The Long and the Short of It

Reviews for Long and Short Romantic Fiction, One "Happy Ever After" at a Time

Author Interview:  Linda Francis Lee

The Long and the Short of It is very excited to welcome Linda Francis Lee, author of The Ex-Debutante.

I asked Linda what advice she would give a new writer just starting out. “While it’s a cliche,” she said, “writing what you know truly helps a story come alive, allows you to write from a place of passion or feeling rather simply from a place of intellect.”

She shared with me that the hardest part of writing not only The Ex-Debutante , but any book, is “filling the initial blank pages.” She continued, “Once they start filling up, my brain opens up and creates more easily.”

At the time of the interview, Linda and her family were in temporary space, so she told me she wrote on a laptop wherever she could find a space. “The key is,” she told me, “to write no matter what the surroundings are like.” She writes a quota of pages every day, Monday through Friday. However, she said, “Once I’m in the editing phase, I work practically without stop until it’s done. I love the editing. Love working with the words and sentences, making meaning come alive.”