{"id":52096,"date":"2015-11-04T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=52096"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:23:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:23:01","slug":"nine-naughty-questions-with-trish-morey-author-of-upcoming-cherry-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/nine-naughty-questions-with-trish-morey-author-of-upcoming-cherry-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Trish Morey answers Booktopia\u2019s Nine Naughty Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Booktopia Book Guru asks\"Cherry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trish Morey
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author of Cherry Season<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nine Naughty Questions<\/strong>
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1. I wonder, is a Romance writer born or made? Please tell us little about your life before publication<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think, maybe a bit of both. I came to writing like so many of my colleagues, via a totally unrelated career. I was a mild-mannered chartered accountant before the writing bug bit hard and wouldn\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n

However as a teen I always fancied myself a writer (until talk of the real world and needing a \u201cproper\u201d job intervened).<\/p>\n

(PS: I was kind of kidding about the mild-mannered bit…)<\/p>\n

2. For all the glitz and the glam associated with the idea of Romance novels, writing about and from the heart is personal and very revealing. Do you think this is why Romance Readers are such devoted fans? And do you ever feel exposed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A romance writer can\u2019t just pay lip service to the emotions – romance readers will spot insincerity at fifty paces. So if you want to connect with your readers, you have to be prepared to pour yourself onto the page. Sure, sometimes it\u2019s hard or confronting, but then, we\u2019re not writing autobiography, we\u2019re writing fiction. It\u2019s about tapping into our experiences, our heartbreaks and highs, our joys and our grief, and putting the characters in that place instead.<\/p>\n

Ultimately it\u2019s not about you, the writer, and you have to be able to let that go.<\/p>\n

3. Please tell us about your latest novel\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cherry Season<\/em><\/a> is a story about what happens when polar opposites attract. Dan Faraday is a 37 year old uptight third generation cherry orchardist with both age and an overblown sense of responsibility weighing down on his shoulders.<\/p>\n

Lucy Marino is a 24 year old California girl backpacking her way around Australia and who gets a job picking cherries on the orchard, and immediately the two are at loggerheads.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a story about spark, finding home and finding love where you least expect it. And it\u2019s a book about cherries too, of course \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\t\t