- Recurring Themes I've been writing practice novels for about five years and without fail, all of the story lines have involved a Southern character and a mixed race romance. Recently, those recurring themes have been intentional decisions but when I first started writing...
- Hatching The Storyline Though I usually source my inspiration from ordinary encounters and small moments, I first imagined Trent after I saw a fanvid that my friend Bo created around the Jonny Lang song "Breakin' Me." I'd never heard of Lang before that, but I'd been an amateu...
- Faking A Band This is an excerpt from the scene in which Trent and Caroline begin to collaborate on their song, "The Way That You Play It," and also begin to feel the first simmering of feelings for each other:
Up close, with his hair a wild russet mess an...
