Interview with Jennifer Carmody, Author of The New Days

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to jot down The New Days?

With the quantity of instances, I’ve been requested this query you’d suppose I’d have a solution. I truthfully don’t know what impressed me to jot down The New Days. I can bear in mind from a younger age wanting to jot down a guide, however the why has by no means been clear. One day in 2016, a dialog between girlfriends popped into my head and I rapidly wrote it down. Those girlfriends quickly grew to become Annabelle and Zoey.

If you needed to decide theme songs for the primary characters of The New Days, what would they be?

Annabelle’s theme tune can be Lose You to Love Me by Selena Gomez. Liam’s theme tune can be Can’t Stop Falling by Great Big Sea. Cole’s theme tune can be One Call Away by Charlie Puth. Zoey’s theme tune can be Badass Woman by Meghan Trainor. Austin’s theme tune can be Too Much to Ask by Niall Horan. Willow’s theme tune can be Treading Water by The Vamps.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to jot down?

I’ll at all times decide up a guide with a very good love story. Lately, I’ve been entering into the thriller and thriller style. I don’t imagine it might ever be a style I’d like to jot down, however as they are saying, by no means say by no means.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, His & Hers by Alice Feeney, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda, and lots of, many extra.

What scene in your guide was your favourite to jot down?

I actually loved writing the weekend getaway chapter.

Do you could have any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and so forth.)

I’ve to have my hair in a bun whereas writing. If it’s down I discover myself going by means of the motions of placing my hair up after I’m annoyed or having issue writing a scene and it’s extra useful to the method to begin with it already up. I additionally want background noise, whether or not it’s music or a television present, it doesn’t matter, simply so long as it’s not quiet.

Do you could have a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

“Do it scared.” Elyse Myers mentioned it months in the past on her Instagram and it actually caught with me.

If you might select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your guide, what would it not be?

Friendship is vital. And to not fear, there will likely be a guide 2.