Today, The Cover Contessa is excited to welcome author Tara Sivec for a stop on her blog tour!
Tara has done a guest post for us answering the following questions:
The anatomy of a plot twist, do you know it's coming? does it surprise you like it does the reader? In WOM did you know from the beginning that he knew her bc of her mom? Do you start from the twist and move backwards...what's the flow?
Let's see what Tara had to say!
I never know it's coming and it's just as surprising to me! When I start a story, I always know the beginning and the end. How it will all come together never hits me until I start writing and emerging myself in the story. When I get to the point of the story where I need to figure out how it will work to get the ending I want, I'll usually spend an entire day re-reading what I've written and wracking my brain. It's the best feeling in the world when I get that "Ah-Ha!" moment and I can see it all clearly in my head. I usually start screaming from somewhere in the house and freaking my husband out!
With Watch Over Me, I never planned on having any kind of plot twist. It's my true story and I just wanted to get all of the emotion and pain out of my brain. But one day sitting on my front porch this idea just came to me. I wanted Addison to see that Zander was always meant to be a part of her life. I wanted there to be a reason for him to be there, trying to help her. One that would solidify the idea that they were meant to be in each other's lives.
I know a lot of authors who write out of order, but I can never do that. I have to write from beginning to end and let the story unfold the way it would for the reader - that's just the way my brain works! Sometimes that means the ending I originally had in mind might need to change to fit with the rest of the story, but that's okay with me. The ideas I start with are just that - ideas. Nothing is written in stone so I always know I can change things as I go to make it the best story it can be.
Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when they all three of them become adults and move out.
After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She is the author of the Playing with Fire series and the Chocolate Lovers series. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book.
In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she’ll do and naps she’ll take when she ever gets spare time.
Blurb:
Addison Snow is your typical teenager. She has a family that loves her, friends that make her laugh, and she's wrapped up in the excitement of graduating high school and going off to college to pursue her dream of becoming an author. When her mother, who also happens to be Addison's best friend, dies unexpectedly, her world comes to a crashing halt.
Death changes everyone...
To make the pain go away, Addison and her father travel down separate, dark paths. She chooses to end her grief forever, while he drowns his sorrows in the bottom of a bottle. How do you learn to live again when the most important person in your life is gone?
Addison struggles to pick up the pieces of her life. Instead of getting back to being the carefree teenager she once was, she's stuck handling all of the responsibilities that should have been her father's. She has no time to grieve, no time for emotions, and no time for happiness...until Zander Reinhardt walks in. All it takes is one little handwritten note on a napkin to kick-start her back to life and help her realize that maybe there's more to that life than pain.
But can it really be that simple? Can she really trust this man who makes her feel alive again for the first time in a year?
Addison and Zander both have secrets they aren't ready to share. When the truth finally comes out, is it enough to tear them apart or has something bigger than themselves always been watching over them, pushing them together, making sure they both get their happily ever after?
Death changes everyone...
To make the pain go away, Addison and her father travel down separate, dark paths. She chooses to end her grief forever, while he drowns his sorrows in the bottom of a bottle. How do you learn to live again when the most important person in your life is gone?
Addison struggles to pick up the pieces of her life. Instead of getting back to being the carefree teenager she once was, she's stuck handling all of the responsibilities that should have been her father's. She has no time to grieve, no time for emotions, and no time for happiness...until Zander Reinhardt walks in. All it takes is one little handwritten note on a napkin to kick-start her back to life and help her realize that maybe there's more to that life than pain.
But can it really be that simple? Can she really trust this man who makes her feel alive again for the first time in a year?
Addison and Zander both have secrets they aren't ready to share. When the truth finally comes out, is it enough to tear them apart or has something bigger than themselves always been watching over them, pushing them together, making sure they both get their happily ever after?
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