Ask the Author: Angela Day
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Angela Day
Hi Roula, I am so pleased to meet you! Thank you for joining my newsletter and for your interest in my books. Letting Go is my first, and I hope you enjoy the story. You are welcome to email me any questions directly by replying to any of my newsletters.
I am a New Zealand author, and my imagination has been captured by the landscape of Colorado and the people I have imagined in my fictional town of Jackson’s Bridge.
I haven’t used a preface yet, but I look to the definition in the dictionary for what it means. I do enjoy books that add one to create a sense of emotion, tension, or expectation to the story I’m about to read. I once read a book where an author used a poem that had a sense of foreboding, as if the well-known poem was actually the main character looking back on the story with wisdom about what happened in the story I was about to read. I thought that was a very clever use of a preface.
I also think prefaces would be helpful to provide a little detail of history or subject matter information before a story, if it helps the reader understand what is going to happen in the story, or to let the reader know it is a true story.
Ultimately, I think the author should keep the reader in mind for all things pertaining to a book’s contents. So when adding a preface, they should ask themself what value it adds for the reader.
I hope that answers your question. Please feel welcome to contact me directly if you’d like to talk more, and thank you for your message.
I am a New Zealand author, and my imagination has been captured by the landscape of Colorado and the people I have imagined in my fictional town of Jackson’s Bridge.
I haven’t used a preface yet, but I look to the definition in the dictionary for what it means. I do enjoy books that add one to create a sense of emotion, tension, or expectation to the story I’m about to read. I once read a book where an author used a poem that had a sense of foreboding, as if the well-known poem was actually the main character looking back on the story with wisdom about what happened in the story I was about to read. I thought that was a very clever use of a preface.
I also think prefaces would be helpful to provide a little detail of history or subject matter information before a story, if it helps the reader understand what is going to happen in the story, or to let the reader know it is a true story.
Ultimately, I think the author should keep the reader in mind for all things pertaining to a book’s contents. So when adding a preface, they should ask themself what value it adds for the reader.
I hope that answers your question. Please feel welcome to contact me directly if you’d like to talk more, and thank you for your message.
Angela Day
I would go straight to Jackson's Bridge—and I am this year, at least I am going to the places in Colorado that resonate with the fictional community that has come alive in the Jackson's Bridge Series.
Angela Day
I found three Liane Moriarty books in our local book store, so I snapped them up. They are Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and The Husband's Secret :)
Angela Day
That's an easy one. Like Brett in the first book in the Jackson's Bridge Series, "Letting Go", as a child it was difficult for me to understand who my father was and painful for the people around me to tell me.
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