In my head it’s ‘the sweet fluffy one’, and while that’s still largely true compared to the other books, it does have its sad moments, and points where it touches on sensitive issues like the aftereffects of emotional abuse. I even started writing one of them (the first woebegone draft of Growing Pains) a few weeks after finishing Finding Your Feet, but dropped it to edit FYF for submission to Riptide (then angsted for months about the submission and got nothing more done).ĭuring that first edit and further edits, the story did become more intense in places. I dropped my other projects because I could clearly see adjacent stories for nearly all the side characters, and immediately drafted rough plots for three other couples.
This was something new for me to write, and it really woke my brain up. I wanted lots of community, funny asides, personalities, and general chaos (without actual chaos). The cast of side-characters also arrived fully-formed: the background dramatics of Gigi and Brock, the intrusive documentary crew, Evie’s supportive queerplatonic friends, and the competitiveness of the dancing school directors. Evie was always a tourist, generous, and a little lost and uncertain Tyler was always a dancer, independent, and a little gruff and hesitant. The characters arrived fairly fully-formed. I hit 50k words (the Nanowrimo goal count) two weeks in, and finished it at over 60k a week later. I have never had words flow like that, before or since. It was, hands down, the easiest book I’ve ever written. I’d never conscientiously written a romance before, so I thought it would make a really fun Nanowrimo project. So I thought, why not write something sweet and romantic about these two? Something fluffy, nothing super serious or intense, just silly shenanigans around a budding love story. In the lead up to November, I had these two characters pop into my head: a woman who was at a crossroads in her life, and a man who needed a positive change in his. I’d been reading queer romance for several years by the time Nanowrimo 2014 rolled around. Cass talks a bit about writing the book, and is also offering a great giveaway, so be sure to check out those details below.
We’re so pleased to welcome author Cass Lennox today, on the Finding Your Feet blog tour.
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