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It was three years ago when I first encountered Choc Lit Publishing and since then I've been consistently impressed by the standard of the books they publish. Yes – it's chick lit and you're not going to end up struggling through something that was written with the Booker Prize in mind, but it's at the upper end of the genre, with good writing, romantic content and, best of all, a real story that you can believe in
Sue Magee, The Bookbag
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Choc Lit Interviews Lauren Willig!
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Where did you find the inspiration for your novel, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation?
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Lauren
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Way too many years of watching the Anthony Andrews “Scarlet Pimpernel” and other dashing swashbucklers who tossed off witty repartee as they defeated the perspiring villain with one hand tied behind their backs. There was just one problem-those old heroes all had it way too easy. I wanted to take a suave spy, bedevil with an equally spunky heroine, and see just who got the last laugh.
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What was particularly challenging about writing this story?
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Lauren
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Finding the time to write it! I wrote “Pink Carnation” as a full time grad student, dashing back and forth between dissertation research and grading student papers, so the writing generally got put off to odd moments. I used to sneak my laptop into the history department library and guiltily pull up my manuscript when I was meant to be working on my dissertation. As you can see, the novel got done; the dissertation didn’t.
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What do you love most about your hero and heroine?
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Lauren
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I love the way Amy, my heroine, flings herself wholly into everything she does, without doubt or second-guessing. And I love the way Richard, my hero, seems like the perfect man of mystery on the outside, but has to deal with a lovable but encroaching family and two best friends who know him way too well-in short, all the ordinary guy stuff that makes him human.
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How would you describe your hero, Lord Richard Selwick, in terms of chocolate?
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Lauren
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Richard is a brandy truffle, cloaked in anonymous dark chocolate on the outside, but with a soft center that is distinctly intoxicating.
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