![]() They're really in love with the characters and the emotional dynamic between them really drives them. I talked to the producers they're big fans of the series been reading it since last year. It's terrible when you read a book and you're like, "Oh my God, what does he see in her?"īookish: Congratulations on the Crossfire series getting optioned for television! Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs-those are the type of series I gravitate to, because those are women that are respected and admired, and I want them to get to their happily ever after. Actually, I love a lot of Nora Roberts's books her heroines are all very strong.Nalini Singh's "Guild Hunters" series-of course Elena is usually strong, and all of the women who are in her series are strong women. I would have a hard time being friends with a woman who just let a guy run all over her. It's the same way with my heroines: I expect them to be confident in their business endeavors-almost all of them have something they're doing-and to be strong with the men they're with.įor me, it's very hard to buy into the alpha male being attracted to a beta female. It's just a sort of female companionship that I'm attracted to. All of my girlfriends are extremely strong women. It's very hard for me to be friends with women who are not strong. SD: In order to really connect with my heroines, they have to be women I would be friends with in real life. ![]() Why was it important for you to write a female protagonist who's so strong on her own? On various fan sites, readers have expressed appreciation for the fact that she stands up to the possessive Gideon. I really like the few clinch covers I managed to get.īookish: Speaking of heroines, let's talk about Eva. SD: Even though I consider myself a hardcore straight romance author, a lot of my books focus on the heroine a lot, so I think they kind of want that as a mainstream look, having one person on there. I was like, "Can I get a couple, please?"īookish: You would think that with romance novels, that would be the intuitive thing to do! I fought for a long time to get couples on my covers, because I had just the guy or just the girl. That's been an interesting part for me with getting all of my covers redone into object covers because now, of course, there's no emotion there whatsoever. But I like to get a feel for the emotional content of the book in the pose, the look on the models' faces and so on. I don't even care if the hair color's right or if the clothing's right-that doesn't even bother me. SD: I'm a big fan of the classic clinch cover because of the emotion that it gets across. I was 12 and read my first romance novel it was a sweeping desert saga, and I got to the end of it and was like, "I want to go to back and start all over again!" That emotional response to the book and getting to the end of a story you love is what inspires me to write the next book.īookish: Covers are also key for you, right? You wrote an essay in "Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey" all about the evolution of book covers. For a storyteller, when you finish reading somebody else's story and you have that feeling of "Oh my God, I wish the story would've gone on forever"-that's what got me to first start writing. SD: Just for the emotional experience of it. A lot of things they're looking for, they'll find.īookish: How so-in terms of craft, or admiring others' ideas and execution? People ended the book and were like, "I'm emotionally exhausted from reading it!" But with the third book, the readers will be very happy about where the story's moving along. was really hard there was a lot of angst to it, and it was a really dark book. is really kind of a get-to-know-you book, with the two characters just starting the relationship. Sylvia Day: I think that readers are really gonna love it. She also discussed her love for the classic clinch cover and which TV shows inspire her in her off-hours.īookish: How do you think readers will react to Entwined with You? What do you think they'll like most and least? Bookish spoke with Day about the equal need to write strong heroines and hot sex scenes, and how both will factor in to the TV series. While there are two novels left in the series, Crossfire has also been optioned for television. After an agonizingly long wait, fans of Sylvia Day will finally get their fix when Entwined with You, the third novel in her Crossfire series, comes out June 4.
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