Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m Ginnie, a 21 years old author. I’m currently traveling the world, writing romance books when I get the time. I only have two books written yet, but I am working on the third one. It should be out soon, hopefully!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Fall In Love. It’s the second part of my Four Seasons serial. What inspired the serial is actually something I did when I was younger. I used to be on those forums where you could “be” a character and interact with other people’s characters. Basically, it’s a role playing game. One of my characters was actually Elsie, the woman I decided to use for my first books. She inspired me a lot when I was writing with her on those forums, so I decided to keep the character, but change the context a little bit.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write from everywhere in the world? I don’t have an office, just a computer that I carry around with me. I’m currently in Costa Rica, but my boyfriend and I are moving to Mexico tomorrow. We’ll spend two months there and I’ll get to see a new place, get inspired and work even harder!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love inspires me every day to keep writing. Or just in general, to keep doing what I love to do. It’s also a lot because of her that I’m traveling right now. I have this passion inside of me and she helped me to keep it alive.
What are you working on now?
I’m working on my third book, Secrets of Winter, which comes after Summer Spark and Fall In Love.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Awesomegang is great *wink wink*, but I also use Twitter and Facebook a lot. With good hashtags, you can get far with Twitter. I also post in a lot of Facebook groups.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
My only advice is to keep writing. My first language is not English, it’s French. I have to work harder than everybody (I think?) to take my written English to the next level. The only way to do that is by writing and not giving up. Every new sentence I write is better than the one before, so I have to keep going!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Same thing as the advice I would give: don’t give up. Keep writing. Write as much as you can about things that you are passionate about. Do that every day and don’t stop.
What are you reading now?
I’m reading The Power of Habits by Charles Duhigg. Absolutely not related to romance books, but I love to understand the human brain. I’m also a bit of a business woman now, so I have to understand how to manipulate people into buying my books! (Nah, I’m kidding! Only way to do that is to have a good enough book. I don’t think you can bullshit your way to celebrity!)
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve been writing novellas that I plan to publish as a novel when all the parts are out. For my next book, I plan to write something longer and instead of splitting it into novellas, just publish the novel as a whole. I still have no idea what it’s going to be about. Maybe there’s going to be a billionaire in it?
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
SURVIVAL BOOKS ALL THE WAY!
1) How to catch food
2) How to find drinking water
3) How to build a shelter
4) How to build a raft.
Seriously, if you’re on a desert island, I don’t want a romance book. I want to get the hell out of there!
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