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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Blog Tour Guest Post: Erin Fletcher - Author of Where You'll Find Me

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Title: Where You'll Find Me
Author: Erin Fletcher
Pub Date: January 7th, 2014
Publisher: EntangledTEEN
Page Count: 211
 
When Hanley Helton discovers a boy living in her garage, she knows she should kick him out. But Nate is too charming to be dangerous. He just needs a place to get away, which Hanley understands. Her own escape methods—vodka, black hair dye, and pretending the past didn't happen—are more traditional, but who is she to judge? 

Nate doesn't tell her why he's in her garage, and she doesn't tell him what she's running from. Soon, Hanley¹s trading her late-night escapades for all-night conversations and stolen kisses. But when Nate¹s recognized as the missing teen from the news, Hanley isn't sure which is worse: that she's harboring a fugitive, or that she's in love with one.

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Character Inspiration
For me, one of the easiest parts of writing is coming up with characters. Most of the time I know the characters before I know the stories that go with them.

Here’s a look at the inspiration for some of the characters in Where You’ll Find Me.

Other books 
Whatever I read right before starting a new manuscript tends to impact the creation of my characters. Luckily, I read Anna and the French Kiss immediately before starting this manuscript. While Nate is not Etienne St. Clair (duh, Etienne is French and Stephanie Perkins is Stephanie Perkins), the book definitely inspired his character. I wanted someone charming. Gorgeous. Someone Hanley would want to spend time in a freezing cold garage with!

People from my life 
I have a T-shirt that says, “Be careful or you’ll end up in my next novel,” and it’s kind of true. While none of my characters are exactly like people I know, I often take a trait or two from an acquaintance and use that. Or I take traits from a couple of different people and combine them into one character. In Where You’ll Find Me, Hanley’s best friend, Rosalinda, is the best example of this. A girl I knew in college inspired her character. The girl was bold, blunt, and loved to have a good time, all of which are true about Rosalinda.

Autobiographical-ish 
Sometimes you gotta write what you know. While Hanley’s sister Heather and I are not exactly alike, we do share similarities. We’re both overachievers. We’re both very different from our younger siblings. We’re both a little afraid to push boundaries. And, of course, we both love mushrooms on our pizza.

The opposite of autobiographical
While Heather’s character was probably the easiest to write, Hanley’s was the most fun. Her character was inspired by writing the complete opposite of everything I would normally do. While I tend to play it safe, Haley is reckless. She takes about a hundred times as many risks as I ever would. Stepping into Hanley’s world in her high-heeled boots was an adventure, and I loved every minute of it!


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Erin Fletcher is a morning person who does most of her writing before sunrise while drinking excessive quantities of coffee, believes flip-flops qualify as year-round footwear, and would spend every day at the beach if she could. She has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics (which is almost never useful when writing books) and lives in North Carolin






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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2014 at 9:28 AM

    Nice guest post! I always find it fascinating how authors craft characters of their books, and after you said how Nate is loosely based on Etienne I am totally ready to read this book. I love Anna and Stephanie! Also, I always like hearing which characters are based off of the author because it's almost like getting piece of their personality.

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  2. GiselleJanuary 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM

    Great guest post! I loved Anna and the French Kiss and Etienne was yummy! I do think an author should put a little about themselves in their MC I find when you write a personality you know it comes off as much more realistic than forcing yourself in the head of someone who's your polar opposite. Anyways I def. need to read this one!

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