New Adult Book Club discussion

This week, we have Jaqueline Snowe in the Q&A chair and she is ready to answer your questions in between her coffee runs.

She is the author of books such as Let Life Happen, Take a Chance on Me, No Easy Catch and many more!

Leave your questions below!

Will you be doing a story about Fiona's roommate Michelle in Evening the Score?

Which character you've created is the closest to your heart? Why? :)

Hi! What are you currently working on?

Who’s your favorite author?

Bookish wrote: "Will you be doing a story about Fiona's roommate Michelle in Evening the Score?"

Yes! I actually just finished Michelle's story. : ) We might finally get to see who her mystery guy is.

If you could be any book character for a day, whou would you choose and why?

Lena wrote: "Which character you've created is the closest to your heart? Why? :)"

This one is so tough because they all have a little piece of me but I'm going to kinda cheat to answer. Kate and Brody from Take a Chance on Me were created as a way to cope with suicide. Someone I knew died recently and I lived too far away to afford to attend the funeral and it was hard to grieve--so I wrote a story that helped me deal with my own emotions through two characters.

The other character who I just adore is Aaron Hill from The Game Changer. He is dramatic, confused, figuring life out and making a mess of it--but he overcomes it and I think we all are like that at some point in our life. (He also fiercely protects his friends and girlfriend and I resonate with that)

Nicole wrote: "Hi! What are you currently working on?"

I recently got offered a contract for an enemies-to-lovers, oops-I-fell-for-my-boss sports romance and am working on edits for that story, while starting to write book two of the series!

Ann wrote: "Who’s your favorite author?"

This question is fun and tough because different parts of my life shaped my favorite author at the time:
JK Rowling started my love of reading
Jennifer Crusie, Nora Roberts, Shannon Stacey got me interested in reading romance
Mariana Zapata, Tijan, and LJ Shen are my recent favs!

What is your "must have" when you get into the writing mode?

Which character of yours did you have most fun writing about?

I love the "worst part of the day" "best part of the day" it's such an easy thing to do, but so impactful and a great way to connect and show you care. What gave you this idea?

J. wrote: "If you could be any book character for a day, whou would you choose and why?"

I spent a lot of my life in school, whether a student or teacher, so if I could be ANY character for a day, I think I would be a teacher at Hogwarts. It would be incredible to be in that world.

Cassie wrote: "What is your "must have" when you get into the writing mode?"

Music and a clean kitchen. I'm insane when it comes to that--if I can see a mess around me, my brain can't focus. So I clean everywhere around me and blast my latest obsession. I tend to listen to the same two-three songs for an entire book and must have it to write.

Irma wrote: "Which character of yours did you have most fun writing about?"

I honestly loved writing Gideon from Evening the Score. I had never written a character who was a total asshole before and I wanted the challenge to show his growth in small, tiny bits and it was really fun to write a cranky, grumpy man.

Also, the teenagers in Evening the Score were a blast.

carrie thackston wrote: "I love the "worst part of the day" "best part of the day" it's such an easy thing to do, but so impactful and a great way to connect and show you care. What gave you this idea?"

I actually used to do this with students when I taught high school. They could always focus on the negative so I wanted to acknowledge the hard parts of their day/life but always remember to focus on the positives. It really let me get to know them and it took less than thirty seconds to do so.