Ask the Author: Lucy J. Madison
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Lucy J. Madison
Oh, that's easy. I'd love to spend a week at Hogwarts! I'm a Gryffindor through and through.
Lucy J. Madison
Ahh, I have so many favorite couples in fiction so I can't just give you one right off the bat. . Growing up reading straight fiction for lack of knowing many lesbian authors to read, I fell in love with Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice. As I got a little older, I loved Katharine Clifton and Count Lazlo de Almasy in the English Patient. The sheer passion, lust, and powerful love between the two left and indelible mark on me both as a writer and a reader.
Onto lesbian fiction, I can't even suggest a couple without Bette and Tina from the L Word. I know they may not be from the fiction genre you were thinking when you asked, but they are fictional characters and their chemistry was engaging and always hot. The rest of the L Word we can debate another time.
In books, I was enthralled with Nan and Kitty from Tipping the Velvet and really all of the couples Sarah Waters creates.
But if I had to weigh them all and boil everything down to one, I'd say Carole and Therese in The Price of Salt. The story was just so utterly romantic on so many levels. And the way Highsmith wrote their lovemaking was sublime. She wrote: "“Her arms were tight around Carol, and she was conscious of Carol and nothing else, of Carol’s hand that slid along her ribs, Carol’s hair that brushed her bare breasts, and then her body too seemed to vanish in widening circles that leaped further and further, beyond where thought could follow.” -- I mean, COMON! It really doesn't get much better than that.
Onto lesbian fiction, I can't even suggest a couple without Bette and Tina from the L Word. I know they may not be from the fiction genre you were thinking when you asked, but they are fictional characters and their chemistry was engaging and always hot. The rest of the L Word we can debate another time.
In books, I was enthralled with Nan and Kitty from Tipping the Velvet and really all of the couples Sarah Waters creates.
But if I had to weigh them all and boil everything down to one, I'd say Carole and Therese in The Price of Salt. The story was just so utterly romantic on so many levels. And the way Highsmith wrote their lovemaking was sublime. She wrote: "“Her arms were tight around Carol, and she was conscious of Carol and nothing else, of Carol’s hand that slid along her ribs, Carol’s hair that brushed her bare breasts, and then her body too seemed to vanish in widening circles that leaped further and further, beyond where thought could follow.” -- I mean, COMON! It really doesn't get much better than that.
Lucy J. Madison
I talk alot about this very question on my web site www.lucyjmadison.com where I have a blog. Check it out.
Lucy J. Madison
I have several projects in the works right now from feature film scripts to new romance novels. I'm so excited about all of the projects I'm working on and can't wait to share them with everyone as I complete them!
Lucy J. Madison
Never give up. Work on your craft. I grew up playing basketball and being an athlete taught me to work on skills each and every day in order to improve myself. Being a writer is no different. Practice writing, read as much as you can, talk with other writers.
Lucy J. Madison
If I am experiencing writer's block, it means I haven't worked out the details or story well enough in my mind. In these instances, I've learned to step away from the computer and go hiking or do something to get my conscious mind off the project for a while.
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