Ask the Author: Katherine Owen
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Katherine Owen
Who is my favorite fictional couple? Of my books? It definitely has to be Lincoln Presley and Tally Landon from my Truth In Lies series. The first book in the series is This Much Is True.
These are deep, flawed characters that you cannot help but love.
These are deep, flawed characters that you cannot help but love.
Katherine Owen
I am so sorry, Tara. I just saw this question. Rob Thorn is intriguing. He does appear in book 3, Tell Me Something True. You'll get some answers there...however, your suggestion has me thinking some more. Hmmm.... Thanks for taking the time to reach out to me. Again, I apologize that I just saw your question. And thank you so much for reading my books!
xoxo
KO
Katherine Owen, author of the Truth In Lies Trilogy including This Much Is True, The Truth About Air & Water, and Tell Me Something True as well as standalone novels: Not To Us, When I See You, and Seeing Julia.
xoxo
KO
Katherine Owen, author of the Truth In Lies Trilogy including This Much Is True, The Truth About Air & Water, and Tell Me Something True as well as standalone novels: Not To Us, When I See You, and Seeing Julia.
Katherine Owen
Hi Leazette,
I'm working on the novel, Tell Me Something True, right now. I'm about 80% done, I think and I'm am loving it finally which is always a good sign for me. I've got the ending written which is always another good sign for me and I'm busy shoring up the middle, reviewing the timeline etc... It will probably be the first part of September right after Labor Day weekend. How does that sound? Thanks for your patience as well as the note. Love those!!! ♥
Best,
Katherine Owen
I'm working on the novel, Tell Me Something True, right now. I'm about 80% done, I think and I'm am loving it finally which is always a good sign for me. I've got the ending written which is always another good sign for me and I'm busy shoring up the middle, reviewing the timeline etc... It will probably be the first part of September right after Labor Day weekend. How does that sound? Thanks for your patience as well as the note. Love those!!! ♥
Best,
Katherine Owen
Katherine Owen
Yes! Readers want more of Linc and Tally so look for book 3 in the Truth In Lies series, "Tell Me Something True", in late May. Sign up for my newsletter and be among the first to know of its release. You can do that here: http://eepurl.com/beno7H
Thanks for reading my books, Lena!
xo
KO
Thanks for reading my books, Lena!
xo
KO
Katherine Owen
You could start with Seeing Julia (my debut novel) or This Much Is True which is book 1 in the Truth In Lies series. I wrote TMIT as a standalone, but reader demand prompted more. Thanks for asking and for considering my novels.
Katherine Owen
For me, re-reading what I've written helps. I get back into the characters and tend to discover their motivations. I have a manuscript like that (started a few years ago) and those characters are beginning to visit me at odd moments. Hopefully, that will be enough to lead me back to them after I finish the current work-in-progress. Hope that helps, Rajeev!
Katherine Owen
After the overwhelming success of "This Much Is True" last fall, I am currently working on another novel featuring Linc and Tally that will be released later this summer 2014 titled "The Truth About Air & Water" - Book 2 in the Truth In Lies series. Also, I have another book called "Saving Valentines" that will follow that one, if all goes according to plan.
Katherine Owen
First of all, I believe in writer's block because I've experienced this affliction. There are 'those' that say it does not exist. I just want to clarify; it does.
I do find reading good fiction always rejuvenates me even when my own writing seems all but impossible to get down on the proverbial page. And yet, there are times when you just have to 'write it out' and try to overcome whatever is blocking you in the first place which can most often be described as an affliction having to do with fear. Where questions like these silently race through your head: Am I good enough? Is this just pure dreck? Will anyone even want to read it? Some or all of those thoughts...that try to take you down. Sometimes, you must just buck up and overcome the fear of failure and just write... If you do that often enough, the work gets done.
~ko
I do find reading good fiction always rejuvenates me even when my own writing seems all but impossible to get down on the proverbial page. And yet, there are times when you just have to 'write it out' and try to overcome whatever is blocking you in the first place which can most often be described as an affliction having to do with fear. Where questions like these silently race through your head: Am I good enough? Is this just pure dreck? Will anyone even want to read it? Some or all of those thoughts...that try to take you down. Sometimes, you must just buck up and overcome the fear of failure and just write... If you do that often enough, the work gets done.
~ko
Katherine Owen
My inspiration behind my latest novel, "This Much Is True" came from a writing assignment from one of my advanced fiction classes with The Writer’s Studio a few years ago, and that is when Tally Landon first came into being.
