Louise Lightsey is an emerging author working on her debut novel, Love Geometry.
Her love for immersing in fantastical stories rekindled a second passion-writing.
When she isn’t furiously tapping the keys or with her nose to her Kindle, you can find Louise wifing, mothering, keeping hearts beating, and striving to be the candle and the mirror.
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Meet Louise Lightsey:
1. If you could be friends with one character in your debut novel who would it be? Why?
Evryn. She’s a rough-around-the-edges Brit with powers of Time Mastery and an affinity for sneaking from Evara to Earth to party and rock out. She’d be so fun to hang out with. She gives everyone funny nicknames; I wonder what she’d tag me as?
2. What’s your biggest fear? My children dying. I don’t think I’d ever come back from that.
3. Do you have any inspirational quotes you live by?
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better best."
4. What’s one piece of advice you wish you’d known when you first started writing?
Don’t wait. If you have a story you love, you have to tell it, share it.
5. What was the first piece you ever wrote? (if you’re comfortable feel free to tell us a little about it).
The first big real story I remember writing was in elementary school. It was a mystery about diamond thieves. They hid the diamonds in ice cubes and never got caught.
6. Was there anything else you wanted to be, besides a writer, when you were a kid?
I wanted to be an artist for the longest time, and an art teacher after that. Then I grew up and “learned” those careers wouldn’t “get me anywhere in life.” Insert eye roll.
7. What’s the biggest plot twist you never saw coming? (In any form of media)
Hawk being Casteel in FBAA, and also him not being the bad guy. It’s also my favorite plot twist.
8. What are some helpful tips you would give a fellow writer who’s having a hard time plotting, developing, etc.?
Find a supportive writing community. It’s been incredibly helpful to hear others’ stories, successes and failures, and to have people to ask questions. I’m still not the one with most of the answers, but I’m learning. If you find the right writer friends, you’ll never be alone.
9. What would you tell your younger self not to care about?
Finding love. Searching and praying for it. Fighting for it. Because when it’s right, it finds you.
10. You’re a new character in the town you’re currently writing, who do you meet first, and how do they react to you? (How do you react to them?)
I first meet Linivè. In her French-Creole accent she demands to know how I got there and bridges me into a prison cell. I have to plead my case of loyalty before she lets me out.
11. If your core main characters could say one thing about you, what do you think (or hope) they would say?
I would hope they’d say: “Damn that lady gave us some badass magic. Wonder what else she’s got for us.”
12. What is your loftiest goal you’d like to reach as a writer?
To write a book or series so widely loved that it becomes a classic and inspires others to write. If there was ever fan fiction of my own work, I might die.
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Kara
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