol). I'm currently working on a short CotH project, with a novel-length spinoff from Easy planned next. After that, who knows! Thank you so much for reading, and for letting me know who you'd like to see more of! :)
Once they showed up in Sweet, I loved Randy and Brittney almost immediately. No matter what life has thrown at them, they continued to find the positive and just keep going. I enjoyed giving Boyce and Pearl kind-hearted, loyal friends they might never have foreseen taking into adulthood.
I'm not sure if Randy will get a story of his own. Choosing what to write depends on which stories begin speaking to me (and then won't shut up, lol). I'm currently working on a short CotH project, with a novel-length spinoff from Easy planned next. After that, who knows! Thank you so much for reading, and for letting me know who you'd like to see more of! :)
Tammara Webber
Hi Jessica - I let new story ideas simmer for a while to see what rises to the surface and sticks. I have one more CotH book planned, maybe two, but they will be stand-alone novels (like Sweet) that don't revolve around past main characters. I like to remain within a "world" once I've created it, but I plan to focus on different stories within that world rather than writing about the same couple. In my building there are hundreds of apartments; we all live feet from each other and interconnect at times, but our stories are very much separate. It's like that for me when I write. When I left Breakable, I couldn't stop thinking about Boyce and Pearl, so I wrote their story in such a way that a new-to-me reader could pick up without having read anything from me before. The character I'll be writing about next is from Easy, so I've let this one cook for a while. :) I hope you enjoy it! Thanks so much for reading.
Tammara Webber
Hi Danielle - Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed Boyce and Pearl's story. <3 <3 <3 It was definitely one of my favorites to write. I'm working on a short CotH project right now, and will return to work on the next book (a spinoff of a character from Easy this time!) as soon as that's done. If you're following my blog, FB, Twitter or Instagram, you'll hear about each of those as soon as they're up. :)
Tammara Webber
Hi Tammy - Yes! Audible is producing the audiobook - they've told my agent they're recording in a week or so, and it will be out at the end of July. :)
Tammara Webber
Hi Natalia - If there's reason for L&J to show up in future stories, they will (as in Sweet), but I'm not planning any more L&J-centric books because novels require conflict, and I don't want to throw any more at them.
Regarding Arianna - I'm working on something that may or may not pan out - a short story or novella. If I don't love it, it'll stay on my hard drive along with a bunch of other stuff that will never see the light of day. :)
Regarding Arianna - I'm working on something that may or may not pan out - a short story or novella. If I don't love it, it'll stay on my hard drive along with a bunch of other stuff that will never see the light of day. :)
Tammara Webber
Hi Mallory - Sweet is a spinoff/standalone story; the main characters are Boyce and Pearl. L&J are in the background but are only shown as necessary to support Boyce and Pearl's story.
Tammara Webber
That's so wonderful to hear! Thank you. <3 (Also, the question mark at the end made me giggle.) I hope you enjoy Breakable.
Tammara Webber
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Tammara Webber
Hi Caitlin - it's available for preorder on Amazon right now (http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Contours-...), and should be available from other booksellers (online, if not in store) after it releases. :)
Tammara Webber
Hi Ivory! That's awesome! :) Thank you. I loved the dorm room scene - their first kiss - but it was difficult to write. Lots of revision and nitpicking before I was happy with it. My favorite scene to *write* was actually the sorority meeting. It was one of those rare scenes that almost writes itself, which was great because I felt the importance of what happens when a woman in power stands up and says, ENOUGH. I cried and had goosebumps all over by the last sentence.
Tammara Webber
Aww, that's so sweet! Thank you! It had been three years since the last one so I figured it was time. :)
Tammara Webber
Hi, Nisi. Thanks so much! My Translations page is
here
. Pegi is my Albanian publisher - please feel free to write and ask them for the books you'd like to read in your native language. Publishers listen to readers! :)
Tammara Webber
Hi Thais - thanks so much. I'm glad you enjoyed them. Stories require conflict. I don't plan to throw any more conflict at J&L - they've been through enough. :) No sequels are planned for them, though they'll show up in the background of future Contours of the Heart books. <3
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