Interview with Kay Cove, Author of Sing Your Secrets

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to put in writing Sing Your Secrets?

My first critical relationship didn’t finish properly. Space and separation was the important thing to my progress and skill to maneuver on, however I spent rather a lot of time excited about what actual closure means. I feel rather a lot of these emotions impressed this story. The heroine in Sing Your Secrets, Reese, needed to decide to not let the painful fallout from her first relationship maintain her from experiencing love once more and that’s a troublesome factor to do! It’s a lot simpler to shut your coronary heart to new experiences than to welcome the chance that comes with love if you’ve been harm earlier than.

This story was about forgiveness and redemption however not essentially for the rekindling of a previous relationship, however for the heroine to understand the journey, each good and dangerous, that made her into the individual she was. The (metaphorical) bumps and bruises alongside the way in which made her a lot stronger. It was all half of the massive image and I needed readers to see a heroine be capable of forgive her previous errors and actually admire her evolution as a lady and a person.

If you needed to decide theme songs for the primary characters of Sing Your Secrets, what would they be?

So many songs! This story could be very a lot music impressed. But if I needed to decide one from the SYS playlist to characterize the primary characters, I’d say it’s “Weight” by SoMo. I listened to that music so many instances as I wrote this story. It’s such a uncooked, trustworthy, portrayal of the powerful elements of being a musician – the wrestle, the stress to carry out and succeed. That music is a query to your vital different: Will you be there once I’m down? Can you assist carry me when the burden is an excessive amount of for one individual? Are you in it for actual, by means of the highs and lows? That music will at all times have a particular place in my coronary heart!

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to put in writing?

I usually keep within the romance style. If there isn’t love within the story, it doesn’t actually seize my consideration. That being stated, I positively prefer to learn totally different subgenres than I write. I’m a giant fantasy romance fan! I really like all of the thriller, world-building, and journey. I even have been including rather a lot of darkish romances to my TBR recently, simply because they’re dominating the market and I see a lot creativity and features being pushed (and generally crossed). I like to learn authors who take dangers and write boldly!

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

It’s embarrassingly lengthy. I write and launch fairly shortly so I don’t have a ton of time to essentially dive into all of the books I need to, however a pair of titles on the high of my record are Song of Achilles, ACOTAR, Meghan Quinn’s total backlist (ha!), Sara Adam’s new titles, and any and the whole lot by Lucy Score. I additionally need to begin Shantel Tessier’s most up-to-date sequence and take a look at a number of of H.D. Carlton’s finest sellers.

How’s that for selection? I’m positively a temper reader.

What scene in your ebook was your favourite to put in writing?

This is variety of an IYKYK response, however there’s a scene in SYS the place Miles (my MMC) finds out one thing that utterly shocks him. He’s below the impression he was lied to and manipulated by his love curiosity, and I do know most readers will flip the web page anticipating a typical miscommunication, third-act breakup scenario. But I am going in a utterly totally different path. Instead of the same old gadgets used to create pressure and angst in a narrative, I made a decision to let my predominant characters have a very open and trustworthy dialog about who they’re, and what they want from a relationship. They should determine in the event that they belief one another. It’s my favourite scene of the story as a result of it’s simply so real. It’s precisely the way you’d need these characters to behave, and I simply needed to offer readers that gratifying second of watching these characters sidestep an enormous relationship land mine.

Do you’ve any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and many others.)

Not actually. I’ll say my husband labored actually laborious to assist me arrange a very nice workplace/writing space in our house that’s comfortable and secluded… And I by no means use it. Ha! I do most of my writing in our previous beat-up recliner in the lounge amidst all the children’ toys, with the piled-up soiled dishes within the kitchen behind me. I used to wish full quiet and focus to put in writing, and now I’m studying to thrive within the chaos. I truly write higher that means in my view.

Do you’ve a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

Basically no matter Brené Brown says to do. Haha! No, in all seriousness, I’ve realized a lot from her talks about vulnerability. It’s actually troublesome to take one thing that’s so near your coronary heart and share it with the world and don’t have any management over how folks understand it. I at all times say that I can management what I write, however I can’t management what folks learn. Books are subjective, notion is totally different for everybody. All I can management is doing my finest and writing the tales that I need to. So on the times once I come across a nasty one-star evaluation of one of my books, or gross sales are struggling, or I’m full of doubt, I attempt to bear in mind Brené’s talks about being courageous sufficient to be within the area. It’s not straightforward to point out up and permit your self to be seen. I attempt to discover my validation within the bravery of simply exhibiting up and being proud of myself for chasing my objectives and desires.

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

Oh, that’s a troublesome one. I feel there are rather a lot of life classes I attempted to convey in Sing Your Secrets. Maybe a very powerful can be to unapologetically be your self and provides your self permission to like what you’re keen on and pursue what makes you content. Living your life by another person’s requirements or expectations is extremely unfulfilling. Take the time to outline what happiness appears like for you, and let that and that alone be your guiding mild.