Kate Rockland's debut novel, Falling Is Like This, was released in early May, and is a brillaint read (review coming next week!). Trashionista spoke to Kate about Falling, her inspiration for the novel and her tips for new writers!Please describe your books in 15 words or fewer.
Falling Is Like This is the tale of 23 year-old Harper Rostov and her journey around the ever-changing, vividly-painted East Village.
What inspired you to write Falling Is Like This?
I was unemployed and needed to work. I would go to Mud cafe in the East Village and sit and plink away at my laptop. I was also doing a lot of writing about bands for the NY Times, and got a few crushes on boys in bands and found them interesting subject matter, almost like they wrote the part of Nick for me because their lives are so different than ours, travelling the world, their close bonds that run deeper than even what they share with wives or girlfriends. I wanted to write a real-life love story, the way I see love stories, which are not always over years. Sometimes when you are young you can fall in and out of love in one week, truly.
Where do you do most of your writing?
At coffee shops. I love caffeine!
What is your favourite chick-lit book?
Watermelon, by Mariane Keyes.
Who is your favourite heroine, and why?
I have to be boring here, and go with Bridget Jones. She's just so frickin' funny.
What part of Falling Is Like This was most fun to write?
The sex scenes! I tried to make them funny, because sex can be kind of funny at times.
Do you have any tips for readers who are looking to become published authors?
You have to really believe all the while that you are sitting your butt down to read that your book will get published. You have to be bold and believe your work is worth being read to a larger audience then your cats, who I read the first draft of "Falling Is Like This" to. Stephen King has a great book to encourage writers called "On Writing." Also author Jennifer Weiner has a great section of her website where she is very encouraging. I read it like, 500 times.
What are you currently reading?
The new Elizabeth George book. Also the new Zoe Heller book.
Are you working on anything at the moment, and if so, can you tell us?
Yes! I am writing another novel for chicks that delves into the world of blogging about women's weight issues. One blogger is heavy, the other skinny, and they are at cross-purposes. Or at least, they appear to be. Hopefully I can find a way for them to become friends by the end of the book!
Thanks, Kate!
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