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Ann Royal Nicholas

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Boston, MA, The United States

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http://www.annroyalnicholas.com

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Genre

Romance, Chick Lit, Mystery

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Joan Didion, Ursula LeGuin, Kate Atkinson

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Ann Royal Nicholas is the author of THE MUFFIA series: THE MUFFIA, MORE MUFFIA and MUFF STUFF. THE MUFFIA series is a collection of sexy, contemporary womens' fiction, each with a light mystery component.

Published and available at www.bournos.com. See www.annroyalnicholas.com for more

Under her pseudonym, Royal Mack, Ann Royal writes about wine. THE TEENY TINY WINE GUIDE was published by Spitfire Ventures and reissued as part of the Dummies series of books. ...more

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How do you get inspired to write?

Ann Royal Nicholas Inspiration isn't really my problem. As a working mom, my issue is carving out the time to write. I've discovered I need about 3 hours to move my stor…moreInspiration isn't really my problem. As a working mom, my issue is carving out the time to write. I've discovered I need about 3 hours to move my story forward in any real way. That's one hour to look at the assorted emails or pieces of paper gathered on my desk and clear them (or put them in piles to deal with later), one hour to move deeper and focus and actually write something and then half an hour to come back to reality. If I look at my daily to-do list and find I don't have that time, I'll often just open up what I'm working on and take notes on what I need to do when I sit down to work next. As for inspiration, I read a lot--NY Times, biographies, whatever--and there's almost nothing I read that doesn't provide inspiration. I might read a story about a murderer in the American South next to a story about a family devastated by a lightning strike in California and my brain starts spinning a story. Juxtaposing two completely different ideas and figuring out how they might go together works for me as a starting point.(less)

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ann Royal Nicholas My most recent book, "The Muffia," grew out of my real life book club, also called The Muffia. We've been a club since 2001 and we read a book every 6…moreMy most recent book, "The Muffia," grew out of my real life book club, also called The Muffia. We've been a club since 2001 and we read a book every 6 weeks or so, taking turns picking books and hosting the club. A few years ago, at one particular raucous gathering involving too many pomegranate margaritas, during which we might have discussed "Little Children" if memory serves, somebody suggested we could be a book ourselves. Because I'd had a novel published, the Muffs looked at me and I jumped at the chance. There were challenges: fictionalizing us enough--in case the book ever became a TV series--to protect everyone's privacy; layering in more plot to drive story--because I realized I wanted a mystery element; not losing the silly, loving stuff that really happens when we get together. The real life Muffs continue to provide lots of entertaining material, which I'm grateful for because there are more books to come in the Muffia series.(less)

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The Muffia is Like Mondalez

We might agree on wine

When I began writing stories about The Muffia, my contemporary women’s book club, agents, publicists and prospective publishers I’d meet on my quest for riches advised me, “You need to create a brand.”

I nodded and listened but basically I thought, branding, schmanding.

Yeah, yeah, I know most people say that in our overcrowded book market–any market really– that if you d

Ann’s Quotes

“There comes a time in a (wo)man's life when to get where (s)he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

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