In early drafts, she was an artist. In early drafts, she was innocent and naïve.
In later drafts, she became the edgy, broken soul readers have come to know and, hopefully, love in "This Much Is True".
The opening scene gives readers an ever so brief glimpse of the old Tally. Promiscuous. Selfish. Self-serving. Talented. Tally Landon is a protégé on her way up in the world with no interest in anyone besides herself. And yet, the last line of that particular scene tells readers pretty much everything about Tally. “There is no God, Elvis.” Readers instantly know more about where Tally is coming from and where this story might take them with that one simple tragic line more than any other.
Readers learn straight away that ‘Elvis’ aka Lincoln Presley will be important. And is he ever. It is not easy to be tasked with saving Tally Landon, especially when it appears, she doesn’t want to be saved. One reviewer put it this way; and I have yet to find anyone who describes it better:
“…Linc is a great guy who kept on drawing the short stick all throughout the story since he meets Tally. He is caring, sensitive and occasionally a coward. He definitely is an American sweetheart, and his funny and witty side comes at some of the most inopportune moments. However, this gives him the power to diffuse the bomb that is Tally Landon….” Lit Jungle Blog
Back to the question. Where did you get the idea for your most recent book? I have a tendency to write dark love stories. They are angsty reads. All of them. For this one? Tally came to me. I lived with her for a year and a half in my head, and I came to know her. That sounds weird. The writing process is weird. People who write are part weird, part soulful. I can live with that. I do.
Another blogger recently asked: Do you think Tally was a tough character to write about? Why?
And I answered this way.
Tough? Hmmm…Tally was an absolutely awesome character to write. She appears tough on the outside but is mostly vulnerable on the inside in ways she doesn’t even comprehend. Her life situation is tough. Her response to it is somewhat tragic. She was a challenge to write in the sense that I really felt her awesomeness from a long way off and wanted to ensure I did her true justice with this storyline. The character of Lincoln Presley was set early on and never wavered. I gave him some challenges that his character would have to rise up to, and I feel pretty successful with those.
I just saw that these two coming together would be as explosive as fireworks. That was certainly part of the inspiration I felt for writing Tally and Linc’s story. And for continuing it now in my current Work-In-Progress, The Truth About Air & Water.
In early drafts, she was an artist. In early drafts, she was innocent and naïve.
In later drafts, she became the edgy, broken soul readers have come to know and, hopefully, love in "This Much Is True".
The opening scene gives readers an ever so brief glimpse of the old Tally. Promiscuous. Selfish. Self-serving. Talented. Tally Landon is a protégé on her way up in the world with no interest in anyone besides herself. And yet, the last line of that particular scene tells readers pretty much everything about Tally. “There is no God, Elvis.” Readers instantly know more about where Tally is coming from and where this story might take them with that one simple tragic line more than any other.
Readers learn straight away that ‘Elvis’ aka Lincoln Presley will be important. And is he ever. It is not easy to be tasked with saving Tally Landon, especially when it appears, she doesn’t want to be saved. One reviewer put it this way; and I have yet to find anyone who describes it better:
“…Linc is a great guy who kept on drawing the short stick all throughout the story since he meets Tally. He is caring, sensitive and occasionally a coward. He definitely is an American sweetheart, and his funny and witty side comes at some of the most inopportune moments. However, this gives him the power to diffuse the bomb that is Tally Landon….” Lit Jungle Blog
Back to the question. Where did you get the idea for your most recent book? I have a tendency to write dark love stories. They are angsty reads. All of them. For this one? Tally came to me. I lived with her for a year and a half in my head, and I came to know her. That sounds weird. The writing process is weird. People who write are part weird, part soulful. I can live with that. I do.
Another blogger recently asked: Do you think Tally was a tough character to write about? Why?
And I answered this way.
Tough? Hmmm…Tally was an absolutely awesome character to write. She appears tough on the outside but is mostly vulnerable on the inside in ways she doesn’t even comprehend. Her life situation is tough. Her response to it is somewhat tragic. She was a challenge to write in the sense that I really felt her awesomeness from a long way off and wanted to ensure I did her true justice with this storyline. The character of Lincoln Presley was set early on and never wavered. I gave him some challenges that his character would have to rise up to, and I feel pretty successful with those.
I just saw that these two coming together would be as explosive as fireworks. That was certainly part of the inspiration I felt for writing Tally and Linc’s story. And for continuing it now in my current Work-In-Progress, The Truth About Air & Water.
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