Ask the Author: Chris Scully
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Chris Scully
Don't measure yourself against others. This is a hard lesson to learn, but critical to one's sanity. Writing is like playing golf--in a field of others, you're really playing against yourself and at each outing you want to improve your performance.
Chris Scully
I am not a prolific writer by any means. I have a full-time job, so writing sometimes comes second. But this year I just happen to have another gay romance novella coming out later in the spring. It's called "Happy", from Dreamspinner Press, and it's about a Greek-Canadian man torn between family expectations and his own happiness. It also features characters from an earlier novella, "Inseparable".
I am also just starting work on my next novel which I'm very excited about. This is a romantic-suspense novel about a disgraced journalist who returns home to his small town to see his estranged father before he dies. A reunion with his childhood best friend, Ben, reawakens old feelings, and he becomes caught up in a twenty-year-old mystery that could jeopardize any romance between them.
I am also just starting work on my next novel which I'm very excited about. This is a romantic-suspense novel about a disgraced journalist who returns home to his small town to see his estranged father before he dies. A reunion with his childhood best friend, Ben, reawakens old feelings, and he becomes caught up in a twenty-year-old mystery that could jeopardize any romance between them.
Chris Scully
Until September started life (shortly after the US Supreme Court 2013 decision on same sex marriage) as a sweet and fluffy romance about a young man (Ryan) who wants to get married but falls for a guy who does not. It was going to be a battle-of-the-wills-type story, and to some extent that still remains, but as I built the character of Archer, it began to change. From the beginning I knew Archer had to come from a non-traditional background, but I was stuck on the details. In 2014 as I was writing this, Canadian news was filled with stories of missing and murdered indigenous women. It was a political and social awakening of sorts for me. It made me think about how we're shaped by our upbringing, and more specifically, what it would be like to grow up not knowing what had happened to your mother. That's when I decided to make Archer an aboriginal man struggling with his identity. It's not the focus of the novel, but it certainly shapes Archer. From that point on, this became a more serious story about love and loss, the nature of family, and overcoming the obstacles fate puts in our way.
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