Who was your first?
Posted by Angie Fox on 27 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Chit Chat
The first author who resonated with you, made you want to rush out and read the rest of a series, the author who made you care?
For me, it was Anne Rice, during the fall of ‘92 at the University of Missouri. My roommates and I were talking one night and it turned out they’d all read this amazing vampire series.
Vampires were cutting edge at the time. My friend Shay handed me a copy of Interview with the Vampire and an obsession was born. I missed every one of my classes that week as I read Interview, and then The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned and The Tale of the Body Thief. I couldn’t put those books down. And my friends, like the enablers they were, ate it up.
Now, sixteen years later, I don’t remember much about Economics 51 or Calculus (thank goodness), but I can still call up that giddy feeling I had when I discovered a new series, heck a new genre, that I knew I’d read again and again.
Do you remember the first time you discovered a new genre? Or a series that made you the reader or the writer you are today?
for me, it was the simple act of moving to the USA and walking into a bookshop and finding a huge section called ROMANCE1
February 28th, 2008 at 11:10 amI read everything I could find for about 3 years before realizing I had found my peeps and that that was what I wanted to write.
I guess I’ve always been a series freak. As a small girl, it was every single Black Stallion book. Then Little House on the Prairie, then The Babysitters Club. As an adult, I got hooked on The Cat Who, cozy mystery series. That was my Grandma’s fault.
Let’s see, the only romance series I got swept up in was Christine Feehan’s Dark series, and I’m afraid of vampires.
But the ultimate sucked me in and didn’t let me go until it was an obsession series was of course, Harry Potter.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:42 pmAh, yes! Little House and then Nancy Drew. I couldn’t get enough of those books as a kid. Another girl from my gradeschool, Kim, read everything too and we’d sit and discuss books, kind of like an early version of a book club.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pmI was always a book freak so I can’t say what was the first book that made me that way. But the book that made me want to be a writer was Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts. The characters, the writting just gave me that warm feeling that I wanted to write.
Now, Faking It by Jenny Crusie made me realize that romance doesn’t always have to be flowerly. That book changed my writing. It made me fall in love with books all over again, because I found a new genre that felt like it was written just for me.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:52 pm