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Emily McIntire

Emily McIntire is a bestselling romance novelist known for dark romance and fractured fairy-tale retellings. She is best known for Hooked and the Never After series, whose villain-centered reimaginings drew a large contemporary romance readership and made her a recognizable voice in modern dark romance.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Public accounts of Emily McIntire’s early life are relatively spare, but they consistently frame writing as the through line of her identity. She has said she felt destined to be a writer from an early age, that she was named after Emily Dickinson, and that story ideas accompanied her from childhood; publisher material has also described her as a longtime songwriter and avid reader. She now lives in Tennessee with her family and cats, and her official biography presents her less as a credential-driven literary figure than as a romance storyteller whose work is rooted in instinct, emotion, and endurance. ((https://people.com/emily-mcintire-profile-exclusive-11698182))

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I've always been a writer for as long as I can remember. Even when I was a little kid, I was filling up notebooks full of poems and song lyrics :) I've never known to do anything else
-What inspired you as an author?
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To me, that's what art is about: Making people feel
-Your'e my favorite author, and this is because you interact with your fans and actually care about our lives
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I hope that my books are whatever the person needs, whether that's an escape from reality or a reflection into their own
-Your'e my favorite author, and this is because you interact with your fans and actually care about our lives
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Writing sprints always work well for me to push through writer's block
-How do you deal with writer's block?
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The most important (and sometimes the hardest) part of being a writer is sitting down and actually writing
-How would a person, a high schooler now, go about becoming a professional writer?
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My goal is always to nod to the inspiration, but to make the story itself stand alone so people who haven't ever heard of/or may not enjoy the original can still enjoy the book. :)
-I love that you are giving the villains a happy ever after
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My books always just kind of drop into my head and play like a movie for me
-Hii, Love your books, What tropes will Burning daylight have and what was your inspiration for it??
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Art is subjective. And even if someone ends up hating it, I’ve still done my part by telling the story the way it was meant to be told
-Q&A: Emily McIntire, Author of 'Burning Daylight'

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