“Beauty might just be the beast.”’
Calla Williams is not like other girls. Most
girls spend their whole lives trying to be beautiful, Calla already is…and she
hates it.
When she is shipped off one summer to live with
family friends in their dilapidated Mississippi plantation, Calla is faced with
the prospect of living with strangers and their teenage son. This is
annoying because, like any other boy, he is sure to fall in love with her on
sight. However, Griffin Davenport is not your typical teenage guy. With his hot
temper and half of his face severely scarred, “hate at first sight” is closer
to what she finds.
Though the two teens try to stay out of each other’s
way, an odd attraction to each other makes staying away anything but easy.
Now, Calla must deal with growing feelings, her own
prejudices, and finding the secret to Griffin’s past. As hate turns to
friendship and friendship becomes something more, Calla learns a startling
truth: God uses even how we look in His plan for our lives.
What genre(s) do you write?
Christian Teen Romance, but
every now and then I have to take a break and write a little horror.
What genres and authors would we find you reading?
I love romance, Meg Cabot, Stephanie Meyer,
Gail Carson Levine. I’ve always had a thing for classic as well, Jane Austen, Daphne
du Maurier.
What was the hardest part of writing your book?
Getting up the courage to send it out to a
publisher. Writing it was pretty easy,
editing it was harder but still fun, but after it was finished it sat in my
computer collecting digital dust for over a year. Finally a very wise woman asked me, why
not? I’m so glad I listened to her and
sent it out into the world.
Are you a plotter or a pantser?
A little of both. I hate to have everything plotted out and I
never plot on paper, but I can’t get things done if I don’t have at least most
of the major scenes figured out in my head.
So, I guess I am a plottser?
Why do you think people should choose your books over
another author?
Because even though fairy-tales are big and there are a lot of
choices out there right now, my stories are different because they deal with
real life. They don’t have magic so in
the end my characters have to deal with the messes that they have made without
a magical spell to set them free. I’d
like to think this is a fresher take on the old tales.
What do you hope readers take with them after reading one of
your stories?
That there is hope and
love in the world. And that they might
feel a better sense of the fact that there is a purpose for their lives. That’s what I want my characters to learn, so
that’s what I am hoping to show the reader through my characters.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to
grasp?
That everything has beauty in it and that God uses that beauty to do
great things. I want every girl, (or
guy) that reads my book to feel like they too are beautiful and that they are
important.
Has your life changed significantly since becoming a
published writer?
I think my writing
finally has some weight behind it. When
you have spent years just typing on a laptop pr scribbling in a notebook and
claim to be a writer no one really takes you seriously, but after you are
published suddenly they are asking you to edit things for them. It’s funny how that works. In a lot of ways I feel like I just
graduated.
Do you work on one project at a time? Or do you
multi-task?
I can’t multi-task
well. I try to keep up blogs and
facebook, maybe a short story, while writing a novel, but I can’t get my brain
around more than one novel at a time. I
get distracted too easily, and that is how projects go unfinished.
When not writing, how do you relax?
I love to go to the
movies. I try to see anything that even
looks halfway good. When I was a little
girl, my dad and I would watch a movie at home every night and we would go out
to the theater at least once a week. I
still love to watch a good movie, but I am much more apt to fall asleep these
days.
How can our readers find you?
Website:
RebekahRoberts.net
Twitter: @RebekahFRoberts
Facebook:
facebook.com/RebekahRobertsWriter
Where can they find your book?
Amazon, B&N, Itunes, and www.5princebooks.com/buy.htm
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