The minimum I need is six months to allow for dithering, procrastination and the research. The research times varies from book to book; some are faster because they’re based off resources I have at my disposal. Lauren Willig Read Quote
Purple Plumeria’ I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times. Lauren Willig Read Quote
Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it’s very easy to imagine yourself in that role. Lauren Willig Read Quote
I’m not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching. Lauren Willig Read Quote
I hadn’t realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you’re being assigned 40 books a week… there’s not much room for novels. Lauren Willig Read Quote
I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction – from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars. Lauren Willig Read Quote
I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I’ve been thinking about something else. Lauren Willig Read Quote
I’ve had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn’t a romance – with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader’s expectations going into the story, and that’s very hard to predict person to person. Lauren Willig Read Quote
My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way. Lauren Willig Read Quote
