Sarah Harvey - welcome to Books with Bunny! It's a pleasure to have a guest post about writing romance ahead of publication of Sarah's novel 'How to Hook a Husband'.
Men.
A word that can be said with so many different tones and vocal inflections. Love them? Hate them? Couldn’t eat a whole
one? What would our life be without them?
Well actually the phrase “a whole lot easier” springs to mind straight
away, which shows you the state of my love life at the moment, “state” being
the operative word, even more so when paired with and following the word “right”. Recently divorced, slightly acrimoniously, it
wasn’t difficult to see where my marriage had gone wrong. I wanted a partnership, he wanted a
dictatorship, I wanted Prince Charming he wanted Cinderella, but still covered
in ashes and shackled to the kitchen sink.
Our dreams and desires were so different they just couldn’t
coexist. I wanted children, he didn’t, I
wanted to travel, he didn’t, I fell madly in love with a seriously sexy younger
German man, oddly enough he wasn’t terribly keen on that idea either. Unfortunately neither would it seem was the
German. So now here I am, single very,
disillusioned very. I aimed for the
fairytale and actually ended up turning into the pumpkin. And yet my whole working life, my calling I
suppose, is dependent on having a serious affinity with love and a firm belief
in “happy ever after”. So how do you do
it? When you just want to spend your
days weeping into the warm furry shoulder of your long suffering and constantly
damp pet dog, when the sight of happy couples skipping down the street hand in
hand, makes you want to pull out a large anti tank gun and blast them into an
emotion free oblivion, when picture perfect happy families strolling in the
park, make you mutter “bah humbug” like a miserable Scrooge of romance who’s
allergic to love instead of Christmas. When
your heart is actually really rather broken?
How on earth do you write about romance?
Well I think to be a romance novelist, you
have at heart to be a romantic, and there is something in us romantics that
never seems to be completely lost, no matter how lost we feel ourselves. Even when your own love life is a disaster, there
is actually something rather wonderful and cathartic in writing a beautiful love
story, with a perfect happy outcome for your hero and heroine, because it
reminds of you the something that still remains. You see whilst there is still blood in your
veins, and your old romantic heart is still beating, even though its as limp as
a week old stick of celery, whilst you are writing story where love conquers
all, it gives you hope, hope that your own story will turn out just as well,
that you can write your own life in a way that will be just as wonderful. So how can you write when your is
broken? Well when that same heart is
still full of hope, anything is possible.
How to Hook a Husband is published in ebook by Manilla on July 28th, priced £4.99.
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