Ask the Author: Isla Hart
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Isla Hart
Write every day, no excuses. If you do that, even a sentence, a paragraph, you'll build upon that over and over and you'll have an entire book before you know it. Don't compare yourself to anyone else. Don't do it. 'Success' isn't always how much money so and so made in a year. Sometimes, monetary successes are equal amounts of luck and timing as much as anything else. Believe in your work. Just write - edit later. Be prepared to be your own PR person, especially if you're indie. You will have to be an entire team of people and it can be overwhelming - but don't give up. If you want this... do not give up.
Isla Hart
Giving life to all the interesting 'people' in my head. Creating whole worlds and even languages that someday someone might read and get lost in. Doing what I love.
Isla Hart
Usually, I read a lot. Ready really seems to inspire me into 40 new book ideas. If it's really dug in, I'll still write even a few lines a day, work on various WIPs, whatever I can do until ideas spark. I'll also use blocks to work on research, character building, world building, mood boards, music lists for books... etc...
Isla Hart
Easy. About six years ago I created a whole new world for a book I wrote for my daughter (Myriddia - available under my 'real' name.) I love that I can take all these places that exist in my imagination and make them 'real' in the written word. Myriddia was the first book I published and it's set in a world that exists outside of the human realm. There are shifters of every sort. I loved the world I am building there. It's also a book I intend to go back and update and add 1 to 2 more books to.
Isla Hart
I got started reading romance early... just ten! (Thanks, grandma) - and by my early, early teens I was reading thick Regency style romances by people like Jane Feather, Amanda Quick, Teresa Medeiros... then I found Julia Quinn and Eloise James and ready absolutely everything they put out for the next twenty years. So, Regency has always been my first love. I hadn't even read a contemporary romance until September 2019. Now, I love all the new tropes, but for my most recent book, I've gone back to my first love - Regency! I'd had this series in notes for over a year and finally, put out the first in the series. My Regencies are a little more steamy than traditional Regency books and filled with all the flirting, sass, alpha men, and angst you could ever want. I will be spending most of the next year dedicated to getting the rest written.
Isla Hart
To be honest, writing Regency feels far more comfortable to me, at this point. I started with Harlequins way back in my grandma's house and moved on to Regencies. I didn't read a single 'modern' contemporary romance like what we see all over KU today (Enemies-to-Lovers, Reverse Harem, etc... etc...) until September of 2019. I was really behind the times! Now, I've probably read right around 500 books in the last 15 months. (Crazy, right??) I knew I wanted to write modern romances as well as Regency. Her Demon is my first attempt at a full-length contemporary and I LOVED writing it, but working on The Seduction of A Lady is where I felt most 'at home' and I really look forward to continuing that series, while also sneaking in more contemporary stories, as well!
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